February 2009
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WatchI’ve been offered a part in the movie I auditioned for a few days ago. It’s a vampire movie, and although I’m not a huge horror fan… I thought it’d be fun to try something different than what I normally do.
Ow, My Pancreas
My week of being a slob and eating like a jerk has come to a close not a moment too soon, as I’ve got a new audition lined up for Saturday. I plopped myself onto the treadmill tonight as soon as I found out, and ran a very painful five miles. It’s been a while.
We’re supposed to get 6 inches of snow that day, so hopefully that won’t keep me from making the hour-long drive...
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WatchI was going through some of my old videos, and found this one shot almost a year ago. I never got that part (or even a callback), but oddly enough I did the same improv nonsense in two other auditions since this incident and got cast in both movies.
Moral of the story: Don’t learn from your mistakes.
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The Buffet Life
In preperation for the now defunct movie role (for which I would have had to take my shirt off on camera), I cut out almost all junk food and ran a minimum of 5 miles a night for about four months. I’m happy with the shape I’m now in, but for this week I’ve given myself a free pass to be as lazy as I want and eat everything in sight.
I’ve already had a few burritos...
Act 1, Scene 2 (or "Cut!")
I quit the movie I was working on, and I’m back home now. Long story short, the paychecks we were supposed to receive on the first day of filming were “delayed”, and then we were asked if we could put our hotel rooms on our credit cards just for the first few nights and we’d be reimbursed by the end of the week. That was a big red flag to us actors, so after a bit of...
“Now I know how Michael Scott felt when Toby Flenderson came back to The Office.”
– Justin, my cube-neighbor, upon seeing that I came in to work today.
False Start
I woke up this morning to a call from the director of my movie. Due to a family emergency, we’ll be starting on Thursday now instead of Tuesday. I’m trying to decide if I want to go in to work for a few days and save on some vacation time, or just take it easy until it’s time to check in to the hotel.