I envy the
video-less blogger sometimes. How spontaneous you
know? Much harder when you have to have a video as
well. It's this juggling act that oftentimes delays a
story... simply because you can't figure out one part.
In this case the entry was Sunday, the song for the
video was also done on Sunday... but I'll be damned if
I couldn't figure out the video until tonight. So
the whole thing won't go up until Thursday. But the
video is cute:
If your
computer can handle it (meaning it doesn't stutter
once it's loaded) click the "HD" button...
incredible.
Song info: It's an
old Harry Connick Jr. song I recorded it with
Stephanie Doyle on Sunday. We kept it to 2 voices each
since I don't have a working multi-track program at
the moment (I did it all individually and pieced it
together later... ridiculous way to do this). Then for
the video I googled the words and chose them from
the first page that came up. And believe me, this is
difficult with search-safe off. Very enjoyable, but
difficult. LOL. Some funny ones in there for sure. And
before you all ask, the picture for "even" - was the
first image that popped up and, well, who am I to
second-guess what Google says is the best
representation for the word?
:-)
So why the hell
was Sunday so heavenly? Here goes the egg... I'm
throwin it up there: finally met with the "really huge
actor's assistant" through Teryn after being invited
to Easter dinner. I mentioned her in #852 and
#854 - a friend of one of my bosses and an absolutely
raging supporter of me. Ha, that sounds like a
disease. A raging case of herpes. Anyway... actually -
wait! I'm forgetting the start of the
day!!!
HELLO FIRST 4-SQUARE GAME!!!
DAHHHHHHHHHH. Dear, dear Jesus is this gonna be fun. I
cannot express just how intense this game is when you
put the proper rules on it and how excruciatingly
frustrating it is when you get knocked out. We all
played for 2 hours and had a blast. The reality show
is going to RULE. There is so much drama within the
game and you can so easily band together and
specifically screw one person - it's made for this.
Hell. Yes.
OK, sorry - just
had to get that out. Anyway, Teryn has been talking
about her nephew for a couple months now and after
seeing my demo wanted him to see it... but wanted me
to actually sit down and talk to him and play it.
Teryn has seemingly boundless energy and although
having a huge actor like your stuff doesn't mean what,
say, a production company liking your stuff does -
this particular actor will have his own production
company and at the moment is absolutely huge. He's
smart enough to parlay that into a production company
making his own movies/tv/media and his assistant has a
great bond with him and is a blazingly smart fellow as
well. Simply put, this isn't a coffee gopher... or
marijuana gopher as the case may be. :)
So it wasn't 5
minutes before I got there that Teryn is "Go show
him! Go show him!". It honestly felt like being 6
years old and your parents arranging a playdate. So we
went upstairs and I showed him the demo. He was
certainly impressed and we talked for a bit about
everything. The good news is he said he'd be happy to
show... uhm, Bob. We'll call him Bob. Happy to show
Bob the demo and whatever other stuff I wanted to
pitch. At the moment he's got another million movies
to do and is in the midst of finishing the script on a
really big one - but once that is in production they
will all focus on producing his own stuff. Bottom line
though, I know he'll see whatever I send - and I
now get to stress about just exactly which things to
show him. Needless to say, the email hasn't gone out
yet. :-) This will be overthought for probably a full
week. And no, I'm not name dropping the actor as I'm
hoping at some point he'll just say hello in one of
these entries and surprise you all. I just need to
find that Dewey wig to appear in it with
him...
;-)
Now, this and
4-Square alone is enough to call it an entry - but
there is more. Teryn's girlfriends were there and were
about as welcoming and hilarious as any people I've
ever met in this city. Turns out one of her friends,
Ann Walker, has been in the industry for years (most
recently in the sitcom on Logo "Sordid Lives") and is
currently repped by a gigantic voice-over agency. Was
friends with voice-over GOD Don LaFontaine (who was
also repped by this agency before his passing last
year) and not 3 seconds after the demo she's pulling
out paper and writing her info on it. Certain she can
get me repped by this agency. Now, I'm sure there is a
collective "duh" coming from all of you. I did
talk radio for years and was a production director
after that - it isn't lost on me that I would do well
in this field. I just can't express how the field
isn't "dabbled in" out here. It is as competitive
and cut-throat as acting and you need to take it very
seriously. This agency is big enough that I would be
willing to jump, really jump, and put the majority of
my effort into it. Realize that every audition I would
go on would cost me $50 just on missed time from work
alone. So it's a lot to consider... but you know what?
Fuck it. I really believe I have enough talent that I
actually NEEEEEED to quit just to get some of that
"scare" back into me. You know?
It's like the
Europe/Africa trip - I'm FREAKING OUT now trying
to get all the pieces to come together. Pitchin' like
crazy - hell I even contacted CBS again about
them covering parts. It's one thing to look for a
parachute before you jump, it's quite another to jump
first and then find the materials on your way down.
There's certainly a little more urgency in the latter.
:) But it will work out. You have to take risks. Ann
may absolutely be that crack in the door that makes me
blow it off the hinges. And what an adorable woman. If
you have a moment, watch
an episode of "Sordid Lives" on her
site. She's
incredibly funny. Be forewarned, this episode in
particular takes the use of the word "fuck" to an
entirely new level. She's LaVonda, the woman juggling
the phone tag while getting her hair done.
More than anything
however ('cause the industry part of the day was like
9 minutes out of 4 hours)... everyone was so
welcoming. It really felt like visiting friends and
family back home. I haaaaaaaaaaate the networking
bullshit - but when it leads to talk about
kids/spouses/life stuff for hours on end (rare as rare
can be out here, seriously) it's wonderful. I mean
that's how it should work you know? You meet people
because you have things in common (say you're both
teachers) and then you talk about other stuff. But in
this town? It always seems that you never get past the
business. At the end of the day? I need real
people in my life far more than I need a
"contact". And that my friends, made Sunday
"heavenly".
...and I'll keep
the rest of the night to myself.
:-)
Adam
PS - the video
portion of the video was done with the new MinoHD
camcorder which I bought to sneak into...
THE PAUL MCCARTNEY CONCERT AT COACHELLA TOMORROW!!!!!
