American Graffiti

My callback audition for the feature '3 Times a Charm' last Saturday went very well. They recognized me when they saw me in the waiting room. So that was a good thing. I felt like I got positive feedback. So now we wait again on whether or not I get another callback or even landed the role. I wore the same clothes I wore the first time I auditioned; because I have learned that if you get a callback, then you did something right the first time, including your look. Plus it helps them remember you, because that is what they saw you wear the last time. We can all relate to that. How many times have you said to your friend, "didn't that person wear that same shirt last time we saw him?" I can't really talk considering I buy a new shirt once in a blue moon.

It was a pretty busy week work wise. Monday started me off on a weird foot though. I had a night call. Which means I went to work at 3 in the afternoon, and came home the following day at 7am. With those comes a good paycheck, but its hard to book yourself on another job the following day, because the call time could be 6am and they would overlap, and you wouldn't be able to make it. Sometimes it can be pulled off. I've done it before, but you are like the walking dead come Thursday. I worked on the show 'The Mentalist' as well this week. Cool thing about that was, we shot it at this Hotel where I filmed an episode of 'HEROES' 4 years ago. So that was kind of surreal.

Yesterday I worked a Japanese Commercial. I was a basketball player, so i was outside playing basketball for the first 6 hours of the day. So I got some sun and a good workout. Plus my friend Griff was there. I run into him from time to time on set. The second half of the day felt like a Verizon Commercial. They basically put all of you in a group and have you walk 20 feet, then stop, and go back to where you started (of what is called 'back to one') and you do that OVER AND OVER til they get their shot. Then they change the camera angle and do again. It makes you want to kill yourself, but we're all so poor that we can't afford the bullets.

The shoot was filled with great comedy relief though. The craft service lady reminded me of the slug monster from the movie 'Monsters Inc.' With the voice to boot. It cracked me up. There was also a dude with a barbed wire tattoo on his bicep. I thought that, that was a big enough joke that people stopped getting those. Another guy had a tattoo of a pair of red lips on his bicep. A+ to you my friend, you won the award for tool of the week.

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” - Elvis Presley