1 o'clock rolled around and I went to the Holiday Inn at North Hollywood for my audition. I follow the signs and I end up in a small theatre with a bunch of seats. I walk towards the front rows and sit in the third row. 15 minutes later, the main guy running the audition went in front of the group of 60 and explained how the audition was to work. The first hour and a half, he explained the background, pay, and benefits of working for Universal Studios. The more he talked, the more I realized I was a perfect for the job and was something I was really excited to be a part of. Half way through the audition, we were split into 6 groups of about 10 people and each group went in front of everyone and did 3 exercises. The first was a cold reading from the current Tour Guide script and it went very well for me. Cold readings are a strong suit of mine, and I was pleased to have it go well. Next, we did an improve exercise where one of the guys running the audition started out a story with a half sentence and then we would have to go down the line continuing the story. In the middle of someone talking, the guy would ring a bell and the next person would have to pick up where the previous person left off. Unfortunately our story was about Stephen Baldwin trying to convince Donald Trump not to fire him on Celebrity Apprentice... Yeah, could we have been given a more stupid story? I don't think so. When the story got to me, I came up with the idea of Stephen Baldwin calling his brother Alec Baldwin to save the day, but right before I mention Alec's name, the guy rang the bell and I wasn't able to say the punchline. Oh well. Finally, we went down the line and were asked individual random questions and were given a minute to answer them off the top of our heads. Questions had no relation and ranged from "what's the best advice you've been given?" to "what's the deal with Britney Spears?" to "who's your favorite actor and why?" to "what's the best entertainment news show and why?". When it got to me, I was asked "what's the most recent movie you've seen in theatres and what is your review?" I was happy in a sense that I got this question because I review movies as a hobby of mine, so I discussed my review of There Will Be Blood in about a minute.
After the 4 and a half hour audition, they called out the numbers of the people that they wanted to continue onto the third audition. Overall I was very pleased with how my audition went. I wasn't nervous, was myself, and did my best. My number was C-4 (a bomb, haha) and as they read out the C's they skipped right over my number. I'm not gonna lie, I was shocked that I wasn't at least called back. The more I thought about the job, the more I thought it was a perfect fit for me. I also was surprised at the people that were called back, but so is life. As I was driving home, I considered why I wasn't called back and I came to the conclusion that I probably wasn't happy-go-lucky enough for them. As a person, I am pretty calm, cool, collected, and have a professsional manner when speaking in front of people and I'm guessing they saw this and wanted someone with more "energy" and "pizzaz". Overall, I'm very dissapointed. I was really looking forward to, and in a way, counting on this job. As of now, I only work about 22 hours a week at Hollywood Video and that's not enough to survive out here. I tried to stay positive and thought to myself, if it's not in the cards for me, then so be it.
Wednesday rolled around and I called the old owner about the smog certificate and she said that she didn't have it and suggested to call the smog place that did it and see if I could get another one. So, I did and they told me to stop on by and pick up another one. With things looking up, I took off and after driving a block from my apartment, my car randomly stalls out and I have to pull over to the curb. All I was thinking was, "you've got to be kidding me". I try starting it over and over again and it won't start. I call my brother and he takes off his day from work to come give me a jump in case that is the problem. That doesn't do anything, so my brother and I go to a gas station, get a gallon of gas and put it in my car just in case the gas gauge was broken and it was out of gas. After trying everything, I sit there in complete awe. I payed $1000 for a car on Monday and two days later it breaks down on me. I decide to call the owner and ask her if she can help me out with at least a tow or having it looked at by a mechanic for me. She has me call 3 seperate people and each of them tell me the same thing, "it's your car now, we're not liable for anything". I couldn't believe that they couldn't at least show the kindness to help me out and puth themselves in my shoes. My brother and I went down the block to try and find a mechanic and find one close by. Luckily, he comes to the car to take a look at it to see what's wrong and he tells us that the gas pump went out. To top it off, it's an electric gas pump (which are more expensive than regular ones) and he tells me he can fix it for $300. At this point, I didn't know what else to do. I wasn't getting help from anyone and I have to have a car, so I agreed.
Long story short, the past few days have not been kind to me. I've been desperately looking for a second job, and no one is hiring. Universal Studios doesn't call me back. My car breaks down and I have to pay an extra $300. And finally it doesn't look like I'm gonna get that call from Kerrie and get signed from her so I'm back to square one. It's been very tough lately, but I'm trying to stay positive and think "no one said it's going to be easy right?". At least this way, if I do become successful, it will mean that much more when I look back on very hard times such as these.
Movie Reviews of the Day:
Benny and Joon - 4 stars
The Rainmaker - 4.5 stars
Elizabeth: The Golden Age - 3.5 stars
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