I need to buy a planner.

Well well... And I thought I was busy before.

Since joining those two casting sites, I've gotten many auditions. I had another audition at the LA Film School for a student film that was a psychological thriller. The audition went well. I peformed a monologue for them and they had me do an imrov scene of my own where I got home and had to watch a video of me comitting murder. All in all it was a good experience and I did the best I could. I didn't get cast from my first audition from the NYFA, but I did get a call from another girl that was there saying that she wanted me to be in her student film. I called in sick to Universal and showed up last Saturday for the shoot. I only had two days to memorize the student film, but since it was a short film, it wasn't too bad. The shoot was in West LA, which I've never been to before. Once I got there, I met everyone (who all turned out to be reall nice) and were all about the same age as me. We shot the film in about 6 hours and was a lot of fun. It was a horror film about a group of college age kids who gets killed by a serial killer. I played the lead guy, which was pretty cool. After the shoot, we all went out for dinner and ice cream and a few of the girls drove me on the famous Rodeo Drive and showed me a few well known spots. All in all, it was a lot of fun, and was a great experience. Her film will be shown at Warner Brothers Studios on July 3rd which just so happens to be the day I fly out to Illinois... frick. It would have been really cool to see it on the big screen.

On Monday I got a call asking me if I could do a commercial shoot for Cellular South, which is apparently the largest cell phone company in the Southern U.S. I took off from work at Hollywood Video and headed out to Castaic, CA (about 25 minutes North of LA). We had to be there at 5 am and 2 busses carried about 90 extras another 45 minutes to Lancaster where we pulled up to a cow herding ranch area. We get out and are in a desert area at the base of some mountains/hills. It got very warm and there were dung beetles swarming the ground and dried cow pies every few feet. The conditions obviously weren't the greatest but we made due. The concept of the commercial was that we were going to all line up and play a game of "telephone" were we go down the line and ask "Where's my keys?" and reply "Where you left them." We did this at several locations and wrapped after about 11 hours. It was an interesting experience and I met a cool girl while shooting there.

Also during the shoot, I got 2 calls asking me to audition for Bingo America, a bingo trivia game show and Solitary 3.0, a reality show on Fox. I'll be auditioning for them next week, so that should be a lot of fun. Then today, I got another call to audition for a student project that's going to do scenes from Back to the Future and I'll be reading for Marty which should be a lot of fun. I think it would be really cool to do. If I get cast, we'll be shooting on an actual soundstage with a full crew. In reality, I just think it would cool to play McFly. :)

The only bad news to report is that the alternator went out on my car and I had to have it replaced for $150. Man, I hate cars. You know how people ask what special ability you'd want? I would definitely want the ability to teleport anywhere in the world. It would be the coolest.

And save on gas.

Movie Reviews of the Day:
The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 3.5 stars
The Happening - 3 stars
Music and Lyrics - 3.5 stars
Lawrence of Arabia - 4.5 stars
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 4 stars

The Cubs, The Cab, The Career

Well, I was right. I've been very busy.

I went to two Cubs games with Seth and they won both times. :) I'm working out 3 days a week (much to my own disdain) but I realize I need to put on the weight. I also got a call from Virgo and they wanted me to replace a guy for a music video for the band called The Cab. I got someone to cover at work and quickly booked the job (mostly because it was a good rate: $175 for 12 hours). I had never heard of the band before so I decided to look them up. All I found out was they are a punk/pop rock band from Vegas. After arriving on set for the music video, I realized it was going to be a good shoot. All I knew going into the shoot was that I was going to get splattered with paint....

There were about 25 of us in this music video (for the song "Bounce) plus the 5 guys in the band. Right before we went on set we were told that The Cab is actually going to be a "big deal" in the music industry and that Pete Wentz (the lead singer of Fallout Boy) and the VP of the record label was there. I go on to find out that The Cab is good friends with Fallout Boy and Panic at the Disco!. Once we get on set I see the band: a group of 5 guys all very short and around 19, 20 years old. The funniest part was that the piano player looked EXACTLY like Zac Efron which was pretty funny. (We all called him Zac behind his back). All of us were wearing tight punk rock white clothes from head to toe and we were given champagne glasses full of different colored paint and were told to be "unimpressed" with the band as they played in front of us. At the end of a long shoot, we got to have a huge paint fight which fulfilled all the kiddish desires inside all of us. It was a blast, and overall I'm super excited to see the finished product which should be released sometime soon. It was also surreal being so close and shooting the breeze with these young band members knowing that in a matter of months they are going to be millionaires. At least it will be cool to say I was a part of the beginning.

I also finally "bit the bullet" and joined the online casting sites LA Casting and ActorsAccess. They are both great sites and I look forward to using them everyday to try and find work. After a few days of setting up my accounts, I submitted myself to as much as I could that fit my profile. Overall I sumbitted for about 15 projects. That same night I got a message from a student film saying that they wanted me to come in for an audition the following morning. After a few minutes of hesitation I quickly realized that I need to start auditioning as soon as possible. Driving to the audition the following morning was a little exciting/nerve-wracking. I was going to the New York Film Academy in LA for my audition and the reality of what I was doing settled in. I went up to the fifth floor to a suite and was greeted by two friendly girls. There was already one girl there ready to audition so we were paired up. We ran over our lines once in the hall, then went in to do the audition. It went ok, they said we did well, thanked us for coming in and that they would contact us soon if we were chosen. After that I felt a real sense of accomplishment in going to my first LA audition and I look forward to what comes in the future.

The one thing that I quickly realized after that was that it's going to be VERY difficult trying to balance 2 jobs and trying to find time to audition and shoot different projects. I think I'll have to weigh my options and see what's best for me in the coming weeks/months. I will most likely have to cut my time down between both my jobs or quit one of them all together. But I still have time to figure things out between now and then.

Busy indeed.

Movie Reviews of the Day:

Clerks - 4 stars

Tekkonkinkret - 3 stars