So that Lady Ga Ga song has been in my head this entire week. I will pretend that song is about acting. If I do, then yes, I want to play the game-oh I most certainly do.
So during the week I just looked for auditions and looked for more things to assemble my room. The good stuff occurred yesterday (Friday the 14th).
So on Wednesday I got a call for an audition with a scout and then afterward I would have this modeling audition for this jewelry line. We schedule the auditions to be for Friday. I hopstop it and at 12:30 I had the scout audition.
Now when I arrived the building looked nice on the outside so I figured that this must be legit. When I signed in I went through this weird Alice in Wonderland door through a door through a curtain waiting room. Inside I saw a mother with her young daughter and her baby son, and two girls perhaps younger than me.
The woman with her kids was quite animated. Her name was Alisa Washington West and I forgot her kids names...but her son was absolutely adorable and her daughter was very pleasant and sweet. Plus she was a little poet! She wrote a few songs about God and R&B romance and she sang very sweetly. I think she'll have a very good future. Her mother, like I said, was very animated. She was cool, but I can see her being a stage mom. She was also a writer and had a book published called Bad Blood: Mask versus Mask. It's about a face off show down between Michael from Halloween and Jason from Friday the 13th.
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Slowly, one by one the auditioners were being called in, new people came in and eventually it was my turn.
Now the "scout" that called me in was wearing all black. He kind of reminded me of a creepy version of Jack White, but with his hair greased and slicked back. When we entered the room I already had a bad feeling about this-not bad in the sense that I felt I was going to be raped, but just that I was wasting my time and that I should've known. He was telling me about the accomplishments his company WMT had and that they helped several people become successful if they were strong and talented enough for the industry. He said that he helped to get Molly Sims recognized and he had a giant picture of her posing on his wall with him in the wwaaayyy back-honestly looking creepy. I asked him if he photoshoped himself in there because that's ridiculous to be way in the background and he scoffed and said no. So I said okay well show me something else. So apparently there was another talent who was also a chief and he got her somewhere too. He showed a video clip of her being interviewed and he was standing next to her there. He gave me the look saying can't photoshop video. I still wasn't convinced. He mentioned that they aren't an agency but they are talent scouts (what's the difference?) and that for $99 he'll take my headshots, which only produced 10 prints, my resume posted on their website and...that's about it. I told him I'd think about it and I'd call him if I decided to go down this avenue. He was being weird but perhaps that's just an east coast behaviour. He asked when I'd call because he thinks he could sell me and I said I don't know and that I needed time to think. I was told as a rule of thumb, whenever someone says pay me first and then we'll work later-it's a scam.
So I left feeling glad I "saw" through it. I then called the photographer/casting director for the modeling gig and it was weird because the name said Jens Look, but it was a man that answered. That took me back. I asked if the meeting was still on and he said that he had some unexpected visit and that he'd be available after six. I said I don't know if I could make it, but I'd call otherwise to confirm or deny.
I was in the Herald Square area and decided to take advantage of being in the area. I walked around and remembered seeing a shop that sold postcards so I bought a few to mail to some friends and family.
I decided to head home and remembered that my chair arrived! Those who know me know that I am a thrifty shopper! I love a good deal and I love it when it's a REALLY good deal. Seriously since day one of being in NYC all I have done was search for auditions and search for furniture 24/7. Seriously, loser of me I know-but I can't help me. It's in my nature. So anyway, I searched for days, for about two weeks for a comfortable computer chair and finally I found a good deal. A chair marked at $100 was discounted to 40%, but I called the rep and got them to make it 50%! Plus it had free shipping! I was soooo stoked! Mandie, however, pissed me off that morning because she woke my tired booty up unnecessarily to tell me that I had to take the chair into my room that I couldn't leave it in the living room. I was utterly shocked and angrily shoved the chair in my room and went back to slumbering. Well, we can do that. We get made for a minute and then it's over with.
Anyway, while I was assembling my chair I get a phone call for this other audition that I submitted for. It was for a video game commercial and it basically was mocking that Gold 4 Less commercial. It will involve a nerd who is playing this new video game and he's surrounded by women. That sounds easy enough. So I said I'd meet. Ben, the casting director, said that I needed to meet at six...oooh...same time as the other one. Well I decided to go with the commercial and I got directions to get there. Well the directions seemed fishy, but I had no idea really-I am new here for goodness sakes! Plus it was in Brooklyn and I figured it'd be a long trip.
So I leave an hour before the audition time because it was estimated it'd take an hour. As I board the train there is this girl kind of glancing at me every once in a while and finally she approached me asking if I came from Phoenix. Turns out she was my old modeling coach! Crazy! Xaviera is her name! We boarded together and pretty much caught up since we last saw each other. She's really chill and just a couple years older-so her and I are most definitely going to hang out.
Anyway, an hour goes by and my stop finally arrives. I get off wave goodbye to Xaviera and am struck with a wall of confusion. I feel rather cold, there's a strong breeze, I hear seagulls and smell the familiar smell of a beach. I read the signs and it matches the directions from Hopstop, but I decided to call the director just to be sure. Well turns out I ended up in Bayside?! How the heck that happened is a mystery to me. Hopstop royally messed up. So the director gave me directions and I follow them. However, on the train they also don't match up to the train system! I decided to make the best executive decision and exit where I figured was close to the goal. Turns out I was way wrong too, but no matter what I was on the wrong path. Round 3: I call the director and explain again what happened and he apologized and decided to give me thorough directions from a reputable source. I follow them and alas, I make it there. However, we are now 3.5 hours deep in this excursion, I am sweaty, frustrated and tired. When I met the guys they were really chill, but I just didn't care anymore. I did and I didn't. I cared because I wanted the part, but I was just all those things above that it was slightly interfering. In the audition I had to act as if there was a nerdy guy sitting in this empty chair, dance and say this line "I love a guy in a gold jet pack!". I felt really corny because there was no guy, no music and I had no idea what the game was about. I did my best though! Although I am complaining about it now-I gave it my best shot, I followed their directions and acted as if I really was a dancing fool.
Then to make matters worse, when I took the train home there was this burly Rabbi looking man that boarded the train carrying two noisy and full bags. He originally sat across from me. My biggest pet peeve that I realized I have is when the train is empty and there are other seats available DON'T SIT BY ME. WHY?! I mean seriously why? You have the whole picking in your grasps and you choose to sit next to me?! Secondly, don't come around me if you're sick! This guy was sneezing and coughing openly in the train. Then following it by a disgusting snort of his bogies and he swallowed and make a smacking noise with his lips. He also persisted to talk aloud. I felt it would be rude to get up and sit elsewhere, so all I could was slowly inch away and bury myself in the book I was reading.
By the time I got home it was around 11pm. I was so tired! I also remembered I forgot to call that photographer, which is not a good thing. I sent him an email today, but he hasn't responded....uh oh....
Also, today I acquired a bed frame! Now my room is complete! Well...once I get the bed sheets and duvet in the mail, which will be on Monday, it will be 100% complete! I am so happy!
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