Mr. Show – The Audition

Since I’m posting so much about my auditions lately, this Mr. Show sketch has been foremost in my mind. The setting is perfect, except the director/producer usually has a camera pointed at the actor so they can watch it again later.

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Sam Roberts Band

Yeah, twice in three days I made it over to The Troubadour. The previous post gushed plenty about Roberts’s amazing stage presence, but the photos I took are pretty and they need to go up. For a tiny club, the lighting was beautiful.

The band started off the set with Love at the End of [...]

Newhall Audition

I drove way out of town on Thursday, almost to Santa Clarita for this one. It was stranger than any I’d done so far, as the film has no dialogue, so it would all be expressions, reacting to the situation and the other actors. The director seemed confident in his story, so it put me [...]

Sam Roberts at The Troubadour

And ZOMG was he good. No time to post a full review, but I’ll get back to it. He’s like a Canadian Bruce Springsteen on stage, working the audience with confidence and the easygoing manner that comes with an endless touring schedule. He kept us all enthralled and moving throughout the set and drenched the [...]

Bishop Allen at The Troubadour

Monday night! The sound at The Troubadour is terrible, but it’s such an intimate venue, I’ll put up with it to see a band I really like. There aren’t any bad spots unless you’re short. Even standing at the back wall, you’re only yards from the stage. I rather like the stage left side.

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Dog Overload

We took Moxie to the Silver Lake dog park on Saturday to relieve some of her pent-up energy. There was a lot to be released. She did the usual routine of tearing around the place, trying to meet all the dogs at once, being so anxious to play and run that she irritated a few, [...]

Commercial Audition in Santa Monica

Not much to this one, but it was in a building at Santa Monica Airport. When I arrived, there was a long line of actors stretching down the hallway to a small table where an improvised sign-in sheet lay next to a pen. I put my name and number on it, and made my way [...]

U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman Pwns CNBC Jerkwads

Congressman Sherman (D-CA) was on CNBC to talk about the plan to tax AIG bonuses. He destroyed the weak attempts to paint him (and others in Congress) as anti-capitalist, and demonstrated, as did Jon Stewart with Jim Cramer, why CNBC is out of line to even attempt to defend its lack of reporting integrity.

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Audition in Hollywood

I know, sounds a bit redundant, doesn’t it? I was getting ready to enjoy another round of 24 Club last night, when I got an email demanding my presence at an audition 14 hours later. Okay, not demanding, but it wasn’t as if they were asking me if I was available, just “take it or [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl

It was Sunday, two days early, but I suppose the organizers knew the turnout would be nothing if they proposed to lead a drunken crowd through West Hollywood on Tuesday. Don’t ask me how, but despite an E-Vite and my iPhone both listing the start time as 2:00pm, I was sure it started at 3:00. [...]