the scent of Spring
It's that time of year in SoCal when all the citrus trees are simultaneously bearing fruit and blooming. The jasmine has also started blooming and there is another tree that has small white flowers that smell like they should be pink. The air, especially at night, is so rich and fragrant right now, it is a pleasure to walk the dog. I take off my shoes and nestle my feet in the green grass and just breathe.
Had an incredibly lovely night tonight - went and had dinner with a friend to celebrate his belated birthday. Some of you who are X-files fans may have actually seen this man - he was in the Season 7 episode of the X-files entitled "Scenes and Wonders" wherein he played the Reverend Enoch. (He tells a wonderful story about Kim Manners, who directed that episode.) He's an amazing actor, and an old friend of my friend Whit, who worked with him several times in Chicago. It was wonderful to spend a night talking about how much fun we had in previous stage productions, our relationships with our parents, the state of the world, etc, etc. Just shooting the shit with good people. It's something that happens so rarely for me these days, where I am mostly surrounded by either business colleagues or people that I just haven't known very long and have very little shared history with. As I grow older I find that is one of the delights of having lived for many years - having a shared history with people. it is a wonderful comfort. It feels like family.
Spent the majority of the day working on my taxes and production duties for this web pilot. Got the casting sites up and running and the breakdowns posted. Within an hour of the posting hitting the internet, there were 100s of submissions. I am *fascinated* to read the submissions, because of the enormous range of people we get. There are some amazing actors who are freakin' way above this tiny little unpaid web pilot who are doing us the honor of submitting and possibly being involved with our work. And at the other end of the spectrum are people who have no business auditioning because they have really no business calling themselves actors, based on the material they submit. And everything in between. L.A. is just this incredible mix of everything. It's so much to wade through! And it really does give me a measure more of peace about not yet having my recurring role on a scifi television series. Because without the right introduction at the right time, there's just no way that the people who would want to hire me if they knew I was out here can find me underneath the tidal wave of desperate actors out there. And you just have to keep hanging on, keep putting yourself out there, keep knocking at every door you can until eventually, with luck and persistence, you will stumble into that moment where the right person will catch sight of you. And then you will be an "overnight success." :)
All right, I have to catch up on the avalanche of emails I've gotten while I was out having dinner. Hopefully I will be able to make my way through enough of them to get to bed before 3am tonight. *facepalm*
Had an incredibly lovely night tonight - went and had dinner with a friend to celebrate his belated birthday. Some of you who are X-files fans may have actually seen this man - he was in the Season 7 episode of the X-files entitled "Scenes and Wonders" wherein he played the Reverend Enoch. (He tells a wonderful story about Kim Manners, who directed that episode.) He's an amazing actor, and an old friend of my friend Whit, who worked with him several times in Chicago. It was wonderful to spend a night talking about how much fun we had in previous stage productions, our relationships with our parents, the state of the world, etc, etc. Just shooting the shit with good people. It's something that happens so rarely for me these days, where I am mostly surrounded by either business colleagues or people that I just haven't known very long and have very little shared history with. As I grow older I find that is one of the delights of having lived for many years - having a shared history with people. it is a wonderful comfort. It feels like family.
Spent the majority of the day working on my taxes and production duties for this web pilot. Got the casting sites up and running and the breakdowns posted. Within an hour of the posting hitting the internet, there were 100s of submissions. I am *fascinated* to read the submissions, because of the enormous range of people we get. There are some amazing actors who are freakin' way above this tiny little unpaid web pilot who are doing us the honor of submitting and possibly being involved with our work. And at the other end of the spectrum are people who have no business auditioning because they have really no business calling themselves actors, based on the material they submit. And everything in between. L.A. is just this incredible mix of everything. It's so much to wade through! And it really does give me a measure more of peace about not yet having my recurring role on a scifi television series. Because without the right introduction at the right time, there's just no way that the people who would want to hire me if they knew I was out here can find me underneath the tidal wave of desperate actors out there. And you just have to keep hanging on, keep putting yourself out there, keep knocking at every door you can until eventually, with luck and persistence, you will stumble into that moment where the right person will catch sight of you. And then you will be an "overnight success." :)
All right, I have to catch up on the avalanche of emails I've gotten while I was out having dinner. Hopefully I will be able to make my way through enough of them to get to bed before 3am tonight. *facepalm*