Sunday, March 12, 2006
The Blurry Weekend.
"How was your weekend?"
That is a frequent question asked in passing at the office Monday mornings. My pat response is, "A blur." It isn't that I don't want to go into detail about every little thing, it's seriously a blur. A fog. A hazy memory at best. Life with 11 year old twins can be quite the whirlwind. A whirlwind that can leave me befuddled by Monday morning. "Oh, come on," they nudge, "you must have been up to something." "Well," I say slowly, "let's see... uhhhhhhh... Friday... we... hmmm, I can't remember. Saturday, um... let me think... (blank) we had breakfast at... no..."
By this time, the questioner has lost complete interest and moved on to the coffee machine. I wonder if this is what those people who suffer from short term memory loss feel like. I mean, come on, I'm ready for Monday. The commute into work that day is highlighted by an intense few minutes of mental project review between lane changes. I've got to do this this and this on that that and that. Got it.
"How was your weekend?"
"Uhhhhhh..."
In other thoughts, tonight is the "JammX Kids" special airing on the WB at 7pm. I'm DVR-ing it. DVR-ing is a new verb. Like TiVo-ing, DVR-ing is tapeless recording on a hard drive. But you already knew that. On Tuesday, I go in to read another show for them that airs next Sunday night. That should be fun. I enjoy them.
This past week also blessed me with a last minute opportunity to read for a spot promoting "Family Guy Season 3" DVD. That was fortunate, because I lost a job due to a scheduling conflict on Friday. It's that easy come, easy go thing again. So, come tomorrow, after the agonizing recall of the weekend, I will cloister myself in my office, "do my thing," as I like to say, and wait to see if I get invited into the voice-over world again.
That is a frequent question asked in passing at the office Monday mornings. My pat response is, "A blur." It isn't that I don't want to go into detail about every little thing, it's seriously a blur. A fog. A hazy memory at best. Life with 11 year old twins can be quite the whirlwind. A whirlwind that can leave me befuddled by Monday morning. "Oh, come on," they nudge, "you must have been up to something." "Well," I say slowly, "let's see... uhhhhhhh... Friday... we... hmmm, I can't remember. Saturday, um... let me think... (blank) we had breakfast at... no..."
By this time, the questioner has lost complete interest and moved on to the coffee machine. I wonder if this is what those people who suffer from short term memory loss feel like. I mean, come on, I'm ready for Monday. The commute into work that day is highlighted by an intense few minutes of mental project review between lane changes. I've got to do this this and this on that that and that. Got it.
"How was your weekend?"
"Uhhhhhh..."
In other thoughts, tonight is the "JammX Kids" special airing on the WB at 7pm. I'm DVR-ing it. DVR-ing is a new verb. Like TiVo-ing, DVR-ing is tapeless recording on a hard drive. But you already knew that. On Tuesday, I go in to read another show for them that airs next Sunday night. That should be fun. I enjoy them.
This past week also blessed me with a last minute opportunity to read for a spot promoting "Family Guy Season 3" DVD. That was fortunate, because I lost a job due to a scheduling conflict on Friday. It's that easy come, easy go thing again. So, come tomorrow, after the agonizing recall of the weekend, I will cloister myself in my office, "do my thing," as I like to say, and wait to see if I get invited into the voice-over world again.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
A New Kind Of Job.
So today was interesting. I got to read for the "JammX Kids All Star Dance Special." This is the first TV show I've ever been the actual announcer for - and I must say... it was fun to read! The special will air Sunday, March 12 on the WB with another special airing the following week.
Reading this job was harder than movie commercials in that there was much more copy and lots of "more to comes" and "coming up next"s. But I am looking forward to more experiences like this.
By the way, just to clarify... this blog is meant to be a way for people to see the real day to day ups and downs of voice-over acting. The writing is intended to be comedic, especially when things aren't going as well as I'd like. This is an "acting" occupation after all and with all acting comes times of intense excitement and serious rejection. Through it all, however, you've got to hold on and enjoy life. So tonight, I will see how my kids did with their "sugar baby" school project. (I have 2 highly caloric grand daughters at home needing cuddles! They're so sweet.)
Reading this job was harder than movie commercials in that there was much more copy and lots of "more to comes" and "coming up next"s. But I am looking forward to more experiences like this.
By the way, just to clarify... this blog is meant to be a way for people to see the real day to day ups and downs of voice-over acting. The writing is intended to be comedic, especially when things aren't going as well as I'd like. This is an "acting" occupation after all and with all acting comes times of intense excitement and serious rejection. Through it all, however, you've got to hold on and enjoy life. So tonight, I will see how my kids did with their "sugar baby" school project. (I have 2 highly caloric grand daughters at home needing cuddles! They're so sweet.)
Friday, March 03, 2006
Is There Possibly A Silver Lining?
And another whirlwind week comes to a close! After the "lost job debacle", I decided to focus on editing this week. I had two projects that had me engrossed with the nitty gritty details of marketing movies. Then something magical happened. I started getting finishes. First on a spot for "Amazing Stories", the first season DVD, then for a project called "JammX Kids". The spots were for a DVD movie, but I also had an audition as the on-air/bumper announcer for a couple of "JammX Kids" TV specials that will be airing soon on the Kids WB. I asked my agents to put in an extra recommendation for me since I was to be the voice on the DVD spots (a different marketing group, I presume) and low and behold, I booked the job! But as I learned from the "lost job debacle," don't count on anything until you hear the words, "Take 1!" Looking forward to a weekend of hanging with the family and watching the Oscars.
