Eat, Sleep, Audition, Eat, Sleep, Audition...

Tuesday the 5th I painted my apartment all day. I got to hang out with my friend Adam at night though. We went to a bar in midtown. It was the tiniest little bar and was so cramped. They really were trying to take advantage of all their real estate. We watched the “Super Tuesday” results. I don’t really know what it all means at this point in the game; I’m just hoping America makes the right choice.
Ash Wednesday, I went to an audition for a Cruise line. I ran into two friends from the dinner theatre. It was so fun hanging out with them in the waiting room. It helps pass the time and take your mind off auditioning. Not to mention the two ladies crack me up. They both were born and raised in Long Island and the Bronx so they have strong personalities and accents to boot. One of them just recently got back from competing in the game show “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” in LA. She had some great stories. She can’t tell us how much she won but I know she won something. Her episode will be on some Thursday night in February so watch for it. Her name’s Deb (or Deborah) she has dark curly hair and she’s hilarious. I can’t wait to see her on TV!
The audition ended up being a bust because I didn’t even get seen. They were only seeing people until 5pm and they just ran out of time. Boo. Oh well, there are many cruise lines if I really wanna try out my sea legs.
I left the studio where the audition was and took a cross town bus to my church’s office. We had a small Ash Wednesday service in the office. It was really important to me to start off Lent the right way. The service really helped to get my head in the right place for the season.
After the service I walked across town (again) to Madison Square Garden to see the Knicks & Pacers game. Yep, Uncle Dan was back in town with the Pacers and he set aside a ticket for me to see the game. It was a great game. The Pacers ended up winning, which was fine by me. They did something kinda cool during the game; a bunch of the recent Super bowl champs were at the game so they honored them. During the fourth quarter they had the Giant’s players come up on the court and the fans went nuts. The cheered fifty times louder than they ever did for the stinkin’ Knicks. It was kinda sad. You could tell the Giants had stolen the Knick’s thunder. (For whatever that’s worth.) It was a pretty cool moment to be a part of though. The stadium got pretty loud for a minute there.
Thursday was another busy day. I had another first. I auditioned for extra work in a new film. The movie is called “Duplicity” and it’s gonna have Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in it. There were hundreds of people in line to audition. I was about number 75 in line. We had to stand out in the cold before they let us in to audition. When we got let into the audition space, (which was the basement of a church on the Upper West Side), we all sat in a giant rec room and got talked to by the casting director. She was pretty cool. She also cast “The Devil Wears Prada” which I loved so I was excited to possibly be a part of this project. All we had to do was get our picture taken, and fill out a little information sheet. They took our headshots and resumes and she basically said that they were probably going to use all of us in some capacity during filming. When we get to the actual days of filming they’ll decide on the set if we get to do more on film than just background work. Either way I think it’ll be fun to be part of a movie.
After my major motion picture audition (haha) I went down to Union Square to check out a snowboarding exhibition. It was a promotional event with all sorts of sponsors and all the biggest names in snowboarding. They set up a mini snow park at one end of the park and there were tons of people there to catch a glimpse of the action. I went to check it out for my lil bro Kyle who’s a big time boarder. I got him some free boarding stuff and took a bunch of pictures. It was really fun. I was telling Kyle that I got a new perspective on what exactly he does on Mt. Hood. I’m pretty proud of him; that boardin’ stuff looks hard and there are a lot of people who are wannabes. I saw so many greasy haired pushy little punks and would be willing to bet that they couldn’t even get down the hill on a snowboard.
After the boarding event I went to the first meeting of my new Community Group! We had a great first meeting and discussed the sermon from the previous Sunday. I am really gonna like this group of people. I’m also having fun as an apprentice leader in the group already.
On Friday and Saturday I had performances with the dinner theatre and so that pretty much ate up my life. In a good way though. I can’t say it enough; I just love the people I work with. I’m having so much fun.
On Sunday I was on set up crew at church, then usher crew as well. So I was a little busy at church but I still got a lot out of the sermon.
After church I got lunch with a few friends from church. We ate at a little French café near church. It was really tasty. I’m really glad to be making such good friends at church.
The rest of Sunday I pretty much ran some errands and got mentally prepared to go back to Sephora on Monday.
So on Monday I went back to work at Sephora. I was at work for 9 hours. Eww. It’s definitely gonna be better than the holidays around there though. It was nice to be welcomed back by my friends there.
Tuesday I had an audition for an international casting company that went really well. I had applied for an audition time with them a couple weeks ago and they granted me one so that was pretty cool. I sang a couple songs for them and I felt good about how I performed. I’ll let you know what comes of that.
It’s cold and snowy here and I feel like winter in NYC has finally reared its ugly head. Tomorrow I audition for a touring production of Cinderella. Gotta try it all!