August15

SOMEONE'S WORKING AGAIN...

So I've been out auditioning again and it's been a pretty good experience
with some weird "hiccups" thrown in. It had been a slow summer so I go
into audition for this part on a new show for showtime called "Dexter" and
it's for a receptionist. I had gone in for Dexter before and had SUCH A
POSITIVE audition experience. I didn't get cast but I had gone to the
callback and nailed it...I think other circumstances took their toll on me
getting the part. So I go in this time and meet once again the VERY,
VERY nice casting director from Ulrich/Dawson casting, and start reading
my scene. EVERYTHING WENT GREAT! And I get a callback for a couple
days later. Well I should really limit my CRACK intake because I was so
embarrassed by how my callback went. I was really frazzled because I
had gone up north to visit a friend and was coming back close to the time
I had my callback. I was very tired after staying up uber late for my
GAB session with friends I hadn't talked to in forever, and I had a two
hour car ride back to L.a.

I got to the audition and I felt ready I was going over the lines in my
head, the casting place only had two other actors waiting to go in ahead
of me (and they weren't even for my role) I was confident...I think a
little TOO confident. I go in...see the four men sitting there (producers,
writers, and my very sweet casting director) and I CHOKE....HARD! I
started reading the scene and couldn't figure out what to do with my
hands. Because I was thinking about my hands I wasn't concentrating on
the scene. So then I start thinking "oh god I'm so NOT thinking about the
scene" but by doing that I totally wasn't paying attention to the lines and
just made a fool of myself. Then to top it all off I practically JUMP out
of the room to get out of there fast. I so wanted to apologize to the
Casting director and tell him that he didn't make a bad choice bringing me
in, I had made a bad choice in how to ready myself...well never again.
I'm not going to jeopardize another audition from now on. Anyway things
did get better because two days later I got an audition for "My name is
Earl" and I was super excited about that and ended up BOOKING IT!!
yay!! Carla's got work!! Carla won't have to live in a box on the street !!
yay!! Okay so it's not that extreme...but I hate not working it puts me
out of touch with what I do and I get rusty...and sloppy (sorry Dexter!!)
I'm shooting Earl this Friday and after that we'll see what the wind
brings me.

I also had some friends from the East come visit me. An old friend named
Chad and his boyfriend Pete. We had a nice day last Saturday. We went
to the Felt Club (Kitschy art festival held every month in Hollywood) and
then had lunch and took a trip over to the HOLLYWOOD/HIGHLAND
monstrosity. It's crazy there and I guess that's why I never go. Chad
said it looks like our version of Times Square, Packed with tourists,
crappy gifts, and lots of bright shiny lights. We did manage to stroll by
the Janice Dickinson modeling agency and I took pictures of him in front of
it (sumthin' to show the kids back home).

On Monday I was called into Jury Duty, I spent all day Monday there and
part of today (Tuesday) it was a sad case and I ended up not serving. I
have more to say about it but it's on my Myspace page (too much to write
about again)

Be good!!
-- Carla