Audition and the Goal - Minus Torture

Had an audition today. One of those one-liner, lottery calls that could be won by anybody, but is basically up to the way you look and not the way you deliver the one line. Auditions like these do not bother me if I don't get it, until and unless I get past the first round into the call back, and that's when the skills, hopefully, come in. I got skills.

I'm, also, happy to report that this is my second audition in the New Year. Double the amount of commercial auditions I've had in the second half of '06. I'd like to call that progress. This will continue. I have confidence in the fishing-net, talent-recruitment style of the manager I'm using, taking in many headshots/resumes and pushing them out in large numbers, hoping one of them bites. It's the numbers game. Cold calling. Cold calling. The ABC's. "Always be closing." Yes, I quote Mamet.

My schedule is strange this week, as I await my promotion at the computer store, and raise, hopefully, and I am working last minute at the investment bank. To protect the innocent, I use not names of fame and grandeur.

Last night, I finally watched Syriana, and this geo-political drama, so much more common these days, was a maze of characters, implications, story lines, and Big Oil politics, making me eager to torture a Texas or Saudi oil exec in Guantanamo and coerce them with electrodes, beyond borders in Afghanistan, to lighten their lobby on the Hill, and create more Hydrogen and hybrid research in the U.S. If Big Brother's contradictions of Constitutional law can continue, than I can follow their lead and whip up a terrorist spy, and when it hits the media feed, deny all knowledge of the terrorist, and blame the former spy for their unsponsored acts, because I didn't know anything about it, and I'll support only moral and just spies who torture under our very own borders. Yeah, that's right.

Good movie. I want to re-watch for the details I missed. Complex, inter-woven, mult-POV, fragmented stories seem to be the way to tell geo-political dramas lately. Let's thank Tarantino for the trend, which has been embraced from TV to film - Heroes, Lost, Babel, Traffic, Pulp Fiction, though most of these aren't geo-political; geo-comic-book-ensemble, maybe.

That's it. Back to work, salads, and fried chicken.

One last thought before I nosh - I admire the man behind the drama, and winner of Oscar for his role in the film. George Clooney gives all us aging actors (I'm not too age-d yet) hope that it can still happen later in life. The fame and fortune are not my desired ends as much as the ability to always work as an actor in relevant stories. That's all I really want. The money part is secondary. Not only that, to be able to write and direct those stories too, like the man Clooney, wouldn't be so bad either. Oh yes, it will happen. Unlike the aforementioned oilmen, I would not like an enduring torturous process to get there. Although an enduring process is a reward in itself. Thanks be to time and the Universe, minus torture.