Anyhoo - being sick has its advantages - I've been hard at work on quixotic - after a year of having it do nothing. Alena and I have several options for theatres for our showcase - yay! I purchases a domain name for our website - and thanks to a relatively addicting facebook application called picnik- I've been creating possible logos.
This has also given me an idea for a "real" job. (though watching foodnetwork - "DQ blizzard flavour creator seems VERY enticing - how does one get such a job!? I believe I'd be amazing at this!) At any rate - I really don't want to be a pilates instructor - I don't even take pilates classes - why on earth would I want to put others through said torture? But - I DO LOOOOOOOOVE spending time in front of my computer and being creative. Sooooooo - why not become a website designer! First off - all of the community colleges offer courses in website design. Secondly - every actor I know wants a website - but has no idea how to create one - or who to turn to to create one. I know some that have dished out thousands of dollars for their website. There are also theatre companies who need websites, theatres whose websites are desperately in need of repair, and who knows who else or what else will want a website!? I know several friends who take headshots - and want to showcase their photos. I actually have several pilates instructor friends - why not showcase what THEY have? And I won't feel so helpless trying to make my OWN websites - need to go crying to my brother asking for his help. Even better, I can do it on my own time. Have an audition during the day? You can web design at night! Waiting around AEA - why not work on web designs? I think this may actually be promising! I wonder if it will also allow me to create facebook applications, etc... there is actually money in that too. Not millions - but something. I'm excited. Plus - taking courses in it would be a great way to meet non-theatre people! WAHOO!
PS - today was cheesecake day. I thought my cheesecakes turned out rather poorly - but everyone said I should consider a career in the culinary arts. I must say - I'm rather out of practice - and - being sick - my palette is all messed up - and I didnt feel right tasting the batter as I went along - for fear of tainting it with my germs. So - oh well. Not my finest work but it passed. I think steps people just have low standards.
I also have to ask a question - is it so bad that I have standards? I DO want my equity card. I know I say I'd do anything to get it - but I'm actually lying. I really don't want to do a tour where I have to - in addition to performing - work as a stage manager, drive the truck, load the truck, set up and strike the set, etc... and only get paid $450 a week before taxes - while touring and staying in divey hotels with a cast I may or may not like. People tell me that this is the kind of stuff I have to do if I want to perform - but I just - can't stomach it. (fortunately - they didnt see non-equity - so phew ----but still!) (PS - for real - there are enough EQUITY people that want to do that!?!?!?!?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE! WHAT IS THE POINT OF A UNION IF THAT IS THE STANDARD?) I guess I just want the world to be different than the world is. I'm willing to work at Disney - any of the Disneys - or small regional theatres - but a tour where I have to do the undesirable jobs and drive the truck stay in crappy lodging and perform in "Click Clack Moo" in school gymnasiums for $450 a week before taxes - I just ---- can't. Does this make me a bad person? Probably - but oh well.
Oh well - I can always be a chef.
Actually, it helps a lot to appreciate "the way it is," accept it, and accomplish it. I know a guy who did that and it worked out okay. If that is what it takes for you to get an AEA card, then you do it, get the card and then take the next step. You might just wait to be discovered whilst singing to yourself in the drugstore and thrown into a leading role, but that never worked for the guy I know. He drove the truck.
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