Disappointing News caused by Fantastic News, and State of the Super · 12:51am Jun 24th, 2022
Bad news, friends, I will not be going to Columbus, OH for TrotCon July 15th through 17th.
Because I just booked a $900 acting gig that same weekend. $300 per day for 3 (possibly 4) days, wearing naught but underwear and a mustache, getting accidentally run over in a forest by a divorced couple, attacking the man, beaten with a crowbar by the woman, and shot by a racist at the end for a dark comedy short film.
Acting may not be my passion, but it's increasingly looking like a doable, fun, interesting, and viable career for me.
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I'm actually doing quite fantastic at the moment, but greatly appreciate your concern! I got 10 hours of sleep last night, I'm back on my regular ADHD meds instead of meth, I'm just chilling (which is the vast majority of time spent on acting gigs lol) on day (and night) 4 of 5 of a week-long acting gig playing a party goer at a 1983 Miami drug lord's beachside mansion for a Netflix series. Importantly for me, with all afternoon or near afternoon calltimes XD ! and I just learned (came on here to blog about it!) I'm going to be missing trotcon because I just booked a $900 acting gig the same weekend in July!
And yeah, in SoCal, living in a cool blanket fort in my mom's garage in Orange County at the moment cause it's free, but with doing better at gigs as I have been lately, should be able to move back to the San Fernando Valley in LA with some friends ideally later this year. Acting may not be my passion, but it's looking increasingly like an enjoyable viable career.
How about you? how is life treating you?
Sounds like being an extra in a movie or show can be surprisingly lucrative. It'll be a sad day when the deepfakes get good enough that studios will replace your job with a robot.
I hope you have fun during the gig. Glad to hear you're doing well in general.
Congrats. Honestly, your enthusiasm about this, and how things are on an upturn are really inspiring. I promise thatâs not sarcasm. Iâm Happy for you, but more than that Iâm happy that youâre happy.
Now. The next step is to sleep your way up the ladder, from âextraâ, to âfeatured extraâ. Thatâs where the real money is.
hey, that's pretty freakin' cool :) break a leg!
Someday we will all claim to have known you before you became famous and moved to a house in Beverly Hills.
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Lol I honestly haven't thought about if I do make it big where I want to live. Not Beverly Hills you know my politics lol. I'm thinking maybe the nicest parts of the San Fernando Valley on the north side of the Hollywood Hills; I briefly lived in Encino and loved it, and want to move back to Van Nuys, so if I do get rich (and to be clear I will never be *super* rich because if I'm ever making millions year, I'm spending most of it helping build a better world), maybe Woodland Hills, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, that sort of thing. Where Weird Al lives, by the way. (During the shutdown phase of the pandemic he recorded a video of himself playing "Classical Gas" on accordion standing on his porch deck.) There's other cool hilly parts of LA I would love but wouldn't want to be part of gentrification if I can help it.
that is cool
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With background, it's the overtime where it gets good cause it's hourly rather than a fixed sum.
I'm sure they already use AI for some aspects of non focus crowd shots, but I think it will at least a decade until completely non-existent people can do main character stuff beyond just giving a fake speech convincingly, and probably another several decades until AI can make good non-shitpost/absurdist shows on their own that humans enjoy. Think about the timeline for self driving cars and extrapolate that. The future of AI is incredibly exciting though, that's for sure.
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Awwww, thanks!
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No u! :B
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Not as cool as you!
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Wowzers. Sounds like fun! Break a leg man.
You go man !!
From a single line in a video to a properly scripted extra.
Keep climbing that ladder mate
Good luck! Glad it sounds like things are looking up for you. :)
Sorry about your inability to make it to Trotcon, though.
And I've been doing at least alright, I think. Though, speaking of conventions, I recently started making reservations for Ponyville Ciderfest, first con, or vacation at all, since, oh, early 2020, for some reason. Hopefully that'll go well! Not that much information released about the con yet; I only started making reservations this early because one of the ones I wanted to make only had two spots available (bedroom on the Cardinal on the return trip; I decided to splurge a bit, since with the current state of the world, who knows when I'll be in a position to take another vacation like this), and I noticed earlier this week that, even this far out, one of them had already been taken.