I got a pimple

Well today I wanted to talk about a couple of things: how my commercial shoot went and how my comedy show went last night.

For some reason, my body likes to mess with me.  I think it's self-destructive, because whenever I get a big gig something happens.  When I did my PlaysStation 2 commercial, the night before I started to lose my voice.  I barely made it through the shoot with the little bit of voice I had.  I had that deep, sexy voice, it was sexy except for every 2 minutes when I had to make that ugly clearing your throat noise.  So I get booked on Friday for this Battlefront commercial that shoots on Monday.  And out of nowhere this gigantic pimple erupts onto the side of my nose.  This is my self-destructive body going to work, because I never get pimples on my nose, and never that big.  This thing looked like a colony had formed.  When I get pimples it's where my facial hair grows as a result of ingrown hairs.  So I am freaking out because I can picture myself showing up and they look at my pimple and are like, yeah, we can't use you in the commercial with that thing on your face.  But the shoot takes place at this ILM studio which is owned by LucasArts and does the special effects and art for hundreds of movies including Star Wars.  So I'm thinking that they can CGI it off my face or make it turn into an ewok or something.  Fortunately, this was a big time shoot, so they had a professional make-up artist there who went to work on it and miraculously made it disappear under 20 coats of makeup.  So the pimple was handled.

Now the shoot was great, and the people from the ad agency and crew were awesome.  It is amazing to see the crew create completely different sets between shots.  Every scene was shot on a greenscreen so that they can add us into the actual Star Wars movie.  The commercial is to show how realistic the game is to the movie and as a result you feel like you in the movie, so it has 6 of us normal people running in scenes from the movie.  There will be 2 commercials made from the shoot and I'll either be running through snow after a stormtrooper or shooting in a jungle at some ewoks.  It was some oscarworthy performances I must say.  So it was a 12 hour shoot which means overtime and some extra cha-ching.  I hate when actors talk about how they have 15 hour days on sets, etc and how its a lot of work.  I did a 12 hour day and did probably 30 minutes of work at the beginning of the day and 10 minutes of work at the end of the day.  In between I chilled and read magazines, took naps, played videogames, read the bible and the koran and then did a comparison essay, so much was accomplished.  I love acting and would probably prefer to act than do comedy full-time.  The money is a lot better and you get treated like a king as opposed to shit in comedy rooms. 

Now last night I performed at the Avalon Club in Santa Clara as part of a comedy competition.  This was the second and last week of the "Pre-Finals" stage.  Yeah, have you ever heard of a competition with "PREFINALS".  I haven't till now.  The competition seems to have lasted about 6 months so it is good to finally be at the end.  I killed that night and will be going to court later this month for first degree...hehehehehe...no.  But I did do very well and placed first out of the five people selected to advance to the finals which will take place this upcoming Tuesday.  Hopefully I win, because otherwise I'd be a loser.  Plus the prize is $1,500 and thats a lot of pokemon cards I can buy with that kind of scratch.  Scratch?  I sound like I'm from the 50's.  So, seeing as how the competition has been dragged out so long, I think that if I win the finals then they'll probably make me advance to the post finals or something. 

Well tonight I will be headlining a showcase at Rooster T Feathers in Sunnyvale.  I'm looking forward to it, because if I want to get booked there then I need to do well.  When I sent the owner my tape she said that it wasn't very funny and she didn't hear many laughs.  Which is crazy, because I personally dubbed in a laugh track.  (It's hard to get an audience to come and watch you perform in your living room.)  So once again I will have to jump through some hoops like the good little comedian I am and prove myself to people, club by club.  With my luck there will be only 5 people in the audience and they'll be the waitresses wondering where the hell they went wrong in life to end up serving at a empty club on a wed night.  I'll let you know how it goes...