Star Wars: Battlefront

This is great.  I finally have a blogger thing.  Now all you people out there can really get to know me deeper than what you can get from my website.  The first thing I want to talk about is my new commercial that I landed.  It's for Star Wars: Battlefront, which I hear is a new videogame that will be coming out on PC, XBOX and PS2.  I'm excited because it's a national commercial that will be played on Cable, Network and in foreign markets.  Plus it's a funny commercial, which hopefully will mean more airtime and MONEY!  This is my second national commercial in the past 2 months.  My last commercial was for PS2 Online.  The videogame industry is being very generous to me lately, which works for me since I've spent hundreds of dollars on videogames and PS2 stuff.  So it's time I got my money back.

The audition for the commercial was great.  I showed up and read the sides and it said that one of the characters was obviously out-of-shape, which is PC for obviously fat.  I knew my chances of getting the commercial just went up 50%.  Usually when I audition for stuff, I try and look as thin as possible, wearing loose shirts and blankets, etc.  Having lost 50 pounds in the past year (Thank you ATKINS), I was worried that I would come across as too anorexic on camera with my 260+ pound body.  So when I read the script I tore off my lose shirt and auditioned in my thin, belly hugging undershirt.  And in auditions they make you do a profile shots where you face the camera then turn to the left and then the right, very similar to a prison line-up where they make you do your profiles.  I don't know if they make everyone do this at an audition or if they did this especially for me to make me feel more at home.  But as I did my profiles, I made sure to try and stick out my stomach to appear as much as Buddha as possible.  Apparantly it worked because I landed the role later that week.

The only bad part is that I was suppose to go down to LA and perform at the Conga Room the same day as the commercial shoot (which is Monday, July 26th).  The show is for consideration to be in this new documentary on latino stand up comedians, called "standUP".  Unfortunately, I had to cancel.  Hopefully I can reschedule for the following Monday.

Well this is my first Blog.  I like this.  I will try and post stuff alot and hopefully someone will eventually read it.