It's irritating!

Last night I caught a few minutes of Heidi Montag on Leno. Here is what I saw...

Leno: You're doing a movie now?

Heidi: Yes.

Leno: Did you have to audition for it?

Heidi: No, they just called and offered it to me. I've never had to audition for anything. I hear it's tough out there.

Obviously it's not an exact transcript. I was still wrapping my head around what's going to happen between FLocke and Charles Whitmore. But you get the gist.

Hey Hollywood can we do something about perpetuating that stereotype that says it's not what you know, it's who you know. Can you please stop calling talent free individuals and offering them things that we actual artists need to work our arses off to get!

Yeah, Heidi it is tough out there, but you and that creepy flesh color bearded husband of yours wouldn't know that.

That's why I've said it before and I'll say it again. Do your own thing!!!! Be crafty and budget conscious but do it!!!!! Like improv, don't tell me what your going to do. Just do it!

Ok. It's out. I'm done.

On a lighter note. I went in to Days of Our Lives for a general meeting. Which means "There's nothing right now but we'll keep you on file for the future." Well 45 minutes later I walked out with a large day player role with potential. I was at the right place at the right time literally. It was one of those things where preparation meets luck.

Keep on, keepin' on...

Do your own thing.

I'm not sure what it is and frankly I don't care. (Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, although if I did receive a gift horse things might be different). Ever since I started doing my own web series, my career has been revived.

The funny thing is it all started as a fluke. It was a scene I had written for myself and my housemates based on our "types". We pre-read auditioned it, then auditioned it for the camera, then filmed it and somewhere in there came the decision to keep going. I'm learning so much with each webisode it's ridiculous. It's a blast too. If you haven't seen it you can check out the first two webisodes at http://www.youtube.com/montecitoheightstv

The thing is ever since, I've had more auditions in this past month than I've had in the last year. I feel awesome and I'm teaching myself how to do special effects, sound, directing, editing etc.

My advice to my fellow performers is "Do your own thing!".

We do Montecito Heights (webseries) on the cheap. Believe me. It's all shot on a flipHD camera, using a laptop, garageband and audacity, a headset microphone (Yes that's correct)for sound and a tripod and gorillapod. I edit it on my laptop using Final Cut Express but you can totally do it on IMovie. There's really no excuse. Just write it, cast it and do it!!!!

If anything you'll learn so much about the camera and how to use it to your advantage.

They're just people too

I had an audition last week for a short film. I walk in the room and the director sits on the other end of this long table. He doesn't say "Hello" or "Thanks for coming in" nope the first thing out of his mouth is "Oh, good! You look older than your picture! I almost said "too young"!"

First off let me give you an insight into my brain and what I'm thinking during this. (warning I'm not like other actors).

"What the f*#ck kind of greeting is that?!"

"You look like Charlie Murphy, but I didn't blurt that out now did I?!

"Is this some kind of psychological bull s*$t you learned in directing school?!"

"Why was I called in?!"

"Turrets?!"

"I don't want to work for this moron!"

I'll repeat that last one.

"I don't want to work for this moron!"

When you've been doing this as long as I have the audition goes both ways. As much as I'd like the job and love to work I'd rather not work for a moron that can't greet someone properly when they walk in the door.

My response was "You're the only person that's ever said that." which is the truth. After all if you got five different people to look at a headshot separately and without conferring with each other, you're going to have five different opinions. It's subjective. One person hates them, one person loves them. In the end however it's not your headshot that's going to be performing the scene. Just needed to vent a bit.