Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Movies are for losers

Acting really is harder than it looks you know.
Recently, I was asked to act in a play written by a good friend of mine, but H-O-L-Y C-R-A-P, acting is quite possibly the most boring expierence I've had the misfortune to partake of, what's worse is that i see more acting in my immidiate future.
I mean, you see the professional actors on TV and your'e like, "Come on, even i could act better than Eddie Murphy!" but you can't, you think you can, but you just can't. First off, filming is never done in chronological order as shown in the final product, so one gets very confused. Also, they very rarely shoot more than one line at a time, and even more rarely, in the order that it is shown in the script. I was asked to repeat several lines in a row, and every line I recited was on a different page.
Needless to say, i was confused. I was supposed to be playing the villain, and those of you who see me on a semi-regular basis know that i am no villain. I'm just a simple man that enjoys a good taco at Taco Bell every now and again, but i was the vilain regardless. The whole time, i had to keep being told to stop smiling or laughing and to talk as if i were schemeing something, i don't even know what scheme means.
Anyway, in order to go and shoot this play, i had to wake up at 9:30 am, yes that's right, 9:30 am and didn't get home until 11 o'clock. So the entire day, i was groggy and by 8 o'clock, i was full blown sleep deprived.

But there was no upside to the entire day, as there usually is in these predicaments. There was no Taco Bell, there were no interesting stories that occured, there was only me and my lack of sleep.

O well, it's amazing what a little sleep deprivation can do to adjust your attitude

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