Well.. not a funny thing.. this isn't meant to be a joke.
I have been looking around for another car for my oldest daughter. She doesn't want much: Smaller car, auto, preferably, lowish k's, less than $5000.. preferably less.. oh.. and it must not be white. She is at Uni on the Sunshine Coast and I'm in Maryborough.. about 200k's apart. She's a uni student so is either studying, working or sleeping.. as they do. I have looked at just about every major car sales website, joind 5 farcebook sales sites, etc.. I've seen some good buys, but they don't last long.
Anyway, I decided to check out the classifieds in the local paper.. but being a cheapskate (and out of work since last November) I looked online so I didn't have to spend $1.20 on the paper!
This was about Tuesday last week, and I noticed an ad saying that Talent Scouts were going to be at Hervey Bay and to book online if you want to have a go. Well, I do enjoy singing at karaoke every weekend and CAN sing, but not to a level where I would be game to offer myself for that... but just being on the long side of 50 and out of work I thought to myself 'why not?' I booked online and very soon an email was returned to me saying that I had been booked in for that Friday at 1:45pm. I was also send a number of forms to print out as well as about 10 scripts to take along. My printer manage to just print out all the require documents before it ran out of ink and refused to play anymore.
To keep a long story short: I attended the audition, filled out a heap more forms and eventually got in front of the camera for the audition (apparently I was supposed to pick one of those scripts and learn it off by heart, but nobody told me that). Although, the night before I did read a few of them in front of my computers camera and recorded it and was happy with the result... in front of a camera at an audition is a completely different kettle of fish! I read the script out and was promptly told that it wasn't very good. He had hope for me and stated that there aren't enough men in my age group that will attempt this type of thing, so he gave me another (bigger) script to take home and learn.
That night was a waste of time trying to learn it, next morning I had a few hours at home and an hour at the audition site to try and learn.. but again.. that camera...
Well, I did manage to get thru half of it, and then read the rest off the page.. and was told that it was 4000 times better than the day before.
So, I am now signed up with n agency in the hope of scoring some 'extra', advert, or short film parts! .. and I don't have to sing!
Still haven't found the 'right' car for my daughter.. she has just knocked back a Subaru Impreza, auto with 115000k's offered for the $5000 (not $7000 that he really wanted).. because it was white!.. and a Hyundai FX Coupe with really low k's, pristine condition for $5000 negotiable.. because she's not sure she likes it! Sheeesh!
