Chicago Comic Con Day 4

Chicago Comic Con Day 3

Yes, it was nasty

Chicago Comic Con Day 2

Chicago Comic Con Day 1

Just a few of my scores for the day
Our beloved mascot always in attendance

A taste of Chicago

Californ-i-gay

People that went to school with me that told everyone they were from California annoyed the hell out of me. I guess mainly because they all moved here when they were four. I completely understand that they're pathetically attempting to make themselves sound cooler but to me they just come off as what they truly are, complete douchebags that are slaves to a system in which they need to essentially lie to everyone to sound cool. To me it is basically the equivalent of having a full blooded german mother that immigrated to the U.S. and got impregnated by your American father and then you tell everyone that you're from Germany. Face it people just because you spent your barney years in a different state it doesn't mean that it even molded you or affected you in any way.

Street Sharks

Big Slammu

Sadly, Big Slammu is the last of the Street Sharks I possessed when I was younger. These brilliant toys were released '94-'95 along with a cartoon series. Sure, they could be seen as a ripoff that was still trying to capitalize on the success of the TMNT franchise but hey, kids at my school sure loved them. I only had a few others but I wish i still possessed them because it is hard as hell trying to track down any of these. I guess I should be thankful that I still have my favorite one. Although I am still disappointed that I never tracked down Moby Lick the killer whale when I was younger. At my elementary if you had Moby Lick, you were the shit. You got to decide the games at recess and kids gave you their fruit roll-ups just to hold him for a few seconds. Oh, what could have been.

ProDouche

So today I decided to go to an open interview with a talent scout agency that was being held at a hotel downtown. I won't say the name of the agency but I will say that they were PROfessional SCOUTs if you get my drift. So anyway I get there and it is mostly a bunch of moms bringing in their little kids, even though the ad said it was open to all ages. So i'm there waiting and they ask me to fill out this laundry list of information ISTEP test style so I accomodate their request even though i've always had trouble with filling in those tiny ass bubbles. My hands shake constantly, had bloodwork run on it before but the doctors have no idea why it happens. My nerves are shot or some BS probably. It is really not noticeable to most people but man when i'm filling out those bubbles I can sure as hell feel it. So I take about 45 minutes to fill out the paper and then wait about another 25 minutes for the doors to open.

So I go in the room and sit down where i'm sandwiched between two generously sized children (which was, of course, a treat not being able to move at all) as this douchebag guy spouts off all this crap about how they are just scouts and not agents and brags about how he knows people that know Dakota Fanning (basically yada yada yada who gives a shit, right?) this goes on for around 35 minutes or so. He then has everyone form a line to be "interviewed" and says that most of the people will not be selected and rambles on about how since we live in the middle of slobknob, Indiana this is basically the ONLY way (and he really did emphasize this) we will ever get noticed by Hollywood. So basically he's a bigger dick than Chet (see my first post).

So he's still rambling as we're waiting, in which time he makes fun of fat kids (not joking) and proceeds to put down all the residents of Indiana by constantly using the word "y'all" and talking like complete trailer trash. Seriously, I have lived in this state my whole life and I heard him use the phrase "y'all" more in a 3 minute period than I ever have in the entirety of my 23 years of living. So he calls me up finally and i'm thinking alright here we go i'm going to finally get a shot to prove I can act. Yeah, not so much. I walk up to him and he says "what are you doing in life right now?" I tell him well, i'm in college and he interrupts me and tells me to leave. Seriously? I have no desire to be the next huge thing to hit Hollywood but come on some of my favorite actors most people have never even heard of because they aren't in much and i'd relish those opportunities.

I'm not looking to get rich, I just want to enjoy what I do. Basically I think talent scouts are a complete joke now. I used to think it was a good idea but if they are just going to ask a person one question that doesn't even have to do with acting experience or what their capabilities are then fuck that. My advice for anyone is to not waste their time with that BS and just find another way. Yeah, I know there will be people out there that think i'm just complaining because I didn't get selected but you know, I would have been satisfied with them actually addressing the issue at hand even if I did get turned down afterwards if it meant that they were judging people's capabilities. I feel bad for anyone else that has ever gone to these interviews that completely devoted their personal time to this just to have some doucheknocker ask them a completely irrelevant question and get told to hit the bricks.