Nerves

Often, when I have an important audition, I won’t say anything to my friends or family, beyond my wife. I know that my friends and family get their hopes up for me, the same way I get my hopes up for myself, and sometimes that messes with my head.
It’s like knowing that half the stadium is friends who have shown up to watch me play in The Big Game. 🙂
So, it just hit me this morning, there must be thousands of people (based on my webstats) who know about these auditions today. Jesus. Talk about filling the stands!
Well, it has worked in the past, so I’ll do it again: would you please spare a moment for me today, at 2:30 PM PDT and again at 5:00PM PDT? I swear, in the past when I’ve asked for people to send me mojo, it has really worked. I’m the most skeptical bastard on the planet, but I swear to god I felt it.
I also realized this morning that I feel this extra pressure to not blow it today, because I stayed home from the vacation, and I have spent the whole weekend preparing. I mean, there is really a lot at stake this time out, and I can’t blame it on not having time, or whatever, if I mess up.
However, I am super prepared…nearing that place where I’m over-prepared. I had time to create full characters, as well as get extremely familiar with the material.
The only thing I could do to be more prepared, is memorize the script, but I don’t ususally memorize material for a first audition, becuase memorizing lines can lock me into a performance. If a producer or director wants me to change a performance a bit one way or another, it’s much easier to make those changes when I have the sides in my hands. Of course, at this stage, the other actors have all been in on this at least once, in some cases twice or three times…so I’ll have that working against me.
Heh. I have just realized something: for the first time in a very long time, I feel nervous about an audition. Not nervously excited, but anxious. I feel like there’s a lot at stake this time, a lot more than usual.
Oh boy. Please send that Mojo as quickly as you can. I need it. 🙂

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270 thoughts on “Nerves”

Everytime you say Mojo I think of that scarey guy from Excalibur, Mojo Mayhem. So I never plan on giving you any Mojo. Please don’t be sad.
But I wish you lots of Luck.
Wait…that Lucky Charms guy scares me too.
Nevermind.

My mojo for you is traveling back through time as I write….

hello i’am the mojofairy fill free to ask for my help just say the magic words three times mojo mojo mojo and i’ll come.

*concentrates intensly as he sends all the good mojo he can muster your way*
*opens his eyes and realizes he’s about 12 hours too late*
*shakes his fist to the sky*
Damn my working graveyards! damn…..my job has forsaken me, wil will forsake me…i’ll be foresuk.
🙂

Good luck.

Last night, I had a dream that I logged on here and comments were back.
I swear to god.
So this is what I’ve become, evidently — a person whose brain is devoting valuable subconscious processing time to creating precognitive dreams about Wil Wheaton Dot Net.
Ah, if only I could harness this power and use it for the forces of… well, perhaps not Good exactly, but at least Getting Good Stuff.
Like Spacestation tickets and hot lovers and cheese snacks and a loyal army of metal tarantulas.
And yes, mojo for Wil.
‘Cause you gotta feed the source, right?

I’m sending my mojo back in time to ya

we got “comments” back!
Goodluck wil, from over here in the timezone known as the UK.
Thanks for the site.
shaun

I’m loading my Mojo gun.
POW!!
I just shot you full a’Mojo

I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of voices as one all called out: “MOJO”…
Uh-oh – I suddenly had ‘Comic-book-shop guy’ voice superimposed in my head as I re-read that. Dweeb alert!!
Ahem…
There was a young actor called Wil.
Of his web site we can’t get our fill.
So we send our MOJO
And let it all flow
But he’s better off with NATURAL SKILL!

Loads of Mojo from the UK, you’ll do fine!!
Just trying to work out what time it’ll be here when you have the auditions to send that extra mojo at the correct time, sometime this evening I thinks! Time zones are a nightmare!
Good luck 🙂

I guess I’m a day late and a dollar short for the “mojo rush” So, I’ll just say I know you did well, I’ve never been disappointed in anything I’ve ever seen you in. Let us know ASAP!!!!!

::sends extra brainwashing mojo::
It’s never too late to influence those who ~held~ the auditions. ::cackle::

Good luck.
You show(ed) them Wil!

Well I was on a plane somewhere over the atlantic at the appointed time but I reckon its never to late for some mojo-
Hope it went well!

moooooojo ????

mojo hugs and butt slap
🙂

Mojo? Wil don’t need no stinkin’ MOJO!
Picture if you will…fueled only by beer, his PS2 and lack of sleep, young Wil Wheaton weaves a twisted path in and out of the Audition Zone.
Go get ’em tiger!
“I’m not an actor, but I play one on TV”

I know you’ve probably had your auditions by now but, being in England, I always get the comments later than everyone else.
You didn’t need luck or the bloody mojo! You knew the par and we all know your brilliant.
Hope it went well Uncle Willy.
Peace!

Chief MoJo Rising, “The West is the best”.

Wil, Big ups on comments being back up,word!!

Well Sorry for the lateness of the Mojo, but definately I send it for safe keeping for next time or this time if you are waiting nerivously for an answer on whether you got the part. *MOJO MOJO MOJO!!!* I hope that you have a great day and have fun. Tootles from ArtisticSpirit

I, too, am late with my mojo, but just so you have it for next time:
MUCHO MOJO!!! 🙂 Not as if you need it- you’re a great actor- but if it makes you feel better, there you go. 🙂
Love, Alicia
http://www.thewagband.com

So I’ve been looking at some of the comments here, and I think “Click ONCE To Post” button needs to make a comeback.

Hey Uncle Wil,
I sent you all my bestest mojo at 5pm sharp. How’d it go? Did it help? Or were you so overwhelmed by everybody’s mojo flooding your way that you couldn’t say a word?
Do tell!

http://www.mojonixon.com/
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lebowitz,+Adam+%27Mojo%27

accept my m0j0!

I agree with Mikeman. I of all people know how hard it is to change a person’s perspective on matters. You still got my mojo. You shall have it through out the week. Hopefully directors and producers will wake up and hire good talent.
Some of the so called stars bother me. They have no talent. And yet they get hired. ?
Anyway, good luck to you.

So, what is that in central time? 12:30 and 3? Mojo is on its way, Uncle Willie. Break legs and knock them dead!

MUCHO MOJO WIL
WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE GONNA DO GOOD!!!!!!!

Consider yourself Mojo-fied at this point. I’m just adding mine to the list.

Sending ya the mojo!

I’ll be thinking bout you at 8PM and 11PM respectively, my time (Eastern), and it’s great to see the comments back up! Break a leg! Karen

Welllllllll WE are all SOOOOOOO glad to have
OUR comments back..PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t
take them away..Uncle Wil we will send you ETERNAL
MOJO from “infinity and beyond”..but PLEASE don’t
take our comments away!!! (Yes I know it was
broken etc…however I get the feeling that at
times Unka Wil or the “powers that be” of this
site get VERY exsasperated with newbies etc.)
PLEASE be kind..and I promise I will stop the
whining..(what no cheese?) ..HELLO EVERYONE!!!
I missed US!!! (yes even SPUDDY!! )LOL

Ditto to amanda’s comment, and noir, that was AMAZING! I am sooo sorry I didn’t read the date right, but I looked at your site yesterday and this wasn’t there, I swear! Karen

Where is my mind is a Pixies song… Good stuff. Plays at the end of fight club too.. Awesome scene where the buildings are falling..
Hey Wil hope you got those jobs.
So hows the PS2? Anyone like Warcraft 2? It’s probably the best RTS game ever made..
hops

MOJO from the UK
P.S.
What is a Mojo – is it an America thing
Danny..

mojo is austin powers’ sex drive aint it?
u see they may let him use the name Austin powers in Goldmember now?

*sends the mojo*
I’ll resend at 2:30 and 5:00. Hey, every little bit helps, right?

Not just mojo, but I got some mega moocho mojo for ya. I had to dig around the basement to find this, and believe me, it’s no picnic down there. Hope you appreciate this.
😉