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”

  1. Yes, Wil, I will be sending you mojo – especially at 5 PM, since here it will be 7 PM, and my play will be opening. Ekk! I’m pretty nervous! Do you think maybe you could send me some mojo, too?

  3. Id send mojo over, but blossom isn’t finished beating him up yet.
    oh wait.. you don’t mean mojojojo.. do you?
    How bout I just keep my fingers crossed for you.. 🙂

  4. Good luck Wil!!!!
    Major mojo your way. You deserve it. Keeping my figures, toes and eyes crossed for ya.

  6. Just strap a couple M-80s around your chest and wear a trenchcoat. When you go in, open the coat and say, “GIMME THE PART.”
    You know, before Sept 11, that would have ben funny … Ah, well. Mojo, dude. Crush the bastidz.

  7. Remember to not take this personally, it’s not.
    The whole process (auditions, readings etc.) is designed this way for a reason.
    Good luck, be good, be strong.

  8. OK…So now Wil’s newest topic DOES NOT have the
    “comments” as a option!!!WHAT is happening here?
    Is this a test? Didn’t we pass?//(gues not)or
    was it a “fluke” that we COULD post on this
    thread but NOT on todays topic? “Hello hello
    hello is there anybody out there? Just nod if
    you can here me ..is there anyone home?”
    Could SOMEONE please PM me if I’ve missed something here…lol Thanks

  12. AH c’mon Mr. Wil I sure would appreciate ya puttin’ up dem dare coments section ya know. Well I’ll be bak regardless.

  13. commenting on next post:
    Happy Mondays broke up after heavy drug abuse.
    The lead singer got clean and formed a new band, Black Grape. This was around 1995. They made a couple of less successful albums, I don’t know if they still exist, they may have just faded away by now. But I saw them live shortly after the formation of Black Grape, and it was basically Happy Mondays music. Very festive.

  14. While mine was just a wave in an ocean of Mojo sent to Wil, my words went with him as his tie back to all our thoughts. Cool. Way cool. No… Hella Cool.
    Hella Hella Hella!
    My week is made.

  15. OK I am now sadly convinced it was a MOJO inspired
    thing…which is SAD..The “soapbox” is nice..how-
    ever NOTHING WILL EVER REPLACE THE COMMENT SECTION
    which is how/why I wil(l) assume ALOT of us got
    ADDICTED to this site in the first place.
    May I please have directions to THE BETTY FORD
    CENTER ..internet version ..of oldtimer poster
    people..SUFFERING from COMMENT WITHDRAWAL??!!

  16. Futher to the info on the Happy Mondays, a new movie opened this week in the UK called 24 Hour Party People. It tells the drug-addled story of the Factory record label and the bands on it, including the Mondays and New Order. It’s pretty good.
    see review at http://www.lazycinema.com

  17. The word “Wil” was used 152 times :-/ I can’t get people to say my name even once. you and your goddamn popularity 🙂

  19. And WHY won’t anyone..MR WHEATON(sir) answer
    “that” question? This is getting all X-filey.
    Drat its probably on of those ‘psycho=(ill)logical
    games..I KNOW!!! It WAS a TEST and since Wil is
    now feeling that he did not get the part(s) OUR
    WWDN Mojo did not help..So WE can’t have the
    comments back!!!!
    PLEASE say it ain’t so ..lol

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