lime and limpid green

I need to interrupt our regularly scheduled poker story for a moment, because at 2:30 this afternoon, I have an actual on-camera audition, for a very popular TV show.
I’m quite excited, because the material totally doesn’t suck, I can put this character on pretty easily, and when I was pitched to the casting director, she reportedly said, “Oh wow! What a great idea! Send him in!”
So if you could spare a little bit-o-mojo around 2:30 Pacific today, I’d be most grateful.
In fact, to show my gratitude, I offer a link to the official Mount St. Helens Live Volcano Cam, which we should all be watching because there have been lots of earthquake swarms in the last 24 hours, and it looks like she’s waking up.
Updated @ 5:06PM — Just got back, and I am happy to report that I had a really good time! It was the first on-camera audition I’ve had in AGES, but all the nerves and crap that used to get in my way never materialized. I had prepared my sides well, and knew my character all the way down in my bones, so even though I had to wait for almost an hour, I passed the time happily, playing Downtown Hold’Em on my cellphone. (I made it to the fourth tournament before I went all-in with a Jack-high flush and lost to a King-high flush.)
I was very happy with my performance in both scenes . . . and I marked something interesting as I left: the character I read for was a little nervous and scattered, trying very hard not to get caught after he did a Very Bad Thing™, and I had to very carefully and consciously shift gears once the camera rolled. When I left, I thought to myself, “Aw, man, I was nervous and scattered,” until I realized that that was precisely the way I was supposed to be. So they’ll either think that I nailed this character, or they’ll think I was too scattered and nervous . . . but either way, I’m glad I went in.
Thank you so much to everyone who sent mojo and stuff. It made me smile more than once while I was there, just knowing that at least thirty people (the comment count when I left) were thinking of me.

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  2. Something odd that my co-workers and I have noticed up here in Seattle, Washington: Very few people here are worried about St. Helen’s, but everyone who calls us (I work in a trading room so we get calls from all over the country) is worried about St. Helen’s. Kinda odd.
    Good luck with the audition! Mojo will be sent!

  7. Good luck with the audition! Mojo is being directed south.
    Interesting Mount St. Helens fact: I heard on the news this morning (living in Vancouver, BC we get a lot of Washington news) that if you want to figure out exactly how big the slide was after the eruption just put your index fingers along each side of the mountain – where the tips of your fingers meet is where the peak used to be. That’s a lot of rock that’s no longer there!

  16. I’ll add your audition happy/mojo to my new Mac happy/mojo and- uh..wait a sec, that could be really dangerous. My head could explode…
    *shrug* oh well, here goes anyway…
    Clean up on Aisle 4!

  22. Consider my mojo sent (in an Blowfish-Encrypted, AppleDouble encoded sort-of way). Good luck, may you be on G4TechTV (to make it suck a little less).
    Word to your mother.
    //k

  24. You tell the producers that I don’t care if it’s a reality TV cannibalistic cooking game show soap opera. If you’re on it, I’m gonna be watching.
    Break all their legs dude.

  30. I have to agree with Ashli, Wil. Not alot of people in the Seattle area are worried about St. Helens going off again.
    Though I will be royally upset if it goes off and screws up my plans to drive to the beach this weekend

  31. Good Luck Wil,
    Hope to hear the name of the show and hear the resof of Poker night, Speaking of which reading your poker story reminded me of the cartoon site icebox(.com) and their pokernight stories… HAHAHA

  35. OK, audition mojo heading down from Seattle… you want some clouds with that? We were having nice crisp clear sunny fall weather this weekend but now we’re back to the status quo.
    I was hearing that any St. Helens eruption this time around would be pretty local to the crater with possible small mudslides. Nothing like when she lost her head the last time. Check out the daily summary of the 1980 eruption here: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/May18/framework.html
    Kind of fascinating really.

  36. Major mojo, Wil. There’s very little of interest on television right now, so seeing you on TV would finally get me back to my TV. Then I might know what the Cool Kids are talking about.
    (Is it too much to hope that you might be auditioning for Alias?)

  40. More good mojo coming out of Seattle for ya!
    I checked the web cam this morning (I got a friend in the seismology dept at UW, so I’ve been getting all the good scoop on the mountain,) and we saw this impending disaster. Destroy all mountains! It’s Flydan, cousin of Mothra!

  46. its 2:32 pm now, so i hope you hade some good mojo during your audition. And this whole Mt. St. Helens thing has gained way too much press. We in washington, are not worrying about, nore should anyone else.

  48. Wil, I’m reading this a bit late, so I’m going to try reversing the polarity on the mojo and sending it through the heart of a temporal anomoly. This has the advantage that if you don’t get the part, you can just blame me! 😉

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