Quote of the day

“I mean, there are people who DON’T VOTE that write to Star Trek to complain about phaser inconsistancies, for Christ’s sake.”
-Theatre’s Rob Matsushita via Email

Here They Come

I guess there’s just no pleasing some people.
But upon careful re-consideration, the bulk of the posts there are actually pretty cool, which is a big surprise to me. I dig it that people will stick up for “The Wilster”*
(I say that because some dude was very upset that I called myself “Uncle Willie”. Har. :D)

Props

Check it out: I’m the “Blog of the day” at feeling listless.
Boy, now I really feel the pressure to not suck!

Shitty News

Just got off the phone with my agent, while I was making this entry. The casting director for Rules Of Attraction called this morning, and told us that “It’s between Wil and another guy”.
What the fuck? I wonder how I went from, “I want you in my movie” to “It’s between you and another guy.” I do know one thing, though, this isn’t Roger’s call. It’s some fucking executive at some fucking studio.
Wow, the Universe sure does like balance, doesn’t it?

Six Degrees Of Memepool

This morning, I got an email from my friend who lives in Boston. It said:

Dear Wil,
Is this yours? I came across it linked to a very strange site called memepool.com
http://www.wilwheaton.net

How about that, eh? Six degrees of memepool.

Audition Update

If you’ve read the old weblog, you may remember an entry I made about some auditions. Here is the status of those auditions:
The Young Person’s Guide To Being A Rockstar: I was “in the mix”, which is Hollywoodspeak for “we’re considering you until someone bigger comes along”. Apparently, someone bigger came along.
Waiting…: I had the audition for this last week, and the casting director told me that the director has someone in mind, but she thought I did such a great job, she was going to send the director my tape, and try to change his mind. Since it’s been a week, I guess he was pretty committed. However, this is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever read. Ever. I really hope the guy they cast gets gangrene (and recovers, of course), so that they call me and put me in it.
Rules of Attraction: This is my friend Roger Avary’s movie, based on Brett Easton Ellis’ novel. Roger and I have been friends since I worked on Mr. Stitch with him. We talked about three weeks ago, and Roger offered me the COOLEST ROLE EVER in the film, A Junkie Named Marc.
So Tuesday, I went in to read the part, I guess because the producers of the film are making everyone read (or, more likely, Roger wanted to be sure that I didn’t suck, and is too nice a guy to say that to me).
Anyway, I went in a read, and I still haven’t heard anything back…so….I dunno…guess I shouldn’t be shopping for that PS2 just yet.