Hurrah! I love it when I start out the day without any plans and then it turns into something exciting. First the dress from Sam, and just now I ordered hardware for my computer so I can turn it into tivo. Okay, not quite the same as tivo, but it’ll do everything I want tivo to do, pretty much. I’m going to be able to record my favorite TV shows onto my computer then turn them into V-CDs. And, if Kevin will be all sweet and wonderful, he could burn them onto DVDs for me. Then I could have all the episodes of Daria, Pete and Pete, and whatever else I want. As long as I keep recording them, that is. Plus, the quality will be better than recording them onto VHS. I so love computers. This will be so much fun! It means I’ll have to sacrifice my computer for a while, as we’ll have to move it temporarily into the basement. But, I’ll always have my laptop for up here in my room. So, no big loss, really.
But now I might have to figure out what to do for dinner, but just as I was typing that, Steven came in and suggested we convince Dad to get pizza for dinner. They’re heading out to take my mother to the airport (she’s off to Seattle with her mother for some family reunion), so they could easily pick it up on their way home.
Oh! Other happy news – I’ve launched another stupid project! This time it’s just to screw around with the Hollywood Machine, and hopefully get one of my friends, Kimber, into show business. She’s 14 and has Turner’s Syndrome, a very sad condition where she’ll pretty much always look young. She won’t have children and every single day she has to inject herself with hormones or her body will basically shut down. But, she’s figured out she wants to become an actress. She’d be a great character actor, since she’ll always look like she’s twelve years old. And that way she can spread the word about Turner’s and hopefully raise money for research. I think it’s a great plan, and since I’m the only one she knows who has any connections with “the business” at all or any familiarity with it, I said I’d help.
I’ve sent off a packet to Mali Finn, a big-time casting agent in LA who’s always looking for “different” looking people. I’ve attached a professional-sounding note on InkBlotinc.com letterhead, and a smarvy vellum notebook system that I created. Then, the most important part – pictures. I played with some of Kimber’s photos on the computer to turn them black and white so they look fantastic now. Also, for my own experiment, I included two pictures of myself. Not your average headshots, just strange angles of my face, such as an extreme close-up and strange coloring. I figure it’d be interesting to see if it’d be just that easy to get at least one of us into any production at all. I don’t really care if I “make it” (as of last night I’m sure you know how I feel about most of the behind-the-scenes stuff), but if I get even the smallest connection with anybody it’ll just benefit Kimber and her cause. It’s just like how I screwed with the system when they were casting Harry Potter. I might not have gotten into the film, but I caused a little controversy inside Warner Brothers without them even knowing I was responsible (I got the senior casting agent, Susie Figgis, to quit.) It was fun, and now it’s a rather nice memory to have lurking about my brain. It’s always good for a laugh.
The package got mailed today so who knows what will happen. Mali Finn may toss the package aside, or she may give me a call. Who knows. That’s what makes it so entertaining.