Travelling Expenses

“Life of a thousand cuts continues”…

Production Photo

“It’s a bit of a drive to Portland, but as we have nothing shooting regularly in Seattle because there really is no incentive here to soak up the billions that filmmakers are spending in Portland, Vancouver and Toronto it’s Portland or bust.

The drive down is mis-timed and Ron Ronald D. Carrier and I get there two hours early. Okay just run lines. Getting close to call time and Bruce Weech sends me a text telling me to go home and not to bother because he has Nailed It. Ha. So we roll in sign in wait a few minutes and sit in the hole and on deck. They are looking for a Cockney or genuine European accent so I have a chance as my cockney was learnt as a young man who loved Derek and Clive as well as all of the Pythons, and I worked on Speak Not with Hugh.Douglas.Berry.

Audition time, I run through the two scenes and one of the casting people says, Okay we will see you back here at 6.20. I of course, quite surprised as this is a first for me at this point reply, That’s hours away, I suppose I could get drunk. They think that’s an option If I want to. Bruce shouts us to coffee, and I tell them that I already have a call back time. They look at me as they figure I am trying to Psych them. I am the only one called back so the guys finally believe me.

The callback is a dream it goes well, on the drive back my agent calls and says They want to put you on Hold. I say fine. Next day they put me on available and look for any conflicts. None. Thursday comes and I have a feeling that no news is bad news. My agent emails and says that they have released me.

That simple, nothing else, they have released you. So how do I handle that, the part was one that you could sink your teeth into, not big but subtle with its own back-story already. So how do I handle that? I say wait till you see The Dead Men all of you and you realize you have stepped over ME, WTF were you thinking?

I know that sounds self centered but hey, considering the place I am in I have to protect myself, I want nothing else. I have no job and all I want is to work in the craft, with my craft that I have taken a lifetime to develop. So another rare chance goes by, but I gave it every chance. How painful this process can be at times can only be felt by doing! So the life of a thousand cuts continues…”  – Paul Eenhoorn

Work, work, work… with Rita Andreeva

Rita Starts Church

"How Intelligent Is a Single Cell?" http://churchofeternalmind.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-intelligent-is-single-cell.html

Rita explains it all… (or most of it, once she gets around to it.  It takes time!)

Catch it at:   http://churchofeternalmind.blogspot.com/

Photo by Carl Nelson of a professional actor/model.

Travelling Expenses

Paul Comes Clean

 

Sometimes an actor must bare his body and soul.

 

KAKKMADDAFAKKA – Touching (Official fan made video)

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From the Editor’s Perch

Editor’s Note:  My last posts really left my numbers flagging.  So to kill off my readership altogether, I thought I’d share some new thoughts:

I’ve Been Wrong Before.  I’ll Probably Be Wrong Again.  And I May Be Wrong Now, But…

I’ve recently been called a Troglodyte (not personally, just my relations) because of my views on ‘Climate Change’.  It used to be because of my views on ‘Global Warming’.  But that moniker has changed, since there hasn’t been any for the past ten years.  Now we’re supposed to be very frightened because the weather is changing.  

               “Doesn’t the weather always change?”

               “No.  This is Climate Change.”

              “Well, why are we experiencing ‘Climate Change’?

              “Because of ‘Global Warming’!”

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We’re supposed to be getting even more frightened as the days pass, because Climate Change is supposed to be occurring along an exponential curve.  This is what all of the august scientific bodies tell us. 

               “Are you sure it’s all.”

               “Yes.  All credible sources.”

               “And these are the same sources who warned us about Global Warming?”

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             “But aren’t these the same sources which warned us some 30 years ago that we may very well be entering a phase of Global Cooling,  and might have to consider spreading coal dust on the ice caps to absorb more of the sun’s energy.”

             “We’ve learned a lot since then.”

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It used to be that CO2 was just something plants used to grow, and animals produced when they breathed.  Now, however, it has been declared a ‘pollutant’ by the EPA, and needs regulating. 

(Start holding your breath here.  And we will try to make it to the end of this piece before you are forced to break a future federal regulation.  Think of it as being like pushing in a DVD and seeing that FBI anti-piracy warning that flashes on.  No biggie.  You can DO this.)

Apparently CO2 is one of the determining causes of ‘Global Warming’.  Which, though it does not currently exist, is the cause of Global Climate Change.   Which DOES exist.  You got it?   (Or are you just STUPID?)   …because of Global Warming. 

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CO2 does this through a process called the Greenhouse Effect, wherein excess CO2 causes more of the sun’s energy to be trapped in our atmosphere.  This extra energy in turn produces more violent storms…. but apparently not Global Warming.  At least in the last 10 years.   Even though it apparently did so before this.

All credible Scientific sources apparently agree on this, even though the evidence apparently does not.

For example, fossil evidence and geological measurements indicate that in the past, levels of CO2 twenty times the current level did not accompany the extremes in temperature currently predicted.

In this case scientific sources apparently disagree on this, though the evidence agrees.

Alright.  We’re done. You may duck around a corner, out of sight.  Small breaths, now.  And don’t be greedy!

Photo by Carl Nelson

From the Editor’s Perch…

Motivational Posters now available…

Lots to select from.  Reach for the stars!…  without expecting too much.  Have one now, for your own wall or workstation!  They come in many sizes.  (Contact Editor for wallet-sized pricing…)  Go to:  http://www.imagekind.com/GalleryProfile.aspx?gid=edcb45dd-ee9f-4a90-a9f6-376605b49d21

Photo and poster by Carl Nelson

Travelling Expenses

One Upside the Head, from Paul

"You can take this to the bank!"

“John Huntsman would have made a good President. He would be a good Vice President. Mitt Romney on the other hand has proven he likes money, he is supported by money, and as Wall Street as shown over and over again, making money doesn’t require an IQ, nor does it require an allegiance to the American flag, or the society it preys on. I am an observer but my guess is that Romney is the biggest mistake this country could make. Thank God he has no chance of winning the Presidency. Unless of course The Supreme Court gets involved. Your Incumbent has fought tooth and nail against an obstructionist republican hate machine, because he is black and he is smart and he is a democrat. I am grateful to this country for offering me more opportunity than any other I could live in, but really? Romney equals wall street and corporatism, he is a vacuous slug who has flip flopped on every principal that the better man would have taken a stand on. Do you really want a man who will stand for nothing? If so you will fall for anything.” – Paul Eenhoorn

Photo taken from the movie, The Dead Men

 

From the Editor’s Perch

BESEIGED ACTOR/WRITER FINDS SUCCESS.

Paul finds himself on a billboard.

Sometimes you up; sometimes you’re down. But good things do happen – even to Artists! Paul Eenhoorn (who writes Travelling Expenses for Schn00dles) has a movie coming out this year called, The Dead Men.

From the Editor’s Perch

 …Unfulfilled Dreams…

Editor’s Note:  Well!  Hollywood has finally caught up to what we’ve been discussing here, and starring, no less than… Robert DeNiro!

And now, the Movie…

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/being-flynn-trailer-robert-de-niro-261669

From the Editor’s Perch

And No Money for a Beer

“Artistic Failure in America”

I take this title from a blog of the same name.  Here’s a post to get you started:  http://www.artisticfailure.com/category/artists-who-fall-through-the-cracks/

I especially enjoyed some other articles on this blog about “grizzled artists” – what happens to artists as they get older?

By far the largest percentage of artists are financially unsuccessful.  (Can you holler?  “We are the 99.999999…%!”)  In a society moving so quickly that it’s hindering to stop and puzzle over anything , artists can be slow off the mark.  Artistic endeavor tends to be quite introverted.  Couple that with failure – or just an initial ‘failure to launch’ – and you have the recipe for a mesmerizing dance which can pull an artistic mind downward, occupying  its thoughts for years.  Or, you become successful! for whatever reason, and go on some crazy, lunatic’s getaway of fifteen minutes with the Bitch Goddess.

Better to rush headlong than to be left behind!  Or.  Stay awhile.  Look around.  Get creative.  Think your way out of this.  Failure and success are both interesting mysteries.  Artists worship mystery and often find themselves caught like clouds of gnats buzzing in the darkness of those hot summer nights around the mesmerizing effect of those glittering imponderables… often wondering  if they should continue on in the cultural buzz, or just fall out of the air.  Thinking, while at the bar with another cold one,  ‘this all made sense, when I dreamed it.’

Photo by Carl Nelson

Work, work, work… with Rita Andreeva

Editor:  I ask Rita if she had something for us, for Christmas.  She replied that she was busy sending cards and making presents.  But then offered us this link to her “Learn Russian like a native…” website – and a story about a Christmas Tree.

I Meet a Christmas Tree

How Big of a Tree Do We Want?

http://learnrussianlikeanative.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-meet-christmas-tree.html#more

Photo by Carl Nelson