Happy St. Patrick's Day, Everyone!

Yesterday was kind of a pointless day...though it started out ok with Marco's birthday celebration/St.Patrick's Day extravaganza. It was kind of cold, though, so we retreated to a café and had some coffee (always good)

Then I lurked at Uli's place because we wanted to go to a casting. A friend had told me about this, she said they needed extras for a "party scene" and they would pay well. When we got there, there were lots of people milling about, but nobody seemed to know exactly why they were here and what would happen next. Turned out the movie company in question was a Japanese one, so nobody understood what the little Japanese guy who was picking people was actually saying. There was the rumour, however, that the movie was a documentary about a criminal case (sort of like the Most wanted criminals or Autopsy things). That rumour was confirmed when they cast "policeman A, B, C and D" and seven kidnappers for a little kid whose stage mom was hovering around. Us women were sitting separately not being paid attention to. Then it turned out that the only woman they were looking for had alread been cast and we were free to leave. Great. Another day spent in fruitless pursuit of some kind of job. Still no answer from the other job applications, by the way...

After this experience I am declining a career being a professional extra. Most of them are really pathetic people...they are the kind that wanted to be an actor but failed. Now they are trying to break into acting somehow. There was one older lady (well, she looked about 200 years old because she apparently fell asleep in the solarium) who was wearing so much make-up you could have paved all of the city's roads with it. She said she had thought this to be a "model casting". Well, lady, what are YOU doing here then??? Plus, they are all trying to fit in by only speaking "movie set lingo".."You know, when I was ALMOST picked for that Dallmayer commercial, the director said to me...and then I said: maybe if I do it this way...blablablalightsblablablacamerablablablaaction" Uargh.