Wednesday, August 02, 2006

The Fasting is taking effect!

That and the NyQuil I took for a cough.

Wow! What dreams I'm having!

Can I take a month of this? I don't know...

Today was a busy one. I am no longer renting the theatre space for the Workshop, because I want to get people outside and on the streets. I had to clean my stuff out of the prop room and it was sad as another group came in to rent. They were a Church Group!

There are not enough churches I guess, They have to rent theaters now! Performance is performance!

Later, I fielded calls coming in from actors wanting to take my offer of $50 for every actor they sign up to take my class. I asked one lady if she was going to take the class first, so she'd know what I was all about before she sold her friends on it and she said, "Ahh, Why?"

I didn't know if she just wanted the money and was going to sell to anyone and didn't care what I did, or she figured I was a quality guy with a quality workshop and needed no more evidence that what I had given her?

I met another woman who was an assistant Casting Director who liked the Workshop we did last week and she wants to try her hand at signing up actors for the $50 a head... She believes this will be easy money for her as the results they get are far greater than the price, and she knows lots of people.

We sat in Baja Fresh on La Cienega Blvd and I watched her eat a burrito, I watched her chew it, I watched her bite into the crisp chips, I watched her swallow it... Oh My Gawd, I was so hungry!

I had an Ice Tea...

She told me she thinks she's gonna make a lot of money from me, then I paid for her food.

The money thing began to weigh on me. I know I'm providing a great service and as the sole staff member, the money is not wasting on anything but providing for the actor, the class and video, but I started thinking I want to do a Free Workshop, too! Maybe pick the best of each class and do it!

It's so funny, the classes are so much fun for me that time just flies by and it really is like a happy drug doing it. It really is a game that we are playing. No stress. Lot's of laughs. Meeting new people.

...And watching them eat while I'm Fasting...

This is brutal!