We Can’t Stop Here, This is Bat Country

March 8th, 2010Blog0 comments

Soon your Mike Golamco is going on the road again on business. And when I go on the road, everything becomes bloggable. Why am I going on the road you ask? It’s to watch your auditions.

Auditions: I’ve been through them myself and I know how tough they can be, and almost all my friends are actors so I know how much auditions suck. But in order to get things done, we’ve got to go through the casting process. I don’t like it, but it has to happen.

I never know which expression to wear on my face while I’m watching someone’s audition. It’s like when you’re sitting in the front row watching a stand up comic. If the guy is great you really want to transmit the fact that you like him; if he’s terrible you don’t want him to feel bad so you attempt to make the exact same face you would if you were enjoying the performance, but you’re not enjoying it so it’s not quite right and it all just falls apart. So either way I end up wearing a sort of neutral expression — which on me looks like I don’t like anything I’m seeing at all.

You see where the problem is.

This is all compounded by the fact that I know how hard acting is and how much time people have spent preparing their sides and how crumby things are in general because of the economy. Plus in comparison I have the easy task of just sitting there and observing… And then the extremely difficult task of making a choice later on.

Basically I’m saying that we’re both on the same side. I want you to succeed. I want you to be great. I want to enjoy what I’m seeing and to be able to tell other folks about you. I want to put you into my database and watch your career continue to grow. And if you turn in a great audition, I’m just as happy as you are — and if you turn in a lousy one I feel just as bad as you do.

So basically… I hope that helps. See you in the room.