Happy November!
The report is up on my website, on my work on the USC student film All You Need is Plove today on which I worked.

Happy Samhain! (Happy Halloween!)
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Season's Greetings!

Tonight at 9:00pm Eastern time / 6:00pm Pacific time, I will be a guest on my ghost-book author friend's one-hour online radio show Stirring the Cauldron with Marla Brooks at Para-X Radio (my third appearance on Marla's show, my sixth guest appearance on a para-x/com show).
This near-Samhain edition the topic of which being the distinction/s between author JK Rowling's Wizarding World of Harry Potter and that of actual neo-paganism and witchcraft.
If you cannot attend live in the very friendly real-time live chat room, in a day or three the edition's podcast will be available from which to listen live or download.
It should be a fun show; of all the radio programs on Para-X to which I am able to listen live, Marla's entertaining shows invariably zoom by, having had me quip Marla can control time and space... And apart from taking questions from the chat room, we tend to interact therein, so not all my horrific puns and wordplays will be on the air, many will be quickly typed into the chat room.
I hope you can make it...!

Elderly chocolate lab Champ recently has been sleeping through the entire night. This may not seem like a bit deal but considering he usually wakes up around 2am or so and decides to bark a) as he wants/needs to go out, b) wants/needs water put into the water bowl he's emptied or c) he's awake and he demands someone come out into the living room instead of his just selecting one of the two bedrooms.
This morning around 4am I drowsed awake and found both dogs were already awake. Instead of waiting another hour or so before my alarm would go off, as both dogs were really awake as opposed to barely so, I took them out (Champ has begun to See The Finish Line, as it were, so sometimes he needs an extra walk now and again). We did our regular walk route, and as we returned to the walkdown to the apartment, we went a bit forward as now and then we do (just in case of any vestages that could be expelled). We were about three meters from the top of our side-street, when an intrigueing sight appeared. As silent as ghosts along the main street, two coyotes casually were crossing the street right in front of us.
Predictably, Champ didn't move, notice or care. Surprisingly, Dumble just stood and stared in surprise. Halfway across the street, the two silhouetted canids both stopped in sync, and simultaneously turned and looked over at us as we watched them as silently. After a few moments of looking at us, the unperturbed pair simply turned and continued on eastward on the mains street. They were both very backlit so essentially I am presuming that they were coyotes; otherwise they were identical German Shepherds.

I attended the SAG Foundation event featuring the lovely and talented Alyson Hannigan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and currently How I Met Your Mother, the latter's current very funny season premier of which was screened prior to her Q&A.
As expected Alyson Hannigan is a adorable in person as she is on screen; I was highly amused that I was not the only person whose in-advance written-question made reference to her early work in My Stepmother is an Alien, but my inquiry also wondered why she has not yet done a voice for her longtime friend Seth Green's animated series Robot Chicken. She indicated his recently speaking with her about it, noting she is the last of the Buffy gang not to have done a voice for his show. She also conveyed that she's terrible at auditions, and joked maybe that's why she's not actually been used yet. Apparently for the role of Willow on Buffy she managed to stay afloat after nine sets of auditions, and she got the role due more to group chemstry than her bare ability to speak lines at the audition.
She also indicated for How I Met Your Mother, her role was initially written for another actress I admire: Melanie Lynskey (currently still enjoying the long sting with Two and a Half Men), noting she had literally replaced a different actress as Willow for Buffy and here she was again, replacing someone for How I Met Your Mother...
She also relishes How I Met Your Mother finally getting at least an Emmy nomination, as otherwise it'd be her second series about which people would say the show should be nominated but hasn't.
I don't collect autographs as much as I collect photos taken with them. Sadly they'd planned in advance her escape with which to avoid any friendly meet-and-greet (even if brief). She moderator simply closed with the "disclaimer" that, "Well, you have to get out of here," referring to Alyson's new baby.
Still, it was great to see one of my favourites whose talent and work I've admired for over twenty years.

This morning as I got off the Red Line at Pershing Square, upstairs I found the station had been commandeered by several domestic terrorists. Disguised as public servants, these criminals were unlawfully going through any bags that paying passengers might have been carrying. Thankfully I was not carrying my own bag today; while nothing of worth therein, I would not be very pleased (or cooperative) about warrantless 4th Amendment violations. Ironically I am well aware these criminals falsely define any lawful American in the assertion of his/her rights as being the "domestic terrorist," despite the Supreme Court rulings well settling that the assertion of a right (particularly a right protected by the Constitution of the united states of America, which these same men might claim to have taken a sworn oath to uphold and defend), cannot be converted into a crime (as though actual laws would stop their terrorism).
I do not know if people leaving the train were being terrorized as when I went through the exit turnstiles I had no bag nor did anyone nearby me. However, large signs facing those entering the area confirmed the willful act/s of Treason, Domestic Terrorism and deliberate Defiance of the Constitution of the united states of America, declaring anyone entering "was subject" to their bags being searched. Ironically, I would presume the domestic terrorists would insist the bags' owner open the bag/s. Why? 'Cause then the lying criminals can falsely claim the warrantless search was "consensual"... Refusal to open one's own bag most likely would have the law abiding citizen abducted by the terrorists.
Understandably, I can't wait to see the new Gerard Butler film Law Abiding Citizen, in which the corrupt "justice" system finally is targeted by a true American (actor Gerard Butler not really an American notwithstanding). As with the thriller film Eagle Eye, in which what one believes to be the antagonist is actually the hero, and the hapless "heroes" turn out to chose to become anti-American villains (comprising a downbeat, depressing resolution when the true hero's pro-Liberty and pro-America plans are sadly defeated), I only hope Law Abiding Citizen lets its hero defeat the corrupt system Jamie Fox's justice-obstruction character without impediment.
Let's put it this way: in the quirky Inglourious Basterds the conclusion of World War II is rewritten rather severely (albeit quite satisfyingly so): how through-the-roof would be box office receipts if a film similarly showed a successful, Constitutional lawful revolutionary overthrow of the tyrannical regime/s of Bush (and/or Obama), and showing the full Republic and the Constitution both restored to We the People?
[For anyone confused by the term "lawful revolutionary overthrow," read the preamble to what the current "government" all but openly considers a terrorist manifesto: the American Declaration of Independence.]
Such would be too uplifting a movie for the current corrupt government to allow it to be made, but it would be glorious...

For those who missed the Wednesday night episode Rhodes Not Taken of Glee in which I'm visible, here it is below: my four seconds begin at time marker 26:54, but you can also watch the whole episode.

Glee: The Rhodes Not Taken

If you haven't seen any of the highly entertaining series yet, start at the beginning at its hulu.com show page.

Tomorrow night Wednesday, September 30th, is the second of the two recent-airing TV episodes airing on which I worked: Glee, episode (104 at the time of shooting, since changed to episode 105), The Rhodes Not Taken.
Once Glee began airing, I started watching the new series which I find extremely entertaining. In this episode I am a somewhat surprised Bingo Caller in a bowling alley's lounge, going from bemused to impressed as two students spontaneously commandeer the lounge's karaoke stage. (Also somewhere in the bowling alley scenes is my friend Norma Jean Riddick, so keep an eye out for her as well.)
As via Hulu one can embed episodes onto webpages, I will be embedding the video onto its report page on my website (and, during their couple-of-weeks of viewability, I may embed it here as I did for my episode of The Office and at its page, the recently aired Greek episode).

The report on my recent work on the Dove commercial/s is up: geoffgould.net/090925_dove.htm

If last night you missed the episode of Greek on which I worked (High and Dry), the episode re-airs tonight at midnight, again on ABC Family.
I have to wait until I get home today from my day-job to see it on Hulu.
If anyone is able to record and burn onto a DVD this episode, along with next week's episode of Glee (on Fox, Wednesday September 30th), it'd be greatly appreciated.

Tonight Monday September 21st is the first of two recent TV episodes on which I worked: Greek, episode (3004) High and Dry.
In the episode I am a teacher attending and mingling in a mostly-faculty meet-and-greet wine party for which an on campus teacher (played by veteran actor John Rubinstein), is promoting his newly published book. As my official website report conveys simply, I should be teleporting and bi-locating all over the place throughout the scene, though most likely (noting the high-end cinematography in the series), often I could be soft-focused or flat-out out of focus as the camera maintains on the foreground actors.
As via Hulu one can embed episodes onto webpages, I will embed the video on its report page on my website (and, during their couple-of-weeks of viewability, I may embed it here as I did for my The Office episode).

Next week, Wednesday September 30th: Glee, episode The Rhodes Not Taken (episode number 104 at the time of shooting, since changed to episode 105).

Two TV episodes on which I worked air this coming and the following week:

• Monday September 21st: Greek, episode (3004) High and Dry.
• Wednesday September 30th: Glee, episode (104 at the time of shooting, since changed to episode 105), The Rhodes Not Taken.

Once it began airing, I started watching the new series Glee which I find extremely entertaining.
While Greek is in its third season, I started watching via Hulu the tail end of its second season and into its current season when it began airing, and I find it very funny as well.
In the Glee episode I am a somewhat surprised Bingo Caller in a bowling alley's lounge, going from bemused to impressed. Also in the bowling alley scenes is my friend Norma Jean Riddick, so keep an eye out for her as well.
In the Greek episode I am a teacher attending and mingling in a mostly-faculty meet-and-greet wine party for which an on campus teacher (played by veteran actor John Rubinstein), is promoting his newly published book. As my report conveys simply, I should be teleporting and bi-locating all over the place throughout the scene, though most likely (noting the high-end cinematography in the series), often I could be out of focus.
As via Hulu one can embed epidodes onto webpages, I will embed each on their respective pages of my official website (and, during their couple-of-weeks of viewability, I may embed them here as I did for my The Office episode).

Generally, mathematics and I have never gotten along, but one aspect slightly puzzles me: "odds." And not just in playing the dice game craps in Las Vegas, a game I enjoy about as equally as I enjoy roulette. But to refer back to the entry title, in Empire Strikes Back C-3PO yelps, "Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately three thousand seven hundred and twenty to one...!"
In Strictly Background, casting director Jeff Olan points out that the competition is astronomical in getting [background] work, but what of principal roles? I've had countless auditions for principal work in commercials, and while several in which I have been cast, is that really beating "the odds"? Back east doing stage theatre, for me it was common practice to audition and be cast, my ratio of losing out on a role was substantially lower than my being cast.
When I came out here and acquired a commercial agent, I'd be sent out then be sent to a callback, occasionally even put On Avail (and not the fake-On Avail as tends to happen nowadays). After a few months of auditions, someone asked me as to my audition/callback ratio... it was clearly about seven or eight callbacks per about ten auditions.
"Seven or eight...?!" she replied, with such incredulity I was taken aback. It turned out her acting coach (or acting workshop instructor) had said that if one has three or four callbacks out of ten, one is doing better than 85% of their competition.
Being so accustomed to auditioning and simply being cast, all I could say was, "Well, no one told me it was supposed to be hard..."
But I see auditions the same as when I watch the Academy Awards. On the red carpet award nominees are asked as to their thoughts as to their winning. While math and I are not fair weather friends, even I would have a proper response, albeit slightly tongue in cheek. I would point out that previous to and/or during the voting process, each actors' chances essentially is one in five... but after the voting is closed, at that time forward each and every one then has a 1 in 2, or 50-50 chance... that is, one wins or one does not. (For the individual nominees, at any rate), there's no more odds once the envelopes are sealed.
I feel the same way about auditions and callbacks. Similarly, I have no interest in how many others read for the same role.
I will be booked... or I will not: it is always a 50-50 chance...
To quote a wise Muppet: "Do, or do not: there is no 'try'..."

For those who are Awake, recently Awakened, as well as those blissfully Still Asleep...

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Don't watch the following video... if you're happy living a lie

Don't watch this video... if you're happy living a lie...

Charlie Sheen's Video Message to President Obama

Charlie Sheen's Video Message
to President Obama

So - this morning, at the ninth second of the ninth minute of the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of this century of the Common Era calendar [09/09/09 at 09:09:09]... did you/anyone else make a wish...?
My friend Rae made the suggestion on her Facebook profile; I'm not entirely sure if such really is applicable, but hey... y'never know...