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Shot the commercial today. I have no idea how I did because it's kind of a blur. We met in a church basement--they told us to come camera ready then put a full face of make up on us anyway. I really liked the lip color the make-up person used though, I may have to buy it at Sephora tomorrow or something. My hair looked good for about five minutes in the morning and then I passed a mirror and saw it had frizzed up. The make-up person asked, "Do you usually wear your bangs straight down?" I said, "That's fine." She fiddled a little and then said, "Okay, they're standing straight up now and I can't get them down." Yeah, they do that sometimes.
Like my only other TV show that I remember the coolest thing was meeting the other people working on it. There was one woman with pretty pink hair--a pale color, not too obnoxiously bright and a guy with a Bozo-like afro. He did a lot of clowning work and she worked in a SIDESHOW! Circuses--small ones with sideshows--really fascinate me. She did a lot of things in the show, which ran mostly down south in Alabama. She could do some block head stuff I think (wow, I've now met two people who can pound nails into themselves professionally!), and let people sledgehammer concrete on her body.
Her specialty, though, was fire-eating , something she taught herself by reading instructions in a book. She said in retrospect fire-eating was probably not the best thing to learn that way. I'd have to agree. Think about it. Anyway, she still had lips so she must have done okay. She was a graphic designer during now mostly. It made me wish I'd run away and joined the circus. Just for a while, even. Just so I could say I did something like that when I was older. Like there was this really old women who came to the magazine one day? We had done a story about her--it turned out when she was, like, 24 she was HARRY HOUDINI'S assistant! How cool is that??
Back to the commercial. They filmed the spot out on the street. Pam and I went together and they just asked questions about movies we liked. Once we were standing there we both got really nervous. Looking out at the crew we see them all smiling these big encouraging smiles at us--it was a little like a grade school play. They mentioned some movies that AMC has coming up and got our reactions on them. I can't imagine what parts they'll use. I'd be very happy if they had me doing my impression of my favorite person in Jaws--that woman who runs the Bed & Breakfast. They asked the fire-eater about Flashdance and she said she still couldn't listen to the song "Gloria" without thinking of that girl trying out for Ice Capades and falling on her ass and becoming a stripper because that's what happens if you can't make it in Ice Capades.
Like I said, the whole thing is a blur now. (Wait, I suddenly remember myself babbling about American Graffiti and Harrison Ford's cowboy hat hiding the crew cut he had for Apocolypse Now.) I have no idea if we were good, bad or what. No idea if they will use any parts of our bit or when they'll use it if they do. But if you're watching AMC and they have a clip of somebody in a pink shirt (as opposed to pink hair--that's the fire-eater) talking about movies it's probably me. My roommate has continued to be relentlessly sulky about the whole thing and it's getting on my nerves.
Like my only other TV show that I remember the coolest thing was meeting the other people working on it. There was one woman with pretty pink hair--a pale color, not too obnoxiously bright and a guy with a Bozo-like afro. He did a lot of clowning work and she worked in a SIDESHOW! Circuses--small ones with sideshows--really fascinate me. She did a lot of things in the show, which ran mostly down south in Alabama. She could do some block head stuff I think (wow, I've now met two people who can pound nails into themselves professionally!), and let people sledgehammer concrete on her body.
Her specialty, though, was fire-eating , something she taught herself by reading instructions in a book. She said in retrospect fire-eating was probably not the best thing to learn that way. I'd have to agree. Think about it. Anyway, she still had lips so she must have done okay. She was a graphic designer during now mostly. It made me wish I'd run away and joined the circus. Just for a while, even. Just so I could say I did something like that when I was older. Like there was this really old women who came to the magazine one day? We had done a story about her--it turned out when she was, like, 24 she was HARRY HOUDINI'S assistant! How cool is that??
Back to the commercial. They filmed the spot out on the street. Pam and I went together and they just asked questions about movies we liked. Once we were standing there we both got really nervous. Looking out at the crew we see them all smiling these big encouraging smiles at us--it was a little like a grade school play. They mentioned some movies that AMC has coming up and got our reactions on them. I can't imagine what parts they'll use. I'd be very happy if they had me doing my impression of my favorite person in Jaws--that woman who runs the Bed & Breakfast. They asked the fire-eater about Flashdance and she said she still couldn't listen to the song "Gloria" without thinking of that girl trying out for Ice Capades and falling on her ass and becoming a stripper because that's what happens if you can't make it in Ice Capades.
Like I said, the whole thing is a blur now. (Wait, I suddenly remember myself babbling about American Graffiti and Harrison Ford's cowboy hat hiding the crew cut he had for Apocolypse Now.) I have no idea if we were good, bad or what. No idea if they will use any parts of our bit or when they'll use it if they do. But if you're watching AMC and they have a clip of somebody in a pink shirt (as opposed to pink hair--that's the fire-eater) talking about movies it's probably me. My roommate has continued to be relentlessly sulky about the whole thing and it's getting on my nerves.
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The fuck? What exactly is block head stuff? Is she letting people pound nails through her skull? Because that sounds like a bad, bad idea to me.
I didn't even know there were circuses with sideshows anymore. Do they consider "sideshow freak" a pejorative or is that actually their job title? This is all very Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I'll watch for the commercial, though.
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I expect there are less and less sideshows now. She'd never worked at Coney Island, surprisingly, but this circus (it had a great name I wish I could remember) was pretty big in Alabama apparently. It'd be a shame if they weren't allowed to use the word frea there, really. Especially since a lot of these freaks are the kind that have made themselves freaks. It's not like you're born needing to eat fire.
I can't imagine what the commercial will be like at all.
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she still had lips so she must have done okay
It must be pretty much a pass/fail thing, I would imagine (with lips/without)
I wish I could see the commercial :( (I'm glad to know it wasn't scripted.)
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She said it was dangerous but just not from the fire. It's the inhaling all the stuff from the fluids you use to light the things. She said she really didn't get to do it that often because places always had fire laws. I guess if you can't smoke you can't eat fire...?
I'll let you know if I ever see the commercial myself. I do have one annoying souvenir from it I notice. Remember that full face of make-up? Well, today it's making my face break-out. Oh well. If Elijah Wood can have a little covered-up blemish in those FOTR scenes I can deal with this. All for my art and all that.