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i am quoting this from a comment left in response to Variety’s Peter Bart’s blog entry re: SAG trying to create a doomsday scenario with the strike authorization vote.  thanks, svetlana, for putting this so intelligently.

This guild was founded in the depression. The current one (yes, sweet people, I think it is a depression) is not reason for hard working Actors to fail defend their Liberty, i.e. wages, residuals and working conditions. This is really tough, as I am still reeling [sic] from the WGA strike. This is an attempt for business organizations that use a multitude of questionable accounting practices to steal what little the majority of actors depend on: their residual payments. Producers should be aware, that among the ranks of SAG’’s membership stand people possessed of all the expert skills and the capital do well without the Studio Structure to produce wonderful films and television. If the financial geniuses at the head of the industrial structure at present cannot see which side of the coin is uppermost in the contract proposed by SAG, they may well just as well move on to other divisions in the non-entertainment corporations that now control the most of the studios. Let hem go ahead and work on wind power generators, or microelectronics. Disney will not even seal a bargain with their Hotel workers in Anaheim after about ten months without a contract. As for Actors, on the SAG side of the street, we have been for the most part, on unofficial lockout since the end of the WGA strikes anyways. I am right there with Joe Hill, who said, “I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don”t waste any time in mourning - organize.” And yes, Actors knew this was on the horizon, and that we would have to finish the work begun by the WGA. Also remember that any honest producer can still sign the Guaranteed Completion Contract, as best as I understand, and to our sisters and brothers in the craft unions, I would be foremost in encourage anyone you are aware of who wishes to begin a production to sign that agreement for their company, and get to shooting.

Posted by: Svetlana | 11/24/2008 8:40:25 PM

today i was woken up by my favorite thing~a text message automated from the LACasting system, informing me that i have a same day commercial audition (or in this case, a callback ).  now, let it be said that i am not a morning person.  if you know me, you know this well.  however, that is one of the very few things that can get me out of bed in a hurry, and with a smile on my face~a rarity any time before 11am.

so this morning i tumbled out of bed after a rough night of very little sleep due to these antibiotics i am on, still without full hearing in my left ear, and scrambled into my home office to retrieve my email and info for the callback. did i have time for a leisurely cup of coffee before my shower?

……….yes, i did. 3pm in santa monica. great! so much time to prep! i am feeling very lucky today. this is going to be good.

…but it’s too much time, apparently.  i call my agent to confirm, yadda yadda. get my coffee, peruse my cell phone pictures to see what i was wearing at the original audition, and lo and behold, my phone starts gyrating to the funky beat of my agent’s ringer.  what? could it be another one? it’s been really busy for me commercially over the past week or so…..  dare i hope…..?

“hello?”

and i know right away from his tone he’s got not-great news.  they’ve canceled my callback.  decided to go “older,” which would be a little comforting, except that i don’t care about my age. i only care that i was gonna get to go play today.  it was a fun little spot too. and my agent says, “well, look at it this way~now you’ve got your whole friday free!”  now i realize he was trying to look on the bright side, but i am so sick of having free days instead of auditions and bookings, so tired of being bored cause i’m sick-ish and lallygagging around the house… i would kill to be shooting and auditioning and callbacking so much that my head is spinning off and i can appreciate a free day.  but right now, the surplus of free days only means more time waiting for the next opportunity to go & play.

soooo…. that was my friday morning.  and we won’t even talk about the afternoon.

good news is, that casting office really seems to like me, and i got a call before the end of the day for a callback on monday from the same office.  so be it. maybe that’s the one i book, and that’s why i couldn’t go today!  universe, pleeeeeease do not pull a fast one on me again! pretttttty prettttty pleeeeease!

after having 2 separate blogs on a different site~one career based and one more personal~and neglecting them shamefully, i’ve decided that i might actually blog more if i put one on my own site. in fact… this will be my thanksgiving resolution. why wait for the new year, after all. i resolve to blog at least once a week. and if that goes swimmingly, perhaps i’ll up the ante. let’ snot get ahead of ourselves.

so welcome to my new blog, and i hope you enjoy!