Out of Town Weekend

I visited my friend in Arkansas this weekend. One side effect of visiting his family is that in part because of their young children, they go to bed early. And I was only socially drinking, which led me to dream. Dreams are frequently haunted by my father, but this time I was on a cruise ship.

As often happens on cruise ships, I met new people. Everyone was young, mid-twenties and idealistic. We were laying out on the deck at night, looking up and talking. Everyone else related. I knew these feelings, somewhat hopeless but bolstered by the relentless energy of youth. I kept my mouth shut, because all I could think to say was that being a decade older has robbed me of that force of willpower. I tried a path that seemed fairly clear cut, and it did not work.

I had posted on the social media app Threads about my skillset and voice acting, and someone reached out about an animated comedy pilot and sent me their last draft of it, which is really neat. Ben Schwartz got his role as Sonic just by lending his voice to a demo of it with no promise of going further. At the worst, I will have interacted with this guy who writes for The Onion.

When I asked that company I did street interviews for whether they wanted me to be working on more questions, they said that they were just now going through the footage, and got my info to pay me. So I guess we will see. The insecure actor in me now assumes that they hate all of it and that I blew my one shot.