 | Alicia 'Xellandria' Kilpatrick ( xella) wrote,
@ 2003-03-24 07:14:00 |
| Current mood: | embarrassed |
| Current music: | Orgy - Blue Monday (Candyass) |
I remember having a horrible dream in the dream, then waking up (while dreaming) and having a major wail-fest, with my mother coming in and me explaining the dream to her -- except I had recorded it so I ended up showing it to her. I can't remember much about the dream-in-the-dream, except it played a fake version of the beginning of the first Harry Potter book (which I've never read, but I've seen the movie, and can I just say that it sucked? ^^v) involving snow, a key, and Splash Mountain from Disneyworld. Speaking of which, apparently you could stop your log in this version, so I kept pausing the log when going through it with my mother. When we got to the top, apparently I was with my father, and we were spending money at the arcade at the top (a...hah? Oo;), and then I won some cat treats in an.. Itchy & Scratchy (is that who they are? I don't watch Simpsons XD;) claw machine thing... and then all of a sudden my cellphone rang and I was Jackie Chan, and the obligatory asian badguys (you know, Jackie Chan's stunt team? Them) came in and started like.. killing people (asian men) who were talking on their cellphone, so I hung up and they shouted out "he's not on the phone anymore!" and started killing asian men who WEREN'T on their cellphone, so I turned it on again and they started back with the first group, and.. it was weird. Apparently they knew that I was an asian man (a..hah..) and they had a tracker on my phone, so I found a schoolgirl outfit and went and mingled with a bunch of schoolgirls, and threw my phone (on) in the trashcan that the (caucasian) janitor was taking away to be burnt, and their GPS tracker (accurate to within 500 feet, so it wasn't a very good one) told them where "I" was going and they left.
Then I was (back to my normal taller-than-Jackie-Chan-and-not-an-asian-male self) on a weird cross between Tower of Terror in Disneyworld and Vortex in Great America, and Kinky-J, Blackie, Sallie, and I were all dressed as our respective Sanzoikkou members, and were having sex (that is the epitomy of fun -- having sex on a roller coaster with ya girls dressed as the Sanzoikkou. And Kinky-J wasn't prone to motionsickness! YAY! =DDD)
Then I woke up because the power had flickered and I had left my lamp on, so it went from light to dark to light and it sort of told me to get up, so I got up, checked my email and my friends page, went to the bathroom, turned off my light, and went back to bed.
This bit I remember a bit more than the dreams I had in my first half of unconciousness yesterday (from about 1:30 PM to about 11:20 PM), because I haven't gone back to sleep since I woke up from it, and it's much sooner. The fact that it was on repeat-one in my head so I went through it like.. five times has nothing to do with it, really n_n;
By some miracle of God, I had managed to secure a spot in the audition list for the Saiyuki movie voice-acting auditions, and as you may know.. there aren't that many roles that haven't already been filled by the Sanzoikkou or Kougaijitachi -- there's a monk, there's Go Dougan, and there's Houlan (is that her name? The one the crap-ass subtitles call Penglan, so that's what I'll refer to her until I can remember what it actually.. oh, it IS Houlan/Houran. But because in the dream it was Penglan, I'll continue to do so n_n;), and I think maybe~ another monk, but no more than that.
So I was at the auditions, and I wasn't put off at all when I came in -- because the dubbing on the series had gone flawlessly! (which, incidentally, I see now is bullshit @o;;;) and all I was worried about was that I wouldn't get Penglan right. I personally think I'd do better as Dougan, but.. can't win 'em all X3;;
There were.. I dunno, maybe thirty or forty women there? A lot of them were professionals (hell, I think I might have been the only one who wasn't -- I saw Lisa Ortiz there. LISA OR-fucking-TIZ! @o;), but the lines that the auditioneers were having them read went something like: "Mister Gojyo, I'm so so sorry.. I can't do it, I can't do it!" or something equally pathetic (I'm not big on Houlan as a character, so.. eh.), and as we went through these auditions -- ten, maybe fifteen people ahead of me (I was one of the last with their numbering system, with maybe five behind me) in I just lost it.
I dunno how people usually hold VA-ing auditions, but here it was sort of like a drama audition. You would stand at a mic and the casting director and etc. would be in the audience, and they'd tell you what to read and give you hints and you'd read it again, and then you'd read a dialogue with someone filling in for Gojyo (which might have been the actual VA, god knows) and these women.. these women... argh.
Okay, here's a fun fact: Xella HATES HATES HATES it when people mispronounce names (this includes me in this mix, by the way. I pronounce a name wrong and I'm pissed off for the rest of the day). Now.. these women were pronouncing Gojyo as "Goge yo" (including the j in the first syllable, not the second). And they were ALL doing it. Now, I wasn't in the position to be able to see anyone but the auditionettes' faces, but I was like "@o;;" and at about fifteen I snapped. I just stood up and screamed, "It's not Goj-yo! It's GO-JYO! GO! JOE! THE J GOES WITH THE YO!"
n________n;; Anyway, the women all started whispering to each other while I was there trying to calm myself down, and then it got reeeeaally~ quiet and the casting director got up and came over and was like "What's your name?" and I was like "o______________.;; ...xella..." and he's like "Do you think you can do it better?" and I was like ".... I can pronounce the names right n_N;;" and so he got my ass on stage and I was like "@o;" because I had another ten or something women to go in front of me, and he was like "¬¬ Read the lines." and the guy next to him in the audience (the director, I think) whispered something to him and technically I wasn't supposed to hear it, but you know how subtitles are n_n; And he said, "if this is the girl I think it is, we got a very.. long.. email from her about a month and a half before the TV series came out." and Mr. C.D. was like "that's this Xella?" and the director-guy was like "maybe." and so he told me to read the lines again and I did and like.. he glared at me and stuff, and told me that it wasn't a good idea interrupting an audition like that, and how would I like it if someone interrupted me (to which I bit back a "well, any serious drama student knows that no matter what the audience is doing, you keep going on with the show" but n_n;; Not the point), and then told me to hand in my ticket number stub in the lobby and.. yeah.
And then I was driving home (home being the hotel, apparently I was in Texas XD;), which was like forty-five minutes to an hour away, and my cellphone rang (and I was Jackie Chan! Nah n_n;), and I answered it and some guy who I didn't recognize the voice of said "this is Bryan from ADVision films, it says here that you came in earlier today for an audition, is that correct?" and I was like "oO; Yeah... nn;" and he was like "Mister Sippel (note: Christopher Sippel was the man in charge of the voice casting and direction of the Slayers TV series over at Software Sculptors) would like to inform you that you've been called back, and would a half-hour be too little notice for a reaudition?" and I was like "O...............o;;;;" and turned back (think of all the wasted gas! T_T) and went back and nobody else was there, and the director guy came out and said "you got the part." and I was like "O________________________O"
And then the dream played again four more times n_n;;
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