Run Around Day and Another Seminar

Today I did quite a few errands.

First off was a trip to the store Enchantments on East 9th Street to pick up some candles for myself and a friend. I used to love Enchantments but now most of the people that I knew there are gone. Also, they just don't have the inventory that they once did. The only things that I get there anymore are the figure candles and other generic candles for spells. I don't really get any oils, incense or pre-made spell candles there because I don't know the people anymore. I don't know their energies so I don't feel comfortable with using the items for my spells.

I guess the good part of that is that I have to learn to make them for myself or order them from the people that I do know and trust.

I find it so sad that the Pagan community in the New York Metropolitan area can't keep a bricks and mortar store in business in Manhattan. We have lost Morgana's Chamber, Other Worldly Waxes as well as a few others. Enchantments IS trying and I give them kudos for that but it just isn't what it used to be.

So after picking up my Magickal supplies I headed over to Drama Book Shop for my Career supplies. Basically in the shape of the Clear-Vu Envelopes for submissions. I think these are a great tool to send Headshots and Resume's to casting directors and agents and other Entertainment professionals. It saves them time and energy which in a busy office can only be a good thing. So I picked up 50 of them which should keep me supplied for a while. I hope.

By then there was just enough time to hi-tale it over to Actors Connection for my Seminar with Angela Mickey from Liz Lewis Partners Casting.

She casts Indy Film and commercials mostly. She works with both Union and Non-Union people and does call in people that she meets at seminars. She likes going to theater and will go to staged readings if she has the time.

She likes people who are prepared, business like, polite and pro-active.

She told us that she started out at Liz Lewis Casting as a receptionist and moved her way up. (A good reminder to always be nice to the front office person since you never know where they will be in a couple of years.)

At my private session with her I read an Alpo Dog Food Commercial which she told me was a good choice for me since I played up the comedy in the dialogue.

She was so nice and positive in her approach to the business and to meeting people. She really was a joy to talk to.

Another very positive experience. I just hope one or all of these people call me for an audition sometime in the near future.

This will be my last seminar until next month. Both for financial and time reasons. I really did enjoy them and I think I got a lot of good information and ideas from them. Yea.