{"id":82637,"date":"2012-02-24T01:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T06:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/82637\/audition-dolphin-boy-constant-sorrow\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T01:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T06:06:50","slug":"audition-dolphin-boy-constant-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/82637\/audition-dolphin-boy-constant-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDITION: Dolphin Boy of Constant Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got into the van tonight after it was all over and was overcome with what felt like a post-coital bliss.\u00a0 You know what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 That full-body \u201cahhhhh\u201d feeling where everything seems wonderful and you\u2019re ecstatic in your exhaustion.\u00a0 Performing satisfactorily at this audition tonight, one I\u2019d been agonizing over as it was my first one in a year, left me just wanting to lie back and have a smoke.<\/font><\/p>\n

I was so nervous that I was going to suck.\u00a0 I\u2019ve performed on stage, singing\u00a0 with my ukulele over a\u00a0 hundred of times over the last five years or so, and many times, usually due to nervousness, I have not been able to repeat the performance of my living room.\u00a0 Something about the lights, the microphone, the audience, it\u2019s overwhelming and I tighten up and suck.<\/p>\n

This audition tonight had all the elements of me scaring myself.\u00a0 Look, I know I\u2019m not all THAT talented as a singer.\u00a0 Lord knows I\u2019ve had to put up with things like my parents turning up the radio when I\u2019ve played guitar in the back of the family van, my ex-wife banning me from playing & singing while she was home and scores of negative comments about my singing on YouTube over the years\u2026 I don\u2019t care.\u00a0 I keep singing.\u00a0 See, tonight I was auditioning for a role in one of Seattle\u2019s most prestigious theatre troops, one that actual PAYS a small stipend\u2026 and I was asked to sing Appalachian harmonies, something I think my voice is actually suited for.<\/p>\n

No tremolo.\u00a0 No trills.\u00a0 Just hit the note and then hit the octave up\u2026<\/p>\n

If my singing could land me a role in this production, oh god, that would be such a huge personal validation.<\/p>\n

\"\"This is also the very first video with my NEW video camera!\u00a0 Yes, I bought my third JVC Everio camera in five years today.\u00a0 The last one with its issues with the LCD screen were irreparable.\u00a0 This new one can record at much higher definition, which was handy with a scenario like this where I just set the thing to wide-screen record and just hoped I was capturing what I needed to.\u00a0 Wow. This thing can record at 1920 x 1080 resolution!\u00a0 I\u2019ll probably never record at that high of quality again as it makes for monstrously huge files that my puter has trouble handling, but this thing can record at studio quality HDTV!\u00a0 All for $249!<\/p>\n

Be sure to watch (or skip) to the end to see the \u201cDolphin Boy\u201d bit.\u00a0 It seemed to be a hit; had the directors rolling.<\/p>\n

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I got into the van tonight after it was all over and was overcome with what felt like a post-coital bliss.\u00a0 You know what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0 That full-body \u201cahhhhh\u201d feeling where everything seems wonderful and you\u2019re ecstatic in your exhaustion.\u00a0 Performing satisfactorily at this audition tonight, one I\u2019d been agonizing over as it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[81,2509],"class_list":["post-82637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","tag-joko","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}