If you're a lady, like me, who's been trying to mix up life, food and her wardrobe a bit (and thus, avoiding shopping and spending non-existent money), Grey Gardens can be a real inspiration.
Check out my scarf attire today--I rode down lakeshore drive with my friend Ross, and used this to protect my hair. And then I went on a preview of a walking tour of Second City and wore it in every way I could imagine---as a bracelet, as a cape, as a toothache curer---and amused myself to no end.
Now, it's back in Andersonville, and I'm supposed to revising scenes for the upcoming show I'm working on. But instead, I'm thinking about style and life and ways to live it and couldn't help but put the scarf on again, ala Little Edie Beale. It's a scarf from a large collection of scarves and gloves my aunt has given me over the years, and I truly wish I knew how to wear them in a way that didn't make it seem so dowdy. I'm going for more a french girl then Queen Elizabeth...and haven't quite figured it out.
Now, the other two pics are my new headshot and a picture of my maternal grandmother, when she was a young lady.
As you can see, Mimi wasn't tramping around the East Hamptons in her day--she was leaning against a tree at the family farm, living off what they grew. She taught in a one-room school house and lived in a teeny tiny house that didn't have a name like "Grey Gardens". But she certainly had her own sense of style!
And, the other pic is from a recent set of headshots. I submitted to a legit agency in town, and after much correspondence that consisted of them saying they were considering me, but were very busy--could we set up a time to chat? Sure, I'd say, sending my availability. No response, and then a response saying they were busy, but they'd reach out to me asap. Again and again, until today, it finally came down to it---they didn't like my pics, and they could either reject me or recommend a photographer--which did I prefer? I said I'd love to hear their recco, and that I have a relationship with a headshot photographer---so what's their opinion of those guys?
I don't think this agency is doing anything outright shady, but something stinks in the correspondence and I'm not sure I like it. If they really did like me, wouldn't they have the capacity and bandwidth to bring me in for a meeting--even if only 10 minutes? If this is what things are like at the beginning of our working relationship, what's going to happen down the road?
And I've got another actor friend who was treated the same by this agency, with the correspondence eventually coming down to "Either you are rejected OR might we recommend our on-camera class?"
So anywho, world, here's my headshot---for now.
Agents, comrades, friends--any feedback is welcome! As is reccos on headshot photographers, etc.
But please don't threaten to not consider me based on this pic.
Yours,
A frustrated actor
