Filed under: life, motors, Rants, sports, stories | Tags: brazil, Brazil GP, Brazil Grand Prix, F1, ferrari, Formula one, hamilton, Lewis Hamilton, Massa, phillipe Massa, Timo Glock
Hmmm. Steward’s enquiry methinks.
That was quite exciting though was it not.
Glock looked like he threw the race though.
Very suspicious.
Filed under: Arts, humour, life, Rants, theatre | Tags: auditions, fct, fear, forth childrens theatre
So, I got called back for a second audition at FCT today. “Read nothing into it” they said.
I wasn’t really sure what the experience was going to entail so turned up relatively carefree, and a bit late as it turned out, which was a pity because the assembled kids had been taken through two songs, Fagens’s “You gotta pick a pocket or two” and a negro spiritual.
I missed the practice totally.
Half an hour later I was called with four other guys, all of whom could have taken lead roles at the Royal Opera House, to make a complete and utter tit of myself.
In turn, we had to sing two verses from each song for which I was more or less completely unprepared and talent-free.
It was probably the most terrifying ten minutes of my life (although it felt like several hours).
As Pavarotti, Domingo and Careras strutted their stuff I evacuated my bowels. And then I had to sing this spiritual number that would have challenged a Castrato; the objective being to check out our range, (Well, I’ll tell you now I ain’t no Tenor, I’m a baritone!)
The only thing that shook more than the paper in my hands containing the words was my voice. Which trembled like the World Trade Centres on 9/11.
I tell you, I was completely and utterly petrified. My stools were fluid. My life unliveable. My shame unparalleled.
I was not good.
In fact I was not even bad.
My dancing experience, yesterday, suddenly seemed bearable.
I think I might be psychologically scarred for the rest of my life.
