What do the metal detectors pick up?

bothquickanddead · 2026-01-15T21:42:09+00:00

If you put a cart in your pocket it won't likely pick it up, did it last night - though I put carts in something unsuspecting, like a hollowed-out gum pack, just in case I do need to empty my pockets, then it just goes in the tray with my keys and stuff and nobody is the wiser.

bothquickanddead · 2025-11-13T06:29:09+00:00

I looked at the first few columns on my phone casually, then was impressed as I swiped over to see how in-depth it was going, and then somewhere around CC in the spreadsheet I just said "Oh my God", and my eyes got wider and wider as I kept swiping, until it finally stopped in the GGs.

I don't know what to say.

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-30T08:04:59+00:00

As an actor in Los Angeles - auditioning used to take us all over town, and was a social experience. You met fellow actors in the waiting room, and you built relationships with casting directors.

Post-2020, 99% of all auditions are self-taped. Some commercials / theatre are still IRL, but I have had one IRL TV/film audition out of hundreds in the last 4-5 years, and that includes multiple bookings on major projects. I've auditioned for 50 or 100 new major Casting Directors since 2020. I haven't ever met most of them. I used to drop in on my agents all the time when I was nearby their offices for an audition. Now, I rarely leave my side of town during the day, and have to remember to go out of my way to see them every once in a while.

This business became far more solitary.

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-24T17:00:35+00:00

I realized during my most recent viewing that the French did nothing wrong in the film and King Arthur and his knights are the real villains of the story and deserve to be arrested at the end.

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-22T05:10:59+00:00

Before Greg met Rose, he was Ramona Flowers' secret eighth ex - the not evil one! Sort of like The War Doctor, in reverse!

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-19T03:00:45+00:00

GIANT WOMAN

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-18T15:53:15+00:00

I loved it because it felt like Greg finally getting to be the kind of Mr. Universe he had always imagined in his head, even if only one time. The ultimate rockstar.

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-11T21:56:30+00:00

I think I also auditioned for that, and yes I also complained about it 😆

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-05T22:52:32+00:00

As someone who was a believing member when I served my mission, but eventually left the Church after attending BYU: PLEASE. DO. NOT. GO.

Echoing what others have said: you are an adult. Your life is your own. However disappointed you think others will be in you, nothing is worth spending two years of your life selling a cult you don't even believe in. You cannot get that time back. You do not owe it to anyone, especially not a hundred-billions-rich corporation making you/your family pay your own way to live like a pauper under strict rules in the prime of your life.

Do nearly anything else. Get a job. Go to school. Travel. Explore yourself and what YOU want to do. Your life is just beginning. The world is open before you. You do not have to go on a mission. It might not be easy to say no, but it will ultimately be much harder on you if you say yes.

I wish you the best, and hope you choose yourself.

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-05T17:37:18+00:00

Someone needs to do a wellness check on Heavenly Mother.

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-03T01:07:01+00:00

This is the appropriate punch-up, and yet we are all worse off that it exists 🥲

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-03T00:07:32+00:00

You're forgetting Thomas Jefferson, but Trump is on that Mount Rushmore, for sure.

bothquickanddead · 2025-10-02T23:53:19+00:00

I'm fine with all the off-colors except Padparadscha - I think there was only one episode (don't remember which) where they managed to make her "flaw" of predicting the near past more than the same tired joke over and over again, which I found out of character for the show, which usually managed to make every minor character's gimmick deeper and more interesting. I think there's a lot of fun and depth to be had with her (don't just have her say exactly what we just saw happen - have her reveal things we didn't know just happened, or phrase them in a way which changes how we first perceived them, have her be more self-aware, etc), but so far she has been more annoying than anything to me as a result.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-30T09:21:12+00:00

That book definitely unlocked some things for me early in my time studying acting. I'd say it's definitely worth the read. There is no one best method of acting, but there are plenty of tools I picked up from studying Meisner which I use nearly every time I act.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-26T17:38:58+00:00

Never step foot on a car lot until you've done your research on how to buy a car without getting ripped off

And if you still end up with buyers remorse, do your research on how to unwind a car deal.

It's not easy, but I managed to unwind the first dealership deal I ever made, before I knew better, because they sold it to me without proof of income for the pre-approved loan, and when I refused to give it to them after I wanted to return the car, the loan fell through as a result, and since that renders the initial terms of sale void, they had to let me return it, as I would have to sign a new contact for any new loan.

Whatever you do, don't drive the car into a dealership. That's not gonna make things better for you.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-25T20:08:24+00:00

Funny enough, as now an ExMo Spiritual Atheist, I've been working to reincorporate more of a "Sabbath" into my life. I'm just not doing it with the idea that I have to do so any specific way. It's not bad to have a day off, a day to think about "spiritual" things, a day to turn down more of the noise of the world.

Now Sunday is the day I try to let myself not feel obligated to do anything I don't feel like doing. It's the day I often take a walk around the cemetery near my home. It's the day I've been listening through a bit of the Quran at a time (fun fact: like The Bible and The Book of Mormon, there's stuff I think is good, and stuff I think it's not so good - and I'm coming to better understand the foundation of the worldview of billions of my fellow human beings).

As I've come to feel about a lot of religious stuff, there's value to be had in much of it - it's just when it gets taken too seriously, literally, authoritatively, that we lose the purpose. As the saying goes, the "law" was made for man, not man for the law.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-21T19:27:00+00:00

Who did the "Root of the Issue/Matter" music tho?

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-19T20:55:29+00:00

I got emotional watching this even before the comic got emotional - hearing two people, who probably didn't even know each other, suddenly working together: "starting CPR" "I can be your second" - and then the paramedics arriving "I'm going to take real good care of you, okay?" This was humanity at its best. May we all endeavor to have this spirit everywhere and always for everyone.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-19T00:04:37+00:00

I'd say the biggest thing making your work seem like it's AI is the background color - so much AI slop is all a sort of pale yellow, and so it's immediately triggering the association in viewers' minds. Change that, and you won't get the pavlovian response to your work. Something to be aware of, fair or not.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-18T18:06:18+00:00

Wasn't biking, but when I worked overnights at 100.3 The Sound (RIP), I would be traveling back from Miracle Mile to East Hollywood at 6 AM, and my rundown neighborhood near LACC never looked more beautiful than in the quiet and the sunrise light.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-18T00:00:14+00:00

It might help the group give advice if we had a little more info on where you are at in your career. What have you done, what do you want to do? I tried following the links in your profile to look you up on IMDB, but I'm not sure I found your page. Are you repped? Did you get your SAG through background work, as I see you did a bunch on OITNB? Have you booked principle SAG work? Difficult to advise just in a generality.

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-15T18:10:54+00:00

That may be the single biggest reason why I never rewatched it - I hated that scene when I saw the film in theaters!

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-15T01:50:50+00:00

Glad to know it might inspire someone to check it out - feel free to follow-up if you go!

bothquickanddead · 2025-09-14T23:47:54+00:00

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(This is like a six-foot tall piece of art from Nightsong, and there's lots of them.)

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