I can't believe I did it

First, the writing on the CherryPop story is going swimmingly, and I'm having fun writing her blog as well (thought it's harder to do than I imagined.) I have, for the first time in my life, the entire story from start to finish is imagined. I'm fleshing out my characters, and I'm using Ficlets (which just one the SXSW Web Award for CSS design. Woot!) to work out pieces of the story and gauge whether I'm on the right track with it. So far so good!

And for the hell of it, I created a Twitter account for CherryPop too :)

BUT, I did something this weekend that frankly, I'm astonished I did. There is a fan show/podcast for Buffy called "Between the Lines" where they write actual episodes and cast fans as the characters from the show. They put it all together into a podcast and frankly, it's pretty fucking cool. They've finished their first season and are holding open auditions for their second season.

So I auditioned. What the hell right? All you need is a mic and recording software, and you can use Audacity, which is free. I happen to have Audition so I used that. Anyway, I had to record myself using dialogue from the character I was trying out for. I'd love the part of Drusilla, the spacey, deadly English vampire because she's one of my favourites so I did her lines. But I also figured I'd audition for a few other parts too:

Drusilla - Crazy psychic vamp
Cordelia - Total Cali cheerleader type
Lilah Morgan - Vicious bitch lawyer at Wolfram & Heart
Gwen Raiden - Electro-girl/well-paid thief

The links go to the audition pieces I had to record.

I'm sure I sucked immensely but I had fun anyway. But that's not the kicker. The kicker is after I sent my audio and application in, they wrote me back and asked for a sample of me singing because I guess they're contemplating a musical episode. No power in the 'verse will make me post that audio sample so don't even ask. But I did it :) They wanted a snippet sung from any song in the Buffy musical episode, "Once More with Feeling." I sang the first verse of Anya and Xander's song, "I'll Never Tell." (Link goes to youtube, uhh a Sims version of the song. It's weird but all I could find.) My cheeks are blushing just thinking about it. I sound great in my car with a CD blasting (and overpowering my voice) but this was a capella, and I had to rely on my memory for the tune. Shan said it wasn't bad but that I was flat. Ah well :) I thought I could probably induce dogs to howl.

But, fun was had and I probably won't end up with a part, but at least I tried out :) And Mike - They're going to be producing a Firefly version of this :) You'd be great as Wash :)