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Backstage at Wizards of Waverly Place
06 Aug 2008 | 05:29pm
My pal Ezra does audience warm-up for the show I work on, and he made this video to show at the tapings. Today is "bring your blog friends to work via YouTube video" day.
They filmed a part where I played a security guard, but I ended up on the cutting room floor. I guess the real security guard was more convincing.
Thanks for your outpouring of email concern, folks. Yes, I survived the earthquake.
Everyone at the studio was freaked out (apparently there was an impromptu evacuation of the stage), but I was in the car at the time so I didn't feel it at all.
I didn't even know it happened until the radio DJ switched between the start end end of a song, with the explanation that the regular DJ had panicked and left the building.
I admit, I was one of the people who thought the sign was on fire when I saw it. But, in my defense, I was approaching it from behind, so the billboard on my side was not weed related.
The reason I'm asking is because I'm wondering if anyone knows how they work. Are they just heavy-duty fog machines? Because they run all day long, on and off. They would probably have to be refueled every day unless they had some massive juice tanks. And they put off big smoke plumes too. This isn't consumer-grade stuff.
Basically the point that I'm trying to make is that I want one. Who has a long ladder and is not busy tonight at 3 AM?
I don't know if HBO's new vampire show True Blood is going to be good or not, but I give it an A+ for viral marketing.
For weeks, every available marketing surface in Hollywood has been running an ad campaign for Tru Blood synthetic blood nourishment beverage. They look like a legit wine-cooler-style ad campaign, featuring slogans like "Real blood is for suckers" and "Friends don't let friends drink friends."
Today I saw some propaganda posters pasted up on a construction scaffolding by the Fellowship of the Sun, declaring in no uncertain terms that "Vampires are immoral."
A few blocks later, pasted up among the ubiquitous iPod and Bebe ads, was a poster from the American Vampire League, reminding us that "Vampires were people too."
Then there's LoveBitten.net, "the best human/vampire dating site."
I give this campaign an A+ for two reasons. One, I'm a big fan of "stuff from the fictional universe as a real thing" campaigns (see Kwik-E-Mart or Grocery911.com), and two, I'm sitting here blogging about it, so the ads have officially done their job.
If you can't tell from the crappy cell phone picture, by coincidence I happened to find myself in a Halloween store today, on this day that marks 100 shopping days left until Halloween.
The cashier actually seemed startled when I came in. So much so that I wondered if they were actually closed, or not open to the public. I loitered for an hour without seeing another customer.
“Okay, so I'm in a public waiting room, right? And there's this white douchebag sitting next to me. And, he is, uh, speaking into his Bluetooth having a conversation as if he's the only one in the room. Right? Okay, so the guy says, and I quote, "What are you going to wear tonight? You gonna rock some shorts? Uh huh. Yeah that's tight. How 'bout I roll up on your place about eight o'clock and I'm gonna give you a shout? Aight." And uh, I think it was right about at that point that I decided that I was never going use any new slang again. Because, uh, it's just unbecoming. Thanks for being there for me. Bye.”
At work this week I got to meet Ian Abercrombie, who has a recurring guest role on our show.
Of course, if you're me, you know him best as the wiseman from Army of Darkness. But I didn't want to be a goober and gush all over him about what a big fan I am of the film. After all, the movie is special to me the other cult fanboys, but I figured, to a guy with close to 200 IMDb credits, it was just another paycheck 16 years ago.
But yesterday he struck up a conversation with me about how he's tired this week because he's working on two projects simultaneously: our show and The Clone Wars as Chancellor Palpatine. Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to talk to "the talent" I went ahead and gushed all over him about what a big fan I am of Army of Darkness. He then regaled me with anecdotes about the shooting of the film in Acton, CA, and stories about hanging out with "Sam and Bruce."
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