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More acting this morning as I took part in a story for an interactive game (or something, I don't really understand) playing a tech billionaire James Bond style villain with a moustache. Is it the moustache that's turning everything round for me? Should I keep it? Is acting really that simple?
The other part I was up for that I was excited to be in the running for (and also disappointed that they were considering me, because it was an uncool middle-aged part rather than a cool rock star) has apparently already been cast, which is a shame as I had put in a bit of work already. That character doesn't have a moustache. So maybe the moustache is sabotaging me.
Anyway it was a fun morning of threatening people with death and we were wrapped up by lunch time. So I had time to try out the new car (the controls are very simple it turns out, but not if you haven't had time to look at the manual and are frantically trying to get out of people's way). It's a nippy car, though I had to get used to the fact that when you take your foot off the accelerator the car starts to immediately slow down, like you've applied the brakes. To coast you just have to keep your foot lightly touching the pedal.
Then I did some more writing for Twitch of Fun, which is in danger of becoming more work than a proper job, but as I drifted off to sleep tonight I had a couple more cool ideas for what could happen in the writers' room. Not that I write that obviously. Or any of the show, as it's written by the writers.
Twitch of Fun started as a throwaway bit of nonsense that I could more or less adlib from start to finish, but it’s actually quite nice that, whilst retaining a lot of that spirit, there is space to try out some new ideas and get back into writing sketches - even if they are, to some extent written in one go without much editing. And it’s nice that days are feeling full and that once the kids are finally in bed I just feel like collapsing (we managed to stay up, watch a film and have a drink).
I started to do my end of year write up for the website today too and though 2020 is not really going to be anyone’s favourite year, I can at least say with some confidence that I have achieved a lot in the last 12 months, whilst also experimenting wildly and have been pretty creative. The King of the World coming out of a box and calling himself the King of the World and that being an immediate thing is pretty typical of how things have fallen in my lap. Or maybe more that I have just been prepared to run with stuff and see what happens. Still three weeks to make more magic happen too.
2020 hasn’t been my least favourite year by any means.
