I'm about halfway through the ridiculous amount of CV's I have to look over. Some people have sent photos that just leap out of the paper, some that are a bit... blah. I now understand the power of the headshot. Not the "brains all over the deck" headshot, but the actors headshot.

Some are just flat, dull, unremarkable... and when a director is faced with over a hundred of these things and has only 45 audition slots, just imagine if a director has 45 audition slots and a few hundred CV's. I'm quite glad I didn't bother advertising in the Stage now!

So far I've sorted out all of the male applicants, dropping only two or three out of the first round, all of them for the simple reason that they had a very modern look to them, and that's not what I'm looking for in these productions. (Obviously... it's Dracula and Christmas Carol...)

Beth will be looking over the female applicants later on tonight, and then early tomorrow afternoon we'll be making phonecalls to people to invite them upto York for the auditions.

But for now... it's all still phone calls and paperwork for me. Tomorrow brings a phonecall to a publishing house to discuss the way they'll want us to give them royalties for our forthcoming Bouncers / Shakers mini tour... I'm hoping that they'll be fairly relaxed about it, as the tour is going to be a bit whirlwind, a lot unorganised, and a lot... not rushed, but buzzing.

And by "buzzing" I mean "getting venues as we go along, selling tickets on the website and the door, screaming as we go and just generally hoping for the best."

P.s - Anyone want to go see Silent Hill with me? My girlfriend, as lovely and wise as she is, is a horror movie pansy.