In Rochester, anyway, the reaction to someone "buying something for a show" from retail clerks (who wonder, for example, what a tall goodlooking young man and a short pudgy woman are going buying a 32A bra and 45 thermal undershirts with a tax exempt card) tends to be "How nice, what high school do you teach at?" or "What jigh school do your kids go to?" or "What nice volunteer work!" or something else sort of condescending. I was just talking to a potential landlady who seemed extremely surprised that a theatre would pay me to sew. She was all like "But of course they don't PAY you at this second job?"
I think costume p[eople sometimes have to be snooty, because people (who all where clothes) tend to think 'Whay are they paying someone to pick out clothes?"
Rochester is a bit of a backwater, however, so I am not sure if this is true in larger areas like chicago
I think costume p[eople sometimes have to be snooty, because people (who all where clothes) tend to think 'Whay are they paying someone to pick out clothes?"
They are perfectly free to be snooty as long as it isn't with other theatre people. Then it's just rude.
Rochester is a bit of a backwater, however, so I am not sure if this is true in larger areas like chicago
We may be named for a smelly onion, but c'mon... backwater?
They are perfectly free to be snooty as long as it isn't with other theatre people. Then it's just rude.
That's very differnet, your right. Mine are mostly just snooty with clerk. Of course, I was a clerk, and wouldn't have wanted to have someone be snooty with me...
We may be named for a smelly onion, but c'mon... backwater?
Heh. The Toronto - Rochester ferry was supposed to help whose tourism industry? IJS.
One of my LA friends described Los Angeles as "a loose confederation of strip malls" and I've stuck with that.
I get a toaster! Upon my recommendation, a friend who was doing a long TDY in a boring place bought the Firefly DVDs to take with her, and is now another Huge Fan. I figured she'd be hooked by the "no sound in space" but she raved about the writing. Good taste, that one.
An ad I wrote is on the DVD extras and I can't even get my parents to buy them.
I'm constantly amazed at how easy it is for people to get other people to buy/watch them due to this experience.
Allyson, the only reason my mom watched was because they had French dubbing (that's her mother tongue, and she misses it).
Do your parents know about your ad, though?
Do your parents know about your ad, though?
I think so, that was my selling point. I even brought the DVD and they weren't interested in it at all.
Same thing with something else coming up.
Honestly? I think a lot of it has to do with them just not getting it. It's so out of the realm of their understanding. "My friend has a new show coming out on FOX," is greeted with a sort of, "oh."
I think maybe they just don't believe me.
It's sort of cute.
Well, if it helps, my DH was very impressed that I "know" the person who wrote the ad. So your work is appreciated in my house, by all of us!
