ain't the business just grand

So yesterday I had this adution for a stain remover spot. I got sent on it through this agent I sort of freelance with. Unfortunately, but the time the message got to him or me, the formating had been a bit screwed up and it looked like it was requesting a man 40 - 55, and women with extremely short hair. He asked that I send a photo of my current very short hair, and then he, upon approving that, sent me the info.

So I get to the audition, and there are just scads and scads of women with long, curly hair. At first, I am smug... I'm so going to get this gig, lalalla, but then as the casting director tells us what to expect in the audition the truth of the situation becomes clear --

They are looking for a man, 40 - 55 with extremely short hair to play a drill sargeant. The women with short hair that I had expected them to need as his recruits in the battle against stains did not exist -- he would be yelling at a bride and her bridesmaids. Already there, I decided not to leave, even if I had short hair, wasn't a model, and was wearing jeans and a tank top -- I was going to brave it out, because you never know.

And so, I wasted 3 hours of my life, waiting on line, to improv a sobbing bride on camera.

I'm just saying....

Frienditto

From several of my friends -- all of this is via them, as I've had NO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE SITE, but feel this meritted enough concern to repost here:

Watch out for Frienditto.

This site is an archive service that claims affiliation with Live Journal BUT DOES NOT HAVE IT.

There has been some concern over this site and security of LJ accounts. If you provide it with your login information for your Live Journal you give this service permission to archive your friends only entries and ANY locked entries of your friends for which you have access.

Please read the following answer to my support request regarding this site and be informed. More importantly, inform others.

Dear user,

Frienditto is not affiliated with LiveJournal in any way. As such, this website does not have access to any entries which are not publicly viewable. If someone provides them with their LiveJournal username and password, however, it gives this site access to all non-public entries that account would have access to. We can only recommend that you do not provide your username and password to any person or website to ensure the security of your account.

Additionally, if you believe anyone on your Friends list may have provided their login information to this website, we can only advise that you remove them from your Friends list. This website will have access to your Friends-only entries as long as any person on your Friends list has given the site access. If any content is present on Frienditto which you do not wish to be there, you will need to resolve the issue with that website.

Regards,

Scott
LiveJournal Abuse Team

(Emphasis mine)


If you are using this site I will remove you from my friends list. Additionally, I will be extraordinarily cross at you, either for being an idiot, or a malicious little freak.

hello, strangers!

Hi! My name's Racheline, and sometimes I post things of possible interest/importance to the general community here, and sometimes, as seems to have happened here, lots of people link to them.

To clear a few things up:

1. I am not an idiot
2. I have no direct experience with Frienditto
3. I am choosing to spread the word about something that even without my direct participation has the potential to affect my privacy, and because of what I do and my goals as related to it, my budding brand.
4. Don't troll me, and don't flame me -- I'm not the enemy you're looking for. Also, I don't even have time to get excited over your shit this week, got it?

Thanks!