They joke that in LA everyone is a hyphen. Uber driver hyphen actor. Waiter hyphen actor. Task Rabbit hyphen actor. They call it the gig economy-that side hustle people do while waiting to be discovered so they can live the life of their dreams. Back in the day I did my time in the gig…

Ever since I signed up with Spotify I’ve been a dancin’fool. New music, old music -the funkier the better. So I took a trip down O’Jay’s lane with their hits “Backstabbers,” “Love Train,” and “For The Love Of Money.” That song was the famous theme song for Trump’s The Apprentice and it became seared into…

True story. The production division of my company hired a voice talent to do some voice over work for us. She sounded great on her demo but when we got the sound files we hired her to record, they sounded odd – kind of muffled. The audio engineer called her up to troubleshoot. He went…

Thinking about summer? Barbeques, the beach, the mountains or maybe just your own backyard, it’s that time of year again. And if your summer plans include time on the road you might be wondering what to do if you get an audition or even a voice over job while you’re away from your home studio….

They say success leaves tracks. That’s why I love reading biographies of luminaries in business and the arts. (Just finished the biography of Dale Carnegie- “Self-help Messiah” and recommend it) Rock guitarists spend hours learning the famous licks of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. And artists visit the great museums of the world to sketch…