"One Of Us! One Of Us!" (10/20/04)
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Calling all freaks! Oh, sorry, that may have been insensitive; the folks looking for the freaks went a slightly more euphemistic route by asking for "unique/interesting people." So if you're unique and/or interesting (or heck, even downright freakish-- we're all family, here), listen up, because this could be your ticket to stardom, and not just as the top-billed sideshow attraction on the local carny circuit. If you're unique and/or interesting in a particularly well-suited fashion, you just might wind up on a nationally-televised TV commercial! Which, okay, sure, is just another freak show, but the exposure is a lot wider and we hear the pay is at least marginally better. Usually.

Here's the what: faithful viewer Frozen Tundra tipped us off to a MacMinute blurb about a casting call that was posted to the L.A. craigslist last week. "Are you addicted to iTunes? Do you take your iPod everywhere?" it asks. If so, and you also happen to be a dancer, performer, or "uniquely talented person," the CinemaFactory thinks you might have what it takes to be featured in "an upcoming non-union commercial shooting in early November in Los Angeles." If you're interested, you have until next Wednesday the 27th to send your résumé and headshot to itunes@cinemafactory.com.

Now, since the posting subject indicates that this is indeed an "iTunes commercial" and not an ad for some third-party adjunct product or something like that, we have a sneaking suspicion that you'll have a better chance of being chosen if your headshot is taken against a solid bright-colored background after spray-painting your entire head jet black. But if you're silhouettically-challenged or are otherwise uncomfortable with submitting a photograph of yourself to a group of people without a stated privacy policy, they say you should "feel free to email a brief written statement describing your iTunes/iPod story." We should note, however, that people caught plagiarizing their pithy iPodal anecdotes from Apple's Switch site will be immediately sold to a roadside tourist trap somewhere in America's Backwaters™. So keep it real. Or if not real, then at least original.

If you're up for the gig, good luck to you-- keep us posted on how it goes. It's sort of a shame that the AtAT compound is all the way over here on the other coast, actually, because we just happen to have a staff member who, at the tender age of two and a half, possesses the unique ability to stand on her head (and only her head) up against a wall while waving both arms slowly up and down and saying "seeeeeaaaaa guuuulllllll!" Granted, it's not actually iPod/iTunes-related, but it's truly a wonder to behold. Ah, well; maybe the next freak talent search will be within a reasonable driving distance. Because, you know, if Apple televises thirty seconds of this and slaps an Apple logo on the screen at the end, we guarantee a doubling of market share within six months. None can resist the siren song of the Mighty Upside-Down Seagull.


 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/20/04 episode:

October 20, 2004: More rumors swirling around Apple's music event next week include the possible launch of the iTunes Music Store in Australia and the advent of a flash-based iPod-type thingy. Meanwhile, the call goes out for "unique/interesting people" to star in a new iTunes TV commercial, and Japan's NEC steals the supercomputing crown back from IBM-- sort of...

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 4990: Flash And The Land Of Oz (10/20/04)   So what's in the cards for this "special music event" that Apple's throwing next week? Guesses are running wild, ranging from 60 GB video-enabled iPods to a surprise settlement with the Beatles to Steve Jobs being named the fourth vocalist for the new all-barbershop incarnation of Van Halen...

  • 4992: SX-8: NEC Strikes Back (10/20/04)   Horror of horrors-- slightly off-topic disaster has struck in Supercomputerland! You know how excited we were to report that NEC's hoity-toity Earth Simulator in Japan will finally be put in its place when the next TOP500 rankings are released in a couple of weeks?...

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