More than likely I won't know when or in what markets the radio ad will be airing so here's a copy of the ad:
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VO: Washington Mutual recently hit the streets to ask people what the hardest part of getting a home loan is.
MAN 1: The hardest part? I don't know where to start.
WOMAN 1: When I gotta give my whole life story for my credit background.
MAN 2: Finding a bank that understands my family's situation.
WOMAN 2: Getting a home loan that includes 5 male housekeepers of my choice. Whew!
VO: Though we can't make any promises on that last one, we can help out with the rest. Washington Mutual has created a new program called Solid Start", a step-by-step educational program that offers classes to teach you how to manage your finances and build credit so that you can qualify for a home loan. And since we hire our consultants from within the community and create our own flexible programs, applying for a home loan is now even easier. And the best part of Solid Start", it's free. So, even though we can't promise everything you want in the home loan process, there isn't much we leave out.
WOMAN 2: Okay, no housekeepers, but how about a couple of cabana boys?
VO: We'll work on it. Stop by your neighborhood Washington Mutual Johnson Development Corporation Home Loan Center or call 1-800-906-9268 and sign up for the free Solid Start" program. We'll help you turn your dream of owning a home into a reality. Washington Mutual. More Human Interest. Equal Housing Lender.
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The commercial features all black voices. So, you know it'll only be playing on the urban stations.
Wednesday, May 11
It's Not Mine I Say
Vikings running back Onterrio Smith, who has a history of violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, was briefly detained by airport police last month after they found an elaborate kit used to beat drug tests.
- uh oh! smells like trouble.
Smith told officers it was dried urine used in conjunction with a device called ``The Original Whizzinator.'' The officer who filed the report wrote that Smith ``told me that it was dried urine for making a clean urine test.'' In addition, he had a bottle of pills labeled ``cleansing formula.''
-just tell all the business why don't ya? Without consulting a lawyer. How 'bout that?
Smith told police he was taking the vials to his cousin.
- Officer you don't think this belongs to me do you? Hmmph! I may be a snitch but I'm no drug addict.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said league rules state that failing to cooperate with a drug test was the same as failing it, but he wasn't sure whether there was any penalty for possessing a device designed to beat such a test
- Something tells me the bosses will be closing that loophole shortly
Smith was suspended last season for four games after testing positive for marijuana. It was his second ``strike'' in the NFL's substance-abuse program. He would earn a yearlong suspension for a third violation.
...a tube of toothpaste set off an alarm as a bag Smith was carrying was being scanned. Six or seven vials of white powder were discovered in the bag. Smith was detained, questioned and allowed to leave, the report said.
- And you were carrying the bag with you because...?
- uh oh! smells like trouble.
Smith told officers it was dried urine used in conjunction with a device called ``The Original Whizzinator.'' The officer who filed the report wrote that Smith ``told me that it was dried urine for making a clean urine test.'' In addition, he had a bottle of pills labeled ``cleansing formula.''
-just tell all the business why don't ya? Without consulting a lawyer. How 'bout that?
Smith told police he was taking the vials to his cousin.
- Officer you don't think this belongs to me do you? Hmmph! I may be a snitch but I'm no drug addict.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said league rules state that failing to cooperate with a drug test was the same as failing it, but he wasn't sure whether there was any penalty for possessing a device designed to beat such a test
- Something tells me the bosses will be closing that loophole shortly
Smith was suspended last season for four games after testing positive for marijuana. It was his second ``strike'' in the NFL's substance-abuse program. He would earn a yearlong suspension for a third violation.
...a tube of toothpaste set off an alarm as a bag Smith was carrying was being scanned. Six or seven vials of white powder were discovered in the bag. Smith was detained, questioned and allowed to leave, the report said.
- And you were carrying the bag with you because...?
Tuesday, May 10
Can't Believe It But I'll Take It
Boy was I surprised when my agent called to tell me I'd booked a job. What? Me? I thought! I had to replay the message 2 times.
I guess it still surprises me that more times than not I book jobs that I'm not all that enthused about. I show up to the audition, do my thang then head out of the door without breaking a sweat. I usually consider those auditions practice for the jobs I really want. However, it never fails, the jobs I don't think twice about I end up booking. And the jobs I really chase after I never get. Go figure!
Nevertheless, it's always exciting to hear that you've booked a job. And I'm even more ecstatic that I've booked my very first voice-over (VO) job - a radio commercial for Washington Mutual.
I honestly didn't really think this day would come. I've been audtioning for VO gigs for 9 months with absolutely no success. Not booking anything really had me puzzled and discouraged. I nearly cancelled my audition last week for this Washington Mutual radio commercial because I have been thinking about packing it in and giving up pursuit of VO work. Somehow, I convinced myself to go to the audition in spite of my reservations and look what happened, yesterday I get the phone call I've been waiting for for 9 long months, "Hey Shawn! You booked that spot."
Life is so very peculiar. Just when I was ready to give up hope something nice comes my way. I still can't believe it but I'll take it.
I guess it still surprises me that more times than not I book jobs that I'm not all that enthused about. I show up to the audition, do my thang then head out of the door without breaking a sweat. I usually consider those auditions practice for the jobs I really want. However, it never fails, the jobs I don't think twice about I end up booking. And the jobs I really chase after I never get. Go figure!
Nevertheless, it's always exciting to hear that you've booked a job. And I'm even more ecstatic that I've booked my very first voice-over (VO) job - a radio commercial for Washington Mutual.
I honestly didn't really think this day would come. I've been audtioning for VO gigs for 9 months with absolutely no success. Not booking anything really had me puzzled and discouraged. I nearly cancelled my audition last week for this Washington Mutual radio commercial because I have been thinking about packing it in and giving up pursuit of VO work. Somehow, I convinced myself to go to the audition in spite of my reservations and look what happened, yesterday I get the phone call I've been waiting for for 9 long months, "Hey Shawn! You booked that spot."
Life is so very peculiar. Just when I was ready to give up hope something nice comes my way. I still can't believe it but I'll take it.
Monday, May 9
The More I Think About It
- Why do I hate people who leave doo doo stains in the toilet bowl - especially if there's a toilet brush cleaner sitting next to the bowl
- Why am I offended that the Customer Service Rep for Circuity City burst into hysterical laughter when I called to thank CC for sending my rebate check weeks earlier than expected
- Why do people act so touchy and easily get bent out of shape when conversing on the 'net
- Why did I take precalculus in College yet I struggle to do basic math these days
- Why does sex feel better in a darkened room with sexy music playing softly in the background
- Why is David Stern a prick and wins the award for 'Overreaction of the year' over Jeff Van Gundy's statements about officiating
- Why do I want to pull my hair out and scream when I hear people say 'hatin' and 'hater' - honestly, can't people express their disgust or disdain for something you like or someone you like....or be entitled to a difference of opinion...is that ok
- Why have I morphed into a sight reader in recent years and can no longer sound out an unfamilar or unknown word without stumbling like an illiterate
- Why do I hate patronizing black owned and managed establishments where customer service skills are nonexistent....Jay Bee's is lucky I was buying that bbq for my aunt yesterday or I would have left
- Why do I hate being in the middle of sharing a good story with a friend over the phone and suddenly they say "let me call you back"
- Why can't more people appreciate sitting in comfortable silence....sometimes it's ok not to speak even though you are sitting in a room with someone you know
- Why are so many people afraid of being single 'til they meet the right person - instead of staying in troubled relationships that drive them crazy
- Why do your married friends act like they don't know you anymore once they tie the knot
- Why do I find it more than a little bizzarre that Doug & Jackie Christie remarry every year on July 8th...I can't wait to see their reality show...they might give Nick & Jessica and Flavor Flav & Brigitte a run for their money
- Why is Cheaters one of the funniest tv shows I've ever watched in my life
- Why am I aghast every time I see Jermaine O'Neal's head...it's humongous
- Why do I absolutely love ESPN's Sportscenter commercials
- Why should the Ying Yang Twins whisper on every song they make 'cause Wait (The Whisper Song) is hot
- Why does it seem like most black music producers want to be bigger stars than artist they work with...Puff and Pharell have crossed over into stardom now it looks like we have a new attention whore: Jazze Pha...oh boy!
- Why can't I get enough of MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge...I so appreciate Coral not competing this go 'round
- Why do people come to the gym reeking of perfume/cologne
- Why doesn't the NBA ban its players from doing those silly rituals when taking free throws....*rolling eyes* Gilbert Arenas - Richard Hamilton...just shoot the damn ball already
Saturday, May 7
Why Why Why
- Why do I hate shopping for gifts
- Why do the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I hear people praise bad singers and actors...yuck!
- Why is no one supporting Tweet's 2nd album - it's hot... stand out cuts: "You" "Cab" and "Small Change"
- Why did it take a year for me to see Carl Thomas' vision on Let's Talk About It I'm really feeling this album now
- Why do I occasionally wake up in the wee hours of the morning speaking in tongues for like 30 seconds then I roll over and go back to sleep....what's that all about
- Why do I have blackheads on my back that I can't get rid of
- Why do I hate randomly running into people that I know but haven't seen for years when I am out and about
- Why am I guilty of loving Ciara's new video "Oh"....yeah yeah yeah I know she can't sing...me being a former dancer, there's something about the choreography in that video moves me
- Why am I pissed that one my friend's cares about me so much that after 3 months of not returning her calls she's trying to track me down through some of my other friends - FYI she's done nothing to me I just don't feel like being social...yeah I know it's mean but oh well...I wish she'd get the hint that I need some space right now
- Why are The Apprentice and America's Next Top Model so boring this season
- Why have I been amused by Kobe Bryant's fall from grace
- Why is Tracy McGrady the new Kevin Garnett and can't make it out of the 1st round of the playoffs
- Why did I spend 3 hours re-twisting my hair on Thursday and didn't realize 'til today that I twisted some hair in one direction and some hair in another direction and my hair looks as confused as I must've been to do such an idiotic thing
- Why haven't I traveled out of California since the 9/11 tragedy
- Why am I really annoyed that more and more cities are adopting the use cameras at intersections to monitor illegal traffic infractions....I haven't been caught on cam yet but the sheer threat of being caught makes me slam on brakes and raises my pressure when I find myself nearing one of those intersections
- Why do I hate that several people have tried to convince me that Joss Stone can sing....that Gap commecial is the worst....if that's the new sound of soul music kill me now
- Why all the craze over Desperate Housewives and Lost... I watched a few episodes of both shows and thought: Housewives - cheesy Lost - interesting idea, moves too slow for my liking
- Why is Pat O'Brien a freak...I ain't mad at cha
- Why do the New York Yankees suck right now
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