WHY ARE YOU FAMOUS?? Why am I not?

I think the real problem is that the average performer these days is barely talented and that half of the performers are less talented than that.

I just saw Ben Folds in concert at George Washington University, and he was amazing, incredible.. but the guy who opened for him was just some schmoe playing rhythms and chords on gutiar that I could play, and singing songs not as good as mine in a voice not much better. Its not that I’m super talented, but why in God’s green earth was he being paid to play for 5000 people, none of whom seemed enthused by his mediocrity?

I feel this way about a lot I see. I am a professional actor, and blast it, why does Ben Affleck get to live in a mansion and not me? Now I understand, I haven’t taken my shot (yet).. but the point is, if I take myself out of it..

I think the real problem is that the average performer these days is barely talented and that half of the performers are less talented than that.

I just saw Ben Folds in concert at George Washington University, and he was amazing, incredible.. but the guy who opened for him was just some schmoe playing rhythms and chords on gutiar that I could play, and singing songs not as good as mine in a voice not much better. Its not that I’m super talented, but why in God’s green earth was he being paid to play for 5000 people, none of whom seemed enthused by his mediocrity?

I feel this way about a lot I see. I am a professional actor, and blast it, why does Ben Affleck get to live in a mansion and not me? Now I understand, I haven’t taken my shot (yet).. but the point is, if I take myself out of it..

WHy is Affleck a bigger star than Matt Damon? Why is Limp Bizkit bigger than Ben Folds? Why does a movie with J. Lo do better than a movie with Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, or Gene Hackman? Why do we, the american public, allow McG to make Charlie’s Angels 1 and 2, and then consider giving him the Superman franchise? Why does Rick berman get to keep his job running Star Trek when he is killing the franchise creatively and the novelists like Peter David are making incredible stuff every 3 months?

The fact is, I am friends with actors that could act circles around Keanu, Hayden, or the entire cast of “Coupling”. I know musicians (Matt, Sam, and most of the music departments of the colleges I attended included) that could just destroy the top ten if the suits in their offices just gave them the chance.

And, darnit, I’m not chopped liver either.. why should Justin from American Idol be famous? Why do I know who this guy is?

Arg.. maybe it is bitterness.. but I fully acknowledge there are people way way better.. Barenaked Ladies, Ewan McGregor, almost the entire cast of Lord Of The rings.. man, I want to meet these people and say.. I GET IT!! I’m one of the few!! You are talented!! I want to learn from these people, and not be stuck in the quagmire of mediocrity created by our ancestors of idiocy.. and you know who you are Suzanne Somers, Poison, Gilligan (the skipper too), Carrot Top, Teltubbies, Pauly Shore..

Oh jeez.. sorry gotta go.. Who’s The Boss is on.