Daily Tasks: Day 15

Skiddly-bop... woo! Huh... 2:50 in the afternoon again. How does this keep happening?

Well, got my headphones, got my webcam, tomorrow I'm gonna get Zoom Pro and experiment with it. Thus far, the webcam footage makes me look like Groucho, it makes my nose look super-prominent. So, I should probably shave, for starters, and then see about finding a good angle from which to film myself.

At the end of yesterday's post (or, well, this morning's, I guess, since I posted it well after midnight), I devoted the last paragraph to talking about how I made a comprehensive list of people I'd like to work with. I'd like to delve into that a little more.

The current roster listed on the TAPAS website is as follows:

• Team Salmon: Consisting of myself, Naty, Kenzie, Stacy, and Casey; Kenzie currently has no credits because nothing she's worked on is on the website anymore.
• Theatre Scene: Currently consists of the seven people who provided voice work for the Icewind Dale playthrough, plus Mason Ellison, writer/director of Better Yet?, which is no longer on the website due to its future being uncertain at the moment.
• Family Members: Consists of my two sisters and our mom. (hmm, note to self: last year my mom was planning to change her name to "Sidonie Joy" but didn't go through with it, but I've been calling her that in all the content she's been in anyway, I should probably ask her about that)
• Others: At the moment, just Brian LaGuardia, who was going to compose the music for Companions of the Dance Hall and did compose songs for the Choices pilot, both of which have been pulled from the website until they're more definitely on the way...
• Champions: A special section reserved for the Champions, people who donate $50 or more to my Patreon. It's empty, my current monthly Patreon income is $1, but I put it there anyway to maybe entice people to become Champions.

And, here's what I want to add to those categories. My goal is to have a profile on the website of everyone who's ever taken part in a TAPAS project, regardless of whether they intend to be a long-term presence.

• Team Salmon: At the maximum, there's like, six other people who qualify for being Team Salmon, it's just what I call the social group that gathered together back in 2013 where I met everyone currently in that category; most are artsy and creative types. One in particular used to be listed on the website, but wanted to back out, she had a solo career to worry about. Regardless, I'm always keeping an eye on those six people to see if there's any addition they can make to a project.
• Theatre Scene: I've divided that list into three sections: people from the Quincy theatre scene who are already TAPAS insiders, just haven't been in a project yet, because, you know, only ever made the one while I was there; then a lengthy list of contacts I've made there over my time there, then a short list of people I've seen or met around the Quincy theatre scene, but don't really know personally, but who still seem like they'd be really cool to work with.
• Family Members: Any relative of a Team Salmon member gets on this list; Naty's sister Michelle is currently back to working on the Choices storyboards, and Kenzie's sister Lindsey became a TAPAS insider just a few days ago -- can't contribute much to our projects because she's doing very well following the road to become an actual professional animator, but I at least hope she can provide some animation wisdom and guidance along the way. And then of course, I and Naty both have lots of family members I'd love to see pitch in and do something fun.
• Others: There are lots of TAPAS insiders I've picked up around the Internet who haven't made a public contribution just yet, plus a very short list of people from my life who don't fit into any of the other categories who I'd simply love to see in some of my projects, most of them people I met at massage school.
• Special Guests: A category that doesn't exist yet, reserved for people who were legitimately famous before taking part in TAPAS. I've got some ambitions: I know that YouTube critic power couple Bobsheaux and Raven Fox have an active interest in taking part, and another critic, Dominic Noble, has noncommittally expressed willingness to pitch in some voice acting if the pay and the timing are right. When it's time to make the SSKV and Iris pilot episodes, I hope to nab a few notable voice actors. So that's the short list of special guests who I'll be seeking out sometime soon; I also created a few subcategories.
• Bad Movie Veterans: Any actor who was in Birdemic or The Room. I think they'd make swell special guest stars. Yes, even Tommy Wiseau himself, there's at least one character in the TAPAS canon who I think would work great voiced by him... for that matter, maybe I could convince Tommy Wiseau to be a producer, get some of that sweet, sweet mysterious Wiseau fortune as a budget for our projects...
• MST3K: Most of the performers from Mystery Science Theatre 3000's long history are super funny and talented. I particularly love Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett, who performed the robots from seasons 8 to 10; there are so many duos I've created who I think would be simply amazing if portrayed by the pair of them.
• Rooster Teeth: Made a huge list of people who work (or worked) for (or with) Rooster Teeth, a place full of a super-talented community. I love the way everybody at Rooster Teeth wears many hats; it's a feat I hope to replicate with TAPAS. And, every now and then, I hope to nab a bit of that Rooster Teeth talent to perform in a TAPAS thing.
• Team StarKid: Basically everyone who's ever performed for StarKid is on this list; they're all exceptionally talented actors whose presence probably wouldn't break the budget. Quite a few of them are on that "notable voice actors" list above, for SSKV and Iris.
• Voice Actors: A list consisting mostly of the sort of voice actors who appear in Funimation-dubbed anime and Rooster Teeth animation, as well as a small handful of bigger-budget voice actors whose work I adore, who I simply couldn't neglect.
• YouTube: People I follow on YouTube who are varying degrees of superstars on it.
• Celebrities: Allowing myself to dream really big for a moment, I made a short list of genuinely super-famous people who it would be really, really fun to meet and get into some of my work someday -- the likes of Patton Oswalt, Weird Al, Doug Jones, Joe Manganiello; people who seem really nerdy and really fun to work with. Maybe someday it'll be possible.

Also on that document, I've monitoring people who have made appearances on the channel but not really had the prominence to get profiles on the website, a list that currently consists of my cousin Kharis, who took part in the summer 2019 season of Jackbox videos as well as that week's podcast episode, and my little sister's friend Bobbi, who took part in the winter 2019 season. Just played some games, doesn't really qualify as a creative contribution, but they're on the private record just in case they ever make a giant comeback, then I can retcon them back in.

And, naturally, today I've been doing I don't even know what, I have no memory of my day, but I didn't even finish watching Nightmare, what the actual fuckity-fuck is wrong with me...?