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My name's Sean... I'm 48, never married and currently out looking for a whole new kind of trouble.
Grew up in central PA and beginning with 4th grade was systematically kicked out of six schools growing up ... I joined the Navy at 18. I was stationed on a ship out of Long Beach and visited 19 countries by the time I was 21. We spent seven months doing circles in the Gulf for Desert Storm... went around Cape Horn, through the Panama Canal and a two time Shellback. Late 80's, early 90's was a crazeee time in LA... party hard every night.
After Navy moved back to PA, got into sales and haven't looked back. Car sales, preneed funeral packages, B2B copier sales, door to door meat sales, whatever... I sell things. I cold call. Then in 2000 I decided to tackle the dream and moved back to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. The thing I discovered about majority of actors is they start off very early in life.. conditioned for the theatrics. That combined with 'knowing' someone in the biz is where most of the people you see today have come from tbh. That's what you're competing against. Then there's someone like me, a dreamer, skipping into the lions den in my mid twenties with no experience and an ocean full of confidence... the lack of a blueprint and networking had me quickly detouring into the the 'stand in/background' world instead of a 'day player'/minor speaking roles. This stand in career somehow dragged on for 9 years. I put energy into finding my next job and hustled... I was working on just about every major Tv show in town during this time... CSI/West Wing/ER/Ally McBeal/NYPD Blue/Friends to 24/SonsAnarchy/Dexter/BigLove and was sought after for my looks/abilities making a living full time on both Tv and film sets spending anywhere from a day to several seasons on many shows. I was asked to be Jon Hamms stand-in one day, who I never heard of and became deeply entrenched in Mad Men for the first three, Emmy award winning seasons... ground zero for about every office scene shot. I'm all over it. A lot of you have looked right at me through the years and never knew I was BF... I used to laugh at that sometimes, as I was either on set or here 24/7. Being a huge 80's fan, I've had the opportunity to meet, see, hang and work around some of my favorites. The suspension of disbelief is lifted when seeing it done and this will have you dissecting movies instead of enjoying them... still worth it all. One of my top experiences, is working on film for a week with Harrison Ford in Crossing Over.. He and I had a few moments together and his dry/dark humor in person only solidified how I felt. There's a saying in Hollywood, that goes like..."don't approach your favorites as they will just disappoint and ruin the illusion", but that one didn't apply here.
In my early 40's, after over a year of acting classes under my belt, I decided the anxiety of auditioning, impracticality of it all and stress of racing around town was not for me and my tenacity for it all had subsided so in 2010 I gladly went back into sales. Back to the cubicle. lol. Nah, but a few years later in 2016 I moved to Denver... I still work in advertisement sales, but now its remote. Loved Los Angeles, but it was time$... always something to do from conventions, concerts and real Mexican food. The average 2 bedroom house, in a decent neighborhood, within 40 miles of downtown cost over a million bucks easy these days. You would need a second job just for property taxes.
There's a brief highlight............ so far.
Since the early days of 2005 I've been running under the user name... Bastard Factory. It's a slang definition for a 'welfare whore with 7+ kids w/ 7+ daddies'... my early days at Consumption Junction and Freakhole were a great place to sharpen my sword, but I decided to eventually create and open Bastard Factory in 2006 simply as a blog for me to vent... create stories, troll and shock. You really don't think I'm here just to manage people do you? I was banned from about every board I joined for various reasons as the norm bored the fuck out of me. The way I looked at Bastard Factory, if people showed up and contributed so be it, but this was my digital playground that no mods could remove me from. After ten years, dozens of forum wars, thirteen thousand threads, six thousand members, a letter from the FCC, hackers in 2013, three cease & desists letters, one was 8 pages from McDonalds, detective w/3 cops searching my house for a story I wrote, midnight spam raiders, a gnarly site defacement and endless belligerent bastards we came to the conclusion that we wanted more... after a three year hiatus, we returned in May 2018 and I see us going until the bomb drops.
Other than that, I day trade, a life long Philadelphia Eagles fan... have a kickass cat, and single as fuck after a 21 year long.
I plan on being open with what's going on in my life in this thread moving forward... this is my anti Facebook page.
Anything you'd like to know about myself or this board... this is the thread.
Grew up in central PA and beginning with 4th grade was systematically kicked out of six schools growing up ... I joined the Navy at 18. I was stationed on a ship out of Long Beach and visited 19 countries by the time I was 21. We spent seven months doing circles in the Gulf for Desert Storm... went around Cape Horn, through the Panama Canal and a two time Shellback. Late 80's, early 90's was a crazeee time in LA... party hard every night.
After Navy moved back to PA, got into sales and haven't looked back. Car sales, preneed funeral packages, B2B copier sales, door to door meat sales, whatever... I sell things. I cold call. Then in 2000 I decided to tackle the dream and moved back to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. The thing I discovered about majority of actors is they start off very early in life.. conditioned for the theatrics. That combined with 'knowing' someone in the biz is where most of the people you see today have come from tbh. That's what you're competing against. Then there's someone like me, a dreamer, skipping into the lions den in my mid twenties with no experience and an ocean full of confidence... the lack of a blueprint and networking had me quickly detouring into the the 'stand in/background' world instead of a 'day player'/minor speaking roles. This stand in career somehow dragged on for 9 years. I put energy into finding my next job and hustled... I was working on just about every major Tv show in town during this time... CSI/West Wing/ER/Ally McBeal/NYPD Blue/Friends to 24/SonsAnarchy/Dexter/BigLove and was sought after for my looks/abilities making a living full time on both Tv and film sets spending anywhere from a day to several seasons on many shows. I was asked to be Jon Hamms stand-in one day, who I never heard of and became deeply entrenched in Mad Men for the first three, Emmy award winning seasons... ground zero for about every office scene shot. I'm all over it. A lot of you have looked right at me through the years and never knew I was BF... I used to laugh at that sometimes, as I was either on set or here 24/7. Being a huge 80's fan, I've had the opportunity to meet, see, hang and work around some of my favorites. The suspension of disbelief is lifted when seeing it done and this will have you dissecting movies instead of enjoying them... still worth it all. One of my top experiences, is working on film for a week with Harrison Ford in Crossing Over.. He and I had a few moments together and his dry/dark humor in person only solidified how I felt. There's a saying in Hollywood, that goes like..."don't approach your favorites as they will just disappoint and ruin the illusion", but that one didn't apply here.
In my early 40's, after over a year of acting classes under my belt, I decided the anxiety of auditioning, impracticality of it all and stress of racing around town was not for me and my tenacity for it all had subsided so in 2010 I gladly went back into sales. Back to the cubicle. lol. Nah, but a few years later in 2016 I moved to Denver... I still work in advertisement sales, but now its remote. Loved Los Angeles, but it was time$... always something to do from conventions, concerts and real Mexican food. The average 2 bedroom house, in a decent neighborhood, within 40 miles of downtown cost over a million bucks easy these days. You would need a second job just for property taxes.
There's a brief highlight............ so far.
Since the early days of 2005 I've been running under the user name... Bastard Factory. It's a slang definition for a 'welfare whore with 7+ kids w/ 7+ daddies'... my early days at Consumption Junction and Freakhole were a great place to sharpen my sword, but I decided to eventually create and open Bastard Factory in 2006 simply as a blog for me to vent... create stories, troll and shock. You really don't think I'm here just to manage people do you? I was banned from about every board I joined for various reasons as the norm bored the fuck out of me. The way I looked at Bastard Factory, if people showed up and contributed so be it, but this was my digital playground that no mods could remove me from. After ten years, dozens of forum wars, thirteen thousand threads, six thousand members, a letter from the FCC, hackers in 2013, three cease & desists letters, one was 8 pages from McDonalds, detective w/3 cops searching my house for a story I wrote, midnight spam raiders, a gnarly site defacement and endless belligerent bastards we came to the conclusion that we wanted more... after a three year hiatus, we returned in May 2018 and I see us going until the bomb drops.
Other than that, I day trade, a life long Philadelphia Eagles fan... have a kickass cat, and single as fuck after a 21 year long.
I plan on being open with what's going on in my life in this thread moving forward... this is my anti Facebook page.
Anything you'd like to know about myself or this board... this is the thread.
