Archive for March, 2005

Well, it’s not an angry letter, but it’s a letter..
“Us Weekly” Magazine reported that the crew of Mr. and Mrs. Smith were replaced due to their gossiping about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
What a crock. Most of the time, we’re either working our asses off, or trying to set stuff up for the next shot [...]

Ladies who Lunch!

Last minute lunch with The Blonde and The Drama Queen at The Ivy – They called me, said they’d gotten a table, and did I want to come and have lunch.
For those of you not familiar, The Ivy is a celeb infested, over priced ‘eatery’ in West Hollywood.. there are perpetually photogs planted outside, and [...]

There’s a fake Michael Bay blog here on blogger (Those of you who’ve read my entire blog will know my thoughts on M.B.).
It’s hilarious, and whoever’s writing it is a fucking genius.

Go check it out!
Downloaded the truck for Mr. and Mrs Smith today. It’s finally over!
Since I got off work early, I met my [...]

Yay for Double Time!

We got a nice wrap day today..
Good Friday being a union holiday, we got 8 hours at double time! Yay!
We had a nice, easy day as well. All we did was get our equipment onto our truck (as opposed to the ‘drop loads’ and the rigging package which is HUGE), which took about six hours [...]

The official last night of shooting on “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”.. This is just stunts, there are no actors (they were ‘picture wrapped’ last night).
The night started off badly – we had a 5 pm call, which meant that we all got stuck in the horrible traffic on the way out to the Ikea in [...]

Machine Guns are Loud

I’ve never been afraid on a set before.
Tonight we shot the big gun battle between Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the commandos who are trying to kill them. ALL of the actors had machine guns, the store shelves were ’squibbed’ (small explosive charges to make it look like a bullet’s hit something) and the noise [...]

I’m on my way into the never ending movie, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”.
Originally, our call time for today was 7:30 am, at an old Ikea about an hour east of Los Angeles.
My boss called me at 8 pm last night to tell me that the call time had been changed to 10 am, because ‘Brad [...]

Bleah.

Still sick.
Still working.
The best boy razzed me all day about being sick at work, which apparently I’ve complained about to him before.
Someone kept stealing equipment out of our pile before we had a chance to count it, so the warehouse guys would have to go and get more stuff. .there are four shows loading at [...]

I always get pissed when folks go into work when they’re sick, so I guess that makes me a big fucking hypocrite..
I’m still sick as a dog, but I got called to do two days loading a truck, which isn’t heavy work, so I dosed up with cold medicine and went in.
What’s shooting is pickups [...]

Very, Very Sick.

I have the flu from hell.
I feel like crap and I’m drinking this absolutely vile hippy shit given to me by The Sweater Queen (she has long flowing hair, long flowing sweaters, and dispenses all manner of curative hippy glop and goo) in the hopes of not getting knocked on my ass for two weeks.
At [...]