I’m too tired to post. Here’s a photo.

August 31, 2005 in Photos, Work

16+ hour day(call time: 8:30 am, wrap time: 12:30 am, and that’s before we had to load the truck), and I have to be back tommorow morning at 10 am.
I can’t think well enough to compose a blog entry.

Back at the VA

August 29, 2005 in Work

Grey’s was back shooting at the V.A. in Northridge today- we were outside for the first half of the day – which was unfortunate as, by lunchtime, the temperature was about 105 F (40.5 C).
There was an indie movie shooting right next to us (the VA rents out their unused buildings to movies, and today [...]

Breaking up is(n’t) hard to do.

August 27, 2005 in Non-Work

Mr. Movie Star and I officially called it quits today.
I gave up part of my weekend to help with a rig (an ‘eight and skate’ hardly feels like a day of work at all anymore), and happened to be on the same lot lot as the movie he’s doing, so I swung by to see [...]

Back at Fox.

August 25, 2005 in Work

Since Grey’s didn’t need an extra guy today, I was back on Bones for a second unit shoot.
The horror stories about that show have been spreading – All the boys on Grey’s want to know who the new gaffer is, who among the crew’s going to stay, etc.. One day back I’m happy to say [...]

Someone I don’t miss at all.

August 25, 2005 in Work

Prospect Studios must have had too many complaints about “The Evil Guard”.
Back in the days of The Shield (several seasons ago), which shot at Prospect, this one particular entry-gate guard was always nasty, sour, angry, and seemed to look for ways to delay people at the gate. I remember having to get to the lot [...]

Tuesday at the VA

August 24, 2005 in Work

The real gaffer was back today – he’s been out on ‘personal business’.
One of the other juicers who was also out on ‘personal business’ who’s back today is an old friend from a TV show called “The Division” that we both worked on years ago. He’s a scream, and I was glad to see him [...]

Watch out for the bee in my bonnet.

August 22, 2005 in Non-Work

Although I do try to keep the politics out of the blog, this one I can’t let go.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/22/news/economy/northwest_implications/
As a union member, let me just say that power wise, strikes are all we have – the point of joining a union is that you have the power of the masses behind you, and the group speaks [...]

No, I’m not crazy. I’m laughing at a conversation you can’t hear.

August 22, 2005 in Work

Today, just after lunch, I almost spewed an entire cup of coffee all over one of the medical consultants, who couldn’t figure out why I was laughing like a maniac at nothing, but was, in fact, the following conversation – misunderstanding courtesy of the headsets we all wear:
Juicer #1: “Just so everyone knows, there are [...]

“Grey’s Anatomy”

August 20, 2005 in Work

Got a last minute call Thursday night from a friend of mine to replace him on “Grey’s Anatomy”.
“Grey’s” is shooting at the Disney owned Prospect Stages in Hollywood – a MUCH shorter drive for me than Fox.
Turns out I knew a lot of the crew: two of the grips from Danika, a camera operator from [...]

The Ass in Class.. Action, that is.

August 18, 2005 in Non-Work

Whee!
I love litigation, especially when I stand to benefit from it.
Coming home from the gym today, I found a fun letter in my mailbox – a notice of a class action lawsuit:
“In simple terms, the class action lawsuit alleges, among other things, that many persons who worked in the Motion Picture and/or Broadcasting Industries and/or [...]