Tiny Bee Feet

September 28, 2006 in Work

I got a last minute call yesterday to come work on the rigging crew for a movie (“Holiday”) that’s shooting some pick-up shots (they’ve finished principal photography and are just getting some small things that they missed the first time around) – we loaded the truck yesterday, and today we were at Disney Ranch which [...]

Displaced weekend

September 26, 2006 in Non-Work, Photos, life in LA

So my place got painted over the weekend, and I thought I could manage to stay there while they worked – until I walked in and saw everything I own wrapped in plastic, with 6 inches of old paint chips on the floors and a haze of dust floating in the air – so I [...]

There’s something in the air, apparently.

September 21, 2006 in Work

I’ve spent the last two days doing typical end-of-wrap stuff with a group of guys that I really love to work with – so even though we were doing mundane things like sorting equipment and loading returns, I had a great time.
For some reason, I’ve had a huge problem sitting down and focusing this [...]

If I’m not at work, I may as well have fun

September 18, 2006 in Non-Work, Work, life in LA

I woke up this morning to our seasonal mid-September crushing heat and thought “Fuck this, I’m going to the beach”.
Okay, that’s not entirely true – I didn’t decide to go to the beach until after I’d been trapped in a boiling hot laundromat for an hour and a half.
Fortified by fine Trader Joe’s snack foods, [...]

Poor, poor roaches. No one asked them!

September 16, 2006 in Photos, rants

So I went to the Banksy show yesterday afternoon and dragged Carly with me – it turns out, the show is in a warehouse that for a while was host to a ton of music video shoots (I don’t remember which ones, though – music videos all sort of blur together after a while. Set [...]

See you there!

September 15, 2006 in Non-Work, life in LA

If you were thinking about going to see Banksy’s show, here’s how to get there:
Directions to Barely Legal:
2476 Hunter St.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
From the 10 fwy East: Exit Santa Fe Ave. SOUTH. When you come to a stop at the end of the exit, Hunter St. will be directly in front of you. Cross Santa [...]

Pick it up, put it down. Pick it up, put it down.

September 14, 2006 in Non-Work, Work

I have some bad memories of working at Sony:
Losing my composure and screaming like a girl the time my foot went through a rotten board on the catwalk of stage 6 and I tripped and ended up with most of my upper body dangling over thin air 70+ feet above the deck. “It’s fine! I’m [...]

Something’s moving!

September 13, 2006 in Uncategorized

So I’ve been wanting to try out WordPress (blogger’s been pissing me off lately), and now here’s my chance!
Sitting at home, waiting for painters to show up, I decided to spin the “Couch of the Day” feature into it’s own blog, and you can find it here. The blogroll’s still incomplete, due to my [...]

Pow! Right in the kisser!

September 12, 2006 in Non-Work, couches, life in LA

There are no gas stations in Beverly Hills.
Okay, there are two (according to the NFT Guide) – one at Olympic and Beverly Drive, and one at Little Santa Monica and Crescent. There’s also one that’s not listed in the guide on Wilshire right next to the Beverly Hilton.
All of these gas stations, might I add, [...]

I was only kidding, mostly.

September 9, 2006 in Photos, Work, couches

It’s been a busy couple of days, and what I’ve really learned is that when I ask for things, I need to be more specific.
On Thursday, the shit hit the fan (so to speak) and we actually did get fired – because of something that happened in another department (ye gods, how I love the [...]