Archive for May, 2007
There are two schools of thought about transitioning from day work (Yesterday’s call time: 6 am. Today’s call time: 8pm. The shooting crew’s back on stage and if we’re there at the same time they are we just don’t get enough work done because we can’t really work quietly) to night work – some folks [...]
Despite this weekend being the LA showing of the annual Found Footage Festival (featuring some truly odd video clips), the weirdest thing I saw all weekend was this:
For once, I’m at a complete loss for words, and I’m too afraid to call the number because instead of some cranky hung over person who may or [...]
This having to get up at 4:30 every morning is making the blog suffer, I know.
Despite the change in allergy medicine, I’m still not sleeping well, so I’m in this tired haze after about 4 pm – which is when the coffee wears off and I’m afraid to drink more for fear that I won’t [...]
Over the past year or so, I’ve tried just about every allergy medication on the market – they either don’t work well, don’t work at all, or they work but the side effects are completely unbearable.
Lately, I’ve been using Claritin D, which works great against the snot, but somehow manages to give me insomnia [...]
The stage that we’re shooting in is infested with mockingbirds. They’re nesting in the big steel beams that support the building’s roof, and there are at least 4 of them directly over the sets.
For those of you who live in an area that doesn’t have mockingbirds, they’re small brownish birds who sing when it’s [...]
We’re getting ready to start rigging another huge set (the only kind of set on this movie, it seems), so today was unloading, sorting and counting equipment that the rental house was delivering to the stage – much of it was the same stuff that we sorted, counted and loaded in Long Beach over the [...]
Today we continued to collect and count equipment, the birds continued to sit in the tree, squawk all day and smell bad and everything was calm.
Until – we found out that we’ll have to re-rig a set (which we wrapped on the assurance that production were certain they were done in there and wouldn’t be [...]
There’s something kind of post-apocalyptic about standing in a traffic lane on an empty Los Angeles freeway at 7 am.
The problem with a movie shooting a scene that takes place on a freeway is that the freeways are never naturally empty – LA has traffic slow-downs in the middle of the night, so when someone [...]
During my week off, I accomplished absolutely nothing – I didn’t clean the house, I didn’t get the car serviced, I didn’t go through the pile of mail, I didn’t take the cat to the vet, and I didn’t do laundry until today.
I’m back to work on Monday, when I’ll have a legit excuse to [...]
So, after freaking out all night (and keeping me awake because, hey, who wants to freak out alone?) my ex finally was allowed to go back home the next morning – his house is fine, although I’m still finding potato chip crumbs and candy wrappers in the couch cushions (he’s got emotional eating issues, [...]
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