Fun with produce

March 31, 2009 in Work

One of our pivotal scenes yesterday involved an actor using a bottle of wine to smash a watermelon (don’t ask).
It looked so good in the script – guy takes savage swing at melon with bottle of vino, melon goes splat, crowd goes wild (maybe), some point is proved.
Except that what really happens when you hit [...]

Good News / Bad News

March 25, 2009 in Non-Work, life in LA, mishaps
Tags: flowers, springtime, unemployed, Work

The good news is that since I haven’t been working very much, I’ve been  able to take in Southern California’s wildflower bloom – I normally miss it since those fucking inconsiderate flowers pick one of the busy times  of year (pilot season) to bloom and I’m usually working six days a week while I hear [...]

An unexpectedly busy week

March 20, 2009 in Work
Tags: car, obama, traffic

Last weekend, I worked on a friend’s vanity project as a favor – they were paying what amounts to pocket change, but beggars can’t be choosers so when they asked of course I said yes. I ended up working Thursday and Friday, too, and couldn’t turn that down either (since that was actual paying work [...]

Sometimes you guys make me all misty-eyed and gooey.

March 11, 2009 in Non-Work
Tags: charity, grateful, Motion Picture Fund, thanks

I can’t even begin to convey how touched I am by the offers of financial help that came in through the comments and via email, but honestly, I’d feel really, really uncomfortable accepting donations.
I know, I know… all pride will get me is a bunk the poorhouse, but I just can’t.
Honestly? I’m not all that [...]

If I’m going to get screwed, could someone at least buy me a drink first?

March 9, 2009 in Non-Work
Tags: California, paperwork, poor, unemployment, Work

Inconsistency is the nature of working freelance in any industry, so of course I have good years and bad years, but I’ve been extremely lucky in that I’ve always been able to earn enough to make ends meet.
Work like hell in the good years, save it up for the bad years.
However, this last 16 months [...]

Oh, sweet internet. How I missed you.

March 5, 2009 in Non-Work, Off-Topic

While I was out wasting my life in the real world today, my internet came back on.
Of course, as soon as I tried to upload photos, Flickr developed some sort of insurmountable tech problem, so I’m giving up on the internet for tonight.
But it’s nice to know that it’s here if I want it.

The stupidest thing I’ve ever seen

March 3, 2009 in Non-Work
Tags: baby, boa, snake, stupid

Working in the film industry guarantees that one sees stupid shit on a damn near daily basis, so this phrase passes my lips fairly often, but whenever I say it, I know it’s a lie because I can remember with great clarity the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
Some years ago, during a period of unemployment [...]