I must be crazy!
10/20/2008 12:32 AM
I will start by saying sorry for not blogging in such a long time.
Sorry.
There, now get off my back.
Cars-
The first thing i noticed when i got here is- Your car has absolutly no reflection of how much money you make. Every night i park my Suzuki Sidekick on the street by my shabby rundown, but expensive, apartment in my shabby run down neighborhood. All along my poor neighborhood street are parked BMWs, Lexus’s, Mercedes and brand new Range Rovers. the other day i saw a guy with torn jeans uncombed hair and two different shoes get in a 2007 BMW and drive away from the thrift store. i suppose he could have just been one of those crazy artist types but i suspect he was a bum. Apparently your car is the way you tout your status even if you don’t have any. I believe that most people pay more for their cars than for there rent. I do think its fun to park my beat up sidekick in between an Austin martin and a Porch at the grocery store. I imagine the faces of the owners when they come out and think how any one would even dare part that pice of junk next to their baby. Maybe i should get a bumper sticker that says “my other car is a mortgage payment.”
Work-
Here is where i live. Your saying to your self, “he has made a mistake and put this under the work topic.” No mistake. I might have a bed at the apt. but this is where i spent all of my time.
This is the building i work in.
This is my area.
And this is where the stress happens.
what is my job? I am a Post Production Coordinator.
Most people had no idea what i did at my job as a dolly grip. i tried to explain but you really have to see it to understand. In order to explain my new job, i would have to write a book with spread sheets and graph charts to convey just the basics. As for a simple explanation I will try this: I Coordinate the post production. I am not sure what all my responsibilities are yet. I have no idea what i am doing, so i just wait for some one to say “hey are the transcriptions done yet?” And i run to my computer and do a web search to find out what that is and tell them “some one is one it. I expect a report by tonight.” then i try like Hell to figure out how to make it happen. If nothing come up in the web search, which is more often than not, I have to wait till some starts yelling, “I cant do X,Y or Z until i have W.” Then with the X,Y and Z pieces to the puzzle i can usually figure out what W is. I of course can’t tell any one i have no idea what I’m doing or they would walk all over me or realize i shouldn’t be there in the first place. So I do a lot of nodding and “ok i’ll look in to that.” The truth of the matter is i have probably been in the film industry longer than any one there. And these people have absolutely no set experience and would be eatin alive if they ever had to step on a real movie set. Its all the same politics just in a different setting. Find out who has the power make them happy and if you get time, do your job. I am constantly amazed at how often successful people just don’t do the second part, and it never slows them down on their way up the ladder. But that is a topic for a much longer blog.
Time
I don’t have any so i don’t have much to say about it. I will say this much- I have not been to bed before 2am since Tuesday. And i could have been in bed an hour ago if i was not blogging about not getting to bed. So i think I will go to bed so i can start over again tomorrow.
Sorry.
There, now get off my back.
Cars-
The first thing i noticed when i got here is- Your car has absolutly no reflection of how much money you make. Every night i park my Suzuki Sidekick on the street by my shabby rundown, but expensive, apartment in my shabby run down neighborhood. All along my poor neighborhood street are parked BMWs, Lexus’s, Mercedes and brand new Range Rovers. the other day i saw a guy with torn jeans uncombed hair and two different shoes get in a 2007 BMW and drive away from the thrift store. i suppose he could have just been one of those crazy artist types but i suspect he was a bum. Apparently your car is the way you tout your status even if you don’t have any. I believe that most people pay more for their cars than for there rent. I do think its fun to park my beat up sidekick in between an Austin martin and a Porch at the grocery store. I imagine the faces of the owners when they come out and think how any one would even dare part that pice of junk next to their baby. Maybe i should get a bumper sticker that says “my other car is a mortgage payment.”
Work-
Here is where i live. Your saying to your self, “he has made a mistake and put this under the work topic.” No mistake. I might have a bed at the apt. but this is where i spent all of my time.
This is the building i work in.
This is my area.
And this is where the stress happens.
what is my job? I am a Post Production Coordinator.
Most people had no idea what i did at my job as a dolly grip. i tried to explain but you really have to see it to understand. In order to explain my new job, i would have to write a book with spread sheets and graph charts to convey just the basics. As for a simple explanation I will try this: I Coordinate the post production. I am not sure what all my responsibilities are yet. I have no idea what i am doing, so i just wait for some one to say “hey are the transcriptions done yet?” And i run to my computer and do a web search to find out what that is and tell them “some one is one it. I expect a report by tonight.” then i try like Hell to figure out how to make it happen. If nothing come up in the web search, which is more often than not, I have to wait till some starts yelling, “I cant do X,Y or Z until i have W.” Then with the X,Y and Z pieces to the puzzle i can usually figure out what W is. I of course can’t tell any one i have no idea what I’m doing or they would walk all over me or realize i shouldn’t be there in the first place. So I do a lot of nodding and “ok i’ll look in to that.” The truth of the matter is i have probably been in the film industry longer than any one there. And these people have absolutely no set experience and would be eatin alive if they ever had to step on a real movie set. Its all the same politics just in a different setting. Find out who has the power make them happy and if you get time, do your job. I am constantly amazed at how often successful people just don’t do the second part, and it never slows them down on their way up the ladder. But that is a topic for a much longer blog.
Time
I don’t have any so i don’t have much to say about it. I will say this much- I have not been to bed before 2am since Tuesday. And i could have been in bed an hour ago if i was not blogging about not getting to bed. So i think I will go to bed so i can start over again tomorrow.
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