Lately I've been just working a few days here and there on different projects. Nothing really special, but I've learned that sometimes my "nothing special" days can seem interesting, like when I hurt my back one day at work this summer. I was telling some one about it when I realized the fact that I hurt it moving a rocket ship made it sound a little bit cooler.
Anyway, as I mentioned in my last blog entry, I worked a couple of days on 'Law and Order' (the regular one, that is to say, the one without any letters after it). The episode was about this guy who kills a guard and breaks out of police custody and ends up taking some schoolgirls hostage and shooting some of them before he gets caught. I think the headline it's supposed to imitate is the Amish school shooting, but, of course, there are a bunch of twists near the end and it becomes less a story of forgiveness and more about revenge and justice. Anyway, it was an OK couple of days of work. I helped with first team (the main actors) the first day and locked up part of the street where we had a bunch of cop cars and ambulances outside of a Catholic school on the second day. Oh yeah, and I had to lock up a staircase when we filmed this scene in a projects building and I almost died because it reeked of piss so bad.
I've also been working a few days here and there on that "Funny Games" movie I mentioned in the last blog entry that's a shot for shot remake into english by a German director. It's all inside Steiner Studios, so it's pretty dull days (no random people on the street to keep quiet in a studio), but at least I'm out of the cold. They're supposed to finish filming next Tuesday, but I think most of the cast is done already. I've heard there has been some tension on the set some days between the director and some of the actors. Mainly I've heard that Michael Pitt (Last Days, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and sometimes Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs) have gotten into some yelling matches with the director, but I think it's to be expected when you have somebody who is remaking something that they liked fine the first time and people who want to make something new that's their own as well. And there is also the language barrier problem. Sometimes the production meetings with the higher-ups sound like the United Nations with English, French, German, and who knows what else flying around in there.
I did have one particularly good day on '"Funny Games" last week when I brought a few of my handmade Pothedz Couch DVDs and sold them to people on set. I even got Tim Roth to buy one! Although, I think he may have thought I was just giving it to him until I asked for the ten bucks. But, oh well, I figured he's got the money and I'm sure he doesn't mind helping out a poor PA that needs it.
The only other job that I've worked on was a couple of days on a TV Land show called 'Here's the Story...'. It was a pretty easy gig and the pay was really good too (almost double my normal rate). The first day was kind-of boring and was for a segment about the "history of the future". We shot out at the old World's Fairgrounds in Queens in a museum. At least I got to see that giant metal globe thing (the Unisphere, I'm told) and those old UFO's on sticks that were in "Men In Black". The second day we were in Times Square at the Snapple Theater Center where we interviewed Wendy the Snapple Lady for a story about her. She's the coolest lady and she really is the Snapple Lady, she's not just an actress. I got a hug from her right before she left. 
Anyway, that's what's been going on in my life lately. Tommorrow I'm supposed to work on some Uma Thurman film called "The Accidental Husband", but I know nothing about it. Except that call is probably 6AM. But it's not too bad because they're filming just one stop away from my apartment on the subway, so I don't have to add an hour travel time. One good thing about working in this industry is that no matter where you live, you'll eventually get one day when you can walk to work.
Until next time...
