The Unpaid Holiday

I love having the day off. I love being able to sleep for more than a few hours. I love being able to wake up and see the sun and not have it still be dark out. This is what I get on my days off. Like today, a lovely holiday filled with lots of food and good ol' family fun. I slept in today after getting into my hometown pretty late. It was nice. Tomorrow will be just as nice regardless of the fact that I will have to throw up some crappy Christmas lights at some point. The drawback to sleeping in and getting days "off?" Not getting paid.

When you work in the film/tv biz, and you aren't in a union, holidays and other days associated with holidays (like Black Friday) are unpaid days. So this week, I have a three day work week, but also only three days that I get paid which puts quite a crimp on the monthly financial outlook of my personal budgetary needs. It's not like I'm going to go hungry or I won't be able to get my two slices of pizza after work for $4.07 (I hate that .07 cents of tax by the way, it's total BS), but I do have to watch where I go and what I buy for longer. But hey, in the world of freelance, at least I'm working and I'm not hunting around for another project. I had a total of five days in between my last job ending and my new one starting. That's rare, and I know I am lucky.

Also, the new film I am on is the polar opposite from the tv show I was on for four months. It's been so chill for the first 6 days. All the people are nice, the actors are very cool, and it has been stress free for the first 1/4 of filming. Hopefully the last 3/4's of the film will be just as nice.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The end of an Era (?)

Not really. The end of an era sounds more like I have been working on one job for years or even decades. No, it's been more like four months and now I am moving on to another project. Ironically, at the time this blog started last year, I was entering into a new project with a lot of the same pedigree as my current one. Low budget. Indie. Star power. Let's hope everyone realizes we don't have a lot of money and acts like it.

Oh and by the way, the show I was working on, was officially pulled altogether and can now only be watched in its entirety online at the networks website. How lame is that? The network puts the show in the worst timeslot (weekend night), it doesn't do well (no sh*t), and they pull it completely from the schedule. Ah well, at least the wrap party was fun last week. Watching "celebrities" doing karaoke never gets old. Especially when you have pictures of every single one of them.

The new film is smaller and story driven. The writer is making his directorial debut (always a scary thing) but has written a few very well recieved films in recent years. The three main people have appeared as Ripley, a surfer (where she hasn't looked good since due to lack of weight), and a young girl who cut her curly locks in 1999 and supposedly got her show cancelled because no one liked the new look. I have heard mixed reviews about the first one, nothing about the second, and great things about how sweet the third one is.

That's about it for now. Hopefully the first day tomorrow goes smoothly. I promise to try and write more in the next 30 days.