How ya been?

I haven't updated here enough. I need to start posting more ramblings as it is a nice way to journal my time. I think that was the whole point of this crap anyway, right?

So, my first project with I Am 8-Bit went well. I shot the DVD launch party for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, then cut it and Fox Home Video approved it. Hooray!

I've been bouncing around as far as sleeping goes. While we were in production on Knifepoint, the home invasion film I PA'd on, I was crashing on a couch in the cast room. Then after we wrapped I actually slept on one of the beds we used during filming. I threw down the mattress on the floor and for the first time in L.A., slept on a bed. Technically.

From there, we wrapped the loft we were shooting in and moved all the crap into the "production" loft. This was nice because I actually got to set up my big computer and got to do some legit editing again. Also, I started crashing on the fold-out couch we have in the office. Not too shabby.

Things have been really nice out here, I actually went for a bike ride with some friends to a burger joint, then came back and hit the pool. Believe it or not, I am actually a shade or two darker than when I left Austin. The weather out here is insane. Highs in the mid to upper 80s, and mid 60s for the low. On Twitter I asked out loud how the weather in Austin was. This was my friend Eric's response:

eric_duncanATX: @jack_p weather is 100% chance of affordable living with only occasional L.A. douchebags.

I miss you guys sometimes. First round of Peter Pan is on me.

What a difference two weeks makes!

Good lord, it's been a busy one. I pretty much hit rock bottom a few weeks ago. Work wasn't looking too solid, my cat ran away, June Gloom was raining over Los Angeles. Not the greatest feeling, ya know?

A few days after Qusay's disappearance, I hooked up with an old friend from Austin who is currently directing a movie here in Hollywood and landed myself a job as a Production Assistant. The pay isn't incredible, but I've made some pretty great contacts and I definitely have more work coming my way after this one wraps. Oh, and I never thought I'd be pulling 70+ hour weeks, but here I am.

This is the first "real" set I've been on. (I don't think short films at UT really count) It is really fascinating. I've learned more in two weeks than I learned in entire semesters at college.

One thing though, I really feel as though I should have been here years ago. Ah well. I'm here now.

Anyway, I've been killing myself during the week, and on this Saturday me and a couple of my roommates took a drive up to Santa Barbara. It's about two hours away from our place, and about 10 minutes away, I get a call from someone in Beverly Hills. They had got my number from Qusay's tag. She was alive and hanging out on their back porch!

So, I called up my buddy Daniel and he tried to get her. Well, that didn't go well and he has the cuts to prove it. So after a night of partying out by the beach, I came home and crashed, woke up the next morning and headed to Beverly Hills to reclaim my girl.

To make a long story short, I managed to coax her out from under a deck and get her in my car and in to Daniel's apartment, safe and happy.



Things are looking up.