It's totally Wednesday. I'm slacking, I know. Whatever, you're still reading this, haha. I'm pretty sure I could make an entire website with the things that I've done in the past 5 days, but I'm gonna try to keep this condensed. No promises though. Let's get in the way way back machine and go to last Friday...
A couple of Ashley's best friends flew in to spend a weekend in LA...and to see Ash. The day started off just chilling at the pool with them, nothing too crazy. They all went out clubbing that night, but I took a more chill approach. My friend, Mallory (who I had worked with at Fossil back in College Station...now living in LA), had invited me to a house party in Venice that was benefiting this organization called
Falling Whistles.
-It's a really cool premise, so you should check out that link...or if you're too lazy to click that one, here's another ----> Falling Whistles.- I got to the party about 30 min before Mal did, so this was really the first social situation that I'd been placed in, while in LA, that I didn't know anyone. I was a little worried at first, but my blossoming personality had me talking with people in no time. Even found a few Texans in the group. Anyways, the party was very cool; live music, huge garage-turned-dance-club in the back, good drinks, and cool people. Mal, Me, and a couple of her friends eventually left and went to this diner called Swingers. The place reminded me a lot of Juniors in New York, minus the wall of cheesecakes. Needless to say, I really liked it and found out there's a few of these things around LA. =)
That next morning I woke up to a not-so-gorgeous, cold, kinda rainy morning. So I hooked back up with Kim, one of Kim's friends, Joe, Ashely, her friends, and headed to Redondo beach! Luckily the clouds eventually left and it turned into a gorgeous day. The Redondo/Manhattan beach area is by far my favorite out of all of the ones I've seen (that are close to LA) yet. It was a beach town, not a tourist trap, and I loved it! We hit up a local grill before heading to the beach, then laid out for awhile. I eventually got bored and swam in Pacific again, laid out some more, then we headed back to get ready for that night's festivities.
After cleaning up and getting sand out of places I didn't even know I had, we hit up the Apple again. This time I managed to not lose everyone! It was an awesome night. The place was crazy packed, but once again (thanks to Joe...and the 6 gorgeous girls I was rolling with) we had no problem getting in. The only downside to the whole night was that I once again proved to people that I can't dance, but who cares, I looked good trying.
Sunday was very relaxed. I actually went up to work to go jump on a graphics computer and started teaching myself Cinema 4D. It's a 3D animation software that I've been told would be beneficial for me to learn if I have any real interest in doing graphics, So I figure if I've got access to it fo free, I'm gonna use it. Turned out to be a good thing I went into the office because I ran into one of the Producers who I'd seen around, but never gotten to really talk to. We talked for awhile about him, then about me, then I went back to teaching myself. I just feel like it was a good thing for him to see the intern at work on a Sunday, you know?...and for him to now know my name is nice too, haha. That night I met back up with Joe, Ash, and company for dinner at this nice Italian place called Fabiolus. The food was excellent and the prices weren't that bad honestly. I'll be back, fo sho. We rounded everything out with a movie,
Rendition (which was awesome btw), and then crashed.
Now the fun part begins. Like I said in my last post, I'm going to be in
Iron Man 2 as an extra. Pretty sweet, I know, heh. Well Monday was the day that the magic was set to happen. My call wasn't until 4pm, so I decided to go into work for like half a day. Didn't do much, but I figure showing my face is never a bad thing. At this point I can't really say much else, for fear of being caught and sued. Slim chance, I know, but I don't have that kinda cash laying around for just in case. The entire process of shooting and directing these scenes fascinated me. I guess more so the equipment and the magnitude of everything really. It was incredibly fun and I got to meet some cool people. I was one of the youngest people on the set, which made things interesting at times.
-I think it's funny how in College Station I'm considered old balls, but in LA I'm a baby.- I got to see Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and Jon Favreau all night which was so awesome. We finished up shooting around 6am and I got to bed around 7am...yes, that was 14 hours! Today, after taking a short nap until around noon, I went with Ash to drop Kaitlin, one of her visitors, off at the airport. We had lunch and then I went to set again to shoot some more scenes. I'm now realizing that by today I meant yesterday. These two days have kind of meshed together because, once again we were on set until just before 6am. I came home, took a really quick nap and then got up for work and was there all day.
-You know something is wrong with you when you can drink 6 cups of coffee and 2 cokes during a day and not feel jittery, just normal- Last night was really awesome though because I got to (this will sound awkward, so don't take it as such. yes you.) pat Robert Downey Jr. on the back. Man I'm cool.
It was a heck of an experience and I can't wait to do it again, but I hope that it'll be a daytime shoot nextime. One all nighter isn't so bad. Two all nighters, that's getting kinda rough. Two all nighters and then working for another 9 hours at a 'normal' job is ridiculous, haha. The way I was placed in all of the scenes we shot, I'm holding out that I'm gonna get at least a split second of face time on the screen, but we'll know in about a year. I was actually called back for tomorrow and Friday, but unfortunately I had to decline since I do have a 'normal' job as well.
So I'm thinking that wasn't so short, but I tried. I wish I could put more about what exactly happened at the shoot, but I really do think it's best to side on the air of caution. Ask me in person, that'll be a different story. Well I'm going to go hit the shower and then crash. But keep checking in, I'll keep typing!
Thank you for reading and keeping up with this, all of you.
p.s. If you've noticed a certain lack of pictures, it's because I decided to sit on my camera the other day...the screen's a little um 'colorful' now, so I haven't been toting it around as much. I'm just going to start mooching off of people, no big.