Wednesday, September 30, 2009

What?

The fire alarm went off yesterday towards the end of lunch. Turns out that someone on the second floor was using a fog machine and the fog set off the alarm.


This is an office building. Why was someone using a fog machine on an office building? No idea.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

It won't cost much. Just your voice.

Weekend recap:


Friday: Went to Jiffy Lube to find out what was wrong with my car. They told me what it was, but couldn't fix it, so I went back to Oakwood, packed, and then went to USC. Joce and I went to the 2-9 Cafe for food and drinks (raspberry cider! Delicious), Channing met up with us, and the three of us went to see Jennifer's Body.

Saturday: Game day! Walked around USC, bought a USC shirt to fit in, Joce's friend Gabriela made me a drink, Joce and I went to Wendy's and then went back to her place and watched Fido, which is about domesticating zombies and using them as servents. Hung out, participated in power hour and some other things, Joce went to the game so I hung out with one of her roommates and some of their friends. Dance party after, went to sleep too late, but oh well.

Sunday: DISNEYLAND.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

JFer's Body

Jocelyn, Channing and I saw Jennifer's Body last night, after Channing had a pint of pear cider (alcoholic cider, not like apple cider) and Joce and I had each had 2 pints of the raspberry. The movie was hysterical. Joce and I both liked it; Channing, not so much. It was campy and not that scary, and the dialogue was funnily bad. I heard someone behind us make a comment about how it was "amateur screenwriting," but really? You took it at face value? It's not supposed to be an actual scary movie.


...duh.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Not so fun adventures.

Our internship paperwork is due today at the LA center by 5:00. Yesterday I figured if I had some luck, I'd be able to get to the center after interning before it closed. Then the GPS decided to be a brat (9 miles on the 405? Really?), so I rerouted it a few times before giving up hope. I ended up driving through downtown LA, which is creepy as hell at night because there is no one (literally, I saw 2 people) on the streets, through Beverly Hills, finally passing Rodeo Drive, and found myself on Santa Monica Boulevard, which was really interesting at night.

And then my car decided to screw me over and started making an incredibly loud noise whenever I hit the gas. So I got distracted and took a couple of wrong turns and ended up on a creepy, windy road that went up a mountain. Maybe it was a hill, but it was huge. I was convinced I was going to break down and get killed and have a bad Megan Fox horror movie made about me (yes, that exact thought entered my brain...that's what happens when you study/work in the entertainment industry), and I saw a beautiful view of the city as I turned a corner. That made me feel better for half a second and then I got freaked out again. I finally made it back to a regular sized road, with my car still making the horrible noise, and then Hollywood Blvd was closed for some event so I had to reroute for the fourth time. I finally made it back to Oakwoods without breaking down, but my stomach was still in knots.


The car is still making the noise, so I'm going to Jiffy Lube as soon as I leave here.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Fame

My boss lent me her DVD of the original Fame because she was in it. I just found her. She was the girl by the stairs 20 minutes into the movie, who told the guy who got through to go upstairs and the girl who didn't make it to leave.

She looks so young.


Ahhhhhh.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I'm gonna live forever

One of my friends works for a company that does promotional work, and was able to get me passes to see the premiere of Fame. I left Sony early to head to The Grove, found a parking spot, stood in line for a little while (saw Megan Mullally...she was in the film, but most of you will know her as Karen on Will and Grace) , got my tickets, and then found Jocelyn's roommate Jess, who interns for People magazine and was with the press. We went into the theatre and got free popcorn and drinks (free food and a free movie...fantastic), and the seats were wicked comfortable. The movie started a little late, but it was worth it. The cinematography was great and I really liked how it looked; there were some good camera shots and sequences. And the dancing was fantastic. Some of the kids in the movie are extremely talented.

We walked out and were given free Fame pins, and leaving was a madhouse. The cast members were there, so people were crowding around them, taking pictures. I got a photo with Kherington Pyne, who was one of the leads in the film and an incredible dancer.

Right after that, we saw Ashley Tisdale and now my life in LA is complete. She was tiny as hell and looked a little stressed, which I don't blame her for because the paparazzi sucked. I felt so bad for her because they pounced as soon as she walked out and wouldn't leave her alone. I couldn't have gotten a picture with her even if I'd tried because her bodyguard was trying to get her out of there, but I didn't even want to make an effort because she looked so harried.

Meeting actors at Sony has been pretty fun. For the rest of this week and next week I'm going to try to ask a lot of questions so I feel like I'm learning something. Last night I went to a taping of the show Rules of Engagement and got to sit to the side of the set with some of the crew members and guest actors, which was pretty cool. I'm going to see if I can go to a taping of one of our other shows because one of the actresses came in last week and she was super friendly and I want to see her in action.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

"Birthday cake b-----!"

A few of us went out on Friday and on our cab ride home, the driver told us that the last person to take that cab was Jessica Alba.


Pretty cool.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Backtrack.

Arrived Sunday, September 6, and stayed at Jocelyn's apartment at USC until Tuesday afternoon. USC is beautiful and a lot different from Emerson, so that was interesting. My car battery died, so one of Joce's roommates helped me jump start it and I made to to the Oakwood Apartments, where we're staying for the semester. Technically, this is still Los Angeles, but we're two seconds away from Burbank. The WB studios are right down the street. The apartments are great, nice and big with air conditioning (obviously), two pools, tennis courts, a beach volleyball court, and technically this is a gated community. So I feel like a spoiled brat, which is nice.

CVS sells alcohol.

The light switches at Oakwood are all waist high, and most of the outlits are an inch off the floor and flipped horizontal. My bed folds out of the wall and there's a mirror on the non-bed side.

The traffic is only bad in the sense that there are red lights every two blocks. They're not synced very well, and you can't block intersections, so it's possible to sit through a red light, a green light, and another red light before being able to move. Annoying. Sony is 12 miles away and it takes over an hour to get there.

Hollywood is interesting, would never live there. Santa Monica is gorgeous. Pasadena is beautiful. Love Burbank.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Sign up here and have a seat.

I've been watching a lot of SPT shows, reading some scripts, printing and sorting headshots and resumes for generals, and sitting in on generals. Tomorrow is going to be more exciting, though, because actors are coming in for screen tests (I think for guest roles), and some of them are recognizable. I get to sit in on some of the taping and also will be running back and forth between the shooting room and the waiting room, which I'm totally fine with. That was part of my job for Emerson's Next Top Model in March(?)--making sure the girls were relatively content, bringing them to and from the shoots and hair/makeup/dressing room--and I like dealing with talent.

BBC America Reveals

BBC America has a program called "BBC America Reveals," similar to "True Life" on MTV. Titles for upcoming episodes have been released and some of them are too good to be true. I'm copy/pasting directly from the website because I won't be able to type these without laughing.


BBC America Reveals - Coming Soon
18 Pregnant Schoolgirls
Sunday, July 5th at 10/9c
Addicted to Surrogacy
Sunday, July 12th at 10/9c




Other BBC America Reveals
Britain's Worst Teeth
Transvestite Wives
Too Ugly to Love
My Secret Female Body
476-lb Teenager
Love Me, Love My Doll
Should I Really Give Up Flying?
My Fake Baby
Britain's Youngest Grannies
Should I Smoke Dope?
Too Fat To Toddle
100 Men Own My Breasts
John Barrowman: The Making Of Me
Perfect Private Parts
I'm A Boy Anorexic
The Human Spider
My Big Breasts and Me
My Small Breasts and I
Super Skinny Me
The Fastest Man On No Legs
Cocaine Diaries: Alex James in Columbia
Sex Change Soldier
Virgin Memories
Sugar Mummies
Brothels: The Ins and Outs
Super Botox Me
Married to the Eiffel Tower
My Car Is My Lover

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Don't stop believin.

Last night on my way home, I passed a bench outside a gas station and at first, thought it had an advertisement on it. Nope. It said THIS BENCH IS FOR HUMANS ONLY. REPORT ANY NONHUMANS. And then there was a picture of an alien.

Haha. Thank you, Los Angeles.

Glee is on tonight, very excited about it.

Monday, September 14, 2009

"Bing bong."

I started an entry with the typical "I've been here for a week and here are my thoughts because I'm so much more original than the rest of the world blah blah blah Emerson pretention/East Coast condescending...ness" but then deleted it because today was the first day of real LA life and slightly more interesting than the rest of my time here.

I started my internship at Sony Pictures Television, working in the Talent/Casting department. I was a little late because of the seven hundred million red lights I encountered and also because I had to make four or so U-turns. The woman I'm interning for was fine with it, especially because the morning had started off slowly. I have my own cubicle and phone, which I couldn't use because it was connected to someone else's line. SPT has only been in the current building for about a week, and everything (and everyone) is still being situated. So I couldn't answer my phone, but I got to make copies of sides for auditions, read a couple of pilot scripts, watch a few pilot episodes, and sit in on a general. One of the women in my department reminds me of Rachel's boss at Ralph Lauren on Friends---the one who thinks Rachel slept with Ralph Lauren. Very New York, kind of sassy, doesn't shake hands. Her assistant is in the cubicle next to me and one of his bottom drawers is filled with candy.

I left early today to make it back to Burbank in time for class and had to make another million U-turns, and instead of the usual "turn right here....bing bong" noises the GPS makes, it decided to just yell at me to make a U-turn. No warning or indication that I was going the wrong way, just "make a U-turn. Make a U-turn." Stupid bitch. I managed to get to class early and apparently just missed having to deal with an angry parking attendant (Amy and Erica had an encounter with him and they arrived maybe 10 minutes after I did, at most). The professor is wonderful; knows the industry, has an interesting life story and career path, loves teaching, and is serious about the class but is also relaxed and nice at the same time. She's already my second favorite Emerson teacher.

We had a break halfway through (the class runs from 7 to 10:30 pm) and Erica, Amy, Katie G and I ran to Starbucks because I needed food and three of us needed coffee. Sidenote: the no jaywalking rule sucks. Just plain sucks. I'm used to sprinting across the street but can't because I don't want to be fined. We booked it back to the Emerson building and all the doors were locked. We went around the entire building and not one of them was open. And all of us left our syllabi in the classroom and couldn't call the professor to help us. So we started calling all of the other students in the class, but obviously no one picked up because their phones were off because class had started again. Katie thought she had Devon's cell phone number but really had her house number and accidentally called Devon's mom. We contemplated throwing something at the window to try to get someone's attention but then decided against it. Our reaction for the first ten minutes was "ha, this is our first project, trying to network our way back into the building." Five minutes later, we were tempted to break in. Fifteen or so minutes after that, and after calling/texting everyone in the class and some people who weren't in the class, someone (thank Jesus) picked up his phone and let us inside. We got a recap of what we'd missed and class continued, but damn.
 
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