Fred Savage and CBS Can Go to Hell
I know what you guys are thinking. You read the story on Deadline about CBS buying the rights to a blog about life as a Hollywood assistant, with plans to turn it into a pilot. By now, you know that Fred Savage – of Vice Versa fame – is attached to EP and direct. So […]
I Saved Latin
This is how I feel about the haters in the comment threads: While I appreciate the feedback, it’s tough to take you seriously when your email address is “MovieMan94@hotmail.com”.
Interview Advice
Since I’m looking for a new job right now, a former boss gave me some advice about interviewing: “Don’t want the job too badly.” People don’t like to see desperation. They want to see calm and confident. Someone who’s desperate for a job will say anything to get it; it’s impossible to judge if they’ll actually […]
Taxes
I’m preparing my taxes right now. (Side note: I hate math.) I don’t actually “prepare” my taxes. An accountant does that. I simply go through a year’s worth of Starbucks and Jack in the Box receipts and try to figure out what I can claim as a write-off. Gas. Do I get to write off […]
The Unemployment Card
What’s unemployment like?
So This Is The New Year…
I’m going to take a break from my usual rants about things that annoy me in Hollywood. The vitriol-masked-as-humorous-annoyance will be back again soon. Until then, I want to talk about new year’s resolutions. We’re two-and-a-half weeks into the new year, but it’s not too late to write your resolutions. “But resolutions are stupid,” you […]
I Hate Your Work
Recently, I got rejected. Not by a significant other or a friend, or even an employer like this blog usually focuses on. I had a client hate the spec I was commissioned to create for them. It sucks wholeheartedly, of course, but it’s a testament to my progress these past long years that I wasn’t offended, […]
Comic-con: Not for Comics Alone
It’s Christmas in July in San Diego. That’s because one of the biggest pop culture celebrations in the country is going on: the San Diego Comic Con, nerd heaven, and the film industry’s bucktoothed mistress. The Con began as a regular comic book convention, but since the industry discovered it was one of the best […]
Solidarity
Carmageddon came and went and as usual, thing in LA are overhyped. The end of things passed and it didn’t make a difference. Except that maybe it did… Driving on the 101 Sunday night, I saw a notifier on the road said “405 is now open. Thank You Los Angeles.” Well, that was a nice […]
Film School Explosion
The New York Times recently wrote up a story about the current surge in Film School applicants: for example, 4,800 students applied for 300 spots at USC Graduate, up from 2,800 last year. This is astonishing, and astonishingly scary. There is no place for all these people to work. What a glut in the market. […]
Apple on set
Here’s a short digression from the normal PA stuff: Despite the disillusionment I still somehow find some good in my blackened heart to help friends out on their shoots (as long as they’re not, you know, on the beach) or foof around in filmmaking myself. Knowing firsthand the intensity, scale, and inevitable costs of production […]
How to Drive in Los Angeles Part 4: The Dream Master
Ausmax recently commented: I recently moved to LA myself. My question on this whole left turn is why aren’t there more left turn arrows? I can’t figure it out. If an intersection is busy enough to need a left turn lane, then it is busy enough to need a left turn arrow. I really think […]