Perpetual Pounding

Saturday morning, pounding away on my laptop, shooting CATCH 6 tomorrow and Monday. Monday I'm an actor in this thing, finally, I'm actually introducing my self as the new character DETECTIVE JAMES, sort of an extension or a reincarnation of Detective Clifton James from THE PLAYING FIELD, my little 48 hr film project. So I'm barreling down here. I'm finishing up all my line producing duties, I got all my actors in order, 2 great sound guys, an AD to replace my roommate (he had to leave town due to a family emergency); I got the DP from last week to bring in his lighting kit and play the role of Camera assistant/gaffer, I'm grateful he was willing to accept that role. I secured all my locations earlier this week with a fiunal thumbs up from the owner of a great little cafe late in the day yesterday.

Yesterday was a crazy bouncing, balancing act between HINT, a commercial audition in West Los Angeles and a ton of line producing... followed by a last minute HINT delivery to the Whole Foods in THOUSAND OAKS...thats really really far ...then....in an attempt to avoid rush hour traffic on the 101 west of the 405...which looked absolutely terrifying as I passed it headed out to Thousand Oaks, I scooted up the 23 to the 118...hoping to hop on the 170 on the north side of it all and just free fall back down into Hollywood... well...guess what was going on up on the 118 yesterday in the Simi Valley? Yep, you guessed it...a commuter train derailed...yeah...wreckage....carnage....national news... 6 choppers in the air...and LOTS of bumper to bumper...going nowhere traffic.

Ugh.

I did make it home...eventually... with enough time to change my clothes, brush my teeth, pound a Red Bull and head out again. I was invited to a dinner party in West Hollywood. A friend of mine from HIGH SCHOOL lives here in LA and she and I hang out from time to time...so she invited to me to a dinner party she was throwing.

Amazingly, I made it...a little late... but I made it.

(And I haven't even MENTIONED my fun little experience on the set of DIRTY SEXY MONEY on Thursday. I will post that later)

Slept in a bit this morning (badly needed).

And here I am.... pounding away on my laptop.

I did take a minute to inhale...or exhale..I can't remember...and came across this invitation to join the HOLLYWOOD WEB TELEVISION Meetup group. They have a networing event coming up on September 24th. It looks cool... I definitely dig the concept...right up my alley... so I RSVP'd.....



The Hollywood Web Television Meetup: "Taste the Future, it's Delicious"

We are trying to pull together all of LA's rich, diverse web production talent for the purpose of sharing resources, finding opportunities for collaboration and working together to help all the talented content creators out there thrive in this emerging market.

New speakers announced: Kim Evey: Producer of the web phenom "The Guild" (http://www.watchthegu...) and run away hit "Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show" (http://www.gorgeousti...) and Greg Benson from Mediocre Films (www.mediocrefilms.com): Edgy, decidedly un-PC comedy shorts & series that combine great laughs with high production values. As of Sept. 2008, Mediocre Films is the #27 All-Time Most Subscribed channel at YouTube. We will also be joined by Lydia Antonini, Director of Digital Development at Warner Brothers. Please register today and come join our thriving community of online content creators!



Ok...one more thing before I bounce....

I was interviewed at a coffee shop the last time I was in New York. You can fnd it here:

http://phillster-wwwbloggercom.blogspot.com/