It’s so quiet, you can hear the pain in the air.

I realize I haven’t posted a new entry in a while so I thought I’d do it now. I’m sitting on Stage 16 on the CBS lot in Studio City, CA. They finally got us wireless internet access so I can make productive use of my time as a 2nd AD (e.g. write blog entries). I feel more productive when I have the internet. 🙂

Anyway, Four Degrees is going pretty well. Adam Lipsius is directing and Randy Riggs is producing. I found this software called Gorilla that helps manage the production, I think it’s good software. It’ll do cast/character breakdowns, breakdown sheets, call sheets, shoot scheduling, cast contact lists & call times, stripboards, day strips, budgeting, accounting, festival submission tracking, all that production stuff that needs to be managed. The software still needs some work but it’s the best thing that I could find out there at the moment.

It’s funny. Ever since I was a kid of 7 years old there has been a Star Trek of one form or another on television. And yesterday the last episode of Enterprise aired. I wonder when the next incarnation will be? Soon? Later? Perhaps Paramount feels it is wise to let the franchise rest for a while. I will certainly miss it…. ☹️

Did I call that one or what? iTunes 4.8 now supports video. You can buy music videos and such stuff now on the iTunes Music Store. Mark my words: video playback support will soon follow on iPods. Probably the iPod Video or something like that. Perhaps the iPod Photo will get a firmware upgrade to allow video playback to an external monitor or to the internal screen & headphone jack.

The future is bright for digital filmmakers/content providers.

Bill Maher posts on the two B’s: Bush and Biodiesel. Will they go together hand in hand so biodiesel can flow hand over fist?

Seems like I’m riding the biodiesel wave lately. This doc seems more important all the time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/bill-maher-post.html

My neighbor isn’t an inconsiderate prick any more. I e-mailed him and asked him to stop the loud music in the morning and he apologized. Now to find the people who built the place and find out why they didn’t put insulation in the walls. Oh, okay. It’s Los Angeles, that’s why. I have a theory that if it ever stayed below freezing in LA for any period of time that everything would fall apart and there would be chaos everywhere. That probably goes true for lots of mediterranian-climate-type places.

Kudos to Kevin for spotting an errant “begs the question” which I subsequently changed to “makes me wonder.” Let us all band together to stamp out errant grammar and mixed metaphors. Let us not put the chicken before the horse and beat a dead dog, because nobody should count blessings before they’re hatched. Also watch out for those singular pronouns.

By the way, why doesn’t Kevin ever post comments here? The Arbiter has had too much vinum? I await your reply forthwith. (If you put a link to my site on yours, I will do correspondingly here.)

It’s 7:15 in the morning on a Monday and he’s blasting music loud enough I can feel the wall vibrating! What a jerk! Seriously, dude, give it a rest. Some people don’t like rock music the first thing in the morning.