Yahoo! We’re done. We screened all ten mixes of the back half of Rogue 379, the pet 581 project the class adopted for our exercise. I was generally happy with mine with the exception that the voiceover and some of the dialogue seemed a bit too low in places. (Of course it sounded fine in Dub A.) Maybe the dialogue became so ingrained in my mind that I thought I heard it louder than it actually was while I was mixing it. OR maybe the Dub A to Hitchcock Theater translation wasn’t perfect after all. At any rate, Chris said he was really impressed with the overall quality of everything coming out of the class and even said there were two teams he’d hire based on what he heard tonight. Of course he didn’t say which teams, which makes me wonder…. I’d like to think that mine was one of them but I can’t be that pretentious. At any rate, I think we (the class) impressed him. That bodes well for getting a job in post sound in the future.

Well I’m directing a 546 Doc in the fall. My immediate task is to crew up. Then keep it alive over the summer. Oh yeah, I should finish out this semester, too. Then over the summer I need to look for a place to live for the fall. Anyone know of any good places in LA? It’s warming up, too, so I should probably install air conditioning in my apartment for the summer. Then I need to do the whole FAFSA/financial aid thing, and the paperwork for the graduation ceremony next month.

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Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, was the guest last night on CU. I directed, of course, and the show went pretty well. Of all things, we were impressed with the timing of the credit music at the end of the show. It ended exactly on time. Perfect. Of course, I had it planned that way all along (yeah, right). I think some people on the show were astonished that something could be timed so well. At any rate I think it earned me a little bit of credibility at TrojanVision. Anyway, Seth talked about the show—Fox picked it up again—and did a voice or two. It was a very fun and energizing show. Seth is a cool guy. I wonder if he needs any writers for his show?

So this lady’s car breaks down right at the intersection of WB Adams at Hoover, in the #1 lane (that’s the left lane). And I decide to help her out. Traffic’s backed up a long ways and there’s narry a cop or tow truck in sight. She called AAA but they’ll be a who knows how long. Meanwhile the natives are getting restless.

But what can I do? I don’t have a cop car with pushbumpers to just push her car out of the way…. But then I remembered something: I have an old pair of sneakers in my car. I grab them and some duct tape and proceed to fashion a makeshift pushbumper on the front of my car. I tell her what to do and I get the driver next to her in the #2 lane to hold up at the next green so we can get through. The light changes and I nudge right up to the back of her car and push it through. She coasts to a stop on the right side of the road next to the bus stop. She thanks me and I gead on my way, smiling. Job well done and good deed for the day accomplished. Although with the ingenuity it took to get that one done, it might as well be good deed for the month.

CTWR-516 Advanced Script Analysis w/ Jack Epps today. Awesome. We watched Top Gun, he told us some stories about it (and some about other stuff), people made a few jokes, we had fun. The print was in 2.35:1 and besides the right projector being a bit fast (my observation) everything went great. Although they should really check out the sound system in 108—something’s not right. Good class, good friends, good teacher, had a fun time, and learned in the process. Doesn’t get much better than this. :) And it only took me 6 semesters.

The more I learn, the less I know.

read this aloud as a newscaster: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer died yesterday, he was 54. He was flying over Barcelona when his flight path crossed crossed with that of a large flock of seagulls… and a Boeing 747. Although authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash, witnesses at the scene say the reindeer in Spain was hit mainly by the plane.