I figure it’s safe to blow off some steam here, so here goes:

I hate my apartment. It’s spacious, I have it all to myself, but here are some of the things I just can’t stand:

1. The NOISE. I will absolutely without a doubt live next in a place that has less noise. This is divided into sub-categories:

2. Traffic. Busses, trucks, obnoxious “cool” cars, extremely loud motorcycles, deafening stereo bass booming “gangstas,” the emergency vehicles that go by at least once every hour. The only relief I get is once or twice a year when they shut down the streets for marathons and runs. Aah! So peaceful!

Can you ever feel fate pass you over?

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

There are no problems; only situations which allow us to be creative.

Philip Rosenberg-Watt

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