Knotty Pirate Kitty
So I spent the last two days of this week in San Antonio on this shoot and I'm still not sure who the hell I was working for. All I know are the people that I worked with...and that I got cut a check at the end of the job. And beer. Yes. Beer-a-plenty.
I finally got to work with Richard Ball, and since tuesday have been working with various members of the three man crew that Michael Choncho has from Electric Light and Power in Dallas. All very very cool guys to work with.
David from ELP let me crash on the floor in his hotel room. I thought that was totally fucking awesome since I didn't have to waste time and gas going back to Austin only to get lost in San Antonio again. Last night we got Thai food and went to Walmart and bought a dvd player and all cables needed to hook it up to the hotel tv. Then, we rented Dogtown, Z-Boys - - and I had the best fucking time. We were watching these kids progess from surfing to skateboarding to being world heros of the damn stuff, and they were just punk kids who didn't care about anything else in life. Fucking wicked.
So today he and Richard were teaching me all sorts of rigging and climbing knots. I've decided once and for all, I need to fucking climb. Fuck poison Ivy. I'll become immune or something...I'll shower harder...I'll get medicine. I want to climb. And SCUBA. Damnit. Heh...And...and... Gawd, I swear, I get around the boys all of a sudden all of my dreams come clear again. This happens every time I have a job like this, where I have the time to learn cool new knots and hang out with these guys who are interested in all the things I am.
So does anybody out there know how to get started in climbing?
I don't know what sorts of equiptment I'll need, and I don't like learning these things from books unless they're damn straight forward. Are there groups? David said that there are...but he lives in Dallas.
I'm going to use the moolah I made on this job to get my starting equiptment to start SCUBA. I don't know if I'll have enough for classes after that...but at least I'll be ready.
I finally got to work with Richard Ball, and since tuesday have been working with various members of the three man crew that Michael Choncho has from Electric Light and Power in Dallas. All very very cool guys to work with.
David from ELP let me crash on the floor in his hotel room. I thought that was totally fucking awesome since I didn't have to waste time and gas going back to Austin only to get lost in San Antonio again. Last night we got Thai food and went to Walmart and bought a dvd player and all cables needed to hook it up to the hotel tv. Then, we rented Dogtown, Z-Boys - - and I had the best fucking time. We were watching these kids progess from surfing to skateboarding to being world heros of the damn stuff, and they were just punk kids who didn't care about anything else in life. Fucking wicked.
So today he and Richard were teaching me all sorts of rigging and climbing knots. I've decided once and for all, I need to fucking climb. Fuck poison Ivy. I'll become immune or something...I'll shower harder...I'll get medicine. I want to climb. And SCUBA. Damnit. Heh...And...and... Gawd, I swear, I get around the boys all of a sudden all of my dreams come clear again. This happens every time I have a job like this, where I have the time to learn cool new knots and hang out with these guys who are interested in all the things I am.
So does anybody out there know how to get started in climbing?
I don't know what sorts of equiptment I'll need, and I don't like learning these things from books unless they're damn straight forward. Are there groups? David said that there are...but he lives in Dallas.
I'm going to use the moolah I made on this job to get my starting equiptment to start SCUBA. I don't know if I'll have enough for classes after that...but at least I'll be ready.