Fiedler goes Hollywood
So early this morning (like 1am to 9am) I was working on the set of a Hollywood film. The film is called The Job. Big thanks to Joe Krause for getting me involved.
Basically he had to get a 'band' of extras together. That means if I don't get cut from the film you will see me making stupid faces and playing drums in this film. The thing that sucks though is that we had to learn two songs right. But then on set while we were the background, we played without any music to keep our part in the song and we couldn't make any noise. There were a few funny moments of me accidentally hitting a drum when I wasn't supposed to. None of the directors yelled at me. Though one did say, "Could you...just do better." I guess I looked too fake since I wasn't hitting any of the drums, but when I tried to do better I kept hitting the drums. Basically if I was able to actually hit the drums, that would have fixed everything. Whatever, I got paid $50 for pretending to play drums for 8 hours.
We named the band many things. The names included "Gabe Benualos", "Scorpians crawling out of an asshole", "Ron Pearlman", "Kwame Kilpatrick is an asshole", and "Ballguy". The band was my brother Mike on guitar, Keith Bedore on bass, this guy Ben on guitar, Joe Krause on Accordian and this other guy Doug contact juggling. The director was really excited about how crazy Keith was and he also totally loved Doug. Apparently the scene and music was specifically written with a contact juggler in mind. Apparently it wasn't written with a long haired fake ass drummer in mind. Oh well.
There were cool things about set. The first is Sara Jane, the costume designer. Joe Krause, when signing me up for this didn't describe it too well and I got kind of confuse which is understandable because he was trying to do someone else's job on short notice while doing his own job at the same time. However Sara Jane knew a lot what was going on and was very helpful for me. Also when I showed up to the costume trailer she put some clothes on me that fit perfectly and then said, "Wow, you look really good. I like you best." That made me feel good. She was pretty rad.
Also on set was this foxy hair and make up girl. She told me I had really nice hair and took a picture of me. I told her shampoo was stupid and you shouldn't wash your hair. She agreed and said shampoo was totally pointless.
So maybe the directors didn't like me, but fuck it - I'm obvious a favorite of the ladies. Actually, Doug the contact juggler was a lady pleaser. All the extras were learning how to contact juggle and stuff from him. He also bought a chinesehappy CD off of me. This dude was really cool.
Staying up all night working on a movie wore me out, my body wasn't ready for it. Especially since we had 'band practice' on Sunday night. After 'band practice' Joe took us on set and we got to eat with the crew. Mark Harelik ate lunch (lunch is served at 1am in Hollywood time) like 3 feet from me. Mike, Keith and I kept giggling cause we were on a Hollywood set. It's funny cause you never expect to end up in a place like that. Plus there are probably a lot of people aspiring to be there and all we had to do was show up.
Anyway, back to my body being tired. Imagine a normal dinner plate in your head. Fill that up with garlic and olive oil pasta salad with peppers and artichokes. Alright put like two more scoops on that. I had two plates of that stuff about that size. I ate so much. Mike said, "Just because it is free doesn't mean I have to stuff myself." I told Mike that he was totally fucking wrong. FIEDLER GOES HOLLYWOOD! GIVE ME THAT PASTA SALAD!
Anyway, fast forward about 24 hours. I pooped twice while on set and if I didn't have to hold it in I would have pooped more. My stomach kept hurting too because anytime I stay up all night I always get hungry. My body is like, "if you gonna stay up all night, you better give me food dammit!" I ate an apple on set. Feed me Hollywood! I think my stomach may have hurt from what I ate for dinner before I got to set. I made myself some mjadra and it was good. However, my tahini has been in the fridge for a while. I may have eaten rotten tahini. I didn't throw up, so that is good.
On another note, the 'stars' of our scene were Patrick Flueger and Taryn Manning. Taryn Manning is really short. She looks like a cross between Amy Poehler and Reese Witherspoon. Both her and Patrick seemed like pretty cool people. By this I mean they spoke with extras and didn't act like they were just act work. They weren't acting like big shit hollywood people or anything. Well, if you look at their imdb pages, they aren't exactly A-listers or anything, but still it was cool of them to be down to earth. Unfortunately Ron Pearlman already wrapped filming and went home so he wasn't on set.
Man, I just realized how stupid I am going to look in this movie. I make dumb faces when playing drums, but when I have to just pretend to play I have to concentrate even harder on NOT hitting the drums, but getting close to them so I probably had a more intense (I mean stupid) look on my face.
Yeah, so catch that movie when it comes out if it ever does.
In other news my room mate Anna is moving out! Yes! This is good news. I guess she is moving out as early as next week and she agreed to pay June rent which is great and very responsible of her. Suneil wants to replace her pronto. I don't. I would rather have a 3 person house or have Suneil move out and do a 4 person house with people that I actually want to live with.
My friend Lindsey mentioned needing to move in August with her friend Jo. That would be a possibility if Suneil moved out. I kind of think Suneil should move out. He actually said, "in our interview of new room mates we should have a way to find out if they are going to put food in the fridge." Suneil thinks our fridge is too full. I think that is kind of stupid, because there is enough room especially if things weren't just thrown in there. Also, it is completely unreasonable to think that someone would move in and NOT use the frige. The fridge is full because there are TOO MANY PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE. I told Suneil this. I hope it sank into his head. He is a confused man.
I just hope he moves out because if doesn't I need to start looking for a new place to live. Man, the month of May 2008 could be the best ever. Two of my good friends got married, I visited my buddy Nate in Minneapolis, I got to be in a hollywood movie and my room mates that I don't want to live in are moving out. Well, so far one of them is moving out. The other one is iffy as of right now, but I will try to put the pressure on.
I need to make dinner cause I haven't really eaten a meal since almost 24 hours ago.
Basically he had to get a 'band' of extras together. That means if I don't get cut from the film you will see me making stupid faces and playing drums in this film. The thing that sucks though is that we had to learn two songs right. But then on set while we were the background, we played without any music to keep our part in the song and we couldn't make any noise. There were a few funny moments of me accidentally hitting a drum when I wasn't supposed to. None of the directors yelled at me. Though one did say, "Could you...just do better." I guess I looked too fake since I wasn't hitting any of the drums, but when I tried to do better I kept hitting the drums. Basically if I was able to actually hit the drums, that would have fixed everything. Whatever, I got paid $50 for pretending to play drums for 8 hours.
We named the band many things. The names included "Gabe Benualos", "Scorpians crawling out of an asshole", "Ron Pearlman", "Kwame Kilpatrick is an asshole", and "Ballguy". The band was my brother Mike on guitar, Keith Bedore on bass, this guy Ben on guitar, Joe Krause on Accordian and this other guy Doug contact juggling. The director was really excited about how crazy Keith was and he also totally loved Doug. Apparently the scene and music was specifically written with a contact juggler in mind. Apparently it wasn't written with a long haired fake ass drummer in mind. Oh well.
There were cool things about set. The first is Sara Jane, the costume designer. Joe Krause, when signing me up for this didn't describe it too well and I got kind of confuse which is understandable because he was trying to do someone else's job on short notice while doing his own job at the same time. However Sara Jane knew a lot what was going on and was very helpful for me. Also when I showed up to the costume trailer she put some clothes on me that fit perfectly and then said, "Wow, you look really good. I like you best." That made me feel good. She was pretty rad.
Also on set was this foxy hair and make up girl. She told me I had really nice hair and took a picture of me. I told her shampoo was stupid and you shouldn't wash your hair. She agreed and said shampoo was totally pointless.
So maybe the directors didn't like me, but fuck it - I'm obvious a favorite of the ladies. Actually, Doug the contact juggler was a lady pleaser. All the extras were learning how to contact juggle and stuff from him. He also bought a chinesehappy CD off of me. This dude was really cool.
Staying up all night working on a movie wore me out, my body wasn't ready for it. Especially since we had 'band practice' on Sunday night. After 'band practice' Joe took us on set and we got to eat with the crew. Mark Harelik ate lunch (lunch is served at 1am in Hollywood time) like 3 feet from me. Mike, Keith and I kept giggling cause we were on a Hollywood set. It's funny cause you never expect to end up in a place like that. Plus there are probably a lot of people aspiring to be there and all we had to do was show up.
Anyway, back to my body being tired. Imagine a normal dinner plate in your head. Fill that up with garlic and olive oil pasta salad with peppers and artichokes. Alright put like two more scoops on that. I had two plates of that stuff about that size. I ate so much. Mike said, "Just because it is free doesn't mean I have to stuff myself." I told Mike that he was totally fucking wrong. FIEDLER GOES HOLLYWOOD! GIVE ME THAT PASTA SALAD!
Anyway, fast forward about 24 hours. I pooped twice while on set and if I didn't have to hold it in I would have pooped more. My stomach kept hurting too because anytime I stay up all night I always get hungry. My body is like, "if you gonna stay up all night, you better give me food dammit!" I ate an apple on set. Feed me Hollywood! I think my stomach may have hurt from what I ate for dinner before I got to set. I made myself some mjadra and it was good. However, my tahini has been in the fridge for a while. I may have eaten rotten tahini. I didn't throw up, so that is good.
On another note, the 'stars' of our scene were Patrick Flueger and Taryn Manning. Taryn Manning is really short. She looks like a cross between Amy Poehler and Reese Witherspoon. Both her and Patrick seemed like pretty cool people. By this I mean they spoke with extras and didn't act like they were just act work. They weren't acting like big shit hollywood people or anything. Well, if you look at their imdb pages, they aren't exactly A-listers or anything, but still it was cool of them to be down to earth. Unfortunately Ron Pearlman already wrapped filming and went home so he wasn't on set.
Man, I just realized how stupid I am going to look in this movie. I make dumb faces when playing drums, but when I have to just pretend to play I have to concentrate even harder on NOT hitting the drums, but getting close to them so I probably had a more intense (I mean stupid) look on my face.
Yeah, so catch that movie when it comes out if it ever does.
In other news my room mate Anna is moving out! Yes! This is good news. I guess she is moving out as early as next week and she agreed to pay June rent which is great and very responsible of her. Suneil wants to replace her pronto. I don't. I would rather have a 3 person house or have Suneil move out and do a 4 person house with people that I actually want to live with.
My friend Lindsey mentioned needing to move in August with her friend Jo. That would be a possibility if Suneil moved out. I kind of think Suneil should move out. He actually said, "in our interview of new room mates we should have a way to find out if they are going to put food in the fridge." Suneil thinks our fridge is too full. I think that is kind of stupid, because there is enough room especially if things weren't just thrown in there. Also, it is completely unreasonable to think that someone would move in and NOT use the frige. The fridge is full because there are TOO MANY PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE. I told Suneil this. I hope it sank into his head. He is a confused man.
I just hope he moves out because if doesn't I need to start looking for a new place to live. Man, the month of May 2008 could be the best ever. Two of my good friends got married, I visited my buddy Nate in Minneapolis, I got to be in a hollywood movie and my room mates that I don't want to live in are moving out. Well, so far one of them is moving out. The other one is iffy as of right now, but I will try to put the pressure on.
I need to make dinner cause I haven't really eaten a meal since almost 24 hours ago.