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151 countries, one suicide.
An interesting slogan that was generated for me.
Anyways, I finished loading in Elton John today. Between that and the far-too-long hours of Coachella's strike (9:00am Sunday until 3:00pm Monday), I am pretty well fucked up. Bruises, cuts, torn muscles... The works. But, it comes with the industry, I guess.
This morning, my parents (read: my mother) went off on me about how I'm overweight and this and that. I showed her a picture of one of the stage at Coachella that I was heading up the strike of, and explained to her what my job was. She instantly shut up.
I guess I'll offer you guys the same explanation.
I was the head rigger for this strike. Essentially, that means I was the guy in the harness, preparing everything in the air to be lowered, including the 15,000 pound speaker stacks, the 750 feet of truss, and the 48 one-ton chain motors. Trust me, if I was overweight, or even out of shape, there is no possible way I could successfully do my job. It involves climbing up cable runs to get to trusses, hanging in a harness while lowering a 120 pound chain motor from whatever height I'm hanging at down to the deck, extremely heavy lifting, etc... That shut my mom up pretty quick.
Anyways, I think I'm going to go to bed now. Goodnight.
PS: If anyone wants to give me a massage, I would greatly appreciate it. I tip well. :)
An interesting slogan that was generated for me.
Anyways, I finished loading in Elton John today. Between that and the far-too-long hours of Coachella's strike (9:00am Sunday until 3:00pm Monday), I am pretty well fucked up. Bruises, cuts, torn muscles... The works. But, it comes with the industry, I guess.
This morning, my parents (read: my mother) went off on me about how I'm overweight and this and that. I showed her a picture of one of the stage at Coachella that I was heading up the strike of, and explained to her what my job was. She instantly shut up.
I guess I'll offer you guys the same explanation.
I was the head rigger for this strike. Essentially, that means I was the guy in the harness, preparing everything in the air to be lowered, including the 15,000 pound speaker stacks, the 750 feet of truss, and the 48 one-ton chain motors. Trust me, if I was overweight, or even out of shape, there is no possible way I could successfully do my job. It involves climbing up cable runs to get to trusses, hanging in a harness while lowering a 120 pound chain motor from whatever height I'm hanging at down to the deck, extremely heavy lifting, etc... That shut my mom up pretty quick.
Anyways, I think I'm going to go to bed now. Goodnight.
PS: If anyone wants to give me a massage, I would greatly appreciate it. I tip well. :)