Happy Thanksgiving and various updates
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I hope you're all having a good time.
It's been a while so I'll fill everyone in briefly. I've got an internship for school with the Largest Firearms Company in the country for movies, ISS Props, so I'm moving to LA in January. Managed to track that internship down myself, and the people at the company seem very excited to bring me in. I'm really looking forward to it. They have a massive facility that I visited last week; lots of rooms with steel cage doors and concrete walls filled with machine guns. I saw no less than two mini guns while there; actual, firing miniguns, the kind that you can cut cars in half with. I also saw a room full of machine guns, a table covered in sawn off shotguns, and a room full of WW2 guns. All working, ready to fire bullets. It was glorious. My favorite part was probably the Colt .38 super machine pistols I saw on a wall: they were made special for Public Enemies, but never made it on screen, and looked identical to this, the real life version that John Dillenger had made for him:
http://www.imfdb.org/images/5/54/.38Super1911MachinePistol.jpg
Going to be moving out there via car trip with Crystal in January. I have to leave Dog here until I can find a place to live that's affordable and allows pets, but for now I've got a house lined up that ISS owns and rents to employees by the month, with one cool roommate named Bob who's a camera person for the company. So we'll see how that all goes. I'm a bit nervous but I'm far too excited and anxious to get the hell out of here to care.
Between now and then, I'm working at Radio Shack and actually enjoying it, and trying to make as many movies as possible in my down time. So far I've done 4 Mad Nation shorts and Dr.O3, and I'm hoping to do 3 more MN movies before the year is over.
I'm a bit upset that I didn't start working at RadioShack sooner. Not that it was really available, but still. It's a really fun job, with good co-workers. It makes retail almost tolerable, which is amazing to me, I'm having just as much fun there as I was at EMS. Which in turn makes me sad that I can't stay beyond being a seasonal hire. I kinda doubt I'll have much luck transferring, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
I've decided I might start doing a video blog. ZeFrank really turned me onto the idea a while back, and I feel like part of the reason I never really keep up with LJ day to day is because I generally speaking don't have time to type stuff. But I feel like a video blog would be something I could get into more easily. I dunno, thoughts?
Stupid emo bullshit time: I'm also annoyed by the way this holiday turned out, actually. As usual, my sister is being an attention whore and causing distress in the family. Although there's been a few new minor cunt moves on her part lately, though she does seem to have at least toned down slightly though. But I've managed to avoid her presence successfully for the past several years. Now though my dad in all his glorious wisdom has managed to convince her to come to Thanksgiving dinner, and despite her best efforts, he's managed to keep her coming, knowing that her presence will ruin the event for me. In addition to all this, we're spending our thanksgiving in a rehab center because my grandmother is there for an injury, so it's already going to be uncomfortable as hell. On the one hand, I very much don't want to go because of the alarming level of insufferable cuntage that I'll likely have to endure. On the other hand, I want to go to support my grandmother. My mother keeps giving me a line of bullshit about not letting Emily push me out of the family and keeping my territory, and my dad keeps up his emotional manipulation to the point where he'll make me feel guiltier than a death row inmate for taking five extra minutes in the shower, so neither of them are particularly helpful. But whatever, I'm a man so I should shut the hell up and deal with it. Which is what I will do: I'll go to thanksgiving and deal with it, but of course I won't let anything slide, either: if Emily causes a problem, I will have no issues with telling her and everyone who supports her just how little I respect them.
It's been a while so I'll fill everyone in briefly. I've got an internship for school with the Largest Firearms Company in the country for movies, ISS Props, so I'm moving to LA in January. Managed to track that internship down myself, and the people at the company seem very excited to bring me in. I'm really looking forward to it. They have a massive facility that I visited last week; lots of rooms with steel cage doors and concrete walls filled with machine guns. I saw no less than two mini guns while there; actual, firing miniguns, the kind that you can cut cars in half with. I also saw a room full of machine guns, a table covered in sawn off shotguns, and a room full of WW2 guns. All working, ready to fire bullets. It was glorious. My favorite part was probably the Colt .38 super machine pistols I saw on a wall: they were made special for Public Enemies, but never made it on screen, and looked identical to this, the real life version that John Dillenger had made for him:
http://www.imfdb.org/images/5/54/.38Super1911MachinePistol.jpg
Going to be moving out there via car trip with Crystal in January. I have to leave Dog here until I can find a place to live that's affordable and allows pets, but for now I've got a house lined up that ISS owns and rents to employees by the month, with one cool roommate named Bob who's a camera person for the company. So we'll see how that all goes. I'm a bit nervous but I'm far too excited and anxious to get the hell out of here to care.
Between now and then, I'm working at Radio Shack and actually enjoying it, and trying to make as many movies as possible in my down time. So far I've done 4 Mad Nation shorts and Dr.O3, and I'm hoping to do 3 more MN movies before the year is over.
I'm a bit upset that I didn't start working at RadioShack sooner. Not that it was really available, but still. It's a really fun job, with good co-workers. It makes retail almost tolerable, which is amazing to me, I'm having just as much fun there as I was at EMS. Which in turn makes me sad that I can't stay beyond being a seasonal hire. I kinda doubt I'll have much luck transferring, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
I've decided I might start doing a video blog. ZeFrank really turned me onto the idea a while back, and I feel like part of the reason I never really keep up with LJ day to day is because I generally speaking don't have time to type stuff. But I feel like a video blog would be something I could get into more easily. I dunno, thoughts?
Stupid emo bullshit time: I'm also annoyed by the way this holiday turned out, actually. As usual, my sister is being an attention whore and causing distress in the family. Although there's been a few new minor cunt moves on her part lately, though she does seem to have at least toned down slightly though. But I've managed to avoid her presence successfully for the past several years. Now though my dad in all his glorious wisdom has managed to convince her to come to Thanksgiving dinner, and despite her best efforts, he's managed to keep her coming, knowing that her presence will ruin the event for me. In addition to all this, we're spending our thanksgiving in a rehab center because my grandmother is there for an injury, so it's already going to be uncomfortable as hell. On the one hand, I very much don't want to go because of the alarming level of insufferable cuntage that I'll likely have to endure. On the other hand, I want to go to support my grandmother. My mother keeps giving me a line of bullshit about not letting Emily push me out of the family and keeping my territory, and my dad keeps up his emotional manipulation to the point where he'll make me feel guiltier than a death row inmate for taking five extra minutes in the shower, so neither of them are particularly helpful. But whatever, I'm a man so I should shut the hell up and deal with it. Which is what I will do: I'll go to thanksgiving and deal with it, but of course I won't let anything slide, either: if Emily causes a problem, I will have no issues with telling her and everyone who supports her just how little I respect them.