Hollar kids.

This weekend was wicked fun. I went from office intern to on set PA to stunt driver all in a day. Most of you know I work in the North by Northwest production office everyday after school as a way to impress the NYU application people. One day on the weekends I can be found schmoozing on set as a Production Assistant. The PA's main boss is the Key Set PA who takes orders from the 1st Assistant Directior and Director respectivly. We specialize in crowd control and lock down("Folks, I'm going to have to ask you to take a different rout to the mall as the street is closed" or "Hey guys, can I have you all stand behind the Miller High Life Truck, we cant have you in shot") running errands (Chi 2% iced latte please) locating people ("Can someone give me a twenty on Cuba Gooding Jr. son's stuffed Nemo?") location sweeping (picking up garbage after we wrap) and lots of other significant stuff (Looking important in head sets and telling people made up stories about the actors and laughing about it later. It's the stuff dreams are made of.) In short, you're on your feet all day long, you deal with a lot of people, and you get up at horrendous times like 4:15am because each day you have to be the first person to set or base camp and the last to leave. Of course this has its high points like being first in the lunch line and since every one wants to use you to help them with their job you become everyones best friend and learn lots of names and in the end respect. I was going somewhere with this...

MY CAR! Saturday we did some hot chase scenes in downtown Spokane and extra cars were needed for shots. About 1:00 we are about to do a huge chase scene when Andy, the director, points at my car and says, "who car is this, I want to use for shot" (He is Chinese, please assign the appropriate accent in your readings) and as I'm standing right there I'm like, well, that's my car, and before I know it I'm speed down the streets of Spokane in my car taking corners fast and getting myself in the movie. I was Rachel Cates, stunt driver extraordinaire. It was a kick in the pants. When I finally got out of my car and back into the street for some more PA action three Japanese girls wanted to take a picture with me and I became recognizable to the crowd who thought I was something special. I knew I was having unbelievable fun when I turned up the music in my car and the director and key stunt guy started dancing. Anyways, as all my stories end up with me in some sort of physical pain I thought I would throw in that my eyes were swollen this morning when I woke up at 4:10 and I couldn't see so I had to get my brother up to take my car over to set since it was in a still shot in the first scene. I went downtown later this afternoon to watch them crash cars and got enlisted to help out for the rest of the day so I'm beat. Making a movie is a good time.

Ah, other then that jazz I'm still going to my classes, most of them, and plan on screwing Eastern and not taking classes Spring Quarter. They want me to learn how to become a camera loader for films this summer but I don't want to take advantage of the production companies kindness and then not be able to show up this summer as I might just be studying film at a real school. The production office has expressed interest in hiring me for the next movie which I just might take them up on. I'm working in the business in Spokane. Who knew.

Spring Break cant come to soon. I'm heading to New York, New York! For a few days to chill with Gill who is big pimpin it at my dream school, NYU. I'm pretty sure its going to be the best time ever.

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