Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Off and On: Victory Over Crabs!
Off and On: Victory Over Crabs!: The bad news is, no paying work again today or checks from our other movie endeavors. The good news is, Mike had a very good interview toda...
Victory Over Crabs!
The bad news is, no paying work again today or checks from our other movie endeavors. The good news is, Mike had a very good interview today and another tomorrow. Send all your good karma this way that I'll finally start with the job my temp agency claims to have for me and that Mike gets a good permanent gig!
So, since the water level dropped and today was a beautiful day we went fishing again. This time there weren't too many people already taking up the good spots on the dock and we dropped our nets. Lo and behold, we caught eight crabs! Fish were all over the place, but they weren't biting. Gumbo is on the menu for tonight and the next few days!
Now that we know what to do, it's so easy a five year old could handle it. Step one: Find chicken leg. Step two: Tie chicken leg to bottom of net. Step three: Lower net into water and wait 10-15 minutes. Step four: Pull up delicious crab slowly and dump into five gallon bucket. Step five: Repeat steps one through four ad infinitum, or until you run out of crab.
Well, we didn't run out of crab, but we did run out of room in the bucket. Since eight crab were way too many to eat on our own we invited James over to indulge and watch a movie. I gave myself crabby butt by accidentally sitting on my bowl of gumbo. One towel and a bunch of laughing later, we got down to munching and movies. "13 Assassins" is "The Seven Samurai" on steroids, by the way. Not much on plot, but some pretty cool fight scenes.
Off to bed now, I'm crabbed out and ready to sleep. Here for your enjoyment is today's crab adventure in glorious color.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Off and On: Parker, Yet Again!
Off and On: Parker, Yet Again!: I tell you what, it's not easy being in the movies. We've got it pretty slick as extras, but it's still essentially blue collar work. Wake...
Parker, Yet Again!
I tell you what, it's not easy being in the movies. We've got it pretty slick as extras, but it's still essentially blue collar work. Wake up at 5:30 am for 7:00 call time, nosh on what may or may not be a good breakfast (in this case it was great...lunch, not so much), sit around and wait, and then do exactly as the director tells you in all kinds of weather or risk his ire. And oh yeah, don't look at the stars of the show. All in all though, I've had worse jobs and it is fun when you're actually doing something.
It appears that Mike and I will have some up front face time on screen with today's primary actor Jennifer Lopez. The beginning of the shoot went smoothly, then lunch just seemed to drag. It was a beautiful day today so cast, crew, and extras were all relishing the pleasant weather. Unfortunately, we forgot the sunblock and now Mike and I look like Bob the Tomato. The entire second half of the shoot was an exercise in deliberately not looking conspicuous. And through it all, I was reminded of what is, quite possibly, J-Lo's most striking and memorable moment of her acting career. Enjoy! http://youtu.be/ENLPC1MxqDg
Friday, September 2, 2011
Off and On: Foul Winds and Decadence
Off and On: Foul Winds and Decadence: It's Labor Day weekend and around these parts that means four days of homer-sexual debauchery in the French Quarter. Thousands upon thousan...
Foul Winds and Decadence
It's Labor Day weekend and around these parts that means four days of homer-sexual debauchery in the French Quarter. Thousands upon thousands of gay men (and for women, the smaller festival of Dykeadence) flood the 'hood for parties, drunkenness, and sex sex sex.
This year, however, may end up a bit more sparse due to Tropical Storm Lee coming through. I personally am extremely thankful for the rains it's brought. Not only has it cooled things down to a more than tolerable 81 degrees, but it put out the remainder of this week's swamp fire. Lightning struck out in the marshes at the beginning of the week and it was left to burn itself out; much to the chagrin of everyone in a 30 mile radius that had to breathe the acrid smoke. It was so bad that I woke up out of a dream that the house was on fire at the start of it. No worries, the house is fine but the ozone stank to high heaven all week.
As the temp agency STILL hasn't gotten me working (but says the job is still on at last correspondence) today we took advantage of the dreary weather and went fishing and crabbing in St. Rose. This taught us two valuable lessons:
1. Show up early before all the good spots are taken.
2. Crabs WILL take bacon as bait.
Here's the proof!
This was a small one, barely bigger than a deck of cards. They get about twice this size, and boy are they yummy! They're also called Gumbo crabs and are extremely tasty in da soup. Mmm...gumbo. But, since we only caught this little one, he went back into the pond. By the way, since the chicken wire in the back was so rusted it was crumbling, we ended up getting two crab nets at Walmart for $1.97 each that worked just fine. Now that I have one to reference, I can make my own with some wire coat hangers and cotton thread. Yay!
Aside from living off the land (such as it is), the other task of the week was revisiting the Parker shoot. This time it was background work for a parade setting. Instead of being blown up this time we got to...are you ready for this? Watch Jason Statham drive around a corner! Yeah!
Ok, it wasn't quite on the same level of propane explosions but he's still hot. Yeah, I said it. Jason Statham. HAWT. Watch the horse racing scene in Cranked 2 and tell me he's not. Actually, the most amusing part of the short shoot was watching the directors' spat in the school bus. There were a bus load of Boy Scouts that were supposed to come on scene at a certain time and missed their cue. The director took off his hat (always a bad sign) and issued a stream of blue words visible through the swamp smoke. The assistant director was standing in the bus doorway between him and the Scout mom, acting as a go-between so she didn't share the wrath. I'm not sure what was said, but the next thing I see is her take a good smack at the back of the A.D's head! The main director backed off shortly thereafter. I wouldn't want to mess with a Scout mom either!
This year, however, may end up a bit more sparse due to Tropical Storm Lee coming through. I personally am extremely thankful for the rains it's brought. Not only has it cooled things down to a more than tolerable 81 degrees, but it put out the remainder of this week's swamp fire. Lightning struck out in the marshes at the beginning of the week and it was left to burn itself out; much to the chagrin of everyone in a 30 mile radius that had to breathe the acrid smoke. It was so bad that I woke up out of a dream that the house was on fire at the start of it. No worries, the house is fine but the ozone stank to high heaven all week.
As the temp agency STILL hasn't gotten me working (but says the job is still on at last correspondence) today we took advantage of the dreary weather and went fishing and crabbing in St. Rose. This taught us two valuable lessons:
1. Show up early before all the good spots are taken.
2. Crabs WILL take bacon as bait.
Here's the proof!
This was a small one, barely bigger than a deck of cards. They get about twice this size, and boy are they yummy! They're also called Gumbo crabs and are extremely tasty in da soup. Mmm...gumbo. But, since we only caught this little one, he went back into the pond. By the way, since the chicken wire in the back was so rusted it was crumbling, we ended up getting two crab nets at Walmart for $1.97 each that worked just fine. Now that I have one to reference, I can make my own with some wire coat hangers and cotton thread. Yay!
Aside from living off the land (such as it is), the other task of the week was revisiting the Parker shoot. This time it was background work for a parade setting. Instead of being blown up this time we got to...are you ready for this? Watch Jason Statham drive around a corner! Yeah!
Ok, it wasn't quite on the same level of propane explosions but he's still hot. Yeah, I said it. Jason Statham. HAWT. Watch the horse racing scene in Cranked 2 and tell me he's not. Actually, the most amusing part of the short shoot was watching the directors' spat in the school bus. There were a bus load of Boy Scouts that were supposed to come on scene at a certain time and missed their cue. The director took off his hat (always a bad sign) and issued a stream of blue words visible through the swamp smoke. The assistant director was standing in the bus doorway between him and the Scout mom, acting as a go-between so she didn't share the wrath. I'm not sure what was said, but the next thing I see is her take a good smack at the back of the A.D's head! The main director backed off shortly thereafter. I wouldn't want to mess with a Scout mom either!
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