Accidents, Commercials, Hard Rock

So I haven't posted in a few days, cause the business picked up again. First things first, we need to talk about what happened to me a few days ago. I'll just show you, then I'll explain it:

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Okay, so I ATE it on my longboard. I was turning left onto a busy street, and since I was being impatient, I was turning into the bike lane on the wrong side of the street, this car coming towards me was turning sharp, and so I swerved to avoid getting wrecked by this car, and I must have hit a pothole or lip or something and ATE it hard. I landed on my chest, skinned my elbow and both knees. It was pretty rad. I was laying there on the pavement looking back to see if the idiot driver who was speeding around this corner at me, would have kindly stopped to see if I was okay. Did they? Nope. I hate LA. The people here suck. Now I know what it felt like to be that guy in the bible who just had people walking by him after he had been beaten up. I picked myself up, saw I was bleeding, and realized I was going to be late to class if I went back home, so I said screw it, I'm going to campus, I went into class, showed my teacher (and the whole class, unfortunately) that I had some minor flesh wounds, and then my SA, Edward, forced me to go down the the health center, which I did. I felt like a little kid all over again. I had skinned my elbow and knees for CRYING out loud. I didn't need a freakin band-aid. I just needed to go clean myself up in the bathroom. But, I wanted to be able to come back into class, so I went down to the health center, which luckily was right across the street. Then I remembered why I hate hospitals. You have to sign all this PAPERWORK before you actually can get medical freakin' assistance. So I'm bleeding signing all this paperwork and finally I go in and get cleaned up and bandaged. The whole process only took like 30 mins, but if you knew how much I was paying for this class, 30 mins of class is valuable and expensive!

Allright, so yesterday I shot my commercial. I think it turned out to be pretty good. I wanted to do a funny commercial but I couldn't come up with any good ideas, so I chose to do a more serious one on a topic that is important to me. I'll post the finished product here, after I edit it and finish it tomorrow. I've got some pictures from the shoot too, I'll post those with it. We shot it in my apartment and it took a few hours, because we had like 10 people in it. It was great, my apartment looked like a mini sound stage with all the lights set up around the camera with all my actors. I'm a little worried about the sound because the microphone (we found out at the end of course) was set wayyyy low, so it may not sound great. I think I may have an idea around that though, so we'll see what happens.

Last night after we were done filming we decided we all wanted to go out for dinner, so we finally ended up picking Hard Rock Cafe. Little did we know it was at Universal Studios so when we got there we were pleasantly surprised. There was a concert going on outside, and after waiting 45 minutes to get seated and walking around looking at all the craziness that was happening, we got seated. We found out that our waiter is a struggling screenwriter, and after we told him that we were all USC film students, we had a good conversation with him. He gave us his e-mail, telling us, "If you all want to get out of that crappy neighborhood, e-mail me and maybe you can all come over," which I thought was interesting. So after having a 12 ounce New York Steak, I couldn't believe I was still hungry, and then I realized that some friends told me about this supposedly amazing cookie place right next to UCLA called "Diddy Reese." I figured some cookies sounded great, convinced everyone we needed to go, and then we finally found our way there. (Yes, our entire evening revolved around food.) We got there, and it was just like people had described it to me, famous, long line and delicious. I was a little disappointed because we were told by our waiter that they serve the cookies warm, and ours weren't. So that was sad, but the place still rocked. Another thing I'm mad about: The area that UCLA is in is AWESOME. It makes me mad that USC is in such a crappy area, and these public school kids get this awesome area. USC is like a little luxurious embassy in the middle of the ghetto. Yuck. Anyways, last night was fun, I'm not seriously injured, I finished shooting my commercial. Now I'm off to help out a ton of people with their commercials before I go to church in downtown LA at the Mayan theater tonight at 7. If you ever are in LA and want to go to a great progressive church with AMAZING music, check out church at the Mayan. It rocks.

Allright off to more shoots, hope you all have a great weekend.