A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

NEW FUCKIN VIDEO!

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Listen Up!
Well, I guess weekly posting is back, and thank god for it. But I'm no longer going to be manually pasting it to my website, nor am I going to put out new music every week. I just can't. I won't obligate myself because then I think to myself on Sunday "Ah, well, I really don't want to write up a new blog post today, PLUS I don't have music to release and I don't want to have to drag everything over to my website" and I end up not doing it. Unlike where if I just didn't feel like doing the blog post, I could force myself to start it, and then that's the thing with me is, once I start typing, I can't stop for anything. As you can see by how this one original sentence has turned into a paragraph without me noticing.

Finals are done. I believe I've done well on all of them, and now I just need to worry about what to change my major to, the summer meetings for the Computer Club, and of course making things. :: My new video is out, finally. So far it's been the best reviewed one yet. We'll just have to wait and see what the view counts become though. :: I haven't played my Nintendo Wii for way too long, even though I have still yet to complete both Smash Bros Brawl and Mario Kart. I'll get on the tonight hopefully. :: Yup.

-- Music Release --
New Music YES! Well, this I came up with last week and wanted to post but I didn't think it was done and ready. I've finished it now and here you go. I've been listening to 3 bands/tracks recently that I've REALLY been into and wanting to use. Spoon, Maldroid, and Justice. All three of them I want to do something with, so here's the first. I was, as my new strategy is, not TRYING to find and make something, but rather just listen and hear what sounds best. Let things make themselves. That's something I learned with photography a while ago, and have been applying to every form of content generating I've done since. The best things just seem to make themselves. Same here.

So I was listening to spoon and thinking that it was great, and not missing bunch, but that a backbeat that repeated forever was in order, and what better than Daft Punk to provide that? So here's Spoon - Don't You Evah, and Daft Punk - Da Funk twirled into a brandy new mash-up.
Spoon vs Daft Punk - Funk For Evah

Daily Life:
I knew I was forgetting to talk about something interesting last week. I got another job from Universal Talent. Again, in NYC, and again, as a background extra. It was pretty good, especially now that I know exactly what happens and what I have to do.

So I get the call a few days ahead of time and accept the job. Now the info is that the call in time is in Uptown Manhattan, right next to Central Park, at 5:00 AM. "5AM? Holy Shit" I say to myself, so the day that happens I am literally not going to sleep. So skip ahead a few days, and I've stayed up all night and it is now 4:00 AM. I've never driven this early before, and I guess noone else does either, because I leave, and literally do not see another car being driven until I am on the Turnpike. That was cool. So I get there, find a parking spot a few blocks up, and get ready to check in. First, I grab a ham and cheese sandwich for my breakfast at the breakfast table outside, jump downstairs to holding, and fill out the sheet to sign in.

Now, this isn't a commercial we're shooting for, it was a full movie (I forget the name) and so it's even more strictly organized. Nothing really happens and I'm just playing soduku in holding until it's time to start shooting, which was somewhere around 9. So shooting begins, and I'm assigned to this one scene where the ma9in character is getting picked up by the cops and driven off. I'm part of a group of 4 people that are walking from around the corner of the street, and down towards where he's being picked up. I was set to stop at the bus stop and wait there for the bus as the guy was getting picked up. Simple enough, right?

Well, there were 2 things that made it fun. First, the group I was with was made up of 2 first timers and someone who wasn't really paying much attention. So when we were told to leave a few beats between each of us turning the corner, they took it as 3 or 4 seconds, and all three came around the bend as if they were a single group of people. It took me 3 takes to get them to split up enough.

The next part that made it interesting was when people (who weren't part of the movie crew) starting going right through the shooting area without even noticing the shoot. Typical for New Yorkers I guess, but every take we would literally be shooing people off to the other side of the street in order to start filming. That was a fun game of cat and mouse looking for everyone who wasn't part of the shoot.

But after about 20 takes or so, they finally got the one they wanted, and they threw us all back to holding until the next scene. The next scene was much simpler and much shorter, as it was inside the police building, and all we had to do was sit in chairs, that took only about 3 or 4 takes and then we were done for the day. It was barely 2:00. So I hopped across town and made my way back to home. I never knew that the Lincoln Tunnel only charged going into NYC. I guess I just never noticed it before.

Next Week I'll be talking about the recent NYC Diggnation Meetup.

Juggle This:
So I don't know why, but I've picked up a set of Devil Sticks. Yes, Devil Sticks, the one prop I've claimed to never be able to do, I am now practicing. And I hate them. Maybe I should have started off with some flower sticks, but then again I've never been one to go the easy route (having learned to juggle using unmodified tennis balls). So I'll be making another "48 Hours Of Practice" video today, when I get a free minute. I guarantee it'll suck.

Otherwise, I've picked up my boxes again and started sucking with them again. However, the rust is slowly peeling away now that I've practiced with them, and it's starting tho get better.

Other than that all useless information, enjoy the new video!

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150