After seeing Ando for awhile I went to my rents house to drop a few things off. While I was at my rents I found some old pictures of Murph when he was a kitten. My how he has grown into his ears.After coming home from my parents house I took a short little nap, which I rarely ever do. For some reason I am not a good napper. I just lay in bed constantly thinking of all the things I should be doing. I awoke around 5:30 and started to get ready for my run with Jenster. We had plans to go running around 6:30, when she got off work. She called me when she got home to see if I still wanted to go running, but I really didn't. It was too cold outside for my liking. I usually only go running in the winter when it is above 40 degrees.
So instead of running I went with Ando down to Publico to tape a short interview of an artist for the documentary. We first had to stop by Xavier to pick up all the equipment before heading down. Once we got down to Publico Pablo decided we should shoot the interview behind the stage where they were setting up. This was a tiny little space without much room to work in. We had to put up a portable green screen and at least 4 lights, not to mention a camera, the interviewers, interviewees, audio, etc. There was so much to fit in this tiny little space. Pablo and Rando also wanted to do two different set ups for the interview, which I thought was a bad idea. We all agreed on just the one set up.
We had everything lit and ready to go around 7:45. I was thinking sweet this is good, we will be able to eat dinner and watch a movie with our friends after all. Then Rando said he had to go wake one of the guys up because he was sleeping. Once he was awake we were told 15 minutes. Fine 15 minutes isn't too bad. And mind you by this time it was now 8:15. 15 minutes turned into 30 and still no interview was beginning. We tried to get it moving along, but now the two guys wanted to wait an hour before sitting down for the interview. I said that we couldn't wait that long; a half hour would have to be enough time. Thirty minutes came and went and still no interview taking place. I was really starting to get frustrated.
Finally about 45 minutes later they said they were ready to sit for us. We all try to cram in this tiny room for the interview and one of the guys starts fussing about the setup and green screen. I knew the portable green screen was a bad idea. You have to have the lighting perfect for the green screen to work and that is really hard in such a small space. Needless to say that whole ordeal took another 15 minutes. There will be no more portable green screen shooting while I am around. That is something that has to be done in the controlled environment of a studio. The stage being set up would have made a fine background.
Shooting the interview finally began around 9:45, ugghh! Things started off fine, but then this one guy could not sit still and in frame. I kept having to move the camera and he would still go out of the shot. I was just thinking to myself, if this guy knows so much about video then why can't he sit still and quit moving. I think by the end of the interview he was almost completely off of the green screen background and out of the shot. I didn't really care by this point though. I was just ready for the interview to be over. It came to a close at about 10:40. This was way longer than I wanted to be there. At one point I even thought to myself, I should have gone running with Jenster, it would be better than this.
We tore everything down and got the heck out of there. Don't forget we still hadn't eaten. There are not many eating options at 11:00 either, so it was off to Ando and Teed's favorite pre-band dinner, Taco Hell. We went to the fine new establishment on McMillan. What a terrible set up. When you make a right turn into the driveway it is so sharp most people have to back up because there cars can't make it; three people alone while we were there. Then when you round the corner of the drive-thru after ordering to go pay you end up so far away from the window because of another sharp turn. I could have done a better job setting this Taco Hell up with no experience . Oh, and they didn't have any flat bread left so you couldn't order half the menu. Why do Ando and Teed like this place so much?
After consuming our gourmet dinner, which Ando got down the front of him, we went to Molly Malone's again for a nice quiet drink with Jenster and Teed. Quiet was not the proper term this week though. Last week we were one of the only people in the place and this week we had to struggle to find a place to sit. The police were also arresting someone out front because they started a fight inside the bar right before we got there. Actually while we were finding a place to park. Molly Malone's turned out to be nice, but I only stayed till about 12:30 since I had to get up early for work. What an eventful day that I do not want to have again, but fear I will today since I have to go to Publico again.
Sorry this post is so long, but too much happened yesterday. I hope there will not be a repeat tomorrow.
Crunch wrap supreme, hold the ring.
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