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Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Am I a jerk or are some people just really stupid

So I was procrastinating on a few projects a few days ago and killing time by browsing through best of cragslist. I like the sarcastic MCs and the farcical memos/open letters, they're usually pretty witty. I came across an open letter to a fruit fly and decided I should make something equally ridiculous. So I made a fake posting for a cast and crew call in DC. I was tired of all the posts in tfr looking for hot mammas or crews willing to work for a free meal. My post actually included this paragraph:

Please be prepared for night exteriors in the dead of winter, 18 hour days, crappy crafty, cold and late meals, short turn-around, ridiculously huge lighting set-ups, broken equipment, students pretending to be dept keys, terrible scheduling, no money, and no fun. Must love filmmaking.


I guess that is a party for some people because I actually got some responses. Thanks for the headshots Olivia, Handry and Catherine. And another thanks to Wally, Angela, Kendrick, and Xavier who want to be part of the crew and Al who wants to do the score (position not advertised). Berry offered up a sweet 35mm camera package which is super nice and would be fun to use. If only I were actually shooting something.

Am I an ass? I thought people would find it funny! I didn't even post when we were shooting or give any credentials for the director. I'm happy that most of the cover letters were canned and no one spent too much time on it. I still feel bad. Should I report it as a scam? I wanted it to be nominated for a best of craigslist because I thought other novice filmmakers would find it funny. I guess people are more desperate than I thought. Sigh.

In other news

I did some research and found out that the kid that's been hanging around the Princess set is none other than the infamous FAN 3. Geez oh man, I wish I could keep up with pop culture or I would have known I was in the presence of a teenage rapper-goddess.

Also, I was almost cast to play a 17 year old 'friend of jan' (I escaped that, fortunately) and two days later the continuity person said I looked "36 or 37 maybe." Not sure what to make of all this.

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