Hectic at work today.

Turns out that the Brazilian company that's producing the Telenovella we'll be shooting in El Paso has picky (expensive) taste in hotel rooms- despite the low production budget. I spent more than half of my day calling probably EVERY 4 star hotel in Miami and Terlingua, TX trying to find something nice for them. Spoiled bastards.

Oh- and MTV New York decided to give us a spin too. We had originally sheduled a shoot from the 17th through the 22nd of January with the 17 crew guys who make our BEST list. Do you know how rare that is? To find 1 of those guys available for just a ONE day shoot is a once in a year type thing, much less all for a 5 day one. But we did it and we were happy... until today. MTV calls and says "Oh, sorry- can we switch those days to the 14th, 15th, and 16th?"

Tchyeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

We tried. Already half of the crew is unavailable- we'll have to spend the rest of the week finding fill-ins on short notice. And it also is insulting for our guys to go from a 5 day hold to something half that amount of time. They passed up other jobs for this, and in the film industry jobs are a commodity even veterans don't pass up lightly. How does it look for a company when we have to tell guys we've worked with for more than 30 years (Kev and Bri even filmed some of their weddings) "Sorry... we don't really have a job for you like we said."

And when I say we I mean me and Arzu, and let me tell you it was no fun calling these guys with a cancellation.

THANKS MTV, AND A HAPPY F*$@IN NEW YEAR TO YOU TOO!

Misc Note: I find it scary that I willingly went to work 2 days in a row. I didn't pick a mental fight or anything! Could I be getting used to the Full Time Job?

GOD I hope not.

I made a business proposition to my contemporaries today. I got an offer to do a misc promo film in Tx and instead of going off on my own to do it I proposed at work to give the job to them if they would *gulp* let me rise above my station and lead the project as producer. Have yet to hear a response from Big Man Brian, but Kool Kevin said sure!

*Gasp*

Wow. Bravery works. Unexpected.

Now what do I do?