E finally had his first paying gig yesterday, shooting an industrial for some new ADHD medication. He was not selected as the ADHD victim, but served in a more honest capacity as one of the rowdy boy classmates.
About a dozen kids were involved in the shoot, and they had a great time, throwing spitballs at the pretend teacher, teasing "Sara," the poor misunderstood ADHD gal, playing kickball...just like a real school day except they got paid, and rather handsomely too. Hopefully it will be soon be floating around on an internets near you!
It was an all-day shoot, so parents sat in the holding area of the school and made small talk. I view these types of days (similar to an all-day, all-weekend, excruciatingly-boring-until-your-own-kid-is-swimming swim meet) as a good opportunity to read a book, rather than actually attempt to be civil to strangers.
I started the day trying to finish Bobos in Paradise, by David Brooks. I couldn't do it...it was basically just the same sentence over and over again, about how the new bourgeois bohemians have taken over the country. Who cares. So I put that aside and started The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs; one man's journey through the entire Encyclopaedia Brittanica. It's pretty funny so far, easy reading. Seems like I can't pick up a book these days without some kind of guarantee that it will make me laugh.
Afterward I regaled E with my story as an extra in Age of Innocence. To sum it up: Daniel Day-Lewis has a huge throbbing blood vessel on the right side of his forehead. And Winona Ryder is a teeny tiny little bitchy teacup.
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Nice story :o)
really lacking in adventure though...;)
Yeah, but she's a stunningly beautiful bitchy little teacup.
And do tell us the story of the time you were an extra.
No accounting for taste, I guess, if you like shoplifters.
The extra story is ok, not great. I'll noodle it for a bit.
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