shmecky

Mostly, I would like to thank Gabe Friedman for writing this movie. If it weren't for his great script, I wouldn't have had a movie to work on. And he's a super cool person, so that doesn't hurt.

Most of the actors were great people, and I am going to miss driving them around. Especially Jason Yachanin, who made me laugh every day. And Allyson was a trooper, getting all kinds of crap put in her hair.

Being on the props team was, as I said in the first entry, quite stressful. I remember one morning getting a call, asking where the hot dog buns and mustard were at. I was on my way to the house, so I just bought some more, since no one could find them. But once I got there, I found them in the copy room fridge. I think my most stressful day was when we shot the Humus dance sequence. Neither Matt nor I had been around when they blocked the scene, so we didn't really know what was going on. It was a small prop scene, so we were just letting Alyssa handle it. All of a sudden Lloyd is freaking out, asking where me and Matt are because he said Alyssa needed help putting a gun somewhere. I could handle the part where Lloyd yelled at me, but knowing that Gabe and/or Caleb was disappointed in me, that just killed me. And a few minutes later I heard Gabe talking about how we have to get things ready ahead of time, how he can't go through this every day, etc. And I just felt like shit. I knew this was Gabe's baby, and I wanted to do it justice, not fuck everything up. So I had a talk with Caleb later that night, and he said I was doing great and not to worry. But there was another day where something similar happened, and Gabe came to me and said I had to be anal, I had to be on top of things. It's hard to be on top of things when no one will give me a prop breakdown, when there are props called for in a scene that aren't written in the script. Eventually, I think Gabe realized my frustration and lightened up on me and put pressure elsewhere.

Matt Wulf, my props partner in crime, was awesome. He helped to keep me sane day in and day out. He was great at helping me dress sets with tons of fake and/or real chicken, buckets of chicken, drink cups, trays, etc. Those were pretty much our days - hurry up and dress a set and then wait.

The whole experience of being a chicken zombie was fun at first. You get a beak and make up put on. They cover you with glue and feathers. But the novelty wears off. The make up really isn't so bad. For me, it was the feathers and the glue. And after a few days of wearing the make up, my skin wasn't too happy with me. So I had to cut back.

There is so much to say, but once I sit down to write it all, the words just don't come. Maybe it would be better if people asked me specific questions.