http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant.jpg A Television Production Assistant's Film Blog. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:13:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey all! Wanted to upload a video I'm in this week. It's a response to the despicable passing of Proposition 8 out here in California. My friend Jonathan Smith wrote and directed it, and as always, I am constantly amazed by the power of technology at how ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/11/10/prop-h8-not-so-great/ So today I received a question from a reader o' mine asking, "As another kid trying to eek it out being a PA and someone who does not drink or smoke I wanted to ask something. Has your decision to not drink or smoke inhibit you in this industry?" This is ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/10/27/straight-edge-schmaight-edge/ Hey.  It's good to see you.  Have you lost weight?  I'm digging the new beard.  It's been a while, hasn't it?  How's the wife?  Kids?  What have I been up to?  Well.  Got a minute? A few weeks ago, I was cast and shot my first television bit for a new ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/09/29/i-promise-i-am-still-alive/ So. Because being a PA is freelance, you have to get your own health insurance seperately from any production company you work for. But last April, mine, (Blue Shield of California) decided to drop me because my credit card was close to the limit and a payment didn't ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/08/21/why-pas-should-have-health-insurance-or-how-blue-shield-of-california-can-suck-a-dick/ Hey all!! This week I'm going to do some shameless self promotion. I've got a stand up show this Wednesday in Hollywood!! If you're free, come check it out. Here's the info: 12 comedians. 5 minutes each. And super super cheap alcohol. What more ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/08/18/shameless-self-promotion/ So.  Hollywood has finally become the godless heathens that we have for so long been considered by the conservative Right.   Behold, devil spawn:  Read this article (and then come back, post haste, I'm more entertaining than the news, promise). http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/08/05/clone.dog.ap/index.html Earlier this month, a "screenwriter" decided, for $50,000.00,  to clone her dead ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/08/14/hollywood-once-again-proving-the-right-right/ Dust off the cobwebs, stretch those muscles, Brandie's back!  Did you miss me?  I know, I would miss me too.  Sorry for the 2 week hiatus, but I have been away on vacation and promised myself I wouldn't bring my laptop so it would be a TRUE vacation...  I am ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/07/28/backstreets-back-or-just-brandie/ So, once again I'm under the gun on an assignment...  life gets really hectic when you work in production and you try to balance any kind of semblance of a life, let alone a creative career of your own.  So, this week I give you my Top Ten List assignment ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/07/08/midgets-and-tattoos-what-else-is-there-to-write-about/ Something you should know about me: I love Elvis Presley. Hence the title of this post, after one of my favorite songs of his. If you haven't seen it, go out and rent his 1968 Comeback Special, it's fantastic. Even if he's been dead for decades, he ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/06/30/when-it-rains-it-really-pours/ So I don't know how much sass or snark you are going to get out of my this week... the serious side of Brandie is one I don't think I've tapped into on here for you yet... but one of the greatest comedians to ever grace a seedy, ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/theproductionassistant/2008/06/23/rip-george-carlin/