next door yesterday. They took over all the parking to the end of the street and parked a semi trailer out front all day. It didn’t bother me, because I park in my own garage. They were pretty efficient, and they had wrapped the whole thing up by 10.30 pm. The last crew to film something next door were there for days. The film is out now. It’s called Adults, and it wasn’t that exciting. I watched it to see if my house made it into any of the scenes. It didn’t, probably because this place just looks too different, so they avoided filming it entirely. Yesterday they were filming in the kitchen, so there were no exterior shots at all. I’m glad they aren’t back today, because my band practice could have very well intruded on their film making.
We’re all supposed to put our lives on hold so that the geniuses can create their cinematic magic I know, but I’m not impressed with any of it. I’ve worked on film sets before. Everyone takes the whole thing very seriously. I can hear them next door as I’m writing this. Hopefully they are packing up their stuff and leaving. I don’t want to have to tell them to take a hike if they start complaining about the loud music. I’m creating magic here too. Given what I’ve seen previously, my magic is superior. Perhaps I’m judging them too harshly. I don’t have a huge crew to facilitate what I’m doing here, which is essentially the same thing. I’m making a movie. I have cameras, lights and sound equipment. Musicians and a script. There is no script, they are songs that I wrote. That’s my script. I’ve written actual film scripts though.
I’ve got a couple that I’ve written. Dealing with the people who make films and movies is tiresome. They usually have no imagination. Trying to get government money to make a film or a documentary is a gigantic pain in the ass. The only people who get these handouts are insiders, or the children of the politicians who hand out the cash. It’s a rigged system like every other fucking thing that involves public monies and creative arts type stuff. The only way to be free of all of this is to do everything yourself. You have no one to blame if it all goes wrong either. The stuff I do never goes wrong though. Since I am the author, I am also the critic and I deem it to be any way I like. Nobody is standing around telling me how to do things, except me.
It’s a big responsibility. I’m kind of wary of success in a way, because then I will have people wanting me to do stuff that maybe I’m not interested in. As luck would have it, I’ve managed to avoid most of that so far.