barrington99@gmail.com Paul and I got back from our whirlwind nine-day trip to Florida last night. With full days of travel at either end, this left us a week: Three days in Sarasota with my parents, two days in Tallahassee, seeing friends (and Paul of course worked on a friend’s film) and two days back in Sarasota … Read more
After being married for over eight years, I just found this out the other day. When Paul is buying something with a credit card, and it asks for the date of expiration, and say, the card says “10/31/09”, he doesn’t say “10-09”, but “11-09” since that’s the day it has actually expired. Who does that? … Read more
Saw this band “Unpopable” at a little bar in Pasadena last night. The guy has (as you can see here) created a kind of one string bass out of balloons. It’s pretty cool. He makes each instrument the night of. Last night he was using a white balloon for the string and wearing a white … Read more
Fell off the blogging wagon (actually the opposite of that) lately, so don’t think I mentioned this. While placing flower/swag arrangements in celebrity trailers with another P.A. on American Idol, I realized how I might be getting too old for this when we had the following conversation. ME: Okay, that’s Keith Urban’s done, who’s left?OTHER … Read more
Just bought a new blank book for four bucks, and having a cuppa tea that costs about the same. Up charge for subsituting soy for dairy? Fifty-five cents! Is it just me, or is that a lot? Still, vanilla red tea latte. It was really good. I was conscious of enjoying it, and enjoying my … Read more
So I’m not doing much writing this week–p.a.-ing at for the American Idol finale at the Nokia Theater downtown. Not sure how much I’m allowed to talk about it, but I’ll say the work is pleasant enough so far, as are the people. Standard production fare. But it’s been awhile since I’ve been somewhere where … Read more
for awhile? It’s hard to know where to start, whether with something heavy or light. I received a call from one of my oldest friends last weekend. Having stopped by my blog of late, she wondered if I was okay, as my posts had been a little “cryptic.” Entirely unintentional on my part. Sometimes I … Read more
I’m preparing a number of applications for tomorrow, including writing-based scholarship applications at school, an application for teaching assistantships, and both Film Independent and Sundance Labs. This requires, in addition to the script itself, things like resumes, informational cover letters, and bios. These are dangerous to write when you are feeling like crap about almost … Read more
Yesterday at the grocery store, I signed up for a year of the L.A. Times. I will get the paper Thursday thru Sunday–that’s four papers a week–for the weekly price of 75 cents. And they gave me a ten dollar gift card for the grocery store. Can a newspaper even exist on this amount? I … Read more