WTD Tieday

I wish I had a picture to show you of Tie Day.


Tie-Day Fri-Day was today on set, and Production was ablazin with ties. Myself, Anthony, Nick Bell (the originator), Danny Glock (I loaned him one...crap, and never got it back!!@) and Clint all rocked the ties. It was a great show of style and unity. It's too bad that it all had to come to a tragic end.


At around hour 2, raindrops began to fall. Within twenty minutes, it was a full-on thunderstorm, complete with lighting, hard rain, and super-loud noisy cracks o thunder. Production halted and I was caught running back to holding without my rainsuit. Frigging sucked. I got soaked, and for awhile we were all scrambling to waterproof the set, which was flooded due to water that leaked in from an air duct in the ceiling. The rain was so heavy that both sides of the street were a raging river - spanning 5 feet from the curb sped a 2 foot deep current of drainwater. I grabbed upson board off the unit to soak up water on set, and before I could cross the street with it, the board was completely soaked through. Our efforts were futile.

When the storm cleared, all ties were off. Clint and I got extra shirts (his was this horrible 'Thug LIFE' cereal box nonsense) yet Dan, still soaked, remained on tie duty. During this period my bosses, Marshall and Shane, got me a fresh outfit, shoes and all! They rock so hard. The shoes are gawdy and stand out like a sore thumb, which I loved. I wore 'em and my new non-descript outfit with pride.

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We holed up in a local comic book shop that I had scouted unsucessfully weeks earlier. St. Vincent's was having a prayer meeting during our dinner hours so we had to find an alternative. When we come back next week I have to go back and buy up some old school cards and comics, which they have in abundance and are dying to get rid of. Not only is the owner retiring, but he said that they just don't sell. Trading Cards, like YuGiOh and Magic are the thing kids are into," he told me. At one point we were just hanging out, shooting the shit, and he puts on an episode of Kung Fu...where David Carridine whups some injuns hard. Kicks a horse's head clean off - that sort of thing. I really had a good time hanging with that dude...can't say the same thing for our Teamster Captain, who is the biggest asshole this side of Old Faithful.

PS, I had a chat with Cillian's dad as he calmed down his grandson. It was Take The Family To Work Day just as much as it was You're Gonna Get Rained On Day. We talked about Ireland, film, my frigging destiny, stuff. Once more, the Murphys are really cool. Cillian sits with the crew at lunch every day, which is unheard of. I throw a 'hey!' every once in awhile at him, and he does something back. We're awkward, together.

PPS, end of the day (4am) we all kicked back with some beers and told stupid jokes over walkie. I love my job. image dump