The New Job is Going Well or Wii's Selling like Hotcakes

Well it's now been 7 days at my new job at Manitoba Film & Sound. So far so good I guess. There hasn't really been a whole hell of a lot of training, just being handed things to do and getting tossed into the fire. I had to make a report for the board of directors in my first 3 days! That was... interesting. Mostly though, I've been trying to put together a photo package for the new Production Guide (the book that gets sent all around the world to intice people to film here). The theme this year is great movies that could have been shot here (and probably cheaper). Since I am the one with the encyclopedic knowledge of film in the office, I get to choose the photos and films! So far I have: Citizen Kane, Jaws, French Connection, Searchers/Unforgiven, To Kill a Mockingbird, It's a Wonderful Life, and Animal House. It's actually a neat idea and seems to work better than you might think.
I have noticed that in a short period of time, I have shifted to the "working for the weekend" style of life. My week is filled with work, so I basically count down the days till Friday. It's just like being back in school again! Only now I get paid.
I've been trying to track down a Wii for a week or so, and it seems like there is a shortage here in the 'peg. Everyone seems to be camping out for them (launch and restock day) so I'm out of luck. I may be a dweeb but I'm not crazy. I can just wait for them to become readily available.
Scarface will tide me over until the Wii comes home anyway.

New Job! or Hectic Life for a While

New Job! Hey ya'll,
I have a new job. Which will be a second job for a while. A second job that takes precedence over the first job. I am now a Film Production Coordinator at Manitoba Film & Sound. Essentially I, along with another person, get to handle all the things that make making a movie so good in Manitoba. We get to read scripts and recommend locations, liaison with people in L.A. and tell them how awesome it is to shoot here (and what a good deal it is as well). There is also a handful of other administrative positions that aren't nearly as interesting, like database entering, etc. The only downside that I can conceivably see to this whole thing is that it's a "term" position until March, when both parties will decide if they want to stay in the relationship. That, to me, is a fancy way of saying probationary period that all jobs have. I don't foresee anything going wrong though.
The best part of the whole thing is that this is a job, providing steady hours, in a field that is related to what I took in school. I will actually be employed to my education. Now I can say that I do something cool, rather than talk about how I load buses. Not that I'm disparaging my current job, because it pays the bills and has been good to me, but it's time to move upward. I can't be doing manual labour my whole life. The only challenge over the next little while is going to be trying to balance the two places. Well, really only for a few weeks at Christmas, were things get hectic at the 'hound. The rest of the time I should be able to manage just fine. It's really only tomorrow and Friday that will suck, as I have to go straight to the depot from MF&S. Friday I'm also going to try to get a Ps3 as well. Not for me... for an investment in the future, as in someone else paying me more for it.
The movie is nearly done! I just need a few sound effects (eye gouge, heart punch, eye pop, squishy beating) and then BAMMO! Screening time, here we come!

Collection finished or Film Nearing Completion

I went to the Comic con this weekend and managed to find all the missing issues for my original Transformers series. I now have all 92 comics that were made in the mid-late 80's. Yeah hooo. I am so cool. At this point, I don't know what I will do with them, but I'm sure that reading them again will pop into the equation at some point.
I've been continuously working on the feature film and it's nearing completion. There are a few sound issues that I'm working on at this point, but I think that for the most part it's good to go. Not perfect, but definately watchable. I hope that it's received ok when we finally show the damn thing.
On another note, I finally found the complete Rick James discography! I've have some of them on record for a while now, but CD! It's the wave of the future I hear! Seriously, Rick James ruled. He had something like a 80-20 ratio in his songs. 80% of them were about having sex or wanting to have sex, while the other 20% were about drugs and his love of them. That's it. Nothing else. Even social commentary songs like "Ghetto Life" were at some point talking about having sex. He was so hardcore!
Saw "Borat" last night. It's funny, but I definately think a tad overhyped. I've been hearing people say he's the new Andy Kaufman and that he has more commitment to a gag then he ever did. That's a bit much. Kaufman would do things without cameras and purposely did things that were in no way "funny" or trying to get laughs just because he wanted to. He once read the entire Great Gatsby to a crowd of college students just to fuck with them. He also worked part time as a busboy just because he thought it was funny when people thought that they recognized him. Now THAT's commitment. Back to Borat.... it worked best when it was "unscripted" reactions, when it was trying to hard to force things it fell a little. There were also some scenes (the college kids) that people seemed to think were real, but were so obviously fake it boggles the mind as to how others could be so duped. He had multiple camera angles for that scene. There is no way that it could've been done for real like that. They were in a cramped space. The one kid who kept rambling on about women controlling men and minorities having all the advantages seemed really forced too. I didn't buy that entire scene. The movie is still worth seeing though. That is all.