I just felt like blogging.

A director friend of mine who I’ve worked with a lot recently asked me if I wanted to do some PA work this weekend. Yeah, why not. Sounds fun. So my director friend gave me the info, where I met up with a friend of a friend who ended up being my co-pilot in 2010: Moby Dick, and we worked for two guys my actor friend from high school used to watch (first guy) and work with (second guy) in college. Small world.

Anyway, these two guys have just been hired by the Hub network, of which I’m a fan, to create some small segments to run repeatedly in the after school block, all summer long. (But.. there’s no school..?)  It’s a very low budget, low-tech, two guys and a skeleton crew hamming it up in a rock quarry. Everyone was being paid, and though not much, and it was for recurring bits on a nationwide cable channel, but it was still a bunch of guys making it work for the love of being able to create something.
It was fun. They were a great crew, I enjoyed working with them, and I’m glad various circles of friends overlapped and I got to join them for a day. I was working for friends of friends, but it still felt like I was just helping out friends. Kind of a happy medium between doing the working actor thing I do, and the buddy thing I do. Except I was PAing, not acting. And that’s all kind of fitting cuz they described their job as being between being paid for a regular tv series and roughing it with an internet budget. And cuz they’re film crew guys who were pretty much acting. Crazy, right?