I wouldn't call myself a religious person... but when I woke up at 4:30 this morning, for a 6 am crew call on the first shoot day of the short film I'm producing, my first time producing ever... I said a little prayer.

Please God let the crew show up even though the pay is embarrassing, please let the Irish Man be there at 7AM to let us into his bar, please let the sound turn out okay, even though we opted not to rent a mixer, please let the DP and editor not break into a cat fight on set, please let the crew be okay with me scheduling a 14 hour day, please let the street fair and the AIDS walk not interfere with our travel time, please let the director get the scene he wanted out of the location that I forced on him, please let nothing show up missing at the salon we shot at seeing that I named myself, my business partner and my business liable for any damages, please let lunch show up on time so we can get back to work on schedule, please let us get all the shots we planned that day, let the costumes fit, let the equipment run properly, and God, most importantly, please let me suddenly know how to be the producer and turn out a show that myself and everyone around me is proud of... it was the longest prayer I've said since high school. Since the time I begged God to relocate me from Alaska to New York City. Wow. I still don't know about religion, but whoever this God creature is, they sure can come through sometimes. There are only a handful of artistic endeavors in which I can call truly magical... and today was one of them.

~ km

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Check us out on MONDAY October 16th, as the co-founders of Get Reel LA in an internet TV interview hosted by Music Plus TV! You can catch us from 3-4pm, pst at www.MusicPlusTV.com. (That's 6-7pm for our East Coast friends)

Ohhhhhh cewwwwwwl! It's Friday night! What's on the agenda?!

Truth is: my bed is on the agenda. And maybe some Tivo'd episodes of Oprah. You know how they say you're supposed to put in 40 hours of time into your Acting Career, even if you DO have a day job? ummm....how? Please, someone, leave a comment here and enlighten me. (Leave out suggestions that include cocaine or No Doze.)

~mm

Wow. Sorry. I've been entirely too busy, and I don't normally admit that. I'm producing my first film. It's a short. It's 15 pages long. 15 pages and I think it's already put 15 gray hairs on my head and I've probably slept 15 hours total in the last few weeks and we're not even shooting yet. I had no idea how much goes into making films. It's an amazing process for any actor to go through, I tell ya, because you suddenly realize how easy you've got it. I mean, you have to show up on time and say your lines; you suddenly realize that the movie doesn't revolve around you. It revolves around the producer.

Just kidding. But not really.

All I'm really saying is, if one of these God forsaken actors show up on set next week late, or without knowing their lines, I may very well kill them.

Just kidding. But not really.
~ km

When I first came to LA, I had a guy at a bar tell me he was a Vacuum Cleaner salesman after I asked what he did. I believed him. (I think I even asked him about the technology of the Dyson...) Anyway, later on in the night, it came out that he was actually an Actor. I wondered why he wouldn't admit that, why he'd want to hide it. A couple of years later, here I am. The other night, when I told a random guy I was an Actor, he must've used the words "industry" and "networking" in conversation over 30 times each. From now on, out in social settings, I am now officially in Finance.