Monday was a typical day at Intuition...but that night I had the first of three meetings of a mini-course I am taking, Feature Film Development. It is taught by an IC alum that I feel like has done a little of everything, and there is only 6 of us in the class so it was pretty laid back. We really spent the whole time talking about our internships and interests in the field after he did his bit about what he has done and how all his jobs helped him figure out what exactly he enjoys doing. For homework we then had to do coverage on a script he emailed us that is actually being made into a movie called Crazy, Stupid, Love. The trailer of the movie actually looks better than the script did, but I always think it's pretty exciting to know what a movie is about from reading the script, or a treatment, or something and THEN going to see it in theaters. Makes me feel like I am actually in the movie industry, haha.
(a scene from the movie, you know it's going to be funny with these two as the leads!)
Tuesday I wasn't feeling that well so I stayed home from my internship and got some work done for my Government and Media class. Later a group of us went to a taping of "Conan" where Tracy Morgan and Charlyne Yi were the guests. I can't remember who the musical guests were, some local group. Now I don't really watch Conan, but I can definitely see the appeal in watching it every night. It was really funny! I was also excited to see Andy Richter was a great edition to the show as co-host because I've seen more of his work than Conan's and I think he is a great actor. For one of their bits they had Larry King up in the rafters above the stage, saying that he was going to start a talk show up there, and we could actually see the camera man and stage hands and everything through all the lights and beams and stuff, so that was cool. Larry King was basically sitting right above us though, so all we could see of him was his arms, haha. Definitely something I was glad I went to. We got back just in time for Government and Media where we took our midterm, even though it is no longer mid-term. However, since we got to pick 25 out of the 40 questions to answer, I am hoping I did a better job on it than the quiz he gave us earlier in the semester.... :)
Wednesday I went into the production office for The Doctors and did more paperwork there. We hit a snag about half way through because we were missing some releases from one of the shows, but apparently they just had to get the talent to resign them later in the week because the originals were never found. :( At least everything is squared away now thought!
Thursday morning I decided to be adventurous and go roam around West Hollywood. I went to see Kat Von D's Tattoo Shop, but it was closed so I didn't even have to work up the nerve to go inside and check it out.
That afternoon I went to another taping of "Conan" (it just worked out that way!) where Jack McBrayer and Colin Quinn were the guests. Because these guests had both been on the show before, they had a little better of a history with Conan, so the dynamic between them was a lot funnier than that during the Tuesday show. The musical guest was Hanson! I was super pumped to see them since I am as big of a fan as any of their hit single Mmm Bop, however they might as well have been a different band! They sound different, they look different, their music has a different feel. I guess that's what you get when you take like 10 years off between your albums and go through puberty...
Friday I went out to lunch with two friends from Ithaca, Anna and Lauren, who were in LA because the documentary they made for Video Workshop got nominated for a College Emmy! So that was pretty exciting for them! I believe they came in 3rd place, and their professor and parents were all at the award ceremony, so we all thought that was pretty awesome for them! We went to Aroma Cafe, where I literally had one of the best meals I have had so far in LA. Definitely going to go there again!
That night a bunch of us went to Miceli's for dinner. The whole restaurant was very cute and Italian and the food was really good. My favorite part however was the singing waitstaff, everyone knows I'm a sucker for some serenading. I liked this place though because I am used to Ellen's Stardust Diner in NYC where they mostly sing show tunes, and here they sang more classical songs, which was nice.
Saturday I went with two other ICLAers, Connie and Francine, to SCU's Relay for Life. I was really upset to have missed Relay at Ithaca this year, so this helped make up for it, though I must admit, IC is a smaller school but has a much better attendance because we make Relay so awesome! We all bought luminaria bags, but it got really cold around 5 o'clock and we decided to leave before luminaria because there wasn't much to do other than walk the track. Instead we bought balloons at the dollar store and released the bags over their balcony from Oakwood. It was really moving to watch the balloons drift over LA and disappear over the mountains. It's moments like that, that make life worth living. Awe.
Sunday James and I went to explore downtown Hollywood, mainly because I wanted to find the bench that is Tom's favorite spot in 500 Days of Summer. Not only did we find the bench, but we found a lot of other cool spots in LA, like Pershing Square and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Gotta love a good exploration!
That night we went to Yogurtland with Anna, Lauren, and a few others before the two had to go back to Ithaca. It was definitely great to see them again over FroYo...haha.
Later that night, a bunch of us went to see Shitty Jobs again. Tyler's job got picked so he got to be interviewed on stage and then his job (being a waiter/bouncer at Benchwarmers in Ithaca, NY!) got reenacted on stage. Definitely cool to see all the crazy Benchwarmers employees come to life. Ben Schwartz wasn't there this week however, so that was a little sad.
Yesterday I kept pretty busy at Intuition, so that was definitely a plus.
Last night we had the 2nd meeting of our mini-course so we went over the coverage that we had to do and discussed what we liked and didn't like about the script. We then got into a pretty heated discussion about high school movies (mainly Easy A and Juno) and went over what we need to do to prepare for next week. We are gonna take turns being the creative team pitching the script and being the production team who the script is getting pitched to, so that should be interesting...
Now I am at Intuition and my lunch break has been over for 33 minutes, so I should probably get back to work. Until next time!
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