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blacked out until
06.02.07
locked until
05.20.09
3:44 PM, Friday,
May 18th, 2007:
Here we go
again.
After
constant haggling, we're promised last
week we'd get the Living Room Live 3
contract by the end of this week.
Charlotte calls them 3 times this week
just touching base, enquiring about the
paycheck I still haven't received for
Oklahoma and nothing, not an email or
phone call. We finally call today, last
day of the week and the lawyer isn't even
in today. So we wait until Monday and keep
bugging. And this is just to start the
process. They'll low-ball us again and we
get to fight for another 2 months and
I don't get paid and end up having to
fill up my credit cards just to live as
they string it on and on and on. It was at
this point Charlotte stated the obvious...
in any other situation, this is when you
walk.
Frightening right?
I mean if you look at it from any other
standpoint - this is when you walk. Period.
I took way less than I should've last year,
worked 5 weeks without ever seeing a dime, they tried
to skimp out on one of those weeks and only recently
even paid for that. I bent over BACKWARDS during
the show - being ridiculously ambitious and blowing
them away (their words, not mine) - The Price is Right
Bit alone was 10 times more than they dreamed
possible, yet I destroyed my laptop in the
process. I go to Oklahoma for them with no contract,
they get pissed that we even ASK FOR ONE,
and I still haven't been paid over a month after
the fact... you walk here. You tell them to fuck off.
The Up & Adam thing is in perpetual limbo and I'm
certain at any moment it will completely fall through
because they just don't seem to understand how
television works... isn't that strange? How do
I have more common television sense than those at
CBS. How? Again, we could magically get the funding
and be shooting our pilots for TV this summer -
and I'll happily eat my hat...but I'm gonna stick to
my guns here and readily admit that it's a DOA. If you
don't understand the business model, oh and you
circumvent Letterman it's dead on arrival. Period.
But the truth of
the matter is it doesn't matter what's right and wrong
- I can't walk. I have no influence on this. They
will always try to suck every penny out
WHERE IT DOESN'T MATTER, and then throw
it out the window in other places. I'm curious to see
what the contract is that is taking so long.
I assume they're just trying to figure out what a
good starting point is to end up at $2000. I assume
they'll be like $1750 and we'll argue over $250 for
the next 3 weeks. Fuckin' weak. And of course my ideas
for the next one are much more complicated and will be
a bitch to edit. When will I ever learn. Stop
telling the truth and working so hard Adam, it's the
worst thing you could do for your career.
And that's where
the real story comes in: my career. My apathy towards
it is at an all-time low. Call it laziness, but
I just don't want to do ANYTHING. I'm so
disheartened with it, it is such a drag on me
emotionally and mentally - the fun times are now
hassles...and I want a family. And I don't
want to deal with this bullshit with a family. But
really - what are my options...going back into the
loan game? Well I'm just gonna forget I even said
that and realize that I don't have a family right
now...so I have the freedom to wait a little
longer...
