We'll call this
one Adam's Law. 'Cause it has more to do with my
stupid idea of how things should be - and then
actually saying them. I knew almost immediately
after the words left my mouth that I pretty much
killed my day. I'll explain.
So last Sunday
Night had some guys over to play some video games.
I had spent the last 2 1/2 days laboring over the
year long free lance project, it was finally done and
I emailed a version for final approval. I
actually had a Monday off to just relax. Was gonna
practice Live Adam throughout the day and just chill.
Ended up playing Monkey Golf until 6 in the friggin'
mornin'. I swear man - video golf has a strange
addictive quality to it that is so hard to explain.
Even Jess gets into it. There's that twinge of "Oh, I
can do that better..." (so integral to videogames) -
that golf has written all over it.
At one point
during the night, we were all talking about having
Labor Day off and how ironic that was. I mentioned
that it should really be the one day we absolutely
kill ourselves. 'Cause it's good to work your ass off
WAAAAAAY too hard every now and then. The more
I thought of it the more I realized that it
would probably become a cool tradition to have one day
a year that you work as hard as you possibly
can.
But oh well - not
this year, I'm chillin' the hell OUT. I didn't
want to see another video editng timeline for at least
a month. And why oh why did I have to say
that.
Get to sleep
around 6:15 - and think I hear the phone around
10:30. Get up, it's my mom - so we chat for a bit.
Soon interrupted by an instant message pop-up from my
partner for this video gig. Total moment of ethics
man...I wanted to go back to sleep
SOOOOOOO bad. And I just knew this wasn't
gonna be good. I was gonna be working half the
day on the changes...but I also knew we were
under a serious deadline so every second counted. Ends
up I have to start from scratch. Partly my fault as I
took a risk that they'd like it a diffferent way - but
this is easily a multi-day piece. And from complete
scratch? A 15-20 minute piece - a fast one at that:
it's popopopopopopop. AND it has to be overnighted the
following morning the 2nd. It was literally going to
take me 18 hours to pull this off. So I started
the process...
In my life
(seriously, even though I've said this about
Trinitrons or other things) - 12 hours has never
passed quicker. I've done long editing projects
before, but it's always interrupted by little moments
of rendering. You put something together and then you
wait for a bit for an effect to render or a
piece...maybe for compression - something. But this
was as fast and as hard as my pea-brain could handle.
Gathering hundreds of video pieces and music, and
sound bites and testimonials - it was so constant.
Didn't eat, certainly didn't sleep - and at close to
midnight I was done...so I thought. 3 more
hours of dealing with audio issues that I'm still not
thrilled about. Sucks. Then of course work at 7. Son
of the bitches.
But it really
comes down to me opening my big mouth the night
before. "Hey! Why don't we work really hard on labor
day?" (sigh) Mental labor's a bitch too because as
fried as I am right now? I still have sooooooo much to
pull off before I leave on Saturday. Looking forward
to tomorrow though. Gonna rehearse Live Adam all day
and test the equipment for the show. Easy. Fun. Not
stressful. Damnit - there I go again with my big
mouth. Damnit.
Damn - how am I
still awake? And today's the worst too...'cause the
night after no sleep is usually hibernation time.Your
body makes up for it. So getting ANOTHER 3 or 4 hour
sleep night is just silly. I'm goofy tired. My
short-term memory at work today was the equivalent of
a 5 year old. Every few minutes I would think: "Why am
I standing here?" By the time I walked to the
file cabinet - I would completely forget what the hell
I was looking for. That grew frustrating pretty
quick. Yup, just standin' there looking at files...
zero clue what I should tell my brain
next.
But it
was worth it. The "Band of Gold" (is that
a killer wedding band name or what?) got a
really good production. In fact,
I gotta take a minute and talk about
this band. Tightest wedding band ever. So
well rehearsed, so well executed, so
varied - incredible. 8 piece band - 6 of
them sing. Always the key to a strong band
in my opinion - it's the key to pulling
off every song ever written, and this band
can do it. I was so impressed with them
that my first take at their production was
overly song heavy just because
I thought people NEEDED to hear
this band kick it. Impressive, first-rate
all-around. Check
'em out.
And of course if you're in the New
York/New Jersey area and are planning a
big event - go to the site:
www.bandofgoldmusic.com
-
quite a band.
Labor Day. Heh,
I'll never look at it the same again. Now I'm gonna
SLEEEEEEEEEP.
