First day as an intern...

Today was my first day as an intern at Miracle Mile Management. It's a management company with clients like Bill Conti etc etc. All I've gotta say is...man, I hate answering phones. My very first phone call, and I forgot to ask who was on the line. And a few calls after...I remembered to ask...but when I redirected the line, I forgot his name! At least I got a laugh or two out of it. Ah geez. I'm not much of a phone kinda person.

Basically, I'm gonna be doing LOTS and LOTS of phone calls. Yes, answering the phone is one. The other would be to call people and ask for updates or details regarding a movie etc etc. I'm hoping I'll get better in time, but this certainly does not come so naturally to me. But well, tis good practice. Besides, Now I know just how hard it is to actually get hold of REAL people, and not just answering machines!

Anyways, I was in Antioch for a whole week. Left after the Williams concert, which was really really great. Played some classic old stuff during the first half, and the second half was most of his famous works like Star Wars, Memoirs of a Geisha, ET...Really nice. He seems like a really nice person too. He gave us like...3-4 encores...it was neverending!

Then we took a 5 hour drive back north. I was so excited to see Vader again! When we reached, we stood outside the side gate and we could see Vader through the cracks, sniffing like crazy. The minute we opened the door, he just POUNCED on us!! :D I was like, OMG, you are SO BIG!!! Then we spent like an hour just playing with him. At one point, I guess he couldn't decide whether he loved me for being there or hated me for leaving him. He was licking me like crazy, then I saw him trying to nip me a couple of times...then it was back to licks. Heh. Crazy dog.

We brought him out for walks the whole week. We took the bikes sometimes and made fatboy run after us. Heh. He's a fast runner now. :) He even chased after our car when we left for LA. He ran all the way to the junction and Cisco had to run and get him back. Guess he thought we forgot to bring him along. He was kinda depresesd the whole day after that too. :( Ah well.

I did attempt to do my final cue while I was there. But I guess it's just like being home...you know, how you can never get anything done at home...so yeah...nothing got done. But when we got home, I sat in front of the computer for like one whole day non-stop and managed to write a 3 1/2 minute cue. A friend came to pick us up and we went all the wya to Alhambra to Martin sound studios. It was really nice. The room sounded really warm and the orchestra sounded pretty full for its size. I managed to get 2 takes, and they sounded pretty good. The engineer was kinda cranky though. Haha. I miss Rocky, our engineer at PIT. He had this mood swings from funny funny funny CRANKY funny funny. :D But yeah, I guess thats the last time we'll ever be in a recording studio for a long long time.

After the recording 6 of us went to a chinese place down the street. Initially, we were supposed to eat at this place across the street...but SOME people... ;) refused to eat at a 'B' place. Haha. Man, you two would never survive in Malaysia if you only ate at 'A' places. There goes all the hawker food...and mamak...and most chinese restaurants....hahahaha. It's the Bs that usually taste good man!

Anyways, I'm pretty beat right now. Gonna go get some shut eye. Cheerios.