Two Days at Cozy's...

...and only one neon light broken. We should be relieved. On Wednesday, Lucy directed the band sequence for the "Dirty Virgins" (or is that "Dirty Virgin", i.e., singular? How many Dirty Virgins are there???). Onahoua Rodriguez, playing Shane, is the lead singer of this band. Justin Klosky, "Jim", is the guitar player, and Wendy from The Fabulous Miss Wendy, from whom we obtained the catchy title song for "Love Song", played bass. One of Jenna's friends was the drummer. (I should've caught his name, but all I could think about was whether we'd have to clear the Spiderman picture on his t-shirt.) The four of them made up the Dirty Virgins and they looked smokin' hot on screen. We got enough people to show up on Wednesday so that we could shoot the crowd shots and not look retarded.





On Thursday, Laura directed the last scenes from her vignette at Cozy's. Since minimal extras showed up on this day, crew ended up being extras, including yours truly. We even grabbed Walker, the guy who works at Cozy's, to be an extra. (I got a chance to talk with Walker during breaks and he is one interesting guy. He hung out with the rock legends at Woodstock, and now, on the weekends, helps produce a radio talk show.) Anyway, I rather enjoyed sitting by the bar table as an extra. Got a chance to have stimulating conversations with a couple of the other ladies on set. All I can say is, if only the camera caught some of our discussions...whew...gotta save some of that juicy stuff for the next film...lol.





On both days, there were several kissing scenes on screen. The first day was between "Dustin" and "Shane". Hot. The second day was between "Jackie" and "Jared", right after Jared gives Jackie the Rabbit vibrator (courtesy of The Pleasure Chest). That's true love for ya.

Today will be a busy for me, as I prepare to shoot the "Silverlake party" tomorrow. It will be an outdoor, night scene. We're shooting at my brother's house and my sisters are coming up to help out as well. Yes, folks, it does take a village to make a film. Or at least, the help of your friends and family.

Notes from a Diving Board

We made it through our first day of production. Started the day at 6am. The 5-ton grip truck arrived and parked next to the 500 amp generator. Lucy and I started laughing (heck, that's better than crying, right?) and said we've come a long way baby. When this project first started, we thought that we'd each tackle a short to make it easier than making a feature on our own. However, it's turned out 100% more difficult and 4 times more expensive than we had originally thought.



The lighting guys started setting up the huge lights. Because we were shooting inside the Cerritos Swim Center, which is quite a large space, more light was required. About 2 hours later, our sound guy arrived with his equipment, and we were almost on our way.



Our crew was professional and there were no major snaffus. Even though we had 4 PAs who never showed up and caused us to be slightly under-crewed, everyone came together and pitched in. At one point, the fire marshalls stopped by to make sure we were complying with code, walked outside to look at our generator, and went along on their merry way. First day of production, and we weren't shut down!

Justin and Shireen looked great on screen together. And this was just the first day. Pool visitors were standing around watching us shoot, and we chatted with a few people. Shireen's mom stopped by to see Shireen in action. It was the very first time that her mom had been on set to see her work. Wow! Of all the movie sets that she could've visited, we were the one!

We're shooting again today, at 5pm, to do the locker room scene. Hopefully Lucy, our on-set photographer, will post some pics for y'all to see.

Christine