Just thought I would do a post for the sake of it. I started my job at Crust which is OK. I am basically a shit kicker who runs around filling up the toppings and making the odd salad. Though last night I started learning how to use the cash register, which I find quite funny seeing I have been using them for about four years. They tell me eventually I will learn how to make pizzas, another concept I find quite funny as I'm sure it is not that hard, seeing I made one in my interview. The good thing about the job is lots of hours, in fact I am working five nights this week as well as five hours at Angus and Robertson, so money, money, money!!! I also get paid every Sunday for Crust and every Thursday for Angus and Robertson so I basically get paid every three to four days which is good! Anyway love you and leave you, I have to go to Sound Light and Motion and learn how to use a sound recorder!!!

Thought I would post this picture of me, Ash, Rosie, Jess and Ash's friend Avi (I think that is how you spell it) who is the best cook in the world.

Recently I applied for my first job ever on a film. It is a low budget horror called "The Banshee" and they needed a runner. I heard about it though a guy from film school who is the producer and emailed me because he found my name on a contact sheet. I didn't get it unfortunatly, because they wanted someone with a car, but he has said I can come check out the set if I want. I am carefully excited about this as I think it might be a quite proffesional shoot. And maybe I will set my self up for potential future jobs.

I did however manage to get myself a job as a pizzamaker at Crusts Gormet Pizza Bar. Yum yum yum.

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Vikki
Happy Birthday to you

How much do I hate Murali K. Thalluri? The guy is 21 and decided to become a director 3 years ago. He is just about to release his first feature 2:37 which was in Cannes and he made with a self raised budget of $1.2 million. I mean sure he has all these excuses about his inspiration like his friend sending him her suicide tape, and getting bashed up by a gang and losing sight in one eye, but does he really need to show me up so much?

Hmmm, you know I have always had a problem with over achievers. Maybe I should deal with that? Oh well you can bet your arse I will still go see his movie and probably be really inspired.

I went to a emerging filmakers forum recently and a director talked about how making the movie that you have had stuck in your head for ages, is kind of like having an enema. When it is gone you are finally free to explore new ideas. I have had a film idea stuck in my head for almost two years now and I am desperate to get it out. It is called Closet Harry and has gone through so many transformations that I'm not even sure what the premise is anymore. My main character Jim has had every job on the planet including accountant, advertisment designer, film student and checkout operator. He has also been single, attacted, gay, straight and for a brief period a woman. He was also called Gordan for a while. I have decided to make a resolution to make this movie in time for the Kodak film student competition on the 31st of December. I think a deadline is the only way that I am ever going to make any sort of decision. So here is how it stands currently:

Jim is a Bartender. He hates his job but is too lazy to leave it for something harder. He has a girlfriend called Darcy. He also lives with two guys who are always getting him in trouble and doing strange things in the house. Jim calls them The Misspent Youth.

Yeah I have a setting and a basic storyline which I will not write down here, but at least I've started!

Well, so ends my first MIFF. I am sad to see it go but happy to know that it will return to me next year, and that I will always have the happy moments we shared together. We had a sweet goodbye sitting in the beautiful Regent theater; Geffery Rush, Jan Chapman, Emily Barclay, a few hundred people and I, watched Suburban Mayhem, one of the most original and funny Australian films I have every seen. During our time together I also saw Thank You for Smoking and A Scanner Darkly. Three of the best films I have seen in a long time. Also MIFF introduced me to John, a stunning looking first year Swinburne film student, who I sadly lost contact with, but have hopes of maybe one day running into again. Maybe... Its possible. Oh well must leave now, but I go planning my entries to next years festival.

I know this is my third post for the day but I just wanted to mention the new cafe at my school.

They have NUTELLA FILLED DOUGHNUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember going to church when I was little and the priest saying that being jealous was a sin, but I am sure that he sometimes he couldn't resist shooting a few bad vibes towards the pope occasionally.

My friend Jess at school informed me causally the other day that she is going to Chiang Mai, in Thailand, for a few weeks. While there she will be working as a runner for the producer of Rambo 4! Not that I consider Rambo 4 the height of cinema classic, but lets face it, who cares?!! Apparently quite a lot of big films are shot there because it is so cheep, and they will hire anyone who is white in Chiang Mai, even if they lack any film experience. So here is my question:

"Does anyone want to shout me a ticket to Chiange Mai?"

Well I finally got my results sorted out for Comparitive Imaging, unfortunatly they were late because a whole box of final assessments got missed placed. The problem was when i did get them I only recieved a pass which seemed a bit wierd seeing all my marks were Ds and HDs. So I thought that maybe I had totally failed my last assessment. When I checked though it seems my work had not only been lost once, but twice. I managed to find it though in about five minutes of searching though a box of assignments, marked. So I actually got a distinction, which brings my marks up to three Ds and a C. I actually thought I might fail the C subject so I was pretty happy with that. All up a good first semester.