The Creatures at Rabbit Studios

Booked a job on the Rabbit Studios lot for a show called "Bucket." Just like when they darkened Broadway when Gershwin died, I was on the dark NY lots, late at night. The Rabbit New York sets are really run-down, they aren't the gentrified look that the ones over at Worldwide Studios. Felt like I was about to be mugged at any minute.

The peeps you meet on a set are incredibly varied. One guy was from Nepal, who first came over for a rowing competition. He said he doesn't want to go back, he'd have to work on his uncles farm and the politicians are all corrupt. Another lady was from China, she was told that capitalism was bad when she was in school, now China sez it's good. We had a very luvely retired couple. They work togther and as a hobby. He was in the Coast Guard in WWII. Been doing it for eight years. He's from the City of Orange in Orange County, which now has only one Orange Grove, that they planted in a park to preserve their heritage. This guy remembers being let outta school early to help combat the frost hitting the groves. Put gasoline in the groves. Another fellow was this cool gay guy with all this music. Kept playing his boom box and narrating to some girls who were dressed as doctors. A latino girl danced to the songs, and said that she had her wedding dress specially cut to look like the one Stephanie Seymour wore in the Guns & Roses September Rain video. Short-short wedding dress, really wedding dress mini.

I talked to a latino guy who said "girls are weird." He was considering doing steroids to build himself up. And our A.D. was also doubling as an extra. First time I've seen that. He sent me home, they didn't use about 10 of us. Thank god we still get paid. Have my first costume fitting today. They pay you for this, but not very much.