ok so today wasnt that great. i slept late, ate some corn pops, went to the movies with my friend, came home, watched some battlestar….battlestar? hm? OH! BATTLESTAR! thats right! today WAS awesome, i forgot to mention that i met tricia helfer from battlestar galactica! so hot, want to touch the hiney. check this out:
so sunday was fun. i went to disneyland with some friends. it was free so i said why not. it turned out to be a lot of fun. i went on an actual roller coaster for the first time in my life. i used to be mortified by roller coasters when i was a little kid, i thought i would still be afraid to go on one but i guess i had a different image of them in my head than i did in person. i found that when i got there i was not nervous whatsoever. so i got on the roller coaster with no problem and i loved it. it was a good time, here’s a group photo:
also check out this hilarious video, it made me laugh out loud.
The 4th season of Battlestar Galactica premieres tonight on Sci-Fi channel at 10pm. Everyone should watch it because it’s one of the best shows on TV right now. It’s like Lost….but in space…hm…”Lost In Space” sounds like a good idea for a TV show…i’ll get working on that right away.
yes, thats right, the job search is STILL going strong. and although i found out today that FOUR people i work with got jobs, I still have not. I’ve been interviewing all over so hopefully something will come about soon enough, I have t-minus 2 weeks left as an NBC Page 
anywho, today i worked at the tonight show and got to meet a certain celebrity who was sitting in the audience with his family. it was Norm MacDonald!
of SNL fame. which is so odd because i JUST watched his movie “Dirty Work” on hulu.com last week, and whilst watching it I thought to myself “hm, whatever happened to norm macdonald?” So i wiki’d his name and read all this shit about him. so what are the odds that i get to meet him in person a week later? if things really work like that, i should start reading playboy magazine more often.
but it was fun, i shook his hand and told him i was a huge fan of his when he was on SNL. and he said thanks and asked me what my name was. then i showed him where the men’s room was. haha, my job is not demeaning at all. then later on i was asked to escort him and his family to their car, but someone from his party wandered off so we stood there for a while waiting for him to show up. in that few minutes i got to talk with norm. it was really cool. stuff like that never gets to happen. but anyways, i asked him if he knew my uncle doug neill (who was a prop guy at snl for 15 years) and he said “sure! i remember him, hows he doing?” which was a shock to me. i didnt think he would remember him. but there ya go. crazy!
that is a new video that me and my friends made today. it’s a tribute to a great scene in a classic movie: pulp fiction. this is in the same vein as the last video tribute we made which was to a great scene in predator. you can see that one right below.
March 17 – St. Patty’s Day. Also the last day of shooting (for the extras) on the set of “Star Trek”. For this of you not in the Matt McGregor KNOW, i did some extra work on J.J. Abrams Star Trek in December. So I was called back to do one final day of work….on March 17.
I had to be on set at 4am which means that I had to wake up at 3am and drive to Cal State Northridge (CSUN) which is about 20 minutes away. I got there at precisely 4am thanks to mapquest (so useful!) and immediately was shoved into the hair and makeup tent for a haircut, which i dont mind because if any movie or tv production has to cut your hair, they give you whats called a “hair bump” or in other words 5-10 dollars. So they gave me 5 bucks, totally worth it to me. After that I ate some mediocre catered breakfast and then was herded out to the on location set, which was a college campus made to look like “starfleet academy”. Now it annoyed me seeing all this cool stuff and not being allowed to take any photos of it, but to my surprise, i found some pictures online today thanks to a SPY who was in a nearby building taking pictures of us! check them out here!
if you look closely at the 3rd picture you can see me. I’m like right in the middle of the pic. kinda blurry and hard to see, but i assure you…it’s me. it was a fun day but also a long one. It was freezing in the morning, but once the sun came out, it was boiling hot. I got some nice sunburn on my face which is always fun. plus my allergies were kickin it into high gear as well. but as you can see, the set was really cool. lots of blue screen effects will be added to make the campus look like its in San Francisco, which is where the majority of the movie takes place, the rest of the movie im sure will be IN SPACE. but yeah there were crazy movable pillars and a sweet future car, which they told us only cost them $2000 to have made. it was really cool looking as you can see in pics 4 and 5. Anywho, the shoot finally ended at 7pm and i got home a little after that. My friend Larry (of vegas trip fame) called and asked me if i wanted to grab a drink with him and some other guys for St. Patty’s Day. Now although I was exhausted, I’m not a human vag so i agreed to join him under the pretense that the night would not be that long. Man was I wrong. We went to a place called Barney’s Beanery in Hollywood. It’s a cool bar, in fact, kid from those early 90’s kid’n'play movies (House Party, House Party 2) was there.
That’s him on the left and man is his career non-existant.
Me and Larry requested “California Love” by tupac and dr. dre for karaoke. i would, of course, sing the dre part. but unfortunately they never played our song, maybe it was our drunken chanting of “TU-PAC, TU-PAC, TU-PAC” that made them not want to play it, but i say it was because they were afraid of how good at rapping we would be. you cant stop these skills! so finally we decided to leave. i went to bed at about 2am. i was awake for 23 hours and felt like death. thank you j.j. abrams, thank you saint patrick, thank you alcohol. ok now i just sound like that alanis morrisette song. im OUT!
this weekend was a blast. me and and my 3 friends, joseph, matt and larry all drove out together on friday morning to the excalibur hotel on the strip in las vegas. we got there around 4pm and started drinking immediately. we went and pretended to play slots in order to get free long island iced tea’s from the “bar wenches” as we deemed them. so after about 3 long island’s we decided it would be a brilliant idea to buy a handel of bacardi and mix it with some sprite and drink that all night until we get to whatever club we go to. this way we wont spend as much money…brilliant. here is larry, matt and me (left to right) with our football shaped “goblets” toasting to tyranny!
during this drinking time we met up with some friends who were also in vegas that weekend at the planet hollywood hotel. we quickly realized that they were being lame and we didnt want to wait around for them, we had bigger plans. so we ended up losing joseph in the mix of things (he chose poorly as you will soon find out).
so the 3 of us went to a club called LAX in the Luxor hotel. by this point we had finished our goblets of sprite and bacardi and we’re pleasantly plastered. we all whipped out our NBC ID’s and tried to schmooze our way into the club for free. we quickly grabbed some random girls and told them we’d get them in for free. they ended up being 2 mormon chicks from Montana, and not only had they never been to vegas but had never even been to a club in their lives. wow. here is a picture of us with them.
note: matt looks like a rapist in that picture.
so while those 2 were busy trying to score with those girls, i called my friend erica who i had met in vegas last time i was there. she lives in vegas and is always ready to chill with me. so about an hour after clubbing it up she shows up. by this time i am beyond retarded. we danced for a while and even got to see Heidi Montag from the hills.
so needless to say, we danced a little and had some fun. to make a long story short. she took me home with her.
…..just kidding, the story doesnt end there. it took me until i walked in her door that i realized…i was sick. i yakked in her toilet and ruined any chances of doing anything. so i just crashed at her place. what a waste.
so then i wake up at 2pm the next day and ask her to drive me back to the hotel. i get there and expect a barrage of insults and mockery about my night. but alas, my story was overshadowed by josephs, who was now back with the group. his night was far worse than mine. after the 3 of us left joseph with our other friends. they met some random strangers who got them a free limo ride to SCORES, one of the nicest strip clubs in vegas. the strangers also got them in for free. so at that point in the story i asked joseph how much money he spent. he sadly just handed me a receipt…
$844.00!!!!
my jaw dropped! what kind of an idiot spends that much money on girls just giving lap dances. he didnt even have sex with them! he got home at 6:30am when they CLOSED THE CLUB! i couldnt believe it. in comparison, my story seems like a happy ending. at least i didnt spend any money!
so to make us all happy, we went to the MGM hotel’s $30.00 buffet. and man did we eat our moneys worth. i, myself, had about 5 plates of food over the course of 2.5 hours. THEN a dessert plate. it was amazing. once we were full, we decided it was time to start drinking again. we mixed the sprite/bacardi concoction and began our second night of debauchery.
this time we all stuck together and decided to go to a club called STUDIO 54 in the MGM hotel. we didnt get in for free this time, but cheap enough that it was worth it. larry and joseph parted ways together after a while leaving just me and other matt. we quickly found 2 girls willing to hang out with us. the best part was that they were BRITISH. i must have asked them to say the word “bollocks” about a thousand times. it was fantastic. we spent the whole night dancing with them and ended up eating breakfast with them at 5am as well. then they left us by letting us know that they are english, and the english dont bring boys home on the first date. so once again, we failed as men and we retired to our sleeping quarters.
just when we thought our night couldnt get any more exciting, we walked into our hotel and a woman approached us and said “blowjob, this morning?” we just said no and laughed it off, it was the perfect cap off to a very strange night.
we slept till 11am and hit the road shortly after we woke up. we made it home in 4 hours. it was a weekend full of ups and downs, but all in all we had a blast. i leave you now with a picture that made us laugh a lot. it was hanging in our bathroom. till next time.
so this morning i had my 2 job interviews. the first one was cool, it was for a small tv development company on the warner bros. lot (right next to the famed warner bros. water tower i might add). that job would be cool if i got it, very small, very low key, lots of creative involvement, room to move up. the other job wasnt so cool. it was at a small company thats sole purpose is to add subtitles to dvds. kind of cool but not really. basically i would be sitting at a computer all day logging scenes…been there, done that, BOR-RING!
so today was supposed to be my day off, but my boss called me in to work cause they were short a guy. this was totally fine by me because i love and need money at all times of my life. so i go in and it was seriously…THEE most boring day ever. i was looking forward to getting home and rocking call of duty 4 for like 12 hours straight on the xbox 360. but then at about 2 oclock i get a text from my friend larry (who im going to vegas with this weekend). he wants to know if i want to join him at the “10,000 B.C.” premiere! yes, THE premiere at Mann’s Chinese Theater. so of course i decided to go on the basis that it was free and that my afternoon otherwise would have consisted of video games.
so larry explains to me that it isnt a garaunteed entry but we are going 2 hours before the start of it so things should be ok. we drive to hollywood, park and quickly get in line. unfortunately there was a man who kept farting right in front of us, it was gross and unnecessary. so we waited and waited and waited. in my waiting time, i took some pictures of the theater with all the lights and stuff, i hope they come out ok (ill post them soon). so then finally its now 7:30 (we started waiting at 5:20) and the line starts to move. we keep moving and moving and moving and finally we get right to the door, its us with about 4 people in front of us. then they make the announcement, “no more”…….wow, it sucked. we went home after that and played call of duty 4….now thats a game.
shitty night altogether, but then i checked one of my many movie websites later on and saw these cool posters they are releasing for this movie called “watchmen” which is based on a graphic novel i read which is GREAT, i recommend it to anyone. but anywho, the posters are badass, check them out.
so bad ass..
…as in, the job hunting party, aka…ME and me alone. thats right kids, im looking for a new job. the page program only lasts 1 year and i started on march 26 2007. so ive got a few weeks and then im shit outta luck. so if youre wondering why i havent posted a lot lately its because ive been busy lately kissing ass and sucking up to interviewers left and right, trying to catch a break in this crazy business. I had one interview for a small production company on the warner bros. lot that i thought went well last thursday. they sent me an email today saying that they are still in the interviewing process and would let me know about the position in time. and now tomorrow i have 2 back to back interviews: one is to be a closed captions guy hehe. the other is to work at a small production company on the warner lot yet again but not the same one from last thursday. then i have another interview thursday morning and that one is to be a logger. so thats the current status in the job hunt. ill try and post about them as they develop. PEACE Y’ALL!
PS – here is another headshot of me.
