10 Things I Love About Lizzy

10. She's beautiful... what I'm trying to say is, she's a total babester!

9. She twirls her hair when she's thinking about something big

8. She sings songs despite her grasp on the actual lyrics

7. She tilts her head left when she looks at her outfit in the mirror

6. Her head fits perfectly on my shoulder

5. She doodles keywords of phone conversations on available paper

4. She says "Shiza Minnelli!" when something surprises her

3. She drives her Honda Civic like a NASCAR race car driver. Aggressive but always in control

2. She's super creative and artistically talented and yet she always argues me about that

1. She is my best friend

Long live Punktual!

In high school, I was in a garage band called "Punktual". Apparently we were a punk rock band who strongly valued being on time... I was the lead singer, played guitar, and wrote the music. We weren't very good.

A couple days ago I was looking through some boxes and came across my notebook full of old lyrics. At the risk of total humiliation, I've decided to post the one that made me laugh the hardest. Here it is!

I jumped in my car and headed to the beach,

Crossing my fingers that I might see,

The perfect girl with golden hair,

Face of beauty beyond compare.

I smile at her and she smiles at me,

I go to say hi but I didn't see,

She was really smiling at her buff boyfriend.

He beat me up 'til my face looked like my end.

I pull myself up off the ground,

Only to be met by a horrible sound,

Of people pointing and laughing at me,

I ripped my shorts from the crotch to the knee.

I ran to my car, the people to my back,

To only find that my car had been jacked.

I threw my stuff down wanting to die,

Clenching my fists as I yelled to the sky.

I sat in the sand, in total despair,

Not realizing the girl standing there.

She came to me and asked what was wrong.

I laughed and said the story is too long.

She said that she had nothing but time...

1 Corinthians 2:9
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him"

Gulliver's Travels

The funny thing about my job as a VTR (Video Technician Recorder) Operator is that most people don't really understand what I actually do. To be honest, I just recently found out what VTR even stands for! Haha! So I thought posting this pic from "Gulliver's Travels", a movie I recently worked on, might help us all understand my job a little better.Above is a picture I took on my camera phone of the boat used in the movie by the star, Jack Black. For this shot, the crew built a cage on the bow and mounted the camera to the top to film Jack driving the boat. Being that space was limited on the "picture vehicle", the director rode alongside on a separate boat, but still needed to watch the filming live. So I climbed up onto the cage, mounted and connected a modulus transmitter to the camera, which broadcasted the signal wirelessly to a receiver on the directors boat, allowing him to watch everything the camera was filming. Does that make sense?

So, in a nutshell, that's what I do. I transmit, record, and playback video from the camera for the director. Sometimes with wires. Sometime without. But either way, I really like it.

Money makes a wonderful servant but an awful master.