Monday, March 24, 2008

Very Strange Things

Every so often, in my line of work, I find myself thinking, "I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this very weird/retarded thing." And every time I work on something strange, I'm convinced that I've seen it all, only to be proved wrong a week later. This post will be a running list of all my odd jobs, which I will update sporadically.



I have:

- zipped a sweaty naked guy into a fried chicken costume.

- spent hours carefully peeling apart 3-ply napkins into 1-ply napkins.

- tied together horse bones.

- watched an Asian Santa doing backflips for two hours during a taping for Iron Chef.

- put glitter on miniature snowmen for a full day.

- carved an NYC taxi out of foam

- dug foot-deep trenches in 85 degree weather.

- climbed trees.

- been sent shopping for a very specific pink plastic flower.

- partied with well-dressed rich people while covered in mud.

- helped put together a life-sized horse.

- operated a follow spot for a remote control car.

- worked a 20-hour shift with one half-hour break.

- been told by a boss to hide so that others won't know I'm not working.

- laid out rugs of human hair.

- mopped up a putrid mix of red wine, rose petals, mardi gras beads and sweat.

- been filmed working by Martha Stewart's Stepford-Wivey TV crew.

- crawled through a spider-webby 3-foot wide tunnel.

- drunk wine on a boat in Lake George.

- driven a golf cart.

- been the go-to person for many anxious gay male dancers.

- shuffled horse shit around a stage.

- moved a tombstone with a palette jack.

- rigged a pinata.

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