New Belber Music Video

Hiatus

Well, I'm sure many of you were wondering what had happened to me. Not to worry. I just was busy. On wednesday I PA'd for a this television show "south of nowhere". I went to a youth correctional facility, where driftwood was shot and disassembled a set. One highlight was this amateurish crew was taking down a large 30x10 flat set wall. However, there was a another piece screwed on top of it. So, the concept is to put people on both sides of the wall and push/pull towards one side to gently walk the wall to the ground. I got put in the middle on the side that was hitting the ground. I damn near got flattened. They didn't realize that there were two sections and one of the sections was snapping off everyone was yelling "it's gonna go get away" but I'm holding up this few thousand pound wall you can't just start running. So i made my way to the side just before it crashed to the ground nearly ripping off my hands. Fucking novices.

On thursday jim and I tried hiking to an abandoned gold mine only to be greeted by a four foot long rattle snake. Video of that coming soon. Get at ya boy.

Phoebe and Me

Today the ferocious Phoebesaurus Rex and I laid out by the pool. I got fucking burnt to a crisp. Then the illustrious rex and I went to class. Then i bought Phoebe ingredients and she cooked Pasta and Turkey Meatballs and it was delicious. Then we went to a bar for a little get together of boston people (it was a boston bar). Then we drove back to the oakwoods.

Professional Truck Driver

Today I woke up bright and dearly and picked up a 17' box truck. Turns out it was in the ghetto of Los Angeles. I was the only white guy for miiiiilllllllleeeesssssss!!!! It looked a lot like Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. With the single story houses lumped next to each other with bars over the windows and the such. Well I just sauntered through in my bright red shirt, I may as well have yelled out "Bloods for Life". It was fun, really.

Then I went to Dapper Cadaver, a prop shop that specializes in gore and the macabre, and met a Morrissey wannabe. This guy had the hair he had the vampire teeth and he had the super long fingernails. He was a complete and utter tool. I picked up an autopsy table, light box with xrays, pistol syringes and various medical instruments.

Picked up three sexy nurse costumes and brought all of it to the LA Convention Center. Got to work with teamsters and Union workers. Laziest fucks ever.

Driving a 17' truck in Los Angeles is fun. I almost hit at least 40 cars. My sideview mirrors were all jacked up on top of it. One of them was missing the part that allows you to see super close to your truck so i had a large blind spot on my driver side and an even larger blind spot on the passenger side, as that mirror wasn't tightened enough and would fly out of place do to the force of wind.

Then I watched Barton Fink.

HOLLA AT YA BOY!

That really hurt Charlie!

I hang out with this dude... eat your heart out!

Wiffle Ball

Played Wiffler at Los Feliz Blvd Park. I hit three home runs in one inning! But we lost :(

Escondido Falls

Phoebe Jim and I went to Escondido Falls in Malibu. It is a 4.5 mile hike to the base of a waterfall. Then there is a vertical climb 50 feet up to a landing then another 150 up to the next tier of the waterfall. The soil was very loose and the path was no more than 2 1/2 feet wide at times with a drop off on one side. Getting up was the easy part. Getting down was another story. You had to lean back on all fours and go into a control slide for about 25 feet at a time.

Then met up with Phoebesaurus and some of her friends at a bar, then played mario tennis with shwa and company then saw eric gulliver on my walk back to my apartment the end.

here's a video of the lower falls.

"live with jesus"

Alright, after working out I went to the pool and wrote some of my script. I bought a 20 oz beer at the convenient store. This fat southern man asks me "is that a beer?" I reply "it sure is". He goes "it's bigger than you". I said "is it?" he says "you going to get loaded?" and I said "no i've had years of practice" he goes "do you know what alcohol does to you?" and i said "yes it makes you popular" and he goes "it destroys your liver" and i said "well live fast" he goes "no you want to live a long life" and i said "it's better to burn out than to fade away" and he goes "no you want to live a long life you want to live with jesus" and i said "i lived with jesus he kept stealing my clothes" he didn't like that but he shut up.

Then i played tennis with Savasti, it was fun and weird considering she didn't like me too long ago. She asked Nikki if I had a crush on her and then i texted her and told her i did jokingly and then she lightened up.

Playing guitar with Jim and doing laundry with Phoebedactyl!

Phoebe. Sushi.

Got some sushi with Phoebe and Pat. Spicy Tuna Tempura, Alaska Rolls, Crab and shrimp rolls, etc. It was great. Then Phoebe and I drank wine and ate popcorn again.

Hollywood Jim

Yesterday I returned to the office and there was a woman from a production company calling for me. I look at my boss and he gives me the "go ahead answer it. it's for you". So I do and this chick starts asking me about Guillermo Del Toro. She wants to send him a cut of a film or something like that. I tell her that she needs to send it to my office first. She asks for my name and give her my full name and apparently the mail room is going to be expecting a package for Mr. Jim Dietter.

I am now Hollywood Jim.

Movie Set, Gill

Day two of a music video. It was outside on this beautiful estate complete with recording studio, swimming pool, manicured lawn. It was ridiculous. I got sunburned today though, it's already summer in L.A.

Then I went to the hottub and there was a marathon runner with his marathon medal talking about the marathon (l.a. marathon was today). Bastard was wasted! WASTED! and he wouldn't stop talking about the angels that carried him that last three miles. Apparently he stopped to poop along the course. Weird. His name was Gill.

Then boo wrecked some bitches in Mario Tennis. Get some.

Your Mother's Lover

I was BBE on set today for a music video for a band called "Your Mother's Lover". The job of the BBE or best boy electric, is to run cable or power lines evenly among different circuits in so a fuse doesn't blow. The house we were shooting in had very old electrical wirings so it was interesting to say the least. The idea is that if there are multiple circuits it's easier to give power. However, on the bottom floor the dining room, family room, kitchen and hallway were all on one circuit. This makes things dicey. If you plug in two big lights to any combination of these rooms you blow a fuse. Also, since the wiring was fried it was near impossible to use a circuit finder to map out the power grid. After much trial and error we finally figured it out. It was fun.

One highlight was a 5k watt light which weighs about 80-100 pounds was needed to light a window from outside. they require a special, heavy duty stand, which we didn't have. So we frankensteined this thing to stand on a plastic light case being held together with wires and c-stands and it was a disaster waiting to happen. And then it happened. Wind caught a tarp that was shielding it from the rain. The tarp caught the light and the light hit the ground. CRASH. 100 pounds of expensive, precision machinery. It started smoking and it was raining pretty good so there was the threat of electrocution/fire. We unplugged it quickly and averted any disaster.

Another was we hooked up a smaller light which had never been used before. Within five minutes a large BANG occurred. The bulb in the light shattered with such a force it destroyed the steel reflector in the light. If the light had an open face and wasn't covered the glass shards would jettison out destroying everything in its path. With that said it was an awesome shoot.