Thursday, February 8, 2007

We get up early and head out to Starbucks to meet with Mike Amato. We have a great time telling war stories about the road and some of the bands that we have in common. Mike is just one of those people you meet that makes you say “I’m glad I know him”. He heads off for some Linkin Park business and we head to the Hyatt for lunch and one of the panels. While at lunch with guess who? Could it be? That’s right Dave Paiva. I should just adopt him. At lunch my mom calls to inform us about Anna Nicole Smith. After lunch is “Making a Production Of It” panel. It was a great discussion. Went over some of the age old problems like you know when you get to production rehearsals and you see the schedule, the set and other things and you say “How the f*ck are we gonna make this work and who the hell was in on the planning?”. The money people are in the bar whooping it up, they don’t come to the production panels because they don’t want to be held accountable. Thank goodness there are people out there like Jake Berry who know how to get it done. After the panel we visit with some people that are attending and head up to the bar, that’s right a very loud bar. We were planning on going to the awards but after getting back to John’s in rush hour traffic we really didn’t have it in us. How do people drive like this every day? We are in for the night. I’d rather get some work done on the computer and rest up for the Production Meeting 4 Tournament in the morning. YEE HAAA!!!