Went to a thing the other night. A shin dig of local film people. There were name tags involved. Little “Hello, My Name is…” stickers that allow you the rare freedom of gazing at women’s chests all night without fear of getting caught in a glance.<\/p>\n
The stickers posed a bit of quandary for me. In addition to our names it was suggested that we write our profession on our tag. This was presumably so that others might introduce themselves if they thought we could be of some benefit to them. Being that I would probably have had to line up three tags one below the other in order to enumerate my list of recent positions I wasn’t sure what to write.<\/p>\n
As a bit of a self-starter I tend to do a lot of writing since that’s where everything begins. But if I were to scribe “writer” on the tag at an industry party I may as well scribble “leper”. Next up would have been “director” but I’ve used that one in conversation before and it’s frightening how quickly the eyelashes start batting and the flirtation begins… And that’s just from the male actors. Then there’s “producer” but any conversation started on that postulation would be doomed to end in disappointment for the other person. I’m as much a producer as I am a professional lung operator; we all do what we have to to survive. What else? “Actor?” Well I kind of want to be taken somewhat seriously so that’s out. “Animator?” Yikes, see “leper” and add “with halitosis” to it. “Cinematographer”… Yeah, until someone asks me a technical question, then the jig is pretty much up.<\/p>\n
In the end I went with “Tyler”. Except my lower-case “r” sort of came out looking like a “v”.<\/p>\n
So, “Tylev”.<\/p>\n
Yup. All that before I even got inside. I’m great at public gatherings.<\/p>\n
We all do what we have to to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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