I just erased a movie.
It took less than 30 seconds, but I just erased an entire movie from existence. There were three hard drives here with the movie that I helped shoot last December. Litigation ensued(no pun entended) and when the editors sent back the hard drives they sat and collected dust for a few months.
Today, the last day of my job at this office I have worked at for the last 16 months, I wiped those hard drives and deleted the movie from our precious gigabytian space.
It is a certain level of discomfort I feel that the first feature I worked production on met with such an untimely demise, though i have to admit, I'm certainly glad that it was me that pressed the big red button. The lessons I learned throughout this stressful encounter with cinematic anxiety are enough to last me a long time and definitely things I hope that I never run into again.
On a related but unrelated note, one of the other hard drives snapped and crashed it's aluminum/silicone truck packed with data-fertilizer into the Oklahoma City Federal Tower that is our editorial computer. The Timothy McVeigh of hard drive manufacturers, LaCie, will receive the death penalty from me as I never will buy any of their products again.
On a completely unrelated note- now is the best chance to subscribe to my blog. since i'll be unemployed i'll be able to fill the void that is MySpace with deliberate and neurotic prose, or other awkward domestic terrorism related metaphors. Doesn't that sound like a picnic?
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