Well the last time I left off I said I got a music video. The music video was for Paper Streets ( the lead singer used to be in Dial 7). They have this hip hop/rock/techno sound, it's really great and fresh sounding, I can definatlley hear them being on the radio.
We practiced for two days. The first practice was at this gym called Equinox out in Westwood which is on the other side of Beverly Hills and just as nice so you can imagine what this place looks like. WOW! I have never seen a gym like this. Uniforms all black and the shirts said what you did. Train, Yoga, Desk whatever you did people know. It was all windows and bright colours with a clothing store as soon as you walk up the stairs. You had to walk through the "green cafe" downstairs to get up to the second floor which is this huge reception area and then up another flight of stairs to get to the actual gym part. A membership must cost more then what this trip is costing me.
Anyways we are upstairs rehearsing in one of the rooms when our choreographer Brianna says "don't you know who that is on the tread mill, its Marlon Wayans." Of course me a celebrity junky and going no wear without a camera in LA "just in case" pulls out my iphone and pretend I am making a call and sit there taking pictures of Marlon Wayans on the treadmill. I think he saw what I was doing because he started smiling but didn't get off the treadmill. I know it's not that clear but trust me it was him LOL. How much does that suck though, the last thing I would want (if I was a celebrity) is some celebrity junky like myself taking photos of me while I am working out. I am just as bad as the paparazzi HAHA!!! WHATEVER!!! I LOVE IT!!! I'm in LA!!!
We had another rehearsal the next day and then day off and then the day of the shoot.
The video was being shot at Red Club in Newport Beach (yup the OC) so I was pretty excited. I took a bus out to Studio City so Richie (dancer from the video) could pick me up and we could be on our way.
It was a Friday of the long weekend and a ton of traffic. We were barley moving. Apparantly the traffic is always like that on Fridays because nobody in LA likes to work on Fridays. Must be nice lol. The drive was long but really fun. Richie's friend Ryan was with us and it was pure jokes the whole way to the club. It was nice to be in a car with music joking around instead of on a bus listening to my ipod laughing at others lol. We ended up getting to the club closer to 5 when we were supposed to be there at 4 and we left at just after 2. The traffic was insane but we made it.
We shot for about 2 and a half hours and had to clean up and be out of there just before 9pm as the club opened at that time. We cleaned up changed and went next door to this really nice Sushi restaurant for dinner where the director Barrette (our choreographer's boyfriend) bought us dinner. It was really awesome just getting to chill and meeting the band and the crew members plus eating after a full afternoon of dancing. Dinner lasted about two hours and then we had to be back at the club to do a live shoot to get some shots of the crowd and us dancing. Well, the DJ wouldn't play our song because it was a cd and he wasn't using cd's so we had to do a live shoot to music that wasn't ours which is ok but most of our stuff was choreographed to the words so it was a bit of a challenge but we pulled it off and everyone was happy!!!
By the time we left it was almost midnight but the drive home was trafficless (does that word make sense? lol you get what I mean), so it only took like 45 minutes which was great.
I am getting a copy of the music video so you can all see it when I get home unless I am aloud to post it. It felt so good to dance and the experience was awesome, can't wait to see the video
