They need you. By the time you land at JFK, you have a day's worth of messages to return. But who has time for returning messages?
You are Joseph Kahn. You are the planet's busiest music video director. You just keep going. You drive out to Long Island to scout locations for Busta Rhymes. Busta wants "a live-action Tom and Jerry video with a lot of booty". The shoot lasts 17 hours. When it wraps, you figure you're in New York, why not go to a club?
You're not in bed until six the next morning. You wake up at noon, catch a plane back to LA then meet Ricky Martin for dinner. Ricky Martin! You have a concept for him.
It's something you've wanted to do forever. You just needed the right artist, the right moment, and here it is. The simplest of simple ideas: "100 Ricky Martins in the desert" is how you pitch it. And Ricky Martin loves it. You go back your house in the Holly- wood hills to work on the nightclub edit and to turn around a treatment for a Limp Bizkit video. |
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That will probably take you till five or six am. And then you have to be at Warner Bros at nine so you can edit your first feature film, a gangstas on motorcycles action movie called Torque. Ice Cube is your star. You meet Ricky Martin that evening and drive with him out to the California desert. You're there by 10, up by four the next morning, and you're shooting almost nonstop for two days. The desert's hot. Ricky Martin's hot.
Your whole universe is hot. WHAT SUFFERS MOST IS A) YOUR SLEEP, AND B) A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR SANITY.
Sometimes you crash. You don't drink or do drugs, so you can handle the work better than most people. But sometimes you won't talk to anyone for a while. You might spend a whole weekend playing a stupid video game. Or, better yet, you get into a horrible relationship you shouldn't be gettinginto. |
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