Prison Sex
Wow, there’s a title that gets your attention! In keeping with my theme of selecting song titles for blog titles, this was the most fitting for this entry. Sorry if anyone was mentally disturbed by it.
It started with me doing what I seem to do best (or most often lately), looking for jobs. Once again I seem to have found a way to end up in a mess. My current job has many negative aspects to it, as do most jobs, but those aren’t even important when you look at my biggest problem. With the cost of gas at $4 a gallon, driving to and from downtown New Orleans every day for work is not cost effective. I was getting reimbursed for my mileage until about a month or so ago, when my management put a stop to it. I guess the $1200 expense report for the previous 2 week period must have been a showstopper.
So, I now spend at least $150 per week on gas alone. That equates to $600 per month, or $7200 per year. I could basically take a job closer to home and make $5-6K less per year, and come out equal. There is another option, the LASwift bus, that brings commuters from BR to NO every day for only $10 round trip, but my first attempt at using it was not a good experience.
Moving on, the aforementioned job situation has me scouring the internet for new job opportunities. I saw something on a website that mentioned Craigslist, so I thought I would check the site for postings. While there, I couldn’t help but click on various job categories that are not within my scope of experience, just because I wanted to see what was there. Under tv/film/video I spotted a listing looking for extras to be in a movie filming at a couple of prisons here in this area.
I thought, hey, I look kinda like a prisoner. Shaved head, large build, goatee, permanent scowl, what else could make me better for this?? Maybe a tattoo, I concluded. Anyway, I followed the instructions and emailed of the required information and photo. It lingered in the back of my mind for the next couple of days, but I didn’t fully expect anything to really come of it. Then I got a phone call from the casting agency asking me if I was still interested. Sure, I said. So, I was told to wear a white T-shirt and black shoes and wait for a call Saturday evening giving me a time to show up on Sunday morning at Hunt Correctional Institute in St. Gabriel.
I did some research to find out more about the movie that is being filmed there. To this point, I had only known the title and the starring actors. I called my wife to tell her about it, and she also began to search for information online. She called back and between hysterical giggling managed to tell me that I was going to be part of a quote, “gay, prison love movie”.
Not exactly what I would classify this movie as, but what do I know? The name of it is “I Love You Phillip Morris”, and it starts Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Here is the official plot synopsis from IMDB – “The movie is a true story of Steven Russell (Carrey), a married father whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system. He fell madly in love with his cellmate (Ewan McGregor), who eventually was set free, which led Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times.”
So, we will see what happens. I could personally care less what the movie is about. I just think it will be a cool thing to do, and I get to make a little side money, which would come in real handy right about now.
It started with me doing what I seem to do best (or most often lately), looking for jobs. Once again I seem to have found a way to end up in a mess. My current job has many negative aspects to it, as do most jobs, but those aren’t even important when you look at my biggest problem. With the cost of gas at $4 a gallon, driving to and from downtown New Orleans every day for work is not cost effective. I was getting reimbursed for my mileage until about a month or so ago, when my management put a stop to it. I guess the $1200 expense report for the previous 2 week period must have been a showstopper.
So, I now spend at least $150 per week on gas alone. That equates to $600 per month, or $7200 per year. I could basically take a job closer to home and make $5-6K less per year, and come out equal. There is another option, the LASwift bus, that brings commuters from BR to NO every day for only $10 round trip, but my first attempt at using it was not a good experience.
Moving on, the aforementioned job situation has me scouring the internet for new job opportunities. I saw something on a website that mentioned Craigslist, so I thought I would check the site for postings. While there, I couldn’t help but click on various job categories that are not within my scope of experience, just because I wanted to see what was there. Under tv/film/video I spotted a listing looking for extras to be in a movie filming at a couple of prisons here in this area.
I thought, hey, I look kinda like a prisoner. Shaved head, large build, goatee, permanent scowl, what else could make me better for this?? Maybe a tattoo, I concluded. Anyway, I followed the instructions and emailed of the required information and photo. It lingered in the back of my mind for the next couple of days, but I didn’t fully expect anything to really come of it. Then I got a phone call from the casting agency asking me if I was still interested. Sure, I said. So, I was told to wear a white T-shirt and black shoes and wait for a call Saturday evening giving me a time to show up on Sunday morning at Hunt Correctional Institute in St. Gabriel.
I did some research to find out more about the movie that is being filmed there. To this point, I had only known the title and the starring actors. I called my wife to tell her about it, and she also began to search for information online. She called back and between hysterical giggling managed to tell me that I was going to be part of a quote, “gay, prison love movie”.
Not exactly what I would classify this movie as, but what do I know? The name of it is “I Love You Phillip Morris”, and it starts Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Here is the official plot synopsis from IMDB – “The movie is a true story of Steven Russell (Carrey), a married father whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system. He fell madly in love with his cellmate (Ewan McGregor), who eventually was set free, which led Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times.”
So, we will see what happens. I could personally care less what the movie is about. I just think it will be a cool thing to do, and I get to make a little side money, which would come in real handy right about now.
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