I'm mixing post again. I thought I was done with that. It's been pleasant - I'm really good at it and one of my greatest frustrations with the entertainment industry is that the proliferation of content has gone hand-in-hand with the proliferation of bad sound. Nobody pays for it anymore because nobody cares. This kid's a year out of USC and has delivered a project in better shape than anything I've ever gotten out of my best buddy, who has been out of school for 20 years and whose clients include AT&T and Toyota.

Another buddy of mine is in NYC right now doing the live broadcast... of a Fortnite competition... at Madison Square Garden. The project I'm working on has one of his lead actors from ten years ago in it. Time marches on and we just get older. The jobs get shittier, the work gets scarcer and another buddy has the #1 movie in America right now because everyone is so scared of Avengers that all the studios held their real films so the box office was won last weekend by The Curse of La Llorona.

I'm in class with a bunch of 20-somethings. They live five to a house. They dumpster-dive. They're mad that anyone would pay to restore Notre Dame when there's so much poverty and inequality in the world. They go to a school that can't afford to keep its kitchen working because they can't afford a $2 slice of pizza so now they get truck stop sandwiches. And they aren't every student. There's CS majors at other schools. There's pre-law majors at other schools. There's rich kids whose way is paved who will end up as intermediate flacks in finance somewhere, making eight or nine times as much as the Art Kids. But the rich kids didn't used to be an order of magnitude wealthier than the art kids. And what breaks my heart is the art kids don't understand why they'd fight their lot in life. The disparity is so systemic that they don't see any other path.

Seven to a house if you include the children.

The kid who gave me the film project went to a school whose rack rate is $55k a year. Our school? $3k.