Dogs Of Chinatown

Today was entirely comprised of shooting at the strip club. Micah took me over to Blake’s place where we met up with Jesse. I drove with Jesse to Winston-Salem where the club was located. Jesse’s a chill guy who reminds me of Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, except thinner and way more responsible.

Arrived at the club and met with Mike Bean, a stuntman who must be over fifty, his buddy Bill, a cool dude with cool boots, Eric, who we’re calling Honey Nut to avoid confusion (I’m Cheerios), the two strippers, and the owner. The girls were being loud and obnoxious so I didn’t bother introducing myself to them. When they saw I didn’t bow down to them, one politely extended her hand and we shook.

Shooting was smooth. The place was dingy, which I’m sure looked great with lighting and all, but the owner started talking about the floor: alcohol, gum, blood, and any other strange substance you could imagine ended up on that floor and was never thoroughly cleaned up. While Micah and Blake shot the strippers, I read my lines, warmed up, and basically avoided the scene. This drove the girls nuts, and they threw underwear at me, pointed fake guns at me, and one even tried to give me a lap dance while shouting, “Why don’t you pay attention to me?!” I declined. I could’ve said, “Because I’m staying in character,” but no, I really had no interest.

Performed some lines, capped Honey Nut, capped Mike, rolled over the stage, capped the owner, and that was that. We used paint balls as ‘squibs’.

I left with Andy Coon, an awesome local filmmaker who has done progressive things that people from the Bay Area rarely even try to do. Marching in DC, making documentaries about civil rights movements, Andy’s a superhero. And his wife is the funniest woman I’ve ever met. She’s got a wicked singing voice and used to do Janice Joplin covers, which to me sounded better than the originals. Since shooting was done for the day, they took me to the gym so I could get my workout. Bought some groceries and came back to Micah’s.

Submitted by: Eric Jacobus