Fuck the “MTV Movie Awards”. Screw the “People’s Choice Awards” (cause I think we all know that people suck and so do their choices). I am talkin’ bout the Audies!!!!!!!
What are the Audies, Jason?
I am glad you asked. The Audies are the identical twin brother to the GRAMMY’S. Only the one brother decided to go into Audiobooks and Narration. Got it?
Well, The Audies were held in NYC this last Friday night and some of the books I had worked on in the last year were on the list. I didn’t really care that much, they mostly just honor the reader or the actual book. But, when you are a mixer/engineer/editor they matter.
I went into work this morning and it was just a normal day. Dwight was pissed off cause things weren’t perfect and pissed off. He was mostly pissed off at n00b cause a book he did was fucked up, again. I kept my head towards my screen and my headphones on did my shit.
Around noon I sauntered my ass down to Studio B to talk to R about the session I was going to be doing later. He talked, I listened and then formulated a plan from the information I was given. Problem solved, plan initiated and I proceeded to glitter back up to my desk. I was walking different today cause of the weather, it was makin my knee ache like a BITCH!
As I am leaving R says to me “OH, congrats by the way.” What? What did I do? He informs me that one of the books that was nominated won and that I got credit for it! Me! I have my first major credit as Recording Engineer / Sound Editor! I was so happy that my balls dropped, my voice did also and I did three cartwheels in the warehouse.
So I would like to thank everyone for their help with this. Helping me to keep my sanity (sort of) and keeping me in high spirits to continue to work hard at everything I do.
There is one person I would like to thank most of all. You know who you are. Don’t be shy about it.
I wanna thank Audrey Kuchen.
Watching your Fox First @ 10 helped me to understand the meaning of hard work. I don’t see it on your show and that made me strive for something. It’s just a matter of time before you guys get it. It will happen and then when it does Jeff Heaton is gonna tell the weather the way it’s ACTUALLY GONNA BE!!!
And Audrey, your Pulitzer is just around the corner. Well, it’s actually around the corner, get on I-5, drive to Los Angeles and the take I-10 East all the way to the East Coast. That is where it is. Waiting for you. Go get em tiger!