Worked on this movie

Back in the day when I was a lazy punk kid (instead of a lazy punk adult) I worked on this movie helping build the set for the final shootout. It was easily the longest, hardest job I've ever had, especially being a skinny 18 year old with a crappy work ethic.

They had us meet at a prop warehouse in Salt Lake City at 5 in the morning every day before the hour and a half drive to the location in the west desert. I managed to last about 3 weeks before I couldn't take the workload anymore, but it was still quite an experience. Got to meet Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Philipe as well and still managed to walk away with a pretty hefty paycheck. Too bad I was too young to realize what a great opportunity I was walking away from, but ciest la vie.

Interestingly, they didn't demo the set for a long time and (at the time I was going to raves quite a bit) someone threw a rave not too far from the set. I remember people wandering over to it wondering what the hell there was a skeleton of a mexican brothel doing out in the middle of nowhere.

Pretty cool memory...