Break a Leg

Well last weekend (the 19th specifically) proved to be yet another exciting, intense, hilarious, and over all smelly shoot (Not all of our shoots are smelley, but when we do it, we like to do it right).

Most of Saturday was prep time, had to pick up a U-haul in order to replace a set that we lost to construction (yet another reason to view our plea video with concern and preparations of untold generosity) then proceed to gather set decorations, such as cables, tapes, a rug, a few desks, tape players, a hastily (but beautifully!) designed poster, a mattress we found in the street (sorry Mint, all the sheets were clean though), and so on and so forth.

The whole weekend then was roughly starting around 11ish on saturday (all the stuff I just mentioned plus coming home to storyboard and go over the script) ending around 1:30 that night and then starting at 5:30 sunday morning and going till around 8... or 9pm, I can't quite remember, I think I may have passed out at some point. Needless to say, it was long, long, hot, long, and eventually smelly, packing 12 people into a 17 foot Uhaul with lights and equipment for around 6-10 hours starts to take it's toll (on the mind as well as the nostrils), especially running off of four hours of sleep and in the neighborhood of 4 energy drinks.

Overall though the shoot appears to be a resounding success (I of course say "appears to be" because until we have a final cut every filmmaker knows that there's a range of somewhere around 1-812882172197124444411 things that can go wrong. We definitely have to give a large thanks to the nice people at the Presidio bowl who let us use their power and their back entrance. They were extremely helpful.

How that comes into play you'll get to see later (in a shocking tale of romance and intrigue! (no no, I'm lying, don't get excited (Well, you should get excited, but maybe not for those reasons, look, what do you want from me, I'm not a doctor)). It was a strenuous shoot, but it was a lot of fun and it's going to turn into some hilarious scenes for ep 3. so you all have something to look forward too ;0).

-D

oh, also, if you've never played hackey sack with a cassette tape, I highly suggest trying it at least once, especially going off the previously mentioned 4 hours of sleep and 4 energy drinks (I guess it's a 1:1 ratio? not sure on the formula there...).

Dashiell...when you coming over for some lovin?
I got the chocolate pudding like you asked for...why won't you call me?

Your Big Beautiful Sugar Mamma

I have to pay respect to Dashiell and in fact the rest of the team. For my part, I showed up about 12:30 Sunday afternoon. Things were already underway and everything looked awesome.
I am kind of a pain in the ass when it comes to schedules. Because I have one. I had to be done by 4pm because I had to drive about an hour and a half north of San Francisco to go do some Shakespeare in the park. And I had to find something to eat and maybe not show up to the theater in a top hat covered with Coke-soaked toilet paper (you'll see). It's pretty commonplace for me to be working with limited time for various reasons, one of my most favorite being sleep. But Yuri, Justin, Dashiell and the rest seem to be of a mind that you work until the work is done. Which, as you can all see, results in something pretty amazing.
So, I wafted in about the afore mentioned 12:30, partook of some of the craft services out of the back of Hillary's trunk, played some hackey-casset, read some lines, made a big stink about getting out by 4:00, did a few combat rolls into the back of the U-Haul, and generally had a lot of fun. And managed to be done by 4:15.
My point is this: thanks for doing the hard part.

Stay tuned - pictures of the above mentioned hackey-casset. Man those guys have moves!

I have a sugga momma? neat!

Thanks for the respects, Chad. It does get rough, but the result is worthwhile -- and as long as we get the positive-comments-fuel in our tanks, we'll be okay. Mostly. We'll eventually have to replace Dashiell's heart with a robot's -- but, you know, part of the job.

it would be great if you could have some hackey-cassette in the background of one of the scenes and never address it. just a thought.

I just have to have faith that out lord and savior Space Burt Reynolds will see us through.