Well, mercifully, this post shouldn't be as long as the last couple. Sorry 'bout that. Suffice it to say, there's a lot that goes into these goofy little films we make. What I posted yesterday? That was about a fraction of the hijinx that happened on the set of good ol' FutureSand.
SUNDAY
When we last left our heroes...
I got up bright and early after a couple hours of sleep. (Total sleep for the weekend? 5 HOURS) I headed back to Jason's work to be with the core group, which includes Dirty, Brian, Jason and me. We needed to get the edit tip-top and have it all ready for Jason who was in charge of putting all the sound effects and what-not together.
The other cool thing? Michael Heagle, who did our visual effects stuff, was going to bring us the green screen stuff and also do some cool stuff with the 2 pound sandwich (forgot about that, didn't ya?). Also, my favorite thing...he was going to add some little muzzle flashes to the guns our heroes use. Dang. If I could figure out how to do that, I'd be making movies every weekend.
But, alas. I'm only useful for stories and for getting actors to do cool stuff on film.
So, by now we're all beat, slow-moving and Jason looks like he's fallen off a truck. He hasn't showered, slept much, and we're really starting to feel the crunch. He played some of the music Sherbetty (the band) recorded for us and I'm FLOORED.
I'll admit to not being too blown away when I left the night before. Again, I was cranky and I sort of thought the music was a little too sci-fi. But, I'll eat my words. These dudes made High School Drifter sing and they delivered the goods for FutureSand. The boys recorded a THEME SONG for the movie, complete with lyrics. We heard it and all of were instantly like:
"Man, I want this for my ring-tone."
"I need this on my iPod!"
I couldn't wait to see where it fit in. I already knew that we needed a piece of it for our opening sequence, which (if I may say so) worked PERFECTLY. The end credits begged to fit all the corny lyrics in as the insanely cool 'sandy' effects rolled by.
Dirty whipped up a quality edit and I was able to sit in with a list of things I hoped to tweak before we turned it in at 7:30pm. The clock was ticking. At 7:30, we all turned into pumpkins, our film isn't eligible to compete and it's sort of a bummer. Alas, it's never happened to us, but many a team has fallen in the last hour or two. Computers crash, footage is lost, you name it.
I found a couple continuity errors and some things that didn't work. Dirty did an insane job with the fight scene and we were pretty dang close to 'picture lock.' That means, we're not going to mess with it anymore and we give it to Jason, who will do his sound stuff to it. Add music, sound effects, clean up stuff like (ahem) the director yelling: "Oh, that's BAD-ASS!" over a take. You know. He was stressed, as some of his time was eaten away. The rest of us got to sit and wait.
Now you may be wondering: Thomas, what the heck are you doing there? Your part is over, right? You directed it and wrote the dumb thing. Now it's up to post-production to deliver the goods.
Nah. I like to be there for as much of it as I can. I need to still sort of direct, even if I'm not directly in charge of the different aspects of post-production. I gotta be the 2nd set of eyes and ears on something. We're all sort of part of this big ol' mess and it's up to all of us to make sure the thing makes sense, and most importantly, comes in at 7 minutes or less. Anything over that, and we're disqualified.
Well, to cut to the chase, Jason had us come in and watch the film with the music, sound effects and everything else added. To say I nearly watered the front of my pants is an understatement. I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to be hoarse. Now, I must warn you, I find it incredibly funny to see something as dumb as the script I wrote go through all these hoops and end up being a servicable movie. I'm laughing more at how well it all came together and how great some of the shots turned out. Plus, the fight scene? I just love that crap. It's campy, over-the-top and our actors were BRILLIANT. Also, hats off to Michael Anderson for putting together a rockin' fight with little time to prepare.
So...I know I'm setting myself up for people to go 'Eh...' but I was REALLY pleased with how it turned out. I think we all sort of thought we'd outdone ourselves from last year's High School Drifter. And remember kids, HSD won the audience favorite for our night. Essentially landing us in the top 13 of almost 90 films. Not bad for a group that doesn't do this ALL the time.
With my work done and a family who missed having me around, I left around 6:00pm. entrusting the delivery of the movie to Jason, Brian and Dirty. We high-fived, (not really) and talked about doing something again soon and I was off.
Cut to 7:32pm...
I get a phone call from Jason. He says we might be screwed. Apparently as they were burning the DVD, the picture got all screwy. We shot it in letterbox (because that's awesome) and it made our picture look squished and unwatchable. He said they were at the drop off point and made it there with 2 minutes to spare(!!!). On the way, Dirty had to burn a new DVD with some different settings and were playing it on the laptop while they were in line to turn it in.
I was literally ready to weep openly like a little baby. Jason gave me the play-by-play.
"Okay, it's loading up...okay, it's...it's..."
I closed my eyes tight like this was a bad dream.
"It's all good. It's working."
With that, they turned it in and we were set. We made the deadline and FutureSand was in the competition!!!
TUESDAY NIGHT 7:00pm
FutureSand was set to screen on the first night of the festival @ 7:00pm along with 12 other films. We all met up at the theater and I can't say I wasn't just a little nervous. Heck, my parents were actually coming out to see this thing. I looked at the voting sheet and was pleased to see we were the last film of the group. Not a bad place to be. You definitely don't want to be first, and last sort of lingers with people longer.
The movies began after a lot of er, crap, at the beginning. The guy who runs it sort of doesn't know when to just get on with it. He explained how all the movies had to have the same prop (sandwich), character (Kathleen or Kevin Schnaebel: Expert) and the same line of dialogue ("I hope they decide soon.") I looked around and was pretty well blown away by how many people were there. Probably 250, maybe 300 peeps.
There were some decent ones at the start, along with some that were, um, not so good. I know our early stuff wasn't spectacular and it's just great to see people getting out there and getting behind the camera. Still, I can't help but wonder what stories they would tell about what happened. I saw one film that had almost 8 people as the writer of the script. I'm not sure how that works. I think that's 7 people too many. I've never been good at writing with someone sitting in the shotgun seat, so hats off to people who can do it.
Anyway, we were all feeling pretty good about our chances when the movie right before ours, called 'Fragile' played. It was a Ghost Story and it had two little kids as the stars. And you know what? The kids were REALLY good. The story was dark and really pretty sad. It was about a little girl who finds a gun and she and her brother are grab-assing with it and the guns goes off. It's tricky because you think someone got killed, but both kids are still there.
SPOILER ALERT: The little girl got killed and we see her ghost.
Needless to say, we weren't thrilled having to follow that movie. Our is/was a buddy movie and sort of funny and a little over-the-top. It played and got a pretty favorable reaction, but there were parts (especially toward the end) where people didn't laugh. I don't want to blame the movie before ours, but it's pretty hard to laugh when you just watched a little girl eat a bullet.
We all voted, put in our ballots and hoped for the best.
Afterwards, in front of the theater and stood in the rain and talked about how the screening went. My parents got to meet most of the actors and they took some pictures (which I'm too lazy to post tonight). A big ol' group of us went to a bar called 'Busters' and tipped a few back. It was great. Everyone told us how much fun they had working on it, especially the actors. They all said they'd love to work on something with us again in the near future.
I gotta say, that's a huge deal to me. Maybe it's just me, but I want to make sure everyone is having fun when we're working on this kind of stuff. Seriously. No one is getting paid, the day is long, and we put them through some crazy antics. Heck, Kathy had to lay on the floor for like 3 hours. Still, she was a trooper, as were the rest of the gang and they all told me what a great experience it was. Not to say High School Drifter wasn't fun, but this group really gelled. Everyone got along and there were no attitudes or anything to deal with. The whole thing rocked. I decided then and there that I didn't care if we won or lost. The important thing was this: We made a pretty cool little film and that's all that mattered.
We'd find out our fate the next day.
Sadly...we were beaten by 'Fragile' for Audience Favorite by 19 votes. So, they're going on to the 'Best of' show and we have to wait until tomorrow to see if the judges (who pick seperately) liked ours enough to have us in the running.
Soo...it's not over until the morbidly obese female busts out a showtune.
(TO BE CONCLUDED...TOMORROW)
The conclusion??? I'll have FutureSand available for you to see both here at Tappity Tappity and on my dumb ol' Facebook page on Tuesday, one week after it screened at the Riverview Theater.
Thanks for reading and cross your fingers for us!!!
It's Saturday morning...who's gonna play with me??? 6 in the morning baby, I gotta long day ahead of me.
The Music Box Theater. Our home for 12+ hours...
I swear that was the song (by the Eels) playing in my head when I woke up ready to tackle our movie. The script for FutureSand was done and all I had to do now was show up, tell people how to act and what I was thinking about when I wrote such and such part and it'll be simple right?
Well...not quite.
Kids, here's what a 2 hour script looks like.
First of all, getting to the Music Box Theater was a trick. If you know anything about Minnesota, there are 2 seasons: Winter and Road Construction. It gets to a point where you can't wait for it to get warmer and then when it is, you can't wait for it to get colder so all of the construction dudes are out of work for the winter. Land of 10,000 detours.
Again, I'm getting ahead of myself...
Last year, Jason and I had to do all the shopping for food and stuff for our cast n' crew. This year, we had PEOPLE for that. It's still weird to think that I'm not part of every little aspect of my dumb movies. But, in this instance, I was okay with it. The one thing I DID need to get? A sandwich. I knew of a place to get one that weighed 2 pounds and was just insane looking. So, I swung by, got that, some Caffeine Free Diet Coke (delicious) and some OJ (real OJ) for everyone. I ended up getting 2 sandwiches, just in case...
Once I was at the theatre, I was sort of floored by how much stuff was already happening. Our crew was there and as soon as I was in the door, Brian (our DP, or director of photography a.k.a. camera guy) was asking me about the first shot.
We had a bit of a situation. We needed to move further into the theater as the day went on. At 5pm, an event was happening in the lobby and we needed to shoot accordingly. Thankfully, we thought of all that before we left for the measly few hours of sleep we each got. I told him we somehow needed to make it look like our heroes were coming out of the sand without people being able to see Nicollet Avenue. I knew we had a VFX guy with us and we talked to him about how to make it happen.
Riki ready to go green.Meanwhile, he was already in the theater setting up a green screen. I'll admit to not being overly technical, so I sort of let him set it up and we'd figure out what to have the actors do later.
Watching the magic of green screen.
Oh, yeah...the actors! We were lucky enough to get Riki Robinson (who played Perk in High School Drifter) return. We also had an ex-wrestler/actor named Bill Borea join our cast. Jason wanted us to somehow use his and Riki's talents in a fight of some sort. Thankfully, I worked on into the script. We also had Kathy Kupiecki, who is a talented actress. She also used to date my younger brother, so it was like a mini family reunion of sorts. We also had Joel Allard, who is a musician/actor/renaissance festival guy and friend of Jason & Dirty Abbott (our editor). Rounding off the cast? A last-minute addition actress named Katie Willer. We'd never seen her act and knew virtually nothing about her. When I'd met her the night before in our 'brainstorming' meeting, I figured out the best part for her to play.
I wish I could get into Katie's head: What is this piece of crap I'm in?
Anyway, from the get-go, I was 'on.' We decided to make the entrance into the theater kind of dramatic. We set up some fake doors, stapled thick plastic over them to look like the places was barricaded from the storm outside. We thought we'd make it look like our heroes were breaking in for shelter. Bill would pull a board free and then slice through the plastic with a knife. Very cool looking.
The fun part? On the first take (of which we couldn't screw up) I shouted out: "Oh, that's bad-ass!" The not so fun part? We were rolling sound, so I almost completely ruined the shot. Yeah...that's what happens when you're tired, excited, and haven't directed anything for a year.
We spent WAY too much time here. First scene took us over 2 hours. Yikes.
After we shot that, which took us FOREVER and totally put us behind schedule, it was time for the green screen shot. You know, a lot of people (myself included) make fun of the actors in the newer Star Wars movies because their acting is so wooden. The reason? Nothing around them is real. All of it is digitally created and these poor people are surrounded by green screen. So, suddenly, I've got my actors in front of a green screen and I'm shouting things for them to do. A cool thing? We had a wind machine, so it looks like they're in the thick of it.
"Okay, look up!"
"Bill, point at the theater out there in the middle of the sand."
"Riki, I need you to nod."
"Can you do the vulcan thing with your hands, Kathy? To block the sand, but still see where you're going?"
You get the idea. I wasn't sure how it was going to look and it was at that moment, I began to wonder if I was making one of the worst films ever. I still didn't love the script, I wasn't sure how any of the visual effects would look, and we were already horribly behind.
It's hard when people are waiting for YOU to decide. For reals.
From there we did a TON of stuff inside the theater itself. We had the soldiers telling war stories, and we had our first 'fight' type of scene. Thankfully, we had the talented Michael Anderson (who's done fight coordinating before) on our team. He showed Kathy how to slap Katie and make it look good. I stand in awe of the guy and wished we would've had him when we did our fight scene in High School Drifter. Ah, well...
We'd originally set aside 3 hours for the big fight scene, but as things started to take longer than anticipated, that chunk of time was quickly eaten away. Jason, who sort of needs to keep us on track (as the producer) kept reminding us that we were falling dangerously behind. We didn't have any REAL reason to be done overly early, but if we didn't get our crap together, that would eat into the editing time and all of the other post-production things we needed to get done. Our plan was to be done by 8pm.
Jason had that look on his face the entire weekend.
Oh, and did I mention that Kathy had to be done by 6pm to make it to her gig at Theatre in the Round?
Here's one thing I can tell you about having lots of people working with you on your film. It's awesome, but it's also exhausting as all get-out. I was constantly being asked stuff by everyone around me, from Lori my assistant director, who was great at getting people to quiet down before takes, to Jason and Brian the DP. I swear, any time I sat down, the dude was calling me...
Brian and I working out the blocking on scene 1. I swear this shot isn't staged.
"Thomas Kingsley...can you take a look at this?"
It's funny. I don't think my butt touched a seat for longer than a minute or two before I was up and getting something else going.
Apparently this is how they should hold their guns.
The one thing I think I did better this time around was that I spent some more time with my actors. I sort of gave them a 'template' of what I was looking for from each of them. Something like this:
Bill: Tough and gruff. Sort of like Michael Biehn in 'The Terminator.'
Riki: The good guy. Likeable, but sort of conflicted.
Kathy: A take-no-B.S. woman who's survived plenty, but is starting to crack.
Joel: Sort of a horn-dog. It's the end of the world and he's hitting on chicks.
Katie: Scared beyond belief. Sort of in the background and gets treated like dirt.
Anyway, we were able to cobble something together for the fight scene and again, I turned to my expert on this. My only demands were that Bill gets punched in the 'seeds' and that Riki breaks his cigar (which leads to something else that I'll let you see when I post FutureSand here later). The rest was up to him.
We didn't know how the heck to shoot that scene without seeing lights, or grips or other stuff that shouldn't be there in the back ground. Brian had his work cut out for him. We also had to remember to change up the clothing since the fight was supposed to take place two days later. Thankfully, my actors were much more in tune to that that I was. They'd remind me...
I think I'm describing the 2 pound sandwich here. Hmmm...not sure.
"Hey Thomas, since we sort of dressed down, we shouldn't have our scarves and crap on still, right?"
Bless their hearts.
Once the fight was done and I was ready to take a nap or just sit for a minute, we were already to eat some lunch. Again, this was taken care of for us. Rebecca, our production manager took care of getting a bunch of mini sandwiches from Subway. We ate like kings (I ate standing up) and we were immediately back at it, desperate to try and catch up.
Not sure what we were doing, but I love that sign.
Oh...one of the cool things we did this year was have our editor, Dirty Abbott, on site editing as we went along. This was a huge change for me, but here's how it worked. Our camera shoots on things called P Cards. They're basically huge memory cards that our footage gets recorded onto. Once we fill it up pretty good, we switch it out and someone runs it downstairs to where Dirty is set up. He starts to pick the good takes and assembles it using the script as a guideline. This allows us to see a rough cut of the movie quicker than if we were to just put it ALL together later.
Dirty Abbott, cooling out in the basement.
The problem? I couldn't help but feel like the way the movie would go together would be in someone else's hands. It's a hard thing to give up and I really struggled with that, even though Dirty is one of my best friends and I trust him with 'my baby.'
Anyway, we powered through the rest of the shoot and I was happy with what we got. We didn't have to cut anything from the script. Essentially we shot everything that was on the page, even if we wouldn't be able to use it for the 'festival' edit. We knew we'd do a director's cut later, so we were thankful for all that. Everyone got done on time, no one got hurt and I think everyone involved was happy with how the shoot went. The guy who runs the theater (who makes a cameo as a corpse) was ECSTATIC about everything. Over and over again he was like: "This is the coolest thing ever. If you ever want to shoot something else here, just let me know."
Bonus!
After Jason and Dirty went off to edit, I stuck around and helped the grips and everyone get the theater back in order. We actually didn't mess the place up so bad, so I felt good about that. I got a chance to call my son, Travis, who was in Mankato with Laura (my wife) and Jake (my littlest guy). I hadn't talked to those guys for a while and when I got on the phone with him around 8pm-ish, he sounded beat.
ME: "Hi buddy, how are you?"
TRAVIS: "I'm gooooood." (his words drag out when he's tired)
ME: "I just got done shooting our movie."
TRAVIS: "Is it for kids?"
ME: "No, it's not for kids. Maybe some day you can watch it."
TRAVIS: "Okay. Bye."
He's not one to mess around on the phone, that Travis.
Once we were done at the theater, it was time to say goodbye to the crew that helped make the shoot possible. All of our awesome grips: Jonny, Dusan, Doug. Our gaffer (who was with us last year) Tony. And of course, Brian, who is irreplacable behind the lens in my opinion. I packed up and headed to Jason's work where the next portion of the show was underway...
Let me say right now that at this point in the process, my sense of humor was pretty much depleted. I'd just spent over 12 hours on my feet, running around, thinking on the fly how each scene was going to work and answering a million and a half questions. Lightning fast decision making and sort of being 'on' for that long is EXTREMELY exhausting. So, when I got to the place where the editing, music and sound stuff would take place, I was sort of wiped.
When I learned that I wasn't really going to be able to sit in while the 'rough cut' was being assembled? I was sort of pissed. Well, not sort of. I was really unhappy about this. That, and Dirty was sort of messing with me. I'd ask him:
ME: "That part where Joel is doing that thing..."
DIRTY: "Yeah, that's gone."
ME: "What about..."
DIRTY: "That didn't work out. We'll lose that, too."
I didn't know it at the time, but he was totally screwing around and trying to be funny. Again, in retrospect, it's funny. But just then? Ooooh...I wanted the guy dead.
So, we sat and we waited. I tried in vain to order Papa John's pizza for all of us and couldn't figure it out. Our set photographer, Greg Schaal (who took most of these pictures) did it for me instead. The band, Sherbetty, came in and got ready to record some music for us, too. They helped us out last year on High School Drifter, so I was stoked that they were back.
After a long time, it was time to look at the rough cut. I think it was somewhere around 11pm. We all gathered around and watched to see what Dirty put together out of all of our hard work and sweat.
...and it looked awful.
Now, that's not to say it was Dirty's fault. I sort of thought "Oh, man...this sucks. We didn't capture any of the cool stuff that we wanted from the less-than-award-winning script I wrote. But you gotta remember kids (which I seemed to forget)... It didn't have music, it didn't have sound effects, none of the visual effects were done. It was literally a barebones skeleton of a movie. Even so, I couldn't help but be disappointed...and tired.
Long story short? Dirty went back in to tighten things up and I sulked on a couch with my swollen feet up, putting pizza into my gob. I got to talk to the band a bit and learned that Jason was hoping for a John Carpenter-esqe sound to the movie. I wasn't sure it would work, but was excited to learn they wanted to write a song (with lyrics) for the end credits.
After a couple hours, it was time for us to see another edit of the movie. The band was jamming as we watched a much better cut of FutureSand. Somewhere around 2am, we realized there was nothing much more to do. Jason stuck around while the band recorded their stuff and I headed home. I ended up getting to bed around 3:30am or so.
The plan was to be back to finish things up the next morning around 7am.
Flashback: Friday night...not sure I love my script.
Ah...moviemaking! Isn't it glamourous???
(TO BE CONTINUED...)
Greetings! (echo, echo...)
Well, it's hard to believe it's already been a year since High School Drifter was shot and shown at the Riverview Theater, but it's true! I've been busy this last month getting ready for this year's showdown and last night with about 4 minutes to spare, we got our newest film completed and turned in to compete with the 90+ other teams in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
This year, we ended up pulling Buddy Film out of the hat. I wasn't entirely pleased. We were hoping for horror, sci-fi, comedy...something other than a sort of pigeon-holed genre like Buddy Film.
Ugh.
When I think of Buddy Films, the movie Lethal Weapon immediately pops into my head. The idea that two guys hate each other in the beginning of the flick and end up pals by the end. Jason (my producer) and I figured out the buddy angle, but I sort of wanted to flip the idea on its end. So, when I post the film up here (hopefully later this week) you'll see what I did with it.
In the interest of keeping this somewhat brief, I'll give you some details about what was required to appear in our film and in every other Minneapolis/St. Paul 48 Hour Film.
Character: Kevin or Kathleen Schnabel - Expert
Prop: A sandwich.
Line of dialogue: "I hope they decide soon."
The title of our film is FutureSand. It's got kind of a sci-fi ring to it, but we wanted to utilize some of the resources we had access to. A fellow by the name of Michael Heagle was good enough to help us with costumes and some visual effects that brought our movie to a whole new level.
Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself...
Friday night was the night we pulled our genre out of the hat. On the 30 minute ride back to the Music Box Theater (which was our location for the shoot) Jason and I concocted an idea of what we could do with the 'buddy' thing. We tossed ideas back and forth and literally, by the time we turned the corner to our destination, it was pretty well planned out.
The hard part? Standing in front of crew and most of our cast and letting them know what our plan of attack was. Let me get this out: As a writer/director I'm really open to ideas, but it's really difficult to present an idea that is about 10 minutes old to a group. It's not their fault, but it's almost like being a stand-up comedian and getting on stage for the first time. You feel like you're bombing. Maybe it's the way I pitched it, I don't know. But both years, I've gone up there and explained what I wanted to do and I swear you could hear crickets and see a tumbleweed blow by. You sort of get this feeling that the actors are thinking: Great. What have I signed on to?
Then, I say: "Any questions or comments on that?"
It never fails, but the floor is opened up and the ideas from our cast n' crew start coming. Which is good. But I think the hard thing is, immediately after this meeting, I'm going to sit in front of my laptop and pound out a 7 page script within a couple hours. That's all the time I've got.
People throw out ideas (some good, some bad) and I listen to every one. Though it may not seem like it, I internalize that stuff and sort of sift it around in my headspace. One actor thought our 'buddies' didn't seem likable enough the way I described them, another was concerned that the women in the film would seem weak or whatever, someone else thought the sandwich could actually be a sand witch.
Like I said, I listened to them all but I know that we only have 48 hours and I've only got 2 hours to basically write out the blueprint of what we'll be doing. All the equipment and all the gear and everything is sort of hinging on the words I put on a page. It's one part unnerving and one part exhilarating.
Long story short? I was down in the basement of this theater, sitting in a dressing room by myself pounding out the words like it was the last thing I'd ever write. I kept watch of the page count.
FUN FACT: Did you know 1 page of a script = 1 minute of a movie?
When I got to page 3, I got worried. How was I going to get things moving to plan? I had characters to kill off, backstories to fill in, etc, etc... Friends, 7 minutes is not a lot of time to tell a story, especially formatted like a script. 7 pages of straight up prose? No problem. 7 pages of script? Challenging.
I ended up hammering out the script and I wasn't in love with it. I hadn't seen any of our actors (besides Riki Robinson, who played Perk in High School Drifter) act before. I didn't know what they'd bring to the role.
We had an ex-wrestler, 2 renaissance festival actors, and 2 theater/stage actresses, one of which used to date my brother back in the day. I thought FutureSand was going to be my Waterworld. As in...BOMB. Who knows, it still might be...
The script was done and it was time for unnerving part number 2. Having Jason (my friend and producer) read it. Last year, he read HSD with me right there. This time, I left the room and got a delicious soft drink. It's hard for any writer (I don't care who you are) to sit and watch someone read your work without having a chance to fine-tune it or anything. Again, time is money. The clock is always ticking...
As it turns out, Jason though the script was 'good.' Last year, it was 'alright.' Improvement? Maybe!
Another crazy thing about this year? We had an old photographer friend of mine come and shoot pictures of us during various stages of the project. Just about anywhere I went, Greg was cracking off shots. Thankfully, he took pictures of the other folks, too. But dang. The dude's camera was like a machine gun. It took some getting used to, no doubt.
We sent everyone else home, made copies of the script and planned out a rough shooting schedule (breaking down the script set-up by set-up). It was around 2am when I was on my way home to grab a few hours of sleep.
The problem? I got home at 2:30-ish and couldn't sleep. Call it nervous energy, anxiety or a sense of oh-my-god-what-have-I-got-myself-into but I didn't end up falling asleep until close to 4:00am. I needed to be up by 5:30am. I beat my alarm and was up at 5:20.
Apparently, I was ready to go.
(TO BE CONTINUED!)
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DUDE, the beesting thing sucks, but CONGRATS on the film news!!!
Thomas, your life. Hilarious! And telling that Navy guy you got "stung by a bee." So funny. Hope you're better by now!
And HUGE CONGRATS on the BEST OF show judges' pick! Where is the screening on Thursday night? We've gotta know!!
BOTH of those things deserve Congrats. First beesting, best in show. :)
CONGRATS.
Sorry about the bee sting, but congratulations on the film!! I'm officially back in the blogosphere now. :-)