Oh dear. I have so much to add to this awesome website.
And organise be capstan perimeter
I just got out of a “streamlining your operations” seminar for my job. I am home early on a Thursday. It was nice to be out of the office, but the whole seminar was pretty effing dumb. We got free food and all the red hots you could eat (and I stole some small glasses from the W hotel because I need sherry glasses) so it was useful in that respect. But in terms of LEARNING anything useful for my job…nada.
I just emailed Faye and realised that my description to her pretty accurately summed up the mind-numbing stupidity of my day.
Dude. The Q&A section of the panels today was almost as dumb as the ones in San Diego. “I know you JUST covered this topic JUST NOW and if I had been paying attention, I wouldn’t need to waste everyone’s time by asking this question but I’m going to do it anyway because I’m a fucking moron”. If I cared at all about my job, I would be very happy that I discovered that our office is actually pretty damned professional and efficient compared to our local competitors.
the re-birth of the Shakyface
Since Shakyface.com is no more, you can no long see compromising pictures of our friends self-inducing brain damage on the internet. Instead, look at perfect strangers doing it over at Jowlers
do put as dogs
This is the best thing since $10K 4 a Wife! (the latter of which has now been upgraded to glorious FLASH!)
git it
“SDBSD” got accepted into Dragon*Con, which is another big industry genre convention. This is good news! We probably won’t be able to go on account of the EXTREME expense and lack of vacation days. But hopefully we can at least get Jacob, our fast-talking marketing guru, out there to touch base with people we’ve already met and make some new contacts. I am very pleased about the Dragon*Con situation, despite having just found out that we got snubbed by One Reel. I’ve seen the crap they show at One Reel and we are definitely better on par with, if not better, than most of them. But I guess there wasn’t room for us in the mix after the organizers put all their friend’s movies in the program. Not that I’m bitter. It’s just another way in which it becomes clear that we aren’t in the “Super Special Seattle Indie Film Club”.
On another topic, who wants to go see The Devil’s Rejects this Friday at Pacific place at 8:30?! Get your tickets here.
And remember: They ain’t readin’ no funny books, mama!
And fly the nocturnal marc
THE ULTIMATE WEEKEND RECAP
Starring The Baxter & Meep
Since this is the absolute longest post I have ever written (7 pages in MS Word), I am going to do to utilize the cut feature. Read on at your extreme leisure. Continue reading
does it squirm and not squirt
So much to write about. It could take me days. For this round of weekend recap, the lovely Faye is going to join in. For now, please enjoy this preview with Ben's photos (including an EXTREME jealousy-inducing photo of him with THE Joss. Bastard!) MANY more photos to come as well…
PS: I am not at work.
Cruise along with me
Tom Cruise's Blog! (Not really…but I'm sure it's pretty close to what he'd actually write about).
i just got mine defector daylight anomaly
Monday was Faye’s birthday. We had dinner at Araya which is a vegetarian Thai restaurant in the U-District. Faye and I fell in love with their food when they catered Adam and Eva’s wedding but we’d never gotten around to going to the actual restaurant, so Faye picked it for her birthday dinner. We were a little annoyed at the service. The waitress came by to ask if we wanted drinks or appetizers but she only asked 3 people and then left. When she came back with their drinks, we had to call after her to keep her from running off again. We were going to order booze with dinner and she told us they didn’t have their liquor license yet. I guess they’d just moved from another location. This was terrible news! It’s not like we have to drink with every meal, but on at a birthday party when you’ve been planning to sit back and enjoy a leisurely meal with a drink or two, it’s hard to adjust to the news that there’s no alcohol. Ryan seemed to be seriously considering tearing across the street for a shot and then coming back. We convinced him that we would speed the meal up and then go for a drink after. The waitress asked if we were still waiting for some people and we told her that we were, so she took that as a license to stay away for a long time. Long after the rest of the party showed up. This was in a restaurant that was pretty much empty except for us and two or three other tables so it’s not like we were holding her up. But then the food came and it was just as amazing as we’d remembered. They were also nice enough to bring out Faye’s cake at desert and light all the candles. We’ll definitely go back. Preferably with a smaller party and after they get their liquor license.
Last night was the screening for the 48-hour Film Challenge. It was at the Neptune Theatre and it was pretty exciting to see our work on a screen that big in a proper movie theatre. There were some pretty good shorts screened but I definitely think ours was one of the best. They broke the screenings up into two because of the large number of teams (22). Since the first screening, with our movie in it, didn’t end until almost 10:45, we decided not to stay for the second screening. Maybe we should have, but damnit, we need our rest for the weekend! There is an audience award in addition to the judge awards. We’ll find out the winners in the next week or so, after which, I believe, the movies will be available on line at Storypipe.
Tonight, it’s packing and preparation city for San Diego! Our plane takes off at 9:15 tomorrow night! It will be a weekend chock full of stimuli. Joss Whedon, the whole bloody cast of Serenity, Rob Zombie, Sheri Moon, David Boreanaz, Ray Harryhausen, Amber Benson, and who knows who else! Hopefully, we won’t get too distracted to hype our OWN movie. We’re armed with postcards and buttons so when we’re not geeking out, we will be assaulting unsuspecting nerds with our feminine wiles. We MUST fill the 350 seat theatre! As if all this weren’t pants-pissingly exciting enough, we have been invited to a few industry parties (including a Lion’s Gate affair) by one of the lovely people who gave “SDBSD” a good review. SO. FREAKING. EXCITED. Will stop gushing now. Until I get back, anyway.
pealike
Faye and I were interviewed on Pretty/Scary! We're so totally famous.
