Ah, Today.

So, all sorts of things are happening here today. Last night was the last day of shooting, so the dailies won’t be ready until late today, which probably means delivery to people’s homes. On top of that...

I’m back. You didn’t even know I was away. The dam has broken here on this last day of dailies delivery. It’s delivery to people’s homes time. Of course there was a fire today on the hills behind the Hollywood sign, which cut the power three times to the telecine house putting everything further behind schedule. Should be picking up the first DVD by 6:00 PM and the second by 7:00 PM ish. After burning the DVDs and packaging everything we should be delivering by 9:00 PM or so. Of course now that the principle photography is finished, it would seem all eyes are on us. I’ll either be working tomorrow or coming back here after deliveries.

Well, It looks like the weekend is mine, which is nice. Ended the day delivering to houses and got to my apartment at around 10:45. It’s now 1:00 and I’ve just returned from the bar where I had a few libations to quell the harried day.

It only gets worse and more complicated from here. Final delivery is April 29th, the day before my birthday.

Down to the wire

Well, only three more days of shooting, and then it’s just a harried month of “director’s cut”, “producer’s cut” and what ever cut everyone settles on. What a pain in the ass. Hopefully things will settle down once the shooting is complete and then maybe the days will be somewhat akin to normal 12-hour days, like on any other job with 12 hour days. The wrap party is on Friday, sorry, no guests allowed. Of course it’s being held a good 50 min drive from where I live so there will be as much revelry as possible without any sort of serious drinking. The last thing I need in this state is a DUI. I hope all of you, that I know, are doing well. For those of you who I don’t know that are reading this, I wish you well as well. I love saying well as well. I’m not sure why, but it tickles a small grammatical bone in my body.

You would have loved today. The dailies had to be on set at 8:00 AM so that they could be looked at with regards to making sure the scene shot yesterday had enough coverage to be edited. If not, they had to find a way to keep the set from being struck (torn down). Of course it all went wrong. The telecine house burned us DVDs that looked like crap, so they had to be redone. It all went down hill from there. On a positive note, I was able to have both breakfast and lunch from catering which is more food than I generally eat in three days, let alone one. Luckily I’ve held onto the fat pants I was wearing when I first arrived here 30 lbs. ago.

Speaking of first arriving here, Sunday is my one year anniversary in CA. It’s also Kevin Kerwin’s birthday. We’re both fools in our own ways, so the joke’s on you.

THIS AMERICAN LIFE

Showtime has graciously posted the first episode of This American Life on the web so that all may enjoy. It can be found HERE, so...enjoy.

RIP: Calvert DeForest

(July 23, 1921 - March 19, 2007)

"Everyone always wondered if Calvert was an actor playing a character, but in reality he was just himself: a genuine, modest and nice man. To our staff and to our viewers, he was a beloved and valued part of our show, and we will miss him." - David Letterman

The melding of the days

The days are sort of running together at the moment. I'm getting home at like 8PM, so the blogging has taken a bit of a hit. I'll see if I can't do something about that this weekend. Only 5 days of shooting left, excluding re-shoots, and the last 4 days are here on the lot, so we in Editorial will finally be able to partake of the riches that are catering. For now it’s mostly been what I can scrounge from the production offices craft services table which I squirrel hole here in a draw.

I'm not the first...

...to post this by any means, I found it on Warrenellis.com which I read daily until my eyes bleed, but it deserves repeating here for the three of you who read this. It's over now, they've won. Their case is now fully unshakable. So, now I die.

OK, so I'm not being truthful, but really could you kill me now?

The Tudors

I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but the first two episodes of Showtimes new show THE TUDORS are online HERE. The password is: King. Enjoy, I'll let you know what I think once I've seen them.

"THE TUDORS is the untold story of Henry VIII, the beloved tyrant whose reign was
marked by treachery, betrayal and intrigue. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Henry VIII as never seen before. With a lust for power and an appetite for love, Henry's affair with
Anne Boleyn – and obsession with producing a male heir – changed the institution of marriage, and the world, forever."

Gratz Industries

My friends Alan and Wendi Gratz run amok in the book publishing industry. He as an author, she in sales. They have a family project site called GRATZ INDUSTRIES and Alan has just sent word that Wendi's fab quilting has its own place now at WENDI GRATZ QULTS. Check 'em out. Alan's first book SAMURAI SHORTSTOP should be on your shelves, at this point he really just wants you to buy multiple compies and could care less if you read it even though it was on the Washington Times' Top Ten Books for Children 2006 list, and his next novel SOMETHING ROTTEN, Shakespeare-meets-Chandler YA mystery, comes out from Penguin next fall.

Hollywood Hates you!

Please fell free to kill yourselves. If one of you wouldn't mind, please take me with you.

Lionsgate and the Firm are partnering on a feature adaptation of Thomas Kinkade's painting "The Christmas Cottage," aiming for a holiday season release.

"Christmas Cottage," set to begin shooting next month, will be financed by Lionsgate and produced by Kinkade's Birch Grove Films and Stirling Media labels. Producers will be the Firm's Julie Yorn along Thomas & Nanette Kinkade and Michael & Arla Dietz Campus. The Firm's Marc C. Gordon will be a co-exec producer.

Twirl-a-Squirrel

Take THAT you bastards!

The Fabricationist in no way condones cruelty toward squirrels beyond the infliction of dizziness.