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• 48 hour film fest. Hmm… #
• Our genre is my wheelhouse. Should make this damn thing less painful. #
• Laughing with my brother and V. Ridiculous. #
• Int’l Inglorious Basterds trailer makes it look like a “same old, same old” Tarantino movie. Disappointed GREATLY in this. #
• Impressive, and now that we know everyone’s okay, kinda funny: http://tinyurl.com/l9w6gq #
• Doo-lang, doo-lang… #
• I love when people critique a film you made in 48 HOURS! #
• Braves game portion of the bachelor party http://yfrog.com/0bg2ej #
• Not a close game. On to the Indie. #
• Being joined by Tsambis in a moment. #
• My headache is intruding on the evening. #
• So this is the Clermont Lounge… *shudder* #
• I mean it when I say I’ve never seen Chris Tsambis happier #
• Trying to find V a rental car, since the garage that said her car was now fixed was erroneous. #
• New album by Rancid is worth every one of your hard earned dollars. #
• There’s an odd “last day of school” feel to the world today. #
• I’ve been in software for nigh-on ten years. This track sums it up in ~three minutes: http://tinyurl.com/kthsyf #

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• Scottish pub where the waitresses dress like it’s a Hooters. Goofy. #
• Funnel fries at the Independent. Like donuts that fit in your pocket. #
• Just made a Michael Jackson joke in relation to physical therapy. (PT vs. PYT). I thought you should know. #
• Here’s a hint, if you’re acting as boom op. If the camera is rolling, PLEASE DON’T MOVE THE BOOM AROUND. I could’ve hid the shadow… #
• Just saw that Dead Snow is on Demand. Nazi zombies in winter, what’s up?! #
• Unexpected movie news - http://tinyurl.com/mgo57s. Not sure if it’s a good thing or not. #
• Half of my brothers comes in tomorrow. Wish it was a full helping, I don’t see those kids enough. #
• Hell is a suburban movie theater when school is out. #
• So Transformers… Yep, pretty damn racist. And an hour too long. And an awful expensive movie to not have a map of D.C. #
• New Mos Def album is pretty great #
• You guys have that friend who constantly flakes? Irritating. #
• I haven’t thought/cared about Michael Jackson in years. It would seem disingenuous to change my stance now. #
• Local database is completely corrupted today, so am rebuilding. This was not my plan for productivity. #

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• Reeling, then healing from the location loss. More prep = better movie. No retreat, no regrets… (Theoretically) #
• Had my iPhone fixed, as penance for this day. #
• Matt Myers has three baby birds that say ‘Beep beep’. Ridiculously cute. #
• You cannot write a mission statement that doesn’t sound like bullsh*t. Yes, that’s a challenge. #
• What if one of the world’s greatest directors decided to do a horror movie? Now go watch the trailer for “Shutter Island”. #
• Raisinets and Dark Raisinets, but nary a Goober in sight. Damned travesty. #
• Finally have a workflow for moving 5D Mk II footage from 30p to 24p without loss. Today is turning out aces. (PS - Found Goobers.) #
• Getting close to 1.00 followers/following ratio. Nervous… #
• “Happy” by The Wrens - Worth the price of the album. (Album = The Meadowlands) #
• Not normally my thing, but this means something. (Green avatars for Iran) #IranElection #
• These people were nearly doing it at the bar behind us. Inappropriate. http://yfrog.com/0j32805240j #
• Kills me when something that was working previously mysteriously stops. #
• Star Discussions, The Empire Turns The Other Cheek #nicerfilmtitles #
• Al Cowlings drove OJ around in his white Bronco 15 years ago today. Fifteen years ago, people… #
• Finished the Perlman-performed Guillermo del Toro vampire book. Not bad, I’ll read the next two. #
• If this could go well, that’d be really helpful. #
• It did not go well. #

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• Very long shooting day comes to a close. #
• Heading for Solstice for the cafe shoot, then on to Smokers Paradise for the smoke shop scene. #
• Post wrap drink with my DP. #
• Mos Def’s new album is Amazon’s cheap download today. Go buy it, if you like good things. #
• I wonder how many people are watching the liveblog in the office right now… #
• Once again, AT&T shoots Apple in the foot. At what point does the regret become unbearable. No MMS until ‘later this summer’. #
• Decidedly less than earth-shattering news on the new iPhone. If mine wasn’t broken, don’t think I’d upgrade. #
• Last weekend was the big shoot with 20+ extras. This weekend is the private set with almost no cast. Guess which one I’m more worried about? #
• At first, Lee Child’s descriptions of ubiquitous technology is quaint. After a while, it becomes grating and painfully dull. #
• Getting visual reference from Love Actually while halfway watching Righteous Kill. (One of them’s godawful. Guess which?) #
• Bill Nighy - Amazing. #
• E!, the bastion of quality journalism, is reporting that Fox has ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama. Good news, everyone! #
• RT @brokenlizard: I love the Jolly Green Giant. He’s a vegetable salesman. #
• I don’t expect the world when printing at Office Depot. I don’t receive it either. #
• Just lost my script super for the shoot this weekend. That’s no good. #
• I wonder if I could use Project Natal to develop storyboards… #
• Shoot this weekend is cancelled. Call me for more details. #

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Finished principal photography on Sofia Warren this past weekend. Have one scene and some Motion work left to do before I can call that one “ready for edit”, but we’re getting close. Having rehearsal for Greyhound Retreat on Wednesday, then shooting on Friday and Saturday night. I’m extremely nervous and hopeful about that shoot. More later, when I can think. Pictures up soon from SW, as we had Imoto and Angelyn shooting prod stills, as well as Adam Thompson. There’s a wealth oh pics out there, I’m sure…

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• “Um… So…” Seriously. Stop beginning sentences like this. It’s irritating. #
• Breakfast at the Flying Biscuit, with a shoot later on #
• I need to stop working with people who don’t enjoy filmmaking. It’s hard enough. #
• Eerily quiet in the office this morning. #
• Hypothesis: The number of Twitter followers you have is irrelevant if they aren’t reading your stuff. #
• Hypothesis #2: Someone will find a way to correlate page impressions with your followers to determine an “actual” followers list. #
• Reunited with my proper car. #
• Watching Pontypool on onDemand. Sort of wishing I would’ve waited to see it on the big screen, but so far it’s damn taut. #
• Good Lord, this movie got intense REAL fast. #
• Watching my officemates shoot Nerf darts at a pregnant woman. This may encapsulate why I work here. #
• Cubs game, rehearsal, sleep #
• Not quite the friendly confines, but not 750 miles away. #
• Oh, Lord. Pressures for the shoot this weekend are mounting. #
• Checking in a huge piece of functionality at the end of the day. Breaking my own golden rule. I’m sure it’ll be fine… #

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This is the middle of Hell month for me, so you won’t see much from me. I’ve got two entries in the hopper that aren’t quite cooked yet, and I’m in the middle of four weekends of back to back shoots for Biopic. Hang in there, more later.

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• Rainy days make construction sand sad. http://yfrog.com/10qqyj #
• Waiting for The Brothers Bloom to entertain me. #
• Leon Durham is the first base coach for the Toledo Mudhens. If you don’t know who that is, you’re no Cubs fan. #
• Going to be a rough day for shooting. #
• Just saw a live GT-R on the street. Beautiful car. #
• Closing out the holiday at an Irish pub with the fellows #
• Okay, okay. I had heard this movie was good. And it takes about an hour to get going. But damn, I didn’t know it was this good. (F/N) #
• Woke up with a bad sore throat #
• There’s a guy who rides in to our office complex every day on a Segway. Brother makes a Vespa look like a muscle car. #
• No offense to Segway owners. (All three of you) #
• Sore throat not improving. #
• Trying to finish these commits before passing out #
• House just lost power in the middle of a commit. Hope it made it. #
• Eating dinner in the dark #
• Power restored, still feel like hell. #
• Willy’s Mexicana Grill is our office cafeteria. #
• The car is behaving strangely. #
• It’s very warm when you’re walking home. #

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• Low End Theory came out in ‘91? Good God… #
• In Adam T’s office. Behind the scenes at the zoo! (Not that exciting) #
• Shut up Shut up Shut up Shut up… (This is only for my sanity, apologies.) #
• Thrashing about in development quicksand. How can I possibly be making the environment worse?! #
• The best part of Terminator Salvation is a music cue. Which isn’t to downplay the rest of it, but the cue is great. #
• Still fighting the environment. Development would be so much easier if not for this. #
• Had it for a while, but waving the white flag. Maybe tomorrow it’ll work… #
• Really need to find a place to rehearse in the next couple weeks. #
• It’s incredibly eerie when a song you’re listening to syncs up perfectly with life at the moment. (The song? The Muppet Show theme) #
• Now that I know people watch my IM status to see what I’m listening to, I feel bad when I leave iTunes on pause. #
• “Mona Lisa… on a motorcycle gang” #
• The floor of the office is littered with Nerf darts. #
• Amazing what stress can do to a mood from one second to the next. #

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Been unreal busy these days, but I’ll put a proper post again soon. In the meantime, go check out Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros’s album Streetcore. You’ll thank me.

Also, have a metric ton of film ideas swirling around all the sudden. Also, I think I’m through with doing shorts for a while. Time to be a real filmmaker and make another feature. The front-runner is an idea that came from watching Brewster’s Millions. No kidding.

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