Where’s my chequebook? I want one. It’s worth $1.8 million? Here’s a contract to my first born instead… awesome.

At work tonight my boss was praising my recent work efforts. Wasn’t really paying as much attention until I heard it said “you worked really hard like a little nigger”.

No other workmate heard it, nor were they in earshot, but goddamnit if I’m not pretty certain much, shit you not, 99% certain that is what was said and I was fairly dumbstruck to continue listening or react or anything.

Mental.

Well its been one long week of all sorts of crazies. Completed the short film “Spit-Takes” and while I’m happy with the final result, there’s some effects thats taking its time being rendered before I’ll put it online for all to see.

Its been submitted to be screened along with some other local shorts for a touring festival in order to showcase the Waikato’s budding filmmaking community… or something along those lines. I even managed to squeeze in my good friend Sash’s Dark Priest short that he made several years ago and I still consider it one of, if not the best student/low budget short to have come out of the Waikato in recent years and its always needed a wider audience and this certainly is one of the platforms for it. I should be an agent. Ari Gold would be proud.

Other things that have happened this week include getting my car tested for a Warrant of Fitness and passing with absolutely no faults, not even minor ones to keep an eye out for. Impossible? Probably, I must have left a 20 note or something in the seat, that’s never happened to me before.

I also broke another expensive pair of headphones, and buying a replacement, thats probably my third $100 pair this year. Spending money is just awesome. I also completed building shelves for my DVDs so now they don’t just lie around in excess across the floors and now just need to track down where the hell all my borrowed ones are. As there are just so many missing its mental.

Also tried some painting this weekend and failed so instead took up drinking as a past time. That was excellent, but suffered one hellish hangover thats been haunting me all day today. Thats what I get for mixing my many drinks.

The plan for this week is to start putting together the next short film exclusive for the net, finish writing of script thats needed finishing for many many many months now and probably get around to invoicing and getting paid.

There’s an interview with Charlie Kaufman here in mp3 format and it runs for over two hours. He talks about all sorts of things an its great as you’d expect it to be.

The trailer for his upcoming film Synecdoche…

An interview with the creator of No Heroics which I caught the first episode of and now think is great. Check it out if you can, I mean there’s a guy called Thunder Monkey and he summons monkeys. I know I’ve mentioned that before but… monkeys!

And finally, here’s Well Ferrell answering some questions from the internet. Hilarious.

Just finished a late night edit of short film for festival. Rough cut is done and audio needs some reworking. Music needs to be put in and graphics need to be tweaked. So… Almost… Finished. But sleep first.

New series being coming out this week in the UK, looks to have potential if not be something different at least. And hey, its got a Doorman who’s superpowers is summoning monkeys. Monkeys! That’s at least worth a gander at the trailer here…

• Man’s Body Found 11 Months After Suicide
  Sohn seemed to have hung himself from a pipe in the kitchen, police said. The new owner, Kim, had mistaken the body for a mannequin twice before realizing that it was a dead body. (full article)

• Nathan Rees minister Matt Brown resigns over simulated sex with MP
  “Police Minister Matt Brown “mounted the chest” of Wollongong MP Noreen Hay… (and) called out to Ms Hay’s adult daughter during the performance: “Look at this, I’m tittie-fucking your mother!” (full article)

• It’s sport, not sex, say pole dancers
  “I think one day it should be an Olympic sport – but that will take time. You would have to agree which moves on which to judge competitors, at the moment we all have such different routines,” she added. (full article)

So I didn’t end up doing the music video this weekend and moreso, the deadline for the short film to be made if I didn’t end up doing the music video got pushed forward so much, that it wouldn’t have been finished in time. Not on the scale and scope that I’m planning to do it on. Which is good, cause it gives me time to make the scale and scope just a little bigger.

So… instead of making one whole film, I’ve nearly completed two half finished films that, for the last year, have been lying around in various states of ‘not finished’. It quite bewildering that I’ve left them lying around like this for as long as they have and I’ve got at least a couple of other things filmed that just need editing and a little post work done as well, but for now I’ll concentrate on these two shorts. Which will hopefully be done in time for this deadline, let alone this year.

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So I might be shooting a music video this weekend. I’m not quite sure. The date was pencilled in a while ago but so far not much has been heard on it.

But elsewise, I’ve taken a offer to contribute a short film to a touring film festival that’s intended to showcase the Waikato or Hamilton region or something. So, to make something specifically for the show, I’m going to spend the next few days, and moreso the weekend (if I’m not filming a music video instead) to make a film about nothing. Not to say that Hamilton is nothing (though pretty close according to some), but the intention is to not plan anything, not script anything and just use whatever resources I’ll have available at the time. That also include equipment, actors, props, locations and food. And thats not to say nothing means I don’t have an idea in my head what exactly it’s about or how to do it, but that I have a concept of a story and of the format, but I want to keep the process very experiment and very spontaneous.

And hey, if it all fucks up and collapses on itself, I’ll just use an old short film or something instead.

I seem to keep forgetting to blog things. Here’s a local high school band’s video that was hastily put together for their rockquest entry. Thats me saying watch it more for listening to the music than watching the actual images.