It's been a week of stress and chaos. Each passing day, it gets worse. Luckily, I blew a decent amount of cash on alcohol wednesday night to ease my mind, and I made some people quite proud of me when I began emailing them when I returned home. I realized that I know some tremendous, talented people, and I'm glad to know them and be concidered a friend by them.
In the coming week or two, I need to go hang out with Hoops and Sparky, as it's been forever since I've seen them, and time must be spent.
Well, the occupation has moved into a new office, and I've got this HUGE amount of desk space. Since I only use a laptop, a keyboard, and a mouse, I'm left with a TON of space. I need ideas and/or donations for my new amount of space. Please feel free to drop a comment and give me ideas or give me a way to contact you so I can aquire what you want to donate.
I'm heading to the Cleveland area for a Holloween gathering with some Ohioan friends, so that should be fun. I miss them, and sometimes, it's good to get away. With everything going on, I need some distraction.
And we're apparently getting a guest for up to a week. Remind me to lock up the valuables.
So the weekend ended up to be hell. I attended two parties, and I just wasn't in a party mood. My sinuses have been hell the entire weekend. They seemed to be fine after a full-on assault of them on Sunday, but today told me quite differently that the battle must go on.
I never got the re-energizing and care I hoped to, and instead, ended up with an argument, and some self-realization. It's getting to be time to see how things are truely seen, and not just through my eyes.
We're in crunch time at the office, and I've been cutting wedding footage and old film stuff for my father. Other than that, it's been brain activity, and lately, it hasn't been the best of activity. Time to look to the brighter side of life.
"Sleep will not come to this tired body now" -- Smashing Pumpkins, 'In the Arms of Sleep"
There's a lot of things weighing my mind down lately, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. I've been dealing with very little sleep this week, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.
I'm up to my neck in dust here at the old office, and I think that might be contributing to the blahness that is present, but soon, we will be in the new office, and then I can work from home or the office. Dear God, it's been a long week, and it just keeps getting longer. I'm hoping this weekend holds some relaxation and solace. I hope I can get the care I need to re-energize me for the week ahead.
There's talk of two parties this weekend, so that could be cool. I'd rather just curl up on the couch and watch crappy movies. My mind hasn't been in the greatest mindset, and I've been extremely overanalyzing everything, and I do mean everything. Little things have set off weird analyzations, and I apologize to anyone who thinks I'm mad at them because of it.
I'm looking forward to the twenty-ninth for the Holloween bash at Garvin's new place. I just haven't been too keen on leaving the moe area lately. Ah well. Next week holds the big SEMAFX bash for the month, and I get to finally get CartoonLarry to meet some of his flash creation peers.
I changed my LiveJournal to completely "Friends Only", so if you are looking for more personal information than what I'm giving out here, you will need to contact me to get on my friends list.
Friday: I went out to dinner with a few friends to chow on some Mongolian goodness. It was a pleasant evening.
Saturday: Aaron and I headed off to Cedar Point for some Holloweekends fun, and to meet up with Stevo, but Stevo had some relationship issues and bailed without contacting me. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the day of forty degree fun (less at the top of Magnum XL-200). We ended up coming back early, so I fell into a local watering hole to watch horrid TV and drink quite little.
Sunday: What a day. It turns out there was some Scape Films work to be done with a casting call, so I had to rush my day to make sure I got there on time. I encountered quite the automobile frustration involving the main cooling fan and its housing. I was offered Mom's ride as collateral until I could get it fixed, and I managed to get to my destination ahead of schedule. Things went well, and a good time was had by all. I just wish the Scape Films crew lived a bit closer. Forty-five minutes to see friends kind of sucks.
So, that's been the weekend. This week entails the moving of many items from Northville to Livonia, in an effort to get into the new office space. Congrats to Garvin, though, for getting his new place. Go G go!
Apparently, the only night of Holloween weekend I'm not booked is the thirty-first. Prospective offers can be left in the comments section.
I've felt very taxed lately. It might be rooted in my lack of sleep lately, which then causes me to be restless, and that's where I think I developed this crick in my neck. It hasn't been all that well, and most of the people I've surrounded myself with lately have been under all kinds of stress, so it seems to carry over to me. I don't mind, as I have no problem helping my friends carry the load. These people mean a hell of a lot to me, so I'll do anything for them.
Editing the wedding footage I talked about in a previous entry has shown me why I loathe the thought of shooting a wedding. True, I had to shoot the damn thing with the bride's father's shitty camcorder (also known as the world's most ghetto video equipment), but I hate working when my friends are celebrating. I only get asked to shoot friends weddings, and I'll be damned if I'm ever falling into that trap again. Technically, I've shot two weddings, but in one, I was involved in the ceremony, so dad shot that. All I did was shoot some people saying congrats, the cake cutting, and then edited it all together.
"Mistake" has been put on hold for the time being, until we can get a lead actor. You can find more information about this role right here.
I'm bummed I am no longer going with CartoonLarry to a film shoot in Columbus, but due to the work office moving and the onset of "Mistake", I had to cancel. Now that both hinderances have cleared up, I didn't have the cash to go, but I do have the time... So, luckily, some friends cohoerced me into a Cedar Point trip, which I'm heading out on, season pass in hand. I've been wary of going for a few reasons, but I think it will be good for me to take a break from the life around here, even if for one day. I don't feel comfortable being away for longer than a day, for some reason.
Oh, if anyone wants to keep my filmmaking endeavors going, please head over here and purchase some items. If you also take pictures of yourself wearing/using/ modeling said items and send them along for me to use for promotional material/blackmail, I'll send you something in return, and you will have my personal thanks.
A long sleepless weekend was had. I think I'm contracting someone's insomnia, while they are getting my sleep time. Sometimes, life isn't fair. It really isn't when I have only had two nights of good sleep in the last three or four years.
The weekend rundown:
Friday night, I did some running around the metro area, running some needed errands and whatnot, then went over to Ming's for some Chicken Broccoli, and over to ABC Warehouse to look at replacement VCRs. Since mine is dying, I figure I might as well. After taking some time at home, I headed out to the Affection for the Underdog show in Novi, and then... Well, home.
Saturday, I began the day at eight AM, clocking about three hours of sleep. Yay me. I did some light auto care and some cleaning, and partook in the traditional watching of the Evil Dead. Only partially, though, and I struggled to nap during the flick to no avail. I visited a some friends briefly, and spent most of the day laying around in a slumberless stupor. The end of the evening brought a viewing of "the Forgotten", a walk through the Redford Jaycee's haunted house, and a beer. I was running on my Nth wind, since I had no rememberance of how many winds I had taken.
Today, I hooked up the editing PC, and so far, everything is running well. I've done a few rendering tests, and all my footage remained intact. I can cut, I can transition. I can render. I may very well be back in business. I'll have to take some time and clip some stills from the Falling Apart rough cut I have laying around, and throw them up on my page under the JTC Productions banner.
Yeah, I've decided to give this a shot again -- this journal-type thing. The bastardization of a blog and a journal. I've done it with Livejournal for a while, and I created my "secret" club of people who post in a blind journal, keeping the general public from knowing who they are, but neither seems to be cutting the mustard. Besides, I don't think I like not having actual content on my site anymore.
It's been an interesting year so far, and the last few months have been filled with some interesting chaos. Things are changing, as they always do, and I'm feeling delightfully cryptic.
Upcoming projects:
Mistake - While I've made many of these in my life, this is actually the working title of a Scape Films short film I'll be shooting. Looks to be a good thing, if we can get past the initial hurdles.
Wedding - The wedding I shot with a shitty camcorder is near completion, or at least the ceremony is. I'm waiting for the editing machine to come back from Chicago, and I'm hoping it comes back this weekend. If it does, then I'll get back into it and get that thing cut and out the door.
Character Assassination - This wonderful little film is plagued with audio issues (due to wind), and it's in the same boat as the wedding footage.
I'm still tweaking things here, so I don't know if it will look this way in a day or two. Whatever, fuckers.
