Well, today is Easter. The thing that I find to funny is the fact that we wrapped filming on "Days Like These" a year ago today. That means that our current project "Holidays Like These" has been in production for almost a year now. I actually started writing the script for "Holidays" before we even filmed a single shot in "Days". But I ended up trashing the entire script and starting over sometime in June of last year. It's just amazing to me that it has taken us this long to get this thing finished.

I guess I got spoiled when we got the first two done in such a short time ... I thought this one would be done just as quickly but there has just been shit getting in the way at every single stage of the project. Right now I just want it to be finished so I can be done with it and move on to something else. Don't get me wrong ... I love the film. I think it's the best one of the series and I'm proud to say it's the final part of the series ... but I'd really like to be done with it now. I have project after project after project in my head that I want to move on to but I can't when I'm still having to figure out how the hell I'm going to get this movie finished and who's going to help me do it.

As of right now ... today ... this very moment ... Dave is back on board as the editor. I have 'retained' his services and if what he says is true ... the bulk of the film could be finished and edited within the week. I hope that remains true. Dave is a very talented editor and has helped me out in many ways and in many areas in the process of producing all three of these films. While the thought of having someone new, even myself for that matter, edit this last film was appealing ... it was also very frightening.

There are a lot of people that are fans of the first two films that have asked me repeatedly when this new one was coming out ... and all I could keep telling them was "Soon.". The last thing I wanted was for myself or someone else to do a shitty job putting it together and people being dissapointed with this one. Sequals aren't easy things to make. People always compare them to the original film, and making a 'trilogy' is even harder. Don't worry .. I don't have a 'prequal' trilogy planned that would shit all over the legacy of this one. I'm not that fucking insane.

Well ... if all goes well, this thing will finally be over by the end of April. I sure as hell don't want to have to ask my boss at the movie theatre where I work part time to let me screen my film there on the weekend of April 29th. I don't think I can compete with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or even "XXX: State of the Union" for that matter. I had to ask him to let me screen "Days" the weekend "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" came out last summer. That was like pulling fucking teeth.

We're filming the teaser for "The Wild Side" this week sometime hopefully. Hopefully that will be the signal of the transition from one project to the next. It usually is.

So ... we wrapped filming on the new movie ("Holidays Like These" in case you weren't keeping up) back in January. I spent most of February figuring out what I was going to do about editing it. Was I going to do it? Was I going to go back and get the editor of every movie I have done to date (the awesomeley talented Dave) or was I going to go another route altogether?

Well, after a lot of talking with the guy who's pretty much my partner in all these films, Dustin, I decided to get Seth, the gentleman who was our director of photography on this film to edit it. Seth has some experience in editing and he was there for the entire shoot and he has a really good idea what I am looking for AND that means I don't have to do it either. For the first time ever, I got to pick all the shots I wanted as I actually compiled the footage for Seth in prepping him for editing. It's pretty awesome and there are actually a few scenes he's going to have me there when he edits them because they are pretty complicated. Right now we're just in a holding pattern as we have been having some computer problems and Seth, who is still in college, has a paper due this week. Ah ... the joy and frustration of independent filmmaking.

On a side note ... one of the actors in the new film, Josh, was until this week a coworker of mine. I hate to see Josh go as he is a really good guy and he taught me a lot in the time we worked together. This also sucks because I have not spoken to Josh since this happened and I was waiting on some pictures from him to use in the opening sequence of the film. So now I'm stuck with 'Do I do the original opening without the items I needed from him or do I go a different route and do something completely different?' I really don't want to have to do something else as the opening to the new movie was my second choice of ways to open it ... and I really don't want to have to figure something else out. Ow. My brain hurts. I'll be back later ... maybe I'll have news that doesn't suck then ... like some of the movie has been edited. Later.

Who am I and why the hell should I have a blog? Well, doesn't everyone else? Why can't I have one too? So fuck it all ... here it is.

The main purpose of this blog will be for me to discuss film and other projects I am currently working on. Thus far, I have four short films completed. Two of them were completed last year and this one was supposed to be ready by Christmas but that didn't happen.

My latest film, titled "Holidays Like These" is curently in the editing phase and will hopefully be finished by the end of the month so I can unveil it to the world (or a few dozen people) sometime in April.

I am very excited about this new film as I think it is the best thing I have done so far. I am also working on the script for my next project tentivley titled "The Wild Side". I'm hoping to have the script done in time for us to shot this summer.

Uh ... I can't think of anything else to say. Be back soon. Hopefully ....