Prairie Home Companion or My Car Dies and is REBORN!

Just saw "A Prairie Home Companion" with Erin. I really liked it. It was a poignant, meandering, folksy tale that took its time telling a fairly simple story that was a beautiful metaphor for how we all live our lives. If I could cry, I would have. Great songs too.
The other day I was driving when all of a sudden my radio began to turn on and off. Thinking nothing of it I let it be. After work, while driving on Empress the car stopped completely. I couldn't even put it in neutral to push it out of the middle of the road! The blinkers were sporadic and nothing was working. Calling CAA (after completely forgetting I was a member) I was towed to my garage. I then went to Rob's to chat with his parents about things and left it at that. The next day I informed the garage of the fiasco and they took a look at it. It turned out that BOTH my battery AND alternator died together in a blaze of glory. $585 later my car is reborn with power and energy to last many moons. My bank account was not happy. Visa will be.
All of this after buying the microphone and a light. Ouch time!
Jim Cornette is awesome.

Check This Out or See This Movie

Just saw "An Inconvienient Truth," powerful message delivered with conviction and charisma. Why isn't that man president... oh wait... now I remember.

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Scheduling is Hard or $400 Gone!

Man it's been a huge bitch to try to schedule a feature film shoot around volunteer actors with lives and jobs. I mean come on! They should all be like me and take a week off! That was a joke by the way. I think I finally have a working schedule that will get the majority of the film done in the week I have off. We'll have to try to get the rest done at a later date.
I picked up a fairly good shotgun mic today. That thing, after tax and some XLR cable put me out $428. Ouch! Oh well, that's the price you have to pay for your art.
I have finally unloaded all of my excess gamecube and gameboy games. I am free of all systems now save for Xbox and Dreamcast. I used to own: SNES, Ps1, Gamecube, GBA, DS. Over the past year or so I have unloaded them all. That's partially what helped to pay for my awesome camera. Next purchase is a good Mac computer. That and some lights... most likely cheapies from Home Depot.
Firefox, for some reason, decided to delete all of my bookmarks the other day. That REALLY sucked as they had been built up since my early net days in the mid 90's or so. Oh well, I guess that'll learn me to not back things up.
The Alec Guiness bio that I'm reading seems really obsessed with whether or not he was a closet homosexual. Does it really matter? I thought we were passed that being a big deal. But then again it would add a whole new dimension to the Obi-Wan/Luke relationship.
Lee's Dusty Rhodes DVD talks... mine doesn't... it looks like he wins THIS round. ERG!

Casting Call Fun or LONG DAY

Wow, what a long day.
We had a casting call for our upcoming feature film "The Killing Death." Beginning at 11, it lasted all the way to 5pm. The heat in the sun room was nigh unbearable, with sweat pouring from all involved. I ran out of film for the camera about halfway (as we spent about 45 minutes with the first guy who came since he was the only one at the time). We had a great cross-section of people who all did interesting things with the roles. It's pretty clear who the front-runners are, but I can't reveal that just now. Cross your fingers that they can all do it.
I then had to go straight to work where it was BGK all night. (Busy getting killed). It was super busy, humid as all hell, and very draining. But then platform is fun like that... especially in the summer.
So much to do, so little time!