A weekend of relaxing and studying, or however close I can come to studying was just what I needed. I feel a million times better after this little gitaway. I have started to map out my coming days and have even thought about cleaning my room. Can you believe that? I thought about cleaning! That's the first step to actually cleaning! I'm almost there! Any year now it'll get clean.
My podcasts have taken a hit of late but I plan on getting them back in shape. Uncanny and Clean Jeans will be coming out this week, as will Sunnydale Lives missing episode if I can swing it. Crusaders and the revamped Sunnydale Live are in the works. I have a slew of shorts that I'm trying to work out. If Blueroof Productions is going to be my life I need to get it off the ground. No more waiting for my life to start. My life is now.
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So I'm supposed to be in west Texas this weekend working on my friends production but he saw how burnt out I was and let me take the weekend off. Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. Last weekend I Director the 4 Points Film Project. It was a 100 hour race and it nearly killed me.
I poured everything I had into it and because of one slip up of information on my part we missed the dead line by 30 minutes. The last few days I have been in a huge funk because of it. Everyone keeps telling me that I did all I did and that I can't do everything myself. While I always tell my partners that you can't do it all, you need help this production has shown me that some times you have to take a heavy hand. I also learned that even when the fault lies with many people you can't sit around and play the blame game. It's a team production and the team failed, not individuals. Sometimes I take the blame on too much myself but as Ashley keeps telling me, it shouldn't be I it should be We. Something I'm still learning. The Uncanny Fans visit the pod as Ashley steps into the drivers seat with spooking facts about Stephen King.
So I signed up for Movie Pass and am loving it. I can't believe how great it is to just get up and go to a movie and not worry about paying for it. It's a nice world. I've already seen The Peanuts Movie, Spectre and Our Brand is Crisis. All great films using it.
Today I went and saw my fourth film with the pass and this is the one I want to talk about today. Burnt . It is such a great film. I don't know what I was expecting walking in, to be honest not a whole lot. I've never been much of a cooking person. I always hated those shows about cooking that my mom used to make me watch but I guess after seeing Chef I've been dying to see something in the same vain. Jon Favreau made one amazing movie that gave me a new appreciation for the art of cooking. I mean don't get me wrong I've always loved eating but cooking I always found boring until that film. Throughout this movie I found myself comparing the two films over and over again and that isn't fair. They are very different in a lot of ways. Bradley Cooper played a bitter man who is trying to get his life back on track after letting it spirit out of control. We follow him on this journey and it is one hell of a ride. He pulls us in all the while keeping everyone else out. Life is hard and sometimes we work so hard on what we want in this world that we lose track of everything else. We become so consumed with it that it becomes our whole world. Once we get it we don't know what to do with ourselves. We work so hard getting to the finish line that we feel lost and hollow once we arrive. Everything falls apart and we end up losing all that we worked for. I think that is a large part why people sabotage themselves. This film is all about how to pick up the pieces afterwards. In short it's a redemption story and a damn good one. One that I think everyone should run out and go see. As jam packed as these past few days have been I have still managed to steal away a few hours each day to take advantage of my new Movie pass. It is the greatest invention ever made. I mean a free movie everyday for just $35 a month, wait what? That isn't free, but regardless it is an amazing gift and I'm loving it.
I should start back in with my movie reviews if I'm going to be watching movies every day. I mean why not? It could be a lot of fun. If you love movies as much as I do you should really look into getting one, I mean why not right? It's a small fee that lets us have access to an art form we all love and aspire to be apart of. They give you a MasterCard that you use to watch one movie a day. Before buying your ticket you use your phone to sign in at that theatre and you then have 30 minutes to buy the tickets. It is a nice system that works great. The gang returns to talk about video games.
Ash and Jonathan discuss their hatred for the 25 best shows in 25 years, baby Hitler, and religion
So I keep reading about this police boycott against Quentin Tarantino and it just has me in a state of shock. Can anyone really understand how the people who hired by our government using our money to protect us is upset that a man calls them out killing innocent people. I mean throw a rock and you hit a new story about cops hurting people, shooting dogs, throwing kids onto the floor.
I mean its easy to look at these events in the paper or on TV and judge not knowing both sides. Not knowing the full story. After all I always tell everyone that the real truth rests somewhere in the middle. It almost always does but sometimes the other story is lie. I've spoken about some of my problems with law enforcement on Clean Jeans before but by and large I stay out of politics but today I just had a run in with a cop and it inspired me to share some of my experiences with the boys in blue. My earliest memory is of coming home to find a man inside my apartment stealing stuff from us. My early life was full of random days where we would come home and our stuff would be gone. It was just a fact of life for us. This was the first time I can remember, I couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 at the time. The man saw us and ran out, my mom called the police and they showed up. The cop yelled at my mom and blamed her for the break in. We didn't have bars on our windows so we were inviting people to break in. That's how they think. That's how their minds work. I moved to the apartments known as the Blue Roofs. I had a few run ins there. I remember one time this guy who was a known drug dealer tried to force himself onto my friends sister but my friend stopped him. The drug dealer called the cops and my friend was arrested. Keep in mind these were apartments where police would go into the trap house every week bringing presents and walking out with little brown lunch bags. You figure out what was going on. When me and my friends tried to tell the police what happened they told us not to repeat that story or we would be arrested as accessories. That makes sense right? Another time, while still in the Blue Roofs me and my friends were walking home and we saw our friends uncle getting out of his car and walking home. Three cops stopped him and threw him against the car. He dropped his bag and a box of a BB gun fell out. They started to beat him with their billy clubs and when we asked what happened they pointed to the bag with the box sticking out slightly and said he pulled a gun on them. They then arrested him. I was living in Lewisville Texas at the age of 17 and was walking home from a walk. I like to walk and cops love to pull me over while walking. I never knew that walking was a crime and to the police defense they always tell me that I didn't do anything wrong as they frisk me and run my ID and ask me all kinds of questions. If I'm treated like this for not breaking the law I'd hate to see how people who do cross that line are treated. Well back to Lewisville. So I was walking home and cut through an alley because it was faster, a cop car pulled up and started questioning me. He called in reinforcements. I had three cops yelling at me, telling me that they saw me trying to break into a building that I never even went near. The cop then asked me what I would say if they found a screwdriver on the ground around where I was. The ground was littered with trash so I told him I'd tell him congrats, there is all kinds of junk around here and it doesn't make it mine. The other cop said what if we just pick one up on the way to the police station. I told him that would be planting evidence and they let me go with a warning. A warning after threatening to frame me for a crime? At 23 I was in Arlington Texas and was driving home. I tried to avoid a pot hole and failed. Not only did I hit the pot hole I hit the curb and my car spun out of control. I ended up in the middle of both lanes while my tire axles flew off. It was about five minutes before an ambulance showed up and another 10 minutes before the police came. I was a block from home but the cop told me they couldn't tow it to my house, it had to go to the impound. I said fine and asked if anything else was going to happen. He told me no. It wasn't my fault so I didn't have to worry. He said it was bad enough what happened to my car and I thanked him. Three weeks later I got a ticket in the mail for over $300 where the officer said he saw me fall asleep while driving. He got there 15 minutes after the accident but says he saw the whole thing. I tried to fight the ticket but was told that if I did I would have to drive out to Austin Texas and if I lost i would have to pay the police officers salary while he was off in court. So that is how innocent until proven guilty works? You have to go out of your way to prove your innocent and if you can't you have to not only pay the fine but also pay the man who framed you. American justice is a great thing is it not? That brings us to today. I was driving a little fast. About 42 on a 35. I know, I know, speeding is bad. I spot a bike cop and start to slow down to 35 hoping to avoid a ticket. He zooms out of his spot a head of me with his sirens on and waits for me to get past him before pulling me over. He then tells me that I was going over 50. I told him I was going around 40 and he called me a lair and gave me a ticket. I was speeding, give me a ticket for going 42 miles. Why lie and say I was going 50? Could it be that the cost of the ticket would be higher? Bingo! These were just some highlights of my run ins with police. Now I know some of you will say that I'm being unfair because not all cops are bad. Fine, great, not all cops are bad. But why don't they do something about the ones who are? Well because when they do they get fired. You hear about it all the time. Cop speaks out about corruption in the force and they are fired. Fired for trying to do their jobs. Maybe it isn't the police that are bad maybe it is the system that is corrupt. The system needs to change. They need to remember that they work for us. We don't work for them. They are here to protect and serve. Maybe they should start. Starcraft has dominated my life the past few days. I had forgotten how much fun it could be to escape inside the world of video games. It was a nice escape from all the stress that has been overwhelming me these last few days. On top of that I hung out with some friends I haven't seen in a while and it was rejuvenating. Nothing like spending time with friends to make you feel young and alive.
I have a lot of work to do today on both the upcoming projects. For Davis's project I have to take some pictures for an important middle scene but I have no idea what time the lady is coming. Hopefully not too early, seeing as I have yet to fall asleep. On Rolinda's project I have to turn in the binder. It would help if my team emailed me the paper work like I asked them too days ago but we'll see how it unfolds. Relic's has been going good so far and hopefully will come out soon. I also have a new Uncanny Fans and two episodes of Clean Jeans in the bank. I'm hoping it can breath new life into Blueroof Productions. Our growth has stalled a bit of late and I'm hoping that once these two projects are in the can we can start expanding once more. For those of you who have stuck with me from early on I can't tell you how much I appreciate all of your support. Scheduling is the nightmare that never ends. Juggling different peoples lives in order to find one time when everyone can come together to create something is one of the hardest jobs in the world. I do not envy it and down right hate it when it falls on me. In this life all I ask for is a producer! Haha. It is vastly unappreciated job done by people who have far more patience than I.
Working on two projects at the same time is proving to be more difficult than I originally thought but it is proving to be a great learning experience. A sometimes stressful one but a useful one. I honestly believe that we learn more when everything falls apart than we do when everything goes smoothly. |
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