Currently Listening March 16-20, 1992 By Uncle Tupelo see related

...which is one more reason I'm glad I'm in New York.

For real, though, work is insane this week. There's a lot of damn stories to move. Shit on fire is something that local affiliates have no problem going out and shooting, so we're working awfully hard. I've only been able to watch one episode of The Office on my iPod tonight-- and that was mostly during my break. Shudder!

Otherwise, things are pretty good. Tomorrow morning I'll be sending Gracie Rose off to Tribeca and South By Southwest, which completes the first phase of our fesival push. Now we wait-- till December to hear from Sundace, till January or February on these two. If one of them accepts us, then the world is a glorious place. If not, then we start looking at smaller, more-winnable (yeah, that's a real phrase. Look it up in a book!), regional festivals with cash prizes and we pushing there.

Also sending off my monthly shipment of DVDs for the Orpheum; I programmed a Halloween night double feature of the Bela Lugosi Dracula paired with Nosferatu, and did a fun pre-show with a funny, mad scientist Bugs Bunny cartoon and a bunch of cheezy vampire movie trailers. Should be fun. Check it out on Halloween night if you're looking for something to do, Wichitans.

Spent the weekend cutting Amber's stuff for the second Karl & Bernie short, which I finished up last night; tomorrow I meet with Mac and Mike (who's finally back in town) for an afternoon rehearsal, and then we'll shoot their half of it on Wednesday. Then we'll have a super-fast turnaround and shoot the entire third short with Welsby on Sunday, and then I'll finish cutting the second one after Welsby heads home on November 1st in order to get it up during the first week of November. So this week will be kinda crazy for shooting, but then we'll have all of November (basically) off, at least as far as shooting goes.

Also, we went to the Bitter End on Saturday night to hear The District, the band that Rebekah's friend Jessie's boyfriend Paul plays in. (Follow that?) They wuz good. And I like Paul--he's a nice guy, plus his dad is the guy who wrote the theme to Miami Vice, which he's basically lived off of since. I find this to be wicked awesome. At any rate, the Bitter End is legendary for all of the greats who played there early in their career-- musicians like Dylan and Joni Mitchell and Kris Kristofferson, and comics like Cos and Woody and Carlin. So that was cool.

Oh, and the big Comedians of Comedy show is this Saturday. Patton, Maria, Brian Posehn, David Cross, many others. Hurray, hurray.

Is that it? I think that's it.

The End.