...I have been first assistant director on a SAG Ultra Low Budget feature that is shooting until June 23rd. And I've been dating a lovely boy for over a month now. So yes. I am alive. I am just busy.

... I thought everything would turn out wrong.

But it turned out so right. I'm still skeptical. But I'm smiling.

fucking feelings. Will I be hurt again? Stay tuned.

i feel like no one wants to hang out anymore.

Here is I:

-Got hired to be first assistant director on a low budget indie feature shooting this June. Day job is letting me take the time off to do this. Getting paid a good chunk. The producer seems insanely cool and they're hiring a locations manager that I've been working with already for Lost in Sunshine, so all in all a good thing ( Read more... )

my cat is lying on her back with her front paws stretched above her head and she's making chirping noises. That pretty much sums up sxsw.

but in all seriousness... movin' right along.

Dallas crew is on their way from Dallas to Austin at this very minute to come hang out and chat with me about the last weekend's issues and future projects ( Read more... )

For the past few weeks, I have been buried in a filmmaking contest called the Filmmaker Frenzy, sponsored by the Alamo Drafthouse Theatre in Austin, TX. This is a quarterly film contest with a different theme each time. This time around, the theme was "Pimp My TV", which is where we make fake trailers for TV shows as if they were going to be ( Read more... )

I just watched a documentary about robots used at Showbiz Pizza as a band that performed while kids ate pizza (Showbiz Pizza was later bought out by Chuck-E-Cheese). The robots were made from 1980 to 1983 and then the plug was pulled, but there's enough of a fan culture around this robotic band that a documentary was made. One fan bought a set of ( Read more... )

While work/film stuff is going completely great, I think the move has finally gotten to me, 5/6 months later. I wish I could say I was happy, but I'm not. This is probably, in fact, the most actually depressed I've been in a long time. I could go through a list of reasons why, but they just feel like lame excuses and I don't know how to ( Read more... )