The weekend's movie-making went pretty well. There were a few minor setbacks, like the usual last-minute actor flake-outs which I tried SO hard to avoid this time and which made me want to die of stress. There is nothing worse than creating a MASTER WORK OF CINEMA which your friends don't seem to take seriously or care at all about, which is why I am so enthusiastic about building little clay men to star in everything I do from now on. Fortunately we managed to find some last-minute replacements, so I am a lot less upset about that than I could be. Also, I realized after viewing the footage that I should have done some things a little bit differently. BUT overall it was swell!
Dave (actor, A/V guy and pal) took some pictures on his "cellie."
Here's one of me shooting a camel [with a videocamera...NOT a gun...]
Another one of me, FEELIN THE HEAT OF SATAN!!!
As you can see, we shot at the refinery again. Weirdly enough, we met 3 other groups of people there: some punks rooting through the trash, a few other people who I think were homeless, and a rap-rock band from Center City shooting photos of themselves. I always meet pretty interesting people from the neighborhood when I go to the refinery, but it's become like a nexus or something!! Also, there's a big FOR SALE sign up now, so... will the giant oil cans be renovated into luxury condos, or perhaps an "office park"??
COMING SOON: scanned pics of me in Russia (yes, finally!) AND yearbook picture proofs!