Senior Discount, "The Senior Discount Television Show", and "Dead Grandma's Cross-Country Adventure"
Well, I'm up at 6:00 AM, so what the fuck else am I going to do besides post my first livejournal entry in 7 months?
For some reason, while laying in my bed, I came up with the idea to just write an update about my life and all the work I'm doing. I mean, yeah, sure, I've been reading Kevin Smith's "My Boring Ass Life", which is basically a year in his life as chronicled in daily blogs, so I'm sort of into that style of writing right now, but I also thought I'd update the masses of people who are into the various works of Chuck Staton/Senior Discount/the VBW.
Also, I think "masses" was sort of too strong a word.
I love having a journal.
Okay, fuck it. I love having a diary. There - I said it - "Diary". Me and my friend Lou always wrote back and forth to eachother while he was in college and now he's home. It's hard to be motivated to write simply to update yourself about your life (which is basically what a "diary" is), so I'm making this public. From now on, all big updates and little things can be viewed here, so keep coming back.
Right now, here's the skinny on projects.
First Off - SENIOR DISCOUNT
Senior Discount had a bittersweet summer, rising with the release of "VBW Attack: The Senior Discount Movie" and falling with the first Senior Discount tour, which was a colossal failure, due to a dickhead who promised us he could book a tour.
If you already know the story, you can skip down. But if you don't - the long and short of it is, we sold out a 350-person capacity movie theatre on July 5th with said movie, and then on August 12th left for what we thought would be a 22 day tour, but quickly became a 5 day tour because of the dickhead booker. Basically he was going to book the tour, while we practiced, bought a van, a trailer, and got our lives ready for the tour - and of course, we were going to pay him.
It kept getting closer to tour, he wasn't giving us new dates, I'd continually ask him what the deal was, and he'd keep feeding me bullshit, which I believed.
So during the tour, we only had 10 dates booked, and 4 of them got cancelled in the first few days. I tried for the five days were on the road (at truck stops with wireless internet) to schedule shows to fill in these empty days - I contacted 55 different venues/bands and we only got one response that said we could have a show. Having only played 2 shows at this point (and one being not even officially scheduled), we decided that 5 more shows spread out over 22 days was not a good idea. Specifically because we'd just be driving aimlessly all over the US for 15 out of 22 days. So we had to cancel and come home.
The short dates and times we did have on tour were chronicled in the Senior Discount tour journal, which can be read here.
So we came home, and I said "Well this kid who booked our tour really fucked us, but I'm not going to tell everyone who he is, and be a dick back to him. I'll just swallow my pride and keep my mouth shut."
Psyche. His name is Jose, he used to be in In The Face, he works at the Swansea Mall in some jewelry store, and his booking "company" was called Blind Spot Booking.
If ever there was an appropriate name....
But yeah, feel free to piss in his chicken soup if you serve him.
So we come home and basically the Fall begins. The deal is, Tom is the S*D guitarist and he's the manager of an FYE in Raynham, Kevin is the S*D bassist/vocalist and goes to school one more semester (right now, Fall '07) and works some part time jobs, Christian is the S*D drummer who just graduated and is subbing at high schools, and I (the S*D rhythm guitarist/vocalist) have to wait to take my last class to graduate until the Spring semester.
Without telling the full story - I got fucked by my college hardcore, and am waiting on one stupid class to graduate, after working my dick off all summer getting all the classes and credits I needed. Typical of Rhode Island College, I'm led to believe.
Right now, (besides working on other projects, which will be mentioned below), I'm doing my community service (from when I got arrested for my public enema last year, for the filming of the Senior Discount movie), I'm transferring all the credits I've done in other schools to my degree at RIC (which is alot more complicated than you'd think with the geniuses at RIC running the show), I'm supposed to be creating a webpage for my father's company - Staton's Landscaping - which I've been slacking on because I'm not that good at doing actual web design (Jordan usually helps my ideas come to fruition), I'm enjoying a healthy relationship with my semi-new girlfriend Alyssa - and an even healthier relationship with her ass, and as for my work with Senior Discount, I'm trying to make the right moves at the right times.
Which means this - we can't tour in the Fall (Kevin's in school, and Tom has to quit his job when we do decide to tour - and that means we have to KEEP touring from then on), and we can't tour in the Spring (I go back to school for my last semester).
So I figure the best thing to do right now is to play out-of-state shows that are close enough for us to get to, and to chill out with playing in Providence.
We did a Whole Wheat Bread show and the Rehab/Mastamindz show in early September to very small crowds (although the WWB show was bomb), and it was very dissappointing. Also, after the sold-out movie, we thought our DVD of said movie would sell well.
We were very wrong.
We released the full movie on DVD, with full commentary, 2+ hours of extras (old AND new stuff) at $10 each. And no one's buying - which sucks because TONS of people for years have been asking for an S*D DVD - now we have an awesome one, and for some reason these people aren't getting it. Weird.
So as of right now we're straying from our Providence fanbase to explore new outlets and not to overexpose ourselves. We have a show in Glocester (although part of RI, a place we've never played at all), a show in Worcester (first time in that part of MA), the first round of the Bodog Battle Of The Bands next week at Club Hell (which, if we go on, continues in Boston), and a huge S*D homeshow 2 months from now, which will basically be the superpowers of the local scene all coming together for a huge, awesome, CHEAP, cool show at a new venue.
So at this point, the S*D deal is that we are trying to get New England shows that are not in Providence - any offers are extremely welcome. Message us at www.myspace.com/seniordiscount
Also, we are creating new material. Our first "new" thing is a re-done song. "That Bitch Not So Bad" - a fan favorite that we do NOT play live. I'm making it so it's a better song, cutting out the shitty parts, adding in more vocal stuff so I feel like it's strong enough for us to start playing live.
We're also releasing our cover of Bad Larry's "Label" with Paul from Bad Larry singing on it. This comes out on the "Local Bands RI" compilation CD, which we'll be selling for $4.
To be honest, I'm not very satisfied with the track. I can't lie. I think the vocals are way too low, and the guitars just sound weird.
Usually, after recording, you get asked to come back into the studio after the mix, and see if you want any adjustments. We weren't asked to do that this time (and we didn't really want to push it on anyone, as we recorded for free), and I wish we had.
Other than that, it's basically going to be new material. I have ideas and Kevin, I'm sure, has ideas so we're going to start hitting them up. Kevin has started his powerpop side project - Meandwho. I'm not sure if it's with or without a question mark.
I'm all about new creation of music (as you can tell by my acoustic myspace page), but his stuff is so similar to his S*D-style stuff. I think his newest song is great and would have been a great addition to the S*D roster of songs - especially because we are going in a more polished direction, so it confuses me why he did it seperately. It's also really off-putting that he's pursuing it all so heavily. It actually makes me feel awful inside, as there is always more to do for S*D - there's always a new band or venue we haven't talked to about playing with, always a person we haven't sent a CD to, always a new show to try to get on, always more promo to do, no matter what. So when I'm doing the lion's share of that already, I find it very weird that one of us is focusing so heavily on something else when this is (mutally agreed upon) our main thing.
But as we can't tour, and basically just want to write some new music and play shows around New England, I've also started another project...
"THE SENIOR DISCOUNT TELEVISION SHOW"
The S*D videos are huge. Let's face it. The S*D videos might be bigger than the S*D music.
I attribute this to the fact that music can be genre-lized millions of times over, and people are very specific about what they like (and I feel the answer for 90% of those people is "whatever's new."), whereas comedy is always comedy. Film can be split into horror, comedy, drama, action, and a few other labels that probably fall under those original four. So it's easier to find people who like comedy. And even though, like music, comedy is subjective, I feel like it's easier to write comedy that tons of people like than it is to write music that tons of people like.
Basically, punk rock music (albeit very good punk rock music with a lot unique attributes - which is truly how I feel about our stuff) is always going less widely accepted as comedy, in general. Specifically the comedy we do, which is geared towards surprising jokes and big laughs.
Anyway, we started the videos on a fluke idea and they grew. We've done a good 23 or 24 (some real, some scripted), and we did the Senior Discount movie (which I really feel is more of a documentary with all our funny real stuff that happenned).
But as much as I love the movie, I love writing the scripted stuff. I just like it more. I'm sorry, it's the truth. As much as I love watching my friends vomit, I'd rather see them enact dialogue that me and Sousa have scripted.
So I thought, "The videos are already 20 minutes long. 23 minutes is a television episode. Let's do this."
I think the exact format of the S*D scripted videos could easily transfer to a television show. Okay maybe not the EXACT format - we need some character development and plot - but a very similar format.
So that's what we're going to do. I saved up enough to get the camera I wanted last year, and now, me and Sousa are going to write a pilot episode for "The Senior Discount Television Show" and film it. I'm going to direct it and edit it, as well as write a treatment for the entire first season of what would be our sitcom, and we're going to pitch it to studios.
Right now, I'm basically researching sitcoms and television pilots, reading some books about scripting stuff, looking at my notes from my Screenwriting classes, and writing down pages upon pages of ideas, specific themes, jokes and other things we need to make this idea really hit well.
Usually me and Sousa write a video in 1 or 2 days, film it over the course of the next 5 - 7 days while I also edit it, and then put it up a week before a show to promote for it. So the whole process is a week or a week and a half at the most.
But this time around, I really want to take my time and make it perfect. So that's what we're doing.
In the pilot (which I will make available for the Senior Discount fans), you'll probably see jokes we've already used before - this is because we want to put our best foot forward. I don't care if thirty Senior Discount fans already saw "The August 12th Promo" last year, these jokes are still unused to networks and to 99.9999999999% of people everywhere in the world.
By the way - I'm specifically eyeing the "Fraggle Rock" scene we've done from that video, along with a few other very small jokes from various videos throughout the year. But honestly, get ready to see this cast work in a way you haven't seen before.
Also, if anyone has any contacts (people you think I should talk to about getting into television, production companies, networks, etc.) anything like that at all - let me know. You will be rewarded. I don't care if it's your uncle, your grandma, someone you used to know in college - whatever. Let me know - www.myspace.com/seniordiscount
And the last thing I'm doing....
"DEAD GRANDMA'S CROSS-COUNTRY ADVENTURE"
This is a full-length movie script I started writing in my Screewriting class last Spring.
It's basically an over-the-top R-rated comedy that revolves around two friends who have to get the corpse of an old woman across the United States in 7 days, while running from the police and the Hell's Angels.
And I know what you're thinking.
"Didn't they basically do that story in Elmo In Grouchland?"
Okay, so it's a weird premise. But lots of comedies have weird premises.
This one deals with a character based on myself (though with far less initiative), a character based on my good friend Aaron Arcello (who Kevin kills off in "Death OF A Sorry"), a character based on a girl I was seeing when I first was writing the script (who was actually a dominatrix, and not a stripper, as I portray her in the movie), and a ton of really great sight-gags that I wish we had the money to do. I really love this script so far. I promise this movie will be funny.
I take that back - I promise this movie will be funny if I got to direct and cast it.
The truth is, I know I'm not going to be able to film this movie, so what will happen is, when I finish it, I'm going to try to sell it to production companies.
Three things could happen
1. The most likely - no one will care
2. Semi-likely - someone will buy it, and make it really cheaply, and it will come out shitty.
3. Less likely - someone will buy it, and it will come out really funny.
4. Least likely - someone will but it, and I will somehow get to make the movie myself, and it will be awesome.
So far I have about 30 pages done, and it should top out at around 75 - 90 pages. I was going to post the script up here but I'm paranoid as fuck about people stealing ideas so I'm sorry. If you want to read the script so far, talk to me and I will absolutely let you, promise.
But honestly, right now, it's rest time - September 2006 (yes, I said 2006, meaning 13 months ago) began with a chock-full semester at college, and awful relationships with two of my-exgirlfriends (one of which lasted until February 2007). By the time Winter break had rolled around I had been diagnosed with severe tonsilitis and surgery was the only remedy. I had to leave classes three days early to get a tonsillectomy my doctor had been trying to avoid for 4 months because he knew the pain it would cause.
He was fucking right as hell.
On December 18th I went in for it. 6 days later I went back in for emergency surgery to re-cauterize the wounds - which, if you're paying attention, puts us at Christmas eve. My surgical gashes had busted open (from tonsils and adenoids, which they take out with your tonsils), and blood was rushing out of my head. It was exactly like throwing up thick, mucus-y blood, but from above my throat instead of below.
I woke up Christmas morning and if I had a gun I would have killed myself.
For eleven days I niether ate nor slept - eating for obvious throat reasons, and sleeping because if I tilted my head back, my throat would dry up and when I woke up, it was like the Devil was cutting my throat from the inside.
I lost 13 lbs in one week and four days, and my throat didn't go back to regular for 45 days. That's when I began my insane scheudle at RIC where I completed 1/3rd of my college career in 6 months - from January 27th - August 11th. During which time I also edited the entire movie, created the DVD, and sold out my first movie theatre. Along with doing all the shows S*D did that entire year and promoting for them, and figuring out how to buy a van in trailer.
So this semester, I'm taking it easy. The 12 months between Sept 2006 and Sept 2007 were a little hectic for me.
Besides the hot girlfriend, the community service, the final classes at RIC, the new music writing, the out-of-state show-booking, the in-state show promoting, running the S*D myspace/site, creating the "Senior Discount Television Show", writing the "Dead Grandma" script, I'm not up to all that much.
Me and Lou just figuted out how to mod my Nintendo Wii (which means get it to play burned games), so we're psyched on that. I'm going to record my acoustic cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", just for fun, which will also be cool.
And apparently I'm starting this blog. I'm going to update it, regardless of who reads it. But if you do, let me know. I think there might be some people out there interested in all the stuff we do.
Also - would you buy the fucking movie? It's gotten unanimously good reviews, and it's worth the ten bucks for the 4+ hour disc. This thing needs to get out there. I'll write about why at a later date.
Any questions? As always, feel free to ask.
-chuckstaton
For some reason, while laying in my bed, I came up with the idea to just write an update about my life and all the work I'm doing. I mean, yeah, sure, I've been reading Kevin Smith's "My Boring Ass Life", which is basically a year in his life as chronicled in daily blogs, so I'm sort of into that style of writing right now, but I also thought I'd update the masses of people who are into the various works of Chuck Staton/Senior Discount/the VBW.
Also, I think "masses" was sort of too strong a word.
I love having a journal.
Okay, fuck it. I love having a diary. There - I said it - "Diary". Me and my friend Lou always wrote back and forth to eachother while he was in college and now he's home. It's hard to be motivated to write simply to update yourself about your life (which is basically what a "diary" is), so I'm making this public. From now on, all big updates and little things can be viewed here, so keep coming back.
Right now, here's the skinny on projects.
First Off - SENIOR DISCOUNT
Senior Discount had a bittersweet summer, rising with the release of "VBW Attack: The Senior Discount Movie" and falling with the first Senior Discount tour, which was a colossal failure, due to a dickhead who promised us he could book a tour.
If you already know the story, you can skip down. But if you don't - the long and short of it is, we sold out a 350-person capacity movie theatre on July 5th with said movie, and then on August 12th left for what we thought would be a 22 day tour, but quickly became a 5 day tour because of the dickhead booker. Basically he was going to book the tour, while we practiced, bought a van, a trailer, and got our lives ready for the tour - and of course, we were going to pay him.
It kept getting closer to tour, he wasn't giving us new dates, I'd continually ask him what the deal was, and he'd keep feeding me bullshit, which I believed.
So during the tour, we only had 10 dates booked, and 4 of them got cancelled in the first few days. I tried for the five days were on the road (at truck stops with wireless internet) to schedule shows to fill in these empty days - I contacted 55 different venues/bands and we only got one response that said we could have a show. Having only played 2 shows at this point (and one being not even officially scheduled), we decided that 5 more shows spread out over 22 days was not a good idea. Specifically because we'd just be driving aimlessly all over the US for 15 out of 22 days. So we had to cancel and come home.
The short dates and times we did have on tour were chronicled in the Senior Discount tour journal, which can be read here.
So we came home, and I said "Well this kid who booked our tour really fucked us, but I'm not going to tell everyone who he is, and be a dick back to him. I'll just swallow my pride and keep my mouth shut."
Psyche. His name is Jose, he used to be in In The Face, he works at the Swansea Mall in some jewelry store, and his booking "company" was called Blind Spot Booking.
If ever there was an appropriate name....
But yeah, feel free to piss in his chicken soup if you serve him.
So we come home and basically the Fall begins. The deal is, Tom is the S*D guitarist and he's the manager of an FYE in Raynham, Kevin is the S*D bassist/vocalist and goes to school one more semester (right now, Fall '07) and works some part time jobs, Christian is the S*D drummer who just graduated and is subbing at high schools, and I (the S*D rhythm guitarist/vocalist) have to wait to take my last class to graduate until the Spring semester.
Without telling the full story - I got fucked by my college hardcore, and am waiting on one stupid class to graduate, after working my dick off all summer getting all the classes and credits I needed. Typical of Rhode Island College, I'm led to believe.
Right now, (besides working on other projects, which will be mentioned below), I'm doing my community service (from when I got arrested for my public enema last year, for the filming of the Senior Discount movie), I'm transferring all the credits I've done in other schools to my degree at RIC (which is alot more complicated than you'd think with the geniuses at RIC running the show), I'm supposed to be creating a webpage for my father's company - Staton's Landscaping - which I've been slacking on because I'm not that good at doing actual web design (Jordan usually helps my ideas come to fruition), I'm enjoying a healthy relationship with my semi-new girlfriend Alyssa - and an even healthier relationship with her ass, and as for my work with Senior Discount, I'm trying to make the right moves at the right times.
Which means this - we can't tour in the Fall (Kevin's in school, and Tom has to quit his job when we do decide to tour - and that means we have to KEEP touring from then on), and we can't tour in the Spring (I go back to school for my last semester).
So I figure the best thing to do right now is to play out-of-state shows that are close enough for us to get to, and to chill out with playing in Providence.
We did a Whole Wheat Bread show and the Rehab/Mastamindz show in early September to very small crowds (although the WWB show was bomb), and it was very dissappointing. Also, after the sold-out movie, we thought our DVD of said movie would sell well.
We were very wrong.
We released the full movie on DVD, with full commentary, 2+ hours of extras (old AND new stuff) at $10 each. And no one's buying - which sucks because TONS of people for years have been asking for an S*D DVD - now we have an awesome one, and for some reason these people aren't getting it. Weird.
So as of right now we're straying from our Providence fanbase to explore new outlets and not to overexpose ourselves. We have a show in Glocester (although part of RI, a place we've never played at all), a show in Worcester (first time in that part of MA), the first round of the Bodog Battle Of The Bands next week at Club Hell (which, if we go on, continues in Boston), and a huge S*D homeshow 2 months from now, which will basically be the superpowers of the local scene all coming together for a huge, awesome, CHEAP, cool show at a new venue.
So at this point, the S*D deal is that we are trying to get New England shows that are not in Providence - any offers are extremely welcome. Message us at www.myspace.com/seniordiscount
Also, we are creating new material. Our first "new" thing is a re-done song. "That Bitch Not So Bad" - a fan favorite that we do NOT play live. I'm making it so it's a better song, cutting out the shitty parts, adding in more vocal stuff so I feel like it's strong enough for us to start playing live.
We're also releasing our cover of Bad Larry's "Label" with Paul from Bad Larry singing on it. This comes out on the "Local Bands RI" compilation CD, which we'll be selling for $4.
To be honest, I'm not very satisfied with the track. I can't lie. I think the vocals are way too low, and the guitars just sound weird.
Usually, after recording, you get asked to come back into the studio after the mix, and see if you want any adjustments. We weren't asked to do that this time (and we didn't really want to push it on anyone, as we recorded for free), and I wish we had.
Other than that, it's basically going to be new material. I have ideas and Kevin, I'm sure, has ideas so we're going to start hitting them up. Kevin has started his powerpop side project - Meandwho. I'm not sure if it's with or without a question mark.
I'm all about new creation of music (as you can tell by my acoustic myspace page), but his stuff is so similar to his S*D-style stuff. I think his newest song is great and would have been a great addition to the S*D roster of songs - especially because we are going in a more polished direction, so it confuses me why he did it seperately. It's also really off-putting that he's pursuing it all so heavily. It actually makes me feel awful inside, as there is always more to do for S*D - there's always a new band or venue we haven't talked to about playing with, always a person we haven't sent a CD to, always a new show to try to get on, always more promo to do, no matter what. So when I'm doing the lion's share of that already, I find it very weird that one of us is focusing so heavily on something else when this is (mutally agreed upon) our main thing.
But as we can't tour, and basically just want to write some new music and play shows around New England, I've also started another project...
"THE SENIOR DISCOUNT TELEVISION SHOW"
The S*D videos are huge. Let's face it. The S*D videos might be bigger than the S*D music.
I attribute this to the fact that music can be genre-lized millions of times over, and people are very specific about what they like (and I feel the answer for 90% of those people is "whatever's new."), whereas comedy is always comedy. Film can be split into horror, comedy, drama, action, and a few other labels that probably fall under those original four. So it's easier to find people who like comedy. And even though, like music, comedy is subjective, I feel like it's easier to write comedy that tons of people like than it is to write music that tons of people like.
Basically, punk rock music (albeit very good punk rock music with a lot unique attributes - which is truly how I feel about our stuff) is always going less widely accepted as comedy, in general. Specifically the comedy we do, which is geared towards surprising jokes and big laughs.
Anyway, we started the videos on a fluke idea and they grew. We've done a good 23 or 24 (some real, some scripted), and we did the Senior Discount movie (which I really feel is more of a documentary with all our funny real stuff that happenned).
But as much as I love the movie, I love writing the scripted stuff. I just like it more. I'm sorry, it's the truth. As much as I love watching my friends vomit, I'd rather see them enact dialogue that me and Sousa have scripted.
So I thought, "The videos are already 20 minutes long. 23 minutes is a television episode. Let's do this."
I think the exact format of the S*D scripted videos could easily transfer to a television show. Okay maybe not the EXACT format - we need some character development and plot - but a very similar format.
So that's what we're going to do. I saved up enough to get the camera I wanted last year, and now, me and Sousa are going to write a pilot episode for "The Senior Discount Television Show" and film it. I'm going to direct it and edit it, as well as write a treatment for the entire first season of what would be our sitcom, and we're going to pitch it to studios.
Right now, I'm basically researching sitcoms and television pilots, reading some books about scripting stuff, looking at my notes from my Screenwriting classes, and writing down pages upon pages of ideas, specific themes, jokes and other things we need to make this idea really hit well.
Usually me and Sousa write a video in 1 or 2 days, film it over the course of the next 5 - 7 days while I also edit it, and then put it up a week before a show to promote for it. So the whole process is a week or a week and a half at the most.
But this time around, I really want to take my time and make it perfect. So that's what we're doing.
In the pilot (which I will make available for the Senior Discount fans), you'll probably see jokes we've already used before - this is because we want to put our best foot forward. I don't care if thirty Senior Discount fans already saw "The August 12th Promo" last year, these jokes are still unused to networks and to 99.9999999999% of people everywhere in the world.
By the way - I'm specifically eyeing the "Fraggle Rock" scene we've done from that video, along with a few other very small jokes from various videos throughout the year. But honestly, get ready to see this cast work in a way you haven't seen before.
Also, if anyone has any contacts (people you think I should talk to about getting into television, production companies, networks, etc.) anything like that at all - let me know. You will be rewarded. I don't care if it's your uncle, your grandma, someone you used to know in college - whatever. Let me know - www.myspace.com/seniordiscount
And the last thing I'm doing....
"DEAD GRANDMA'S CROSS-COUNTRY ADVENTURE"
This is a full-length movie script I started writing in my Screewriting class last Spring.
It's basically an over-the-top R-rated comedy that revolves around two friends who have to get the corpse of an old woman across the United States in 7 days, while running from the police and the Hell's Angels.
And I know what you're thinking.
"Didn't they basically do that story in Elmo In Grouchland?"
Okay, so it's a weird premise. But lots of comedies have weird premises.
This one deals with a character based on myself (though with far less initiative), a character based on my good friend Aaron Arcello (who Kevin kills off in "Death OF A Sorry"), a character based on a girl I was seeing when I first was writing the script (who was actually a dominatrix, and not a stripper, as I portray her in the movie), and a ton of really great sight-gags that I wish we had the money to do. I really love this script so far. I promise this movie will be funny.
I take that back - I promise this movie will be funny if I got to direct and cast it.
The truth is, I know I'm not going to be able to film this movie, so what will happen is, when I finish it, I'm going to try to sell it to production companies.
Three things could happen
1. The most likely - no one will care
2. Semi-likely - someone will buy it, and make it really cheaply, and it will come out shitty.
3. Less likely - someone will buy it, and it will come out really funny.
4. Least likely - someone will but it, and I will somehow get to make the movie myself, and it will be awesome.
So far I have about 30 pages done, and it should top out at around 75 - 90 pages. I was going to post the script up here but I'm paranoid as fuck about people stealing ideas so I'm sorry. If you want to read the script so far, talk to me and I will absolutely let you, promise.
But honestly, right now, it's rest time - September 2006 (yes, I said 2006, meaning 13 months ago) began with a chock-full semester at college, and awful relationships with two of my-exgirlfriends (one of which lasted until February 2007). By the time Winter break had rolled around I had been diagnosed with severe tonsilitis and surgery was the only remedy. I had to leave classes three days early to get a tonsillectomy my doctor had been trying to avoid for 4 months because he knew the pain it would cause.
He was fucking right as hell.
On December 18th I went in for it. 6 days later I went back in for emergency surgery to re-cauterize the wounds - which, if you're paying attention, puts us at Christmas eve. My surgical gashes had busted open (from tonsils and adenoids, which they take out with your tonsils), and blood was rushing out of my head. It was exactly like throwing up thick, mucus-y blood, but from above my throat instead of below.
I woke up Christmas morning and if I had a gun I would have killed myself.
For eleven days I niether ate nor slept - eating for obvious throat reasons, and sleeping because if I tilted my head back, my throat would dry up and when I woke up, it was like the Devil was cutting my throat from the inside.
I lost 13 lbs in one week and four days, and my throat didn't go back to regular for 45 days. That's when I began my insane scheudle at RIC where I completed 1/3rd of my college career in 6 months - from January 27th - August 11th. During which time I also edited the entire movie, created the DVD, and sold out my first movie theatre. Along with doing all the shows S*D did that entire year and promoting for them, and figuring out how to buy a van in trailer.
So this semester, I'm taking it easy. The 12 months between Sept 2006 and Sept 2007 were a little hectic for me.
Besides the hot girlfriend, the community service, the final classes at RIC, the new music writing, the out-of-state show-booking, the in-state show promoting, running the S*D myspace/site, creating the "Senior Discount Television Show", writing the "Dead Grandma" script, I'm not up to all that much.
Me and Lou just figuted out how to mod my Nintendo Wii (which means get it to play burned games), so we're psyched on that. I'm going to record my acoustic cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", just for fun, which will also be cool.
And apparently I'm starting this blog. I'm going to update it, regardless of who reads it. But if you do, let me know. I think there might be some people out there interested in all the stuff we do.
Also - would you buy the fucking movie? It's gotten unanimously good reviews, and it's worth the ten bucks for the 4+ hour disc. This thing needs to get out there. I'll write about why at a later date.
Any questions? As always, feel free to ask.
-chuckstaton