Panglossian Was I

[whipchick]

We had $250,000. We earned it with tears, we earned it with arrogance. Kevin the Shark-Tank-Shark/Dragon’s-Den-Dragon yelling in person is 100% less funny, especially when it’s at you. Did you know the judges’ platform is raised, that supplicants are lit from below the platform, that our two minutes and thirty seconds was edited from almost an hour

Comments

[drwex]

I always wondered what had happened. I think I entered your story much after this and wondered what had come before.

One phrase: "...musicians to make songs from us." Was that intended? Or "for"?

[drwex]

P.S. And now I have Cheap Trick stuck in my head comma dammit.

[whipchick]

Howard Stern hated our version (not in the video, sung live).

[whipchick]

They were creating the music based on what we wrote and talked about, but it's a clumsy phrasing :)

[orockthro]

Oh wow. That's one intense set of circumstances! You guys sure looked great, though. That video was neat. And I loved how you constructed your writing using your dwindling finances as structure.

[whipchick]

Thanks! That's what I started with, because it's been on my mind :) Hoping for exorcism...

[lrig_rorrim]

Ouch. Creativity and work and money and friendship in one big mess that should have been glorious, and instead... well, just ouch. I'm glad you got apologies, and the thanks. Those connections do make it worth it, but damn the road there can be rocky.

[whipchick]

Seriously! But it was like paying tuition for management school, in a lot of ways :)

[dmousey]

Well now, that was interesting! Loved the act. Damned shame things didn't work according to - rake in enough cash to retire - plans. Good for you, having a great honeymoon and getting married salvaged a lost cause in the best way! Let's hope for bigger and better things in the future!

Peace~~~D

[whipchick]

Thanks! Perhaps the thing that made this feel better in my head was that a couple years later I made a smaller show for a special event, and it totally killed, and was much more my directorial vision and me being confident about bossing the people I hired. So I had that moment of "OK, it wasn't all me!"

[dmousey]

I can understand that. Women are hardwired to try and make everyone their friend in a managerial/supervisory position. It rarely is less than stressful. We're better served by thinking of our crew as children, and yes, directing and bossing them to the best possible outcome.

How wonderful that you had an opportunity to have another go, using the strength and knowledge you gained, and that it was a success!

[kathrynrose]

hug

[whipchick]

Thanks - I still kind of regret what might have been, but I like what I have now.