The other day I was driving with a friend of mine in LA, and we saw a giant billboard for “Ratatouille”. She surprised me by saying: “I’ve never seen that”. I almost slammed on my breaks… “YOU’VE NEVER SEEN RATATOUILLE?” So since I hadn’t seen it in a while, I suggest we ditch our other plans and just get the DVD and watch it. Man, I almost forgot how brilliant that little movie is. If you haven’t seen it, drop what you’re doing right now and run out to grab it. Just do it!
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Off To The Distributors
Today is a bit of a nervous day. As you know, I’m finished my movie Prince of Peace – God of War and the printed DVDs have arrived (which I’m thrilled with by the way). The screening is coming up on the 23rd of this month (which I’m pretty nervous about too)… but today is pretty big.
You see, I’m leaving in a little bit here to go to a distributors office to give him a couple of copies of the movie he’s expecting. This is huge. If he likes it (and that’s a VERY BIG IF), then it would mean my movie will be in a lot of stores across Canada and hopefully spreading the message that the movie delivers.
I feel like I’m getting ready to ask a girl out for the very first time and the fear of rejection is racing through my blood like a bad flu virus. You work a year and a half on a project… you put you heart and soul into it… you believe in it… but at some point you have to hand it off to someone to JUDGE it from an unbiased point of view. This guy is going to JUDGE my movie and decide if he thinks it’s worth putting in stores and if he thinks people will be interested in buying it.
I tell ya… if I was someone who drinks (which I’m not), I’d be sucking back the bourbon this afternoon for a few days until hearing back from this guy.
Prince of Peace – God of War DVDs Arrived!
Today is a pretty big day for me. Earlier this afternoon a UPS truck arrived at my place to deliver my very first batch of fully packaged and printed Prince of Peace – God of War DVDs! For those of you who may not know, Prince of Peace – God of War is a documentary and my first crack at directing.
I’m just ecstatic with how they turned out. Now let’s see if anyone actually buys these suckers.
Day Off Plan
As i mention the other day, I’ve decided that this week would be my “week off” from posting on The Movie Blog since I’ve never really had a week off in the 4+ years of doing the site. I’ve gotta tell ya… I woke up this morning, and it felt SOOOO good to not have to kick start into my work routine. 
I can’t actually go out anywhere today because my movie is supposed to showing up at my place today (My DVDs that I just had produced… I’m getting the first 1000 copies today). So here is my big plan for the day:
- Eat breakfast
- Play some Warcraft
- Eat Lunch
- Play some Warcraft
- Scan news on the internet
- Play a little Unreal Tournament 2004
- Play Warcraft
- Play Warcraft
- Eat dinner
- Play Warcraft
- Go to the movies with some friends
- Play Warcraft
- Go to bed.
Wheewww… I’m swamped.
Getting TV Fixed
Ok… what’s the definition of lazy? I had a problem with my 42 inch plasma TV about 5 months ago. The thing is heavy as hell, but I watch all my movies on it. So you’d think I would have run out to get the damn thing fixed right away right? RIGHT? Nope, I let it just sit there for the last 5 months and instead watched DVDs on my little 20 inch TV in my bedroom.
Today I FINALLY got around to calling the repair man. They’re coming over to take a look at it on Friday. It’ll be nice to get my TV back.
Taking A Break From The Movie Blog
It dawned on me the other day that in over 4 years of running The Movie Blog, I haven’t once taken a week off from writing on it. Not even last year when i was driving from one end of Canada and the US to the other while filming my movie… I even wrote every morning from whatever hotel room I was in at the time.
So, with lots of prep work to do (with regards to a major Movie Blog announcement we’re making on Friday), getting ready to launch my movie on DVD, and just in general feeling really worn out… I’ve decided to take a break this week from posting on The Movie Blog. I’m still doing the Uncut shows… so it’s not really a vacation, but no writing for me.
After the announcement this Friday, I’ll have a LOAD of stuff to do… I’m also suppose to be flying down to New Mexico in November for a few days to visit the set of “Game” (being filmed by the creators of “Crank”) and doing my movie DVD launch party… so if I’m going to take a break… I need to do it now.
World of Warcraft To Kill My Time Again
Ok so here’s the story. A little over a year ago some friends of mine finally got me to try World of Warcraft. The problem was that the game was FAR too addictive. I had the game on my computer for just over 3 months and I found that no matter how much I tried to limit how much I played, I ended up playing 3-5 hours a day and my work was suffering for it. I finally decided I was powerless to resist the game and I took the drastic measure of deleting the whole game off my computer and then smashing the discs so I wouldn’t be tempted to put the game back on.
Well, it’s been over a year… and I’ve decided to give the game another shot. I’m installing the game now as we speak. I’ll let you know how I fair this time around.
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