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Everybody has a Plan, until...

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has been quoted as saying "Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face". I'm here to tell you, it's true gentle reader. It is true. Yesterday was the first day of principal photography on my latest film project "Relationship Rewind". This has been a project a long time in the making. It took a little over a year to write the script (Not because the script took that long to write, but because there were short periods of writing in between long stretches of dreaming of what it would be like to film something I had already written). So in short, the script took a year to write because of my old friend, procrastination. Preproduction, or getting all the pieces into place after the script had been written, has taken a little over eighteen months. I'm sure there was some procrastination in that time table as well, but far less than when writing the script. As I mentioned in my last post, there were

Working the Phone

When I was a kid, one of my least favorite activities was trying to sell things going door to door. Whether I was trying to get sponsors for the Walk-a-ton, Read-a-ton, or Whatever-a-ton, there was just a sense of dread when I knew a particular Saturday afternoon was going to be spent trying to get sponsors. Most likely because I have a very deep seated fear of rejection, and anyone who has ever had to go door to door knows, this activity is a virtual gold mine of rejection. Now, some rejection is nicer than others. A polite "No Thank-you", with an unspoken, "we don't care how many books you read to cure diseases", is certainly better than the literal door slamming in the face, but neither one feels particularly good. My dad would try and encourage me by telling me I didn't have get a certain amount of sponsors, after all the eight year old me couldn't control the universe and what other people chose to care about, but he did require that I put i

The Danger of Dreaming

Let me first say this, despite the title of this week's post, if your dream was to get to read two brand new Matthew 13 Blog posts in two weeks, then dream on, gentle reader, because your dream is coming true! However, not all dreams come true. Some would say that one should be realistic about hopes and dreams, as to escape the pain of disappointment should said hopes and dreams prove to be out of reach. I do not subscribe to that philosophy. I think it could be just as easily argued, that the only way to accomplish great things is to have great dreams. I do think there is a danger in dreaming, but the danger lies not in disappointment, but somewhere else. I am definitely a dreamer. My dream is to go from being an aspiring filmmaker, to a real life, honest to goodness filmmaker. I don't know if that dream will come true for me, or how far I will get on the journey, but having that dream is what encourages me to try. So, you may be asking yourself, "where for is

So... It's Been Awhile

Understatements. We all make them. I suppose it's just another way of making ourselves feel better about some truth we don't really want to admit. After all, it is far easier to say, "Yeah, I guess I haven't been getting much exercise lately", than it is to admit the only walking that takes place is from the couch to the fridge. Or worse, that even that level activity causes more labored breathing than one would hope to have, after taking only fifteen steps or so. So, it is with that in mind, gentle reader, that I admit, it has been a little while since my last post. Ok, maybe more than just "a little". Why the long silence? It's not that I don't miss you, or our one sided chats. I do, and to prove it, here I am, once again placing pen to paper (or fingers to plastic keys), to resume the tale of my journey. The journey of going from an aspiring, to a real life, honest to goodness filmmaker. And what a journey it has been. When we la

Better Late Than Never

Better late than never. It's a phrase we hear all the time. I have no idea if it's true or not, but if I had to guess, (and since I'm the one writing this, I do), I would guess that when someone says "better late than never", they are most likely trying to by pass the guilt that tells them whatever is "late" should have been done long ago. To this sense of guilt they reply, "Look guilt, I know I didn't do what I said I was going to do, at the time I said I was going to do it. But look here, I did do something. Things could be worse, you know. I could have just not done anything. Then where would you be? You'd have nothing. So why don't you just back up off me". So, the phrase is part acknowledgement of wrong doing, and part dodging responsibility by alluding to another trademark phrase, "things could be worse". I suppose "better late than never" could be true in certain situations, and I'm ho

All Your Questions will be Answered

It's no secret, to those who know me. I spend some time in front of the television. Well, maybe more than just "some". Many people would probably look at my definition of "some" and redefine it as "a lot". In a culture where the average person watches approximately four hours of television a day, I can honestly say, I'm above average. Which is almost always a good thing to be able to say, right? Truth be told, I enjoys me some TV, but I won't watch just anything. I have to be drawn in by either the story, or by the characters. There was one show, in particular, that drew me in. It had all the makings of a great story. There was a plane crash, a tropical island with polar bears, some sort of smoke monster, and people who were once in wheelchairs could walk again. Week after week I would watch this show and get more and more drawn in, as more and more mysterious things began to happen. After a few years there were those that became di