What's Going On...
sonovista, my friends... its just about 4:30 on saturday afternoon here at schnauzer central and i thought i'd do a quick post...
in general all is well as we plan for next weekend's celebration of my 50th birthday... finally got a chance to sit down with Chef Thomas Ricci and go over the menu and, if nothing else, the meal should be spectacular...
what's been causing me stress (in addition to the usual suspects) is that i decided, "oh... instead of a slide show, i should do a movie for my birthday and screen it at the party"... right... once again i find a way to unnecessarily ramp up the pressure on myself... so i've spent the past week going through all my crap, digging out old home movies, video tapes of every format, digital photos of every kind (including some shot at 640x480 on an original Apple QuickTake 200 camera!), and scanning in photos and documents... this has been exhausting for a couple of reasons... first, its insanely time-consuming... and second, its an emotional roller coaster of the bitter and the sweet... i didn't expect this and don't think i would have signed up for it... but i said i'd do it (to myself) so i feel an obligation to follow through...
in any event, i still haven't written a script or figured out how to shoot what i will ultimately shoot, and as a result i haven't slept more than 2 or 3 hours a night for the last 10 days... except for the apple work i barely get out of the house... and i want the whole finished project to be no more than 5-7 minutes, so i imagine my grandiose ideas for filming will be stripped down greatly, and in a hurry... i -think- i'm done collecting material (scanned my birth certificate an hour ago, working backwards) so later on i'll move all the media onto the computer in the studio (its the fastest) and start laying out at least one segment (there'll be 3... i think the second may be narrated by bryan cox, though i haven't asked him yet!)...
the final project will be available on youtube... and if you check out our schnauzerlogic channel you can see some other short clips i found that i may or may not use in the final film, of both parviz and me doing early stand-up... it's hi-larious! i've got a lot more video and will be encoding it and uploading it as time goes by...
i spoke with parviz the other day and he's good... spoke with jason and john dekoven and they're good too... sheri is back from china and sean is working away on his illustration gig...
the show will return, right now i'm guessing perhaps mid to late october (more crazy work stuff, some private client stuff under statutory deadline, some business travel and a wedding down in southern california)...
i had hoped to upload some best-of shows, but Kenneth from Earthlink (of the Home Networketing fame) took down my broadband access last week (a major f-up on earthlink's part) and its not scheduled to return until sometime this coming week... i'm online thanks to my neighbor letting me steal some of her bandwidth by putting a temporary wireless access point in her home)...
joanne is a highly regarded numerologist and has recently published a book on numerology... you can reach joanne's site at www.numbersru.com
and that's it for now...
namaste
robin