Haven't posted anything in a week or so, so I'm going to be somewhat mundane and run down the somewhat packed week that I have had:
Monday: Holy shit. AC/DC, the greatest rock band blows the fucking walls (for real) off the Great Western Forum in one of the greatest concerts I will ever see in my lifetime. I have been waiting for this concert, along with my girlfriend, for YEARS; and I am happy to report that it was every goddamn bit as awesome as I could have expected- MORE SO. UN-BE-LEE-VABLE.
Tuesday: I had stayed up after the concert the night before to power through the last bits of the last animated short for the SuperEgo Live show. I didn't finish, but came very close before I completely crashed. Then it was rehearsal for most of the day, at the end of which I started catching my girlfriend's cold. Blorch. The dress rehearsal, the only one we did, went well and I was feeling sick, but pretty confident in the show. Home for lots and lots of tea and OJ and animating into the early morning to finish the last animation.
Wednesday: Day of the show! The Show! Superego Live! … I realize that I didn't really promote it too much on MySpace, probably because I was feeling overwhelmed with self-promotion these last few weeks. That being said, I spent the morning outputting new compressed versions of all three brand new Superego Supershorts, charging camera batteries and getting the last odds and ends together for the show.
I made three new shorts in about two weeks, two animated, one live action (blue-screen, so nothing but compositing), and I am pretty impressed with myself that they all got completed and I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.
Why was I re-compressing, you tech geeks ask? Because Mark Bommarito, our crack stage tech expert, plugged us into CueLab, a cue running program on his laptop that he can just plug into our projector and run ALL our sound AND video cues from with the touch of a button. I was in nerd heaven.
We had a quick run through with the whole Shunt McGuppin, Mutt Taylor, and the Journeymen Six Pack (Cubby Lauderborne, Luggs Harvey, Tits "Hammerhand" Hamrahan, and Hal Ratliff).
In no time it was time for the show- and I have to say it was one of the most rewarding experiences I have had in a long time. Audio clips, like from the podcast; live action, largely improvised sketches of some classic Superego characters; new Supershorts, as mentioned above; and then the band.
It was a delightful night, with a packed house of good friends.
Thursday: Load out at the theater after a good hard nights sleep. Then I needed to power through some work for a pitch presentation for a puppet show I was helping a friend on. And I needed desperately to clean my apartment. Like, FOR REAL.
Sadly, I didn't finish cleaning my apartment nearly as much I needed, but I made…headway.
Friday: Good morning at Portfolio's, doing some job searching, saying hi to my barber, Al, and I finally started editing my novel I wrote last year. I want to get it ready to ask friends to read and comment on in the new year. It was exciting to get started on that, something I had been meaning to do…allegedly…for a year. At least it started.
Then up to the west side to return one of the cameras used to tape the Superego show. Then back to PV and another coffee shop (excessive), for more editing and job searching.
And finally, I had dinner with my parents and we went to see Seth Cohen's directorial debut at my alma mater, a melodrama called Face on the Barroom Floor.
And now I'm at my girl's place unwinding and catching up internets, my RSS feeds, and just kicking my feet up.
The next few weeks, I'll post up the new Superego stuff, as well as some artwork that I've been working on and other crafty projects I'm trying to get finished before the year end.
