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12/6/02 We just got done

12/6/02

We just got done with an honest-to-God 16-hour day of editing the Pink House movie and boy are my arms tired. This was our last day with our editor before she goes off on another job for a month (and we go on our whirlwind tour of America), so this particular edit is going to be important to investors. Being one of its proud parents, it's still not "done" enough for me, but we can't go much further until we find the money to finish. We actually laughed a lot during this last edit, which, after all we've been through (having started this process on September 10, 2001), hints that we actually did make a comedy.

Comedies just aren't funny until the 7th major edit; I don't think people realize that. All of your favorite comedies were giant, unfunny hunks of shit for months before anybody could stomach them, and that includes "Animal House," "Annie Hall" or even "Some Like It Hot." Comedies are made in the editing room, and even the difference of three frames (approximately 1/8th of a second) can change the entire timbre of a joke.

So we're not done, but we're pretty damn funny. All we need is a finished score, some sound sweetening, and another go-over with a lice comb, and we can do some damage out there.

Matt Dawson and Omar Scroggins doused with pink flour during the car scene. Click on the picture to download a RealPlayer movie of the local North Carolina news doing a story on our shoot however, when you see me, please realize that my shirt was poofed out, and I do NOT have a distended belly and weigh 370 pounds, it was just an unfortunate choice of clothing and a TERRIBLE camera angle, fer chrissake