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5/15/02 The countdown to the

5/15/02

The countdown to the First Showing of the Pink House Movie has left me in a state of ragged sleeplessness not because I'm nervous or anything, but because there's no forkin' music in this thing, and I've got to stay up until 4am every night trying to slug it in. This is the "dream soundtrack" we're using for friends and festivals, which means we have about 0% chance of getting these songs for real (unless we get bought by someone who can plunk down $300,000 so that I can get all the XTC and Smiths a boy could want).

Today, we were going through the last scenes of the movie, all of them filmed indoors because a typhoon was raging outside, washing away our set. That was probably our best on-the-fly directing, recanting entire scenes indoors so that we could make the wrap and have something to show for it. Todd left the camera on while they were setting up the penultimate shot, and it shows me trying to teach Tessa how to play poker. A quiet, exhausted moment at the end of what felt like the hardest thing we'd ever done. Strange to get a glimpse of yourself in that way, being a voyeur to one of your own raw emotional states.

near the end of the shoot, Sean (w/glasses) at poker table with me at far right
(pic taken 8/9/01)