John Q. Phats Entertainment

Stupid short film refuses to be finished.  Yes, we are still working on it.  No, I haven’t dropped off of the planet and I’m not dead.  We’ve been working on a new name for the company and a new logo.  It’s still in the early stages, but I think it looks pretty sharp.  No, I’m not just saying that because of our little argument over e-mail, Chris, you bastard.  I really do like the way it looks.
I really need to write something.  I want to rent an HD camera and experiment with it.  Even if I shoot something kind of lame, it would be fun to play with HD.  I’ll get right on that.  I’m also searching for a huge couch.  The biggest one I’ve found so far was 11.5 feet long.  That’s a huge fucking couch.  What the hell would you even use that for?  Seriously, think about that.  If you were on one side and another person was on the other, there would be roughly 9 feet between the two of you.  You could play a legitimate game of frisbee at that distance.  That’s about the size that I need though.  How do I get myself in to this shit?  How did I get to the point where I NEED an 11.5 foot couch?  O well, this is what keeps me going.  Keeps my imagination going.  I’m reading A TV Writers Workbook again.  Don’t get me wrong, that book is awesome, but sometimes it makes writing seem like such an intimidating task.  It usually explains its way out of it, but right in the middle of a chapter sometimes I’ll be thinking to myself “Shit!  I have no clue what I’m doing!”  I suppose that’s why you would read the book though.  So you know what to do to write a script. 
Quick list of what’s going on:
1. Still finishing Do Nice Guys Finish Last.
2. Looking for a giant couch.  Anyone know where I can find one?
3. Trying not to go insane.  

P.S. I’ve decided to curse on my blog now.  If Kevin Smith can get away with talking about selling tickets in an alley to pork his wife on Twitter, I can fucking curse.

I’ve been doing a lot of research for my next project.  It’s a big opportunity, so I want to make sure I get it right.  One thing I know for sure, is that I want to shoot it in HD.  That creates a whole mess of problems.  For starters, I don’t have an HD camera.  Kind of hard to shoot in HD, when I don’t have an HD camera.  Second of all, I’ve never shot in HD before.  I’m not sure how the camera is going to differ and what problems I’m going to run in to.  Third of all, I don’t have the money to rent or buy an HD camera.  Again, does anyone have like $5000 I can “borrow”?  By borrow, I mean have.  I could try what some guy did like a year ago.  He took a bunch of pictures of a cute rabbit and put them up on a web site.  Under the pictures basically said that he needed a certain amount of money and that if people didn’t donate it to him, he was going to kill and eat the rabbit.  I remember one of the lines was “I swear to God, I will eat this cute little rabbit.”  Under all of it was a pay pal link where people could donate.  Shit, I almost donated, because I thought it was hysterical.  He even had a picture of the rabbit in a frying pan.  I think he made like $60,000 or something like that.  All I need is $5000, I mean how hard could it be?  I suppose it’s time to start thinking about what I can sell.  Sigh, goodbye possessions.  I’ll miss you.
Gabe is making good progress on Nice Guys Finish Last.  I would say he’s about 30% through.  Which is pretty good considering that he got the project late last week.  It sounds like he’s putting a lot of thought in to it.  We’ll probably change some stuff around.  That’s just how it goes.  This film making thing is kind of bullshit if you really think about it.  This is my analogy of your chance of making it in this industry:
Lets say there were 1000 cups.  999 of them have ”NO” printed on the bottom of them and 1 has ”YES” printed on it.  Lets say you had to find the one with “YES” on it.  And lets say you happened to pick the one with “YES” on it.  Inside that cup there would be a pebble with a random number from 1-10,000 on it.  So, you take that pebble and put it in a random drawing with another 9,999 pebbles all with different numbers.  In that drawing, they happen to pick your number.  Great, now you get to throw a basketball at 4 nets from full court blind folded.  If you make it in to the correct basket, you get to search the entire world looking for a golden Cheerio.  And it could be anywhere.  Even buried 3000 feet below the Atlantic ocean somewhere.  Somehow though, you find out they cheated and put it on the moon.  So, you go to the moon and get it, when you get back you take that Cheerio and find out that you have to play ring toss with it on a toothpick from 400 yards away.  Through some act of God, it lands on the toothpick and now you get a 2% chance at making it in the industry because come to find out, about a million other people all did the same exact things you did, faster, better, and cheaper. 
Really that’s probably an exaggeration, but you get the idea.  In truth, I love making short films.  Weather I’m shooting them on my cell phone or on a $10 billion dollar camera.  When I say “I want to be a film maker” it doesn’t really make sense, because I already am a film maker.  I’m not making money doing it, but I would do it for the rest of my life, even if I was making minimum wage doing it.  Hell, I do it now, and most of the time, it costs me money.  But I don’t do it for the end result, I just do it because I love it.
I’ll keep making them, as long as someone is watching them.