John Q. Phats Entertainment

I’ve been seeing a steady increase in traffic on my site.  That’s kind of exciting.  I was thinking about trying to get some interviews with directors, producers, and possibly an actor.  It really is true that sometimes all you have to do is ask.  Worst they can say is “Fuck off cock lick.”  Wow, that’s pretty harsh.  That actually kind of stings.  There it goes, it just passed, see, I’m fine.  In reality, I would probably get some sort of legal jargon back that translated in to “No, you’re stupid, stop bothering me.”  I think if I can handle a rejection letter from a film festival, I can handle a rejection letter from a famous person.
Have you ever been in a situation where you’re in some sort of a contest and everyone around you is winning awards except for you?  And your thinking (or saying) “What the hell is wrong with these people?!  My stuff is way better then this!”  Then something truly crappy wins and you’re completely outraged?  Hate to tell you, but it’s not because everyone else is crazy, it’s because whatever you entered in to the contest sucked.  I am actually totally guilty of this.  I entered a 24 hour film festival a while back that chose not to show my short in the final screening.  Me and the three people involved were totally outraged.  Looking back at it now though, it wasn’t because the judges were biased, or because the other teams cheated, or because I knocked up one of the judges daughters, it was because my short film sucked.  It was shot on a shitty little standard def camera with no boom mic.  It had two actors in it that had never acted before (myself being one of them).  The third actor was good, but really, how good can you be when you have all of that bad working against you?  When I finally owned up to the fact that my short film sucked, I could learn from it.  I could sit back and figure out what I had done wrong.  Which was far more valuable and got me much further in my development as a film maker.  Best advice I can give you is to go out there and fail.  Fail and learn from it.

Well, Alyssa made the new shorts section live yesterday.  Like I said in the previous post, you might not be able to tell the difference, but it makes it so that I can post videos whenever I want.  Rather then having to bug Alyssa, I can do it all on my own now. 
With the new shorts section came two new short films.  Censored & A John Q. Phats Introduction.  Coming soon, should be something I’ve code named Dimensions and possibly the Red Hood short.  I’m not sure if I want to post Red Hood or not.  I’ll probably argue with myself for a bit about it and then end up posting it anyway.  Might as well I suppose.  I don’t know, we’ll see.

Big things happening with the web site this Monday.  While it won’t be noticeable, the Shorts section is getting an overhaul.  From now on, I’ll be able to add short films to the web site whenever I want.  Rather then having to bug Alyssa, burn her a CD, and then have her add it, I can just upload it to Vimeo, hack the Gibson, and post the video to my web site.    With the updated page will come two new short films and hopefully a steady flow of stuff from here on out.  I’ll keep you all updated.