Life Is Good

Oh my gawd--A second post in the month of July! I gotta meet my quota of at least 3 posts per month.

Life is actually a bit on the anxious side for me at the moment. I've started pre-production on 'The Waterboard'. I've a CLEP test to take this Thursday. I'm forging the Horror-101 LLC also on that day. And I really need to start packing for my move at the end of August. But I saw a nice pick-me up report on the Today Show this morning about two brothers who started a movement/company by imprinting T-shirts with the logo 'Life Is Good'. For them, it's about reminding people what is good in life even though things may be though. So I'm taking a cue from them and saying that life is good. Also, I'm going to be meditating a lot, since it's one of the best ways to regulate anxiety.

We've looked for several apartment locations for 'Waterboard', and thus far, all of them are good. This is going to be a tough choice, but regardless we're making one by the middle of August. We've also started to look for August, and I think I may have found the lead for the film. Still, we're going to hold a casting call at Creative Alliance on August 9th, and we're going to be making casting choices also by the middle of that month.

I did a bit of traveling lately. Visited some good friends in Durham, NC and then went to visit my best friend Shane in Pittsburgh last weekend. It's good that I got all my traveling done for the summer, as I don't think I'll be able to leave town again until the end of the year. Though I really wish I could squeeze him a quick jaunt to NYC.

Great movies: Wall-E, Hellboy 2, and The Dark Knight. Seriously, go check all three. Wall-E is yet another Pixar masterpiece. And Heath Ledger in 'The Dark Knight' is unforgettable. His perfomance as the Joker is so outstanding I'm actually saddened that the actor is dead, as he had some many other great roles in him.

Last Thursday, I sat down for an hour and a half video interview with Washington, DC filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake. He's making a fascinating documentary on internet film bloggers. He's interviewed many other filmmakers, bloggers and even major film festival programmers. His documentary should be ready sometime this early Fall. Can't wait to have a look at it.

O right. Gotta go and do some 'mediation in action' and get some day work done. Perhaps I'll go see The Dark Knight again later tonight.