Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Antenna Diaries

People seem to think they can march up and tell us what to do with this movie.

"Conventional wisdom states that you should make it 79 minutes long."

Since when did following conventional wisdom get anyone anywhere? How boring.
Since when do I follow conventional wisdom anyway? And why would I start now?

Also, fuck that woman who told my husband to let one of her fucking 19-yr-old students edit the movie down to a conventional 79 minutes. Yeah. That would be a great documentary about the Antenna.

People have been dismissing me and ignoring me for as long as I can remember and now I'm supposed to all of a sudden give a shit about what they think. Interesting.

I'm doing this my way if it kills me, which it may well do but at least I'll go down fighting. I refuse to comply.


Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Antenna Diaries

It's just so frustrating sometimes. It seems like it's never ever going to be done.

Monday, September 5, 2011

The Antenna Diaries

'You've seen "Memphis: The Musical", now see the real Memphis music.'

or

"Dive into the chaos."

Something.

Also, I hate when people want us to make a movie like other movies. "Have you seen blahblahblah? You should do that."
Huh. That would be the easy way out, wouldn't it? Why would I want it to look like something else? I want it to look like nothing else. I want people to sit the fuck up and listen and watch and learn. I want them to have their minds fucking expanded. I want them to be disturbed and shocked and I want them to remember what the world was like before everything was so goddamned internetty and socially fucked up. And if it was this feel-goody, everybody-likes-it movie, if it didn't piss a couple people off - then I wouldn't think we'd be accurately representing the Antenna. As Harris Scheuner said, "Back then people openly showed contempt for each other." People are such pussies these days.

The Densmore/Scratch show could look better. I think it needs to be recaptured. It's kind of wiggly, but awesome all the same.

I thought we were going to be able to cut 10 minutes out over this weekend, but somehow we've added 4. Very depressing.

Current temperature 68F. Good. I'm ready for tights and boots. And I guess my third winter of the fingerless brown editing gloves. I should retire them after this movie.

Where the hell is that Blues Explosion poster? I want to hang it in the kitchen. Fuck those stupid ornate measuring spoons.

I like the hell out of not waiting tables. I need to not wait tables a lot more often. It keeps me from considering suicide.

I love this picture of the Modifiers in California, probably about 1986 (?). I wonder who those girls are, and where they are now.



Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Antenna Diaries

Someday we'll look back at this time, and say, "Ha! Remember when we were so stressed about the movie? HA!"

Having trouble capturing the Modfiers/Densmore/Derf Scratch show. Fuck.