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January 9, 2009

Almost Hardly Done

I've been in Chicago for the past week, editing Kris' film, which we shot in Costa Rica last month. I finished the first cut in four days, which is a new personal record that I'd hereafter like to strike from the accounts, lest I become known as the guy who can cut an entire feature in a ridiculously short amount of time (not that I can't, but there are some reputations you don't want to precede you). The morning after, we decided the ending didn't work; halfway-conceived a new one; and ventured into the outlying blizzard to shoot whatever it was that we were feeling. A few hours later it was in the cut and working beautifully. My usual filmmaking motto - that snow makes everything better - proved true once again! Rolling green hills are nice and all, but precipitation can't be beat.

I've also been reviewing edits on the music video Toby and I have been working on, writing some odd number of projects which seem destined to remain eternally unfinished, and fielding various bits of news, good and great and sometimes bad. And now the snow is gone and it's back to work on St. Nick, which needed to be done yesterday, or last week, or even last month.

Also: I've fallen madly in love with Virginia Woolf all over again. I want to quote entire paragraphs right here.

And: barely a month until the half-marathon that I'm going to settle for instead of the full twenty-six.

Furthermore: nevermind.

Posted by David Lowery at January 9, 2009 9:51 PM