swimmingly.

yes sir, we're doing just that well.

we (the royal we) made quick work out of that little computer blip a few weeks ago and the movie is officially back in place. all the original scenes were restored by saturday morning and by the end of the day sunday, we'd mixed in the re-shoots and pick-ups as well.

and not to sound sickeningly positive, but i think the time off probably even did us some good. as we sat down recently with a potential post-production audio guru to watch the last tangible cut on tape, we started noticing things - places where it dragged and scenes to be jumbled up and just how fucking long are the opening credits supposed to be anyway... so, all that stuff that maybe we were too close to notice last time around is being worked on. we all feel supremely confident that this next cut will be pretty damn close to final. not quite final (what is final anyway?), but pretty damn close.

in musical new: ljb played for me a few bits of score that's he's working on and they sound fantastic! i'm very excited to see what he and mike johnson (who i believe will be tossing his musical hat into the mix at some point as well) and the inimitable dana bourland come up with for the final score. also, we've got official permission from hush records to use a few of their fantastic tracks including grave's modern 'love's a killer', blanket music's cover of 'i take on your days', and our own re-mixes of super xx man's 'garage apartment' and toothfairy's 'sorry' (as featured in the trailer). also also: the dazzling strangers, who are both dazzling and strange, have granted us license to their strangly dazzling track, 'petey libertine' in the film. exciting stuff!

stay tuned for so much more...
mtk

shameless plugging for friends...

dear reader,

my good friends, Parks & Recreation, who have been kind enough to provide a number of their fantastic songs to the movie are looking to play the PDX Pop Festival this summer. PDX Pop is now taking requests for bands to be put on the bill. So, if you've got the time and the inclination, please drop by PDX POP and put in a vote for the boys.

if you don't feel comfortable voting for a band you're unfamiliar with, by all means, get acquainted: P&R

thanks and godspeed.

mtk

return of the edi(ting suite)

just a quick note to say that we're back in business. thanks in part to some generous dvd pre-orders, we've managed to replace and repair our editing system and are well on our way to reconstructing the missing scenes from the film. reconstruction should be complete within the next couple of weeks, if all goes according to jim belushi.

additionally, re-shoots last weekend went extremely well. the two revised scenes and one additional mini-scene are going to work beautifully, i know it. all that's left is some foley, a little bit of adr, and a days worth of random pick-up shots, and we'll be absolutely finished with the production end of things.

that's all for now... except that (and this is the last time i'll mention it) our paypal account is still ready and willing to help you buy a small portion of artistic credibility... see below for instructions.

buy for now.