It had to happen; I am my own curse guardian. For as long as I have known Mandi I have been looking for a reliable film maker to help with various projects. Sometimes I will mention a particular project and she will comment on how long ago I first mentioned it, as you can imagine that sort of response is just what I need to hear. Reading back through old blogs it makes me sad to see to what extent this side of my career has hit the buffers. Reliability has always been the stumbling block; that and the fact that a lot of so-called creative people are full of bullshit. Despite my success in the areas of radio and podcasting I still get frustrated at the fact that I can't get other projects off the ground.
When I was at Sherwood Radio one of the bosses owned a production company making educational DVDs, and offered to help me bring some of my comedy ideas to life. This gradually downgraded to the offer of a loan of a camera, then eventually not being able to help me because the camera was broken. The camera? This sort of thing has been a blight on me for too long, people saying they can help when they clearly can't. I thought that Oliver Smith was going to be a solid enough person to work with but the alarm bells first went off at the time he took to reply to an email (email, as I have said before, is the worst method of communication as far as getting a response is concerned) so I was back to the drawing board.
Lee is someone I have known for ages and has recently started his own video company in addition to writing, live music promotion, and being in a band. Finally it seemed as though I had someone to trust and help me make my filmic dreams a reality. Everything was in place for this weekend and filming of The Record Store Day Video (working title) would finally go ahead. Two actors were in place, (Gary and Craig), a musician was booked (George Gadd, last minute replacement for Gerry Trimble), and Lee and his colleague in place for filming. What could possibly go wrong?
Something inevitably was going to go wrong because this is me we're talking about. Who was going to be the person to let me down this time? Actually it was me; despite usually being on the receiving end of last minute excuses I had no choice but to pull the plug because I am feeling so ill I couldn't envisage being filmed talking to camera and trying to be light hearted. There is also the fact that it is scheduled to be an early start tomorrow morning and I don't think I am up to it. I am annoyed with myself as usually I just roll up my sleeves and carry on with my life but this time I must be really poorly as I just want to rest. This time around I am going to enjoy being ill just like Mandi does.
All I want to do at the moment is sleep which is what I am planning to do quite a lot of this weekend.
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