What ever have I been up to? Been getting that question a lot lately. Don't have much of an answer for it I'm afraid. Made a new video. Guess that's something. I adapted a short story by Charlie Huston entitled "Twitch and Spray". Matt, Ryan, Trevor and I hung out late at BXL over the course of two nights and filmed it. It's definitely my most ambitious bit of filmmaking to date. And therefore the most likely to lead to disappointment.
I sent a link to the video to Charlie and asked if he wouldn't mind if I kept it posted on YouTube. He sent me the following email:
"Good work. The budgetary and schedule limits are evident, but I don’t think they really hurt you other than in the sound mix. Overall, a really good piece of guerilla film making. Give my props to all involved.
As long as you’re not making any $ off the thing I’d be happy to have you leave it up, but I do need to have a quick work with my lawyer (yeah, I know, lame) to make sure it’s cool. I’ll let you know if there’s a problem, otherwise, play on.
I’d also like to link it to my site. Any chance you’ll be able to improve the mix before I do so?
Best,
Charlie"
For some reason I was a little dejected by his response. I'm not really certain what kind of response I was expecting from him - "HOLY SHIT!!! That's the most amazing fucking video I've ever seen!!! You must MUST MUST make all of my books into movies!! No other filmmaker alive has your eye or talent!" Ridiculous, huh?
All in all he gave a positive response and for that I am grateful. He also helped me to take a more critical eye to my work and try and put my film making into perspective.
The video cost about $35 to make. And for a thirty-five dollar flick it's pretty fucking impressive. However, there really isn't any kind of market for $35 home movies regardless of their awesome-itude. Which makes me question my commitment to continue pursuing this silly dream of mine. I have an idea for one more short film that I'd like to attempt and then I think I'm going to drop off the face of the planet and devote all my energies into finishing this feature film script I'm working on and getting that actually made.
Besides - I've really been out of sorts the last few months. Sometimes I look in the mirror and I don't even recognize the face staring back at me. I've burned bridges with people very near and dear to my heart and I fully appreciate the fact that I must start making some healthier and more positive life choices.
"Your life has only as many pressures as you create."
We dig our own holes. And we, all of us, are responsible for cleaning up the mess we make by doing so. It's damn hard. But it can be done. One day at a time.
Hey fuckmooks, The Official Forum is up and running! CFHworld is a big fan of the show and he is helping me out with taking care of the message board. I wish I would have done it much sooner. It provides a great way to interact with and get feedback from our audience. Much more so than the comments for the videos themselves.
I'm also trying my hand at video blogging on my own channel to give people a feel for what goes on "behind-the-scenes".
Just launched the "GooTube Conspiracy" forum. I am trying to get more people involved in the actual making of the show and hopefully this message board will assist with that. I want to create a grassroots 'resistance' that will allow people to send me simple secret messages that I can then post to help drive the story along. It will also help me to plan plotlines and characters with the assistance of the fans. We'll see how it goes. You should join.
My friend Leila took me to an invitational screening of 3:10 To Yuma last night. Apparently the "3:10" is the run time. What a turd of a movie! With all due respect to Mr. Mangold - he really had no idea how a Western should be filmed. The aspect ratio was completely wrong and the score was simply anemic. I actually had high hopes for this film. Award winning actors, award winning director, cool script based on a short story by Elmore Leonard. Oh well.
The original movie (1957) with Van Heflin did a much better job with this story. That film was set almost entirely in the hotel room and focused on the tension between the two leads. Mangold chose to focus on the trip to Contention (where the railroad is located), but fails to make the trip EPIC. And that is the great failure of this film. Westerns should be epic. Honestly, you don't have to be a student of Clint Eastwood's work to understand this. "Unforgiven" was ultimately about a man's struggle with himself and Time, but the film still had an EPIC feel to it.
Crap, didn't really intend for this to be a movie review. Just wanted to tell y'all to save your money and use it to go see "Bourne Ultimatum" again.
Wow! Two posts in one day! Aren't you all special!
I spent the day doing some tests to try and figure out how I am going to assemble my next episode. I went ahead and posted the test to Loquesto's YT account.
Finally got my computer fixed last week! It's not really a return to being online, though, because I had my Mac to check emails and stuff. I just couldn't do any video work.
Posted an announcement on GTC's channel to let everyone know why the hell there haven't been any vids in almost two months. Then I spent 6 HOURS Thursday trying to catch up with all of the emails and comments gtc received while my computer was down. Even managed to get a video posted (although it was really just a re-edit of a video created by Steazdale.)
Got a message board set up for the show today. I don't really know anything about message boards so I hope one of the fans of the show will step up and take over moderating duties.
Got a bunch of ideas for individual episodes that'll be pretty cool, but I don't really know how to tie them all to a through line. I guess I'll figure that out as I go.
Kevin Van Doorslaer (Mr. Wraak in the "Revelations" episode) up and moved to LA. So I gotta scrap my plans I had for that character. Making up a show as you go along (especially when it's for free)is harder than you might think.
Happy Father's Day you guys! Especially to my dad! Luv ya, pop!
I did up a special episode of GTC in honor of the occasion. I scripted this one, but gave Nalts a lotta leeway with what he could film. Surprisingly enough he only filmed the bare minimum (no shit - he sent me a 28 second video) so I had to pad it out a lot. I wanted him to film some more original footage of him and Spencer together because Nalts was usually running the camera in the Spencer vids so they don't appear together very often. Anycrap, it still came out pretty cool. I wonder if scAryDave is gonna do a "Father's Day" video?
Just giving y'all a quick update before I head out to fetch da ketchup today.
I was supposed to meet with the Cheese Guy™ last night, but he pulled a no show. That's not to say he blew me off entirely. He did leave a message for me that my price wouldn't be a problem (oops - guess I shoulda gone higher), but it seems that they don't have the necessary permits to film inside of Grand Central Station. The City has recovered pretty well from 9/11 and, other than the days when we go on high alert and there are military guys standing around with machine guns, it is sometimes easy to forget that I live in a prime terrorist attack location. So - he is working today to try and secure me some permits and will call and let me know the dizzle.
J - you were right. I shoulda quoted higher. See - this is why I posted all the gory details. So that in the future I will not repeat my mistakes.
Steaz - When I was younger, I often mistakenly made the same jump in reason that you did. $2000 is a lot of money for one day of work. But this isn't actually ONE day of work. It is THREE days of worked crammed into one 24 hour period. It actually comes to less than $100/hr per time worked. Which in this business is nothing to write home about. You've heard the expression, "Nice work when you can get it", right? See, the reason it HAS to be nice work when you can get it is because you never know if you're gong to get more of it. So you MUST charge a sufficient sum of money to try and carry you through til the time when you get another job. Basically, this job has to subsidize your existence til you get that next one.
DAve - If this job comes through, I will definitely take you up on your offer to make me a "Cheese Song". I'll do a 'directors re-cut' of the vid to post to my YouTube account. Plus, the guys doing this are pretty cool (though Dutch) and they might get a kick out of it. Either way, I wouldn't show it to them until the check clears...
I've been approached about shooting a promotional vid for a Dutch cheese company. Yes, I know. It is a dream of all filmmakers to shoot in-house promotional vids for cheese companies. And dreams really do come true!
All kidding aside - I really have been approached and it would be nice to get a little extra moolah to try and pay down some of my debt (mainly accrued while I was out of commission last year with the hospitalization.) I've decided to give everyone all the details so that we can look back later and see where I can improve upon things for the next time I get some kinda 'real' (ie, paying) video work.
Truth be told, I don't particularly WANT to do a promo vid. But, then again, I don't want to get people ketchup either. So we suck it up and do what we can to keep the bill collectors at bay, right? I had done something similar back in 2005 for Stella Artois (the beer company). It went over pretty well until I shot Part II and they no longer speak to me. Some people just don't dig the Loquesto stylee sometimes I guess. Also, working for other people in the video field is a HUGE pain in the ass. They're like, "I LOVE your work! Can you do a video for us?" And then as I try to do one of my kick-ass vids for them that I thought they love so much, they proceed to alter and 'improve' upon it so much that by the time I am finished I have ulcers and the video is nothing like my original intention and I don't even wanna put my name on it. Having learned this lesson, I decided that if given COMPLETE creative control I will gladly work as cheaply as possible. But if you wanna insert your $.02 then I am gonna charge you out the ass. You're basically paying me to listen to your bullshit and compromise my artistic leanings. That, my friend, is gonna cost you a pretty penny. I already have a job that I dislike and keep merely to 'pay the bills'. I have no desire to turn something I am passionate about (ie, video making) into such a job. Sure - I'll gladly sell out. But I am starting to get a better idea of my worth as a video maker and, sir, you will pay me what I am worth.
I already have a great outlet for my art with GTC. So I don't really need to do anything for free just so I can get 'exposure'. Those days are long gone. So pay me. And pay me well.
Here's the poop: The cheese company is trying to increase their presence here in the States and they would like to have their big event they're doing in Grand Central Station videotaped and edited into an in-house promotional DVD. I would show up at 11am on Weds. and videotape their press conference. The conference is then followed by a chef preparing different dishes with the cheese. This is then followed by a tasting/cocktail party. I will basically be filming off and on from 11am til about 8pm. I then have to run to my computer and get everything digitized and edited and press 5 dvds by noon the next day. Yes, I will basically be working non-stop for 24 hours straight.
A lot of people are uncomfortable discussing money. I don't particularly like it either, but I find it frustrating when I am reading about other people's job experiences and they leave it out. I'm like, "How am I supposed to learn what other people charge for this sort of shit if I ever get the opportunity to do it myself?" So I'll tell you all of the factors that went into my quote and then I'll tell you what I asked for and we can then discuss if I lowballed myself or not.
Now - right off the bat I know that videographers that do weddings and bar mitzvahs and shit up here in NY get about$2K-$3K to video a four hour event and press a dvd. I know this because I went online and researched it. However, they use much more professional equipment than I possess as well as the fact that people are quite used to being raped on the pricing for the special events in their lives. I figured I would charge them a grand to come and film. I am going to use my Crappy Canon™ and no lights or microphones which should take a little offa da price. Plus I get to eat and drink like a king and hit on all the big breasted 'cheese girls'. That should definitely be worth a little sumpin' sumpin'.
Now, an average film editor gets about $50/hour. I figure I'll be home by about 10pm and will have to spend about 12 hours editing. Factoring in overtime I would charge $700 for the editing. Also, dub houses (the places where they do video transfers) would tack on $300-$500 for the overnight rush.
Taking all of those factors into consideration I could realistically quote them something like $3500 and it wouldn't be out of the normal consideration for this business (matter of fact, had I better equipment, the price would still be considered a little low.) So I'll tell you - I quoted them $2K. I opted to go a little low for the following reasons:
My equipment is basically shit and, while I will give them a professional looking finished product, there will be a lot of extra work involved due to my having to correct with my computer the shortcomings of my camera. This isn't the client's fault.
I am being given complete creative control on the finished product. Not having some suit breathing down my neck telling me all the shit I'm doing 'wrong' is definitely worth a coupla bucks to me.
I could use the moolah. I wanted to quote a large enough figure that it would be worth the lack of sleep (who couldn't use an extra $2K?) - but I didn't want to go so high as to price myself out of the job entirely.
So what do you think? Some of you might be of the mind that I should have started higher and then allowed myself to be negotiated down possibly securing more money. Normally I would agree, but in this instance there is no haggling. The event happens in two days. I give them a price and they give thumbs up or thumbs down and YES I will probably kick myself a little for not asking for more if they readily agree to my quote. That's why I made the quote large enough that I will be satisfied with the payment. $2K will help me a lot at the moment. If I went too high and they said NO then I would kick myself for pricing myself out of a job. Working in a business where dollar amounts are almost entirely subjective can be a little frustrating, huh?
I found this guy on YouTube. He's frickin' hilarious. Here's his Mother's day video. You should pop over and check out his stuff. (Especially his Dove Soap song contest entry).
After I complete each episode of GTC, I am often at a loss for how I will be able to top myself. I really want to stretch the limits of what "amateur video" is capable of. Eventually, of course, the show is gonna jump the shark and I will just plum run out of ideas. But today is not that day, my friends!
There are other times when I get an idea that I think might be cool, but the idea is born of necessity and not really a clear plan on my part. My next episode is going to be pretty neat I think and the idea for it came about because I will be unable to coordinate a shooting time with my actors before one of them leaves for six months. There are a couple of hints in the image above. Not gonna give too much away. It's gonna take me awhile to put it together so in the meantime I think GTC will feature some of my favorite response videos of our fans in the meantime.
If you couldn't tell from my last couple blog posts, I have been a little overwhelmed by life and especially the GooTube Conspiracy. Anycrap, yesterday I decided to try my hand at meditation to see if I could clear my head a little. I laid in the middle of my bedroom for about 8 hours and tried to hear the sound of nothing. My experiment was less than successful because I couldn't ever manage to turn off my brain. And now I feel like I lost a whole day of potential productivity. I did manage to think of an interesting mind bender. I started thinking about that old saw about "If a tree falls in a forest..." and, of course, that leads nowhere because it's deliberately designed to not have a correct answer. It's a specious argument. However - that got me to thinking about color blindness. And a more practical argument to ponder is "If you are color blind and cannot perceive the color red, does the color red even exist?" Now that is a question I can sink my teeth into! Don't really have a good answer for it, but it kinda rejuvenated my creative juices and helped me begin to form a plan to deal with all the shizzle going on right now.
As lame as it sounds I simply made up my mind to take things one step at a time and do what I can and whatever can't get done - don't sweat it. Sometimes it's the simple shit that eludes us, right?
I want to start a wiki about the GTC. Been looking around and found Wikidot and Wetpaint as potential sites. I doubt very much GTC will merit a spot on the actual Wikipedia. I know a lot of you guys out there reading this thing are A LOT more tech-savvy than I am and would appreciate any feedback you can give me regarding this. It seems this would be a better way to interact with the audience. Maybe 'better way' isn't exactly what I mean. Perhaps 'another way' is a more appropriate way to describe what I have in mind. Ideally I will start up a blog on Wordpress specifically for GTC and that site will also contain the wiki. Is that even a viable option? J? Jon (do you use the damn H or not)? Aeryk? Anyone? I have no intention of sinking any money into this endeavor so I'm just trying to brainstorm a way to build a completely free site that'll do all the shit I want in an organized manner using all the free tools available out there in the ether.
Enough of that. What's been going on with the GTC? Well, the newest episode seems to be generating quite a nice buzz. Thee feedback has been really positive. Which again send me into a tailspin trying to figger out how to top it. This is where the new 'don't sweat it' philosophy comes in handy.
Nalts was in town on Monday for business reasons and we managed to get together briefly to shoot an episode. Nalts and The Alpha finally meet! Unfortunately we're gonna have to sit on it for awhile while we shoot all of the eps required to get from where we are to them finally meeting. C'est la vie!
I met the guys from ichannel. If you haven't seen their show - you should. It blows ours out of the water! So professional. They were really cool guys. Maybe we might do some crossover shows if they are amenable to the idea. It turns out they only live a couple blocks from me! What're the odds of two of the producers of the most original concept shows on YouTube living side by side? Pretty weird! We'll see where it goes.
I'm still working on the "behind the scenes" vid. This is way harder than putting together an actual episode. I just feel like I'm leaving so much out or that it doesn't really show people what the process is like. I guess I should just post it and get some feedback and then if I do more I'll have a better idea of how to do it in the future.
Found this little tidbit floating around out there. So far, I've found about half a dozen blogs that talk about our show (mine excluded of course). She kinda has the info wrong. Nalts created the concept of the show. I just helped fine tune it and make it more of an actual 'show'. But, whatever. Nalts doesn't even watch our show anymore. I can't feel bad if he's not getting his due credit, can I? Sure I can! Anjelikka - if you read this, can you please amend your blog to inform people that Nalts is the actual creator and I am merely more of an executive producer? Thanks.
Well guys, I guess that's about it for today. I'll talk at ya later.
"I am still of the opinion that all the use of F***mooks etc is not necessary. Your blog, and other things would not suffer with less of that term, I don't believe. As you get better known and press, it may become a negative. think about it. I know you will do what you think is best....just inserting my 2 cents worth. thanks for listening."
I received this email the other day. I appreciate your concern, but I feel the need to clarify some things. No one reads this blog. No one will ever read this blog. No one watches my videos. No one will ever watch my videos. I have no illusions about this. I write and make videos for my own enjoyment. Period. So I try and stay true to myself. I swear. A lot. People will need to come to terms with that or they are always free to continue not paying attention to what I am doing. I get people ketchup for a living. As I get older I will have to start working in crappier and crappier restaurants. Eventually I will probably work the register at a Denny's when I am no longer able to actually wait on tables. I will die a poor and lonely old man that never fully realized the potential of his youth. I accept this. And I find it extremely liberating.
Yes, GooTube Conspiracy is getting increasingly popular. But I have no misconceptions as to why. Nalts is a YouTube "star" and people tune in to our show to get a further 'Nalts fix' because his posting 3 vids per day on his own channel isn't enough for some people. My own channel only has about 70 subscribers. That is a huge indicator of your popularity. Matter of fact - let us all just take a moment to see exactly what people think of my videos, shall we?
"What a load of heavy-handed bulls**t"
And another:
"Hey Kyle. Maybe you should run a food shelter, or give your home to those poor people so they can have a place to sleep instead of making videos. If you really wanted to bleed your heart, you could sell all your production equipement and feed them all. But then how could you afford a pack a smokes?"
Yet another gem:
"Kyle. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."
To put it succinctly:
"u faggy???"
And finally:
"your an idiot"
So, you see, the veil has been lifted from my eyes. I will never be a professional filmmaker. I do not kid myself into thinking that I will. Hopefully, I will make a few silly vids that people enjoy along the way before Time does its thing and I lay down for that final dirt nap.
I finished the latest episode of GTC. You can check it here. That episode drained me. It involved over a dozen YouTubers on three different continents in four different countries and I'm not sure how many States. The response has been phenomenal. I feel that I'm really starting to approach the full potential of what 'user-generated' content can be. And now I am empty.
I always get this way after I finish a project. This time I think it may be heightened a bit because this episode was such a massive undertaking. I just am always scared I won't have any more ideas. I know it isn't true, I always have a ton of ideas and even now I have ideas for at least 4 more episodes. I just get an empty feeling for a little while after I finish creating something. It doesn't help, of course, that people immediately start asking me, "What's next?" I kinda wanna scream at them, "Go make a fucking episode yourself! That's kind of the point of this fucking experiment me and Nalts have going!" And they're asking me this while the episode has only been online for about 12 hours! I'm kinda like, "Shithat, at least let the folks in Australia wake up, have their cup of Milo and watch the fucking thing before you start hassling me about the next episode!" Don't get me wrong - I know they're only asking because they are really enjoying what I'm doing and I appreciate the fuck outta that, but, c'mon, ease up a little, folks. I'm just a waiter making videos. There's no production team behind this damn thing.
Another problem is that the show is becoming much more popular. "What's the problem with that?", you ask? Well, I'll tell you: I spend HOURS each week monitoring comments and answering emails and whatnot. If our little show gets too much more popular then I don't see how I'm going to be able to find time to actually MAKE the damn videos! "Well, just don't answer all the emails and read all the comments." Dipshit - the whole PREMISE OF THE FUCKING SHOW is that it is completely interactive. If I stop paying attention to what the audience is giving me, then we are just a regular show and that's not our intention.
I also might need to slow down production anyway just to give people more time to produce their own episodes. Me and Nalts work pretty quick, but I understand that other people may need more time. We're really just playing things by ear, but it's important to try and identify potential pitfalls early on I think.
I contacted the folks at YouTube about setting up an administrator account on the gtc's channel so that I can allow other people to help out reading comments and watching video responses and monitoring emails, but not allowing them to upload videos or change any of my settings. They actually got back to me pretty quickly on this. They told me 'it would set a bad precedent to do that for just one person', but they're gonna forward the idea to their product development division so maybe that's something they'll develop for everyone.
One of the main reasons I'm worrying about all this is that we are about to get a lot more attention. They just put us on their 'featured channels' section of their homepage. It's a new feature and people just ignore it for the most part (I only just caught a glimpse of it by accident), but we've picked up a couple dozen subscribers because of it. Next week they are featuring us on their 'new subscribers' page. That's the screen that shows up whenever someone opens a new account. When that happens you almost always get about 2-3K new subs immediately. Most of them aren't hardcore 'tubers, which is what our show is geared towards, so it may or may not make a difference in the responses and emails I get. Although our show is pretty good and does allow audience participation so maybe it's a great way to welcome new people to YT and let them get involved with us.
There is one more thing going on behind-the-scenes and it is completely unprecedented as far as I know. I wish I could talk about it, but I really have no idea who actually reads this damn thing (by the way, thanks for reading, marquisdejolie). If it actually happens it could cause a real shitstorm. Whether or not the shitstorm is good or bad - I have no idea. But people are definitely gonna be talking about it.
I think this weekend I'm gonna work on a 'behind-the-scenes/making of an episode' thing. Show everybody how I put together this latest episode. Probably just post it to my own channel, but Nalts'll probably want me to post it on gtc's channel. Being the bad guy on a show that I am the primary producer on kinda makes me a bit schizo. Like, how will the audience react to seeing 'Loquesto" teaching them how to make a video? Or even "The Alpha"? I make it a point that neither of my characters break the fourth wall. That's Nalts' job. I really have no frickin' idea what I'm doing.
One last thing, for those of you sneaky fucking fans lurking on my blog, someone is gonna get killed off. I made that decision yesterday. Been toying with the idea for awhile, but I finally committed to it. I would love to make it Nalts, but after the "Faking It" episode, no one would believe it. Also, I'd probably get death threats of my own.
Trying to get this damn GooTube Grande episode together. Needed something to re-charge my juices about it so I cut this trailer for it: Cutting a trailer is a great way to get your enthusiasm back up for a project. You only use the prime cuts from your vid and string them together in an action packed kinda way. I also went out and did some shot tests with make up and FX that'll probably never appear in an actual episode, but they look awesome in this trailer. Take a watch and let me know what you think.
I also did a new logo for the show. It's entirely original so I shouldn't have a problem with the online store. I think GTC is definitely the kind of thing that people would buy stuff to support. Especially if the logo is frickin cool. My plan is to really try and pump this thing going into 07/07/07. I think we may end up shooting the show finale on that date. But - who knows? This thing may last forever. Or I may just pass the reins on to someone else. I probably need to pow wow with Nalts, but he's a very busy "e-lebrity" now and it is unlikely he will take my calls. Ahhhh! I knew him when...
Working on the store. Check it out (and buy something you cheap muthafuckas): http://www.cafepress.com/gootube I gotta re-work the black graphic, but the white one came out pretty cool.
It was brought to my attention that I haven't posted in about a month so here's post to update you all on the doins' that have been a-transpirin'.
My camera crapped out so I'm falling behind on my GTC episode. Plus, one of my players dropped out. Gotta shoot his stuff myself. Oh well. Bought a Canon ZR-800. Gonna give it a test drive manana and hopefully get this new damn episode online this week.
Me and Brazil had a falling out. I have no idea what's gonna happen with that.
That's about it. Don't really feel like blogging right now.
Sorry about the erratic job of posting that I'm doing. It's just hard to find enough time to do all of the things I'm attempting. I have no idea how in the hell Nalts gets all of his shit done. And he has a wife and FOUR kids to boot! KP.com is still in the design stages because I can't seem to find enough hours in the day. GTC takes up quite a bit of my time. That's not a complaint. I love the show and it is giving me an awesome chance to showcase my meager talents. It just happens to take a lot of time to do my videos for it. I'm also designing a website for a bar on the Upper Eastside, I have to finish editing an interview I filmed of an author friend of mine for her website (which I also designed and built), I'm trying to complete my "Loquesto's 10 Minute Video School" video, and I'm writing about five more episodes of the GTC, and I am trying to convince a woman to love me (undoubtedly, the most difficult thing on the list).
For example - this weekend - I got home from work on Friday at 5pm. I went home and worked on the 'nightmare' episode of GTC. Had a date with the Brazilian at 9pm. She left around 12am. I stayed up working on the episode til about 5am. Slept til 8am. Got up and went to work at the restaurant til 4:30pm. Got home around 6pm and worked til 8am Sunday finishing the episode and uploading it to YouTube. Then I had to be at work at 10am and worked until 10pm last night. Got to bed at midnight and woke up at 8am so I can try and finish the next two episodes of GTC and the 'how to' video all today.
Something that kinda sucks? I am very dissatisfied with the 'nightmare' ep of GTC. I wanted to do so much more, but there simply wasn't time. Nearly every single frame of the 3 minute vid has some effects applied to it and rendering took a long time. The sound design also took several hours. Oh well, guess I'll just have to learn to work even faster.
By the way - I gotta figger out how to make this blog display comments. It doesn't notify me if I receive any and I never go back and re-read my drivel. So I end up reading the comments weeks after y'all post them. Something else to add to my 'To Do' list...
**EDIT** Just discovered that I had misspelled my email address in my notification settings. Oops.
The GooTube Conspiracy is fucking killing me. After each episode, I feel like there is no way I can top what I just did and there is no way I am going to figure out what to do next. But after I finish editing each new vid and upload it and see people's nice comments it re-invigorates me.
Tim Cox and Janis Lozano came through for me and helped me make what is probably my best one to date. I wrote and sent the script to Tim on Tues. We filmed on Weds, and I edited all night and posted on Thursday.
Problem is, I think people see my videos as a "show" and they don't feel they can participate. I'm trying to figure out a way to get them more involved. I'm gonna make a "vlog" (as much as I dislike them) tonight and make a 'plea for help' from my subscribers. I'm only going to leave the video up for 24 hours. I only have like 30 subscribers, but most of them are die hard GTC fans so I really think this might help. I'm just gonna flat out tell them that they need to start pulling their weight and making some damn videos.
Got some cool things planned for my next episodes. Someone is gonna get stabbed and someone else is gonna die. But I don't wanna give anything away. (Not even to the two people who probably even read this blog.
This year can only be better than my last one. Gonna try and make it through this one with all of my remaining intestinal tract. Also, when you end the year with a 101° fever things can pretty much only go up.
So "GooTube Conspiracy v.2.0" launches this Sunday. Should be exciting. Nalts created a new YouTube account: www.youtube.com/user/gootubeconspiracy so that we have a home for these vids and can do other things with our own pages. Please stop by and subscribe.
The bros™ couldn't find any guns for me so I had to order them online. They should arrive tomorrow so hopefully we can shoot ep.2 tomorrow night.
Gonna try and work up an interesting opening credit for the gootube thing. Might take more time than I got, but the web is very flexible and if people don't get the new intro til later - so be it.
I doubt that anyone reads this thing but if you do, drop me a comment so I know I'm not alone in here.
