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I’ve decided that this year I’m going to do things a little different. I’m not sure what that means yet, but when I figure it out I’ll clue you in.

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all! I can’t believe how quickly this years has gone by. Cup of Joe, and 7 episodes of 1-800-Tech-Support. I think that’s the most I’ve done in a year. 2009 should be interesting. My goal is 2 features and another season of 1-800, but right now I’m taking a three week break from filming. I have a lot of post production stuff to do. I really need to get an assistant. LOL Another 1-800 Teaser should be on it’s way along with a Trailer.

Till then, Happy Holidays everyone and have a safe New Year.

It’s official, some body needs to shoot Tim Burton. He made the Mad Hatter look like a douche clown. Dare I say Ronald McDonald? Or better yet, Eric Draven and Carrot Top had a lovechild. I have a lot of HATE for Hollywood right now. Sorry I need to correct myself. It’s more like Ziggy Stardust and Carrot Top’s unwanted lovechild. I’m a little slow on the draw today.

Saturday was kind of nuts’o. I was hoping to get everything done for episode 4, but as usual something went wrong. Christian was out sick and I had no idea. Turns out he tried calling me Saturday morning but I failed to see that he left a message. And to add insult to injury his was turned off. I got as much as I could. Still a few more scenes to go but it looks like I won’t be able to get everyone back at one location till the 30th. Hmm maybe I can get it done this weekend. It will either be ep 4 or 5 that gets done. lol

I finally had a chance to make to Andy’s Filmmaker’s Salon. when I arrived Andy was standing out front frantically text. Sadly tonight was canceled. There was a scheduling conflict with Say Si. Sucked, I finally had a free night to make it out and it’s canceled. LOL go figure. None the less, I had a nice time hanging out talking to Andy and catching up. Erik Bosse showed up and we all continued to BS. After about 40 minutes we parted ways and went are separate directions.

Last night I finished my rewrites of episodes 1 thru 4. Tonight I spent a good amount of time going over Ep 5. There were are few things I had to fix. Over all the script is pretty solid. Once all of the scripts have been written I will post an episode guide for season 1 on the 1800-Tech-Support web site.

Tonight I met up with Christian at Jasso’s place for a read through of Episode 1. I am very pleased with the performance and it’s going to be killer funny! After the 3rd read through and give the guys some direction, both Matthew and Christine were really beginning to get into there roles. The part of Joel will be a little different than the original Night Shift, but it is more of what I had in mind for the character when I created him.

Joel is a sarcastic ass. He has no ambition, no drive and not future. Joel is not apathetic he just doesn’t care. He does tech support because it is easy and it allows him to be a slacker. It was hard to get that though in the Night Shift, but comes out a bit when Joel is dealing with the vampire hunters. Christine got the point and took it to hear and started to really get into the character. I didn’t need to give Matthew as much direction. We’ve talked about the character of Tom quite a bit before the read through.

Tom simply is a geek. He has poor social skills, is smart and apathetic. He could do better in life but chooses not to. The reality is he doesn’t have to work hard because he comes from a well off family. We start filming next Wednesday and I’m pretty excited.