"He grabbed me and said, 'YOU DO NOT HUG A COP!!' And I just thought, 'what a sad rule.'" - Seth Rogen

There, now you won't be able to get "Love will tear us apart" out of your head any more than I've been able to. That fucking thing has been playing intermittently in my mind since the seventh of September. Does that seem fair to you? Well, it is awesome. I finally knuckled to the Costanza pressure and bought a whole bunch of Joy Division from the iTunes music store. Did it legal, cuz I'm no asshole. And yet, I self-identify as "pirate." Clearly, something is amiss.

So what happened today: FUCK ALL!! Well no actually plenty happened, I had a fairly solid object lesson in how and why I do not want to go back to the mental space at work that I occupied prior to TIFF, and I think I did a pretty good job of wrestling out of that. But more important is the yesterday factor, wherein we shot the exteriors (and some of the interiors) for VCR 9. I scheduled the shoot for the Thanksgiving weekend because I wanted a bleak, cold, near-apocalyptic look. What did I get? 31 degrees and full sunshine, the hottest October 8 in the history of the world. How's that for being born under a bad star.

But anyways, the shooting was fruitful. We even... well, we went somewhere that we could technically have gotten in trouble for but we got our shots and got the hell out. I now have enough of the skeleton to actually start editing the thing, and I can spend the next few months picking up the other elements. Only one frame of the 9 feels week to me; I might come up with something better, and that "something better" might involve finger puppets, if I can find a way to tie those same puppets into the theme. We'll see.

I was totally going to drop myself on the couch and watch a couple of French flicks tonight, but the gorramned bloody film festival from hell is invading my DVD player yet again. Next apartment: no sharing. Sharing is wrong and causes cancer. There, I bet you didn't know that before you came here today. Tederick.com is all about the learning.