Blog 8: Band of Brother's
The balancing act now is in linking together those that can speak the same technical jargon and simply snip down the list so I can order whatever it is we have to possibly get here from CineElectic in Ardmore Studios, Bray, County Wicklow. Feeling this upper limit squeeze right now financially is not a great feeling, as it seems we are so close and yet? I have entered into the possible madness of a master cleanse right now to top it all off. Water, Grade B Maple Syrup, Lemon Juice, Cayenne Pepper, and that for as many days as I can, I might do 5 as I did that already during the summer. I feel way out of shape, like a slug, without any real or imagined exercise since at least last April, and smoking like a stink dog to boot. The excitement and anxiety of working on this the past two months gets me buzzing and I love to compliment that with contemplative cigarettes. But as of today that is getting kicked right the fuck out, as I am a SLOB and need to loose a stone and get mentally cleansed and physically capable of supporting, managing and entertaining a troop of about roughly 30 people. The state I am in right now is not good enough and I desperately need to get a handle on my inner health and well being.
This is going to be a serious test, no smoking, a minimum of 20 a day addiction, no drinking, and placing my body into the trials of a physical regime. Might go and make use of the gym a few miles up the road, and use their sauna everyday. Got to get militant and execute the fat clown within.
I have also had an issue with the Bank, as our company, SPIDERHOLE PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, is now set up with the CRO (company registrations office) this cost us 600 euro by the way, done by a very helpful individual named John Naughten, who has a corporate services company here in Tralee. But as I arrived into the Bank with our articles of memorandum for our bank manager to be, the company name was still not showing as signed over to Alan and I as directors, so the manager could not proceed, although we did get the tedious formal duties out from under our feet. As it happens by the next evening which was Thursday the 3rd of April, the CRO was showing that it had now changed the names of the company directors to our names, but alas yet another complication arose. The Bank does not buy its information directly from the CRO, so they cannot simply look into the site, which is a pay per view, they wait to see updates from their third party company, who buy their information every couple of days, and as Bank procedure is such, we still do not have a functioning back account. And what is more worrying is that we will not have a Visa card for possibly 5/6 days after the account opens, which I am hoping will be on Monday, and I want to lodge two cheques ASAP.
Today is Thursday the 10th of April, 10 days to go before we begin shooting. I have lost contact with my lawyer which is a little worrying as I need the contracts sorted, have been calling him and leaving messages the past two days, ZERO! I called all the agents yesterday to inform them that the contracts were being drawn up, which is true as Brian Gormley and I went over that, and said that I would e-mail them ASAP, they were all fine and seemingly in no rush anyway, COOL. I don’t think the potential investor Alan and I pitched to last week will come in somehow, I called him Tuesday and he said that he was sitting on the fence and needed to speak with his business partner, bad omen, he asked me to phone the following day, I did that, this time he was with a client, would call me back, worse omen. I will leave it now to Alan on his return from Holiday, as he knows the guy.
A great friend of mine is coming on board to help out over the course of the production and shoot, Kevin Goodman, my co-writer in the band DUCK that I formed in London back in April 2001 initially for a gig at the Kings Head organised by Charles Asprey and I, where we played covers from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy and AC/DC, we then went on to write original songs and so on. He is a great character and was involved in one of the short video sketches entitled ‘The Clone Brother’s’ that Daithi and I shot back in Daithi’s apartment, we did a number of these and they are the little seeds that got the ball rolling on this project. You can see these on my my space page www.myspace.com/artfinger.
When we made our little sketches I would upload them to Youtube and send the links to friends, Daniel being one of them. He always raved about how much he enjoyed these idiotic episodes, and I think felt utterly frustrated at his position which has ground to a terrible halt from that previous hectic summer flying about scouting locations and being limoed left right and centre. I insisted he come over and join us for a few days and we all knuckle down and make one short each over a three day period, he was excited so I booked him a thicket and now here we are, nine weeks later very close to making his first feature film. Kevin Goodman will drive for us in London amongst other things, we are hiring a silver VW camper van as one of the major props, Kev will drive this at the crack of dawn and pick up the actors form their various addresses, and Daniel from his, and get them to the set. The plan is when and if we get a deal on a hotel, that the crew, including Diathi and I, will all be staying at the one hotel from whence we will be making our way to the locations.
This is going to be a serious test, no smoking, a minimum of 20 a day addiction, no drinking, and placing my body into the trials of a physical regime. Might go and make use of the gym a few miles up the road, and use their sauna everyday. Got to get militant and execute the fat clown within.
I have also had an issue with the Bank, as our company, SPIDERHOLE PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, is now set up with the CRO (company registrations office) this cost us 600 euro by the way, done by a very helpful individual named John Naughten, who has a corporate services company here in Tralee. But as I arrived into the Bank with our articles of memorandum for our bank manager to be, the company name was still not showing as signed over to Alan and I as directors, so the manager could not proceed, although we did get the tedious formal duties out from under our feet. As it happens by the next evening which was Thursday the 3rd of April, the CRO was showing that it had now changed the names of the company directors to our names, but alas yet another complication arose. The Bank does not buy its information directly from the CRO, so they cannot simply look into the site, which is a pay per view, they wait to see updates from their third party company, who buy their information every couple of days, and as Bank procedure is such, we still do not have a functioning back account. And what is more worrying is that we will not have a Visa card for possibly 5/6 days after the account opens, which I am hoping will be on Monday, and I want to lodge two cheques ASAP.
Today is Thursday the 10th of April, 10 days to go before we begin shooting. I have lost contact with my lawyer which is a little worrying as I need the contracts sorted, have been calling him and leaving messages the past two days, ZERO! I called all the agents yesterday to inform them that the contracts were being drawn up, which is true as Brian Gormley and I went over that, and said that I would e-mail them ASAP, they were all fine and seemingly in no rush anyway, COOL. I don’t think the potential investor Alan and I pitched to last week will come in somehow, I called him Tuesday and he said that he was sitting on the fence and needed to speak with his business partner, bad omen, he asked me to phone the following day, I did that, this time he was with a client, would call me back, worse omen. I will leave it now to Alan on his return from Holiday, as he knows the guy.
A great friend of mine is coming on board to help out over the course of the production and shoot, Kevin Goodman, my co-writer in the band DUCK that I formed in London back in April 2001 initially for a gig at the Kings Head organised by Charles Asprey and I, where we played covers from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy and AC/DC, we then went on to write original songs and so on. He is a great character and was involved in one of the short video sketches entitled ‘The Clone Brother’s’ that Daithi and I shot back in Daithi’s apartment, we did a number of these and they are the little seeds that got the ball rolling on this project. You can see these on my my space page www.myspace.com/artfinger.
When we made our little sketches I would upload them to Youtube and send the links to friends, Daniel being one of them. He always raved about how much he enjoyed these idiotic episodes, and I think felt utterly frustrated at his position which has ground to a terrible halt from that previous hectic summer flying about scouting locations and being limoed left right and centre. I insisted he come over and join us for a few days and we all knuckle down and make one short each over a three day period, he was excited so I booked him a thicket and now here we are, nine weeks later very close to making his first feature film. Kevin Goodman will drive for us in London amongst other things, we are hiring a silver VW camper van as one of the major props, Kev will drive this at the crack of dawn and pick up the actors form their various addresses, and Daniel from his, and get them to the set. The plan is when and if we get a deal on a hotel, that the crew, including Diathi and I, will all be staying at the one hotel from whence we will be making our way to the locations.
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