what's going on....
We continue to work our selves crazy arranging screenings and playing the self-distribution game. jumping off bridges will be traveling quite a bit in the coming weeks, and so will some of the Storie Girls.
One of our associate producers, Leslie, has been working on a deal in DC all summer. Note that each screening requires numerous phone calls, emails and followups along with lots of luck and persistance. There are no guarentees, there are lots of false starts, and there are days you feel like you will never get one nailed down. Well, today was a day of victory for our dear Leslie. We learned our film will be sponsored by the NIH, the National Institute of Health, a huge government agency with lots of contacts, connections and cache.
This is huge and will get our film in front of huge, important, national counseling organizations.
Their email said, "Everyone agreed at the meeting that your group has created a film that is needed by the mental health professional community."
Pretty nice to hear that you're needed.
I'm tired today, woke early for coffee with a friend, dashed to an interview than to Trinity and then home to work and mail screeners everywhere and then a Storie meeting. It's time to curl up on the couch with project runway and go to bed early and start all over again. Tomorrow I'm doing a radio interview at 9 a.m. and then Tracy and I rock over to an hour with Matt Daley at KOOP, and then, well something else happens...busy times.
I sense our hard work will pay off...
and now a funny car story...
I took my car in to a body shop for some minor body repair, after a minor fender bender. I picked up my car and noticed a bad noise, grindy noises are never something you ignore, I learned that long ago. I took my car back to the body shop and asked the guy if there was possibly something that was too tight, not tight enough, not quite at spec, etc. He said, that was impossible. He was incredulous. How silly I was to think such a thing, how little I knew about cars, in fact, he didn't even hear any noise from my engine at all.
I told him the noise wasn't present until I picked up my car. He just said, "huh, well, it wasn't anything we did, it's just not possible." Then he gave me a smile that said, "I know more about cars than you do, and that will always be true. I'm right, you're wrong."
I drove away, not happy, a bit steamed and I drove right to the Honda guys where my service manager checked in the car. I got my run in by running back home which chilled me out and put this all in perspective a bit, it's a good thing because later that afternoon, I got a phone call from the Honda guys. It seems that someone, like the body shop guys maybe, had left a big wrench inside my car, somewhere between the transmission and the stabilizer thinymajig (I paraphrase). There was no damage to my car, they just thought it was kind of odd.
This sent a thrill through me. Kat drove me to pick up my car and we stopped by the body shop on the way. I waved the guy over to my window and told him there was a vise grip with his name on it at the Honda place.
Getting your car fixed: Cost of the deductible
Driving around to find about the noise: slightly frustrating
Telling the body shop guy he left his vice grip in my car: priceless!
file under film, life in general
One of our associate producers, Leslie, has been working on a deal in DC all summer. Note that each screening requires numerous phone calls, emails and followups along with lots of luck and persistance. There are no guarentees, there are lots of false starts, and there are days you feel like you will never get one nailed down. Well, today was a day of victory for our dear Leslie. We learned our film will be sponsored by the NIH, the National Institute of Health, a huge government agency with lots of contacts, connections and cache.
This is huge and will get our film in front of huge, important, national counseling organizations.
Their email said, "Everyone agreed at the meeting that your group has created a film that is needed by the mental health professional community."
Pretty nice to hear that you're needed.
I'm tired today, woke early for coffee with a friend, dashed to an interview than to Trinity and then home to work and mail screeners everywhere and then a Storie meeting. It's time to curl up on the couch with project runway and go to bed early and start all over again. Tomorrow I'm doing a radio interview at 9 a.m. and then Tracy and I rock over to an hour with Matt Daley at KOOP, and then, well something else happens...busy times.
I sense our hard work will pay off...
and now a funny car story...
I took my car in to a body shop for some minor body repair, after a minor fender bender. I picked up my car and noticed a bad noise, grindy noises are never something you ignore, I learned that long ago. I took my car back to the body shop and asked the guy if there was possibly something that was too tight, not tight enough, not quite at spec, etc. He said, that was impossible. He was incredulous. How silly I was to think such a thing, how little I knew about cars, in fact, he didn't even hear any noise from my engine at all.
I told him the noise wasn't present until I picked up my car. He just said, "huh, well, it wasn't anything we did, it's just not possible." Then he gave me a smile that said, "I know more about cars than you do, and that will always be true. I'm right, you're wrong."
I drove away, not happy, a bit steamed and I drove right to the Honda guys where my service manager checked in the car. I got my run in by running back home which chilled me out and put this all in perspective a bit, it's a good thing because later that afternoon, I got a phone call from the Honda guys. It seems that someone, like the body shop guys maybe, had left a big wrench inside my car, somewhere between the transmission and the stabilizer thinymajig (I paraphrase). There was no damage to my car, they just thought it was kind of odd.
This sent a thrill through me. Kat drove me to pick up my car and we stopped by the body shop on the way. I waved the guy over to my window and told him there was a vise grip with his name on it at the Honda place.
Getting your car fixed: Cost of the deductible
Driving around to find about the noise: slightly frustrating
Telling the body shop guy he left his vice grip in my car: priceless!
file under film, life in general
3 Comments:
BEAUTIFUL. the perfect end to the story.
Stacy, I just noticed that the Sunday Statesman's TV section has Michael Emerson as the cover story, chosen because his character Henry Gale is a big deal on 'Lost' this year.
It sure seems like there should be a way to get Jumping Off Bridges noticed by the fans of Henry Gale. Wish I knew some TV bloggers, but I'm a garden blogger.
Good luck,
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Ahhh the taste of sweet revenge! Good story! Andserves the jerk right! Really nice site and glad I dropped by! Thanks for sharing with me! I am so glad there are people like you around! There are a lot of Christians (people) who "fret and worry" over every little thing and to do so is also known as DOUBT and to be in doubt is not to have the faith that GOD gave unto us so therefore it is SIN! Wow! What a grabber huh!? Yes, GOD says that we are "full of seed". Pregnant is the word HE used for us. All we have to do is allow HIS word to come forth in us and we bring forth HIS children in us (HIS FRUITS) and we become more like HIM in all we do and say! You know the days are passing very fast as GOD said that the "time shall be shortened" in the last days, remember? Well we are there and the last days are upon us, so these days keep turning into weeks and weeks into months and years before we know it, they're gone again and soon there shall be no more as we know them! You know though if you stop and think about it and recall the pleasures of heaven and the peace it brings and all of the love and joy that abound in HIS presence, and if we are HIS child, then WHY should we fear it? Some people do fear the end! It should be the very greatest blessing to us! Something to be "looked forward" to with greatest excitement! Well, you stay safe and be blessed and I will pray all will be well with you always. In HIS love, Katie
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