Last post, I talked about how I ran into a crazy woman who told me “If I saw my son kissing a gay man, I’d cut off both their heads and hope that they’d hit the ground at the same time.”
Well I ran into her again! She had more words for us. So this time, I took a picture of her.
I went to Best Buy today to buy some hard drives for the Rice Tea movie. The way back by bus involves a stop over at the local Elmvale bus station.
While waiting at the station, my boyfriend was resting his head on my shoulders. He then wandered off to check the schedules. At this point, a crazy woman approached me. She said, and I quote,
If I saw my son kissing a gay man, I’d cut off both their heads [woman does slicing motion] and hope that they’d hit the ground at the same time.
Jay overhears this and comes over. I reply “I don’t care because I love him.” The crazy woman wanders off. We hadn’t kissed, but if there was any time to do it, this was it. I look at my boyfriend – “kiss?” And he gives me a great smooch. The woman is appalled and makes a grunting sound that would make Chewbaca proud. I then yell out “We can French kiss if you want!”
Artist’s Impression of Said Crazy Woman
There were young people by us, no older than 18. They laughed. So did we. The woman proceeded to tell the strangers around her about how horrible people we were. No point in getting upset over her, she evidently had some screws missing.
I just designed the emblem for Confcon 2010 for PhreakerD7 and ThoughtPhreaker. Hopefully it’ll be to their liking.
So I’m at the stage now where I’m procuring equipment for the main shoot in mid-late July. Over the last few days, I’ve purchased about $1,500 of hardware. I’m hoping to keep the final costs to under $5,000 – including costumes, travel costs, and a constant stream of food to keep the volunteer-actors happy.
The biggest expense was on today’s item: an HD camera. The camera I chose is the Panasonic HDC-TM700, which seems to be the spiritual successor to the Canon HV20. Among the qualities I needed was its ability to shoot at 24 frames per second, good low-light handling, and solid state memory.
When I’m not looking at hardware to get, I spend the rest of my time editing the script. I finished the first draft, and I’m now cutting down and editing superfluous bits that are expensive to shoot in order to cut down on the time required to organize everything. I’m also paying particular attention to the dynamic of the scenes, and making sure that they’re the right amount of time. Some of them were too short, others irrelevant or too drawn out.
As a side note, I can’t call the movie “Rice Tea.” I need a title that gives a better idea as to what the movie is about; something that’ll make the target crowd (geeks) more interested in seeing it. Do you have any suggestions? I’m all ears.
While I was waiting a prescription to be filled out at a pharmacy the other day, I heard the full conversation of a woman berating a worker for what was entirely the woman’s fault. She was insulting the employee, raising her voice, and generally failing at being an adult.
She walked past me after her tantrum was over. I let her know what I thought of her behaviour. She wasn’t pleased, and continued walking on.
A minute later I hear her high heels walking through the store. She was looking for me. She was quite angry, and asked if I worked at the store. I told her I didn’t. When she failed to succeed in belittling me in a manner she deemed satisfying, she stormed off.
I realize this wasn’t any of my business. However, it’s not right for people to insult others like that, and those workers in the interest of self-preservation are prohibited from standing up for themselves. Someone had to.