playing catch-up

so it's been a few weeks. this is due to the fact that i got a job. six days a week. then i come home, but on a kubrick film, and fall asleep. it has been difficult. 

so i'll catch you up on my world.

a few weeks ago the weakerthans came home to do two shows with the constantines. a few years ago, they did this same tour, calling it the 'rolling tundra review' both times around. both times i saw were john k samson's birthday. strange coincidence. i got to take pictures for uptown. here are some of the good ones.

then we had the university of winnipeg student film festival. a few people won all the awards, except for the audience favourite, which we won. chad said a few things at the podium then i said a few things. literally too many people to thank. i suppose we should finish the film so that we can send it to other festivals. though i figure this will not happen. it will collect digital dust, just like the others.

after the screening, darcy fehr (was supposed to play john in our film) and andrew nolan (did play john in our film) took jen and i out for drinks. darcy says it is important to celebrate. he said he'd like to get 'mr writer' (our feature that i wrote) back on track. it was a great time. then on the friday night dave brown (the gun guy) got to see the film. i enjoyed watching it with the second audience, different reactions, etc. i was uneasy on the first night it showed (not just cuz all the friends/family/cast/crew were seeing it, but simply because it looks weird on the big screen and not on the little mac that i love right here). so the audience all seemed to like it, but i was hoping for bigger laughs and i suppose i don't like attention either, it makes me uncomfortable. 

another thing i don't like is unwanted encouragement. you know the type, when people try to hype you up because they think you're worried or they think you think that you can't do something so they hype you up all 'hey don't worry it'll be okay' and you're all 'i thought i was gonna be, now i'm not so certain'. 

anyways, i went out for drinks the other night with aaron hughes, hadn't seen him since we shot '...chuck forgets' over two years ago. we caught up, complained about things, discussed shoots and directors and his thoughts on me adapting certain books and then he said he was moving back to BC for a while (or for good). either way, i was stoked to maybe write something for him in the near future, but oh well. anyway. it was raining that night. we went to the fox and the hound. it was a good time.

got to start my new job two weeks ago. lots of pressure. you see, i've started as a scuba diving instructor. this is difficult because a) i have intense sinus problems, i almost died in grade five and b) i don't like people very much, so teaching them how to breath underwater is quite difficult. 

i've been nothing but tired because of adjusting my sleep schedule. i'm so out of it lately. sorry if you haven't seen me around. i'm not there.

i think i need to go watch rushmore because i've been listening to her and it gets me in that type of mood. i also just noticed that she has some margot tennenbaum paintings on her walls in one of her videos. my heart skips a beat.

-nick