Septembermorrow of Spiritual Warriors Day 9
reflecting on what occurred yesterday I couldn’t help but laugh every time i remembered doing scene seven in the bathroom. true team work came out yesterday and memories were built and bonded.
zach embraced me in a hug on our first day of shooting it was unexpected and a little funny to me, but really the whole day was golden.
the night before i rushed around collecting the bong, the pinata & something i can’t really recall now, but i knew it wasn’t enough, i still needed to go to the grocery, but there wasn’t enough time before i met with mason and gibby (and allan (mason’s friend who looks like a really old dracula)) to go over their lines in scene 8 and 10 and to discuss the armor.
to which gibby described how he wanted to string together a mormon book vest. i think its a great idea.
we also discussed blocking, so i’ll have to switch up my storyboards a bit to go over.
after the readthru i head to sleep, and get about two hours
then i head to work at 11pm, talk to sarah, check one guest in, watch my show, and brainstorm the following shoot, i try to paint a banana inside of a condom and realize it looks nothing, and will look nothing like a penis, so i’m really wanting to get some things before i even go to bed. halley comes in to work early and i teach her how to set up breakfast. i ask her to watch the desk so i can exit ten minutes early at 6:50am
I put the pinata in the van and drive to walmart and then to party zone and then to Michael’s. walmart is where i hallucinate a bit, the objects out of the corner of my eyes are moving, dark shadows, when i look again they’re inanimate objects, and it must be the fluorescent lights because i should be asleep, but i keep pushing myself regardless. I can’t find anything, but can find everything in wal mart, the store’s too fucking big, and hard to find what i need and it takes too damn long to find what i want to find. i become increasingly impatient and want people to point things out to me instead of me struggling to find things.
i can’t find streamers so i drive where i think party city is but am very sourly disappointed that its not next to the japanese restaurant like i thought, but then again as i’m exiting that ‘center’ i find it across the street at disc replay. i park the car , walk in, and ask the guy setting up the halloween sections where the streamers are b’c patience is fucked. he directs me to aisle 9. i find it and get in line. i’m super tired and the kid in front of me in the shopping cart has a striking resemblance to Danny from The Shining movie, and it weirds me out.
He might see this or something else akin because he looks to me and just starts crying, a terror takes his eyes and i’m not sure what he sees, but wonder if kids can see ghosts because i’m jus so out of it. i buy green, purple, & red streamers and then drive to michael’s
ask the shop guy there immediately and he takes me to the sculpy. i buy the moderate size sculpy and head immediately home. traffic isn’t nearly as bad as i thought it was going to be, because i get home relatively on time. i text zach, mason, & gibby that i’m moving the shoot to 4pm so i can get more sleep. but of course i don’t fall asleep until 11, and only get three hours of sleep. i can’t sleep, i just lay there once i wake
more or less right after i wake to take a piss, i can’t stop thinking about how i have to make a more convincing penis out of sculpy.
i make eggs, scoop up the broken egg shells, make green slime (tho we don’t need it until scene 9 (so lord knows why i did it then)) but i paint my first penis and it is successful as fuck.
zach said he was going to go early to setup lights but i end up getting there before mason or zach.
mason doesn’t need me to pick him up in the van, because he drives over his vw, but has broken up the ky coffee table so he can transport it. i’m psyched at everyone’s immediate go to action.
we’re planning to shoot scene 2, 3, 4, and 7 first. so we have to set up every stage/scene at the same time.
we don’t want to miss out on day light for scene 2 so we set up the lights in scene 2 and 7 first.
mason gets to work on the wall with the 8ft x 13ft jungle scene. i get to work on sculpting another dick and gibby is costuming up. his hair is combed back, but i tell him to ruffle it up. (even tho i know his best intentions are he’s trying to get into another character other than himself, but it just looks better)
i put some three legged race on pandora to get hyped but he doesn’t hear it because of the bathroom fan. instead its the next song on pandora picks for us and it drives everyone crazy so gibbs changes it to the mystikal station.
so we’re all listening to rap as we prep for STZ SHOOT DAY ONE.
Hannah isn’t home yet, but we’ve moved the couch and set up most of scene 2, 3, & 7 by the time she gets home. She starts on her day of the dead makeup and i practice the latex wound on my arm. it doesn’t look great even after i cover it in fake blood.
Mason comes in and dices out a better design and we duplicate it on Hannah’s shoulder. Hannah is surprisingly cool with everything that we do and her acting chops come into play in scene 3 and 2, too which i’m pleasantly surprised.