Blue Tooth Blues

Since my "smash 'n' grab" incident, I have been feeling undoubtedly paranoid. At first I thought it was just because I was working hard, getting no sleep, and my brother said he often felt this way when he became over-tired. But I've been well-rested lately and still feel pretty insecure.

When I'm lying in bed, I have an overwhelming feeling that some masked assailant is watching, waiting to shoot me in the head with a shotgun. Or if I walk past the kitchen, my stomach churns at the inkling that another attacker is hovering by the fridge to taunt me.

Of course there's nobody there. But the feeling still engulfs me at every remote moment of oportunity. Don't even get me started about driving on my own!

And the worst of it all (call me shallow, I don't care) is that I've been using my mom's phone ever since and I have resorted back to typing out my sms's. What a mission. Every logical bone in my body says I should let it go and use the time I would be using to type out the useless form of communication, doing charity work or something, but for the life of me I can't stop.

And That's a Wrap!

Sincere apologies for not posting for so long. Those who had any contact with me during the process of making Glycerine, know that I had no life other than the movie. For almost two months all I did was edit. Every minute of every hour of every day. I stopped only to pee and sleep (and that only lasted about 3 hours a night/morning). Even showering seemed to take up too much of my time so cleansing became a rare occurence (my teeth were always brushed, though). I didn't have time to stop and eat so the ordeal became subject to much multi-tasking.

But it's all over now! All my effort was worthwhile as I was nominated for Best Cinematography and won for Best Editing. The film won all the prizes including script, directing, cinematography, behind the scenes and best movie.

Although only a select few and I know the truth about the movie, such as the prizes which were not deserved, I'm proud non-the-less. We've been asked to send it into the Cannes and Toronto film festivals and it's going to be shown at Grahamstown next year.

I'm now off to Port Alfred for the first time in three years. I was ecstatic to find out that a whole bunch of my old friends will be there, I was afraid that they may have all moved on and left, but from what I hear they are all there and share my enthusiasm at my visit.

I'll be there for about 2 weeks so I won't be posting then either, but I will definitely have a lengthy report back when I return!