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April 25, 2005
Quickies: April 25, 2005
This blog post will take up space that is sorely being underused on my gradually-fading blog...
Spent the whole weekend battling car trouble. It simply wouldn't start. Yep, there's nothing like getting towed from Signal Mountain to a garage in Hixson on a Sunday morning. Had to have the starter replaced and was, of course, given a list of other things I "should get fixed as soon as possible." Suggestive selling occurs in ALL businesses, folks.
Our Chattanooga city league softball team -- after two horrific preseason tournament defeats -- had a solid practice last week and is ready for the regular season opener this Thursday night. We'll see how much Dan Johnson really loves softball in the coming months/years, as our season was delayed for two weeks due to a repeated lack of available playing fields.
Our team has had trouble getting enough people to show up so far -- limiting how much we can play with batting orders, positions, etc. -- but I think we are locking down on a group of guys that will help us win more than we lose. The fact that our shorstop should, at least, be playing minor league ball is a definite plus, and I made an adjustment in my approach at the plate last week which should add 50 feet to every ball I hit.
With the oft-discussed "On The Other Hand" compilation DVD all sketched out and ready for construction, I have gone ahead and sketched out plans for a "Faces" compilation DVD, as well. The "Faces" disc may wind up having more extras that the OTOH stuff, mainly due to the fact that there are more extras (live footage, photos, articles, audio, etc.) from that period (2000-2001) that have actually survived.
I will be aggressively editing -- and possibly re-shooting -- selected sections of the "Faces" material in order to clean it up (better pictures, graphics, etc.) for presentation on DVD. Just like the OTOH stuff, complete pieces will sit alongside selected bits and clips to form a fast-moving, as-entertaining-as-possible overview of the show.
Planned included segments and bits include: Nathan at Tolsun's on Christmas, All About Some Brian, Black Friends, Jerry Peter's New Age Guitar commercial, Happy Boy Shampoo, Interview with David, Nathan's Old School, Mayoral Running Race 2001, Literacy infomercial, The Hidden History of Chattanooga, Voting is Fun, E! True Hollywood Story: Jonathan Lipnicki, and much, much more.
Brief, accompanying websites for each TV show are being brainstormed right now, and each of the DVDs will eventually be made available for purchase (for a HUGELY reduced price) through them.
I have made a promise to myself to not move on to any new projects until the existing stuff is properly presented for posterity's sake. If anybody on the tech/video side of the universe would like to contribute to construction of the dvds or websites, your help would be much appreciated.
It looks like Mesh and Josiah have backed our of going to BlogNashville next week, but John Bailes and Joe Lance are still going (to the best of my knowledge) and my wife has made special arrangements to spend the weekend with her friend Jenni at Jenni's parents' house in Brentwood so that I can attend and sit in classrooms and listen to people like Glenn Reynolds talk about the "blogosphere" and "how new media is changing the world." Or so I'm guessing. Heck, it's free! Should be fun.
The re-formed Dinosaur Jr. will be playing at the Variety Playhouse on July 8. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. I've downloaded QT and MP3 versions of their reunion last week on "The Late, Late Show." They played "The Lung." It was reun-i-riffic.
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