So Very, Very Tired...

It's 11:00 am. I've been up for just over an hour. I didn't go to bed until after 5:00 am, shortly after I got home from LA. I was up there for the last part of the weekend (Sunday and Monday) for Media Fellowship International at CBS Studio Center, as well as the premiere of the new Phil Donlon short film "The Main In The Silo" featuring Ernie Hudson and a voice over by my brilliant friend, Doug Jones (whom shares his birthday with me, for those that I haven't told a million times already).

The film was beautifully shot (they used Kodak daytime film at night and got an interesting composition) and the presentation by Ernie was just phenomenal and powerful. I loved Doug's comment during the Q&A, when he said, "Anyone that knows my body of work realizes just how ironic it is that I was brought on to just be the voice."

While I was watching the film, I couldn't help, but think how Doug's echoed voice sounded exactly the same as in the final scene of my 2004 short film, Three Lives. :-/

Where the film lacks is the running time. 60 minutes was actually too long. Yes, it fit the music (which was intense and is actually the Vertigo soundtrack), but the story drags and I wanted to get on with what was going on. Not just repeat the nightmare scene multiple times. And then I felt as if the film didn't have any personal resolution. I didn't get the ending as easily as I probably should have. My friend and guest for the evening, the beautiful and talented actress, Bethany Watrous, echoed similar sentiments on the running time, but felt there was more of a resolution than I did.

After the film, we drove down to The Spanish Kitchen on La Cienega for the after party and had a great time chatting, shmoozing, and having people mistake us for a married couple (okay, that was one person when we were still at the theater, but it sounds better to be placed here). Oddly enough, Doug was the one with the biggest crowd around him for the longest, but we did finally get a few minutes with him to hug with him and say hi.

By the time I dropped Bethany off and began the long drive home, it was around midnight and I was already emotionally and physically spent. I should have stayed with friends up in LA a second night, but I needed to be back here for a 10:00 am phone call. I slept for a couple of hours in the rest area near Camp Pendelton (which I almost didn't make it to thanks to my swerving) and pulled in around 4:30 am. Had to remove clothes that I didn't take with me on my trip from the bed, left a quick comment on someone's MySpace profile so I wouldn't forget, then went to bed.

Each trip up there makes me want to get my own place. If only I could afford it. :-(

By the way, if you aren't reading my production blog for "Dr. von Kaiser", there was an awesome thing that happened to me at Starbucks yesterday (during the brief time I was back in San Diego in the middle of my LA trip... at least I didn't drive that leg) and I blogged about it. Here's the link: http://blog.drvonkaiser.com/2008/04/trip-to-starbucks.html