Better late than never, right? Had to get these images over to my web guru and designer, Mabel, for upload, after a rather chaotic weekend. First Halloween with the kids, then playing catch-up with work for both Pam and I on Saturday and Sunday, heading over to my Dad’s to catch the Giants wax the Cowboys Sunday afternoon, appointments on Monday, voting this morning at 7:00…just non-stop since late Thursday afternoon, when we first shot the pics.

As you can see, the tees are up, available for sale (hopefully, all the click-thru links work for each design, but if not, drop me a note via the Sightunseenpictures.com web site contact form or the ChantingMonks.com contact form and I will personally process your order and hook you up.

For those of you new to the blog, and there’s always some newbies checking in, The Bunker is my first feature film, starring director/bad-ass actor Terry M. West and newcomer Saskia Gonzalez. We’re readying to hit up the talk shows with copies, and finally get back on track to take it around to distribs, after too damned many delays to even go through. So, with the flick scheduled to air overseas in Europe sometime in the fall, there’s a commemorative pair of tee shirts (with yellow ink on black cotton and red ink on black cotton) the fine folks at HollyWoodLoser.com are printing up for us for a limited time only, and the tees that will be available for a lot longer, namely the white on black tee designs, and the tank tops (baby doll tees for you gals or the guys with gals in their lives will be available soon, so e-mail me directly if you wanna get in on that action early).

What I plan to do with the proceeds is begin financing my next cinematic effort, currently under-wraps but as I continue to squirrel away a few bucks here and there, I’ll be announcing more on that front. I’ve been sitting around waiting for my big drive to arrive from CA, both since I have a shoot coming up and need the space for my primary cutter, Liz, but also so I can root through the raw sound files from the European TV cut of the flick. The American version is certainly not gonna mimic the Euro broadcast version, which will not be on a network that allows for uncensored/uncut content, but as soon as I get to review those files, I’ll be able to finish up the overdue work on the American cut and begin taking it around. Would have been much preferable to have been doing this at the end of 2006 like I’d hoped, but we lost production people, our original sound designer bailed out on us without warning, other things came up and presented logistical problems, so now I’m just looking to cut through the remainder of the leftover bullshit, finish my cut, and begin shopping it. Back in 2006 when things should have been completed, we had a kickin’ economy and things were looking pretty good, but unfortunately, since the mid-term elections, well, you see what’s happened since *that* debacle. Gonna be a lot tougher to move a film now given peoples’ shrinking budgets and tightening of the belts on product we had good interest in, even with our unfinished cut, but oh well, what can you do? Plug on, right? Which is the plan. Figure out when or if that drive is gonna move off a desk across the country and get here, or maybe just move ahead without it.

I’m down to the wire on my crime novel, which I can’t wait to wrap up. The final push is upon me, and it feels great to have the finish line a few steps away. Dropped my bud Frank Wales a note the other nite to catch up on some other stuff of import going on in my life, and I am sure he, too, is anxiously awaiting the final revised chaps to soak through with ink from his red pen. Thanks, buddy, I appreciate all the work you’ve put in for me.

Can’t believe both Thanksgiving, and my next shoot (for a health care industry training video) are right around the corner. The NFL season is in week 9 now, Thursday night football is about to begin and of course, the Christmas rush. Chaos chaos and more chaos.

That being said, I got a Nelson DeMille book (Night Fall) sitting in the audio book player, I’ve just whipped up a new 2-litre batch of diet grape drink, my fingers are a little cramped from editing and some prose revision, and I think I’m gonna pack it in for a while and chill out. Check out the tee shirts, and maybe think about picking up some inexpensive new threads for a soon-to-be-hot indie flick, commemorating both the Euro release and the first feature film ever directed by a blind filmmaker, and you’ll get some freebies to go along with it. Christmas is, after all, less than 60 days away, so shop from the comfort of your computer, pick up a tee and get some extra booty for yourself or for the gift-givin’ season.

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Currently listening to: Your Roses Will Burn by The Wounded