Balls and Walnuts
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What’s next with my movie-making career?
I must admit, it was fun relearning the Pinnacle Studio video editing software. Close to two years old, my magnum opus, while still up on YouTube, sadly lacks a soundtrack. I was unwise enough to give credits for the various sound clips I used, and that led to YouTube trashing my whole audio file. The video is still up but WTF? Like any of the jokes work without audio?
Which reminds me . . . if any of my Crescent City friends have the CD I made them and can send me a copy, let me know. I’d be grateful. I can’t seem to reconstruct the video from Pinnacle.
But what should I do next? I haven’t tried grabbing scenes of movie DVDs; if I can do that, then I can create my very own mash-ups. Having just suffered through Drag Me To Hell (we fast-forwarded through most of it, but our suffering was quite real nevertheless), I’m of a mind to create a movie trailer that makes Sam Raimi’s flick look like an unlikely gay rom-com featuring the relationship between the protagonist and the old gypsy lady. Yes, I know, it’s kinda been done before, but 32,447 Brokeback send-offs demonstrate that if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing over and over again.
I’ve thought about filming “The Sights of Bakersfield”: Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace, the Fox building, the big “BAKERSFIELD” banner, and then cut after cut of drive-through burger joints, for which the town rivals Modesto. But as a fresh immigrant to Bako, I have to wonder . . . is it too soon to ridicule my new home?
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