Pat Dollard

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7:24 A.M.

Been up all night finishing an episode that has to be delivered today. More brain-dead than usual. Have to finish another one in just a few hours.

12:01 P.M.

Losin my in’ mind here. Havin to spend $500.00 to have someone get on a plane and hand deliver the two episodes by tonight, and I’m still having some technical difficulties getting the second one knocked out. LOL. All I can do is keep on chooglin’…

6:37 P.M.

Sorry for all the non-posting today, y’all, but I’ve been on an edit spree that began last night and will go until tomorrow morning. Should be able to make some contributions on breaks tonight…

8:47 P.M.

I’m making a masterpiece. Says me. I don’t know if America is ready for the story of the dedicated, willing warrior with a responsible and mature love for killing. Early in one episode, a Marine who’s face is the embodient of a cheub says, ( he looks twelve, and you can tell this is a good kid with a heart of gold ) he says, “I couln’t really say I believe in killing, but there’s people here who need to be put in the ground. Not a hint of anger, bravado, cuteseyness, or mugging for the camera. Says it just like a straight fact, with a sense of conviction. He looks like everyone’sw neighbor. I wonder if stuff like this is going to surprise and freak some people out. And that’s a mild example of a type and level of human thought and behavior that civilians have no experience with, and are probably just not going to know how to take from this. As Matt warned the world about YA: “Be careful what you wish for”. It’s a study of the darker truths of the world and human nature that people don’t much like to talk about openly, as it is a story of this war. I’m curioser and curioser about how people are going to react. Life and conversations on the precipice of death while being hunted by the devil, are very interesting things indeed. At least to me.

8:59 P.M.

Now keep in mind I’m a no-trained newbie with limited natural talent, so a lot of this is gonna just plain suck, but I think the gold within is going to make it all worthwhile to everyone. I’m filming Marines, for Christ’s sake, that should speak highly of it enough. I still stand by my masterpiece claim, giant flaws and all.

Oh, and June was the last request from Showtime, btw.

9:13

I’ve been awake and working for over 29 hours now, so as far as my last and future posts of the evening go, I can blather whatever I want with legititmate impunity.

9:45 P.M.

This gets posted for one reason and one reason alone – a single lyric: “Stick out your can, I’m the garbage man”. Second runner-up lyric: “Just what you need when your down in the dumps, one-half hillbilly, one-half punk”. And of course, “If you can’t dig me, you can’t dig nothing.” The Cramps were never really a punk band, they were comedians, with a good look for the times, and the ability to make everybody think they were some sort of “untouchable” hipsters. when they were really just a bunch of goofball NY rockabilly nerds. If you’re a good marketer, America is your oyster.

Besides, anybody who writes a song called “I Can’t Find My Mind” deserves some kudos. Anyway, they’ve just always amused me, cos I never took their whole freak rock thing seriously. Always thought it was one of the best entertainment jokes going. And they propped it all up by being really, really good Rockabilly musicians, which is an increasingly lost American genre that could use some attention again.