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Filmmaker's Diary:
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The theatre is famous for its superstitions. You've heard them all before: don't whistle backstage; don't wish a person 'good luck'; don't say 'MacBeth' [Neditor: here's another one--don't tell people in 2001 that you're making a documentary about an awesome band, and then realize suddenly it's two years later]... To do any of these things is to tempt fate, anger the muse, and bring dire consequences down upon you. Which I guess is why I hesitate to report that everything is moving forward nicely since I've returned to work on the Suckumentary.
Fuck. Any second now, my editing system will explode. Or a huge electronic magnet will somehow fly over my apartment and erase all the tapes.
Now, intellectually, it's obvious that this 'fearing the evil spirits' tradition is silly and should just be ignored. However, as anyone involved with almost any theatrical performance will tell you, the stakes are usually so high that no one wants to take the chance. Except Penn and Teller, actually. They invite the wrathful theatre gods to smite them nightly, by turning to each other before walking on stage and saying aloud, "Good luck, MacBeth."
And since we should all aspire to be more like Penn and Teller, I'd like to report that everything is moving forward nicely since I've returned to work on the Suckumentary. I've been focused mostly on going through footage that I'd earlier deemed unusable for whatever reasons. Such as the Last Dinner, which features such bad sound problems. I hoped that looking at that stuff again after so much elapsed time would let me see it differently (yeah! That's why I've taken so much time... I needed perspective, and shit!) [As Soderbergh said, "Remember, kids, if you can get Don Cheadle in your movie, I would advise you to do it."]. Thankfully, I found that footage, as well as some other stuff, to be a lot better than I thought. So I'm just back to slapping things together. Hopefully, this week, I can capture onto my hard drives some footage that I haven't worked with yet and haven't even seen in a long time. That should make the fire a little hotter. I've also made it a priority to update the PC Website with some fresh clips from the workpile, and Ned has posted them all quicklike, so dig in.
That's all for now. Talk to you next week. Good Luck, MacBeth.
[Neditor: Since today's entry is so short, I'm including a drawing Alex did awhile ago that I never found a good place to display. It's his rendition, for some reason, of PopCanon as babies.]
