Edgy and dull...

For the past two weeks, pretty much since the minute we finished the latest version of the cut, I've been feeling terrible - some horrible virus/infection that has left me with a horrible barking cough like old man Steptoe as well as aching muscles, constant headaches and a relentless fever. At nights I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head - fuck, I've got Springsteenitis. It's horrible, I've been trying to carry on working, but I feel like an old man, just lying in bed and blah blah bla-blah blah

Yeah, well, enough moaning. Tomorrow I'm off to Vancouver for two weeks for Jeanie's brother's wedding, so work-wise I'm going to be on a bit of a hiatus. As far as 'Mum and Dad' goes, we've had really good feedback from the execs for the last cut, although they do have some fine-cutting notes (which we don't have yet, unfortunately, or we could have got on before I went away...), so we're going to have to wait a couple of weeks to get back into it. It all feels like things have slowed down, but I guess it's still relatively speedy. It's just that people keep asking me how it's going and when they can see something, and I'm even boring myself with saying, 'soon, soon...'. It's just difficult to keep the same level of concentration on the project when you're not actually working on it, it's just running in the background. Hopefully, we'll be done by Halloween...

We found out the other day that 'Deliver Me' has got into the Munich Short Film Festival Bunter Hund, which is great news. I kind of feel like the film's been a bit orphaned - I had to go off to do 'Mum and Dad' as soon as we'd finished (before the grade was even done - Lucas had to bring it over to set so that I could approve it), Tina's been working pretty much constantly as well, and Em-media don't seem to be that behind the film - maybe because it fell between two Development Execs, so no-one really felt ownership of it. It's such a different film to 'Mum and Dad', but in a lot of ways probably more of a development of the other shorts I've done. I"ve had some really good feedback on it - but then I've also had really good friends tell me it's 'not their cup of tea'. I hope it finds an audience somewhere.

When I get back, I'm hoping to start work on the next script 'Empire of Flesh' - we've applied for some development money, and hopefully if that comes through I'll actually be able to afford to do it. If not, store vacancies at Lidl start beckoning again...