Daniel, my dear friend, and an investor in Disembody, arranged for a friend of his to read my stars and send me a chart recently, as we saw in an earlier post. He then thought maybe he could do some tarot readings for crew. Right now that looks unlikely, as he won’t be down South any time soon, but he did do a quick three card reading specific to Disembody for me last night over the internet.

“Okay, first the 10 of wands. It has been an almost overwhelming burden to undertake, but made lighter by spreading the work around and delegating. Next the 5 of wands. Lots of disputation, argumentation going on. But lively discussion and interaction, the nature of a rough and tumble game (like say basketball or a ballroom dance.) Lastly the 9 of swords. Ouch. Things will seem nightmarish. I could elaborate more on that, but it wouldn’t be pretty.

“Can you see why I’m deciding to give up doing tarot readings? Who wants to hear shit like that? I don’t think it is an accurate spread anyway. Disembody will be a triumph. Nighmarishness is always in the head, just remember that. It has no objective reality.

“I pulled one specifically for the premiere. It is the 10 of cups. Love, joy, fulfillment.

“Its all what you decide it is anyway.

“Dan”

Yeah, I think that is about right. The week we build, between the opening and the premiere should be nightmarish. I mean, the film will kind of suck if it isn’t, right? Where’s the dramatic arc, the tension, the insurmountable challenge overcome, if that week isn’t a nightmare? The nightmare will make the joy and fulfillment of the premiere all the sweeter.

LOL

Today Amy and I went and got the new investor pamphlets made. And I did a bit more work on drumming up funds.

And I got contracts from Janet to go over. I also bought three external hard drives to load with video for Skye, elise and Jonny. Skye and elise are familiarizing themselves with the footage so that if moments of the film need exposition, they can find the relevant Making Of footage quickly. Jonny needs the footage to set up our internet archive library.

Fortunately, I had Jonny on the phone as I was beginning the transfer process. I have been leaving all my drives formatted as Fat 32 so that they will move between Mac and PC (I am on PC, the editors are on Mac). This however is likely my hard drive problem, as Fat 32 is unstable with files over 4GB according to Jonny. Certainly, the drives won’t allow transfers of data over that size, so…

Now I’m editing the footage that is larger than that, and rendering it down to manageable chunks for transfer to a drive I’ll give Skye. He’ll then format one of the other new drives for Mac; transfer the footage from the Fat 32 drive; format a second drive and then transfer the footage over for elise. And from here on out, I’ll just send them every tape and file without capturing it onto my PC. The Fat 32 drive we’ll give Jonny and he’ll prolly copy the footage and then reformat the drive to NTFS.

Anyway, as it stands, I think I’ve salvaged all of the footage up to July 6. Everything from this last trip to SF may be gone. I suspect so, anyway. I think about 20 GB of material may be gone, if not forever, for awhile, cuz we can’t afford data recovery just for those meetings. All in all, it’s about 4 TB of drives down. This project was supposed to cost me everything, so I guess, careful what you wish for…

But, let’s close on a cheery note, Jonny is coming to LA for the first week of June!!!! Erin’s loss will be Disembody’s gain! Woohoo! We are going to be productive like nobody’s business! You don’t know Jonny, if you did, you’d know it’s possible we’ll just make the whole film that week. If Erin could come with, hell, we could make the film and all the ephemera, too!

Oh fuck, I was supposed to call Erin earlier this evening…