And it's about time. The raw footage for my film project, The Mustache, has been sitting on my hard drive since late May. Due to a move and various other factors, I'd put the editing on hold. I idly loaded it up again yesterday only to find that my last save was corrupted. Frustrated, I began reimplementing all the changes I had made to the end. Then I went back and tightened some opening scenes. Then I found myself actually excited about it again.

So I'm hoping to have a rough cut complete within the week. Then I'll send it off to my good friend, WiL Whitlark, to score. I've attached a little mockup promotional graphic I prepared for The Mustache. Disregard the "Coming Summer 2006" line. I apparently missed that.

Sometimes, I think I work better with deadlines. When we were editing The Great Sandwich Adventures, I had a pressing deadline - the same day photography wrapped. And I'm mostly happy with that cut. When we did Hopscotch Hotshots, we didn't really put the hustle on till Patrick announced that he wanted a December screening and we scrambled our asses to make the finished product. Left with time to tweak the hell out of it, with no outside pressure to finish in a timely fashion, I apparently can't trust myself. Sometimes I find myself wishing I had a personal assistant to carry around a clipboard and inform me of how I could be making better use of my time. Granted, I should probably work on policing myself better; but when will I do that?