Motion City Soundtrack

I usually am.  Now that the record is done and Jesse’s wedding is over, my schedule is a little too free sometimes.  Madden 10 just came out and is already consuming too much of my life.

But, while I have such an open schedule, I thought I’d try and do some fun things.  The more bored I get, the more I am on Twitter.  I am going to try and have some contests here and there and give away some things.  I have lots of MCS related things in my apartment taking up space that are doing me no good.  Old drumsticks, posters, etc etc.  If you want any of this stuff, follow me at twitter.com/tonythaxton.  Sometime in the next week I’ll try and do something.  I’m unpredictable like that.

Today’s celebrity birthday, Steve Martin is 64.

So I shot a feature film this past weekend in just under 60 hours.  I’ve never been more sleep deprived in all my life.  My partner in crime Shane Nelson( http://omni-fusion.luun.tv/ ) co-starred, co-wrote, and co-directed the film with me.  Also, our friend Nels Lennes( http://www.nelslennes.com/ ) gave up his entire weekend, wife and child to co-star in this endeavor.  It was entirely awesome to steal shots form the Minneapolis Airport.  Security Guards were everywhere and apparently they just thought I was another irate traveler shouting into my cell phone.  We had stunt cars driven by non stunt drivers and photographed through sun roofs at top speed.  We traveled to Warped Tour and filmed the chaos within and behind the scenes.  Soooooo many people were extremely giving of their time and patience.  Dr. Shane Nelson is currently downloading the 30 plus hours of footage into his computer and will commence editing the project by the weeks end.  Hopefully the film will view like a Douglas Coupland novel reads(but not nearly as good, of corpse); 3 somewhat successful dudes, bitching about all the things they’re not doing as they hit and pass the 30 year mark.

In other news, I’ve started work on “Bad Jack” again.  I am going back to school in a few weeks and to prepare for the screenwriting classes I will be taking, I am trying to get a complete breakdown of the screenplay written.  Understand I have nearly a dozen versions of the script, but none are any good.  Using “North By Northwest” as a template, my teacher suggested I start fresh and make sure that “no one scene can be taken out of the script or else the script will fail.  If this happens, you know you have a good script.”  Does that make sense?

Also, I may be Producing a few songs for an actual band.  I don’t want to jinx myself, so I won’t mention their name just yet.  It’s hard to get work when you’re a total fucking junk show and a completely stubborn asshole that only wants to do things your way.  We’ll see what happens after the fist fights.

On my way to get my ass kicked by a Brazilian woman.  Dream come true.  Gonna get my one and only suit dry cleaned for Jesse Johnson’s Wedding and then read some Jane Fucking Austen.  Amen.

-Justin.