monday market chicken omelette

Monday...

I just finished my early early morning promo gig shift... started at 6A...finished at 1P...now I'm over at Solar de Cahuenga... a cool little Hollywood coffe shop on Franklin. I figured I would try and sit myself down with a big iced coffee and try to get some writing done before I crash and burn.

They have a chicken omelette here that is really tasty...so I got that...doused it with hot sauce...and I'm off to the races.

I'm sitting here proud as a pig in my big bright New York Giants shirt. There is a dude over there in a Steelers hat that keeps giving me the evil eye. The Giants pulled out a win yesterday over the Steelers... deal with it buddy....I was nervous for a while watching that game...The Giants were shaky at best for three quarters...but then suddenly, in the fourth, they started playing and looking like the team that finished the season last year... all over Big Ben... shaking him up... taking him down left and right.... Amani Toomer making an awesome diving catch... and it was all over for the tin men.

DALLAS! Dallas is next week.... ooooh I cant wait.

(I F%$#@ hate the Cowboys)

So CATCH 3 finally dropped this weekend. I have it postd on Myspace and Bliptv... but not on Youtube just yet. I wanted to wait a couple of days before I hit Youtube and post it here on the blog. My next blog post will probably be CATCH 3.

The response has been okay so far. There are a few techincal issues I'm not thrilled with...but I think Anne's performance is this one is fantastic... and this episode is the first episode where I enlisted the help of a sound designer AND devoted the entire soundtrack to one band. All the music in episode 3 is from EIGHTEEN WHEELS BURNING off their new album "tweak'd out, strung up, and redlined" (MeteorCity Records).

I may try and do that with as many episodes as I can... I would love to have a different band score or donate music to the project. We'll see what happens.

Hey, if you like hip hop, you definitely have to check out COMMON MARKET. Ever heard of COMMON MARKET? They are a Seattle based, off the radar, hip hop band who just came out with a new album... its awesome....on my hot list right now>>>>

And I get nothing for writing that. Sharing the goods and spreading the wealth brings me joy....

The band is COMMON MARKET. The new album is TOBACCO ROAD.

www.commonmarketmusic.com

www.myspace.com/commonmarket


Ok...back to work....

कात्च ३

CATCH 3




CATCH: Episode Three
Written and directed by James Huffman.
Starring Anne Judson Yager and Chris Tessitore

Director of Photography: James Huffman
1st AD: Eric Jones
Editor: Paul Kim
Sound Design: Eric Bucklin

SOUNDTRACK:

Eighteen Wheels Burning
From the album: "tweak'd out, strung up, and redlined"
MeteorCity Records

www.myspace.com/eighteenwheelsburning
www.18wb.com

GOD BLESS the ALCS

Saturday morning ....

That damn heat finally broke... a nice healthy cool front blew in last night...and it was downright windy and COLD... Resulting in a beautiful. sunny and seasonably cool morning here in Los Angeles... I'm having a Chai latte... and I dont drink chai latte under the blazing sun I tell ya that...

We shoot CATCH 7 tomorrow ...with some covereage and an extra scene scheduled for Monday... it all came together over the past few days... I lost a sound guy, I found a sound guy... I've got lights Sunday, but not for Monday, then I get some lights for both days...

Its an interesting ride each time.... I'm just STOKED that I get it done each time.

Tonight I'm driving out to Thoussand Oaks to borrow a boom mic/boom pole for Monday...while I'm out there I will meet up with Wes (Director of CATCH 5), and take a look at a rough cut of 5.

Its crazy... CATCH 5 & 6 are almost finished and ready for general consumption... but its 3 & 4 that are giving me FITS. I'm seriously wanting to pull my hair out over these two episodes... and obviously..I cant show anyone 5 or 6 until I get 3 & 4 done... AY DIOS MIOS

My plan right now is to complete a 12 episode first season by the end of the year and take a break... spend a few months promoting the hell out of the series...and hopefully... tie in some sort of revenue...

I'm also planning to start shooting series # 2 (The Nobodies) in the beginning of 2009.

Yeah... I've got a lot going on.... I wonder if its too much.

So I was watching Game One of the ALCS last night and out comes David Archuleta from American Idol to sing GOD BLESS AMERICA. I CANT STAND American Idol... I am opposed to that stupid show on so many levels... YES, I know its like the highest rated show on TV...but that makes its all the more disturbing.... ANYWAY... David Archuleta steps up to sing...and I'm cursing under my breath... mumbling, grumbling... I'm so disappointed in TBS for allowing such a tacky desecration of such legendary event....

But David Archuleta did a damn good job...I have to say... he honored the song... and found a way to make it his.... to add some color and variation without pushing too hard (and F%$#@ ing it up) His voice was relaxed and confident. When it was all over, I was nodding my head...I think I even had some goosebumps....

I still hate American Idol.

The greatest web series of all time

CATCH, the new series by James Huffman...thats me.... my series, CATCH is all over the place... the success of this series is almos entirely dependent on grass roots e-marketing...

I'm making the first few episodes available on every possible channel... the hope is that at some point, CATCH will enough of a following that I can direct million of fans to one dedicated web site that will host every new episode and every thing you always wanted to know about the cast and crew of the greatest web series of all time..... CATCH

THAT, my friends, is coming soon>>>


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It's all good

I'm so sick of the Red Sox... I am officially a temporary Los Angeles Dodgers fan... went down to City Hall yesterday and got my permit... For the next few weeks...I'm all about Dodger Blue...except on Sundays...then I'm all about BIG BLUE.... the GEEE MEN...

But as far as baseball is concerned... Go Dodgers...Go Joe Torre...and I never thought I'd EVER say this:

Go MANNY BEING MANNY!!

I've been rehearsing with some of the cast and the producers of THE AFTER-LYFES. We are gearing up to shoot the weekend of the 18-19. They actually asked me to keep my schedule loose for that Thursday thru Tuesday...

No problem. This character is pretty similar to myself...not a stretch by any means...which is why I feel pretty well connected .

I'm back to trying to get CATCH 7 shot this weekend. I went out yesterday looking for a restaurant/diner location for a scene I wrote that involves the characters EDBO and SQUIB. EDBO and SQUIB are two crime family henchmen...or lackeys...who are trailing one of the main characters... at this point just to keep an eye on him.

I went in to Roccos Pizza on Vermont. Its a little, New York style pizzeria...not far from my house. I've noticed that thus place is totally empty on Sundays...probably bescause its across the street from LA CITY COLLEGE... aint no college kids around to eat pizza on a Sunday... aint no college kids anywhere near that campus on a Sunday. Anway, the guy at the counter gave me an email address and sent them an email:

My name is James Huffman. I'm producing a new web series titled CATCH.

I stopped in at the Vermont location this morning and I asked them if they ever allowed student or no budget filmmakers to shoot there...he said you "might" be open to discussing it...and gave me your email.

I am looking for very casual diner/restaurant to shoot a 2 page scene this coming Sunday, October 12th and the Roccos on Vermont would be ideal. I can arrange my shooting schedule so that we would be in the restaurant for no more than 3 hours and we could get it all done during your slowest hours, so as not to interfere with business.

I could also buy lunch for the crew before or after we shoot. It would be a small crew, 2 actors and maybe 4-5 crew members. AND...if it helps...we could use an establishing shot of Roccos to help promote the restaurant and we could include links or positive write ups in all our blogs.

So...yeah... I'm hoping we could work something out.


ROCCO repsonded later that evening.... "NO DICE VANILLA ICE"


Thank you for your interest, unfortunately right now we can not accomodate filming in any of our locations.


Oh well... I still have a few location in mind...I will hit them up today.

I went over to meet with Paul, our Indie City chief editor, and looked at a rough cut of CATCH 3. I loved 75% of it...hated 25% of it... its a long story...but the all the original footage we shot for this episode looks great...all the inserts or "pick-up" footage we got later...looks like shit... so its going to be a challenge...but I asked Paul to get creative... do what he can to disguise the bad footage.... I guess we'll see...should have a another cut ready by the start of next week...then I will have a sound design guy work on it... then HOPEFULLY... CATCH 3 will ready for release Oct 17-ish.

Oh yes...one more thing....

I git fired by HINT on Sunday night... which is more of an inconvenience than a traumatic event... they hired a new sales manager a few weeks ago and he and I were just NOT seeing eye to eye... so he inevitably got me canned... dick... it's fine, really. I was kind of secretly wishing I would get the opportunity to move on...so I guess I got what I wanted..

Anyway... I'm on the move...taking meetings...working shit out... looking for work...reaching out to promo companies... probably do alot more background work....and I'm pushing these CATCH episodes thru the post process... Oh and I'm selling my body for cash... as well as all my roommates stuff... Its all good...

The New Cool Collective....
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CATCH 1 on Revver.com....





One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Nietzsche