A Steampunk Motivational Poster

Cars and Coffee..............no you can't dunk the spare.

Now that the weather is somewhat cooperating in my little neck of the woods, one of my favourite weekend past times is back. Cars and Coffee at the Shoreline Central Market.

This is the 2nd year that Shoreline has hosted Cars and Coffee and it's a growing event.

The original Cars and Coffee originated in Irvine, California and has now transplanted a group of car afficianados here to host a similar event and was started by one of the orginal Irvine creators.

I love this gathering. There is no entry fee. There is no set up ritual. There is no show and shine event. There is no judging. Ahh. No judging.

I've been several times last year and had never take the Bronze Bitch since it was in a constant state of construction, but last weekend I took Jake and he loved it.

I loved it too. I loved that I met some really great people with restored classic cars, expensive Italian cars and a few rat rods and everything in between. The fellow car folks I meant were great to mingle and talk with and can appreciate all manner of cars...............even Jake.

I think I'll be back this Saturday and get there earlier this time. I'll have to start getting some photos as well.

The Book of Zombie premiere update

WOW!!!

FUCKING WOW!!! This was just amazing!!!! The Paisley and I decided we needed to leave a bit early last Friday nite to make sure that we get to the premiere on time.

Along the way I needed to stop for fuel and as I'm holding down the petrol nozzle into Jake's filler I hear a sudden hysterical laughter. It's the Pais, but I can't tell what she's lauging at. Upon asking she points to the corner and what do I see? The best omen I could ever hope to see. Mormons. Yes you heard me......mormons.

Mormons were stalking us before the big premier of The Book of Zombie

This was perfect!! we're on our way to a film about mormon zombies and this was the greatest gift we could receive!!!

When we arrived there was already a line forming for people that were hoping to get tickets at the door. There were a few folks in the will call line. Man what a difference 15 minutes made!! The will call line was at least 20 deep and getting longer and the at-door sales line was getting longer as well.

The venue for the big premiere!!The Pais and the poster!!

There were two shorts prior to our film. The first was Blue Moon Day and The Familiar. I really loved Blue Moon Day !!! So much was done in just 4 minutes. The Book of Zombie was the last to show that nite.

It looked damn sweet on a big screen and the soundtrack put together by our very Adam Gehrke was excellent!!

The real talent lies with the actors and the directors/writers. Here's most of the talent with the Q&A after the showing.

L-R: Dave Preston, Adam Gehrke,Paul Cranefield,Adrew Loviska,Marcel Banks,Erik Van Sant,Adrienne McIain,Larissa Peters. The last dude there was hosting the Q&A.

I'm really glad that I decided to do this. I've never done anything like this before in my life and I certainly hope it won't be the last. This reminded me of what I really enjoy in life and what I should be doing instead of working for the cruise line. It only makes sense. I'm a movie geek and I should be making movies.

Imagine it: The Kilted Movie Maker instead of The Kilted Travel Agent. Still has a good sound to it, yeah.

After the films and the Q&A the Northwest Film Forum had an after party complete with free food and free beer and.......................

NORDIC GO-GO DANCERS!!!

Fuzzy boots and all!! There were more of them dancing their little Scandic hearts out, but these two were the closest so they got their photo taken.

So now flash forward to Monday and the announcement was made that The Book of Zombie won an Audience Award. That is great to hear and we hope that there will be many more accolades in it's future.

Next up: Crypticon. If you missed the opportunity to see it at STIFF then here's your chance to see it again. It will show at Crypticon at 3 pm this coming Saturday June 19th if you happen to be in the Everett Washington area. Get an all day pass and enjoy the horror!!!

The Book of Zombie Premiere!!!!

Well in just a few short hours, the Paisley and I will be on our way to the North West Film Forum for the premiere of a small indie film we worked on called The Book of Zombie.

This was a project that was started in 2007 as a lunchroom joke between some coworkers at a local tv news station and eventually developed into a story which in turn was turned into a script and just kept steamrolling from there. 

We became involved when one of these newsies (a friend of ours from way back) asked the Paisley if she would like to do costumes and then I came along and ended up working on the production crew and the rest is history I suppose.

One of the best blogs that chronicled the making of this film was put together by our DP. You can follow along here and see just what it took to put this film together. There are somethings that you won't find in there like the super secret ending. No hints just yet!! I think it needs to be out for a while before I discuss it. All I can say is that the writers were just fucking genius with the ending!!

We've had a lot of support from a local radio station and from the followers on the sites Facebook and Twitter pages.

There has been one review that I have seen so far from a paper here in my little corner of the world. Thankfully it doesn't reveal too much. I'm holding out trying to read anything about the film until after I've seen it later tonite.

If you live in or are visiting the western Washington area hopefully you have prepurchased your tickets as tonites venue is sold out and there will be limited tickets available at the box office.

T-minus 6 hours and counting!!!

Taking a break and posing with one of the prop firearms