The Alley Way

As John already said, we got started early this morning, since Abdi had to be at work at 12. I got up at the ass crack of dawn, or 8 am on a Sunday morning, which was earlier than I've been up on a weekend in who knows how long. So I went with Alicia to Braintree, because we had to pick up her uncles sweet ass red Mustang for the movie. He was completely cool with us using it, because we needed a sweet ride for Badi, as opposed to this rich and powerful drug dealer showing up in a shitbox. It worked out pretty damn good, and Abdi looked like a pimp ass gangsta in the car.

We wound up trying to set the shoot up for 10am, so I got there at 9:58, and Abdi was there ready to go. Kyle showed up next, followed by John, Tommy, and Egan, and by about 10:45, Abdi put in his sweet white contact lens we got, and he looked like a bad ass prick. I got into bum regalia, because I am double dipping in the movie and playing two parts, and the shoot was on. This was the first, and probably only time as far as I can think that we will need a stand in for anybody, so Tommy was RapMaster Reese from behind for a couple shots.

I dont wanna give away too much of that scene or anything, but it was pretty fun, and Glenda from work was able to make it, so we FINALLY have our girl in the movie. The couple people not in the scene but who came to help and watch said things went off pretty well, so I will take their opinion on it, because I am a real negative Nancy and always think I sucked or am worried we didnt get enough footage. Bottom line, we all had fun, we got the footage, and what I think were some pretty good bloopers too today.

We were a little behind on schedule so a small sequence we were going to shoot got scrapped, mainly because Abdi was already an hour and a half late for work, and Egan had to go to Ikea to buy shit for his new place. Thankfully, we were shooting right behind CVS so Abdi was right there, and they knew he was there and were cool about it. All in all, a very productive shooting day, as have been all of them thus far, minus the special effects test shoot.

Updates later on what comes next.