FINALLY

Remember the date kids, November 22nd 2008. This is the biggest day for us so far in the world of Lawson. After just over two years, numerous roadblocks, lack of money, plenty of doubters, technical difficulties, headaches, personal doubt and lack of motivation (for me sometimes anyway), and constant nagging from our rabid three fans wanting to know when the hell this thing would be finished, we finally finished shooting last night as mentioned in the two previous posts.

The last scene was fittingly enough the most physically draining, and mentally draining for me personally. It was the climax between the Chief and Reeses issues coming to a head. How it's going to look cut together is anybodies guess but all I know is after it was finished it was very rewarding to know our hardwork has finally paid off. Unfortunately for me though, there was no jubilant celebration for me at all as the physical demands, cold and filthy basement, and general exhaustion had me take a trip up to the good old emergency room to get a double treatment for my good friend Asthma. I've never been in a colder, more dust filled basement than the one below Egans parents house. Black snots and black goo being hacked up, an inhaler that became pretty useless by nights end and more physical activity than my 200 pound, out of shape aging body is accustomed to. No longer am I the slim and sexy, athletic, and "invincible" 16 year old that I wish I could still be. Instead I am an aging, fattening, hypocondriac that is in pain and winded from the simplest tasks like lifting the toilet seat. Needless to say, when this is finished and the "Lawson riches" come into our bank accounts, I will be an absolute dive and demand the Arnold Sfhwarzennegger treatment and insist on having a stunt double, and not worry about doing my own fights or stuntwork.

The rewarding part of it all for me personally, is knowing that myself, John, Tommy, Egan, Kyle, Abdi, and Lianne, and even the smaller roles from Jesse, Rory, and All the Asians were done all by us. We had very little help at all (thanks Ted, Alicia, Mohammed, Maggie etc for locations) and for all of our hard work, this has been an amazing experience in movie making, friendship, and facing adversity. We held out hope, we've persevered through a ton of horse shit, people backing out and numerous other issues to finish something really special to me and to everybody else involved. To all our fans and supporters, and everybody involved, a sincere thank you is in order and a round of applause for all of you. You were all big helps and without you all and your patience and willingness to sacrifice Friday and Saturday nights for a project that seemingly would never end is awesome. Thanks

Whatever happens with the movie, be it ten people see it or ten million see it, love it or hate it, at least you'll all know the hard work and time, and virtually no money that went into it was a fun learning experience for us. For those movies out there that are considered "low budget" while have millions of dollars at their disposal, and even the ones with 5/10,000 dollars. That's 5,000 more dollars than we had when we started. We used the little money we spent (I'd honestly say in two years the movie cost a whopping 2,500 dollars total give or take). So all people saying you need a ton of cash to make a movie, eat my ass. You need fun people who have sort of an idea how to do stuff, and a crew of people who want to have fun doing it.

In the famous words of RapMaster Reese

"suck my fuckin dick yo!"