UNIVERSAL GROOVE BLOG BEGINS.

I've been working on an independent feature film for nearly 6 years. Shot in 1999, Universal Groove is finally nearing the end of post production. The shoot was rife with production and post-production issues and just to get to this point everyone involved really had to wend their ways down a twisted path.

A lot of people put a lot of hardwork into their contributions to this film, and I'm certain they've all either forgotten that the ever worked on the production, or no longer care whether it comes out, but it's good to acknowledge them anyway...so thanks (nods head), even to the green members of cast and crew.

We're close to the finish line--in that we can actually see it--for the first time since this journey began in the desert somewhere outside of Searchlight, Nevada so long ago. To this day I'm still haunted by flashes of yokels spinning their pickups round and round in the middle of nowhere at 5:45am...

Sometimes (on good nights) when I close my eyes I get flashes of a time even further back when visions of after hours clubs, interviews in strip clubs, and excessively long periods of missing time--likely due to one of the two former--dance across the inside of my eyelids.

So, what exactly happened to get us here? To this point? To this juncture? To this moment? and will we make it to the end?

The time has come for everyone to understand what it takes for an independent film to be made with money from your own pocket; with someone else's money; and with no money.

So I've started the Universal Groove Movie Blog as a sanctuary for the story of the "making of", and a place to come clean on everything that happened along the way. Ask and you shall receive.

[PLEASURE]