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Hit the switch

It’s almost spring down here in sunny Tempe, there were totally some clouds in the sky the other day and everything :)

I’m still loving my new place, and am getting to spend a lot of time there. I still can’t really explain to you how nice it is to be done with school. I got myself a little dining room table and a couple of chairs last weekend, which pretty much wraps up furniture. The place is pretty well filled out and now I just need a few things on the walls.

Work is getting interesting. I’ve had the concert portion of the concert and behind the scenes documentary done for a while now. I sent off some QTs to the producer this week to have the music mixed. I have had a little commercial to work on for the last few weeks, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I got the final approval on monday and have been trying to jump back into this documentary ever since.
It’s really hard to know where to start, I have literally days worth of footage. I have had the luxury of watching all of it, so I now know what is there. Although I can’t say that has helped me start cutting like I thought it would. I bought myself some time this week by down-converting the interviews that were shot HDV. The DVD is being produced anamorphic NTSC, and the way AVID MC was down-converting the footage was just horrendous. I’ve decided to just start cutting stories together from the interviews. There are obviously experiences that each one of the band members talk about and I think piecing them together with some B roll should be a good start. The main guy, the one this whole DVD is built around, doesn’t really have very good interview material though, getting enough of him into those stories is going to be tricky. Fans want to see the front man, the other members of the band are in many ways nobodies. I have a couple of months to get this all cut, so I’m not worried about it… I just really want to feel like I’ve made some headway.

I met someone the other day that I can relate to in a way I haven’t been able to with anyone for a while. Being raised as a pastor’s kid is often odd. I love my parents, they did a great job of raising me, I often tell people how lucky I feel to of had such loving role models. However being a pastor is not a full time job, it’s not just something your dad or mom does. It’s your parent’s lives, and as such becomes your life. I talk about my parents and some of the challenges they are facing with very few people. As a matter of fact there use to be just one person down here in AZ who knew what was going on. It was really nice to talk to another PK about it though, a pastor’s kid who’s parents are in a strikingly similar situation even. I couldn’t help but chuckle at both of our hesitation to say how big the congregations were, it’s such a silly thing to be self conscious about.

I cut off all my hair this week, it was time for it to go. I know I’ll want long hair again, and it will be a very awkward year to get back to the length I had. It just wasn’t working out anymore though, my hair is now longer then most, but not long. I am still mulling over just buzzing it all off for my next haircut.

I’m out, take it easy,
David Hildreth