NOV 11TH, A DAY TO REMEMBER!!!
What I am about to write in the next few seconds has nothing to do about fallen soldiers or anything remotely close to Remembrance day. Last night Nov. 10th I managed to finalize the film poster for Bong Of The Dead and managed to upload it for the world to see on Facebook and here. I was so happy to finally be three weeks away from releasing my film which I have spent 2 solid years of my life on! I have sacrificed friendships, time and love from family just to stay in the dark and plug away at my dreams one single frame at a time. I have always feared that something was going to happen to the film before I got a chance to show it to the world but never thought it would actually happen.
This morning November 11tht Remembrance day I woke up and turned on my MAC just to stare at a desk top which is only showing me 3 out of 4 of my internal drives! To my surprise I was faced with my worse nightmare and what I am about to say is 100 % true and not fabricated as hype. I have 4 drives named Macintosh HD, Media2, Media3 and Media4. Macintosh HD is my main drive that runs the whole machine but Media 2,3 and 4 are the ones dedicated to Bong. Media 2 is the most important drive because it has everything that Bong is made of from posters, to behind the scenes pictures to all the data files understood by Final Cut, After Effects etc! 2 years of my hard work and life exist on Media 2 but the drive itself no longer exists! Yes that’s right…3 weeks away from distributing the movie and I have lost the movie! I repeat “I HAVE LOST THE MOVIE” , or my fucking MAC has lost it I should say! Or the drive being 2 years old has decided to fucking die right before I release the movie! After having a heart attack on the spot I phoned Apple and was lead into a dead end after 2 hours then I managed to take the drive to work and have my Computer techs mess with it and they were not successful. Finally I was referred to someone who does data recovery for a way less price than the usual 2-3000 dollars! I of course being a broke film maker as is, cant even afford 30 bucks let alone 3000 dollars! Having been left with no choice I managed to drop off the drive to the specialist and left him to his work. Not even 5 minutes after dropping off the drive, I get pulled over by some arrogant asshole cop with a small penis and balding hair who decides he wants to give me a ticket for no seat belt even though I told him I just pulled out of the drive way which was one and a half blocks away and was looking for a gas station in a panic because I was also in Tim buck 2 with no fuel! Of course I am already panicked given the fact that 2 years of my life has just been wiped off the face of the earth! The cop smiles with an “I dont give a shit look” on his ugly mug and hands me a fucking ticket for 165$ and tells me its not the end of the world! Well actually you balding fucking prick! It is the end of the world as I know it because I not only cant afford the recovery of my drive but I have no money for your stupid fucking ticket either!
However the ticket is the least of my worries a this moment as I am still waiting for the specialist to call me with a status update. Words cant express the place I am in mentally at this moment! I do have back ups but they are not like the original and will require even further work to fix and reassemble. I cant keep doing this shit because its killing me just trying! I have no update as of now but I will keep you posted!
This is a day I definitely will not forget.
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