I'm in Missouri right now. I'm posting this from a guest room in Lowtax's parents' house. Apparently there's wifi here, so I'm gonna use it.

This house is crazy! We're crashing here for the night, and we discover that this already big house has an entire other wing of the house beneath it. Like a gigantic basement-level thing. Or something. I'm alone in my own room while Shawn and Derrick are sleeping in some room filled with gym equipment... where Derrick hit me with punching gloves and nearly broke my phone.

I love coming up here. It's a nice place and we always seem to get good material when we film here.

It's weird. I think to myself, how did I get to the place I am right now? To think that filming stuff with friends out of a garage has come to me being across the country sharing a house with someone I've idolized for years is just a startling thought. It feels like this has all happened so fast! And where will this go next? Hey, I don't even care! The fact that I'm here right now is crazy enough! I'm already so, so lucky.

Well enough waxing philosophical... tomorrow is going to be some long overdue geeking out in the form of our new camera. The DVX100A I ordered FOREVER ago finally arrived in Kansas City and I get to pick it up tomorrow. Finally... our badly designed sets and Salvation Army costuming will at last be seen in true film quality.

I'd better get to sleepin'. Filming tomorrow.

So I figured I'd give writing on this here thing a try for a while. It's probably going to be few and far between, but whatever. Better than letting this domain name lapse even more than it already was.

I'm in a state of pure joy that we've finished filming the fourth episode from the new Mega64 DVD. It was... rough. Really darn rough. It's cool, I mean, the episode looks like a film. A really weird, cheesy film, yes, but a film nonetheless. And it's weird seeing the show look like that- It's like watching your baby suddenly grow up.

I was really impressed by Derrick, he did a great job directing the thing. And writing it... even if it was as we went along! I think that makes it more fun anyway. Derrick's really good at making fast, fun stories. It's really a kick.

And the amount of effort our friends have put in helping with the thing has been amazing. Thanks guys.

I will say this, though- I think the filming process of this episode taught us each a lesson. I think it's somewhat safe to say that none of the Mega64 trio enjoyed the process behind this episode as much as the smaller-scale episodes before it. When it's just us by ourselves, it's just goofing around at home and messing with people in public whenever we feel like it. This episode was schedules, 17 hour days, crews, permits, no permits, locations, locations cancelling, spitting up blood, etc. This could very well be the best episode we've ever made, in the end, but maybe it cost us a little piece of our souls to get it. Is that worth it? Hm.

Well regardless, I'm looking at all the footage in the ol' edit bay right now, and I can already tell this is going to be a blast to edit. I can't wait.

Everything is going great right now. Things are attaining a level of peace again, I've achieved a personal milestone by making it into Nintendo Power, the magazine that taught me to read, and there are a million opportunities on the horizon. That, and Lost comes out on DVD today. Shyeah.

Welcome to roccobotte.com. Let's test this sucker out, eh?