It's been a LONG time since my last blog.
In that time I have...
1. I moved
2. helped my mom move her Flowershop into another building.
3. helped my g/f get her new business set up & running
4. sent Wingmen Incorporated out to numerous film festivals
5. halfway through a fundraiser for No Regrets
Okay, so where to start?
I was just off of work for a month b/c of "lack of work". Despite being bored out of my mind I did enjoy getting paid to do nothing. I've never really had to draw unemployment before. It was not that bad since I already had a job, so I didn't have to go look for work. I go back tomorrow. Hopefully I can remember my login info and passwords. I kinda feel like I did when we'd come back to school after Christmas break and I was always afraid that I wouldn't remember my locker combo. It's a powerless feeling.
Moped Jones News...
We are now up to 14 Moped Jones Drunken Podcasts. Click here to listen to all of them. They are pretty funny and there are some really good tunes. I think from Ep 11 on are our best ones.
http://mopedjones.com/podcast.cfm
Wingmen Incorporated has gotten into a few festivals. It plays as part of The Prairie State Film Festival in DeKalb, IL on Saturday July 20th. And has also been selected to be part of the Naperville Independent Film Festival that takes place in Naperville, IL in mid September. Very much looking forward to both. If you are in the area you should stop by.
I've submitted to several other festivals around the US and will be hearing back from them in the coming months. I am very excited about several of the festivals (Naperville was one of the ones I was excited about and we got in!) But there are several others that I cannot wait to hear back from. I'll be steadily submitting up until spring of next year. I pretty much have to since I am the only one promoting this film. But hey, that's okay! I recut the film and am damn proud of my cut. I cut out about 4 minutes incredibly boring unfunny dialogue that really killed the pacing of the film. The film really flows now and I am damn proud of this film the way it is now and I am very optimistic about its chances of getting into many festivals (it's already 2 for 2) and securing distribution (and hopefully getting on Netflix like The Truth About Average Guys did back in 2010-11).
Our fundraiser for No Regrets has been going great! We're trying to raise $1500 in 60 days. 30 days in and we are already at $1107. So we are well ahead of the pace! We've had 31 donations ranging from $2 all the way up to $125. If you are interested in helping the cause, please click the link below and donate whatever you feel comfortable with.
http://mopedjones.com/home.cfm
Rewards include IMDB credits.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2869746/
That's the IMDB page for No Regrets.
Also, Evan and I are going to record a new commentary for Wingmen Incorporated. My last one got edited without my permission. So we decided that since we are doing another drunken commentary for Wingmen Incorporated we should just start doing drunken commentaries for other films as well. It's perfectly legal to do this. We own our audio. So we can sell it as an add-on for like $0.99 or something. Maybe less. I don't know. But first things first, we have to record them. (there is a thing called Riff Trax that does this, it was made up by the guy that did Mystery Science 3000, I'm not ripping him off, I just happened to think of something that was already invented, lol, plus it's different b/c I got rid of the robots and added a lot more booze!)
Off the top of my head I would like to do drunken commentaries for the following films...
The Notebook
Titanic
At least 1 of the last 3 Batman movies
Labyrinth
Never Ending Story
The Room
Basically we want to do movies people already have (otherwise what's the point?).
What else? My lovely girlfriend Kate surprised me with tickets to go see Flight of the Conchords in late August out in Chicago!Also, Demitri Martin, Dave Chappelle, and Kristen Schaal will be there as well. I cannot wait to see them all.
Welp, that's all I gots for now!
Jason W. Schaver
Moped Jones Entertainment
www.mopedjones.com
