Okay, this one hurt...more then I thought it would
I recall some point in my life where I was listening in on a conversation between a mother and her child. The child was saying something cute like, "Big people don't cry." The mother replied with something like, "There are some things that make big people cry." This might be one of them.

Nah, I'm not in tears, but it hurt. It was a blow to the gut. Sort of like hearing, "I want to break up."

This past weekend was the scramble. If I still feel like it after today, and time willing, I'll give an update about that. There are two ways to really approach something like a scramble. You can either shoot something shitty that looks like it was shot in 48 hours, which most people do, or, you can either put so much time and effort and come out with someting visually stunning. That second option is the Flypaper methood.

I had this huntch from the get-go that this was going to our best peice. Saying that again now is debateable. It depends on what sort of audience watches is, and how much interpretataion they're willing to put-forth into it.

This is a personal opinion, but I think several people will back me up on this.

If there are three teams that are worth a damn in the past few scrambles, it's Team Bloodjet!, Zing, Boing, Splat!, and us-Flypaper. This year, Team Bloodjet!, and Zing, Boing, Splat!, dropped out. We had not won anything in the past. There are many arguments why we haven't, looking at the judges and winners you could would probably make the same arguments.

However, this go-around seemed different. We had differnt judges that were geared more to a film like ours. One of the guys was apart of "The Blair Witch Project." I think he moves furnature now. So yes, this was going to be our scamble, we were going to win!

Now, the purpose of a scramble is to put together a film in 48 hours-as mentioned above. To prevent you from cheating, you are given differnt things to incorperate into your film. This one required several differnt items, one of them being the first three lines had to be "Make a wish" "I already did" "Make another one".

It pains me to say, that after all the coffee, the hard work, the creative straining, the bitter cold, the lack of sleep (which I'm still trying ot catch up on, along with everyone else), the intense work...that we were disqualified from the contest because our lines were read "Make a wish", "I already did", "THEN make another [one]".

The e-mail of disqualification was passed around us Flypaper people. The Sidewalk judges kicked some sympathy our way, because of the impression we left at previous scrambles. However, it's fair to say that if they let us slide, everybody else will slide.

Other rebutles could be made. Like Spencer said, "The purpose of the scramble inperation itmes is not to make it an improv act, it's to prevent people from cheating." In that argument you could make those claims, but we both figgured Randy, the director, had already attempted to argue this one up and down.

I'm not throwing the blame in any direction, nor is anyone else. We all worked very fucking hard on this, and bless everyone who sat huddled around that mini space heater in t-shirts sipping coffee all for 5 minutes of film.

Thanks to my fellow Flypaper members.

The end result will probably leave anyone who sees it scratching their head, or just getting pissed. However, I think one anyone looks past it, they'll be pretty marveld by it. Visualy, I think it's our most beautiful peice. Sadly, we won't be up for any judicial consideration.

In an analogy, I guess you could say it's like going a sleepless week studying for a final exam, only to sleep through the exam. Yeah, much like that.

For now, if you excuse me, I'll be in the back healing this mental wound