"the funniest antidote yet to the Christian Right."

This is more like it. Just a post telling you how awesome I am. I need to do this more often, if only to convince myself. I miss the MySpace function telling everyone what I'm watching or reading or listening to right now. You deserve to know. This one was punted up there on Wednesday June 28, 2006

Hell, yeah. That's what they say to describe my "Mars Needs Bibles!" in the program for the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. In fact, here it is in toto: "Like a Plan 9 involving a sexually-confused astronaut, a closeted gay preacher, Martians and a violent evangelist, Mars Needs Bibles is the funniest antidote yet to the Christian Right."

In case you didn't catch it, they're comparing it to "Plan 9 From Outer Space," the Edward D. Wood classic. Ed-fucking-Wood! Not only am I showing at a major film festival, they compare my zero budget scifi movie to *the* zero budget scifi movie! I am stoked like the Super Chief.

My finances are in the toilet, my in-laws are coming to visit next week (I like them, but Lisa's freaking, which means I have to freak, too), that ridiculous woman on the panel last night nearly made me lose my temper, and while I'm swamped like Okefenokee, if I don't get some paying work soon, I'll be released from the stress of having electricity or water or gas or cable. Not to mention, I *still* can't get a check out of KLRN, and they've already cut my invoice in half.

But for the first time in a long time, I'm feeling kind of positive about my filmmaking, all because of this brief mention in a film festival program, and one that probably doesn't sound quite as positive to you as it does to me.

Thanks, PIGLIFF! I'm going to go out and submit to a few more film festivals while I'm on this high.

Have you heard the last Jellyfish album, "Spilt Milk"? It's fun. A little Queen, a little Supertramp, a little ELO, shaken together and poured out into a very good album with at least one great song, "He's My Best Friend," the feel-good masturbation anthem of all time. Give it a spin.