New website

Okay, I'm starting to get the hang of this blogging business. It never ceases to amaze me how computer-savvy kids are today. My friend Julian, who's nineteen, is a computer genius; he edits and does graphics and knows his way around Final Cut Pro with his eyes closed. He even created his own Flash website and it's awesome. And on top of that he's a normal 19 year-old kid with a girlfriend and everything. Used to be, you had to be an anti-social geek to use a computer. Anyhow, I digress.
The new Thong Girl website is up and running at www.thonggirlfilms.com. Robin Grandin (formerly Weaver) did an excellent job making it look like a comic book website and still be full of information and resources. It will take a few weeks to get the merchandise section operational to where you can buy stuff directly, but you can see photos from the shoots and read the story of The Thong and, oh yeah, you can link to this blog....DUH! I just realized that you must already know about the website if you're reading this blog. See what I mean? I don't know crap!
Last Sunday we filmed another scene from the movie in Mayor Don Wright's office. Mayor Wright is the mayor of Gallatin and he graciously allowed us to decimate his office. Actually, we only moved a bunch of stuff around and didn't put it back in the right place, but luckily we didn't break anything. We're also going to shoot the finale scene in Gallatin Square where the Mayor (played by Rob Wilds) gives Thong Girl and BoxerBrief Boy the key to the city for saving Music City USA from the evil clutches of Chaz Chernobyl and the Dark Widow. We'll be looking for lots of extras for that scene so if you're reading this and would like to participate, shoot me an email.
Next weekend we're shooting three more scenes at my house and at the end of the month I'm going to Florida where Lauren "Dark Widow" Benjamin lives to shoot her final scene and to take a few days vacation. September will be a very busy month for filming and I hope to have all of the shooting wrapped by the end of September or the beginning of October. It's taking a lot longer to try and shoot everything than expected, mostly because of a lack of budget, As you know, I'm fronting most of the budget myself, with a little help from the Executive Producer, Will Jones. That means that we can only shoot when there is money to do so. Some of the locations require a fee, and then there are props and costumes and food... it can be very daunting. I think lack of money is probably the biggest deterrent to local filmmakers. An indie filmmaker rarely gets a backer; it's all your own money and credit cards and gracious relatives. But hopefully it all pays off in the long run.
One advantage to a movie like Thong Girl is it has the potential to generate some revenue on a smaller scale - through comic book conventions and merchandise and smaller distributors. I'm also hoping to develop action figures and video gaming at some point.
Okay, well that's enough for today. Thanks to the two people that may be reading this and I'd welcome anyone to send a comment or just a howdy to know that this is, in fact, being read by SOMEONE. Talk to you soon, Glen