Monday, June 9, 2008

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

Here is one of the videos that started it all, back in the High School era: "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!"



The quality is a little lacking, and there's a gem of a story as to why that is. The entire video was conceived, planned out, shot, and then edited in a roughly 5 hour period, on an incredibly crappy digital camera that just so happened to be able to film video as well. The footage passed around the paws of everybody involved, everyone wanting to take a stab at editing and tinkering with it, and while I made the ultimate video edit (or YouTube edit if you prefer) there seems to be a curse that follows it. My computer shot fire (no joke) at me shortly after finishing the video which prompted me to immediately replace the power supply of my computer. That fixed the immediate problem, that being the dragon-like fire breathing attributes it had taken on for a time, but it didn't stop the next calamity. All kinds of nasty-ass viruses began to eat their way through my computer like a bunch of freakin' carpenter ants in a 200 year old home. The computer was crippled, but thankfully I had sent the finished file to my friend DJ (who stars in the movie as "Freeman", our poorly executed parody of Gordon Freeman from "Half-Life" fame). My computer was scrubbed and reformatted and as a result, lost the files that made the video, and everybody else had given up on editing it and so they had deleted the rather large files to save on HD space. DJ sent the video to a friend named Matt Sachse ("Messiah" in the video) just before a virus crippled DJ's computer, as though some kind of conspiracy-like tale was unfolding, attempting to cover up any evidence of this video ever being filmed...maybe because of our rampant bible-throwing? Who knows. Regardless, it stayed safely on Matt's computer for years, and last year, in my second year of college I rediscovered it and threw that bad boy up on YouTube to get it out onto the interweb and safe from any more computer shattering diseases. Of course, is YouTube's HQ spontaneously combusts one day in the near future, don't come looking for me...this site will no longer exist and Two Tons Productions will have just been a figment of your over-productive imaginations. In the meantime, here's "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" so enjoy!

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