Coding is Intense

I’ve been working on coding for a new version of sttimmypro.com to be premiered after we switch hosts sometime this month. I think it’s going to be overall a better website than this is now… probably because I’m not all hand-coding it like I did this version…

It’s gonna be cool, though… Ima have oodles of bandwidth and exorbitant amounts of space. Unlimited domains, unlimited emails,  A FULLY IMPLEMENTED BLOG, and ads. Oh ads, how I love thee. You aid me in my quest to pay for this godly hosting that I receive.

Also, along with this hosting, I get… AN INVESTOR! A co-admin. Everyone, meet Fizzzard, who is now an official member of the STP team. He’s helping me to pay for my new hosting, which is something I will love him forever for.

However, this does come with some sacrifices, such as that you now must all bow to his will. I’m sorry. I don’t make the rules. He is gonna be all modly on the boards (which I’m totally gonna start advertising again), and he’s gonna have full posting abilities here on the blog.

This is gonna be hella fun, actually.

2008 was a humongous year for STP (it was just a humongous year in general, really… I think it was humongous for everyone), and 2009 is going to be just as cool. 2008 proved to me that we can do what we want to as STP, and 2009 is the year that we’re going to start doing it. Hell yes.

And it all starts with this host change.

I think of this changing of hosts and site designs as symbolic of St Timmy Pro’s transition from our days of making crappy, campy films like the Hairy Pirates saga, to making interesting and deep productions like, ahem, this thing that starts with an l and ends in some other letters and a number. You know.

I always get so idealistic on this blog. Jeez. It’s terrible.

haha.

See ya at the new site, betches.

-Timmy

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Tag, you’re it.

Right. I don’t want to go to school.

I don’t.

Ever.

At all.

Especially not stupid Reynolds. As time has gone on I’ve: denied going there, grudgingly accepting going there, looked forward to going there, realized that last thing was stupid and not wanting to go there, not wanting to go there even more, dreading going there, and finally OH MY GOD I HAVE TO GO TO REYNOLDS IN, LIKE, THREE DAYS. What.

Anyway, I apologize for not updating this blog in forever. And I apologize that the last few haven’t been that great. Well, except perhaps the Keira one. I’m not sure. I only occasionally reread the really long ones.

Oh and this one (<–link.. I dunno, in the published post it’s hardly distinguishable from normal text for me). That’s perhaps my greatest writing ever. It’s a true story too.

I too apologize that this one’s not too good either. I don’t have much to talk about, honestly. I have no motivators at the moment.

Slight sidetrack here, but I almost put that as ‘atm.’ Now, not that I have anything wrong with acronyms, buuut… after I typed that I just sat here and stared. “Did I honestly just type that?” I asked myself.

“Yes, I think you did, sir,” I respond.

“Well, that totally ruins my blog post!” I exclaim.

“Yes, it does somewhat, doesn’t it?”

“Yup.”

(click here to make full size)

So we’ve been working on filming our epic mystery production. It’s taking awhile. We’ve spent about four days on this so far and we still only have probably the first half done.

Anyway, it’s gonna be awesome. There’s a cool image thing over there to the right to click on and go to the prologue. The only pages you should go to there are All Apologies, Come As You Aren’t, and On My Nerves.

…yeah…

POTOR!

Is not going well.

Or, at least, it’s not going. Davis, having had an ENTIRE FREAKING SUMMER, still hasn’t turned in his revised POTOR script. And, the thing is, my morales dropping low for that film. I read the entire sixty pages of my own revision and could not write a single new thing. *sigh*

So we’re gonna make this mystery production and then maybe we’ll come back to POTOR. So, I guess you can say that work on POTOR has now officially been put on hold until we are inclined to actually make it.

That fact, as a matter of fact, saddens me to no end.

I’m never (and I mean never) going to be able to give up on it for good. Never. If I have to keep renewing that URL until I’m ninety years old and on my death bed, I will, without their knowledge, change the billing to pull money directly out of my grandchildren’s bank accounts and make my last wish be them making the film. And good too, not crappy.

Alright, not really. That’s a tad excessive. But still. I will eventually make it POTOR, whether or not it takes years.

‘Cause, you see, the thing is, it’s becoming nearly unimaginable in my head to make a parody or fan film or anything anymore. I’d much rather make something original. However, if POTOR becomes anything but a fan film and a parody it’s 1. exactly what Davis wants, I think, and 2. Not the film I wanted to make originally, when I pitched the idea to Quinn in seventh grade.

Because, and I mean this with all due respect to Davis and Quinn, but mostly to Quinn, but this is my film.

I think I may take a moment to tell you the story of POTOR.

It was sometime during the summer after sixth grade and before seventh grade and I was sitting around doing something or other (I think I was working on the script for a different fan film that will probably never be made). Suddenly a title came into my head. A title I loved. It was “Pirates of the Outer Rim.”

I loved it. I didn’t think I’d be able to ever use it, but I still thought it was magnificent.

Jump forward a couple months and I had started thinking about how that might work. And then this guy on TF.n, the always wonderful (ha) BRYAN_SEECRETS posted his idea for an eight hour (not kidding. I read the script. It was really some few hundred pages long.) star wars fan film that was a crossover between SW and, like, Half Life or something.

Alright, that was a dumb idea and was written pretty badly iirc.

However that intoduced me to the concept of a crossover fan film, where you combine the concepts from two different universes into one amazing film (or in BRYAN_EFFING_SEECRETS’ case, eight terrible films in one).

A couple months later I was thinking about this POTOR movie. It would be a mix between Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars. Simple. I started thinking about different correllations you could make between the film. Even now it amazes me how many there really are.

It’s Social Studies. I’m sitting there out of my normal seat, sitting next to Quinn, supposedly working on some work or something. He mentions something that I don’t quite remember and I slyly bring up this title, “Pirates of the Outer Rim.” He likes it. I thinkI may tell him some ideas for a film called that and slightly construe it as us brainstorming.

Now don’t think I’m saying Quinn had nothing to do with POTOR’s inception. If it weren’t for his unexpected acceptance of the idea no one would ever have even heard the title, let alone there being any possibility of it being made. Like, really.

So then we continue brainstorming for this thing through the beginning of Science. Quinn looks at Davis for a moment.

“Huh,” He says, “Davis could make a good Sith.. hey Davis, you wanna be Barbossa in our movie?”

Okay, I don’t know what he said, but it was something along those lines.

So that’s where Davis came in. Not as a producer. Not as a director. Nothing.

Now, that’s not to say Davis wasn’t as pivotal as Quinn in the inception. He was. He really was, it’s true. If it weren’t for Quinn it wouldn’t have started. If it weren’t for Davis, however, it wouldn’t have continued. It was with Davis that I discussed the script as I continued writing. It was with Davis that we came up with several of the things we came up with back then.

They were both important in the prospect of POTOR being created. It was with both of them that I wrote the script at the back of the class during Social Studies, and they quickly both became co-producers. The three of us were going to make this film that had started as a small thought in the back of my mind.

What I’m trying to say is…

Well, honestly, I’m not sure anymore. I have no idea what my point is anymore.

Go figure.

Your turn.

-Timmy

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Oh and…

THE DINOSAURS WERE WIPED OUT BY MICROWAVE OVENS! DON’T BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT CATASTROPHE!!!

That is all.

-Timmy

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A couple people USED to read this… (POTOR update)

Hello there, puppies. What’s up? Me neither. Awesome. Amazing. Epic. Heh.

Right, so I’ve seemed to regain any creativity I had missing for the spanse of the already-past part of the summer, as I’ve been working hard and cranking out dozens of pages a day on my revised POTOR script. I’m hoping it’ll please Davis and Quinn both. In my eyes it’s a good medium between Davis’ Ice Pirates ripoff and the original idea.

Well it’s definitely still leaning toward the original idea, but honestly? I like this screenplay so far. A lot. I’m proud of it.

Which brings me to the nextness. You see, this script, for Pirates of the Outer Rim and the Curse of the Black Spectre, is really good, I think. The problem is WE’RE FOURTEEN YEARS OLD.

Now, I don’t mean this is a problem regarding resources, or our ability to make the movie–we can do that. I mean, we have the HVX-ae and I’m part of RLM, for visual effects, and there’s this guy who could do the music, and we’ll find good sets, and Emma offered to do costumities… Y’know, that’s all epic.

No, we can make the movie. The problem is that, as good of actors as the people we casted are, and I love you all, I really do, is anyone gonna take it seriously–and I realize it’s supposed to be a comedy, but.. y’know….–if we have fourteen-year-old kids playing everybody in this?

I dunno, it just seems like it’s cliche lame fan film. Well, actually, that’s because it is. At least it’s not a lightsaber fight set in a forest.

Oh wait, that’s in there too. (It’s more of an epic battle in a field, but there are trees nearby, so…).

Yeah, I dunno. I’m itching to make a movie, but I feel bad working on scripts that aren’t POTOR, since we’ve been working on POTOR for two years or so. Also, I don’t like talking on the phone, even to the MetroEast people. *sigh*

Also, I broke the blog on POTORmovie.com. The RSS feeds are broken both on this blog and on that one, and I was trying to fix it on that one, but I failed, and it’s having PHP errors aplenty, now. It’s sad. I think I’m gonna delete all the WordPress files on there and then reinstall it all… just not right now.

Unrelatedly, I’ve started working on the Brotherhood again. Getting closer to the end of the Tetralogy. I really need to finish typing up the first one, and then… PUBLISHING!

Except, y’know, not.

Yeah. Go join the forums.

-Timmy

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Heir

Writer’s block. It is an incredible thing that is not incredible and just blatantly dumb.

I don’t like writer’s block. I don’t think anyone does, because, like I said, it’s dumb.

I think that I’m going to end every sentence in this post with the word dumb.

Either that or each paragraph, ’cause I don’t want to overuse the word dumb.

I am experiencing terrible writer’s block. It sucks. A lot. And is terribly dumb.

I know what I want to convey. I know what has to happen. I even know how it has to happen. What I don’t know is how to convey what has to happen and how it happens in a not dumb way. It’s not even just one thing. Sometimes I can’t write a word in the Brotherhood, but I can author, like, fifty scripts and then a chapter of Jamez Blak and then go back and write another couple pages of Brotherhood. But now everything I write–and I mean everything–is dumb.

I even tried writing something else. Dumb.

I even tried not writing anything and reading instead. While the book is incredibly good (no seriously, it’s called Elantris and it’s really good. You should go check it out… possibly literally) it’s not really a good strategy for getting writing done. In fact, the strategy is sorta dumb.

I even tried writing a blog post about it. I’m talking about the HAT! post right below this one. That was originally going to have a horde of things in it, one of which was the Roomba thing and one of which was my Writer’s Block issues. But, of course, writing about having writer’s block isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Anyway, the blog post turned out dumb.

Anyway, I haven’t gotten a single l****5 page done, nor anything in regard of the Brotherhood Saga, nor anything of my own from-scratch POTOR script (that thing got to a good start, though). *sigh*. It’s dumb.

I think that I write best when it’s freezing cold. No seriously, I do. I think there’s something about even the slightest warmth that sends my brain into massive unauthorability. It makes the writing part of my brain dumb.

Also, why the heck is this post titled “Heir.”

No really, interrobang.

I miss Keira.

This is dumb.

-Timmy

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