Chapter 7
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
UghI’m not sure if I’m going to last the week. I’m trying, but this is all turning terrible.
From the Toxie 4 craft services guy…“We never had a steady food budget. It was the lowest bidder on a day by day basis. Each day I’d have to dig up the cheapest crap […]

Chapter Six: June 23-28
Thursday, June 23, 2005
ECJust now, watching Bitte paint a collection of eyeballs, I was slammed with memories of reading old Bill Gaines/EC Comics magazines in my grandfather’s basement. They were rude, gory, and usually cheesy and funny. I adored them. I now realize how much they’re still a part of me. […]

Chapter 5Friday, June 17, 2005
Budget Crisis In two short scenes in Poultrygeist, a couple of guns are shot, a couple of bullets hit zombies, and a miniature of the Chicken Bunker gets blown up. We’ve been waiting for (”gun/pyro-expert”) Drew Giritano’s estimate. Finally, it arrived: $10,000.
To give some perspective, that’s a third […]

Chapter Four - June 13-16, 2005.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Shooting schedule
For the last few months, Lloyd has been regularly freaking out about how behind schedule we are. We’re supposed to start shooting in seven weeks, and:
- We still haven’t cast all the leads.
- The rehearsals are terrible - the only readers who make any effort […]

Chapter Three - June 9-12, 2005.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Dreams
I found notes about a dream that I don’t remember, but evidently wrote about in the middle of the night…
We were shooting a reality show instead of a movie - something like Survivor meets Poultrygeist. In it, I was taking a grueling gym class where […]

From the journals of Andy Deemer, Chapter Two
Chapter 2: June 6-8, 2005.
(The weekend’s auditions had yielded some talent, at last, as well as some sleazy individuals.)
Monday, June 06, 2005
Sleaze
It’s 9pm and there’s banging noises coming down from above, once again. Only this time, it’s the banging noises of partially-naked “beautiful young people”, to quote Lloyd. […]

Episode One. June, 2005.
At this point in the production, we had no investors, we had almost none of the special effects, and we had absolutely no cast. And we were supposed to start filming in less than two months. Lloyd kept screaming “this film is about two things - special effects and beautiful […]