There are two more auctions to go, and two more road trips to make. I’m really looking forward to this, and I’ve never heard Carrie so excited. This is gonna be FUN.

We get there and everything was great until this Nigerian guy started throwing a fit about signing a release form. This wasn’t anything unusual; no one gets into an independent movie without signing a release form. Its standard practice. It protect ourselves, the movie, the production company, any distributors who might pick the film up, and it also protects anyone who signs it from potential legal entanglement. Everyone has to sign one, even the three of us who are making the movie. But he kept going on and on saying “You do not trust me,” which, to his credit, was absolutely true. I did not trust him. No one that whines and complains that much about signing a simple release form is to be trusted. He was clearly out to get something.

He started talking about how he’s known Carrie for years and how he cannot believe she doesn’t trust him, and on and on about how he is asking for nothing, until it became clear that he was worried the the movie might make some money and he wouldn’t get any of it. So really it came down to the fact that he didn’t trust US. And that’s cool with me; he’d never met me before in his life, so why should he trust me? I have no problem with that. But there was no way he was getting in this movie without signing a release form. And no matter how much money the movie makes, he was never going to get any. We were going to put him in the movie to get exposure for his radio show in exchange for him giving us exposure for our movie. There was never going to be any money involved, ever.

So, in the end, I didn’t get to be on the radio and we all burned two hours of our lives sitting in a broadcast booth listening to irritating African music. But we did get some very amusing behind the scenes footage of the three of us that will probably end up on the DVD somewhere, so it definitely wasn’t a complete waste.