Justin and Mikey Shoot the Shit

[The Rocketmen]

We've made films and shit in the past, but I like recalling fun memories.

Justin, what was the name of the chick we turned down to go with Montana for ...? Denise?

[The Sandmen]

Yes. She was gung-ho at the table, but didn't reply to our follow up. Only Montana did. Montana has since gone on to get married and have a baby. You still friends with her on Facebook?

Also, I still don't get why everyone assumed we were making a pornography. Sure, we needed 1 dude and one chick, but why the hell would we have an open casting call in a school hallway for a pornography? Come on now, world.

[The Rocketmen]

I had Montana on facebook for a bit, she was a cool chick. I know my bro even got hung up on her a bit.

The porno aspect I think is due to two guys with facial hair wearing leather jackets with a sign that said "Wanted: 2 actors - 1 male, 1 female" all we needed to add to the creepy factor was a sentence underneath that said "You know what's 'up'"

[The Sandmen]

I was sad that we had so many people sign up, but none of them followed up with us. Except Tim. I really liked him, and wish we could have got a project going with him.

[The Rocketmen]

Here is a pic of Denise, who we passed up on the film. She went on to compete in Miss Canada competitions.

[The Rocketmen]

This is Montana, who we used for the film and was great, and coincidentally is in this pic with Randy Couture! Neat.

[The Sandmen]

Good for us. Fuck.

Tim's hotter though, to be honest. And Denise is great, but I think Montana was perfect for the role. We also had that problem where Tim didn't sound the way he looked, which could be a problem with voice over work. Reality doesn't matter when it comes to fiction.

[The Sandmen]

Tee hee, I remember that picture of her with Randy.

[The Rocketmen]

Yes, that was a problem, it was also difficult coordinating a schedule with them to be able to do voice over and ended up using Ali and Daryn. Tim had a great look and would have done well, but the voice over would have been way off the mark.

[The Sandmen]

For Daryn, yes. But at the time we thought we could get everyone to record their own voice-overs at the time. But he had one of those voices that just...didn't sound like he looked. I really wanted to do something with him after. Damnit. He even asked us a bunch of times how the project went. A genuinely good guy.

[The Sandmen]

and the schedule, wow, that was hard. We had so much availability and Daryn just had his first daughter several months before. PLanning film-work around a 1 year olds life is crazy hard. I know that first-hand, we did that with Absentia and Jimmy Sparkles, haha.

[The Rocketmen]

Yes, it was really difficult, and in some ways I think it took away from the overall quality of the film, but I'm still proud of what we did for our first film.

I also had fun using my food card to buy everyone meals as we did the shooting lol

[The Sandmen]

OMG, I totally forgot about that. Like 2 weeks left of school, and you had like, $200 on a cafeteria meal card, hahahah. "Eat, eat my pretties" you kept saying. We assumed you were poisoning us, and were all pleasantly surprised when we all survived.

[The Rocketmen]

Yes. I convinced everyone that the BBQ Bacon Cheddar was the best burger at the school, and most ordered and agreed. We also agreed that their poutines were oddly always cold.

[The Sandmen]

I remember none of that. Just that I got a bunch of chocolate milks and the odd pizza slice, cause I was not a fan of cafe food. Glad the card didn't go to waste tho. That freaked me out. And I am sure the cast and crew appreciated the catering