That’s a Whole Bunch O’ Bullskit

As you may have read in past blog entries that I am filming with Against the Wall Theatre in Red Deer. If you haven’t read those entires why don’t you go ahead and read them. I don’t mind, I have some stuff that I can do until you get back. I have a suicide note that I need to finish my third draft on and I have to replace the laces on my sneakers. So go ahead, I’ll take 5 to do those things and you take 5 to go read those entries.

Hello again. Let’s pick up where we left off: on February 12th I had another shoot with the AtW Theatre crew as we were getting some ‘digital shorts’ ready for their February edition of Bullskit. I didn’t think it would be possible to top something as memorable as the Olympic Torch running in our second shoot but I was pleasantly surprised. We filmed another sketch with the same character we shot with for the January Bullskit, however that video has not been posted on the interwebs yet, but here’s hoping. It was during this shoot that something exciting happened.

For the first time ever in the history of my 6 year long filming ‘career’ I was stopped by security for filming. We were in the middle of shooting our first sketch for the day when I noticed that down the hall of the school walked a member of the security team. She came in and told us how people were complaining about our location and that we were blocking a fire exit. I was then told that I would need to go talk to the head of the security to get permission for filming on school ground. Somewhat crapping my pants I decided to followthrough with this and I ventured into the office of the head of security alongside Jenna (who is one of the heads of Bullskit.)

Anyways, the man behind the desk looked anything less than friendly. He was bald and had a goatee, and if you know anything about that kind of person you know that the first thing that’ll happen is a piledriver through a glass table. Luckily for my fragile body this was not the route that the conversation went. It was one of those moments where I just learnt again to never judge a book by its cover. The bald man was quite friendly, there were moments when I thought he was going to pick me up in his manly arms and cuddle me, cooing sweet nothings into my ears.

We were able to get permission to film on the campus and we went about on our merry way and wrapped up shooting on two sketches in total. It was a great experience and of course I’ll keep you readers informed if any other Bullskit or AtW Theatre news comes out. So stay tuned, maybe I’ll be able to talk to my beloved bald man again.

-Justin