Never judge a book by it's cover

Last Saturday on a British TV show called Britain's Got Talent as very modest and quirky woman took the stage to laughs, eye rolling and ridicule from the crowds and judges. Then she opened her mouth and this angelic sound came from it. The crowd went crazy with applause, the judges jaws dropped and this very sweet older lady blew away this crowd.

My friend Tim Tweeted and posted on the Treksf forums the video of this since being in the US I wasn't able to see this. I watched it on Monday morning and was in tears. It was so inspirational, moving and the perfect way to start my week.

What is more is this woman's background and the life she lead. She had been taking care of her dying mother for years and years until recently when she passed away. She lives with her cat Pebbles and has never been kiss. So the song she sang I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserable just fit her life so well, it added another dimension to this lovely woman's performance.

Now five days later I still cry watching her performance and am moved beyond words.. I've watch it about 20 times so far. Her video on YouTube has had more then 16 million hits in five days, she has become a worldwide celebrity over night and I couldn't be more happier for her.

Today I watched her first (of many) US appearance on CBS Morning Talk Show and she is very quiet and awkward and you can tell she still not quite sure what is happening.. but she sang again live and it was FANTASTIC.

Bottom line is we put FAR TOO MUCH emphasis on looks and FAR TOO LITTLE on just accepting a person for his or herself. And shame on us. I have never been one to judge people on look alone but this video and Susan's courage to stand up there as inspired me to double my effects in accepting everyone. Susan, you are an inspiration. You are a BEAUTIFUL person with a voice to match!!

If you haven't seen her check her out on you tube.

Recording The Ready Room

Today was my day to rest, I had to record the latest Ready Room podcast with my friends Jen and Rick and that was alot of fun since we haven't all been together for over a month since we all have been busy here and there. So that was alot of fun. I did a little editing but most of the day was spent with Harry on the couch trying to catch up on some missed TV. So it was a nice relaxing Saturday.

Still at Work

Well it's going on 12 hours and I'm still at work.. it's not the longest I have every been at work but it's been awhile since I pulled a shift longr then 12 hours. Oh well luckily it doesn't happen to often and I do still have my internet to keep my company. I hope to get out of here soon.. I've already eaten an entire bag of popcorn and now feel sick.. want to get out and pick up some dinner for the hubby and me.

It's One of Those Days

We had six outputs to upload to the Network today. Each one takes about three hours to prepare. Even though everyone knows it takes a long time and we ask they have to ready by lunch time it never happens that way.. it's not 4:30pm and we have gotten one episode done. The other shows were either no where near ready or they tell us it will happen in ten minutes which stretches into four hours.. so now we wait. Jermey my day AE has to leave at 5pm today which means I will be the one waiting for these editors/producers to give me their episodes so I can get them up on the network ftp site.

Besides those uploads we have DC special and webisodes that we have to upload to the network.

It's going to be a long night.

New Harry Potter Trailer

Check out this new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Trailer. This movie look amazing. If you know me you know I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and when I watched this trailer it brought tears to my eyes. It looks so amazing and I haven't wait to see it on July 15th.

KOTG is on Facebook

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Knights of the Guild Ep 3

Knights of the Guild Episode 3 <--- click on link to go to feed

Show Notes:
Here it is Episode 3 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.

Today’s show features:

• First up we have our monthly Vorkism, every month Vork will bestow his words of wisdom to us.
• Our location today is Clara’s house, babysitting her kids
• We talk breifly about Season Three.
• For our Fan interview we have die hard fan Chris F.

• We update you on the Cast and Crew and what they currently are up too.
• For our BTS segment we discuss our experience working on Season Two Episode Five: Sacking Up.
• We have a very special cast interview: Vince Caso who plays Bladezz

• We have our Fan Feedback section with our very first audio feedback.
• We ask for Donations.
• Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.

Please send your audio or written comments to knightsoftheguild@gmail.com or you can leave your comments in the comment section of this site.

Check out our daily blog at http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/
Follow us on twitter @knightsofguild

Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans for the fans.
Kenny & Jenni

Other Important Links

• Captain Dan Dixon vs. The Moth Sluts From the Fifth Dimension http://zombiejoes.homestead.com/CaptainDanDixonVSMothSluts.html
• The Crew http://TheCrew.tv
• The Guild http://www.watchtheguild.com
• Delta H Con
• Kim Evey’s Workshop http://www.swamp.org/workshops.html
• Knights of the Guild Feeds/Downloads http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com
• Knights of the Guild Daily Blog http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/

Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:

• Waffle on
• World of Wayne
• Anomaly
• Take Him With You

Knights of the Guild Ep 3 - Editing

After the Paley Festival I had to do one more pass on KOTG #3. After listening to it I heard a few things that I needed to polish.. so at 11pm I did some last minute editing. I wanted to get it done by midnight so I was able to post it at midnight on the 15th.

Paley Festival - Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog

Today I went to the Acrlight Cinerama Dome to watch the Paley Festival presentation of Doctor Horrible Sing Along Blog. My friend Chris got some tickets and knew I was a huge fan so he asked if I wanted to go with him.. of course I said yes. We had such great seats.. about seven rows back but right in the middle.

The night started with watching Doctor Horrible on the big screen which was FANTASTIC!!!! After that Joss, Zack, and Jeb Whedon along with Nathon Fillion, Felicia Day and Maurissa Tancharoen came up on stage and talked about filming, producing and acting in Doctor Horrible. Then they took questions from fans. It was a very fun night but the best part happened when it was over.

As soon as they said goodnight hundreds of crazy fans rushed the stage for autographs. I wanted to say hi to Felicia and introduce Chris to her. I tried to fight the crowd but soon gave up and Chris said we should go stand where the exit and about ten minutes Felicia started to head out as she was leaving she had to get her purse and as she was walking back to her seat I got as close as I could and said hi. She looked up and saw me, she gave me that wonderful smile and said "Kenny.. it's so good to see you, I'm so happy you came." and gave me a hug. Of course folks were clamoring around us trying to get her autograph. She signed a few then introduced me to George Ruiz (her agent) as he went to shake my hand as Felicia mentioned that I was the one who did the Behind the Scene stuff for season two and he gave me a give big smile and said "Oh Felicia sings your praises, thank you very much for all your work." I was beyond flattered. I then was about to introduce my friend Chris to Felicia she greeted him with a smile and hand shake. She then went to sign more autographs and I decided to leave as I got to say hi and it was going to be a while before those guys would be able to get out of there.

It was a great night and again it just re-enforced how wonderful Felicia Day is. Can't wait to get back on set for Season Three.

Home Loan

Today I went to Bank of America online to check out their mortgage offer. Well I saw that you could get pre-approved for a home loan in 10 minutes.. so I filled out the few pages and hit send. About three minutes pass and I get a page saying you have been pre-approved.. I couldn't believe how easy it was. There was a number to call to confirm all this so I called because I wanted to know about locking in the rate and had a few other questions. Well come to find out that the online thing wasn't really official. It was more of a preliminary pre-qualifying thing. She asked if I wanted to go ahead and send this info to the under writers and get a real pre-approval, it would cost $50 but I thought it was worth it so I spent about an hour and a half on the phone giving out info and getting really confused. The woman (Regina) was great, it's just a very complicated process. We talked about various options and luckily I had talked with my friend Jeremy who gave a quick lesson in home buying.. in the end I got a really great 30 year fixed deal. The current rate is 4.85 with no points but they rate can vary as they won't lock it until we put a bid in for a house and start escrow. So we are now officially pre-approved for a home loan. I qualified for a little bit more then what we wanted to spend. The approval is for 90 days so that means Harry and I have three months to find a home or will have to do the pre-approval process again.

Now the fun begins by looking for a home.. I'll keep you posted.

The Ready Room Podcast

Tonight I finished editing The Ready Room Podcast #53. This was just a "clip" show. It was about an hour and 20 minutes of post readings. Makes it easier to edit and luckily my friend Rick offered to do the music pass. I normally do that last and it's my least favorite part so I was very happy to pass it on to him.

Still want to do one final pass on KOTG #3 before I post it on the 15th.

Easter Lunch

Today Harry and I went to my Dad, Brother and Sister-in-Laws for a nice Easter Lunch. My family isn't religious but we normally visit my Dad every other Sunday and this time it happen to fall on Easter so we decided to have a nice ham/turkey with all the trimmings lunch. It was a nice time and since I have been so busy the past month we hadn't seen everyone in a while.

Finished KOTG #3

Today I finished editing Knights of the Guild Podcast #3. Since I did most of the work the past few days it was pretty easy to finish. I was laughing out loud several times and I think this is my favorite we have done so far. I'm now sending to Jenni for her approval but it's 99% done. I'll do a little more polishing and it will be posted on April 15th.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

Today Harry and I watched the second of four Doctor Who TV specials for 2009/2010. This one was titled Planet of the Dead. It's been a while since we saw any new Who and it was nice jumping back in with our favorite Doctor. It was really good, interesting story, and I love that everyone survived, well except the bus driver and the two fly aliens. I was expecting each person to get picked off one at a time like the Xmas special.. so that was fun and I really liked Michele Ryan as a companion. Very much The Doctors equal, too bad she's not sticking around. Loved the warning, he will knock four times.. I wonder who she is talking about .. the Master?? And the preview for The Waters of Mars special was super creepy.. can't wait.

House Hunting

Today Harry and I went out to do a little house hunting. We decided to look in Burbank as this city is top on our list of own a home in. We drove around for about three hours going up and down streets but didn't really make any progress. Maybe because it was Easter weekend but there were no open houses and we pretty much just got to see different neighborhoods and styles of homes. We really do need to get a Realtor since they do most of the leg work and it's just your job to go look at the house. So next week we look for a Realtor. We had a few friends give us some names but before we contact one I want to see about getting pre-approved for a mortgage loan. I'll keep you posted.

Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword

Today Harry and I watched a new Fantasy/Comedy TV series called Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword. They say it's a cross between Legend of the Seeker and Spaceballs and they were not wrong. It was stupid, cheesy and way too funny. Both Harry and I laughed out loud. It airs on Thursday nights at Comedy Central.. if you like slapstick kind of comedy set in the world of Fantasy then you'll love this.. can't wait to see the next episode. You can find out more here.

More Podcast Editing

Today I finished rough editing Knights of the Guild #3. It's great to be able to do this at work during lunch and downtime. I have so much podcast editing to do these days it's nice to use every available free time I have to take care of it. So The Ready Room is almost complete and KOTG #3 is rough cut.. now I just have to import it into Avid and finish it up.. I think I'll be doing that tomorrow.

TV Time

Today I tried to stay off the computer when I got home from work and catch up on some TV. We have about 20 hours of Lost, Heroes, Legend of the Seeker and Dollhouse to catch up. Still a lot of TV behind but we started to make a dent.. yay!!!

Podcast Editing

I downloaded Audacity at work because during my slow times I wanted to be able to rough edit The Ready Room podcast and Knights of the Guild. Today I got a good chunk of KOTG #3 rough edited. I hope to finish it up tomorrow during my non-busy time.

We're Buying a House

While at work today Harry IM'd me and said, "We need to talk". My first thought of uh oh, what's wrong. But when I got home he told me that his family (Mom and Dad) liquidated their assets and have given each of their kids their inheritance early.

So Harry has a rather nice amount of Euros in the bank. He suggested that we use some of this money to put a downpayment on a house. I could not believe it. I had come to the conclusion that we would never own a house since it takes two incomes and with Harry's special circumstances we would never be able to afford a downpayment... well thanks to Harry's loving parents we can.

So the first night in three weeks that I thought I would be going to bed early because I didn't have to edit anything I spent with Harry looking at houses till the wee hours in the morning.

So we are official looking for a house to buy, with low rates and falling house prices I'm hoping we can get a good deal. Going to starting looking this Saturday in the Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena area... wish us luck..

Knights of the Guild Podcast Daily Blog

Because of limitation on the Podbean website I have decided to create a Knights of the Guild Podcast Daily Blog. This new blog will have semi-daily updates on what's going on in the world of Kenny and Jenni and updating you on the progress all our the Guildie goodness.

Knightsoftheguild.podbean.com will still carry our feeds, have direct downloads and show notes but daily info will be on http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/

So check it out!!!

FINALLY DONE!!!!

Today after work I digitized a few problem tapes and did one more polishing pass. At about midnight I finally finished these Guild BTS DVD Extras. Even though it was a rush I think we came up with some really good pieces and I can't wait to see what the fans think when the DVD comes out.

Of course I have a ton of footage and I will continue to create more BTS pieces for Watchtheguild.com website as well as The Guild's You Tube channel.

I'll keep you posted on when this stuff will be out.

Murphy's Law

Well just before I got into work today I got an email from Producer Kim Evey informing me that the deadline for the DVD stuff (which was suppose to be this coming Tuesday) has been delayed.

LOL.. just my luck, been killing myself for the past three weeks to get this stuff done and on the day that I'm about to finish, after a 40 hour work weekend, they push back the deadline.

Oh well the good thing is that I'm almost done. A few more hours tonight I'll my pieces will be complete.

Digitizing, Digitizing, Digitizing

Today I got up really early and continue to edit my Gulid BTS pieces for the upcoming DVD. At 11am Kim Evey came over and sat with me for four hours and went over each piece until we were happy with the results. Once we were done I exported the pieces and email them to Felicia for final approval. While I waited I started the long process of uprezing the footage.

What I mean by uprezing is this, I have 60 hours of footage and if I digitized this footage 1:1 it would take up a very large amount of drive space, space I don't have so I digitized all the footage at 15:1 so I could get all of it in my system and take up very little drive space. Now that the pieces are done I have go go back through and re-digitize the footage that I am using in each piece.

This process normally has it's issues like timecode not matching so you digitize the wrong clip, or the tape can't find a pre-roll time and has issues digitizing. So I was anticipating problems but I have to say my first piece uprezed with not a single issue... at about 1am when I started my second uprezing I ran into a few problems and by the time I finished at 11am the next day I only had about nine clips total that I'm going to have to find manual and re-digitize and cut in.. so all in all a pretty good uprez session.

Editing All Day

From 8am to 1am I have been editing several of the Behind the Scenes DVD Extra pieces that I am doing for The Guild Second Season DVD. I have a screening with Kim Evey (Producer) Sunday AM so I have to get these done. I think they turned out pretty good. Now I just have to show Kim then Felicia.. I hope they don't have many notes.. can't wait till I get these done.

KOTG Microcast #3 - Quest for the Streamys: The Results

We go back to last Saturday and join our intrepid reporter Penny Jowell as she reports on the Guild cast and crew while they walk the red carpet, watch the Streamys live and head to the after parties.

The Guild won three Streamy Awards

• Best Ensemble Cast
• Best Actress (Felicia Day)
• Best Comedy Web series

Ms. Jowell was joined by Robert Welkner. Robert is one of the hosts of COIN-OP TV LIVE, which is part of TheStream.TV network. Along with his co-host Hailey Bright, It is the second longest running show on the network with one of the largest loyal followings. Highlights from the live show include interviews with famed video game composer Tommy Tallarico, professional gamers Fatal1ty and Stermy, the team behind Screw Attack and Director of Operations for Nexon, Min Kim. COIN-OP TV LIVE airs every Thursday at 8PM PST / 11PM EST on www.TheStream.TV!

http://coin-op.tv/ http://www.thestream.tv/series.php?s=4

Here are some photo’s of our lovely reporter Penny Jowell, yes we know she looks like Jenni Powell but there’s no relations.

Check out more picture and video at Watchtheguild.com

Editing KOTG Microcast #3

I decided to bring all of my recording of Microcast #3 to work with me so I can get a rough cut strung out. There is a lot of editing that needs to be done to this one as it's our live recording from the Streamys. It's going to be a rather longer microcast running about 45 minutes but it should be fun. I hope to finish it tonight and get it posted asap.

No Delay in Delivery

Well I got an email from Kim Evey informing me that they can not push back my delivery day. So my DVD pieces are due by Tuesday April 7th. And I have to say that I'm kind of glad that is the case as I am sooooo tired and really want to be done with these DVD things. Once this is done then I can go back to cutting some more Guild BTS stuff for their you tube channel and show website. Those this will be my last weekend of cutting this stuff.

More Editing

With only a few days left to finish I stayed up till about 1am again working on this third piece for The Guild BTS DVD extra. I cut down some of the stuff, and rearranged other stuff. By the end of the night I think I have a pretty good piece.. now I just have to start cover up shots and of course sent it to Kim and Felicia who will give me some notes.

Emailed Felicia and Kim

Had to email Felicia and Kim today and let them know there was no way I was going to be able to get this final piece done by Friday for the screening. Kim called later in the day and said she would see if we could extent my due dates a little. So will see what happens..

What a Day!!!

Today I did not go into work because I needed to get started on this third BTS Guild piece. I have Felicia and Kim coming over Friday night to view it and I have barely got it started. Well it started off pretty good. I got up at 7am and started to edit, around 10:30 I got an email from Kim asking if my other piece that I had done first was going to be uploaded to microsoft today. I started to panic, as I was told that the three pieces that I am doing would not be due until April 7th and I had planned out everything for the next five days so I could get it all done. Well with this news I had to drop everything and get to finishing this piece for microsoft. It was pretty much done but it did have temp footage in there and I had to uprez the entire piece. Well after seven hour of problems and issues I finally finished the piece and it was ready to be uploaded.

Of course I had no idea it would take another six hours to upload it. For some reason my upload speed on my computer is really slow and though the piece was 1.2 gigs when I first went to upload it directly to the companies website it said it was going to take 200 hours, well that was just crazy so I decided to upload it to my personal ftp site. Well that was going to take three hours so I started the process.. at about 82% it decided to delete the upload so I had to start all over again.

Well I was uploading for a second time I went back to cutting my third piece, the one that I was suppose to be doing all day today. I managed to get a very rough cut put together but by this time it was 1am and I was way to tired to continue. About this time my second upload had worked and my first piece was ready to go.

There is no way I'm going to be ready for Friday.. gonna have to email Felicia and Kim.

Deep Space Nine Action Figures

Today I got my Deep Space Nine Series 2 Action Figures... I had pre-ordered these almost a year ago and they finally arrived. There are four characters, Kira, who looks AWESOME, O'Brien who looks pretty good... it's funny because they even gave him his double chin. Brashir who from a certain angle looks like him but from some angles he doesn't look like the actor at all and the final one Margon who looks spot on and if a very cool figure.

I'm not collecting may action figures these days but Diamond is still producing some very cool Star Trek figures.

Internet Issues Resolved??

Today the Time Warner tech guy came over. I of course was at work but Harry was there. The tech guy did his thing but after he was finished he informed Harry that he couldn't find the problem. Regardless of him finding the problem whatever they did worked and our internet is free flowing.. Download speed has tripled and our upload speed, though slower then Nov., has improved to reasonable speed. So we're not sure if it's fixed or not but Harry is happy that it's working... so I guess this story is to be continued...

Working on Notes

Last night I got notes from Kim and Felicia on two of my Guild BTS DVD Extra piece. So this morning before work I took an hour to work on some of them. One piece was on it's 8th pass so the note were very minor and took no time at all to do. The second piece was on it's 3rd pass so there were a few more notes but I did manage to get them all done before I needed to get to work. Tonight I plan on outputting the two completed pieces and start working on the third and final piece. Of course this is the plan but my plans normally don't work out... but will see.

TV Night

Tonight I took a break from The Guild BTS to try and watch a bit of TV that is starting to fill up on DVR. I'm about three episodes behind on Heroes, Lost, Legend of the Seeker and a few episodes down on Dollhouse, Amazing Race and Extreme Home Makeover. So tonight I was determined to watch a few of those shows to clear some room on my DVR for this weeks TV that I will be missing. We managed to watch a few things but we still have a ton to watch.. one of these days I'll get caught up.

Internet Issues Continue

I got an email from Time Warner saying something like the problem with the slow internet can't be fixed on their end that they have to send a technician to come out to the house to fix it.. so I called this morning and after several different people and about a half hour on the phone I made an appointment for a tech person to come out tomorrow from 10am to 12pm to fix the issue.. now I just have to wait.

More Editing

Since my of my Saturday was busy with Harry's BBQ and then Streamy Awards I didn't get much done in Editing of The Guild BTS DVD extras. So I knew today I need to kick it up. I have finished one piece and was about halfway done with a second. I really wanted to finish the second and at least get halfway done with the third. But the second piece took a little longer then planned. I had gotten up at 8am and only took two breaks (lunch and dinner) and didn't get done until around 11pm. After that I was so tired and my hands and fingers were killing me. I had been in front of that computer for 15 hours. But I finally got a cut done and sent it off to Felicia and Kim for notes.

I then started on my third piece. I spent the next two and a half hours pulling interview bites. It was now 1:30am and I was too tired to continue so I called it a night. All the prep work is done for the third piece and know all I have to do is cut it together and find cover shots. I'll have to work on it at night when I get off work but I hope to have it done by Thursday night.

Then the weekend Felicia will be coming over to my place to do one final pass on the three piece, we will lock them and then I can uprez and do final outputs to send to Kim on Monday and this part of the Guild craziness will be over and I won't lie.. I am looking so forward to that.

TNG on Family Guy

I stopped for a half hour to watch this very special Family Guy which reunited the original cast of Star Trek The Next Generation.

Some of my friends were disappointed with this as they have be heavily promoting this with clips of the TNG stuff. But the TNG/Stewie storyline was a very minor B story. And the Meg/Brian Religion story was the A story. But both Harry and I laughed out load at all the TNG pieces and loved every minute of it. Of course it would have been great if the episode revolved around the TNG story but what they did give us was hilarious.

Steamy Awards

Tonight was the first annual Streamy Awards (Oscars for Webseries) and The Guild and Legend of Neil are both up for awards. I had worked on the second season of both webseries. Felicia Day was kind enough to get me a ticket for the show tonight but with Harry's BBQ which we planned a month prior and my deadline for The Guild BTS DVD stuff I opted out and instead watched it live online.

As I watched and read reports of folks who were there I kind of was bummed. If I wasn't so crazed I could have planned things out better and might have actually been able to attend.. but oh well I'm sure The Guild will be up for more awards next year and I'll be able to go. So instead I enjoyed watching it live and reporting on tweeter what was happening.

The Guild came away with three wins. The first one and I think one of the better ones as it's encompasses the entire cast "Best Ensemble Cast" of a webseries. Next Felicia Day won for "Best Actress" in a Comedy webseries and finally the big upset, The Guild was "Best Comedy" webseries beating out the favorite and many many award winner Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog. I was hooting and hollering at my computer screen I was so happy. The Guild may have lost out on some of the technical award to Dr. Horrible but it won some of the biggest and top awards. I'm very proud to call the cast and crew of The Guild, friends and know all their hard work paid off.

PS... Felicia Day was up for Best Writer of a Comedy Webseries and the clip they used was the one where I am a Bum on the streets from Episode 3. I almost fell out of my chair to see me on the huge screen. How cool is that.

Harry's Birthday BBQ

Today was Harry's Birthday BBQ. Ever since we moved into the house we have had a birthday BBQ as we have a great backyard for entertaining. We had a nice group of friends and family show up. We had some delicious hot dogs and hamburgers and all the sides. It was a very low key and nice party. I woke up earlier that morning in a panic because I forgot to bake his birthday cake the following night. But everything worked out great, cleaned up the house, which Harry did most of the night before, and prepped all the food and finished the cake. Everything was a success. Thanks to all those who joined us.

Internet Issues

Lately Harry has been cursing at his Mac in German, never a good sign. He's been really upset at our internet connection. But my thing was.. well what are you going to do... Time Warner sucks but unless we go with a DSL service which is known to be slower then cable or pay way to much money for a T1 line we are stuck with the TW service. But tonight I noticed that things were running rather slow so I tested our internet speed and found out On March 28th 2009 we are getting 4.89 mb/s for download and a unheard of 0.06 mb/s for upload. And back on Nov 22 2008 I tested my internet speed and found I had 9.83 mb/s for download and .97 mb/s for upload. Download cut in half and the upload speed is 1/16th of it's speed. I knew something was wrong as we are still paying for the high speed service. So I emailed Time Warner and asked what the heck is going on.. so now I wait for a reply.

Happy Birthday to My Husband

Happy Birthday Harry

I Love you very much

Editing Guild BTS and KOTG Microcast

Today after a horrible day at work I came home and started to work on the edit notes that Felicia had emailed me earlier. I managed to get one of the pieces done and I think it's almost ready to do. But the other piece was going to take a little more time and it was already 11pm so I opted to hold off on editing that and moved on to editing our next Microcast of Knights of the Guild podcast. Stayed up to a little pass midnight.

Star Trek TNG on Family Guy

I heard about this a few months ago but Fox has up a preview of the upcoming Family Guy that features the entire reunited cast of Star Trek The Next Generation. I have watched this clip over and over and I laugh out loud every time. I can't wait till this Sunday and watch the entire episode. Check out the preview here.. you won't be sorry.

Daily Booth

There is this new and cool social network called Daily Booth. If you are aware of You Tube there have been quite a few videos of folks who take a single picture of themselves every day for a year and then play them back to back. This is the same kind of idea but it's crossed with facebook/twitter. You take a photo of yourself everyday and share it with folks who "follow" you. My friend Jenni has been doing for for about 10 days and it's funny seeing the different pictures she takes everyday. So I figured it might be fun and signed up. You can see my first picture here Geekyfanboy

8000 Visitors and More Editing

Today our Knights of the Guild website http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com has just hit it's 8000th visitor in a month and a half. I'm so happy that folks seem to enjoy the podcast that Jenni and I work so hard to produce.

On another note I continued to edit The Guild BTS pieces for the upcoming DVD. It's alot of fun but very tiring as I only have time to do it after a long 12 hour work day and stay up till 1am every night. The good and bad thing is it will be over in a few weeks as all the pieces are due then. I'll keep you posted on news of The Guild second season DVD and when we might be seeing for sale.

Knights of the Guild on Twitter

Tonight I opened a Twitter account for our Knights of the Guild podcast. Seems like I have alot of folks, almost 400 people and I'm sure the majority of them are following me because they are Guild fans, which is fantastic. So I figured it was time for KOTG to have it's own following. So if you Twitter you can follow our podcast at @KnightsofGuild or if you want to follow me on Twitter you can find me at @geekyfanboy

Happy Birthday Gerda

Today is my Sister-in-Law Gerda's Birthday.

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag!!!!

More Editing of Guild BTS

Seems like all I every do now is Blog about Guild stuff. But it is what is consuming my life now... with The Guild DVD and The Guild Podcast.. so here is more Guild stuff.

After watching BSG finale I started working on the two BTS pieces. I had done notes on one and sent my 5th pass to Kim and Felicia for finale notes. Then I spent the rest of the day editing the second piece. It's a slow process as I string out the interview bites then have to sift through 60 hours of footage to find the right shot that could cover what the interviewee is talking about. Around 11pm I was spent.. I wasn't feeling well and I could barely keep my eyes open. I intended to stay up to 1am like I have the past week but just couldn't do it.

Still have two weeks to get these pieces done.

Battlestar Galactica Finale

Well before I started editing my Guild BTS I wanted to take two hours and watch the final episode of Battlestar Galactica. It aired on Friday night and was dying all weekend to see it.

It was a two hour and 11 minute roller coaster ride. Just when you thought it was over, it sped up and twisted. I enjoyed the ending. It was kind of like LOTR ending. There were many endings. they had a lot of story lines to wrap up

Some of the highlights:

Roslyn saying thank you to the Dr... this is when I started to cry. The fact that he was about to break down did it for me.

Loved seeing the old and new Cylons battling together.

The Galacitca crashing into the Cylon ship was beautiful. Then when it did it's final jump and looked as though it was going to break apart.. so good.

Adama saying goodbye to the Galactica.. very moving and a fitting end to that awesome ship.

When they did the montage of the ships flying into the sun and you hear the original BSG music.. gave me chills.

When Adama and Roslyn say goodbye to Lee and Starbuck.. that's when the water works began and they continued with the Adama and Rosyln scene in the shuttle, then she dies, then Adama puts his wedding ring her.. just thinking about scene brings tears to my eyes.

So many good things. They still left a few unanswered questions that fans could interpret different ways.

I was so happy to see that they showed up a few days after they reached "Earth". And the idea of present humans on Earth are decedents of Hera the Cylon/Human hybrid.. which means we all have a little Cylon in us.

All in all it was a fantastic ending to one of the most dramatic and woderful series I have ever watched. I'm very sad to see it go, but enjoyed the wild ride it took me on.