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~Mary   =^_^=

Behind the scenes of Episode 11 - Not so Desperate Housewives.

So today, we launched Episode 11 "Instructional Sex Videos of the 1950s". So far, I've been told it is the funniest skit we've produced or at least it is of the caliber of previous skits like "Die Katze" and "Art School Nude Models."

This is one of those skits where we sort of knew where we wanted to go, but not completely. Kelsey and Claire thought it was a neat idea to do a parody of housewives in the 1950s. But there is so MUCH to parody that it was hard to figure out where exactly we wanted to go. The first hour of the shoot wasn't shooting; it was determining what to do. We just knew we wanted to something 1950s because Kelsey had a really neat dress and Claire had a kitchen that looked straight from the 1950s.

We thought of everything from grizzly "Turning your abusive husband into a meat pie" to stereotypical like "overdosing on cleaning products." It wasn't until I saw the phallic-shaped vase and the canisters that looked like nipples when I wanted to go into the direction. But Claire and Kelsey were really responsible for the great improv/dialogue.

By coincidence, Sebastian happened to be in the area and asked to come over. Originally, we were going to make him a husband but he only had a black shirt and jeans and cigarettes so it made more sense to use him as something else. It was decided to make him a "living prop."

The most interesting part is Sebastian contorting underneath the kitchen sink. People may think it was easy; but actually, there were pipes that he had to contort around so there was a lot less space. But Sebastian was insistent that he could do it. And he did it.

Kelsey pulled off the stilted acting that I wanted (and doesn't she look gorgeous?) and Claire was awesome as the more experienced housewife with great comedic timing. At the end of the shoot, she apologized to Sebastian for molesting him.

Trust me, he didn't mind one bit. ;)

The radio interview on Geek FM!

Last Tuesday, I was privileged to be able to be a subject of a radio interview with Geek FM (link: http://scarlet-rhapsody.com/geekfm/ ).

It's been years since I've done a radio interview. Listening to the interview, I was counting the times I went "um" and "like" as I do usually do in my speech, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.

Because I've never done an internet radio interview before, I did not know what to expect. Justin, one of the hosts was alongside me while Jared was in his house interviewing me through skype. Ah! The wonders of technology. Speaking of wondering about technology, I *still* need to figure out how to do skype one of these days. I think I have an innate fear of skype because it would be a secondhand version of chatroulette, even if it has been demonstrated to me several times that it's not the case.

Anyway, the first part was being a guest host on the show and I had no idea that they never had a guest before on the show. I was a guinea pig! But the people there: Justin, Andrea, Stan, Vic and Jared were great, they were easy to chat with AND we were all geeks! So we got to talk about anything and everything geeky.

I also didn't know that it was going to go for 2 hours. We got THAT carried away chatting :)

Then after all that, they conducted the interview with me where I got to talk about Hurry Up and Wait as well as some of my other projects like the Labyrinth of Jareth and LARP.

Andrea brought gluten-free brownies. I never have known they were gluten-free. They were quite nummy.

They said that I would be welcome back any time to guest host again. When my schedule settles down a bit, I may take them up on that...

~Ryan

First post! Behind the Announcement

So welcome to the "Hurry Up and Wait" production blog! The aim of this blog is to keep people posted on the various things that go on in our production: everything from thoughts, photos, sketch ideas, and whatever pops into our head.

Just so don't think this blog has a multiple personality disorder, this blog is accessed by the staff at Hurry Up and Wait so any of us can post at any time.

So the first order of business is to announce a format change. Josh, Sebastian and I decided to do this as a video:

You would be surprised how hard it is to stay passed out when someone is putting shaving cream on your face and it starts to get into your eye, so you have to shut it tighter. And I have no idea what they are filming while playing passed out.

THEN there's the time when Sebastian actually loses his balance while on the bed and I... feel "pressure" on my face. I still think Josh should have filmed me wiping shaving cream from the most delicate of places from Sebastian's pants.

Catch you all soon,

Ryan