What's more miraculous then Bitchy (Suzanne) and Dicky (Mitch) flying is that they actually allowed someone else to take a picture of them, but I guess even superheroes have their limits.

Day 5--Tuesday, if you're keeping track--of our marathon gave us a bit of time to regroup, refocus and shoot some much needed solo scenes with Stacey as Suzanne.  At the end of the day Mike needed to go home, shortly before Jim arrived, so there was a period where it was only Rajah, me, Maura, Mark and Stacey.  That is one quiet, quiet group of people.

We shot a bunch of scene-lets: the empty bedroom, a stack of pizza boxes in a messy kitchen, Suzanne sleeping alone on the couch, Suzanne admiring the necklace in the mirror, Suzanne asking Mitch out on a date.  All came out great, and Stacey did a good job with little to no lines for the day.  We also got to play around with movement, using the dolly tracks in the kitchen (yay!) and the crane in the TV room (double-yay!)  Mike and Rajah constructed and operated the latter, and it looks very impressive.  It was also a whole lot of fun.

The dolly tracks in the bedroom proved to be the nightmare of the day: we could not make the scene go smoothly no matter which direction we put the tracks.  Then we found that the mirror was dirty and impossible to clean.  And then we realized that dollying near or towards the mirror wasn't going to work because the slightest movements in the room made the mirror move significantly enough that the image looked like it was jumping no matter what we did.  Stupid mirror. 

When Jim got there things livened up and we re-shot the Mitch shaving scene which needed to be redone because of our location snafu back in January.  The shaving scene, however, will forever be in some of our minds as the birth of Jim's infamous ode to him and Rajah being alone in the bathroom.  The tune, entitled "Two Dudes In a Bathroom (Alone)" was an instant hit.  This is what I remember of the song:

Two dudes in a bathroom alone.  One of them's got a camera.  Two dudes in a bathroom alone.  Why are they even in there?  Two dudes in a bathroom alone (then there was another line about auto-erotic asphyxiation--it will definitely be a Top 40 hit someday).

We knocked out another scene with Mitch entering Suzanne's house looking for Ally, and instead of whatever complicated scenario I had come up with we ended up shooting as one shot, with a bit of a rack focus.  It seemed really powerful to me, and I'm excited to see how that one turns out.

We were going to stay up late that night, but we were beginning to run out of steam.  Rajah needed to leave early the next morning for a few hours, so we decided to make it an early-ish night.  Some of us--Maura especially--were extremely concerned how we were going to get through the next two days of sex, murder, and suicide scenes, and Stacey suggested that we swap the order so that we would shoot the grand finale on Wednesday and the sex scene and anything else we missed Thursday night.  This was a tremendous suggestion and it made much more sense than leaving the whole finale to the last day thereby stressing us out completely.  We celebrated by drinking!

Drink of the night: Whiskey

Food of the night:  Is whiskey a food?

Catchphrase of the night:  "I'm Stacey and I'm boy-crazy.  Ooo-oooo."

Song of the night:  "2 Dudes In a Bathroom (Alone)"