It's still hard for me to believe, but the final chapter of the movie is now basically done. That is, the Happy Palace show. The last big piece of editing work remaining now is for the intro sequence. Also the titles at the end, but that shouldn't be hard.

There's also a new clip, which is how I was originally going to start the final chapter. The more I watched it, the less I liked it, and eventually removed it altogether, but it works fine as a web clip.

Spent the afternoon trimming yet another minute off of the HGIH finale. The edit points sound surprisingly fine, but I'm running short on visuals because the second half of the song was played with the lights on, making most of the closeups from the first two sets useless (since they were shot with the lights off).

Today I started a new push, now that I'm starting to admit that I'm going to have to find a job again at some point. So now's it's becoming a race against time, to finish the one goal that I set for myself to accomplish during this big vacation.

This time I had a few good excuses for not working on the movie for a while, like being away from home for basically two of the last four weeks. But I also knew that I was going to have to edit down the "Heather Graham Is Hot" tune and it was going to be a pain.

So that's what I worked on today, trimming 14 minutes of clips down to less than half of that. The parts I trimmed out are:

1. John asking Julia to get him a beer while Chad is singing.

2. The lyrics about how "even the people on the internet" don't know why "Killing Me Softly" hasn't been released.

3. A lot of noise droning near the end.

Hopefully no one will notice except for the band.