Fiddling Horse

I've been listening to the Thought Spiral podcast religiously almost since it began. I don't know why. It gives me a feeling of inferiority that I'm not a wealthy comedian or anything else. Someone said the show was like listening to your older brother talking with his friends who all lead more interesting lives than you. I guess he's right. I've listened to my musician brothers talk with their musician friends about their profession. But then they start talking about subjects where I know more than they do and they express sometimes stupid opinions but they ignore me if I say anything. In the case of Thought Spiral, it's because it's a podcast and I have no way of interacting with them.

I usually listen to it at midnight when it first becomes available, but I've been sleep deprived and turned everything off last night. I listened to it this morning as I ate my breakfast of ramen and potstickers.

The boys, Andy Kindler and J Elvis Weinstein, were in Loiusiana after a grueling week, finishing production of the movie, The Fiddling Horse, written and directed by C.J. Wallis.

Weinstein mentioned that the movie basically had a crew of three and one of Wallis's in-laws came to help out.

Eric Rohmer over the years reportedly cut his crew down smaller and smaller until, in his last films, it was just him, a camera operator and a sound guy.

There was a documentary about Jim Wynorski filming a semi-pornographic horror movie in just three days who had a tiny crew. Because the crew was just a couple of guys, he just had a couple of lights they had to move around.

Eli Wallach said that parts of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly were filmed with just him, Sergio Leone and the cameraman.

I don't know where I'm going with this or why. But it's inspiring that someone with a crew of three and a star (Weinstein) who's never acted before can make a commercially viable movie. Weinstein's waiting to see the finished product before he starts calling himself an actor.