ILY Update 10/2/09 (a long one…take it in strides)

Yes, yes, here we are in the month of October with another update on the happenings of I’m Leaving You. We’ve had a good two months here, spitting out all three parts to JMD cologne, one called Security Deposit, a second addition to “Things That Are Funny” and now “Want To Chop” going up today.

Although we’re pleased with the visible output of ILY, it’s been a lot of the “behind the scenes” work throughout the past two months that has paved the way for tomorrow’s greatness with the show. I’m proud to announce that we have officially added two new full time saps to the line up. Although they have been helping out the whole time, Randy Skidmore and Justin Edge have taken sacred vows and have officially been put on the ILY payroll (lollipops and PBR). Randy, owner of SubPar Design will be handling all of the web programming, most of the graphic art you see, and will be doing some writing. Justin Edge will be our other full time writer, as well as a contributor to some of the graphic designs and of course, continuing to star in the sketches.

Immediately after the acquisition of these gentlemen, a 4 hour meeting in Wilmington, NC was held at which 10 hours worth of work was accomplished. Productivity was so high, Henry Ford called my cell phone to tell me he felt the tremor. The discussion was concerning mainly, the eventual redesign of the site, but also a few new scripts, entry in some film festivals coming up, putting together full episodes, and a lot of brainstorming about “getting the word out” about ILY. We concluded the meeting by confirming that the best way to “get the word out” was to expose yourself in public, however non of us were willing to commit.

We have also come into some pretty heavy duty software for the site, thanks to our wonderful friends Jason Roberts and Blaine Barbee keeping a keen eye out. Lastly to mention here is our extremely thorough and well written article on Wikipedia, written by Justin Edge. Although it was very well done, it got taken down shortly thereafter for lack of morals (and when I say “morals”, I mean “sources”). So we’re going to have to get into a magazine or newspaper or something to legitimize us, but we’ll discuss that further below.

Data: What to look for these next two months will be the FULL EPISODE, the new character, “Tanny”, some stickers available on the site to order (we’re going to put t-shirts on hold for a bit and start small with stickers). We have run into some funny stuff with copyrighted material, so we went out and got our own music machine. Look for ILY actor, Ramsey Boyd’s name at the bottom of some of the upcoming skits. He is going to be helping us out with a number of projects, lending a very talented hand in the music department.

We will find out November 1st if our entries to the aforementioned (August Update) 2009 Carrboro Film Festival (November 22) made the final cut. After analyzing the Carrboro community and getting some advice from some natives, we decided to enter one dramatic sketch and one comedy: “File>Eject” and “Kyle in 4B”. Cross your fingers. Jengo’s Playhouse owner and Cucalorus Coordinator, Dan Brawley, has given us the go to walk around at Cucalorus Film Festival November 11-15 to pass out ILY info. But of course, we’re not going to simply “pass out info”…we’re going to dress up in full ILY costume and pass out ice cold crappy beer with the website splashed all over it. That’s what we’re going to do. And anyone who doesn’t like it can arm-wrestle the Edge Ninja, and that’s final!

High Fives: So, what we will need these two months…As mentioned above, we are going to need some hard earned legitimacy to get that fantastic article about ILY back up on Wikipedia. Anyone that has connections with any newspaper, magazine, online journal…anything would help, I assume. And of course, we’ll “hit you back” with a link on the site and some first rate jibba jabba. If anyone has any connections with a place of business that would like to carry the ILY first episode dvd’s once they come out, let me know. Any place that would make sense to carry the, what will be, free dvd’s up front in a display box, let us know about. Even if you don’t have any connections but have some ideas for where they should go, send me an email (dan@imleavingyoutheshow.com).

We also are in need of spending some time with an IP Lawyer. If anyone knows or could recommend an Intellectual Property Rights Attorney or any attorney that deals with patents, let us know. For some of the skits coming up, we will need some bigger guys that could serve as “bullies”, and also some people that will just make up a crowd (going to need about 15-20).

Lastly, until we have the new site up where you will be able to comment, we don’t know how people feel about the show and the skits. Let me know what you think about the videos. Let me know what’s workin’ and what ain’t. We have no idea unless people tell us. The good, the bad…I want it all. What’s the funniest one, what’s the least funniest? And if you know someone who can get into this wild behavior, get their “azzzz” on the update list! Tell someone you know. Hell, tell someone you don’t know!

We’ve got some high hopes for the show and it’s not about just entertaining ourselves. Let us know what you’re thinking.

Gravy,

Dan Bonne’
ILY Creator
Dan@imleavingyoutheshow.com