And after that

Quickie screencap, Play bar is non-functioning

I used to spend summers working in a gigantic warehouse, where I was the only kid among a dozen old guys who'd been working there forever. I suppose I am actually older now than some of them were at the time.

The warehouse was huge and the guys spent most of the day driving forklifts, and moving palettes of stuff in and out of trucks at the loading docks and around the warehouse. Everyone called the forklifts "tow-motors", a term I've never heard since.

The guys worked alone a lot of the time, way off in the warehouse. So when their paths would cross, they'd always have to yell something to each other as they drove by. Sometimes there was a current event to talk about (someone fucking up, a new joke from one of the truck drivers, the boss being stupid, etc.) but most of the time they just hollered one of a handful of standard phrases.

"Fraaaankly, Scarlet" one of them would yell. Then the other guy would yell back "fraaaankly Scarlett!" and they'd laugh and disappear into the warehouse for another 45 minutes.

The joke here, of course,  was a take on the famous Gone with the Wind line, "Frankly Scarlet, I don't give a damn." Except that their delivery was more like Edward G Robinson than Clark Gable, and with their New England accents it sounded like "Fraaa-nkly Ska-lit".

One of the guys apparently hadn't actually seen the movie, because he said "Frankly Charlotte."

But that was beside the point ....they didn't give a damn.

Sometimes, it got really hectic at work. Then they'd start yelling, "And after that!"

"And after that!"

All this stuff to do! Do that thing over there. And after that, get back on the tow-motor and do that other thing there! And after that... It never ends!

What does this have to do with Beach Town a rock n' roll beach movie of the mind?

Most of the test audience still has not seen the film, because I haven't figured out how to get it (looking decent) onto a secure, online link and/or DVD. I've tried this, then that, then the other thing after that, and after that, this and that and the other thing. My particular in/out/version editing software setup is complicated enough to have befuddled me and at least one tech-expert type who graciously did his best (thank you Andy Dopieralski!).

I'm making a trip to see a man in West Seattle on Tuesday, though, and I'm fairly confident that after that it'll be ready.

After Tuesday.

Unless, after that, I have to do something else...