Okay, the BAD NEWS is that we had a week full of technical difficulties while making the MASTER of 'GetBent!' to send off for DVD replication. Everything had always worked every other time we'd gone through the process, but something inexplictably went wrong on the FINAL DAY, and it required us to go back and troubleshoot our entire process, as well as re-output all the original files and re-compress them for DVD again, something that takes hours-upon-hours of processing every time you have to do it.

Needless to say, we were a bit freaked out, and we ended up putting in almost 40 hours of overtime this week to complete the first DVD. And since we had to leave town over the weekend for a film shoot (more on that later), we absolutely HAD to get it done in order to have it ready first thing this monday morning.

The GOOD NEWS is that it all worked out in the end; the master is now complete -- in fact, 2 copies of it just spit out of our DVD editing machine and are ready to send out in the moring. We're hopeful our DVD manufacturer can still turn them in time, but even if they are a tad bit late, they should still be back and ready to ship out within the first week of March.

And now for the first time in a week, I can go get a decent, stress-free night of sleep.

- Duane