BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE Fri, Mar. 24 2006 On Friday, March 24, 2006 at 9pm POny Trouble will be a featured selection of the Boston Undergroudn Film Festival (BUFF) and will be showcasing at the prestigious Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge MA. Open to the public, the movie will be shown in all it's insane entirety, followed by a party at Hoffa's, located around the corner, with food, beverages, live DJ and more! Pony Trouble SELLS OUT the Brattle! Thu, Nov. 10 2005 That's right folks - Pony Trouble premiered to a full house full of cheering and applause at the Brattle Theatre at Midnite on Friday Nite! the screening was such a ssuccess that we've added a command performance second showing scheduled for Friday Nov 18, 2005! Release date! Wed, Nov. 9 2005 This is when our DVDs return from the publisher. All advance orders will ship at this time. WORLD PREMIER Fri, Nov. 4 2005 Pony Trouble will be showing at the Brattle Theatre (http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/) at MIDNIGHT, Friday November 4th. Autographs, DVDs, stickers and T-shirts will be available! That's a WRAP! Fri, Sep. 30 2005 The entire movie is now in the can. It goes out to the publishers today, and should be available on DVD October 15th! We will also be having various screenings around Boston in late October and November. Watch here for details! You can now buy limited edition fundraising copies, which will help us get a larger theatrical run together. These are made individually and cost us more to make, so they cost $30, but you'll have a copy before everyone else! For details contact Warren at warrenlynch@gmail.com Dame Darcy music Tue, Sep. 6 2005 Pony Trouble will now include music by Dame Darcy, as well as so far music by: Freezepop Uncle Monsterface Superpower Daisycutter Molotov Elysian Ajda the Turkish Queen Daggers Christian Miller Rod Webber Sir Kibbles Yes, Pony Trouble will not be coming out on DVD until September 30 2005. But you can catch it at a special sneak preview on the 24th! Watch here for news! Stuntman lights self on fire Sat, Jun. 4 2005 Alex lit himself on fire today. You can see it in the DVD extras later :) Pony Trouble at Pan 9 Fri, May. 27 2005 We showed the demo at 2 places this weekend, including Boston's legendary underground art collective, Pan 9. Our director got in a fistfight with the director of Monkfish, but despite this chaos, the hostess of Pan 9 called it "the best Pan 9 ever"! A new record! Sat, May. 21 2005 216 takes in 3 hours! John Cotter is a seriously hardcore actor. Pony Trouble at the Paradise Rock Club! Wed, May. 11 2005 Metropolitan Pictures presents Special Sneak Preview Screenings and Cast Party! "PONY TROUBLE" & "MONKFISH" Two of Boston's hottest underground movies currently in production. With Special Musical Guest Stars from the Original Soundtracks Weekly Dig interviews director in his sleep Sun, May. 8 2005 David Wildman from the Weekly Dig called me when I was sleeping and interviewed me for his "Defend Yourself" column. I was so groggy he convinced me to say Rosie O'Donnell was hot. Pix of The Haid! Tue, Apr. 26 2005 okay so now ponytrouble.com has pictures of my severed head, jim with a high heel through the eyeball, jared defecating oatmeal, irina covered in blood, a moose monster that attacked us during filming, underwear modeling and of course, people trying to couple with my severed head. Enjoy. Miracle Thu, Apr. 14 2005 Director decides to shoot in a snowstorm because he thinks Thor is speaking to him. Weather mysteriously clears up in time for every shot. Frogs, deer, horses and spooky trains are pleased by sudden unexplained director animism, and make a beneficent appearance in the soundtrack. Although probably the only shots we caught of the deer was of their poop. actual mutiny Wed, Apr. 13 2005 Here we get 4 complex shoots rewritten, designed, built and shot in 4 days, including having to work all through the Boston Underground Film Festival while appearing in it. Part of the crew actually does temporarily mutiny. Director is forced to sign Magna Carta treaty which allows actors to eat and sleep occasionally, and not lose their jobs. PONY TROUBLE SCREENING Sun, Apr. 10 2005 We are having an in-progress screening of a few rough-cut scenes of Pony Trouble including some new stuff, at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square as part of the Boston Underground Film Festival. Looks like we got second festured billing on the poster, too! Coolio. Here is your second chance to come meet the crew and see some of our movie! Plus I get to answer questions. Such as "So what the hell is your movie about" and "Have you considered therapy for dementia?" Come heckle me and praise the actors. Plus I hereby invite any drunk psycho in the crowd to run up on the stage, grab the mike from me and start ranting about nonsense. I invited the media. Do not kill the media. Kill me, that they may live. Slay me, and spread my blood upon the feet of the media that they may receive the true "red carpet" traetment. Call me up on the telephone and flatulate into the receiver. It's a pony parade. Come meet the actors! Wed, Apr. 6 2005 Most of the actors and crew will be partying with most of the other Boston film-makers at the pre-party for the Boston Underground Film Festival. If you catch this in time, you can come meet us. We sign autographs but we are more likely to just buy you a beer. Opening Night Party Wednesday, April 6, 2005 6-8pm at Orleans 65 Holland Street, Davis Square Somerville MA 02144 Ph: (617) 591 2100 FREE entry - FREE snacks - cash bar We kill Cindy Tue, Mar. 29 2005 Okay, does she really die? We exploded her head. Well, after she stabbed somebody about 25 times. And she seemed so nice. Looks like Cindy got in a bit of Pony Trouble. Director kicked in face Sat, Mar. 26 2005 Okay so on this day we had to shoot a whole scene where my character Dave is under the coffee table passed out the whole time. But I also had to direct the scene, the AD was also acting in that scene, and doing it from under a coffee table with a mike wrapped around my head pretending to be passed out was seeming problematic. So I got my buddy Alex to be my stunt double under the table and we was basically lying there with his face smooshed into the carpet tied up for 3 hours or more filling in for me while I pranced around directing. I felt so bad for him afterwards that later when we did the pickup shot of my face I had Irina who plays the evil character Donna Drago to kick me in the head a few times pretty hard. One time she missed the padding and clonked me in the head really hard but I think that take is funnier than all the other properly padded ones. Director's eyelashes accidentally ripped out of head Fri, Mar. 25 2005 Okay well maybe I am a wuss but on this date my eyelashes were fused in some plaster and i had to rip them out of my eyes to get the thing off attached to my face and my nose was bruised in the process because there were two straws up my nose, (the only way I could breathe) and so we're trying to panickedly get this thing off my face so i can breathe and its fused to my eyelids and eyelashes and the straws in my nose i think bent or destroyed my nose in some way. "It was all up attached to his face, attackin' his face." But we got a really good fake head mold. But kids, when making a plaster mold of your face, put THREE layers of tissue paper on your eyes first, not one. Yikes! lesbian brainwashing Sun, Mar. 20 2005 Shot the lesbian brainwashing scene with a blue filter on everything, giant moose heads, severed hands, cocaine and all kinds of fun. This is our sexiest scene yet in my opinion and the giant moose head really kicks it. shot the "this never happened" scene Fri, Mar. 18 2005 Hailed by some of the women in our production as "the funniest scene yet" I started directing this scene thinking of it more like "the scene most likely to make Scott think I am gay". This is Jared Norcott's farewell scene, and we now have total coverage of his and Heather Morgan's scenes, leaving them free to go to europe and raise their children properly without being worked to death or out of their careers. Which along with Andrew Sewell makes 3 actors with their parts completely out of the way (well a few more scenes for Andrew with rewrites now) The same cannot be said for the rest of us yet and everyone is working very hard getting in 3 shooting nights a week. Our efficiency continually increases by a factor of about 20% per shoot. Tonight we were done plus an extra pickup shot at midnight on the dot. I was quite pleased with the actors who all showed up ahead of schedule tonight, and the skeleton crew which did the job quickly and efficiently despite it being only grayson chris scott and me due to irish festivities today. juliet the production designer doubled on 2nd camera and did a fine job. Oh and Roach looks soo funny. You have to see. 2nd unit begins Sun, Feb. 20 2005 Approximately here we switch into major high gear as we finish the documentary within a movie and begin the high-end "normal" footage. Scott buys $40,000 of top-of-the-line cameras, lights, monitors, headphones, mikes, lenses, filters and who knows what else I can hardly puzzle out. In addition to being a producer he also gets hired on as 2nd Unit Assistant Director aka Technical Director. Grayson joins as 2nd Unit DP with Rob, Rod and Jim as new camera crew. The footage starts to look like pure angel candy and make the Davecam stuff look like, well, Davecam. Everybody starts drooling and spending 3 day stretches working. I suppose there is a fair amount of gibbering. People from all around start wanting to be our friend and sending me naked pictures of themselves. Please guys, despite rumors, hair gel and a passing ability to write a decent sonnet now and again, I am not in fact, gay. Send your male naked pictures to our production design staff who will appreciate them much more. Juliet@iridiumproductions.com anna_phylaxis@gmail.com Pony Trouble Web Site Launch! Tue, Feb. 15 2005 Megatoy Pictures announced the launch of Ponytrouble.com - the official home page of Pony Trouble The Movie and The Pony Game! Feature article in the Boston Phoenix! Fri, Nov. 12 2004 The article finally came out. Turned out to be a 2-pager, mentioned on the front cover. The only non-political feature article in that issue. With a nice butt kicking picture of us in which i look like carrot top as i do in real life. I turn 30 but we still shoot. Sat, Oct. 23 2004 Today the director turned 30 but that's no excuse and we shot 2 scenes anyway. gorgeous outdoor shots. cannibalism Wed, Sep. 15 2004 at approximately this date we disembowel Andrew Sewell and eat his guts. Opt out of using raw hog faces, in favor of starving the actors and making them make out with each other just to get at the last morsels of human flesh we gave them in lieu of food. Screen Actors Guild not contacted. shooting begins Wed, Sep. 1 2004 We decide to start shooting some scenes regardless of having exactly zero money to spend on anything. script Thu, Mar. 18 2004 Gave Gabe Boyer like a week deadline to write me a script about anything just preferably light, funny and contemporary and with maybe some surrealism. Oh but anyway I was asking for it because Gabe was like ok I have this idea and it's about m* l****e p*n* which i had a lunchbox of filled with drugs at the time, i mean what else would you use a pink my little pony lunchbox for? to carry your lunch? but it was too obvious to the cops. i had to saw off my own arm and use it as a decoy to escape. with the pink lunchbox still attached. But anyway I was able to reattach my arm with cybernetic devices. And that is a story for another day.