I've always provided my fan edits via torrent for free, and being accused of greed in two different locked threads is annoying. I was waiting to do so with SW2 because I was moving and in a bad spot. Certainly it would have been torrented, and I in fact had already provided a dual layer copy to Movealong for newsgroup posting (with a delay). How do you think I got into collecting fan edits and Star Wars discs in the first place? It wasn't through torrents. I still get most of my discs through mail trade.
The ridiculous amount of work and research I did on the Thief and the Cobbler project over many many months, the literally thousands of free discs I sent out, I didn't do that out of greed. I try to maintain a high standard and do good discs. I feel no need whatsoever to defend any of my actions.
Anyway.
Arrived in Connecticut. Very little money, no apartment, no place to stay. So no, I'm not sending out most discs right now and won't be able to until December probably. All my stuff is in storage.
I wanted to visit family, stay with family, for a little while, this being the holidays, but most of my family members couldn't/didn't let me stay, and a family member I was counting on especially didn't want me. So ah.
I'm now staying with a very nice Aunt and Uncle way away in Madison CT ...
Murphy's Law being Murphy's Law, the second you leave a place you finally get the opportunities you were waiting for, now that you can't take advantage of them.
I'm an actor (though at least one reviewer said I should stick to directing), and I had an agent for acting in L.A. This agent never got me any work, in the year I've been with him. I assumed he never would. I never heard from him and often forgot I had an agent at all.
Two days after arriving in Connecticut, breaking all ties with L.A. ...
I get the call every actor dreams of.
I had an audition for one of the top comedies on TV .... "My Name is Earl."
A good little part as a computer geek, something that everyone on these boards can testify I'd be perfect for.
But here I am in Connecticut, not in L.A.
Banging my head on the desk in frustration.
I got a lot of job offers the minute I left L.A. All for jobs in L.A. that would have saved my bacon if they'd come in the past year when absolutely nothing was happening for me.
I left L.A. because nothing was happening.
If I'd gotten an audition for My Name is Earl then, I would never have left ....
Two days later ....
Murphy's Law.
My aunt and uncle have offered me a plane ticket back, but what's the point? That's maybe $300 roundtrip, for what? An audition for a small role. And if I don't get it?
I told them no, while banging my head on the desk.
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I'm catching up on your emails. Best wishes. I'm still away and won't be around much.