5/2/09

Saw The Last Lullaby! It rocked - so cool all the way around - great noir intenisty, girls, gun, blood; had a great attitude of the anti-hero. Jeffrey pulled off a classic - Shreveport will be shining...

http://www.thelastlullaby.com/

5/1/09

What can I say - the Battle of the Bands team is rocking!

Local Sponsorship is going great!

MAY 16 is going to be a great night!

See event listing:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?sid=4a4725929a890f0c19ccb67408d46fd7&eid=80196901810&ref=searchBands - get in the action!

Upload to:

http://www.thkbattle.com/

Contact Stephanie Fruge for details

StephanieFruge2012@yahoo.com 318-200-2535

Team:

Event Coordinator/Band Liasion Stephanie Fruge'Lead Arrtist/Web Designer Jonathan Jones Sponsor/Finance Coordinator Bill StampleyCo-Spon/Fin Coord. Ryan RobisonSpon/Band Recruiters/Promo PAs:Tabitha Reed Rebekah Reed Thomas Johnston Tanisha PrinceMeaghan Blount (Promo/Band Liasion) Director//Producer: Glen GrefeAdvisor: Frank Johnson

4/15/09

THK Battle of the Bands officially on its way!

CALLING ALL BANDS!!!Go here, UPLOAD tracks, contact us!

SHOW DATE: MAY 16!!!

Shreveport, Bossier, Ark-La-Tex! and beyond! Hurry up!

Get on the 1st annual compilation CD - what are you waiting for?!

http://www.thkbattle.com/

Hardworking team members:

Stephanie Fruge - contact her for more info! Supervisor, super woman, Queen of the Scene...StephanieFruge2012@yahoo.comJonathan Jones - thk web design/guru/master of allTabatha Reed - web promo queen/PARebekah - web design queen/PAMeagan Blount - Promo princess of Ark-La-Tex up and coming music scene

Thanks to Soundstage for the location for the THK battle poster photo shoot!

4/9/09

Securing venue on THK's Battle of the Bands and Sponsorship program.

Attended regional meeting put on by the city of Shreveport's Mayor's office to discuss issue of focusing on raising incentives to keep/bring back/increase motion picture production here in the Shreveport/Bossier area.

Attended Jeffrey Goodman's The Last Lullaby event to promote the upcoming May 1-3 to be sold-out opening weekend of the movie here in Shreveport. [stars Tom Sizemore] http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61076940932&ref=ts&nctrct=1239336243656

4/8/09

Business meeting: focus on LLC details.4/7/09General meeting tonight; more focus on deadlines, timeline - upcoming events (Battle, Investors); priorities - hard questions, hard answers.

4/6/09Hot Springs, AR blew my springs. What a wacky town. Al Capones watering hole was anything but watered down.

I'm back, we're full steam ahead with THK and the timeline countdown. Legalities, PPMs, Attorneys, investors, priorities.

THK Battle of the Bands team met the core THK pre-dev team tonight and had the big pow-wow where sound meets visions meets talking time and money.Jeremy Enis turned in a rough draft of THK trailer edit.

Lee Stridsberg and Brodie Vidrine are tweaking their complex trailers for public consumption - we are eagerlyawaiting their work as well!

3/30/09

Largest meeting yet; very valuable input from everyone. New contact list soon. Timeline, legalities, budget discussed/hammered out.

New assistance:

Bill Stampley (Office P.A.) Stephen Porter (Location Scouting) Christopher Dickerson (P.A./2nd 2nd) Amy Pope (Minutes Secretary)

3/29/09

Its been a wild and crazy week. Spoke with possible interested Producer parties - more info soon.Legalities, tax credits, moving along... Casting Director negotiations... Budget tweaking... Waiting on location scout...New websites!:

BLOG http://www.thehurtingkind.net/index.html[courtesy of web designers Becka Reed and Tabitha Reed]

THK Battle of the Bands OFFICIAL site:

http://www.thkbattle.com/[courtesty of lead designer Jonathan Jones; supervisor Stephanie Fruge']

3/22/09

Director Glen Grefe recently had his birthday - went to the town of Natchitoches for the first time (where Hurting Kind promo torture star Kelly Airhart is from/or lives) - awesome town, great riverfront and awesome food and architecture. Supposedly the oldest settlement in Louisiana.

Checked out the band Expletive Saturday night, a local speed metal math band - William, your band kicks ass!!! Awesome thrashing throw-down show! Check out his music soon online for the first phase of the Battle of the Bands contest:

http://www.myspace.com/thkbattle

Popped in at Beecher's Madness show at Horsehoe... Oy Vey... Emailed/phoned possible seasoned UPM/Producers to interview for the THK team.... still up in the air on this... Could someone please point an experienced UPM our way!?We are in final prep stage - ready to roll on this...

3/16/09

THK Core meeting went very well; focused on rock solid business prep. Getting details in place. Ducks in rows.[lol - Winston - get on that idea]Ryan Robison and Frank Johnson - our go-to money guys.

PRODUCER [experienced w/ features/SAG] still being sought to tie our professional team together and lead us to victory. ARK-LA-TEX/ BATON ROUGE/ NEW ORLEANS feature Producers - we know you're out there. References?

THK Battle of the Bands - full steam ahead:Stephanie Fruge' [Event Coordinator] is the genius rock goddess behind this fantanstic community experience.She is formulating a Music/Healing Organization which will spawn a Shreveport Music Scene Magazine and [tentatively titled] "Port x Port: Music and Movie Festival" to rival Austin's own extravaganza. Check her sites:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=1335824150&ref=tshttp://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=43958243

3/13/09

THK Battle meeting tonight - met with Web Designer Adrian Kemp - very impressed! Tabitha and Rebekah Reed - our new P.A.'s are assisting with viral marketing and the new fan/blog/chat site:

http://www.thehurtingkind.net/index.html

Besides the editorial team of Newspeak Productions [Lee Stridsberg, Brodie Vidrine], we have a new entity taking a crack at the promo trailers as well to give his own spin on the whole THK mythos:

Welcome, Jeremy Enis! Go tell Jeremy you wish him well in his editing endevors...http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/profile.php?id=49700363&ref=ts

3/12/09

The core pre-production team of The Hurting Kind made its presence know last night to support local Director Jeffrey Goodman, as he hosts a series of public location events to promote his new award-winning indie classic The Last Lullaby, starring Tom Sizemore.Jeffrey is blazing a trail which will spotlight Shreveport, LA as the place to make indie features - successful, entertaining, high quality independent films.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=36795896621&ref=ts

Go to the Facebook site and register, and check out the official movie site too. ALL you Shreveport movie-goers - go see the movie opening weekend May 1st!!!

-Glen Grefe