Quick thought: I forgot to post Middlebrook's J&Js teaser last night ... go watch it on his channel.

Yesterday also revealed to the world the interview/collab that I mentioned earlier.  When I got the notice that it was posted, I was firmly seated at work and thus unable to watch it myself.  The message the alerted me sent me into a spinning panic:

"I hope you enjoy it in all of its beautiful and flawed grandeur."

Holy FUCK.  "Flawed grandeur"?  What the fuck is that supposed to mean?  I sent this guy nothing but motherfucking solid gold material to work with!  So I start panicking--did he not edit the material?  Did edit so much that it's all out of context?  WHAT THE FUCK DID HE DO TO MY FOOTAGE?!?!?!

Clearly, unable to view this video at work, I did what any sane person would do: I tried to get it to load on my cell phone.  The farthest I got was the description of the video.  And that didn't help my panicked mind, either.

The next thing I did was try to hunt down someone with an iPhone.  What the fuck ever--you'd think that since that damn phone is so popular, it'd be an easier task to find someone with one, right?!  No dice ...

I sent an email to Middlebrook (did you watch his J&Js teaser yet?!) telling him the video was up and to report back.

You know, in case you're living under a rock, it might help to know the definition of "horbawrong".  Fortunately, I have it defined here.  My point being, the word horbawrong was invented for videos like this interview/collab fiasco.

Middlebrook informed me of such.

One of my co-workers gets out an hour earlier than me.  She runs home to watch the video for herself and starts a live-commentary on it over email.

This only served to further deepen my panic.

Cut to the end of the day, I finally get home and watch this video for myself.  And I couldn't even get through a full minute of it.  From what I saw, he didn't edit any of my footage and while I fear my raw footage audio might not have been as great as it could have been, whatever he did to it made it considerably worse.

The moral of the story?  Don't do a McCain--fully vet all parties that are involved with your work.  No matter how much of a whore you are for attention.