I had a traumatic experience for my elementary school days. I started at Spring Mill – loved it. I have a few memories that I still think about from time to time. 1) someone’s mom dressed us up as Cowboys as 1st graders and we danced to the theme of Dallas for the talent show (I have a picture of the group on my FB page, but I have no idea how to make the magic work to put the link here). The next year we were football players and we danced to Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust. I don’t know if anything happened for 3-5 grades, which I will explain why soon. 2) For 1st grade we got to be on the radio. I read something and of course I forget what it was, but it was with Mrs. Kennedy. 3) My first crush on a teacher occurred in the 2nd grade with Miss Moore (I don’t know what her name is now, but I was devastated to learn she got married). 4) I remember going to your parent’s restaurant the Golden Dragon a few times. It was pretty cool. My life changed drastically the summer after the 2nd grade. I found out I would no longer go to Spring Mill and would be forced to go to Nora. The only good thing about Nora was Susan Smith. She was my first kiss.

I went to Northview. I don’t remember much. I got in my first fight (if you can call it that). I was running down the hallway from band. I had my trumpet in my case and my friend, Joe Hoggenbauth, Haugenbottom, something like that (sp?), was behind me, and kicked my foot causing me to trip. I got up and punched him real good in the stomach. We had to go to the principal’s office. He let us go with a warning. I also learned the most “human” way to kill a fish by the psychotic, ex-armyman, science teacher Mr. Solomon. He had a HUGE tank of fresh water local fish in his science room. One of the big blue gills was gasping for breath on the top. He plucked the fish out and threw it forcefully on the ground. After all of the girls stopped shrieking and the boys made sure they saw what they saw he told us that that was the most humane way to kill fish. Lesson learned.

North Central. Hmmm. I don’t remember who it was, but probably Neil Thompson. We were at school afterhours due to some Counterpoint thing. It was during some unstructured time, so we went exploring. We got down in the basement via the stage area and spent a good time running around in the halls down there. Another fun memory was another Counterpoint moment. Felix, you might have been involved. There were a lot of us. Again, during unstructured time, while we were at Showstoppers in Chicago we discovered that the door to the roof of the hotel was not locked. So what do a bunch of high school students do when they have this unprecedented access – through shit off of the building. I think we had balloons for some strange reason, so we dropped water bombs, but we threw a bunch of shit down. Good times.

You’ll be happy to know that the film is done, people who have seen it have frickin’ flipped their lids with excitement and I’m proud to report that even though those years were long (technically I think it’s been 10 since I started) they were not in vain. Alex Roy, my biggest champion through this whole thing once said to me, “Cory, as long as it kicks ass, as long as it’s amazing, it won’t matter how long it took, all will be forgiven in an instant.” Man I hope he’s right (because it does kick ass!)

And so now we’re planning the roll out, the big premiere and getting it to the hard core fans like yourself first.

I am so glad there’s still a bunch of you out there!

Thanks again,
Cory

Congrats on the NY filing! And thank you for the kind words.

Fun to see comments show up here, several days after it was posted. Kind of neat to be brought back into this mindset, whenever new folks show up. Working on a new post for tomorrow – hoping it turns out as well as this one did.