The Matrix Is Down: Drum Beats On!

Posted under fly fishing news by Will Benson

It’s out the door! DRUM officially has a life of it’s own. And not an hour too   soon either.  Dave called me last night and my girlfriend Denny answered the phone while I was making some stir fry. “Oh No!” She said. “You’d better talk with Will.” I didn’t want to know, and was hoping it wasn’t what it turned out to be. “We’re out of commission…done.” Dave said. “It looks like I lost my hard drive.” I almost burnt myself as I stood over the wok and said nothing. “It’s alright though…I sent it out this morning.” I sighed in relief that everything we had just poured our heart and souls into wasn’t lost to the black hole. I quickly thought back to the nearly 14 hour drive we made from New Orleans to Naples with wires running from my truck’s battery to Bear’s inverter powering Dave’s laptop and hard drive. I drove while dave edited across 4 states in order to deliver the new film to Maverick at the Miami Boat Show. The fact that all that effort and lack of sleep wasn’t lost was a huge relief. “So what’s the solution?” I asked. (This is where it really helps to have Dave on the team.) Oh…I’ll probably take a few more rips, walk to the store to geta pack of smokes, and then see if one of my spare drives will boot. Everything’s backed up on eSATA, I’ll just have to reinstall Final Cut and we’re good to go. I’m looking at about 3 days of down time to get it all back up and running. Go back to your stir fry and relax, just thought I’d scare the crap out of you!”

“Thanks Ass@*%e!”

While Dave is neck deep in the Matrix with crazy Joe, I have been lining up a show date here in Key West at the Tropic Cinema. WorldANGLING will be hosting the Drake Fly Fishing Film Tour at the Tropic March 17th at 7:00pm. We will be showing Connected along with the Tour’s films, which includes DRUM. We are very excited to bring this event to Key West and want to assure you that you won’t have to miss a moment of your St. Paddy’s day celebration as the Tropic sells beer!

Now…since dave is out of commission I will have to figure out how to post this on the blog. I have to make sure to size the picture, add the tags, title and links… Here goes. I give myself about a 50-50 shot.
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