Ice Skating on I-15
On our way home the premiere of Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (for more info on that see earlier post)it was snowing like crazy. We were going around a bend somewhere near Kaysville and we began sliding. The bend was to the left and the back of our car began sliding to the right. I turned the wheel to the right to try and correct out slide. We got corrected but since we had the momentum of rotating to the right, when we got straitened out we just continued rotating in that direction. I didn’t slam on the brakes because I felt like that would be dangerous. I thought about using the emergency brake since it is connected to the brakes on our back tires and that could have hopefully caused some drag on the back end of our car so that we would keep straight, but in the moment I questioned whether the emergency brake was also attached to the front brakes and that it wouldn’t help us out at all. Once we got our clockwise rotation going, we continued turning in that direction. At the same time we were traveling in the direction of the cement barrier on the side of the freeway. We continued to rotate and by the time we hit the cement barricade we had turn almost all the way around and our rear bumper crashed into the barricade. This help flip us around the rest of the way. At this point both Rebecca and I saw a large car sliding right at us, so I gunned the gas to get us out of the way. The tires were still sliding on the snow so it took a bit to get us heading out of the way. Luckily we did make it out of the way and weren’t slammed into by the other car. We traveled to the other shoulder of the freeway where there was a highway patrol car parked. It turns out that the officer had just been hit by a small red car. The woman in the car was in pretty bad shape. We waited in the car until the police could attend to us. Neither of us were hurt so we were lucky. I looked in the rear view mirror and I saw that the car that almost hit us had pulled over. There was also a tractor trailer that flipped around and within a minute another car came sliding and almost hit the person who had almost hit us. We were very fortunate because we were the only car that didn’t have to be towed away, but our car bumper is in pretty bad shape and it will probably cost a lot to fix.
Pirates of the Great Salt Lake Premiere
Rebecca and I went to the premiere of Pirates of the Great Salt Lake tonight. This is the first independent film that I worked on. The movie stars Kirby Heyborne (Saints and Soldiers, The RM), Trenton James, Larry Bagby (Saints and Soldiers, Walk the Line), Emily Tindell (Napoleon Dynamite), and Steve Anderson (and me (Facing Fear, The Department)). It was nice to see all of the friends I made while making the film. It turned out to be a pretty good film and was quite popular with the crowd that was there.
The movie should be coming out some time this summer. Be sure to go see it when it comes out.
Thanks to those guys for the good time!
Here is a picture of me, Larry Bagby, and Christian Vuissa. This was one of my favorite days because I got to sit in makeup and have that nasty latex face put on to body double for Larry.
I would write more about making this film, but if I did then I would feel like I should write other blog entries from other past experiences and that could add up to forever.
My First Blog Entry
I’ve been pretty computer and internet savvy for many years, but I have
never gone the way of keeping a blog. I’ve never really looked into it until recently and to be honest, I still don’t have full vision of the benefits of a blog. Nevertheless, I’m moving forward and here it is.
My first blog entry.
Nothing terribly exciting so I’m surprised if you are still reading. Stop it now! You can’t seriously be continuing to read!
I have already stated that this blog entry is about nothing interesting and that was your cue to stop reading. Well, if you aren’t going to stop reading then I suppose that I should be happy because that must mean that you intend to continue reading all of my other blogs and it won’t be a complete waste of time since I have earned a readership. You may continue to read, but I’m going to cease to write so there!