Cate-Tech

All of the years I enjoyed Joe Bob Briggs... Years of bonding with my super Catholic grandfather that had a deep love for William Castle and Vincent Price. Years later, Joe Bob comes back for one last Drive-In marathon titled "The Last Drive-In". Now it's the last dive in... If it wasn't for those memories combined with a wonderful speech... I would have never achieved so much as one iMDB credit, I would have never gotten to know actors, cinematographers and writers. I would have never bought my first camera and learned even so much what composition is like. I would have never learned how to tell a story with an image. In 2018, a piece of nostalgia came back into our media. Something incredible for me and so many other people. That is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that the regular seasons of this seemingly old Texan is no longer filming regular seasons. When he came back for the last drive-in, we all thought it was the last drive-in. It was so popular that it shut down AMC's servers... So they ordered a yearly series. Now there's only holiday specials but even Joe Bob admitted that he has the energy. Yet you open up Shudder and for the first time since before he joined, they finally have an app that looks modern and works. All I can say is that everyone keeps rolling. One of the biggest lessons that I think I learned from him was very simply put... "F&#$ aspiring". His message was not to call yourself an aspiring anything, but to suck it up and actually be the thing. Doesn't matter if it takes you a year or 2 years or 4 years, but get off your butt and do it and put the effort into it. That's all I have Thank you @therealjoebob and @kinky_horror for inspiring me and my daughter to become part of a community that we never knew we could even be a part of. I have achieved things that I couldn't imagine achieving until that. Keep rolling speech. I don't have a whole bunch of IMDB credits but I've worked on a few projects where I'm not credited and somewhere I am. I will never call myself aspiring. I will call myself the thing that I am doing and I will speak it into reality. Thank you two so much doing things for a single father that's raised a daughter by himself for over 13 years. I was able to teach her the difference between fantasy and reality. She is now an artist of her own with her own fantasy that she separates from reality. She's writing a story now. I'm working on a screenplay. The truth is that I would have never even known to teach her that she is an artist as opposed to an aspiring artist. I am a filmmaker, and I'm not aspiring. I just am one. She's an artist and a writer and a brilliant creative mind. She's not aspiring, she is. I got to thank you guys more than I know how to express. I wish you guys knew just how much it all meant to this little family. Going back to watching monster vision with my grandfather... And my grandfather bragging about how I could name any producer or director or any movie... To my daughter and I in a whole new generation, enjoying the ingenuity of the world's greatest horror host next to to the modern world's greatest modern hostess. Elvira may be a classic, and she is amazing and fabulous. Diana will be the new way for so many. Thank you for being a woman in that field that could have been inspiring. My daughter feels no shame for her interest in storytelling or writing or themes. She has her own camera too. Lately we've really gotten into anamorphic. One could say that we're aspiring... But I have taught my daughter "fuck aspiring". You guys showed it to us every weekend and then every month and now every season. I genuinely hope that you guys get a regular schedule back. It'll be great for Joe Bob's health, and it'll be great for all of us "aspiring" artists.