Rent contract
| From: | Micah Simpson (feesvi@****.com) |
| Sent: | Fri 4/30/10 6:11 AM |
| To: | jjon1123@****.com |
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Good morning,
We have prepared a contract and added the paragraphs that you wanted to see in it.
Our lawyers made alterations on the last page. If you agree with all the provisions we are ready to make the payment on Friday for the first consignment.
We are enclosing the file with the prepared contract.
If necessary, we can send it by fax.
Looking forward to your decision.
"Micah Simpson
We have prepared a contract and added the paragraphs that you wanted to see in it.
Our lawyers made alterations on the last page. If you agree with all the provisions we are ready to make the payment on Friday for the first consignment.
We are enclosing the file with the prepared contract.
If necessary, we can send it by fax.
Looking forward to your decision.
"Micah Simpson
Mr. Simpson,
I regret to inform you that I have a few more addendums as to the aircraft hanger I will rent while I shoot my epic claymation film “Mimes A-Poppin’: Silent Fury” in 3D. Why claymation mimes, you ask? I’ll tell you: I am OBSESSED with capturing the raw, desperate emotion on a mime’s face as he or she attempts to dazzle the audience with invisible box trickery or invisible rope pulling. Because they’re pulling that rope for us, Micah. For all of us! You can only achieve my vision with total control, and I need you to believe me when I say that I’ve tried filming actual mimes. Talk about a bunch of divas, I’ve never seen the “talk to the hand” gesture more in my life! And their berets were everywhere after shower time. It was, to put it succinctly, a disaster.
Now let me fill you in on some of the details about my new rent contract requirements, given that I will be filming eight-inch-tall clay mime figures on a miniature set that is fifty feet by fifty feet, with my cell phone camera. Since I need absolute silence to keep the correct mime-friendly atmosphere (the silence really “pops” on screen), I need to have another aircraft hanger built within the hanger our rent contract currently covers, with toxic foam insulation between the old and new hanger. Why toxic, you ask? Because it’s the best, that’s why! My project deserves all the support I can give it, and if some Guatemalans get “sponge lung” from installing toxic sound-dampening insulation, SO BE IT. I’d kill them with my own hands if it meant a 1,300 theater opening weekend for “Mimes A’Poppin’: Silent Fury“ and you can take that to the bank. Any bank. Or a credit union. Both of which have denied me loans.
The other major change I need to our rent contract is a three-floor excavation beneath the aircraft hanger so I can accurately film my mime mine scenes. This mine has to be DEEP, and I think two hundred feet will accurately translate into the kind of mine a troupe of mimes could get into some hijinks in, if my calculations are correct. Hey, they always are! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha. Oh mercy! My wife would have found that quite hilarious, if she hadn’t left me when I told her the title to my film. To clarify, I told her the title after I told her I was doing the movie and also after I told her that I’d taken out a second and third mortgage on our condo to pay for the first three hours of shooting. “No one wants to watch a four hour movie about mimes!” she said as she packed her bags. “They will if it’s in 3D, you ice-cold trollop!” I replied, level headedly. She then shot me in the right calf. My wheelchair has damaged the miniature set many, many times, Micah.
So, here we are. Waiting for the changes I’ve discussed here to go through so I can film that crucial finale scene to “Mimes A-Poppin’: Silent Fury.” I’ll give you a glimpse of the penultimate shot: We zoom over the rooftops along the Champs-Elysees, a single cloud wafts over the Paris sky. Our hero, Renard, has vanquished the villain, a circus clown (there’s a whole “Romeo and Juliet” circus clown/mime subplot, it’s AMAZING) who killed Renard’s family. Our hero stands on top of a pile of rubble, the result of his epic battle with the clown. The circus clown looks up at Renard through blood-shot eyes and says “I don’t…I don’t need…your pity.” and honks his clown horn twice. Renard scowls, wipes his makeup off with his glove so he can speak and says, “This is for my family.” He kicks the clown in the crotch, causing him to roll/fall down the pile of rubble. Our hero gets a grenade out from his pants, pulls the pin with his teeth, and says “And this…is for ME.” Renard turns and throws the grenade over his shoulder down to where the clown rolled, walks away in slow motion while a giant wall of flame and smoke erupts from the other side of the rubble, and we fade to a title card that says “The end?”
I Am Desperate,
Lionel Bildridge