5x5 # 6 // "Pizza Time..."
Though it may seem so, none of the language I’m about to use is hyperbolic in anyway.
While not necessarily insufferable, this was one of the most taxing experiences of my life. What was supposed to be a sub-sixty minute shoot turned into a four hour ordeal. The visual hook of the preceding 5x5 was a pizza with candy corn piled as a topping. Ha, quirky right? Worst idea of my entire life.
I put so much candy corn on there that when it melted, it overflowed and spilled all over my oven. It hardened shortly after and was almost impossible to clean off. It took me several hours to clean it up, including two trips to the nearby CVS to get more Brillo pads. It was about three in the morning when I finished, and by then I was exhausted and spiritually aged ten years. At some point, I thought the sight of struggling to scrape off a candy corn pizza into a trash can was to unsettling to not film. Little did I know I would have hours worth of footage after that.
While I would totally wish death upon my enemies, I would never expose them to this.
I don’t want to talk about it anymore.