I woke up today with a slamming headache. My sinuses finally figured out how to deal with the dry, dusty air and clogged up overnight.

We had an early call today and went to the Scottish Rites temple to shoot the morgue scenes. The building is very old and has these narrow staircases and old fashioned bomb shelter signs. We used their large kitchen and its wonderful stainless steel tables to lay out the corpses of Charley, Del and Nick.

Their were a few new folks on set today. The first was Jon Proudstar. He played the role of deputy Gill. When he wasn't on camera he was funny as hell. Native American, long blue-black hair in a tail - he looked great in policeman's blues.

I also met Angus Scrimm. He flew in last night and attended a screening of Phantasm at the Loft Cinema. He stayed around after and answered questions and signed autographs until nearly 11PM.

81 years old. He looked great. He moved with this incredible grace. I'd written a scene where he makes a sardine and peanut butter sandwich, but I didn't include him eating it. In every take he took a bite - and not a little one. He said the audience would expect it. Amazing.

The sheriff was played by Greg Sweet. He looked and sounded a lot like Dale Dye. Did a great job. He'd come by the set before, but I hadn't met him. We chatted for a bit and he said Josh looked like weird Al Yankovic.

We wrapped the morgue pretty early and had a break before shooting the scenes at the Sheriff's office. Scott and Chuck headed out early and I took a nap.

I got to the set during the dinner break and met with Howard Allen for a while. Howard read Borderland and gave me some great feedback. I took notes and will try to get to a new draft later this summer.

Angus shot his scenes and Vicky hustled him off to catch his flight. We also finished all of Josh Marcantel's scenes and he caught the red eye back to NYC. I'm really going to miss him and I know Scott is too. It was great having him around and his performances were awesome. He also told some very funny, and disgusting momma jokes. It was a challenge to keep up.

One of the highlights of the evening was when Patrick called us all together and presented the cast and crew with a snack basket my wife had sent. I was really proud of her. The snacks were great and disappeared pretty quickly. I showed Nathan the Life Saver gummies and he was still chewing when it was time to shoot him again.

After the shoot, we went to the In-N-Out and picked up a couple of sacks of burgers. Scott, Chuck, Hillary and Carol Ann all sprawled in my aparment and grunted like pigs as we ate those wonderful burgers. It was a good time.

The last day of shooting for Red 71 is tomorrow followed by the wrap party. Sad to think this is almost over.