OK, not everything is final as we still have to sign contracts and all that jazz, but here's some info on the rest of our cast:

Missy Crider: Missy’s career began as a child when she was named the Young Entertainer of the Year at the Ozark Mountain Music Awards. As a teenager, she earned a role in the mini-series “Lonesome Dove” later followed by an Emmy Award nomination for her acting in the TV movie “Love in the Dark Ages.” Her first feature film, “A Boy Called Hate,” won the Grand Jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1997. More recently, Missy appeared in Bill Paxton’s directorial debut “Frailty,” she played the waitress Diana in David Lynch’s enigmatic “Mulholland Dr.” and she had a memorable turn in the Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez comedy “Gigli.”

Christopher Stapleton: A former University of Michigan punter with three Rose Bowl rings, Chris is an up-and-coming actor who has played lead roles in a trio of independent feature films – "Aurora," "Black Friday," and "Ides of March," the latter with Michael Madsen. Chris also played the title character in the popular Batman fan film, “The Death of Batman.” In addition to his film work, Chris has worked on numerous television shows, including "The Young and the Restless," "NCIS," "JAG", "According To Jim," "Providence," "Suddenly Susan," and "The X-Files." (www.christopherstapleton.net)

Chris Gann: Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Chris found his first calling when he discovered the sport of jet skiing. His professional career took off and in just 6 years he accumulated two world, five national, and six state jet ski titles. Parlaying his success, Chris went to work for ESPN and Fox Sports Net as a TV show host and from there made the leap into acting. Chris has now counts over 25 television and film credits on his resume. Most notably, he starred in Sony studios “xXx” and reunited with Vin Diesel again this summer while working on “The Pacifier.” In his last film Three Bad Men,” Chris played the lead and co-starred with Academy Award- Winning actor George Kennedy. (www.chrisgann.com)

Missed me, missed me, now you have to kiss me... get that song out of my head. I want it for the credits of the film... Amanda, if you read this, we want to use your song. We love it. It's Tuesday. Just watched Open Water following the recommendations of several friends who watched the special features and thought of us. Husband, wife, make movie on bare-bones crewless budget. Hmmm... No crew... There's an idea... Fire everybody... Of course it took them two and one half years to make their movie. A bit of insanity if I may say so. Apparently his corporate job didn't have quite the vacation time that my friends at Xcel Energy have provided me with. Rock on Xcel Energy! Even if you fired us as the safety family.

I'm ready to get into the nitty gritty details. Find the creative envelope and start pushing to get our little story across. I'm stoked. Crew is filling out nicely. Cast will be too, soon. Tomorrow in fact, according to my Hackett induced deadline. Sounds good to me. Time for a few folks to fish or cut bait. Put up or shut up. Fight the power.

I had a great conversation today with our would-be lead actor. Hopefully he likes what we've put on the table. If not, well... then on to plan B. It's amazing how many plan B's we've had to go through anyway... On nearly everything... Part of the fun I suppose...

Seriously, if you haven't seen nin in concert. You should go. Saw them again this week. I'm getting old though. We only made it through three songs in the pit before it became too distracting to the music and we decided to bail to the outer rim. Nin was also kind enough to put a GarageBand version of their new single on their website. If you like that sort of thing and have a lot of ram, download it and play. It's way cool.

The Dresden Dolls opened (www.dresdendolls.com). They were awesome. Thanks to our teenage neighbors, we now have the cd. It's awesome. This is a band that knows how to entertain. I want their music in my movie. I hope I can afford that...

So much to say... Been so busy lately with the chaos of preproduction... Let's first throw out some props:

Jefferson Arca became the first actor cast in our film. Jefferson rocks. Check out www.jeffersonarca.com

The second official casting was Catherine Sheehan in the role of Emily, the wife. Catherine completely rocks. Check out www.catherinesheehan.com

More casting news to come very very soon.

And, for the first time, I am now officially recognized in the industry. Check out http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1871694/ and see me! Thanks to Mr. Kelsey for getting all the Spotless stuff up. If you have a chance, vote for Spotless. The more votes we get, the better the publicity on the film will be, the more money Steve makes.

There's a backend to imdb called imdbpro and it has a "Starmeter." The Starmeter has some secret formula that ranks all of the people in the imdb database based on pr/searches/films and other proprietary stuff. Right out of the gate, I was ranked 907,119th. Out of everyone in the film industry, ever, I was the 907,119th biggest star. In a week, however, imdb recognized the true power of my rising star, and my current rank is 132,270th. Quite an impressive rise for just one week. So if you're bored, check out imdb and search for me. It will make me a bigger star. My goal is to break the top 100,000 by the end of the year.

On a side note, if you're an actor who has actually done some film work, be sure to get your contact/project info on imdb. Every resume/headshot we see that we have a vague interest in, we imdb. If your credits are fake, we will find out. If your roles are inflated, we will find out. There is no escaping here.