It's time to play                                                   Are you ready?                                                                             

Are you ready to play?  Are you really ready to play this game?  This game of "Stutter".  Yes,  I mean the game that makes you very unique, makes you very alone, and this game leaves you so different  that there is absolutely no way to be the same after you start playing. This game takes a half of a lifetime to get over if you ever get over it.  This game should only be played by the experienced, the problem is that everyone who plays is an amateur.  The unexpected always happens and just when you think there is a way to win someone throws you a curve.  The game becomes more real, the more you play.  You wish it was a dream, but you never wake up.  Eventually you,  the holder of the "Stutter"  find yourself holding the losing hand and you find yourself always outnumbered because no one will take your side.  No one wants to be on the losing team.  So how do you win in the game of Stutter?  How do you develop a strategy?  Do you fight back?  How do you fight 30 other kids or people making fun of you, belittling you.  How?  Do you fight back and maybe yell "STOP IT!!!!!" At the top of your lungs?  That strategy will only bring you more kids making fun of you.  It will intensify and you cannot win.  Do you cry? Absolutely not, that will provoke them even more.  You have let them win and the victorious will cheer.  Do you stand there and feel stupid?  That seems to work, but now you have removed yourself from the game and your friends, so now more than ever you are alone.   You find yourself out of the race to be a popular kid in school.  Yes, you are popular but only because of your stutter.  A popularity you wish was not.  You find yourself doing things by yourself.  During lunch you will have lunch with your friends maybe, but you are more comfortable sitting on a rock or a bench outside by yourself because when you sit with your friends, there will be someone there to remind you that you stutter, and that you do not belong here.  So at least if you are sitting on that rock by yourself no one will remind you and you will not have to play that game you keep losing.  How about that girl you really like?  Will you sit by her?  Why?  She will not be interested in you, why would she be interested in hanging around a retard.  After all that is how you visualize yourself.  So to avoid being made fun of you simply dream of asking her to the dance,  you never really ask her because you know in your heart she will say no.   And if she does say yes, all the other girl friends she's hanging out with will laugh and make fun of her and she will only feel stupid in going out with you.  So why bring her into this game?  She is better off without you.  Who do you associate with.   Who do you hang around?  You learn not to, and you learn to do things by yourself.  Because it is the only way you can win this game.  

     And you know that The Video Souljack was filmed in 1991 by an individual named David Achiro in conjunction with Fall Line Films.  The video was directed by Kris Hemenway and it was filmed and edited by Fall line films.  The School shots were done at  Rideout school on the West shore of Lake Tahoe.  In fact all of the shots were in the Tahoe/Truckee area.  The Band shot  was done at The Frank Sanatra Showroom at Cal-Neva Lake Tahoe.  The Gang shots were done in the alley right smack  in the middle of Old Downtown Truckee.   The mountain shot was done at Painted Rock overlooking beautiful Lake Tahoe  with the help of the Channel 8 Copter out of Reno. The Chess scene and dance shots were at the TTSD shop, dance shots  were upstairs in the parts room, and chess shots were done in the welding shop.  All the lighting was done by DEB productions.  Special thanks to David Bain and Roy Bain, a father and son team that is unmatched in patience and excellence.  Thanks to my cousin Paul Achiro for bringing the scissor lift the generator and many other odds and ends David made him do, especially  for getting the generator started again during a difficult and cold evening during the gang shot.  A very special thanks to Anita Cyr   for helping her daughter Dersa with choreography and costume shopping and preparing Derek her son for the part.  The lake  shot from the Copter is of course Lake Tahoe.  But it was  the hard work of all the volunteers who joined and helped paint  David's Story.  A very special thanks goes to my parents for all there help and support on both this project and the "Impress  me" project.  Without them this all would probably not be possible.