My Genius Friend Dave has a blog! I mean, he's had a blog for a while, but he hasn't been using it.
Anyway, you've GOT TO read his entry titled "Everything Is Wrestling"!
A peak inside the mind of a brilliant and strange man!!!
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Monday, October 24, 2005
LOST Rocks!!!
Last night, thanks to the miracle that is Netflix, I caught Disc 1 of Season 1 of LOST!!!
I get what everyone's talking about!
Granted, I heard the most buzz just before summer started, so I'm not even close to the stuff that got them all a titter, but the first 3 episodes are badass!!!
Netflix RULES!!!
Ooh! And Brian dug out his Michael Myers mask for me to borrow this Halloween!!! So YAY!
I've been Alice Cooper for the last 2 or so years, and I can't afford to be Jason Voorhees. But my brother saved the day!
Sorry I haven't been writing here a lot. I've been focusing on my screenwriting blog, trying to get a handle on the best way to approach writing. (VERY soon, I suspect, Tommy and Brian and I will be really focusing on the -------- project, and I want to be well-prepared to tackle it with as much momentum and ease and creative endevours CAN have.)
If you haven't seen George A. Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD yet, go do so!
Oh, and HEY!
A shout-out to My Genius Friend Dave!!! It's not my story to tell, but his something is going to be the OFFICIAL something of a name-brand something next year!!! It's also the standard something to be used during the production of a certain something!
Let's just say that I've known Genius Dave is a straight-up GENIUS for many, many years now; but it's OH SO VERY COOL to see that others recognize it, too!!!
So while I'm making plans and strategies about how to get my genius out to the world, MY GENIUS FRIEND DAVE IS DOING IT!!! (And he's JUST GETTING STARTED!!!)
I get what everyone's talking about!
Granted, I heard the most buzz just before summer started, so I'm not even close to the stuff that got them all a titter, but the first 3 episodes are badass!!!
Netflix RULES!!!
Ooh! And Brian dug out his Michael Myers mask for me to borrow this Halloween!!! So YAY!
I've been Alice Cooper for the last 2 or so years, and I can't afford to be Jason Voorhees. But my brother saved the day!
Sorry I haven't been writing here a lot. I've been focusing on my screenwriting blog, trying to get a handle on the best way to approach writing. (VERY soon, I suspect, Tommy and Brian and I will be really focusing on the -------- project, and I want to be well-prepared to tackle it with as much momentum and ease and creative endevours CAN have.)
If you haven't seen George A. Romero's LAND OF THE DEAD yet, go do so!
Oh, and HEY!
A shout-out to My Genius Friend Dave!!! It's not my story to tell, but his something is going to be the OFFICIAL something of a name-brand something next year!!! It's also the standard something to be used during the production of a certain something!
Let's just say that I've known Genius Dave is a straight-up GENIUS for many, many years now; but it's OH SO VERY COOL to see that others recognize it, too!!!
So while I'm making plans and strategies about how to get my genius out to the world, MY GENIUS FRIEND DAVE IS DOING IT!!! (And he's JUST GETTING STARTED!!!)
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Update...
Hokey Smokes!
I just spent 6+ hours updating and formatting my Film Flunky Productions blog!
This on top of reading Karl Iglesias's book and watching the first 3 episodes of DARK ANGLE last night (very cool show; and no, I hadn't seen it before) and then yesterday at work was a bear and the day before that I was reading anf formulating, and I've been reading Bradbury's FROM THE DUST RETURNED and reading Whedon's script for SERENITY and also stying current with SMALLVILLE, MEDIUM, SUPERNATURAL, MY NAME IS EARL and THE OFFICE (American version), and I'm still at least 2 epsodes behind on GILMORE GIRLS and I've been really seriously rethinking Ezekiel Hollow (with Mr. Iglesias's asistance -- not the actual man, but his writing principals) and I also discovered Tazo's Tazo Chai tea which is really good, and then there's the Traci conversations, both in person and on the phone...
Feels like I've been busy. I feel like every moment of every day of the last couple of weeks has been jam-packed with excitement and fun and some frustration and learning.
Ooh! AND I've had friends surprise me by joining my Friends List on MySpace.com!
I think maybe the Creative Screenwriting Expo 4 next month may feel like a vacation. (We'll be in LA with KELLY so it'll DEFINITELY feel like a PARTY!!!)
I just spent 6+ hours updating and formatting my Film Flunky Productions blog!
This on top of reading Karl Iglesias's book and watching the first 3 episodes of DARK ANGLE last night (very cool show; and no, I hadn't seen it before) and then yesterday at work was a bear and the day before that I was reading anf formulating, and I've been reading Bradbury's FROM THE DUST RETURNED and reading Whedon's script for SERENITY and also stying current with SMALLVILLE, MEDIUM, SUPERNATURAL, MY NAME IS EARL and THE OFFICE (American version), and I'm still at least 2 epsodes behind on GILMORE GIRLS and I've been really seriously rethinking Ezekiel Hollow (with Mr. Iglesias's asistance -- not the actual man, but his writing principals) and I also discovered Tazo's Tazo Chai tea which is really good, and then there's the Traci conversations, both in person and on the phone...
Feels like I've been busy. I feel like every moment of every day of the last couple of weeks has been jam-packed with excitement and fun and some frustration and learning.
Ooh! AND I've had friends surprise me by joining my Friends List on MySpace.com!
I think maybe the Creative Screenwriting Expo 4 next month may feel like a vacation. (We'll be in LA with KELLY so it'll DEFINITELY feel like a PARTY!!!)
Thursday, October 20, 2005
One Blog's Never Enough
I just finished creating a more writing-centered blog, so I don't have to bore you folk with my writing rants.
If you happen to be interested, it's at http://filmflunkyprods.blogspot.com.
I plan to have Brian link it tomy offcie at www.whitelightent.com so as to contribute SOMETHING to the site.
Meanwhile, I've been watching BATMAN BEGINS,George A. Romero'sLAND OF THE DEAD: The Unrated Director's Cut over and over again, listening to the album Dishwalla, and reading Karl Iglesias's WRITING FOR EMOTIONAL IMPACT.
Oh, and catching upon MY NAME IS EARL, MEDIUM and SUPERNATURAL. (I've stayed current with SMALLVILLE and I'm still behind on GILMORE GIRLS.)
And I've been listening to so Ray Bradbury on cd.
And I turned 35.
I guess I've been a little busy lately.
If you happen to be interested, it's at http://filmflunkyprods.blogspot.com.
I plan to have Brian link it tomy offcie at www.whitelightent.com so as to contribute SOMETHING to the site.
Meanwhile, I've been watching BATMAN BEGINS,George A. Romero'sLAND OF THE DEAD: The Unrated Director's Cut over and over again, listening to the album Dishwalla, and reading Karl Iglesias's WRITING FOR EMOTIONAL IMPACT.
Oh, and catching upon MY NAME IS EARL, MEDIUM and SUPERNATURAL. (I've stayed current with SMALLVILLE and I'm still behind on GILMORE GIRLS.)
And I've been listening to so Ray Bradbury on cd.
And I turned 35.
I guess I've been a little busy lately.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Cat-like Sunday
Ever watched a cat just... being a cat?
I'm sometimes meditative, and it's occured to me before that being a cat -- you know, one with a loving owner -- might just be about the best life possible. They lay around just whenever and wherever they want to, then when the notion hits them they'll up and explore every nook and cranny of their environment. They play when they feel like playing, and they play hard. Then they'll just plop down on your head and take a nap. They might ignore a Mac truck coming toward them because they're too busy playing with a particularly frisky dust mite.
Anyway, I got to experience that existence yestrday! And I LIKED it!
I mean, don't get me wrong: Structure is groovy. One of the things I like about shooting films is that constant hectic motion, that controled (barely-controled) chaos, that on-the-fly trouble-shooting!
But yesterday ways a great alternative...
Wake up, stumble to the living room and watch whatever Brian has going. Then, when I'm a bit more conscious, go back into the bedroom and play Tomb Raider: The Golden Mask for an hour or more.
Then I get hungry so I cook. I had plenty of time to experiement, so I did: I made some shrimp scampy, which always had an excess of that garlic butter suace, so then I seasoned half the spaghetti with that, and then just made regular spaghetti sause and some meatballs for the other half of the spaghetti.
DELICIOSO!!! I SO recomended it to ANYONE!!!
I think you need the red sauce, too, though. The garlic-butter spaghetti is a bit subtle for most pallets. But as a contrast to the sweet tang of tomato sauce, GENIUS!
I put on PSYCHO II while I was cooking, so I watched that as I ate, and then finished that up.
Then I was in the mood for some more Tomb Raider, but my computer wasn't cooperating, so I decided to read some of the SERENITY screenplay, then just laid there drifting in and out of conciousness for a while.
Got up, did the dishes from breakfast/lunch.
Then I watched DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW -- which still rocks!!! This ia a made-for-TV horror movie from 1981, and it's better than 90% of the horror flciks made in the 90s!!! Plus, it has a lot of faces that I recognized elsewhere and I'd ask myself "Why does he look familiar?" I had seen them HERE!
Then I burned a couple of discs; Stephen King short stories I had as mp3s that I want to be able to fall asleep to this month.
Talked on the phone to 2 of the hottest hotties I've ever known.
Re-read the Jerry Seinfeld Halloween children's book based on his comedy routine about trick-or-treat-ing.
Very lazy, spontaneous, reinvigorating cat-like Sunday!!!
I'm sometimes meditative, and it's occured to me before that being a cat -- you know, one with a loving owner -- might just be about the best life possible. They lay around just whenever and wherever they want to, then when the notion hits them they'll up and explore every nook and cranny of their environment. They play when they feel like playing, and they play hard. Then they'll just plop down on your head and take a nap. They might ignore a Mac truck coming toward them because they're too busy playing with a particularly frisky dust mite.
Anyway, I got to experience that existence yestrday! And I LIKED it!
I mean, don't get me wrong: Structure is groovy. One of the things I like about shooting films is that constant hectic motion, that controled (barely-controled) chaos, that on-the-fly trouble-shooting!
But yesterday ways a great alternative...
Wake up, stumble to the living room and watch whatever Brian has going. Then, when I'm a bit more conscious, go back into the bedroom and play Tomb Raider: The Golden Mask for an hour or more.
Then I get hungry so I cook. I had plenty of time to experiement, so I did: I made some shrimp scampy, which always had an excess of that garlic butter suace, so then I seasoned half the spaghetti with that, and then just made regular spaghetti sause and some meatballs for the other half of the spaghetti.
DELICIOSO!!! I SO recomended it to ANYONE!!!
I think you need the red sauce, too, though. The garlic-butter spaghetti is a bit subtle for most pallets. But as a contrast to the sweet tang of tomato sauce, GENIUS!
I put on PSYCHO II while I was cooking, so I watched that as I ate, and then finished that up.
Then I was in the mood for some more Tomb Raider, but my computer wasn't cooperating, so I decided to read some of the SERENITY screenplay, then just laid there drifting in and out of conciousness for a while.
Got up, did the dishes from breakfast/lunch.
Then I watched DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW -- which still rocks!!! This ia a made-for-TV horror movie from 1981, and it's better than 90% of the horror flciks made in the 90s!!! Plus, it has a lot of faces that I recognized elsewhere and I'd ask myself "Why does he look familiar?" I had seen them HERE!
Then I burned a couple of discs; Stephen King short stories I had as mp3s that I want to be able to fall asleep to this month.
Talked on the phone to 2 of the hottest hotties I've ever known.
Re-read the Jerry Seinfeld Halloween children's book based on his comedy routine about trick-or-treat-ing.
Very lazy, spontaneous, reinvigorating cat-like Sunday!!!
Thursday, October 06, 2005
MONSTER DOG(!!!)
Sorry it's been a while. But I've been busy getting my Firefly on!!!
Tuesday, Brian and I ate at Ramano's Macarronni Grille (SO tastey!!!) and then we watched 4 episodesof FIREFLY, then went to see SERENITY -- his first time, my second -- then came home to catch some more FIREFLY!!!
That was a GOOD day!
Then yesterday I had to work, but when I got home I had MONSTER DOG in my mailbox from Netflix!
This is a 1984 Alice Cooper movie that was apparently shot somewhere overseas.
And it's BAD!
But it's SO bad that... It's kinda cool!
I think you have to be a long-time fan of the horror genre to get what I mean, though. See, there are TONS of horror out there, and the majority of it is crap. But if you grow up loving horror, you end up watching the turds to get to those unexpected gems.
And I think this process eventually develops in you a "taste" for certain varieties of bad horror. There are just some types of bad horror that have their own amusement. You laugh at the bad stuff -- story, dialogue, acting, etc. -- and just enjoy it for what it's worth, getting MUCH more out of it than the filmmakers put in.
MONSTER DOG is one of those.
And it exists on a hard-to-define level of cheese.
It's not PLAN 9 FROM OUTTER SPACE aweful. In fact, most of Ed Wood's stuff is so unintentionally humorous that it can safely be catagorized as Comedy.
And it's not almost-good, like Carpenter's IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, where you really, really want to love it, but it just doesn't do for you what it's trying to do.
MONSTER DOG resides VERY snuggly in the realm of Bad Horror.
But like I said, it's SO bad...
Tuesday, Brian and I ate at Ramano's Macarronni Grille (SO tastey!!!) and then we watched 4 episodesof FIREFLY, then went to see SERENITY -- his first time, my second -- then came home to catch some more FIREFLY!!!
That was a GOOD day!
Then yesterday I had to work, but when I got home I had MONSTER DOG in my mailbox from Netflix!
This is a 1984 Alice Cooper movie that was apparently shot somewhere overseas.
And it's BAD!
But it's SO bad that... It's kinda cool!
I think you have to be a long-time fan of the horror genre to get what I mean, though. See, there are TONS of horror out there, and the majority of it is crap. But if you grow up loving horror, you end up watching the turds to get to those unexpected gems.
And I think this process eventually develops in you a "taste" for certain varieties of bad horror. There are just some types of bad horror that have their own amusement. You laugh at the bad stuff -- story, dialogue, acting, etc. -- and just enjoy it for what it's worth, getting MUCH more out of it than the filmmakers put in.
MONSTER DOG is one of those.
And it exists on a hard-to-define level of cheese.
It's not PLAN 9 FROM OUTTER SPACE aweful. In fact, most of Ed Wood's stuff is so unintentionally humorous that it can safely be catagorized as Comedy.
And it's not almost-good, like Carpenter's IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, where you really, really want to love it, but it just doesn't do for you what it's trying to do.
MONSTER DOG resides VERY snuggly in the realm of Bad Horror.
But like I said, it's SO bad...
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Take Me Out To The Black...
I SAW SERENITY LAST NIGHT!!!
It was every bit as great as I hoped, and BETTER!!!
One of the things I dig about Joss Whedon's storytelling is that he's not afraid to do things that enhance the drama of the story, even if he risks alienating some of the fair-weather fans!!!
He gets that if you want people to feel like they've just experienced something, you have to charge them an emotional toll. You know?
That's part of what I like about the horror genre: There are no guarantees. Like, in an action movie you KNOW that no matter how banged-up the heroes might get, they're all going to come out just fine. And with that little bit of extra security -- that sense that "Oh, I dig this character, so she's going to survive whatever gunplay or fireworks she endures" takes away from the emotional investment. It allows you to watch without getting too tense.
But in horror movies you know that EVERY character might die! You're INVESTED in what's going on on-screen... Well, if the characters are well-written...
And Joss WRITES WELL!!!
And as an experiment, Traci agreed to come with me! She hasn't seen a single scene from the show FIREFLY, and when she saw the trailer for SERENITY she thought it was just another crap movie coming out.
So I asked her if she'd go with me and give me an articulate description of her experience as a non-fan watching the flick.
And she did!!! She gave me a great deal of insight!!!
I'm dying for Tuesday, when Brian and I go see it!!! (My second time, his first.)
DUDE!!! SERENITY RULES!!! JOSS WHEDON RULES!!!
LIFE IS GOOD!!!
It was every bit as great as I hoped, and BETTER!!!
One of the things I dig about Joss Whedon's storytelling is that he's not afraid to do things that enhance the drama of the story, even if he risks alienating some of the fair-weather fans!!!
He gets that if you want people to feel like they've just experienced something, you have to charge them an emotional toll. You know?
That's part of what I like about the horror genre: There are no guarantees. Like, in an action movie you KNOW that no matter how banged-up the heroes might get, they're all going to come out just fine. And with that little bit of extra security -- that sense that "Oh, I dig this character, so she's going to survive whatever gunplay or fireworks she endures" takes away from the emotional investment. It allows you to watch without getting too tense.
But in horror movies you know that EVERY character might die! You're INVESTED in what's going on on-screen... Well, if the characters are well-written...
And Joss WRITES WELL!!!
And as an experiment, Traci agreed to come with me! She hasn't seen a single scene from the show FIREFLY, and when she saw the trailer for SERENITY she thought it was just another crap movie coming out.
So I asked her if she'd go with me and give me an articulate description of her experience as a non-fan watching the flick.
And she did!!! She gave me a great deal of insight!!!
I'm dying for Tuesday, when Brian and I go see it!!! (My second time, his first.)
DUDE!!! SERENITY RULES!!! JOSS WHEDON RULES!!!
LIFE IS GOOD!!!
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