Finally! A spare minute to update!
Suffice it to say, craziness abounds. Were finally getting a new flick off the ground and have begun casting. Which is fun, cause we get to watch lots of actors and actresses make asses of themselves on their audition tapes. It never ceases to amaze me how little talent you actually need to call yourself an actor in this town. Proof again that if you truly want to act, youre better off on a stage. Film is, for the most part, where cattle are paraded in front of a camera to hit their mark and spout dialogue
Anyway, with all this excitement also comes a whole new slew of headaches, in addition to the usual dilemmas. And naturally, the boss-man has yet to hire someone to help shoulder the extra weight.
Thank God for nicotine and caffeine!
Went out with the boys last Wednesday night to celebrate our buddys new job. If you can call it that. Ya see, roommate number one has risen to a level in his work where hes able to hire our friends. Needless to say, he enjoys his office environment far more than most of us do. And while hiring friends is usually a recipe for disaster, I can honestly say hes chosen wisely, in that they will actually do their jobs.
Anyway, we went to Jumbo's Clown Room.
Enough said.
...OK, Ive just been reminded that there can never be enough said about a trip to Jumbo's. Long story short, after gazing upon the pretty-pretties (including one girl who looked like a living Frazetta!), for far too many hours and imbibing several too many Jack and Cokes, we made the precarious trek home. Somewhere along our journey, roommate number one (allegedly) nabbed a jumbo road cone (allegedly) through the drivers side window while still driving (allegedly), mind you!
When we woke up the next morning, the only thing that surprised us more than discovering the road cone in our living room, was what we found printed on it:
ASPLUNDH
Thus ass-plunder has become our new pet topic of conversation.
Got out to two count em, 1, 2! movies over the weekend. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is abundantly mediocre. Another stock epic thats as predictable as it is expensive. The history was shoddy and the performances bland. Sorry, Orlando you just cant shoulder a movie on your own. Though I couldnt help but wonder if he found himself thinking, wasnt I already in this movie?? Seriously, the siege on Jerusalem looked a lot like the siege in Return of the King.
DOWNFALL, on the other hand, was fan-fucking-tastic. Its a German flick and only in limited release, so if it doesnt get to you, make sure you keep an eye out for it on DVD. It chronicles the last days of the Third Reich as Berlin is overrun by the Russians. You spend the majority of time in Hitlers bunker, watching as everyone slowly loses their minds. The guy playing Hitler was amazing. Its a performance that so easily could have turned into a caricature, but was pulled off brilliantly. The most surprising thing about the film, to me anyway, was its macabre sense of gallows humor; the debauchery and disturbingly calm conversations about the best way to kill ones self.
Poor ol P.E. was all sorts of hungover on Saturday. It made me laugh, but slightly jealous as Ive yet to see her in such disrepair as she sounded on Friday night. Heres my favorite quote from a quick phone conversation:
Im a little buzzed (long pause) I dont know where I am
So yeah, I gotta leave it at that for now. Hope you all are well.
Suffice it to say, craziness abounds. Were finally getting a new flick off the ground and have begun casting. Which is fun, cause we get to watch lots of actors and actresses make asses of themselves on their audition tapes. It never ceases to amaze me how little talent you actually need to call yourself an actor in this town. Proof again that if you truly want to act, youre better off on a stage. Film is, for the most part, where cattle are paraded in front of a camera to hit their mark and spout dialogue
Anyway, with all this excitement also comes a whole new slew of headaches, in addition to the usual dilemmas. And naturally, the boss-man has yet to hire someone to help shoulder the extra weight.
Thank God for nicotine and caffeine!
Went out with the boys last Wednesday night to celebrate our buddys new job. If you can call it that. Ya see, roommate number one has risen to a level in his work where hes able to hire our friends. Needless to say, he enjoys his office environment far more than most of us do. And while hiring friends is usually a recipe for disaster, I can honestly say hes chosen wisely, in that they will actually do their jobs.
Anyway, we went to Jumbo's Clown Room.
Enough said.
...OK, Ive just been reminded that there can never be enough said about a trip to Jumbo's. Long story short, after gazing upon the pretty-pretties (including one girl who looked like a living Frazetta!), for far too many hours and imbibing several too many Jack and Cokes, we made the precarious trek home. Somewhere along our journey, roommate number one (allegedly) nabbed a jumbo road cone (allegedly) through the drivers side window while still driving (allegedly), mind you!
When we woke up the next morning, the only thing that surprised us more than discovering the road cone in our living room, was what we found printed on it:
ASPLUNDH
Thus ass-plunder has become our new pet topic of conversation.
Got out to two count em, 1, 2! movies over the weekend. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is abundantly mediocre. Another stock epic thats as predictable as it is expensive. The history was shoddy and the performances bland. Sorry, Orlando you just cant shoulder a movie on your own. Though I couldnt help but wonder if he found himself thinking, wasnt I already in this movie?? Seriously, the siege on Jerusalem looked a lot like the siege in Return of the King.
DOWNFALL, on the other hand, was fan-fucking-tastic. Its a German flick and only in limited release, so if it doesnt get to you, make sure you keep an eye out for it on DVD. It chronicles the last days of the Third Reich as Berlin is overrun by the Russians. You spend the majority of time in Hitlers bunker, watching as everyone slowly loses their minds. The guy playing Hitler was amazing. Its a performance that so easily could have turned into a caricature, but was pulled off brilliantly. The most surprising thing about the film, to me anyway, was its macabre sense of gallows humor; the debauchery and disturbingly calm conversations about the best way to kill ones self.
Poor ol P.E. was all sorts of hungover on Saturday. It made me laugh, but slightly jealous as Ive yet to see her in such disrepair as she sounded on Friday night. Heres my favorite quote from a quick phone conversation:
Im a little buzzed (long pause) I dont know where I am
So yeah, I gotta leave it at that for now. Hope you all are well.
VIEW 14 of 14 COMMENTS
And I knew Kingdom of Heaven was gonna be mediocre the minute they used driving guitar rock in the trailer of a film about the Crusades
[Edited on May 10, 2005 6:55PM]