i threw the extras out.

It turns out that I have exactly 61 varieties of AOL promo discs, which isn't counting same-logo-different-package ones.

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btw, there's some hilarious Rhapsody moments in that folder. Beating it, reaching the story's climax...it really moved me. Yeah, I'll admit it. Rhapsody was the first RPG in a long, long time to get me laughing out loud and feeling down in the dumps for the characters since FF7, and I've played alot since then. Sure it was easy as sin, but I don't hold that against it. The story...the end...was crazy! Crazy amazing and crazy good. I want to adapt it some day!

deep thoughts

Today I left the Training Academy behind, said my goodbye, ate sushi at my favorite restaurant, beat Rhapsody, and, yeah. There's a story in there somewhere, right?

I have mixed feelings about leaving Albany. GOOD mixed feelings, mostly about leaving nature behind for the bustle of the big city. To me, being around a forest is like second nature...the opportunity to lose myself and take a walk has always been there for me. It's not that I'm a treehugger or a Shintoist or anything, it's just how I was raised.

Today I was on the second half of my bi-weekly run, when I turned my head to see an empty field filled with birds between two large houses. That, I thought, is what I want. Maybe it's just a passing thought motivated by fear of change, but I've been getting the feeling about what's really comforting, and the forest is one of those things. What I'm really psyched about is that I can (after NYC) live in any city and not really feel like I'm living in a city. Whereever we wind up, I think there has to be a forest nearby. A forest I can run with my dog.

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The Future of Cinema

The Fanboys Win Again!

Finally, fanboys on the internet, en mass, have changed the outcome of a movie. Not since Ang Lee put purple pants on his previously naked Hulk has a major studio bowed to the wishes of the biggest, nerdiest test audience of them all - internet geeks. I just BEAM every time something like this happens...and you should KNOW that I'll be at the premiere this horrible, yet hilarious movie in August!

What's that? You don't know that the entire Internet has been laughing about Snakes on a Plane for months? GET WITH IT!@ (and learn about memes while you're at it, sheesh!)

also, thanks to Cammiluna I've been checking out Pandora, which is the cool, ultimate goal of the Radio Genome Project (a novelty I heard about on NPR a year ago).

happenings

Moved in a little bit to the new apt!! Woohoo!!

This upcoming weekend is the big move, but I got the easy-as-pie route down by driving some fragiles into Astoria. Although I did get my very first parking ticket, figuring out Queens behind the wheel of my car wasn't that bad of an experience.

!! Did I mention I just got hired? Not 2 minutes ago I got the call from Off Hollywood Productions to be a PA on their feature film shoot through April! Yeah!! Goodbye DOCS, hello new life!


Today's b-story:
I randomly surfed onto SONOFBITCH.com and thought it was worth posting about. It looks to be one of those domains that was bought out when it's registration expired by some search engine-wannabe (see: HOLYCRAP.com and DUDE.com), but they left some crazy superhero images behind. Anybody know the story behind SONOFBITCH.com?

almost forgot!

Here's the pics from this weekend!

Highlights include an untoppable Jenga tower, karaoke, green eyeliner on everything, and scolding!

So, Joe_Cam's

"WE CANNOT DIE" - Team BigGameCock (Rez and me)'s first collaboration as Iron Editors!

The story is that Rez and Devon, who really desire learning more about editing, both had Mac Minis and were both going to be at St. Faggy's last weekend. This lead to Rez throwing up the challenge for an Iron Editor competition, where teams of two capture a movie decided upon by the crowd, and quickly carve it into a music video in only 4 hours. The stipulation (which was a hard one!) is that everyone has to swallow a shot of something every 1/2 hour.

The movie decided upon was Saving Private Ryan, which I thought was bursting with potential humor. Rez and me were pitted against Devon and Juese - who was a late addition but proved a humor-asset to the youngin. Together they forged a hilarious video using this old swing piece about Tigers.. -> here.

We thought about lining up our clips to this catchy Ludacris song, but the lyrics didn't quite fit. We both had around a thousand songs on an iPod and CDs to scan through for the perfect piece...and found it on The Aquabats' latest album, Charge!

view WE CANNOT DIE!

What was intended to be silly and zany turned out to be very, very cynical and anti-war. What gets many people (including drunk us) is the blatent contrast between the poppy, brave lyrics and the grim reality of the battle segments. There was a propoganda-esque letter to D-Day participants by some General inside the DVD box, which pretty much reiterated the same feeling as the track - "the free world depends on you, we are the righteous hand against evil, yadda yadda." When the four hours were up and we played our vid, even the other team was surprised we didn't win. We had subtext, man! SUBTEXT!

The shots really screwed me up. I was eating everything I could (and chasing each shot with a full glass of soda) but my face got so red! I'm a lightweight and it showed. If I was sober, maybe I wouldn'tve put that second shot of Tom Hanks laughing in there. Maybe other stuff would or would not have happened. That's the beauty of the timed competition!

It was a split decision but I figured that humor would win the day, and it did. We of Team BigGameCock are proud of our submission, and cannot wait for revenge! BIG, GAMECOCK REVENGE!

FUN! nel

I say that I'm not an artist. I just sometimes have ideas.




and that one is for "a new kind of entertainment on demand! It's FUN! nel"

lady luck's backhand

When will this get old? Wait, it's old already!

I've seen quite a number of sites using this thing for customer service, most recently: IKEA.

anyway.

Last weekend I had amazing train luck. This weekend: horrible train luck. I blame it on New Jersey Transit, which, much like airport terminals, forces you to rely on asking the roaming Customer Service people about where you need to go due to a freaking retarded ticketing / herding system. I had no sooner found the ticket booth on Sunday (after running and searching for a few frantic minutes) when I came to the conclusion: I had no idea what the hell the information on the monitors hanging everywhere meant. The ticket guy told me, "check the monitors!" to see which train came in next, but really all the monitors had was gibberish that read like a tickertape machine. Screw Jersey!

I nearly missed the Middletown train thanks to their type-in-the-region-code ticket machines, got Z and myself lost taking their not-well-labeled LightRail trains, and almost got a $74 fine for not 'validating my ticket', that is, once the Light Rail ticket machine spits your ticket out at you, you're supposed to stick it into another adjacent machine to get a time stamped onto it or you get a huge fine. WTF JERSEY?? Why not just have the first machine do it???? Why not let people use their ticket all day or use magnetic stripes like NYC???! IT'S EASIER THAT WAY!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

You can't even pump your own gas...phew...allright...I need to talk about something else...right! I got to view our new apartment and neighborhood! The spot we got in Astoria is amazing...spacious, nice people, a nearby park, and the best part: Tekken 3 and Metal Slug cabinets in the laundry building. Ooohhh yeah!


Is this not the cutest girl in the entire world? The patch reads: "BadAss of Children's Television".

/memories, woa woa woahah>

I was just searching my archives for a One Punch photo (which I could not find) and found these beauties. Ahhhh, college...

bwaaak

POULTRYGEIST IS COMING

the dayz

This Friday the Rileys, Juaquime and I will shoot the music video for 'Menu Scream', something that'll play at the Nth Mile DVD menu. So far, the music is a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Shael and Devon cranked out another goodun!

Next Friday marks Joe_Cam's birthday, and St. Pattys day. Add the two together? FAGFEST_v.3!

Next Next Friday I'm moving Z into our new apartment in Astoria, better known as NW Queens, NYC! Its apparently one of the best places to be a vegetarian, to quote Sienna: "It's great for vegetarians because they have the best produce selection of all the NY neighborhoods I've visited. There are corner fruit and vegetable markets that stay open 24 hours. When I lived there I recall wandering home after 1am and picking up some cheap broccoli rabe." There you have it - late night brocolli runs.

Next Month I'm quitting DOCS and moving down there permanently. The last months of office work will suck, but it's worth it.

what every gamer wants.

I just had my first 9-days-straight PA experience, and I loved every second of it. Today, at my office job, I actually had to try hard to keep myself awake, the difference was so great. Imagine going from running around / being needed / learning so much for 10 hour shifts to sitting around in a cubicle wasting time inbetween menial tasks for 8 is ... well, there's a stark contrast.

Everybody on both projects was awesome. Did I mention I helped on two projects? On the weekends I was amongst filmmaking peers from SVA doing a comedy pilot / student thesis about an old people revolution, and during the weekdays (I actually took a week off from the Academy to do this) I helped dismantle "Its a Big Big World" from top to bottom. You know, that PBS Kids show?

Let's see...memories you might care to read. .. . hmm... I went on a 'panty run' for the thesis film...with six dollars in my hand, I found myself describing loudly into my cell about the different diapers that CVS was selling (I couldn't quite find regular undies!). Later I learned that the Producer had put me on speaker phone and everybody had a good laugh. I got those freaking panties at store #2.

Jim "with the beard" Jim from Big Big World is awesome. What a chill guy. Shit, he'll probably never read this, but he's the man. About Jim: is girlfriend designs womens clothes and his beard is longer than your foot. Everybody on 'Sol' was totally great...Alice, Henry, Jesse..gotta give it up for Craig, too. It turned out after a few days of dialogue that Craig works on a videogame show on SpikeTV! Weird coincedences...fate...meh? Time for some dumpage.

BIG BIG EMPTY
SOL SUMMERS STUFF
OTHER

oh, Katsucon . . .

This was the Katsucon I missed.

http://reznor.sashikomi.net/katsu12/Katsucon12.mov

Shout out to Devon, the best hedgehog keeper EVER

PA work

hey Internet.


I've been on a PA binge for the last week+, driving from one student thesis film in an abandoned hospital in White Plains, to Wainscott Studios in Long Island for an actual paying gig cleaining up Big Big Productions (z's old gig).

EDUCATIONAL! This is the word I use to describe my time this week. "GOTTA GO" is the exclamation I am using to announce that my time at the computer has ended.

Full story later.