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took Z to the Zoo, tech scouted for a couple days, y'know...did stuff! If you're bored, check out my images. I have a camera for this purpose: sharing.



taste the rainbow.

it's . . . . . . thursday??

I had an entry here, but I really don't want its contents to get back to me. If you want to know what wacky thing HH did on our storyboard outing today, phone me. 518-331-7427, biatche4s


In other news, I am figuring out Brooklyn. The borough is THE most complicated to figure out unless you have a Hagstrom(tm) Map nearby, which I recently purchased at a Staples. ((The GameStop next door had two kids in the same family with autism, the cure for which is videogames)) Hagstrom Maps are $50 a whack, but they're well worth it for Locations work in NYC. Laminated AND gigantic. Suckle on the teet, dear viewers, of HAGSTROM MAPS. I know I am!

pre-prod day 2

Helen Hunt doesn't like it when I speed through yellow lights.

cool

Read the script today, and wasn't disappointed. It's another very personal story being brought to life by a hard-working woman that I'll meet for the first time tomorrow - I'll be driving the director, DP, storyboard artists and others around on our techscouts for the next couple of weeks.

..there's not much to say beyond that. I met the pre-production crew at Killer Film's office; they're cool. My boss is cool...and the Production people are cool. Today's word is COOL.

gah!

Today was a good day. Spent most of it in front of my TV, twiddling my thumbs, which has become my favorite activity as of late. Disgaea...haaaahh...bliss. What can I say...I overpaid for a 'rare' game and feel the need to overplay it before all my time gets sucked away by work. Did I mention it's frigging DISGAEA?! Yeah, it's awesome.

I also participated in an event, which I will remain hush-hush about until it hits the web next week. In the meantime, check out the other amazing events the organizers have put on in the last 5 years. My favorite has to be the Best Buy project - a mob of 80 improvers, dressed in blue collared shirts and khaki pants, invade a Best Buy and proceed to help customers around the store! Hilarity ensues.

f y e

Final Fantom features the 1925 silent film "The Phantom of the Opera"set to the music of Final Fantasy VI, as played on piano by me.

Daniel Brown is GOOD. I got him playing everything from Castlevania to Mario Bros. on an old piano in the middle of the gaming hall at M4. He was selling sheet music and just rocking out - and he was flawless. Check out his stuff - it's better live, but what can you do.

so many posts!

Beginning Monday, I will be working full-time doing Locations Assistant on the new Helen Hunt movie, "Then She Found Me" - that's HH writing, directing AND starring. I've heard nothing but good things about the crew, and my boss, a man named Yorgo, has already promised jam sessions with...whatever I got. I always tell people, "I rock the tympani." That always gets some "ums" and "oookays".

For awhile I was getting hooked up with the same job on the next Adam Sandler movie, but these guys interviewed me and liked me - and needed a commitment quick. I still hadn't heard back from the guy who was checking me out for the Sandler flick. Yorgo told me straight up when I mentioned the possible conflict: sure I'd be getting more money, but I'd be more babysitting than learning new skills. He showed me what we're up against - the neighborhood people around our sets - and I know that deal-making is a skill I need to level up in. Get that shit? That shit is gamer shit. SHIT>

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some images from this month:



So, we had raccoons on set for the last two days of WTD. We shot in Douglaston Manor, Queens, which if you ask anyone (including me) we'll say that it's more Long Island than Queens. Hell, it's more East Hampton than anything. Bunch of rich peeps with control issues and giant McMansions and sprinkler systems. One of our interns was terrorized by this lady driving around a convertable VW Beetle that wanted her to "get off her property!!!1". By 'property' she meant 'sidewalk outside the fence outside her house'. So she firewatched from the other side of the street.

I digress. The entire area is plagued by two really funny things. (1) the sewer system is all cesspools! Too funny! We could use the crapper in the house we shot at because it just piles up under the house! Yippee rich folks! (2) horribly tame raccoons! They roved the streets at night in packs, ripping the hell out of garbage and scaring girly film crew members. Our crafty guy, Rob, who is as cool as any Dutchman, had never seen one before in his life. That night they were walking literally feet away from us - and we fed them well. What I learned from those nights is that raccoons loathe Combos but adore packaged bread.



#2: I spent the rest of the week at my parent's house at Seneca Lake near Geneva, NY. It. Was. Awesome. The videos will be posted at Awesome Squad, as soon as we get the site back and unsuspended again. Summary: we dyed my Mom's treasured pet poodle pink. Say that five times fast.

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An amazing GTA3 parody - Coke commercial. Ahhh, I like the concept. Do some good, it all comes back to youDRINKCOKE.

Hey, wanna see a severed dog head continue to live through Soviet Science? Skip forward to 3:00 for the experiment.

fck the RIAA

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060812-7487.html


They eventually retracted the case, but only after word spread about their horrible, soulless tactics.

I mean, COME ON!

Iron Editor REZ

http://reznor.sashikomi.net/IronEditor/Brickhouse.mov


She's 14.


Thank you, drunk Iron Editor REZ. Thank you for that.

(bloggle)

chopchoponionhed: all i heard from Ben is that Snake is still on the way, and that he got the job at Johnny Rocket's
ZombieHipHopHex:Oh yay
chopchoponionhed: yeah, he's learning the dance
ZombieHipHopHex: Ha! what a fag. I love the dance
chopchoponionhed: it's greatly embarrassing unless you're a psycho
chopchoponionhed: which is why it's so entertaining to watch.
chopchoponionhed: they're being forced upon by 50's style mentality
chopchoponionhed: violated by marketing from the past
ZombieHipHopHex: I LOVE IT!!
chopchoponionhed: i should write this down, son!
ZombieHipHopHex: Yeah! Write it down
chopchoponionhed:(scribble)

pink!

There are three CDs of pictures and movies from the past week, which will come tomorrow, but all you need to know is that I've been at the lake filming wacky stupid stuff with the brothers.

I'm still unemployed with 0 prospects but a lot of promises, which means that I get to do whatever I want until something responsible comes up. Pics coming tomorrow.






(we dyed Mowgli pink)

holding the mother load

Yesterday I kidnapped Z from work, in a plot aided by her co-workers, a florist, a mechanic with black teeth that was really good with directions, and Mr. Chuck E. Cheese himself.

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and it was so cool that I'm gonna have to get back to you about it, Internet. Did I mention the raccoons of the last days? Nah? Pictures to come soon.


btw, I'm unemployed / on vacation as of today. I'll be visiting my family until Sunday, so if anybody has a request of the Willard area, freaking text me.

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There's nothing as scary, intense, and beautiful as an Atom Bomb Explosion music video.

i <3 the internets

WE ARE THE WEB - internet famous people (Tronguy, Robin Hood) speaking out about Net Neutrality. Freaking genius.

Go past the music video.

Check out the testimonials, it puts a very interesting face on the characters we've come to know/love/hate from the furthest reaches of net space. I never thought I'd hear about their lives, hear them speak and not judge them by the images we've been passing off as a terrible joke for years.

I keep telling Z that the Internet is a great community - a great wealth of information that I want to add to in every way possible. This blog is a part of that - I'm sharing my story to everyone and anyone - random surfers to family/friends - as a voyeuristic offering that is so personal that it cannot be duplicated. I love that people around the world, for whatever reason, be it for attention or otherwise, give us a glimpse into their personal lives on the net.

You don't have to sell Girl Scout cookies door to door to see what's inside my house.

The door is already open.

WTD day 20

Yesterday was the last Friday we'll have on WTD. It was a slllloooowwww process, too. Everybody showed up late, and I mean - everybody. Including me. Killian was stuck in traffic, it just wasn't pretty. Our 1st AD was visibly annoyed, and I don't blame her. It's her job to motivate us all into doing our best - pushing to get it all done on time. This day, we were slow as slugs.

Since we started the day at 5pm, I didn't get home until 7am on Saturday. Instead of trying to sleep (I was trying to stay up for the whole 24 hours) I caught a Yugioh! episode, some kind of new series that really isn't as good as the first season against Pegasus. The next show was . . Johnny Test? Piece o crap. I fell asleep during the first five minutes, thinking about how much of a Dexter's Lab / Jimmy Neutron ripoff this thing was. It sucked in concept, but then again, so do 90% of all American cartoons. It's been this was since the major studios closed down and Japan took over.



GENERIC!

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darth

darth vader being a smartass.

WTD ... three more days to go

Yesterday I got yelled at by a pregnant woman, whom was pretty justified in her yelling. We had a bogey car that was parked right outside of set, directly in our DP's way, and it just HAD to go. "Find the owner", our PM said, adding, with a point of one finger, "start at that building right there."




The time was 12:15am. Being the lowest monkey on the Locations chain, it was up to me to go from door to door, buzz people awake, and ask if they owned the blue Volkswagon Passat with Iowa plates. The few that actually responded to their doorbells were less than estatic with me. There was this one dude with a basement apartment that I could see was up - he even had a hot chick sitting on his couch that was in plain view. Apparently I was interfering with the guy's booty call, for when he popped out (after several rings...he was playing asleep for awhile) he pretended to be angry/sleepy and asked me if I knew what time it was. I said I did. No luck.

There was this woman on the other end of a talk-box that I must have annoyed because I held down the button to talk to her about ten times before I realized that I was just pressing down the buzzer, and she could only listen when I kept my hand off of it. Both times I talked to her, she was really nice. It was surreal.

Then came the pregnant woman. As soon as I rang her buzzer, which I could hear from the ground floor, she appeared, furiously descending the inside steps like a drill sergeant about to lay some verbal smack down on a rookie private. Dressed in a shiny pink robe and with perfect bedhair, she was a thing of beauty, skinny with just a little bit of plump belly giving away her trimester age. She was also mad as hell. "You don't understand - I have two kids and they're both up, and I'm pregnant!" Ugh. Nothing stings worse than realizing you just really screwed up somebody nice's day, especially when they're pregnant, with kids, and probably single. I'm just guessing that if her husband was around, he'd be kicking my teeth down the stairs and into the black metal fence.

"I'm very very sorry ma'am, I know it's late and I don't mean to disturb you..." my gut sank. I hate making people mad at me, but my hand was forced! "...and it's only because it's an emergency. . . We're looking for the owner of a blue Passat, Iowa plates."

She hated me.

Flying into a rampage of helpful hints and furious energy, she burst out another slew of very true facts about how I was screwing her night up and how I could find better help in the area. She recommended the bottle bum who sleeps next to her apartment, because he knew better than anybody what lives on the street and to whom it would belong. We checked, but he was out for the night - probably due to all the racket we were making. With another helpful but painful batch of whispered shouts, she closed the door and quickly made her way back up the inside stairs to her apartment.

We never did find the owner of that car. Instead, we used it in the scene - it wound up adding a cool motion - Killian slammed into it at half-speed! Take after take, sweet, sweet revenge unfolded.



_Epilogue_

Tonight we left the bottle bum all of our excess 2nd meal food. Burgers, fries, salads, it was all boxed up and put at his doorstep. As we pulled away in John's car, we saw him just waking up to the feast. I wonder if he ate any.


ps, IMAGE DUMP


pps, yesterday someone was shot a block away from Set. BedStuy is not a safe place.

WTD day 17

For the past three work days we've filmed in a beautiful, gigantic home just south of Prospect Park. There is a guy who drives around in a patrol car at night, black nannies, window alarms, the works - everything a rich white man could ask for.

Now, I have been told this many times by people who live IN Brooklyn, but never really appreciated it until now - "you can be on a beautiful, safe street one moment, turn the corner and be on the worst, drug-ridden crackhouse-layden street the next." It's frigging true! Yesterday there was a stabbing directly outside our crafty truck, which is coincedentally parked on "the next street over". This guy, surrounded by an entourage, was walking down the sidewalk talking trash- when suddenly this other dude runs up, does a flying jump and slashes down the back of the first guy's shoulder. It was pandemonium. People screaming, police eventually coming, chasing, shouting. I was nowhere near this craziness, of course, but Rob, the craft services guy, relayed it all to me today. It happened so close to him that he literally lurched out of the way.

Adding to the drama, today a teenager got hit by a car outside set. We get alot of rubberneckers but never had to deal with a full-blown car accident. He walked away from it, but it was scary to think about. Did we indirectly cause that accident? Was he staring at Lucy, not paying attention, when he stepped into traffic? Both of these incidents overshadow the fun and hard work that the last two days have been. I only hope that the rest of the job passes without any more craziness.



The scenes we filmed today were rockin. I can't really tell you about them, but it was a blast to watch. Get ready for this movie, because it's gonna take the world by storm. Two really talented actors having fun, a great script, and the Chadster doing his thing all rolled up into one big Katamari.

Where's my girlfriend? It's time to snuggle.