A Good Friday!!!!

Yesterday was nice, real nice.
I got a haircut, paid some bills, ordered a bulb for Beersnob's light kit I broke, and had a few drinks with most of my friends.

It was a great day!

I did get pretty wasted, sent some drunk messages, and slept it all off. I feel pretty good today and I'm ready for the film adventure that is soon to happen!

So now as I'm watching TV this morning and waking up I have to tell you what I am seeing. I am watching Jordan Knight and Debbie....sorry Deborah Gibson sing and try to jumpstart their careers. Apparently Jordan Knight is now trying to be Billy Joel.

I guess I'm still trying to get over his Surreal Life experience. Now THAT was entertaining!!!!

I also see that Congress has now passed legislation to ban credit card companies, electronic wire transfers, and electronic checks from funding online poker sites....sigh.

I'm sorry I'm a big boy, if I want to play poker it is my business and not the concern of anyone else. The government is not my big brother and it should NOT be interjecting itself in this sort of business. What is next? Are they going to require a five point harness and helmets in every vehicle? You just never know when you are going to be in an accident afterall.

Sheesh.

Maybe we need warning lables on Coke cans that say that you should be careful because when you open a can the spray might get into your eye and cause irritation....

Happy Friday!!!!

I need today my friends. Today is the end of the fiscal year at work so they encourage everyone to take off. You can show up at work but no one does and there is nothing to do so everyone takes off.

I have a couple of errands to do today and then I'm meeting some friends for drinks at around 4:30 at Callahan's. I'm excited about that!

It's payday as well so what more could you ask for? A three day weekend, payday, and some time with your friends?

Not bad.

Are You Entitled To Happiness Or My Own Green Grass....

After yesterday's post I decided to ask myself this question. At least I know the answer to this one.

No. No one is entitled to happiness. You have to make your own happiness. As the Founding Fathers wrote, The Pursuit Of Happiness. That is what you are entitled to.

Well in the general sense that is. On a personal level it can be a lot more complex. For me, and today is one of those days, I have a full coffee card. That makes me happy!!!!

Filming Drinkbusters is a source of happiness.
The bonding I have shared with my friends has made me happy.
That is really all that is coming to mind right now though, well on a larger scale. I wish I could say there was more but there simply isn't.

So that means I can be unhappy or do something else that makes me happy, right?

Well not necessarily. Since Happy is relative to each individual and each individual is entitled to make their own happiness then perhaps the pursuit is what most people are after? When they actually can see happiness in whatever form that takes they become unhappy again. I know in my life that once I have obtained a goal then it just wasn't fulfilling anymore.

So what does all that mean? Well it means that you have to find a new goal of something you think is going to make you happy. It also means that there might be a whole lot in your life right now that you could be very happy with and just not realize it. Yeah the whole, "The Grass Isn't Always Greener" theory.

There are countries around the world where there just isn't any form of happiness at all. Where misery is a national commodity and death, starvation, genocide, and any number of other horrible things are too common. Where even if you knew what would make you happy there are people standing in your way to see that you don't get it. Say like the simple freedom to worship as you please in Darfur. (Look it up if you don't get it)

Tonight I am going to come home after work, I'm going to light my Dreamsicle candle, drink a coke, take off my uniform and enjoy a small measure of happiness. The contentment of relaxing in my own house and knowing I don't have to be back to work until Monday. I have the knowledge that I have family and friends that care about me and that brings up a wellspring of inner happiness. Is there something missing?

Well of course there is.

The pursuit of the next thing that I believe would make me temporarily outstandingly happy that once obtained is just my own green grass again.

What Keeps You Going?

This is the existential question that every thinking person out there struggles with.

What is it that makes you get out of bed in the morning?
What is it that keeps you going?
What is it that keeps you from just giving up?

Everyone has their own reasons, maybe family, friends, some purpose they feel that they have to fulfill. Some people just haven't figured it out yet and go through the motions.

They fake living. They know what they are supposed to do since that is what everyone else is doing so that has to be right, right?

They might even know what they want to do but have a hard time making the opportunity happen. They might be a bit more jaded than that though.
They might go the same route as everyone else, get married, raise kids, work a job, retire and then what? What is there next? What accomplishment really means something?

Do you keep telling yourself that one day you will be able to do what you dream of?
Oh yeah....after you pay off your mortgage, get out of debt, retire?!?!?! And then do what?

Have you ever been fulfilled to the point that you know you are where you are supposed to be?

What fulfills you? Do you even know what would fulfill you?

Sadly I feel I am faking being alive right now. I can't answer any of these questions with any certainty. I've often thought of doing something radical and just quitting, packing up my essentials and moving but can't find the guts to do even that. I've got a strong sense of internal responsibility but sometimes I feel it is misplaced.

I do feel I used to know what kept me going but somehow I have forgotten it along the way. That maybe shutting everyone out and keeping contact with other people to the barest of minimums might be an alternative.

No I'm not feeling sorry for myself and having some kind of pity party fit right now. I'm just asking myself one of the essential questions of life, "What am I doing here, where am I going and why?"

Well I didn't like the fact that I couldn't really answer my own question and that lead to this post.

Honestly my friends I don't know the answers.

Drinkbusters 1X4 IS UP!!!!

Enjoy the funniest Drinkbusters yet with the roughest drink yet!!!!

Friends Chianti, Weezy, and Beersnob went above and beyond on this one!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTgLLxUIbqo

1-3....Sigh....

Yes my friends another dismal week of fantasy football is in the books.
I went 1-3 and I'm starting to wonder if I even know football anymore.

Tiki Barber still has not seen a return to last year's form when he was a fantasy powerhouse.
Bulger and Holt have connected two times in three weeks which is nice but still need production from the supporting cast.

My D, Cincinnati, has been strong and been a fantasy dynamo but if you are depending on your D for points every week you are in trouble....which I am anyway.

My kicker....well he is a kicker.

Randy Moss....well he is a different story, you can sum up Moss this year by saying, "The Oakland Raiders are now on the clock."

Laurence Maroney has been strong but he is getting yardage and not TDs same as Tiki.

I know this team has potential to be a force, they are just too talented but alas they are also 0-3. I am starting to feel like I drafted a USA basketball team and they are in international play. Talented individuals but this is one group that can't win.

I was nipped in one Yahoo league after leading into Monday night and dominated the other Yahoo league with a large victory margin. I'm not completely incompetent in fantasy play but I feel like it.

One More Day

Back to work I go to support my breathing and eating habit. Five days on two days off. I am starting to see a pattern. I might be a little slow some times but yeah, this one is pretty clear.

It isn't that I don't like working and being productive. I LOVE it. It gives me worth. It allows me to do things for others I wouldn't normally be able to do. It is the fact that I feel I'm wasted at work, not wasted like they have a bar set up or anything like that, just that I have a lot to offer a company and my talents just aren't being utilized correctly.

See here is a little secret of mine. Since 99% of you who read this I'll probably never meet and the other 1% who do probably already know it about me I think it is safe to divulge. If I were in love with someone who meant the world to me I would work this job for the rest of my life and never complain once. Heck I'd work two jobs if that is what it took to keep my friend, lover, and or spouse happy. Yes, I would give up my dreams for someone who meant the world to me.

Gladly.

It would not be a cause of resentment either. If that is what it would take that is how far I would be willing to go.

However since nothing is even close to that point yet I am still working on becoming the next great screenwriter/director/editor....your basic indie filmmaker.

Yeah!!!!

"Remember When We...."

I realized something very important last night with my Drinkbuster companions.

We are doing something very good right now and one day we WILL look back on this time and think about how good it was. Now let me clarify I'm not talking about the quality of the show itself, I'm talking about the kinship we are really starting to share with one another.

I'm talking about how fondly we will remember this time with each other no matter what changes we will endure in the coming months. This is a special time.

Filming on The Passing Drummers was cut short this weekend by an illness of one of the co-stars so we had the perfect opportunity last night to film 1x4. We got together before hand at Chianti's house to watch a football game while Weezy researched drinks online. She came up with some recipes and they were soon narrowed down to three.

We quickly headed to the Drinkbuster's Studio with our intern and Sass, our audience for the evening. By 10:00 we were ready to roll. We wrapped up one of the funniest shows so far and then headed to a local pub to hang out and talk.

Drinkbusters is fun to shoot and fun to be a part of. I'm happy that everyone involved believes the same thing and looks forward to doing it and I look forward to many many episodes that have yet to be shot!!!!

I just want to say to all of my readers that I am really honored to have this incredible cast of people around me and I'm proud to call Chianti, Weezy, and Beersnob my friends. They are wonderful people and if you ever get the chance to meet them you would think so too.

I am sincere when I say that and mean it will all my heart.

Hard Candy

This is the kind of movie I was trying for with Locker. Unfortunately I'm not as talented a writer as the writers of Hard Candy.

The story is very simple. A fourteen year old girl is propositioned by a pedophile photographer online, they meet at Nighthawks coffee shop. Yeah Nighthawks, from the very famous Hopper painting. You'll know what I'm talking about if you see the painting.

Anyway, they meet and she practically throws herself at him and they go back to his place where the movie starts. This one house location shoot was simply amazing. It is 98% dialogue and clocks in at just over 100 minutes. The pace never drags. It actually goes so fast you wonder where the time went! The drama is tense and I'd have a tough time defining this movie in any genre.

It isn't a horror movie, it isn't a thriller, it isn't drama, it isn't suspense, but at the same time it is all of those rolled up into one intense package. Hitchcock would be proud of this movie. Somehow it cost nearly 1 million dollars to budget this movie but it must have gone to film stock because there are only a handful of actors in it. I believe that the real budget is about a 100 grand. There is just no way that it could have cost 1 million bucks to shoot.

Hard Candy is a great movie. It is a film school in a DVD box for a Indie film. If I had half that story in my imagination it would launch a very solid film career!!!!

See it, you'll enjoy it but you'll wince as many times as you'll marvel at the brilliance of it.

Happy Friday!!!!

Yes my friends it is Friday and I'm about to head out to supper. I am meeting Chianti and Sass at a local Mexican food place and then might venture forth for some drinking....unless Beersnob checks in and we can shoot Drinkbusters tonight.

Otherwise it looks to be a nice evening with friends before heading into the weekend and working on Chris's movie.

Hopefully my fantasy team will make a turn around and decide they are going to score a little bit. I'm sure there is a Paris Hilthong joke in there somewhere but I'll just leave that to my readers:)

Have a good weekend everyone!!!!

From Rainy To Windy

The winds are gusting at about fifty miles per hour. There is a ton of dust in the air and my sinuses are killing me.

I picked up some alka seltzer at Walgreen's at lunch to try to dry up my sinuses. I am sure it isn't a cold now and just the junk in the air that is stopping me up. It is almost the weekend again and to tell you the truth, I need it.

Well duh....who doesn't need a weekend right? I mean even if a weekend is bad it is still pretty good right? There wasn't much going on at work today and I had practically finished everything that needed to be done by 8:30. So at lunch I also picked up a Sudoku book. That is a pretty fascinating way to pass the time.

Yeah I know I should be writing and I have been doing some of that as well. Sudoku is a puzzle in which you have to put the numbers 1-9 in nine 3x3 squares. They just can't repeat and most of the numbers are missing.

It is a good way to pass the time and give your brain a workout. Try it once. You might like it.

It Rained Last Night

It feels good this morning. It is cool, still pretty windy though but nice.

It is trash day. I have to remember to put my trash outside so it isn't setting in the hosue for another week. I think I have developed a small cold. I thought yesterday that it was probably all the dirt in the air that stopped my sinuses up but it might not have been afterall.

We'll see if it develops further.

I am about to head back to my job. Eight hours on sixteen hours off. It has worn me down my friends. There are rumors Mr. Hyde might be back as our supervisor again. Our new supervisor, the one that is probably the best we have had ever, will soon be advancing to a better job. That leaves his job open which means that there is a chance that Mr. Hyde The Boy Idiot will be back to make life miserable again.

The Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi Collections

There really is no two names that inspire instant recognition than Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
They made Universal a vast fortune with their movies and characters.

Practically everone knows the story about how Lugosi turned down Frankenstein and at the same time catapulted Karloff into the stratosphere of Hollywood. His career never flagged as Lugosi's did.

They paired up in eight films during their careers. Boris Karloff's career was for more prolific and some would argue that he was the better actor. I couldn't even begin to compare them as actors. They are both legends in every sense of the word.

Where they separated in their careers is the pivotal movie of Frankenstein. The monster connected with audiences. Even though he was "the bad guy" he was still a very sympathetic character. Someone you rooted for despite the villagers and their pesky torches.

Dracula on the other hand was not sympathetic. He was a vile character and you wanted to see him get staked in the end. These ARE the defining roles of their careers. Their bread and butter. While Lugosi wanted to expand his acting career into many different roles he was destined to do horror. He felt stifled by this and frustrated as work slowly went away.

Meanwhile Karloff never really was out of work. He dominated the horror genre for years afterwards and only started to give way to the Roger Corman/Vincent Price movies of the 60's.

So what do you do if you are craving a horror movie and you own a DVD player? You get The Boris Karloff Collection of course!!!! You get five movies that aren't Frankenstein or The Mummy.

You get movies that have been long lost from the memory of cinema. These are very enjoyable movies my friends. They not only star Boris Karloff but Charles Laughton in his psychotic, evil best, Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr. and Basil Rathbone to name a few.

For value you can't beat them but I can tell you that by today's standards you might find them dry. There are no explosions. No rubber monsters. No car chases. No gore. No big budgets even. These were set pieces that were probably recycled for several movies. These were shot in simpler times and actually had involving plots. The dialogue isn't on par with today's standards but you will have no problems following along....trust me. You don't have to be spoon fed a plot.

It is probably a stretch to even call them horror. It simply isn't. You get The Tower of London, The Climax, The Black Castle, The Strange Door, and Night Key. All of this for about twenty bucks.

If you can still find it you should also get The Bela Lugosi Collection. It is also a marvelous collection of five movies and they are decidedly darker and four of the five also feature Boris Karloff. You get The Invisible Ray, Black Friday, The Raven, The Black Cat (The first pairing the two legends) and Murders in the Rue Morgue.

These movies feature much darker topics such as torture, satanism, ghastly murders, and some real chills. They are aged and a product of the studio system but still very very enjoyable. Lugosi was at his best outside of his signature Dracula cape. He really showed his acting prowse and played well with Karloff.

I suggest finding both of them. You won't regret it.

Paris Hilton: America's New Punchline

While Britney Spears is enjoying a brief honeymoon with the tabloids until they can vulture some pics of her new bundle of joy, Paris Hilton is taking center stage in pop culture.

How so? Well again on sports radio at work one of the hosts said the line, "Paris Hilton couldn't score on that defense!" Now why is that funny?
Because they were referring to the worst defense in the NFL at the time.

Now that is funny, I don't care who you are!!!!

To me that signals that Paris Hilton, though she has long been in the collective public eye a new era of Paris Hilton bashing is upon us.

Just wait until Matt Leinart's ex-girlfriend's child is born and watch the cat fight unfold in the tabloids!!!!

Just wait until Surreal Life 18, when Paris Hilton's "career" has hit the skids and she is looking for some kind of publicity boost!!!!

There is only one person in America that is happy that Paris Hilton came along and that is OJ Simpson. Her infamous exploits have snagged the tabloid attention away from OJ looking for the real killer on Florida golf courses and focused them squarely on her. From her sex tape to her recent DUI arrest, Paris Hilton has secured her place in slutty tabloid history....and insured her place among punchline lore for years to come!!!!

Perhaps An Attempted Drinkbusters On Friday!!!!

If Beersnob is back in town by Friday we might be able to shoot 1x4 of Drinkbusters this Friday evening.

I believe that it can be done fairly easily but with shooting this weekend for The Passing Drummers it won't leave much time to relax.

I am anxious to get the next episode filmed and finished to keep the momentum rolling! It has been a good ride so far and Chianti, Weezy, and Beersnob are really getting into it!!!!

It has been a blast and is accomplishing what it is intended for:
1. A fun, easy project.
2. Allows me to get familiar with the software on a real project.
3. Its a blast to film!
4. I get to hang out with some very cool and funny people!!!!

0-3

Yep my friends, I went 0-3 this week in fantasy play in three leagues....

Not a good start since over the past two weeks I am now 1-4-1.
Can you say pathetic? I can.

In my money league, Tiki just isn't scoring. Your first round pick is the hoss, the one you can rely on to get you steady points every week. Well he isn't but I do feel he will. He is too talented not to come through. It might be at the middle of the season but the Giant's offense is just too talented not to put up some big points with Tiki.

The free Yahoo leagues, well in both leagues I scored big but not big enough to win the weekly matchups. I am sure I will finish in the top half of both leagues but my money league is what is concerning me right now. It is just too early to tinker too much with the lineup right now.

So for the short time being I am going to ride it out and wait for the scoring to pick up.

Fantasy Football Week 2

Well today I hope my teams perform up to their potential.

In my main league, my money league, I have Marc Bulger and Tory Holt. Well St. Louis has San Francisco on their plate today and the Bulger/Holt combo should rip that D apart.

I'm not expecting anything much out of the Oakland players so I benched Janikowski in favor of Josh Scobee.

I am putting Laurence Maroney into the lineup to pair with Tiki. I think he should at least get 100 yards today against the Jets. If not then maybe he will snag a TD.

My WRs are very strong today. I am going to gamble on Randy Moss and I know it is probably a losing battle but I'm going to leave this fantasy heartbreaker into the lineup all season baring injury. Reggie Brown is up against the Giants and that might be a tough D to score on but he is a solid WR and should get 7-9 catches today.

I'll give this a wrap up Tuesday to let you all know how it went!

Star Wars!!!!

Yes my friends it is true! The Original Original Trilogy has been released....finally.

My first impressions are good. I can tell you that it is a non-anamorphic release and that it hasn't been restored like the Special Editions were when they were released on DVD for the first time.

The OOT isn't quite a quality release as it could be however it has looked better than it ever has since VHS and Laserdisc are the only ways to enjoy the OOT but in its original widescreen format the Laserdisc is the only way until now.

I know that in many ways the Special Editions are technically superior. The effects have been cleaned up, the soundtrack has been vastly improved despite some glitches, they underwent a massive restoration, and they just look cleaner.

So what is the problem with the SE's?

George Lucas is the problem. He decided that he wasn't happy with the way he filmed it then. As a artist I can understand that. I wish I could go back and reshoot Locker again with what I know now but I'm not.

He decided that Han Solo needed to be a bit softer as a character so he had Greedo fire on Han, Han amazingly dodges a blaster at point blank range before shooting back and killing the bounty hunter. That is the prime example that had so many fans up in arms over the SE's. There are numerous tiny things that have been tinkered with and if you watch each version back to back you can make a sizeable list. If you want an exact comparison a short search will give you the details in spades.

So how does the OOT compare today? To me it is hands down better. It is the ideal that the movies I saw as a kid and I did see all of them, are available to me to watch and enjoy again. It is the same thing with most people I guess. When it was then it was better than it is now. I don't always hold to that but in this case I am an ardent defender.

To see Return of the Jedi I mowed lawns and earned enough money to see it three times. That was in 1983 and I was just a teen at the time. I knew that I wanted to find out how the story ended and I was happy with it. Yeah the Ewoks defeating the massive Empire was a bit farfetched and still a bit disheartening but the rest of the story is still a fitting ending.

What is really disheartening is that Lucasfilms didn't spend the bucks on what could have been a perfect release. They should have given the OOT the restoration it deserves. However since they didn't I will have to be satisfied with the current state of the movies which is still pretty good my friends.

I have no problems telling people that if you want the movies as you saw them in the theaters without all of the Lucasing, then get the new releases.

Drinkbusters 1x3 IS UP!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IRD_Tunk9E

Watch and enjoy!!!!

Kidney Stones Suck

That is my statement of the day.

I passed my....I don't even know what number that was but it had to be between the ninth and eleventh since I was eighteen....today.

They are actually pretty painful. They make you feel all kinds of bad but you really can't put your finger on it but you just know something is wrong. Then all of a sudden you get this big ole' shock of pain as it actually leaves your body.

Yeah, they are a big box of suck.

On the plus side for the day there is a film meeting at Chris's place in which we are going to wrap up the discussion on last weekend's shooting and to see what we can do to improve it for this weekend.

My monitor which quit just over a month ago is scheduled to arrive any minute on UPS!!!! That is great!!!! Once you get used to dual monitors it is very difficult to just use one, I've really been missing it.

Drinkbusters 1x3 is just over 90% finished. With the filters I applied to this one and the deinterlacing and deartifacting process I am using this time, the rendering has taken just about twenty four hours.

It should look much better though! I'm excited to get it posted tonight and will probably be able to before bed time!

It has given me a chance to watch the OOT though.

What? OOT?

The Original Original Trilogy. The UnLucased version of the movies that were as shown in the theaters. I'll post a more indepth review soon on these:)

Stay tuned!

Drinkbusters Update!!!!

I am trying a bit of a different approach for 1x3. I have rendered the footage first and then will edit it from there. What that will allow me to do is make the title cards a bit better and some small improvements that probably won't show up online but I will notice.

I started the render process at 6:30 last night and it didn't finish until early this morning before I went to work.

I do believe that this will lead to a better looking show!
I'm excited to see how it looks when it is finished!!!!

An Improbable Start

After week 1 I am now 1-1-1.

I lost my opener in my serious league, tied in a fun league, and am sitting at the top of the league in another fun league....

The Marc Bulger/Tory Holt combo struck out for me and to add to that the Raiders struck out for me so that means that my QB, two WRs, and my Kicker got 0 points and that really doomed the Predators for the week, assuring me that I'm tops on the waiver wire.

In a fun league I tied Beersnob in our heads up game. I was trailing going into last night so my team eeked out enough points to grab a tie.

The E-Town league is the one in which I dominated, and two of my WRs were inactive to boot! That team is scary good.

I can't wait for the following Sunday to see how the teams do this time around!

Busy But Good Weekend!!!!

With the main project being worked on this weekend and Drinkbusters 1x3 being filmed Saturday night this has been a massively busy weekend!!!!

Despite a couple of small drawbacks this was a very good weekend and I'm glad it was!!!! I needed a weekend like this for a long time. I am going to feel rejuvenated for at least a couple of weeks now and I feel like my energy is slowly returning. I will be ready for the next few months of difficult shooting!!!!

Drinkbusters went pretty well, we tested three strong drinks and amazingly two of them were highly rated with one scoring very low. I had anticpated that the lowest rated one would have been the best drink but it didn't turn out that way.

My fantasy players should finish up tonight in the money league so tomorrow I'll know how I fared. In the free Yahoo! leagues I am 1-1 but I have my kicker going tonight in one league so if he does good then I'll be 2-0.

Tomorrow Is The Big Day!!!!

Shooting starts on The Passing Drummers and then if there is time we will shoot Drinkbusters 1x3!!!!

Yep, it is going to be very very busy!!!!

I should be in bed asleep right now but NO, I'm up and nearly too excited to sleep or even nap. That is strange because at work I was ready for a long nap....go figure.

Tomorrow there will be an update on how the day went:)

Today Was A Great Day!!!!

First of all the main thing.
THE NFL STARTS TONIGHT!!!!
Anyone who knows me knows that one of the few pleasures I get out of life is the NFL and fantasy football:)

Pittsburgh and Miami square off tonight to kick off the '06 season! Yeah Big Ben is recovering from surgery but he will be back in full form in a couple of weeks. Culpepper though will be showcased and the whole world will see if he really has recovered from the devastating knee injury he suffered last season. Should be a great game with Miami overcoming Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh. I could be wrong but I think Miami is just better this year.

The second great thing is this! As anyone who reads my blog knows I was very hurt after Winners closed its doors. Winners was a sports bar where my co-workers and myself came after work to unwind and have a few drinks.

Well today we discovered the Trey of Hearts!!!! It is on my way home so it is convenient, the owners, Andrew and Gerry are extremely nice and welcomed me and a couple of my friends with handshakes and greetings. If there wasn't a bar between us they probably would have hugged us! I do believe that now when I am on my way home I will frequent the Trey of Hearts as my new relax after work place!!!! It had a very nice atmosphere and a full liquor bar:) Although someone like Beersnob probably wouldn't like the limited selection of beer I don't drink beer and found myself quite at home with their wide array of liquor:) Yeah I do only drink tequila sunrises but you never know, Drinkbusters is tempting me to expand my horizons and experiment like I did when I was 21 again:)

The third great thing that happened today was that PARIS HILTON WAS ARRESTED FOR A DUI!!!! Oh man!!! I was so happy to hear about this small bit of misfortune!!!! Normally I do not revel in the misfortunes of others at all. I don't believe that it is a good thing to be gleefully cheering what happens to another human being like that but Paris Hilton has been a thorn in America's side for too long. It is time for her to experience a bit of reality in her life and maybe get a grip. She is someone who would greatly benefit from being kicked around by life a little bit. She has the resources to be such an amazing force for good and help so many people, maybe now she will be on the right path.

The last but not the least good thing that happened today was that my candle order from Courtney's Candles arrived!!!! Courtney's Candles makes the absolute best candles in the world!!!! They are very reasonable in price and every single candle smells great and is very potent! Just one of them will fill the lower part of my house with the most amazing of scents!!!!
Now I am burning the Dreamsicle candle which smells like oranges and cream:) It is so wonderful!!!!

Well I hope that your day was twice as good as mine was and as you can tell mine was pretty darn good!!!!

Veronica Mars Wrap Up

Season 2 of Veronica Mars was amazing! Without giving any kind of spoilers for the twisting plot I can say that it was almost like Season 1 part 2.

That stands to reason right? Well what I can say is that when you thought that season 1 wrapped up everything it really didn't but you don't realize it until the season is winding down. Then all of a sudden you get this light bulb feeling that you missed what was actually going on followed by a head smack.

I love shows like that! Babylon 5 was very much like that, well thought out and planned!

The X-Files seemed to have started like that and then became so convoluted that it was clear there was little planning behind the story. They had to wrap up the series as best as they could in the final episode with a episode that was pretty much nothing but exposition. It was a sad ending to a show that was great...at times.

Veronica Mars probably won't have the lifespan of the X-Files and that is a real shame. I'd be happy if it had the lifespan of Babylon 5 or Angel. Five seasons is plenty to tell a well thought out story.

Not to mention that this past season had Charisma Carpenter in it and WOW she is surface of the Sun hot....and yeah I do have that issue of Playboy.

Brick

What a great indie treat this movie is!

An inspired film noir set in modern times. The lead channels Bogie from The Big Sleep while the writer/director obviously did the same. The dialogue is straight from the 40's, the rest is indie magic.

It might take a few minutes for the style of words to sink in but once they do you are set to enjoy this great movie about a man who solves his ex-girlfriend's murder....in high school. Joseph Gordon Levitt (fresh from Mysterious Skin) plays Brendan, actually he seems less like he is playing Brendan and more like him, what a tremendous job of acting.

The movie is throughly enjoyable in every sense. It is smart, not much humor, intense, and engrossing. You will feel sucked into this small time world of drugs and thugs as Brendan struggles to put all the pieces to the puzzle together with the help of his friend Brain, his only real peer.

This high school Holmes is a serious Veronica Mars sans one liners. He is tough but takes a few beatings along the way ala Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe in his quest for the truth. If I could only write this well. I have the camera and editing skills to make this movie.

Rest In Peace Steve Irwin

This is a sad day and fittingly it is raining now.

Stever Irwin was killed in an accident with a stingray after his chest was pierced yesterday. He seemed larger than life, like he was the exact same person behind the camera as he was in front of the camera.

Happy, energetic, and curious. He really loved his work and it showed.

I really enjoyed watching him and I would have loved to have met him.

Goodbye Steve.

Who Wants To Be A Superhero

Well the show wrapped up and soon Feedback will have a comic title and a Scifi original movie made with him....both shortlived I'm sure.

I would be amazed if there was actually a movie made but that was part of the prize package so we'll see.

It was a fun show and pretty enjoyable. It is worth watching but I really doubt that there will be a season two. The finale of the show had about one hundred people at Universal Studios watching Stan Lee eliminate Fat Momma and immortalize Feedback.

If you get a chance to see the show and since it is on the Scifi Channel which basically will ride a show to death and beyond, you will get plenty of chances. Watch it. It isn't bad at all:)

Drinkbusters 1x2 Is More Successful!!!!

In less than one day 1x2 has had more views than the first one has had in five!!!!

The third one will hopefully be twice as successful when it is finished! There is no shooting date as of yet but schedules are being synchronized! Everyone is excited about 1x3 and that encourages me!

Alright, yesterday went very well and smoothly. The biggest preproduction day so far and it was fun! We shot some footage, got the actors used to the cameras, and kept them long enough to gel together a little bit. Once the gellage is full on jello we are going to have a great production!

Going to be a great Fall and Winter!!!!

About An Hour From Now

We will begin the biggest day on The Passing Drummers preproduction.

This is a day in which hopefully the cast will bond and come together. When us behind the cameras will be in the actor's faces to get them used to us. It should be pretty busy.

It is nice out, it is slightly raining with some full on rain in the forecast right now. Good thing I mowed last week.

Well Drinkbusters 1x2 has been a bigger success than 1x1. It hasn't even been up 24 hours yet and has had way more views than the first one at the same time.

Small success though it may be it is still a success!

Hopefully next weekend 1x3 will be on tap and The Drinkbusters will be well on their way!!!!
They have done such a great job! Some people don't realize how hard improv really is but all three of them have met the challenge and I can't be prouder of them!!!!

Drinkbusters 1x2 is LIVE!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8tAFkdnb8

Here you go friends!
This is the second in what I hope is a long line of episodes!!!!

I hope you enjoy this one as much as we enjoyed making it!!!!