I feel it coming. The next great shift. My friends are all moving again, uprooting from those temporal places they found to transition from college into the beginning of adulthood. J left Poughkeepsie yesterday (or was it two days ago?) and D is also talking about going out on the open road. N passed his driver's test and has a license and will soon have a car. S will soon join J on the long road to California.California...it is weird. I feel like there's a mass exodus of most of my friends going that way. I too am going soon. For 11 days at least....
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Antiperigalacticon: the point in a star's orbit where the star is the furthest away from the center of the the galaxy.I came across this particularly lovely word when doing some research for a screenplay I'm working on. A screenplay that recently is out of the running from the Sundance Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant. Hearing that news last night was a bit of a bummer I will admit, but I have other places and other grants I can apply for. My next upcoming deadline is Nov. 8 so I'm typing furiously any time I get the chance. You see, the thing...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Making a real film really is a rollercoaster. It is exhausting, tiring, you come to points where you want to quit, you come to points where you think it'll actually work. It is an experience. We're a day away from filming and things are starting to sail smoothly again after a very hectic crazy day today. The director and I had a bit of a shouting match this afternoon and I went into a meeting at 6:30 meaning to quit and to ask for my investment back. I even called up my lawyer. That's how serious I was. Luckily I didn't. My mood lifted considerably...
Categories: Ciudad de la Codicia, film
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Scary, huh? I mean, thrilling, exciting beyond belief, but right now mostly nerve-racking and stressful. By all means, I shouldn't be as worried as I am. We're doing so much better than we should be doing by this point, but a lot is still sort of up in the air and there is only one more week to solve that. One. More. Week. That's insane!I am thrilled though. I really am.We're shooting a sort of teaser trailer thingy for our feature-length that we want to shoot in May-June. A sort of calling card for possible investors.You see, we're going to the...
Categories: Ciudad de la Codicia, film, Kickstarter, Me Voy A Volver, Sundance
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Everyone makes lists of "Best Movies of All Time" and I thought that it was only appropriate that I make one too. Mind you, my list is about my favorite films...the ones I think go above and beyond anything else. And while it does include some classics, not all of them are considered cinematic masterpieces by most. Okay. So here goes:1. Star Wars: A New Hope (George Lucas)2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) 3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) 4. Garden State (Zach Braff) 5. Hero / 英雄 (Zhang Yimou)6. Inception (Christopher Nolan)7....
Monday, October 4, 2010
So. I'm back in Ecuador.Yeah. I was here for that whole crazy scandal last Thursday.Yes. I am ok. No, I things aren't crazy here. It is business as usual. The political stuff - well...it's the political stuff. Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I don't care...but it's politics. I hate talking about politics.Besides that big scare, I think things have been crazy hectic with me sort of getting things in order. We're filming a teaser trailer on Oct 22-24. That's not very far off and we're sort of piecing it together. Well...it is already pieced together....
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