The Forty-Ninth Story-- Fans Hit The Fan When Fans Hit The Fan

Howdy peoples and peopettes!! How are you on this fine evening? Me? I'm doing fine!
I'll be brief, I haven't been doing this blog often because I have another one (on top of SO many other things) that is currently preoccupying me.  You can find said OTHER blog here... http://weareallportalsmusic.blogspot.com/

It's pretty much music stuff, local, serious music and some stuff from other places in the country, maybe other places in the world eventually, that would be pretty sick!  Anyway, between that, full time job, part time job, homework, girlfriend and attempting to start a new musical project, I'm busy.

Recommendations time!!!!!

Film: Gojira (1954) original Japanese version

Album: Holdypaws by Deerhoof... boom! DONE!


ANYWAY, if you're ACTUALLY reading my previous posts on here, I hope you're digging them, keep reading and please come check my new blog out!! I'll leave you today with TWO things!

These here music vidyas, from a guy I interviewed in my other blog... http://vimeo.com/lovedrunk

AND a pic of Bruce Lee fighting Chuck Norris, cuz why not?

The Forty-seventh Blank-- Short

This is short.  I don't feel like writing this blog anymore, no one reads it, no one cares about it and I have other stuff to do, I don't feel passionate about it anymore, I don't really feel passionate about much anymore.  I don't get to go to college, maybe not for a few years, I'm in that limbo between getting school payed for me cuz I have no money and being able to pay for it alone.  I'm depressed.

I'm getting a  job at AMC Theaters, minimum wage, I'm still not going to have any money but it'd be better than being jobless. I'm going to try to be a musician maybe, I won't make it but I have nothing to lose I guess, even though I don't have to waste my time like that anymore.

Anyway, there it is, if you get to do what you want, if you're that lucky then yeah...

The Forty-fifth Resolution-- That Feeling

You ever get that feeling like you know someone out there is watching what you do and criticizing you? Criticizing every move you make, every word you say, every false step and mistake, laughing at what they do better than you, thinking they're smarter than you, telling other people to be weary of you. Ever get that feeling? I have all too much as of late, I know there's someone out there that I don't know judging me because there always is, but what's worse is when you know that there are tons and tons of people out there that you DO know who are judging you, people you may have cared about, people you may have been friends with and they're talking you down. They don't really want anything Yo do with you yet they put on a smile and put up with you for who knows why, maybe they think they can get something from you...

This is all going to be a bit personal, turn off the computer now if you'd like. I'm stuck and that feeling has really been bothering me. It's like a feeling of helplessness that I can't get away from and I can see all of these other people going on and doing things and I'm stuck in the same place. Does anyone care? No, not really, but I want to get away from this town, the only thing that I have here is my amazing girlfriend, but more or less I want to get away from this sludge of a town. This place that inhibits and shackles and drags and beats down until you have no spirit left. This place with it's horrible people and their horrible obsessions. I've always been one to want to "go it alone" if you will. I have a need for companionship as is human nature but I enjoy my time to reflect and create and I feel as though I get none of that here. I want to begin my life and start something, start creating something that matters to me and I can't do that being stuck. I thought I could go off and start that in Lincoln and meet new people to refresh my mind and spirit, but now I can't, who knows if there's anywhere where I could REALLY do that though. I don't wanna see people go off and make something of themselves with me just left behind to wallow anymore.

Okay, more things that matter. First off, I've been reading a lot about these underground attempts to stop Scientology and other dangerous cults and I'm all for it. I think that all dangerous, brainwashing cults should be put to an end. No more of these power hungry and money hungry organizations hiding behind the guise of "religion" they should all be brought down. Scientology promotes censorship (like so many other groups) and claim that they are the only ones who can truly cure disease. They keep their members away from medication outside of the church, they don't support psyciatric treatment outside of the church and have been known to kill members for speaking out against the church. This sounds just as dangerous as other "religious" sects and have no place. I agree with the movement that has, ironically, started on 4chan. Another thing is the environment, I have been a vegetarian for some time now and I believe that not eating the flesh of another living creature could drastically help the planet. So much land is deforested for the farming of cattle and not only do cattle make the ground barren and unfertile, but cows produce more methane than most things on the planet and that leads to a higher greenhouse effect. Also, by eating meat you are just feeding a unjust, inhumane and unsanitary business. Cows, chickens and pigs are some of the most horrifically treated animals on the planet, they are crawling with disease and are viscously slaughtered after a life of hormones and torture. There are so many diseases in meat from industrial farms that the worlds largest and most deadly outbreak of salmonella is only a matter of time. Industrial farms and packing plants polite the water and the air and add to world hunger. A cow eats 50 times more than a person and will only feed the rich few lucky enough to afford the meat. All of the grain produced to feed a cow could feed a ridiculously large number of people and significantly cut down on world hunger. The health benefits are there too, fatty meats are unhealthy, really vegetarianism ia the way to go. There are so many other mistreatments or animals (such as the skinning of live dogs in China, another reason not to wear fur, you don't know what it is) but I won't talk about that now.

I suppose I'll do a few recommendations now that I'm done ranting. Album this time is Dark Night of the Soul by Sparklehorse, this album was produced by Danger Mouse and features a ton of guest artists from all over the musical spectrum, even David Lynch is on this album. It's dark and brooding but it's a great disc. Movie, movie, movie, movie... For my movie I'm going to say City Lights, it's a classic Chaplain film that has a great message about the rich and the poor rift. It's a classic of the silent film era and worth a watch.

Anyway, there you go, a long rant about my fragile mental state and a few things I believe in. Tell anyone that is fake to fuck off and have a good one!

The Fortieth Drum-- The Ocean is 6 Miles Deep: A Review

Recently, my wonderful girlfriend and I went to see the film Submarine. Which is a film about a young boy who struggles between his love of his girlfriend and his desire to prevent his parents from splitting. This eventually leads to the choice he must make of attempting to save his parents marriage or being there for the girl he loves. Now... You may be thinking, "oh god, this sounds like such a fucking lame and generic love story, this is just gonna be terrible!". Well my fine feathered friends, you are WRONG!! The movie is a wonderful piece of indie cinema and a lot more than just a lame recycled story. Submarine is executed very cleverly from it's dry, quirky, dead pan humor to it's odd and intriguing characters.

Oliver Tate alone is a wonderful character full of odd humor, he is the center of a cast of brilliant and unique characters that make up the Wales of Submarine.  For starters, Oliver is 15 and much too concerned in the sensual "goings on" of his parents because he is so consumed by their possible splitting, next, he's equally concerned about his own loss of virginity.  He eventually wants to become a good boyfriend with the girl he falls in love with but ultimately abandons this for his concern for his parents.  In spite of this fact, he also refers to his relationship in terms of the sex (example, him saying that he might as well tell his girlfriend things because they had sex).  Another character in the film is Jordana, who is Oliver's eventual girlfriend.  She begins the film as a misunderstood and slightly sadistic outcast that has no intention of falling for Oliver.  Their relationship starts as a revenge plot but, upon the sweet things Oliver does, ends up deepening to mutual admiration.  Jordana even abandons her more questionable tendencies (such as burning Oliver's leg hair off) for a more sincere need to be comforted over her family problems.  Another quirky character in the film is Oliver's father, who is a severely depressed marine biologist.  Oliver's father adds a very very dry level of humor to the film (and the repeated line that the ocean is 6 feet deep), his depression comes off very humorous and you can't help but sympathize and overlook his many flaws.  Oliver's mother is another character, a woman who appears to relish her previous life, she eventually befriends one of her ex-lovers.  The final odd character is Oliver's Mom's ex-lover Graham (who Oliver repeatedly calls a "ninja" and a "mystic").  Graham is a motivational speaker who talks about light and color and has many many odd habits (his character is similar to Patrick Swayze's character in Donnie Darko).  Overall the film had a great and unique cast of characters that filled the odd world.

The film is very genuine, very sincere and on top of all of the absurdity and odd humor, it has a lot of heart.  It's great coming-of-age story with the twist of Oliver attempting to save his parent's marriage. Really the film is delightful and one of the better movies I've seen recently, I think you should go see it if you like how it sounds.

Now for my recommendations, first off, for my album I'm choosing Vision Creation Newsun by Boredoms, it's a great piece of Japanese noise music that branches into absent, drone, minimalism and tribal drumming. On top of that, all of the song titles are symbols (which I personally enjoy). For my film recommendation, I'll say Persepolis, it's an animated film about a young Iraqi girl who gets sent to France due to the civil war in Iraq, and the struggles she faces fitting in, don't let the plot fool you, it's a great film.

Lastly, a bit of personl stuff. I mentioned how I was going to go to Lincoln for college, well due to budget restraints, that's not going to happen now. I won't be attending college for a whole year now and when I do finally go back, I may end up at Iowa. Anyway, that's a little about where I am right now, have a good one.

The Thirty-ninth Cabbage-- Lock, Stock and Barrel

Here Harry Potter fans! This is fun!
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harry-potter-films-according-to-someone-who-never-saw-them/

Here weed fans! This is fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWuHuqWauRU&feature=related

Okay, so this blog post, this blog post, this blog post!! I dunno what the fucking shitty ass cunt balls I'm going to talk about but let me say that I have become (as everyone has appeared to) quite enthralled by OFWGKTA.  If you don't know what that is, it's a demented hip hop collective that stands for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. They include new underground rap artists like Tyler The Creator, MellowHype, Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean. I'm not sure why they intrigue me so much, a lot of their lyrics are just horrible and offensive, but there's humor in it and maybe that's what I like, taking disturbed and demented things to a comedic level. Anyway, check it out, you might like it, I'll link some videos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNaFeIm4bU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk68dCUQjzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWMOEVdXR2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_loMbmKJ8

Now on to some stuff!

Alright, next, let's talk about film, but not film as in the art form of movie making but film as in film stock or the literal series of pictures that makes up a movie (before everything went digital).  Hope you're excited!  Good old fashioned film stock is made of celluloid, which is a type of plastic, and this is more permanent than the thin paper film that movies started out on.  Early on all film stock was also nitrate based and highly highly flammable and the fires were incredibly hard to put out.  As you all know films started as black and white endeavors with no sound, eventually sound was added and then eventually color was added also.  The first attempt with color film was Kinemacolor which lasted from 1908 to 1914 and was achieved by showing a black and white film behind alternating red and cyan frames.  Next was Technicolor (which is much more well known) and was used from 1916 to 1952, this was a lot more complex and allowed for much more color and actually evolved four times over it's existence.
There are different formats for film stock, 8mm, this film stock is 8mm wide and there are two versions of it, standard 8mm and Super 8.  Standard 8 came out during the Great Depression and was produced as a cheaper way of making home movies (Kodak stopped producing standard 8 film in the early 1990s).  Super 8 was released in 1965 and became popular with amateur film makers because it was easier to use and had better picture quality than standard 8.
There was a 9.5mm film that was primarily meant to be cheap for home users and a way to recreate popular films for home viewing, however, it was damaged easily due to it's perforation and not very popular.
One of the most popular formats was 16mm.  It was also was intended for home use and was also used to rent popular movies for home viewing.  However, some movies were filmed on 16mm and a lot of TV shows and educational videos were shot in this format.  Just like 8mm film, 16mm came in a larger form called Super 16, it only had one sided perforation in order to have a wider screen area.
For a very very short time there was a 28mm format, however, it didn't last.
35mm film stock was the most common format for motion pictures.  There are many many forms of 35mm stock including a 3 perforation form and Super 35.  35mm stock is still used today as the most common format for major motion pictures.
The last common gauge for film stock is 70mm/65mm.  Now, the reason there are two here is that the films are filmed on 65 and then printed on 70 to be projected.  The 70mm print is for wide, high resolution films and has a very wide aspect ratio, it's usually used for grandiose and intense films that would look good in an IMAX or anything with a large aspect ratio (a lot of Spiderman 2 was shot in this format).
IMAX is another format and it's just 70mm film on it's side to create an extremely wide view.
The rest is all digital and shit and I don't wish to get into that (even though it's the way of the future), but maybe I will at a later date.

Now that you have all of that information, I'm going to switch gears.
So, as I've mentioned before, I am Winter Chairs.  http://www.mediafire.com/?n9zdg99ajea4ni5
I have also finished my LP called Meet The Cactus, so if you would be interested in that let me know or give me an email and I can give it to you, it comes with a coloring book! (all pages being hand drawn).
Here's a preview from the coloring book...

Real quick, my recommendations for tonight are as follows... Movie, it's Repo! The Genetic Opera, it's a musical rock opera about a company that takes over the world and loans out organs to people but also repossesses them if the people can't make their payments.  For my album, I'm going to go with... Mines by Menomena, it's such a great album and a great continuation of Menomena's series of albums.

Anyway, I shall bid you adieu, Tah!

The Thirty-sixth March-- Cats... The Shit!

Okay, don't hate me but this post will not be about movies, instead it will be about this... you're welcome...

SEE THIS CAT? HIS NAME IS GIZZY...

HE'S PRETTY MUCH THE SHIT! LOOK AT HIM! HE'S A FUCKING CAT ISN'T HE? FUCK YEAH HE IS! BEING A BLACK BEAUTIFUL CAT SITTING ALL REGAL AND SHIT!  HE'S FUCKING PLAYFUL AS A MOTHERFUCKER TOO! HE WOULD KICK YOUR CAT'S ASS AND THEN BAT AT IT LIKE IT WAS A FUCKING TOY MOUSE ON A STRING! HE'S THE FUCKING MAN AND HE'S ON A FUCKING CAT TREE SO SHIT YEAH!!

AND WHAT ABOUT THIS BEAUTY, SEE HER? HER FUCKING KICK ASS NAME IS TINKERBELL (THAT'S RIGHT, FUCKING TINKER-FUCKING-BELL!)

YOU THINK SHE TAKES SHIT JUST BECAUSE HER NAME IS TINKERBELL? YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG! SHE'S A FUCKING HARD ASS WHO WILL KICK ANY MOTHERFUCKER IN THE BALLS AND PURR IN JOY! SHE LIKES LOOKING OUT FUCKING WINDOWS TOO, I THINK IT'S TO FIND MOTHERFUCKERS TO EAT ALIVE BECAUSE SHE'S A FUCKING AWESOME CAT! FUCK! LOOK AT HER FUCKING ADORABLE FACE AND TREMBLE IN TERROR!

AND WHAT ABOUT THIS FLUFFY PILE OF FUCKING AWESOME? HIS NAME IS KINO!

LOOK AT HIM LURKING IN THE SHADOWS AND SHIT! HE'LL POUNCE ON A MOTHERFUCKER AND YOU'LL LOVE IT! HE'S A TOTAL BADASS, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF HE'S SICK OR WELL, HE'LL STILL KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES! ISN'T HE THE SHIT? LOOK AT HIM!! IF YOU SEE HIM COMING DOWN YOUR STREET YOU BETTER LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS AND WIVES BECAUSE HE'S MORE OR LESS WAY MORE FUCKING AWESOME THAN YOU!! SHIT!

YOU WISH YOU HAD THESE FUCKING CATS!!

ahem...

Anyway, there's a post on cats, they belong to my girlfriend (who is awesome!) and I

So, not to jip you completely, I'll still do recommendations this post (please forgive my stupidity)...  for my album recommendation, it's going to be Lola Verses Powerman and The Moneygoround: Part 1 by The Kinks, it's a classic piece of British invasion and one of my favorite Kinks albums and then for my movie recommendation, I'm going to go with The Naked City, directed by Jules Dassin, it's a nice little piece of noir crime drama and it's in The Criterion Collection, so go listen/watch that stuff and have a good Fourth tomorrow!  See you guys later (if this post didn't lose the, like, 5 readers I have!).

Also... I have a youtube account now as Winter Chairs so if there are any stupid video I do, I'll try to put them up (I'll only broadcast it on here if they're worthwhile), but I'll also favorite some of the old early 1900s short silent films I watch so you can see them on there too!  

http://www.youtube.com/user/WinterChairs?feature=mhee

The Thirty-third Forest (can you tell I'm running out of ideas?)-- Just Another One of Those Things I Guess...

Alright, before I really start in on this here post, I'm going to start with what I said I would do from now on in my last post.  Daily album and movie recommendations!! (get excited!).  My film for all of you to watch would be American History X by Tony Kaye, it's about a former skinhead who gets sent to jail for killing a black guy.  He gets released to help the police shut down the skinheads he was once part of and to help his little brother who is becoming like he used to be.  It's an excellent film, Edward Norton's role is superb, and it's really a film I should talk more about, AND I WILL! (but not now).  My album recommendation today would be Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? by of Montreal.  It's pretty crazy, flamboyant electro-pop.  of Montreal are always a joy to watch and their music is just strange.  It's been a while but it is worth listening to for sure.


Okay, so, my initial plans was to do this post on Jimmy Stuart, one of the greatest actors of the golden age of Hollywood. However, I've become uninterested and just plain too busy for this blog so I'll not be doing that. Instead I think I'll end it here (because I'm typing on an iPod, annoying), and say adios for a while. It was nice knowing you, we had a good run and maybe I'll be back soon, who's to say? (in fact, chances are I'll be writing a new post within a week), but until next time, keeping doin what you love and lovin what you do.

You stay classy... Planet Earth!

The Thirty-first Scrimmage-- Pointless?

I'm going to be vain in this post for a second and give you some more information about myself (not personal information though, not too much at least), why am I doing this? because I'm excited right now and I wanna share some things!  I'll probably also include some other random things so consider this my next random topic post, sound good?

Now, as I included in one or two of my previous posts, my friend has started an artist collective called .  Now, what I don't believe I included is MY place in this group, well, I'm a bit of a musician (a very small bit) and record under the name Winter Chairs.  Now, you're probably thinking, "so what, why do I give a fuck about this dumb ass's life and what he does and all that shit, I came here for some mother fucking film and I demand no less!! DAMN HIM!!!" well hold on sir, I'll have some film for you momentarily (scout's honor), I'm just getting excited about what I'm doing in this group and I want to share things with you, you mean, ungrateful bastards.  ANYWAY... as an   Well, not only does The Frosty Seats (yeah, I'm gonna keep changing my band name), have an EP ready, called B.Y.O.B (don't laugh at me), but a full length LP about done called Meet The Cactus.  I'm also planning a concept LP based on characters, with every song tell one character's story AND an LP full of poor recordings and demos of songs that I've either forgotten or don't want to rerecord and do better for an actual LP.  None of that is what I'm excited about though!  What I'm truly excited about is my musical project that will include a good amount of artists (I hope) called The Darwin Project.  What is this you ask?  Well my good sir, it is a sample (a simple sample), that I have created that I'm sending out to the musical artists.  The trick of the project is that the artist must use the sample, unaltered, at least once in a song.  After that they can either change it however they would like, or not use it again (sounds fun huuh?).  Well, I suppose it's my way of working with people, indirectly of course.  Why did I choose the title The Darwin Project? well, let me tell you that also my young lad.  I liked the idea of using Charles Darwin, the father of evolution theory, to explain this project.  I wanted the artists to take my little sample (my monkey, so to say) and evolve it into something different and more complex (or make it into a man, more or less).  That's why it's The Darwin Project! (lame? maybe!)  Now, the most exciting thing about this project is that the first song relating to it is done, and it was done by one Evan Campbell (thank you Evan), and here's the video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qYCc80obQ , check it out, it's awesome, I'll keep posting who has songs done as they get finished (hopefully, most, if not all will have videos).  I can't wait to see what happens with it next!

Now a bit more about myself...  I'm a student, I'm a new vegetarian, I'm broke, I wouldn't say I'm an artist, but I dabble in the arts, primarily audio and visual.  My dabbling is why I want to be a film maker, I have many ideas for films I'd love to make someday and I have said a few of these in one of my past posts.  More or less I have a lot of ambitions and very little drive.  Will I ever make it as a film maker? who knows, but I want to give it a shot, I'm willing to take nearly any job I can land in the field though.  I like fucked up things, monsters, drug imagery, psychological things.  I like depth in my film and art, but I can also be a sucker for stupidity (I love the film Anchorman).  I generally dislike action films and despise super hero movies (with the exception of the rebooted Batman series), I usually dislike horror too, but there are exceptions there, like the Hellraiser films (at least the first few).  I'm fairly opinionated, but try to be open to new things and I'm generally willing to give things multiple second chances (especially if it's an interest of someone close to me).  I love music and listen to too much of it, I could easily write a music blog considering that I have studied it since I was 13.  Film is a bit new to me, bit it is definitely a passion and learning is my reason for doing this blog.  I have a beautiful, amazing, perfect, awesome girlfriend who means more to me than anyone will ever know, I owe her so much it's crazy.  I try to be deep, but I feel like I'm not too deep.  I want to get started writing a short story script, but something keeps on keeping me from it (I'll probably be too busy this summer to really do anything with it anyway).  I'm about to head off to University, I'll be going to Lincoln, so if you're there and somehow read this blog, let me know, we can chill.  I'm very introverted and don't make friends easily but I always want to talk to intelligent people who share some of my interests.  I don't know if I have a favorite director but I enjoy the works of Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock and a few others a lot.  I have a HUGE HUGE HUGE soft spot for old movies, I don't care what type, I just love old Hollywood, everything seemed so much better back then (I especially love the old comedies, the stars could do EVERYTHING!).  I spent a lot of my time watching movies or playing music but I don't as much anymore.  I have an odd love and fascination with masks, and will probably attempt to incorporate masks into any films I attempt.  I love many different styles of music but I hate country.  As you know, I love monsters.  I think that's all you really need to know about me for now though, maybe I'll share a bit more as time goes on.

Okay, I'm going to go on to some other stuff, I think with this post I'm going to start giving you all one album recommendation and one movie recommendation per post (sound like a decent idea?).  For this post, one album you should definitely check out (if you haven't heard it already) is Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens.  It's one of my favorite (if not my favorite) Sufjan Stevens album and is a religiously charged, poetic folk album.  It's super chill and has some of his best songs (at least in my opinion), it's wonderful from start to finish.  My movie recommendation for this post will keep with the seven title thing and be The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman.  The joking tale of a knight who comes back from the crusades and gets into a game of chess with Death.  It's a classic of international cinema (it's Swedish so be prepared for that).  I looked back at my old Deviant Art account and realized I did this in my notes back then (which were like a much more pointless blog), so apparently I'm prone to this shit.  There are my recommendations for today though, now on to the next subject in this hodge podge of a post!!

So, this is hilarious, but also really REALLY lame, it was a bumper at SXSW and is Mario as an indie film... It COULD be a funny and interesting idea... if it didn't include so many lame game related jokes and puns, sort of ruins it... it's still pretty funny though.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdczoetXk4

Well, it looks like I'm gonna jump onto the movie stuff now (see, I got there you impatient droogs!).  I'm going to give you a brief summary of the movie studios! (I know you're so happy).  First off, by the 20s, the production companies became so big that they controlled everything from the production to the distribution to even the theaters and stars themselves.  This and the policies of the major studios led to the "studio system", there were 5 major studios and they were 20th Century Fox, RKO, Paramount, Warner Bros. and MGM.  RKO is no longer a company and MGM almost went under also. The three smaller studio companies, known as "The Little Three" are Universal, Columbia and United Artists.  These were considered little because they didn't own their own theaters.  These are not the only studios, there are minor studios and independent studios, however, they were always more lenient than the majors.

Anyway, I'm tired now, I'm sorry that I didn't give much information on this blog, I'll do better next time I swear!  It was nice chatting with you, have a great day. 

The Twenty-sixth Chain-- Something's Missing

Howdy y'all, well this past weekend, I drove on down to Lincoln, Nebraska to check out the college/town. It actually seems like a pretty cool town (however, I dunno about the people there really). The college seems pretty sweet, their film school was funded by Johnny Carson and is located on the edge of downtown, between it and an art museum. They also have a really nice student theatre (that I had been to before to see Exit Through The Gift Shop). It seems like it would be a decent place to be (but really anywhere away from here would be a decent place to be). No matter where I end up, I'll be hopeful, excited, grateful for a change of scenery, and ready to start a life in movie making (hopefully not everyone there will be a close-minded prick, if you live or go there, tell me how it is).


Next, I must say, I'm very disappointed in myself. The short film script I was intending to write has not been happening. I've been stressed and distracted and everything else and haven't been able to write anything (yeah, writer's block). Anyway, after watching some films, I've thought of some more philosophy to write, I'll get back on track pretty soon I hope. I also hope that I will have it done to film it by the end of the summer (however, I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it). I'm hoping that once it's finished it will be worth watching for all of you, I wanna do something quality (or at least as quality as I can manage with what I have).

Anyway, I'm keeping this one short, I'm tired, bye.

The Seventh Sense-- Because You Care

Howdy everyone... sorry I wasn't able to do another post yesterday, but I shall make it up today, and discuss a lot of things, including some more personal things and ambitions because I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do lately (and also I know you care SO much).

Alright, first on the agenda... apparently Ingmar Bergman is going to be on the banknotes of Sweden, that's pretty sweet (if you don't know Bergman, check out The Seventh Seal or The Magician... or better yet ALL of his movies), that's quite an honor and I personally think it's cool of Sweden to put important figures (who aren't just leaders of the country) on their money (what do YOU think America?)... but here's a bit more on it...   http://www.imdb.com/news/ni9359902/

Secondly, for me personally (if I can one day become a filmmaker) I want to tell good stories, the stories (real or imaginary) that really make people think, that can really make people feel.  I'd love to write my own films (but I'm not sure I'm a good enough writer)...  One story I've been thinking of lately that I'd like to do eventually is the story of the Young Bosnians at the start of WWI, perhaps telling the story of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (it's a story that I always picture in film when I hear it).  One thing I always picture (especially when I'm out in secluded areas in nature) is how I'd love to make a really good modern western film... I mean, what do YOU think when you see a scene like this?   (ignore the road)

When I see this I think of what it'd be like in the 1800s, when there were fewer people.


Anyway... there are a LOT of things I wanna do some day, I wanna make all of these movies and I'd love to do something really trippy and surreal also, something that's like a major acid trip, or a dream.  Or, at some time, a documentary.  There are so many great stories out there and I'd love to tell them all.  However, I AM the kind of guy who would take ANY job in film, just to be doing what I'm passionate about (teaching film would be awesome too).

On to the next subject (because I don't wanna bore you)...  I'm going to go onto my next topic...
The importance of film, this is a wide and opinion based topic I know, but I'm gonna try it anyway...  Film is a very important art form (and if you say it's not art, you're wrong, I'm sorry) perhaps the most important modern art form.  It is both effected by and effects culture and can communicate any literal or abstract idea the creator or audience chooses.    Film is a great way to see what was going on in society at any given time, because it reflects things.  A crime film, for example, will reflect the thoughts and feelings of the people they're portraying while trying to teach people about things, maybe there are reasons for the people to commit these crimes.  It can be used to teach people, to guide people, to change things to show people many different sides of an issue or just life in general, maybe things they've never seen or thought about.  Film is one of the most important and moving art forms (at least when done right) and I'd feel so lucky to be involved in it.

Anyway, I'm gonna finish it up with some recommendations for all of you, these are some of my favorite films and they deserve to be seen (if you haven't already seen them)...
Donnie Darko, this is one of my favorite films ever, it's odd, it's deep, it's suspense and horror and everything... I'm not sure why but I got lost in it, it's a good film.  127 Hours, True Grit, and Black Swan, The Big Leboswki, Synecdoche, New York, all I've already talked about.  Persepolis, and animated film about an Iraqi girl who goes to France during the Iraqi civil war (and a very good comic adaptation too).  Citizen Kane, a classic in American cinema and a film I will DEFINITELY talk about in a post to come.  Repo! The Genetic Opera, a low budget horror musical about a company that repossesses organs.  There Will Be Blood, Harold and Maude, The Departed, No Country for Old Men, A Beautiful Mind, Army of Darkness and Into the Wild.  Freaks, a movie that, for a long time, was outlawed for it's disturbing images of real physically deformed people and horror.

Sorry about another short one (but I'm feeling a bit lazy today), I promise more to come but here's some good stuff to tie you over... http://musingsofamoviedouche.blogspot.com/

Hasta La Vista!