October 2011
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May 2009
1 post
“I don’t want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth. Hello Kitty...”
– Margaret Cho
December 2008
5 posts
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
– Emily Dickinson
How to Let the Recession Kill Your Freelance... →
Tee hee hee
globeandmail.com: The heartbreaking truth about... →
It turns out that Lucy Maud Montgomery died by suicide. So wild, so sad. The work stretches back and forward.
indieWIRE: FIRST PERSON | "7 Days in September"... →
Filmmaker Magazine: notes on a panel with Gotham... →
Great write-up by Scott Macaulay of the similarities and differences of these 5 directors
November 2008
5 posts
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...”
– James Baldwin
I love NaNoWriMo
Sample thread titles in the “Character & Plot Realism Q&A” section of the forums:
If someone had a fair amount of flesh skinned from their neck…
So, without going profane, how do atheists express shock/horror?
Where would one find a high concentration of orphans these days?
what do girls normally wear to sleep?
Snakes at Chuck E Cheese
What are the chances that if...
“Words like hope, change and progress might seem like naïve campaign sloganeering...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, in TIME Magazine
October 2008
10 posts
“It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which...”
– Maya Angelou
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of...”
– Judy Garland
“In the face of the [financial] crisis, people ask what they can do to protect...”
– Charles Eisenstein - Money and the Crisis of Civilization
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm,...”
– Jimmy Carter
September 2008
7 posts
Film school dudes and nihilism
Jennifer: JUST FINISHED THE BALE-ATHON!
Tuck: Was it Bale-errific? Was it everything you imagined it to be? I still have The Machinist on my Netflix. I need to fast track that.
Jennifer: It was everything and FAR LESS than I imagined it would be, though there were some real surprises in there. Amazingly, my teenage crush still survives, even after some of those stinkers. I would not fast track The Machinist if I were you. Uhhhhh
Tuck: Aww.. bummer. That one looked kinda cool. Even though skinny guys make me mad. Jerks. Was it just a crappy movie or was it because he looked like beef jerky?? I think I will Netflix Empire of the Sun. Start at the beginning.
Jennifer: EOTS is totally the way to go. Long, but really good. I didn't like The Machinist because it's in a genre of films that I don't really enjoy -- dark nihilist views of the world from dudes who probably went to film school and have been taught that that shit is deep, man.
Tuck: BWAHAHAHAHA!! Stupid film school jerkoffs!! That's pretty funny right there actually. I can totally see that. That's why I am glad that we did Production exclusively. Leave the film analysis to people with too much time on their hands. I'm too busy filming stuff. Hahaha.. That is all kinds of win!
Jennifer: I mean, I'm not saying that all of the nihilist shit is bad, or that film school is bad. And in many ways, I think these dudes (and many of us in American society) have been duped to believe that if you're not talking about the Bad News all the time, then you're just naive and shallow and a bad artists. Meanwhile, I think it takes even more courage to talk and make films about the Good News (and I don't mean the Bible) in our world.
Tuck: No no.. I agree completely! I was just arguing about that with a bitter friend of mine. It takes 10 times more balls to be positive in the face of overwhelming all encompassing negativity. Right now Anger and Hate are cool. Negativity is "In". It's everywhere. Keeping your chin up in this climate is far more rock and roll. What's even funnier about the film school thing is that at our final reviews last semester, a LARGE number of the 1st year films were not only violent and negative but misogynist!! It was kind of shocking that young film makers couldn't come up with anything better than strangling and stabbing girls to make "art". I mean really dudes? So yeah.. I get what you mean.
That's why my I'm gonna rock a comedy for my next one. I'm gonna rock that shit hard!
Jennifer: ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL, MY FRIEND! I wanna help on that comedy for sure. Let us all make art that is realistic and beautiful and divine! And funny! and SNACKELBAGS!!!
Other library book to remember
Handbook of addictive disorders
Film books, in case I don't read them all before...
The producer’s business handbook 384.830973 LE Lee, John J., Jr.
The guerilla film makers movie blueprint 791.430232 JO Jones, Chris, 1967-
The independent filmmaker’s law and business guide : financing, shooting, and distributing independent and digital films 384.830973 GA Garon, Jon M.
The independent film producer’s...
indieWIRE | Ted Hope: How The New Truly Free... →
“The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can...”
– Paul Newman, a Magnetic Titan of Hollywood, Is Dead at 83 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Gallery at We Are the Ones Project →
“Portraits of Americans Standing for Change” — beautiful photos, inspiring idea, definitely worth checking out these portraits
August 2008
7 posts
Laurie Anderson; and I Want This, Too
In 2007, Laurie Anderson won the Gish Prize for her “outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to humankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.”
“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.”
– Rita Mae Brown
“All night I could not sleep
Because of the moonlight on my bed.
I kept on...”
– Zi Ye, translated by Arthur Waley, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
“You are the storyteller of your own life and you can create your own legend or...”
– Isabel Allende
“Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.”
– Isabel Allende
July 2008
10 posts
“In short, men dominate the reviewing process of films primarily made by men...”
– Thumbs Down - Representation of Women Film Critics in the Top 100 U.S. Daily Newspapers - A Study by Dr. Martha Lauzen - Alliance of Women Film Journalists
The Bechdel/Wallace Rule about movies and TV shows
To pass this rule, there must be: 1) at least two named female characters, who 2) talk to each other about 3) something other than a man.
“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,...”
– Tom Robbins
Watering the Garden (not always with our tears) →
from Yezida on LJ
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above...”
– Henry David Thoreau
June 2008
24 posts
