My Led Zep double DVD disc arrived 2 weeks ago. Wasn’t able to enjoy it since I was busy with the finishing touches of the Film. Now I’m playing it every single day. I missed these guys. They were always with me while I was in high school. I had every single record that came out and played it every single day.
LED ZEP WAS THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND TO WALK THE EARTH!
Their concerts were 3-4 hour marathons of strum and dang! No fireworks and explosive special effects to beef up boring stage presences. Just extended versions of their songs and they don’t play the same song in the same way. Each performance has several variations
These guys are masters of their craft and the lyrics of their songs are not stupid meaningless babble like,
OHHH I GOT NO CAR
NO BOOZE,
JUST GET ME SOME CHEAP WHORE
OR A STUPID DOG I CAN CHOOSE
There’s a site somewhere that connects Tolkien to the lyrics of Zeppelin songs like, RAMBLE ON, MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP, BATTLE OF EVERMORE and forgot the others.
Robert Plant the lead singer is an avid Tolkien fan way back in the early seventies when Frodo Lives was just a mindless slogan to the general populace in London’s subway underground.
I used to spend long nights just playing the songs again and again trying to decipher their meanings. My fragile brain was trying to connect the words MORDOR and New York traffic, which Plant yelled in one of the songs. DUHHHH I ‘m justa high school student, probably when I grow up I’d know what it was.
Well I just grew up and I didn’t have the time to figure it out. Anyway it’s a great romp and I still love their music.
Punk and New wave came on the 80s and since they disbanded, I shifted to other bands.
But I never did follow the albums of the others. I ‘d just get a tape and then borrow this extended LP here and there and whipped up my own selection.
Led Zep was the only band whose entire work I all bought. Plant, Page and Jonsey,
Welcome back guys!
I spent the entire evening yesterday watching CHARLIE’S ANGELS 2
What a waste of time! I should have just stayed home and watched FAWLTY TOWERS.
The jokes were utterly stupid! They just wasted JOHN CLEESE’s talent and reduced him to a buffoon. They should have just stucked with that LEBLANC guy as the dumb moron but noooo They have to drag Britain’s preeminent comic talent down with him.
The only time I actually snickered was when THE CAPE FEAR WANA BE recognized Barrymore’s ass in the elevator BUT THAT WAS IT! And that BLACK BOSLEY! UGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Why not a Bosley Eskimo? Or a Native American variant?
Blacks have had the privilege of being the minority sidekick in Hollywood since time immemorial! BRING BACK TONTO! Or better yet KATO!
The references to CSI, FLASH DANCE and what ever film they were doing their homage to, get tiring. In the end I just mourned the lost 2 hours and 30 minutes of my life watching drivel like this!
And to think I gave up watching the reconstruction of JAMES THE JUST’S OSSUARY in the Discovery channel for this!
Sunday, June 29, 2003
Passed by Cquest yesterday and found out that Dc reprinted the stories done by Alan Moore. WHAT A BITCH! I spent a lot of time tracking down those stories way back in the 90s. The Clay face story I got from Spencer’s shop for a an arm and a leg while The Superman Dave gibbon drawn story I got for around twenty five pesos or less. I just wished that Dc did this way back when I was so into Alan Moore that I even contemplated going to the states to complete my Swamp thing collection. Now there’s a furious Moore mania sweeping thru the US.
Will they reprint Dr and Quinch? Will they resurrect THE TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES? DAMN THEY SHOULD!
So we can kick that stupid MARK WAID ALEX ROSS WNANBE KINGDOM COME off the shelf! (Did they come out and admit that they stole the basic premise from MOORE? Maybe that’s why Waid’s ass is currently being kicked all over the place. No bad deed goes unpunished.)
It’s been a week after finishing that MAMMOTH FILM PROJECT. Now I don’t know what’s wrong with me but two days ago I have set on doing a Directors Cut. Remastering the soundtrack and recutting it. Putting stuff that I ejected earlier because I assumed that it was too unwieldy in the current running time.
Now Im writing new key scenes that I will be shooting sometime next week. Cess already told me that the film is done and finished and that I should concentrate with WASTED or THE TRILOGY that I was shooting when this project came in.
I wasn’t really happy with the first cut I did and now im doing the cut that I’m going to be most happy with. Some works should well be left alone while others improve with further tinkering. I don’t know how this will turn out. I’ll only know in the end and that would be part of the fun.
And since I’m producing this on my own. No more committee decisions!
Will they reprint Dr and Quinch? Will they resurrect THE TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES? DAMN THEY SHOULD!
So we can kick that stupid MARK WAID ALEX ROSS WNANBE KINGDOM COME off the shelf! (Did they come out and admit that they stole the basic premise from MOORE? Maybe that’s why Waid’s ass is currently being kicked all over the place. No bad deed goes unpunished.)
It’s been a week after finishing that MAMMOTH FILM PROJECT. Now I don’t know what’s wrong with me but two days ago I have set on doing a Directors Cut. Remastering the soundtrack and recutting it. Putting stuff that I ejected earlier because I assumed that it was too unwieldy in the current running time.
Now Im writing new key scenes that I will be shooting sometime next week. Cess already told me that the film is done and finished and that I should concentrate with WASTED or THE TRILOGY that I was shooting when this project came in.
I wasn’t really happy with the first cut I did and now im doing the cut that I’m going to be most happy with. Some works should well be left alone while others improve with further tinkering. I don’t know how this will turn out. I’ll only know in the end and that would be part of the fun.
And since I’m producing this on my own. No more committee decisions!
Sunday, June 22, 2003
IRONIES
During my lecture last Thursday I was shocked when during free discussions, most of the students told me that they don’t like to read.
STUDENT: “ My Name is Rosario Malunhuadot, my hobbies is surfing and hanging out with my friends and I don’t like to read…
STUDENT2: ”My name is Merci dela…I like to watch t.v….hang out and dance in with frends…I hate reading anything…
I don’t know why it bothered me.Was it the fact that they hated reading or was it the way they proclaimed it? Like bragging about the great kill they did down equatorial Africa during the terrible monsoon seasons,
“ You see there I was old chap, rain water all over the place and this big yellow cat pouncing at me, It’s all I could do to keep her in between the crosshairs but by Jove, I got off two in the head and bless me soul, there she is. Hanging majestically beside Helena. Ahh well…”
I fear that it’s a generational thing. The “in “ thing now is to hate READING! I was a rebel, Hell I still am the last time I checked. I rebelled on almost anything that I can get my hands.
Fashion, taste in food, music. You know the usual. But I never questioned the merits of reading. Reading for me is not only a passion, it is a way of life! Every chance I get, I read! After working, my form of relaxation is to kick back, and lie down and read!
Books, graphic novels, comics, magazines, letters and blogs!
When I was a kid, my first book was The Bible. By grade six I had fourteen bibles in the house, I don’t know why. I also got introduced to the classics; my first favorite book was THE ILIAD. Up until now I’m a HOMER fan. Later on in high school I discovered the prequels and the sequels that amounted to a titanic body of work. I didn’t like THE ANEAES. I thought VIRGIL was poor Fop Roman copycat!
Then from HOMER I found myself going to the fantasy epic cycles, GILGAMESH, THE NIBULENGS and BEOWULF. Shattered legendary swords being reforged and rings of power that bring a terrible curse where old hat to me when I discovered TOLKIEN in High school.
Then there was ERR EDISON, the writer of THE WORM OROUBORUS.That totally floored me. I lost my copy. Im still planning expeditions in retrieving it.
The story is set in the planet Mercury where the Demon Lords are at war with the WITCH KINGS. Demon lords in order to win must take a journey in retrieving the last HIPPOGRIFF egg in a forgotten lake. You simply must read it to believe it.
August Derleth was another favorite of mine and so is H.P.LOPVECRAFT.
When I discovered HP LOVECRAFT. It totally shook my world. In my art classes in the 7th grade my teacher would scratch his head as I explained that all my drawings were about CHUTLLU and YOG SOGOOTH. She pushed me to the guidance counselor who thought that I was having an unhealthy fixation with demonic things.
Only after I recited certain passages from the bible was the counselor convinced that I was not the ANTI-CHRIST. (I owned 13 bibles and read them thoroughly, remember?)
From Love craft, I made a leap to ROBERT HOWARD. And discovered much to my amazement that CONAN was more brutal in the books than in the comics. In college I was able to buy in back issue bins, THE PIGEONS FROM HELL and THE SOWERS AND THE THUNDERS and they were still good in delivering mayhem and limb sundering action!
Then there was FRITZ LIEBER and the legendary Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Then
Oh boy this guys were something else. They preceded Starsky and Hutch and all those mismatched guy couples by a couple of decades or so.
( I would discover other subjects when I reach high school. But in my younger days I was interested in only one genre, fantasy adventure! )
When I was in high school my bookshelf was bursting at the seams. I had to stack them vertically.
I tired to invade my Sister’s library by tossing out some of her NANCY DREWS and ENID BLYTONS, which I totally detest because they lack action and dismemberments!
SISTER: “ Well I’m not a bloodthirsty barbarian like you! I’m a refined young woman who likes to analyze clues and mysteries!
OH YEAH SO WHO ENDED UP AS A FORENSIC EXPERT? YES ITS TRUE SHE’S ONLY ONE OF TWO HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES IN THIS HIGHLY SPECIALIZED FIELD BUT STILL, I’M NOT THE ONE WHO GOES HOME EVERY NIGHT,ELBOWS DEEP IN BLOOD AND GUTS!
Now my uncle went into my room one day and told me that he found it disturbing why I read all these violent literature. He gave me a copy of VASARI’S BRIEF LIVES OF ARTISTS. About the Renaissance Masters.
From then on my blood and guts reading were tempered. I would go to the library and leaf thru books that featured Florentine painters. I was amazed at the styles of BUNOROTTI and RAPHAEL. Personally I thought that DAVINCI was overrated. All he dis was paint that stupid looking woman with athat stupid semi-cross eyed grin. So what if no one can understand what she was smirking about, WHO CARES?
In the 7th grade I thought that the greater mystery was why all these people were marveling as to why she was smiling. To a kid, She’s smiling, PERIOD! Its when you grow up when you start worrying about the why’s and making things more complicated than it already is.
Anyway, I was so influenced by the Renaissance masters that I wanted to paint the ceiling of our school church. I even asked the rector. He thanked me for the thought and assured me that their frescoes were doing just fine.
Years later they would ask a mere house painter to retouch their ceiling with disastrous results! But that is another story!
During one of my library excursions I would discover the works of BIENVENOTO CELLINI, that master craftsman, thief and swashbuckling figure.
His best known work is the giant PERSUES BEHEADING MEDUSA.
He was so impoverished that he had to steal some gems from a merchants house just to complete a piece that he entered in a competition. He won the prize a few seconds after the Judge of the competition who was also the merchant recognized that it was his jewel adorning the piece.
Whenever I walk home, my mind was reeling with all the things I read. From the snowcapped adventures of GREY MOUSER and FAHRD, to the sub tropical ruins of RYHELL to the forgotten era of the HYBOREAN AGE to the TROJAN WARS.
My imagination was so fueled to the prime that I cannot even look at my pillow as just a pillow. I can see Mount Sinai in its shape or a castle turret where OGIER THE DANE defended the Castle single-handedly while being attacked by a thousand MOORS.
That is what reading taught me, its lasting legacy. How to imagine the words and worlds in …your head!
Now as I look back at the young faces, looking back at me, I see the empty stares. Devoid of that light! That spark! Which reading books can only ignite! I pondered what must one do in the face of such odds.
“ You mean all of you don’t like to read? I find it ironic that I’m going to be lecturing about the Renaissance Masters in a class who hates reading.”
“ Ohh a sir, what does Ironic mean? “
That’s the real irony!
During my lecture last Thursday I was shocked when during free discussions, most of the students told me that they don’t like to read.
STUDENT: “ My Name is Rosario Malunhuadot, my hobbies is surfing and hanging out with my friends and I don’t like to read…
STUDENT2: ”My name is Merci dela…I like to watch t.v….hang out and dance in with frends…I hate reading anything…
I don’t know why it bothered me.Was it the fact that they hated reading or was it the way they proclaimed it? Like bragging about the great kill they did down equatorial Africa during the terrible monsoon seasons,
“ You see there I was old chap, rain water all over the place and this big yellow cat pouncing at me, It’s all I could do to keep her in between the crosshairs but by Jove, I got off two in the head and bless me soul, there she is. Hanging majestically beside Helena. Ahh well…”
I fear that it’s a generational thing. The “in “ thing now is to hate READING! I was a rebel, Hell I still am the last time I checked. I rebelled on almost anything that I can get my hands.
Fashion, taste in food, music. You know the usual. But I never questioned the merits of reading. Reading for me is not only a passion, it is a way of life! Every chance I get, I read! After working, my form of relaxation is to kick back, and lie down and read!
Books, graphic novels, comics, magazines, letters and blogs!
When I was a kid, my first book was The Bible. By grade six I had fourteen bibles in the house, I don’t know why. I also got introduced to the classics; my first favorite book was THE ILIAD. Up until now I’m a HOMER fan. Later on in high school I discovered the prequels and the sequels that amounted to a titanic body of work. I didn’t like THE ANEAES. I thought VIRGIL was poor Fop Roman copycat!
Then from HOMER I found myself going to the fantasy epic cycles, GILGAMESH, THE NIBULENGS and BEOWULF. Shattered legendary swords being reforged and rings of power that bring a terrible curse where old hat to me when I discovered TOLKIEN in High school.
Then there was ERR EDISON, the writer of THE WORM OROUBORUS.That totally floored me. I lost my copy. Im still planning expeditions in retrieving it.
The story is set in the planet Mercury where the Demon Lords are at war with the WITCH KINGS. Demon lords in order to win must take a journey in retrieving the last HIPPOGRIFF egg in a forgotten lake. You simply must read it to believe it.
August Derleth was another favorite of mine and so is H.P.LOPVECRAFT.
When I discovered HP LOVECRAFT. It totally shook my world. In my art classes in the 7th grade my teacher would scratch his head as I explained that all my drawings were about CHUTLLU and YOG SOGOOTH. She pushed me to the guidance counselor who thought that I was having an unhealthy fixation with demonic things.
Only after I recited certain passages from the bible was the counselor convinced that I was not the ANTI-CHRIST. (I owned 13 bibles and read them thoroughly, remember?)
From Love craft, I made a leap to ROBERT HOWARD. And discovered much to my amazement that CONAN was more brutal in the books than in the comics. In college I was able to buy in back issue bins, THE PIGEONS FROM HELL and THE SOWERS AND THE THUNDERS and they were still good in delivering mayhem and limb sundering action!
Then there was FRITZ LIEBER and the legendary Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Then
Oh boy this guys were something else. They preceded Starsky and Hutch and all those mismatched guy couples by a couple of decades or so.
( I would discover other subjects when I reach high school. But in my younger days I was interested in only one genre, fantasy adventure! )
When I was in high school my bookshelf was bursting at the seams. I had to stack them vertically.
I tired to invade my Sister’s library by tossing out some of her NANCY DREWS and ENID BLYTONS, which I totally detest because they lack action and dismemberments!
SISTER: “ Well I’m not a bloodthirsty barbarian like you! I’m a refined young woman who likes to analyze clues and mysteries!
OH YEAH SO WHO ENDED UP AS A FORENSIC EXPERT? YES ITS TRUE SHE’S ONLY ONE OF TWO HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES IN THIS HIGHLY SPECIALIZED FIELD BUT STILL, I’M NOT THE ONE WHO GOES HOME EVERY NIGHT,ELBOWS DEEP IN BLOOD AND GUTS!
Now my uncle went into my room one day and told me that he found it disturbing why I read all these violent literature. He gave me a copy of VASARI’S BRIEF LIVES OF ARTISTS. About the Renaissance Masters.
From then on my blood and guts reading were tempered. I would go to the library and leaf thru books that featured Florentine painters. I was amazed at the styles of BUNOROTTI and RAPHAEL. Personally I thought that DAVINCI was overrated. All he dis was paint that stupid looking woman with athat stupid semi-cross eyed grin. So what if no one can understand what she was smirking about, WHO CARES?
In the 7th grade I thought that the greater mystery was why all these people were marveling as to why she was smiling. To a kid, She’s smiling, PERIOD! Its when you grow up when you start worrying about the why’s and making things more complicated than it already is.
Anyway, I was so influenced by the Renaissance masters that I wanted to paint the ceiling of our school church. I even asked the rector. He thanked me for the thought and assured me that their frescoes were doing just fine.
Years later they would ask a mere house painter to retouch their ceiling with disastrous results! But that is another story!
During one of my library excursions I would discover the works of BIENVENOTO CELLINI, that master craftsman, thief and swashbuckling figure.
His best known work is the giant PERSUES BEHEADING MEDUSA.
He was so impoverished that he had to steal some gems from a merchants house just to complete a piece that he entered in a competition. He won the prize a few seconds after the Judge of the competition who was also the merchant recognized that it was his jewel adorning the piece.
Whenever I walk home, my mind was reeling with all the things I read. From the snowcapped adventures of GREY MOUSER and FAHRD, to the sub tropical ruins of RYHELL to the forgotten era of the HYBOREAN AGE to the TROJAN WARS.
My imagination was so fueled to the prime that I cannot even look at my pillow as just a pillow. I can see Mount Sinai in its shape or a castle turret where OGIER THE DANE defended the Castle single-handedly while being attacked by a thousand MOORS.
That is what reading taught me, its lasting legacy. How to imagine the words and worlds in …your head!
Now as I look back at the young faces, looking back at me, I see the empty stares. Devoid of that light! That spark! Which reading books can only ignite! I pondered what must one do in the face of such odds.
“ You mean all of you don’t like to read? I find it ironic that I’m going to be lecturing about the Renaissance Masters in a class who hates reading.”
“ Ohh a sir, what does Ironic mean? “
That’s the real irony!
Thursday, June 19, 2003
Gerry dropped by,courtesy of the net. His name just popped on my screen while I was doing the subtitling. As always Our conversations are interesting.It’s been pointed out to me that we are debasing ourselves with the way we talk to each other. Oh Contraire. It’s a manifestation of how at ease and relax we are with our collaborations that insults and jabs that would hurt normal people just simply slide off our thick hides as we chuckle, bandy and parry and trust. I miss crass verbal fencing. Polite conversations are nice and ordinary and banal! Give me Verbal joustings and STRUM and DANG arguments. All in good jest of course! But a word of caution, pick your opponents well. Most are not emotionally equipped for this kind of uhmmm…You wouldn’t want to be casualty in some ward.Both of you must be completely sober! Alcohol has a tendency of making the insults bigger than it seems! And no loaded weapons in the vicinity! Cutting untensils should be out of reach. If you must have something, a beanie bag would suffuce.But then again I know someone who got clobbered by it and well…he can almost spell his name again..
gerryalanguilan: hey what's the plan?
lflim: oh ahhhh
lflim: selina's birthday is on sunday
gerryalanguilan: so di muna?
gerryalanguilan: the church thing naman could be anytime e...
lflim: well you are invited to teh party, are you in manila na
gerryalanguilan: Not yet....I'll put it off and work on my Bram Stoker deadline na lang if we're not shooting. I want to come to the birthday pero my back is against the wall na sa deadline na to...
gerryalanguilan: 17 pages by next week..
gerryalanguilan: one page pa lang....
lflim: lets do it next week. I found a building where we can shoot.
gerryalanguilan: ok...
lflim: frend namin ni cecil owns the building
lflim: its 30 sories tall'
gerryalanguilan: fuck!
lflim: I want you on the ledge fucker
gerryalanguilan: i'll jump if you want
lflim: lets see you bitch your way out of this shot
gerryalanguilan: basta isang take lang
lflim: I was on the ledge yesterday and my balls ran away from me
lflim: sori pal I dont do single takes, Maybe around eight
lflim: With your acting make that twenty
gerryalanguilan: Why not 30 takes dammit?
lflim: Elevator's cool too
gerryalanguilan: if there is still something left of me that is...
gerryalanguilan: as long as the elevator is big?
lflim: but its not as tacky as the one we originally planned
gerryalanguilan: can we replicate the ledge as a set for when i *actually* jump?
gerryalanguilan: that's the plan diba?
gerryalanguilan: I stand on the actual ledge but I jump of the set that looks like the ledge?
lflim: Why build the set pa when you can actually be on the LEDGE!
lflim: Lets just save the money for more squibs to riddle your body with!
lflim: I want to see your flabs twicthing and dancing while the blood sprays
lflim: Make a great death scene remeniscent of Chiquito in MR WONG!
lflim: That was a great death scene!
gerryalanguilan: you wanna kill me
lflim: we'll have a rope hidden in your waist
lflim: its a big waist
lflim: so no one would notice the Extra inch or two.
lflim: if we switch to a set no matter how good the lighting is it would look fake
lflim: unless you want me to make the shot murky
gerryalanguilan: look, I don't want to jump from a 30 storey building. I can stand on the ledge but I won't jump from it.
lflim: how your brain cells depreciated since the last time I saw you
lflim: why on earth would I rid myself of your auspicious company
lflim: of course you wont jump
lflim: you'll just act like your about to fall.
lflim: then i say cut!
gerryalanguilan: I dunno....maybe you want selina to have my kurosawas or something...
lflim: thats what the rope is for
gerryalanguilan: my alan moores pala
lflim: frankly I have a more extensive collection of moores than your dilapitated ones
lflim: you just have one issue!
lflim: ONE!That I dont have!
gerryalanguilan: one issue of what?
lflim: That i dont have!
lflim: 37 first appearance of john constantine!
lflim: Unlike some people who frequent the bargain bins I go to the source
lflim: using my superior intellect I use my agents who combed the globe while I sit and wait!
gerryalanguilan: But you don't have Halo Jones. Snakes and Ladders, Birth Caul, Dr. and
Quinch...Alan Moore's Future Shockers....
lflim: YOU HAVE DR AND QUINCH?
lflim: NO WAY!
gerryalanguilan: Yea ha...
lflim: BULL!
gerryalanguilan: I do.
lflim: IF YOU HAD IT YOU WOULD HAVE SHOVED IT IN MY FACE JUST TO WATCH ME CREAM MY PANTS!
lflim: LIAR!
gerryalanguilan: OK. I don't have the complete run. I just have 3 installments or so.
lflim: OF WHAT?
gerryalanguilan: Then there's that Laser Eraser story that Alan Moore both wrote AND DREW.
gerryalanguilan: Dr and QUinch
lflim: Theres a compilation here daw
lflim: One of my agents is currently tracking it down
gerryalanguilan: oo, sa ..CENSORED!!!!!!!
lflim: how much?
gerryalanguilan: more or less 1 thou ata
lflim: Worth every penny! im on it
lflim: Why didnt you buy it?
lflim: Did you get the alan moore tribute book?
gerryalanguilan: wala pa ako pero nun e
lflim: you think its still there?
gerryalanguilan: I got the tribute book. It sucks. Full of people who want to ride on ALan's popularity
lflim: Uhmm can you lend it to me?
gerryalanguilan: Let me think about it....hm....what to do...?
lflim: YOU STUPID FUCK! I ALWAYS LEND YOU MY STUFF AND HERE YOU ARE SCRIMPING ON A MERE TRIBUTE BOOK!
lflim: ONE THAT YOU EVEN HATE!
gerryalanguilan: Yeah yeah yeah ok. I'm getting my KIMOTA. IT BETTER NOT SMELL LIKE YOUR FILTHY SOCKS
lflim: THATS FORTY SEVEN TAKES ON THE LEDGE PAL!
lflim: bring a abrf bag!
lflim: KIMOTA?
gerryalanguilan: abrf bag?
lflim: BArf bag!
lflim: Imbecile!
gerryalanguilan: YEAH, My KIMOTA BOOK!
lflim: THATS MY KIMOTA BOOK
lflim: YOu said you gave it to me
lflim: Because it smelled like my socks!
lflim: INDIAN GIVER!
lflim: WHELCHER!
gerryalanguilan: Hey, I didn't GIVE it to you!! Fact twister! History rewriter!!
lflim: Let me refresh that plant matter that passes for your brain
lflim: you were sitting on my couch with your velociraptor toenails tapping my floor . I gave you the book back and you said, Ughh that's yours already cause it smelled like my socks
lflim: And then you announced that you were just getting yourself a new one!
gerryalanguilan: Yeah, as long as you gave me a BRAND NEW ONE. I said a copy was still sitting at CQ. A copy that's MINE for you to GET FOR ME.
lflim: I already returned the WRATH OF KHAN that I won on a bet!
lflim: I won it fair and square!
gerryalanguilan: You didn't win it on a bet. YOu only thought you won.
lflim: Read my earlier blog for clarification and historical referebce!
lflim: reference!
lflim: My spellings screwing up
gerryalanguilan: Ha! Your blog is hardly an example of accurate reporting
lflim: Your stupidity is like osmosis!
lflim: It corrupts even thru the net!
gerryalanguilan: Yeah, nahahawaa ako sa pagkaulyanin mo
gerryalanguilan: I gotta go. Me and the wife have a date...
lflim: Better put a leash around her waist
gerryalanguilan: she better put a leash on mine
lflim: With the way your brain is functioning
lflim: What I meant was you might forget that you're with someone
lflim: Also put a name card with your address and phone number on your left pocket
lflim: Did you pack your diapers yet?
gerryalanguilan: Yeah, I was bringing them diapers for you. Next week na lang
lflim: bring the stuff!
lflim: reading stuff
lflim: By the way TOP TEN
lflim: I dont know
gerryalanguilan: what you think of top ten?
lflim: its sad that his writing cant match his earlier ones
lflim: he's past his prime!
lflim: I mean top ten against SWAMP THING?
lflim: Or even MIRACLE MAN
flim: Ughhhhh
lflim: it's like you doing a manga
lflim: after wasted
gerryalanguilan: I don't think he was trying to match swamp thing. He was trying for something light or wasn't that obvious.
lflim: but then again
lflim: Your only claim to fame is WASTED
lflim: So it is’nt such a huge drop
( Most people would flinch by now as I go full Blast! But the damn bastard doesn’t even skip a beat! He’s a ZEN MASTER of INSULTS! )
gerryalanguilan: If you're looking for a match for swamp thing miracle man etc...look to FROM HELL. That's his serious stuff now. He's no longer taking superheroes seriously
lflim: Of course I love from hell
lflim: Thats one of my all time favorites
lflim: but that was years ago
lflim: Hey want about SEX GODESS
lflim: Are we having it printed or what?
gerryalanguilan: I'm just waiting for your to finish it.
lflim: OHHH YES BLAME THE JEWS
gerryalanguilan: hey i really got to go
lflim: WOW! SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT COMING
lflim: YEAH GO YOU TWIRP!
gerryalanguilan: ha! ha! "TWIRP"? ha! ha! Bye
lflim: And Close your mouth when you chew!
gerryalanguilan: hey what's the plan?
lflim: oh ahhhh
lflim: selina's birthday is on sunday
gerryalanguilan: so di muna?
gerryalanguilan: the church thing naman could be anytime e...
lflim: well you are invited to teh party, are you in manila na
gerryalanguilan: Not yet....I'll put it off and work on my Bram Stoker deadline na lang if we're not shooting. I want to come to the birthday pero my back is against the wall na sa deadline na to...
gerryalanguilan: 17 pages by next week..
gerryalanguilan: one page pa lang....
lflim: lets do it next week. I found a building where we can shoot.
gerryalanguilan: ok...
lflim: frend namin ni cecil owns the building
lflim: its 30 sories tall'
gerryalanguilan: fuck!
lflim: I want you on the ledge fucker
gerryalanguilan: i'll jump if you want
lflim: lets see you bitch your way out of this shot
gerryalanguilan: basta isang take lang
lflim: I was on the ledge yesterday and my balls ran away from me
lflim: sori pal I dont do single takes, Maybe around eight
lflim: With your acting make that twenty
gerryalanguilan: Why not 30 takes dammit?
lflim: Elevator's cool too
gerryalanguilan: if there is still something left of me that is...
gerryalanguilan: as long as the elevator is big?
lflim: but its not as tacky as the one we originally planned
gerryalanguilan: can we replicate the ledge as a set for when i *actually* jump?
gerryalanguilan: that's the plan diba?
gerryalanguilan: I stand on the actual ledge but I jump of the set that looks like the ledge?
lflim: Why build the set pa when you can actually be on the LEDGE!
lflim: Lets just save the money for more squibs to riddle your body with!
lflim: I want to see your flabs twicthing and dancing while the blood sprays
lflim: Make a great death scene remeniscent of Chiquito in MR WONG!
lflim: That was a great death scene!
gerryalanguilan: you wanna kill me
lflim: we'll have a rope hidden in your waist
lflim: its a big waist
lflim: so no one would notice the Extra inch or two.
lflim: if we switch to a set no matter how good the lighting is it would look fake
lflim: unless you want me to make the shot murky
gerryalanguilan: look, I don't want to jump from a 30 storey building. I can stand on the ledge but I won't jump from it.
lflim: how your brain cells depreciated since the last time I saw you
lflim: why on earth would I rid myself of your auspicious company
lflim: of course you wont jump
lflim: you'll just act like your about to fall.
lflim: then i say cut!
gerryalanguilan: I dunno....maybe you want selina to have my kurosawas or something...
lflim: thats what the rope is for
gerryalanguilan: my alan moores pala
lflim: frankly I have a more extensive collection of moores than your dilapitated ones
lflim: you just have one issue!
lflim: ONE!That I dont have!
gerryalanguilan: one issue of what?
lflim: That i dont have!
lflim: 37 first appearance of john constantine!
lflim: Unlike some people who frequent the bargain bins I go to the source
lflim: using my superior intellect I use my agents who combed the globe while I sit and wait!
gerryalanguilan: But you don't have Halo Jones. Snakes and Ladders, Birth Caul, Dr. and
Quinch...Alan Moore's Future Shockers....
lflim: YOU HAVE DR AND QUINCH?
lflim: NO WAY!
gerryalanguilan: Yea ha...
lflim: BULL!
gerryalanguilan: I do.
lflim: IF YOU HAD IT YOU WOULD HAVE SHOVED IT IN MY FACE JUST TO WATCH ME CREAM MY PANTS!
lflim: LIAR!
gerryalanguilan: OK. I don't have the complete run. I just have 3 installments or so.
lflim: OF WHAT?
gerryalanguilan: Then there's that Laser Eraser story that Alan Moore both wrote AND DREW.
gerryalanguilan: Dr and QUinch
lflim: Theres a compilation here daw
lflim: One of my agents is currently tracking it down
gerryalanguilan: oo, sa ..CENSORED!!!!!!!
lflim: how much?
gerryalanguilan: more or less 1 thou ata
lflim: Worth every penny! im on it
lflim: Why didnt you buy it?
lflim: Did you get the alan moore tribute book?
gerryalanguilan: wala pa ako pero nun e
lflim: you think its still there?
gerryalanguilan: I got the tribute book. It sucks. Full of people who want to ride on ALan's popularity
lflim: Uhmm can you lend it to me?
gerryalanguilan: Let me think about it....hm....what to do...?
lflim: YOU STUPID FUCK! I ALWAYS LEND YOU MY STUFF AND HERE YOU ARE SCRIMPING ON A MERE TRIBUTE BOOK!
lflim: ONE THAT YOU EVEN HATE!
gerryalanguilan: Yeah yeah yeah ok. I'm getting my KIMOTA. IT BETTER NOT SMELL LIKE YOUR FILTHY SOCKS
lflim: THATS FORTY SEVEN TAKES ON THE LEDGE PAL!
lflim: bring a abrf bag!
lflim: KIMOTA?
gerryalanguilan: abrf bag?
lflim: BArf bag!
lflim: Imbecile!
gerryalanguilan: YEAH, My KIMOTA BOOK!
lflim: THATS MY KIMOTA BOOK
lflim: YOu said you gave it to me
lflim: Because it smelled like my socks!
lflim: INDIAN GIVER!
lflim: WHELCHER!
gerryalanguilan: Hey, I didn't GIVE it to you!! Fact twister! History rewriter!!
lflim: Let me refresh that plant matter that passes for your brain
lflim: you were sitting on my couch with your velociraptor toenails tapping my floor . I gave you the book back and you said, Ughh that's yours already cause it smelled like my socks
lflim: And then you announced that you were just getting yourself a new one!
gerryalanguilan: Yeah, as long as you gave me a BRAND NEW ONE. I said a copy was still sitting at CQ. A copy that's MINE for you to GET FOR ME.
lflim: I already returned the WRATH OF KHAN that I won on a bet!
lflim: I won it fair and square!
gerryalanguilan: You didn't win it on a bet. YOu only thought you won.
lflim: Read my earlier blog for clarification and historical referebce!
lflim: reference!
lflim: My spellings screwing up
gerryalanguilan: Ha! Your blog is hardly an example of accurate reporting
lflim: Your stupidity is like osmosis!
lflim: It corrupts even thru the net!
gerryalanguilan: Yeah, nahahawaa ako sa pagkaulyanin mo
gerryalanguilan: I gotta go. Me and the wife have a date...
lflim: Better put a leash around her waist
gerryalanguilan: she better put a leash on mine
lflim: With the way your brain is functioning
lflim: What I meant was you might forget that you're with someone
lflim: Also put a name card with your address and phone number on your left pocket
lflim: Did you pack your diapers yet?
gerryalanguilan: Yeah, I was bringing them diapers for you. Next week na lang
lflim: bring the stuff!
lflim: reading stuff
lflim: By the way TOP TEN
lflim: I dont know
gerryalanguilan: what you think of top ten?
lflim: its sad that his writing cant match his earlier ones
lflim: he's past his prime!
lflim: I mean top ten against SWAMP THING?
lflim: Or even MIRACLE MAN
flim: Ughhhhh
lflim: it's like you doing a manga
lflim: after wasted
gerryalanguilan: I don't think he was trying to match swamp thing. He was trying for something light or wasn't that obvious.
lflim: but then again
lflim: Your only claim to fame is WASTED
lflim: So it is’nt such a huge drop
( Most people would flinch by now as I go full Blast! But the damn bastard doesn’t even skip a beat! He’s a ZEN MASTER of INSULTS! )
gerryalanguilan: If you're looking for a match for swamp thing miracle man etc...look to FROM HELL. That's his serious stuff now. He's no longer taking superheroes seriously
lflim: Of course I love from hell
lflim: Thats one of my all time favorites
lflim: but that was years ago
lflim: Hey want about SEX GODESS
lflim: Are we having it printed or what?
gerryalanguilan: I'm just waiting for your to finish it.
lflim: OHHH YES BLAME THE JEWS
gerryalanguilan: hey i really got to go
lflim: WOW! SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT COMING
lflim: YEAH GO YOU TWIRP!
gerryalanguilan: ha! ha! "TWIRP"? ha! ha! Bye
lflim: And Close your mouth when you chew!
Sunday, June 15, 2003
LAst Sunday was BON-BONS Birthday. BUt fucking destiny was down for almost a week! Anyway This post was supposed to be sunday so, I wont edit the damn whole thing!
She's currently inside the Editing chamber watching SHREK. AS much as it distrubs me while subtitling I have to give way it's my Bon-Bons birthday. She barges inside the chamber demandin two dvds to watch. So for the zillionth time I hear Shrek and WINNIE THE Pooh! So aside from subtitiling I have to make four phone calls for her party this afternoon.
Everybody wants PANCIT MALABON! EUYCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!! I always go against the grain. Its chinese food. Aside from being very good its cheap.So we can feed the multitudes.
I ordered lumpia, lechon kawali,beef ampalaya,pancit some crab fried rice.
CECILE: " That's not the food for a children's party? "
FLIM: " Yeah its a virtual feast if I may say so myself! "
CECILE: " Should be spagettis and hamburgers and ...."
FLIM: " Uchhh I think I'm going to puke! I cannot eat spagetti for the next 3 months ! PLEASE!
CECILE: " Well its not my fault. You asked me to have the maids cook spagetti for that GROUP TEAM BUILDING THING! "
FLIM: " PLease don't even bring it up."
CECILE: " This is food that children wont eat ! "
FLIM: " Its up to us to build their sense of taste! SPAGETTIS AND HAMBURGERS will just enslave them to that JOLLIBEE MASCOT and that stupid Clown who is the preveyor of bad taste in the Western Hemisphere! The french were right in boycotting DISNEYLAND!Lets not feed them junk when their young so they wont accumulate a lot when they grow up."
CECILE: " They wont eat the food..."
FLIM: " They will ...trust me! "
CECILE: " Should we bring the spagetti?
FLIM: " I dont know. I promised that to the chairman."
She's currently inside the Editing chamber watching SHREK. AS much as it distrubs me while subtitling I have to give way it's my Bon-Bons birthday. She barges inside the chamber demandin two dvds to watch. So for the zillionth time I hear Shrek and WINNIE THE Pooh! So aside from subtitiling I have to make four phone calls for her party this afternoon.
Everybody wants PANCIT MALABON! EUYCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!! I always go against the grain. Its chinese food. Aside from being very good its cheap.So we can feed the multitudes.
I ordered lumpia, lechon kawali,beef ampalaya,pancit some crab fried rice.
CECILE: " That's not the food for a children's party? "
FLIM: " Yeah its a virtual feast if I may say so myself! "
CECILE: " Should be spagettis and hamburgers and ...."
FLIM: " Uchhh I think I'm going to puke! I cannot eat spagetti for the next 3 months ! PLEASE!
CECILE: " Well its not my fault. You asked me to have the maids cook spagetti for that GROUP TEAM BUILDING THING! "
FLIM: " PLease don't even bring it up."
CECILE: " This is food that children wont eat ! "
FLIM: " Its up to us to build their sense of taste! SPAGETTIS AND HAMBURGERS will just enslave them to that JOLLIBEE MASCOT and that stupid Clown who is the preveyor of bad taste in the Western Hemisphere! The french were right in boycotting DISNEYLAND!Lets not feed them junk when their young so they wont accumulate a lot when they grow up."
CECILE: " They wont eat the food..."
FLIM: " They will ...trust me! "
CECILE: " Should we bring the spagetti?
FLIM: " I dont know. I promised that to the chairman."
Friday, June 13, 2003
DINER
Had dinner with Cecile’s friends. Nope they’re not the Zombie Squad from the bank she used to work in. These are the fun people I always play CRANIUM with and what interesting battles we used to have. Had dinner at CHINA CLUB. Great food except for the Lemon chicken, which totally tasted like chicken draped in cough syrup. Cess said that they used lemon concentrate instead of the real thing. Leave it to the Chinese to come up with cheap crappy stunts like that even in the sole skill that they excel in.
We went to ricca’s new hovel. Cool building. Totally old with iron grated elevators! Since she owned the building I asked her if I could shoot the climax of Wasted there. When I told her the amount of bodies getting killed she turned iffy! I hope I’ll do a love story after this!
Our conversations were spiced with Terise always asking if what I was telling them was true. She seems to think that the things that happen to me are just made up. If only my life was as sheltered as hers but CES LAVIE.
She asked if I had any books about her latest idol, DR, JOSEF MENGELE.
Fucking cool! Last time I heard that name was in grade school. She then proceeded to tell me all the things that this person did. Like taking out the femur from a living concentration camp victim and waiting for it to grow!
FUCKING SICK!
“ Yes but did you know that the most effective medicines around today are made in GERMANY? Because their medical breakthroughs are backed by scientific research they did in the concentration camp!
And one of the main proponents of this is DR JOSEF MENGELE.
DAMN! Medical progress developing on the backs of millions of murdered people! Took out my notebook and started writing it down. Already have a story! Yeehaw!
Topic shifted to homosexuality and why the homosexuals right now are extremely aggressive.
Armand, Terise’s hubby said that it’s the male hormone kicking in that makes them so ALPHA MALE LIKE!
I then went to the john to do what johns do. When I returned I found them looking at the pictures of Rica’s honeymoon in ROME.
AHHH ROMA, When?
Armand then flashed a picture of Michelangelo’s DAVID and asked me,
“ Why is this statue special? “
Ughhh a test! …well here it goes.
“ The DAVID is special because it came from a large block of Carera marble that is also called the giant and is famous because no one can make anything out of it. Only BOUNORROTI was able to create the David with it, and that it’s a forced perspective statue. When viewed at a certain angle the head is actually larger than the rest of the body. The balance of the statue is perfect, one wrong chisel move and the entire structure would fall. It is currently housed at the ACADEMY OF FLORENCE although that doesn’t look like the academy did they move it recently? “
ARMAND: “ Damn you are good! “
FLIM: “ Oh…I just try harder than the rest but thank you for your compliment.”
ARMAND: “ But did you know that his MOSES has BOUNORROTI’s face hidden in one of those flowing beard locks of his.”
FLIM: “ That I did not know! Now you are good! “
We beamed with self-satisfaction while sipping coffee. As much as I enjoyed their company we had to say goodbye I still have some footage to subtitle and its still a bitch!
Will be eating spagetti for the rest of the week because I was supposed to attend a team building thing but the person I was supposed to ride with did not show up and now Im stuck with 2 kilos of cooked pasta!
AIYYYYYYYAYAY ROMA INDEED!
Had dinner with Cecile’s friends. Nope they’re not the Zombie Squad from the bank she used to work in. These are the fun people I always play CRANIUM with and what interesting battles we used to have. Had dinner at CHINA CLUB. Great food except for the Lemon chicken, which totally tasted like chicken draped in cough syrup. Cess said that they used lemon concentrate instead of the real thing. Leave it to the Chinese to come up with cheap crappy stunts like that even in the sole skill that they excel in.
We went to ricca’s new hovel. Cool building. Totally old with iron grated elevators! Since she owned the building I asked her if I could shoot the climax of Wasted there. When I told her the amount of bodies getting killed she turned iffy! I hope I’ll do a love story after this!
Our conversations were spiced with Terise always asking if what I was telling them was true. She seems to think that the things that happen to me are just made up. If only my life was as sheltered as hers but CES LAVIE.
She asked if I had any books about her latest idol, DR, JOSEF MENGELE.
Fucking cool! Last time I heard that name was in grade school. She then proceeded to tell me all the things that this person did. Like taking out the femur from a living concentration camp victim and waiting for it to grow!
FUCKING SICK!
“ Yes but did you know that the most effective medicines around today are made in GERMANY? Because their medical breakthroughs are backed by scientific research they did in the concentration camp!
And one of the main proponents of this is DR JOSEF MENGELE.
DAMN! Medical progress developing on the backs of millions of murdered people! Took out my notebook and started writing it down. Already have a story! Yeehaw!
Topic shifted to homosexuality and why the homosexuals right now are extremely aggressive.
Armand, Terise’s hubby said that it’s the male hormone kicking in that makes them so ALPHA MALE LIKE!
I then went to the john to do what johns do. When I returned I found them looking at the pictures of Rica’s honeymoon in ROME.
AHHH ROMA, When?
Armand then flashed a picture of Michelangelo’s DAVID and asked me,
“ Why is this statue special? “
Ughhh a test! …well here it goes.
“ The DAVID is special because it came from a large block of Carera marble that is also called the giant and is famous because no one can make anything out of it. Only BOUNORROTI was able to create the David with it, and that it’s a forced perspective statue. When viewed at a certain angle the head is actually larger than the rest of the body. The balance of the statue is perfect, one wrong chisel move and the entire structure would fall. It is currently housed at the ACADEMY OF FLORENCE although that doesn’t look like the academy did they move it recently? “
ARMAND: “ Damn you are good! “
FLIM: “ Oh…I just try harder than the rest but thank you for your compliment.”
ARMAND: “ But did you know that his MOSES has BOUNORROTI’s face hidden in one of those flowing beard locks of his.”
FLIM: “ That I did not know! Now you are good! “
We beamed with self-satisfaction while sipping coffee. As much as I enjoyed their company we had to say goodbye I still have some footage to subtitle and its still a bitch!
Will be eating spagetti for the rest of the week because I was supposed to attend a team building thing but the person I was supposed to ride with did not show up and now Im stuck with 2 kilos of cooked pasta!
AIYYYYYYYAYAY ROMA INDEED!
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Finally I’m almost there! After a month of self imposed exile from the outside world, my sentence will finally be over. I will see the sun shine in the morning and feel its warmth on my neck as I ride my trusty IRON horse to destinations called for by my hedonistic
cravings!
The film has clocked at 3 hours and four minutes! Imagine subtitling it when 88 percent is allotted to talking heads! And can those heads talk.
cravings!
The film has clocked at 3 hours and four minutes! Imagine subtitling it when 88 percent is allotted to talking heads! And can those heads talk.
Thursday, June 05, 2003
Defragged again! Another 9 hours of down time. Watched STAR WARS EPISODE 4 while waiting. And it’s still my favorite STAR WARS FILM OF ALL TIME. FUCK EMPIRE STRIKES BACK! Just because its Grim and gritty doesn’t mean crap! It does not mean it’s more mature just because DARTH VADER assumed the evil father role.
In fact it began Lucas decline as an effective storyteller! Further compounded when in RETURN OF THE JEDI Leia is revealed to be his long lost daughter!
Ughhh! Some Jedi! He can’t even ‘FEEL” that he was torturing his own daughter in the DEATH STAR! Just goes to show, the more you complicate a storyline the more holes you would have to fill in and in the process, creating newer holes that seem to be too small for you to bother with but the general audience can ascertain with their magnifying glasses!
The beauty of the original is its simplicity. The film starts in Medias res. The film’s opening scene would never be duplicated in the annals of SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA
Even with the advent of the latest computer GRAPHIC CHIP, You can never match a person’s creative imagination even if he is only armed with a primitive ball and wire motion control that is held together by spit.
I think that is GEORGE LUCAS problem now. He may have everything in his fingertips, with the multi billion empires he has build and flanked by ILM, the greatest SPECIAL Effects shop on the planet. But he lacks the one thing that made him great before. Ether it was dissipated by years of inactivity or by surrounding himself with a bunch of lackeys who’s sole job aside from pleasing him is to say “ BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFIQUE! To everything he says! That is the worst thing that can happen to a creator!
He can come up with shit and his followers would still smell the roses! Before he had MARCIA LUCAS who always reminded him that the human elements are foremost!
He also had GARY KURTZ, the nut and bolts guy who did so much of the behind the scenes work.
He lost Marcia Lucas (a great editor in her own right! She won OSCARS, He didn’t! )
Gary Kurtz? Was fired!
KURTZ clashed with LUCAS most of the time, the human factor kicks in, Get rid of the thorn in your side, why would you work with someone you always clash with? Why make life more difficult than it already is right?
WRONG!
I believe that the greatest collaborations occur when two people with clashing sensibilities fight it out! Every spark, sweat and blow incurred would result in a work of uncompromising clarity and content.
SELZNIK and HITCHCOCK, PUTTNAM and JOEFFE, POPE JULIUS and MICHELANGELO.
Just pick your collaborator well or you might get the lazy type who does nothing but ride on your shirttails. This type is dangerous and you should rid of them quickly! You’ll put up all the sweats and they are nowhere to be found. You bust your ass working all night while they are out partying. And when the ship comes in laden with the goods they’ll suddenly appear out of nowhere demanding their part of the loot! Often times demanding more than they contributed in the 1st place!
Be ready to give them the booth! Believe me I know!
In fact it began Lucas decline as an effective storyteller! Further compounded when in RETURN OF THE JEDI Leia is revealed to be his long lost daughter!
Ughhh! Some Jedi! He can’t even ‘FEEL” that he was torturing his own daughter in the DEATH STAR! Just goes to show, the more you complicate a storyline the more holes you would have to fill in and in the process, creating newer holes that seem to be too small for you to bother with but the general audience can ascertain with their magnifying glasses!
The beauty of the original is its simplicity. The film starts in Medias res. The film’s opening scene would never be duplicated in the annals of SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA
Even with the advent of the latest computer GRAPHIC CHIP, You can never match a person’s creative imagination even if he is only armed with a primitive ball and wire motion control that is held together by spit.
I think that is GEORGE LUCAS problem now. He may have everything in his fingertips, with the multi billion empires he has build and flanked by ILM, the greatest SPECIAL Effects shop on the planet. But he lacks the one thing that made him great before. Ether it was dissipated by years of inactivity or by surrounding himself with a bunch of lackeys who’s sole job aside from pleasing him is to say “ BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFIQUE! To everything he says! That is the worst thing that can happen to a creator!
He can come up with shit and his followers would still smell the roses! Before he had MARCIA LUCAS who always reminded him that the human elements are foremost!
He also had GARY KURTZ, the nut and bolts guy who did so much of the behind the scenes work.
He lost Marcia Lucas (a great editor in her own right! She won OSCARS, He didn’t! )
Gary Kurtz? Was fired!
KURTZ clashed with LUCAS most of the time, the human factor kicks in, Get rid of the thorn in your side, why would you work with someone you always clash with? Why make life more difficult than it already is right?
WRONG!
I believe that the greatest collaborations occur when two people with clashing sensibilities fight it out! Every spark, sweat and blow incurred would result in a work of uncompromising clarity and content.
SELZNIK and HITCHCOCK, PUTTNAM and JOEFFE, POPE JULIUS and MICHELANGELO.
Just pick your collaborator well or you might get the lazy type who does nothing but ride on your shirttails. This type is dangerous and you should rid of them quickly! You’ll put up all the sweats and they are nowhere to be found. You bust your ass working all night while they are out partying. And when the ship comes in laden with the goods they’ll suddenly appear out of nowhere demanding their part of the loot! Often times demanding more than they contributed in the 1st place!
Be ready to give them the booth! Believe me I know!
Monday, June 02, 2003
In between rendering times and subtitling chores that never seems to let up despite the Herculean effort I put into it,
I watched THE PIANIST
because I had to defrag the system, which took seven hours.So on my plate is a feature on BATTERED WOMEN and for relaxation I watch a film about THE HOLOCAUST! Some break. But I love the film. It should have won BEST PICTURE instead of that ridiculous and stupid musical, CHICAGO.I HATED THAT PICTURE! I hated it worse than MATRIX RELOADED. At least it didn’t have RICHARD GEREBut Leave it to the Americans to always vote best picture, any film that features a title of their city,YOU HAD PHILADELPHIA, NOW YOU HAVE CHICAGO. I don’t know if NEW YORK, NEW YORK won.
I mean why would they vote a film about an obscure place in POLAND best picture right?
Have the Poles create their own ACADEMY AWARD and name the statuettes VLADILLI or something.
Watching THE PIANIST made me feel uncomfortable. It stayed with me until the wee hours of the morning when I resumed work. Or was I riled up by it because I have not seen a single film in one week and being in close proximity with a film that studies institutionalized violence made me all the more receptive to the Pianist’s theme.
I wouldn’t really know for sure. All I know is I lack sleep, my brain has atrophied, I lost muscle definition (no gym for 3 weeks) my back aches and my eyes are weary.
I’m a prisoner of my own making.
I watched THE PIANIST
because I had to defrag the system, which took seven hours.So on my plate is a feature on BATTERED WOMEN and for relaxation I watch a film about THE HOLOCAUST! Some break. But I love the film. It should have won BEST PICTURE instead of that ridiculous and stupid musical, CHICAGO.I HATED THAT PICTURE! I hated it worse than MATRIX RELOADED. At least it didn’t have RICHARD GEREBut Leave it to the Americans to always vote best picture, any film that features a title of their city,YOU HAD PHILADELPHIA, NOW YOU HAVE CHICAGO. I don’t know if NEW YORK, NEW YORK won.
I mean why would they vote a film about an obscure place in POLAND best picture right?
Have the Poles create their own ACADEMY AWARD and name the statuettes VLADILLI or something.
Watching THE PIANIST made me feel uncomfortable. It stayed with me until the wee hours of the morning when I resumed work. Or was I riled up by it because I have not seen a single film in one week and being in close proximity with a film that studies institutionalized violence made me all the more receptive to the Pianist’s theme.
I wouldn’t really know for sure. All I know is I lack sleep, my brain has atrophied, I lost muscle definition (no gym for 3 weeks) my back aches and my eyes are weary.
I’m a prisoner of my own making.
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