Best April Fools products

Monolith Action Figure from ThinkGeek


Awkward Conversation Starters from Archie McPhee


Level Perfume from Art.Lebedev


Starbucks Jumbo sizes from Starbucks.

More at Nerdapproved! (Someone make the Monolith figure a reality please.)

Soccer Mom on vimeo!

Figured it's about time.

Related: Soccer Mom Website

Return part Deux

Hi world! Blogs suck. They take dedication. Who's got that to spare? Not me!

But I'm back, and maybe I spend a tad longer hanging around and posting funny videos of animals sleeping.


Watching "Ghost in the Shell", the original. Dated, yes, lots of mullets and puffy jackets, but animated boobs never go out of style. The movie features a stunningly intense opening credit sequence that's very inspiring in it's capacity to grab the viewer by the shoulders and shake 'em up.



And of course it's very much the sci-fi design that has inspired the genre following.

Return

I hope.

I have been gone forever. I deeply apologize. I basically gave my heart to Twitter (seriously, it's awesome). Also, since my last project wrapped up it has been vacation-time, personal project-time, and enjoy (not) unemployment-time for a while. There's not much to post on when life's problems get reduced to the Health Care debate and the four walls of my living room.

I hope to recharge into this blog by posting on Sundays a la the Hollywood Juicer. Hopefully that will work. I've never been that good a reporter, I got a C in Journalism class in college.

Twitter

The brainwashing process is complete.

http://twitter.com/athena2824

Join... there is no escape...

New Video - Record Year

Been working on this the last two months. An attempt at a serious drama? Say it aint so!



Youtube (and big HD viewage) is here.

Movie Watch: April 19-24

-Hard Candy
-Twilight (pretty in HD, but dumb as hell)
-Dead Alive
-I Come In Peace/Dark Angel
-Polyester
-Poultrygeist
-Baby Mama
-Schindler's List
-City Hunter
-Three episodes of the first season of ER (1994)

Missed some, but this note taking is a good habit! (says the one with the memory made of mesh.)

Video Break

"Stop that lying!"

Also fascinating is John Waters' gallery art.

I've upped my movie quota in order to not forget that that's the point of my life. I'm going to list what I watch to make sure I don't forget them (tends to happen). So here's the first.

I love it when good stars work on short films

It says something about their priorities. It also adds a wealth of legitimacy to the legitimately undervalued shorts world.

http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new-feist-video-the-water_063601.html

Lovely.

Zombie gets a date

Online and for your on-demand pleasure, double-click to watch in screen-defying HD:

My first computer was a Macintosh.

Bored at work, cheating on movies by thinking about computers:

Hey Freud, they don't call it the motherboard for nothing.

My other lover is my office computer.

Don't worry, the floppy gets hard later.

Computers of the 80's

Retro computer ads

Something to write about

I promise I am not a pessimist. I'm a realist. I didn't mean for this blog to get so snarky and sad, and all of us in LA are a wee bit pissier in the wintertime. I disappeared amidst the studio deadline for our movie and the production of my own little project (updates to come, after the polish that is Color Correction). I meant to triumphantly return to this blog with something a bit more upbeat, but then I came across this angsty piece from a Development Exec Blogger. Despite my vastly improved mood as spring blooms, what he (she?) has to say continues to ring true.

I’m pretty sure the term high concept was hatched years ago by studio execs that were completely stoned out of their head and didn’t have the attention span to read a whole paragraph, so they called their preference to only read one-liners the “high concept.” ... And that my friends, is how good weed and parents who would rather load their own kids up with drugs because they are too proud to call them dumb, have ruined the movie business. Thanks, Mom!

I still love high-concept, though. A high-concept movie with character, that's the one-two punch that puts me in a coma, my friends.

Speaking of high-concept: