Phase 1.Electro.12Mai.May 12 2010 was a kick-off ceremony that Lizard and I chose not to attend: in addition to the extra time off work and extra hotel/club fees, it didn't make much sense to head up to Montreal a day early for the sake of watching a bunch of DJ sets. Even if the two guys from Nitzer Ebb were there (but not as Nitzer Ebb, dig? Am I ( Read more... )

On Wednesday night, as I was just about to fall asleep, one of Lizard's precocious kittens bashed my left-eye area with its claws, drawing blood. The following morning was a rough awakening. Showered. The trip up was sunnier but no less lengthy. The GPS voice was an actor impersonating Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (it sounded like ( Read more... )

As I update my LJ an average of twice monthly, I don't figure that (m)any would care about the following announcement.

But just to put it out there:

Thursday morning I will be leaving bright and early for Montreal.

Yes, it's Festival Kinetik time once more.

Will be returning Monday night.

That is all.

I submitted a screenplay to this festival because I really liked their mission statement (which doesn't appear to be posted on their site anymore, damn it). Essentially, the founders were encouraging entries of an offensive, provocative, decidedly un-PC nature. I figured my most recent completed script, Hangman Days, would fill the bill. Yet that ( Read more... )

Up until the last 40 pages or so, Shutter Island is a fantastic read. And even those last 40 pages aren't so bad; they just kind of diminish a lot of the mystery that has amassed up to that point. Perhaps that's just my way of saying I wish it had gone even further in its themes and characterizations. (Or had at least refrained from a certain style ( Read more... )

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Upon hearing the news that Michael C. Hall (star of Dexter and the overlooked Gamer (seriously) does indeed have cancer, I proceeded to (accidentally) backhand my half-drunk third (and final) bottle of PBR onto the counter and lap of the bar-mate to my left (an acquaintance who was just as--if not more--drunk, thankfully ( Read more... )

[Stolen, as always, from Hollie.]

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Believed in my writing enough (likely out of some grand self-delusion) to shell out the bread to register two original screenplays with the Library of Congress/WGA and subsequently submit one of said screenplays (Dusting Off Sunshine) to two PA film ( Read more... )

You know:

After a week of coworkers asking me "didjagitthejob, didjagitthejob?!?" I can finally give them (and my Imaginaries on here) an answer:

No.

Am I upset?

No.

My motive for even considering "wanting" to be an IMC was spawned from a place of avarice, and avarice alone! Translated simply: will I mourn the loss of a pay bounce I never got ( Read more... )

It's official: the documentation has been turned in; the application filled out; checks written. The Passport Process for Kinetik 2010 has begun ( Read more... )