Fantasticly cool article by wired where they got a whole bunch of awesome writers from books, comics and movies to write a short story made up of only six words. This post’s title is taken Alan Moore’s one, my favourite. Find the rest here.

Also, I’m once again doing the whole cameo thing for the school’s end of year productions. Acted as a student on a shoot this morning and as a slave in hell this evening which was lots of fun. About 20 extras all drenched in blood, flailing around and playing dead in a room… awesomeness, but very tiring. So before heading off to bed, here’s Jack Black on piracy…

This Friday in Hamilton, there’s a screening event, working both as a fundrasier for Pictures of You and a celebration of film in the Waikato. Being hosted by Film Waikato, it’ll be worth going down for a look, tickets are $10 and can be purchased through Ticket Direct.

The line up of films look pretty good and I’ve weaseled some of my stuff into the line up. So check it out, because what else are you going to do?

Further details can be gotten here.

So yeah, once again absent, but this time I’ve at least got around to putting a few updates to the rest of the site. Some art stuff is finally up and added a couple of photos to the ever changing header. Sub-sections for films will eventually go up along with downloadable videos. It’s all in a bid to make myself a little more pro-active and less depressed about the things I’m being slack at.

Elsewhere, our end of year films are starting to get made and they’re shaping up quite nicely I hear. Mines still chugging along slowly, but thats only because I’ve been too busy curing world hunger… and not because I’m lazy.

Yesterday I got to finally go to the Armageddon convention and sheer geekiness poured out of every window that was allowed open. Got some great bargains on cheep DVDs and comics, whilst touching myself a lot watching Blade Runner on the big screen. Totally awesome, but totally poor too. Still, I’m looking forward to it next year.

Oh and this should have been posted a lot earlier, but the trailer for 300 is officially out and dear god… it is also something to touch yourself over. Downloadable here.

Two teaser trailers for the sexy Hot Fuzz here and here.

And two hair pulling movie title trivia games here (with office stationary) and here (on a cryptic painting).

Big congrats to Doug and Caroline who got married over the weekend. And by tomorrow morning will be flying off to their honeymoon in Australia. They’ve been together for one helluva long time and are almost sickeningly perfect for each other, so all the best to the both of you. You deserve it.

Been a while? Only a bit.

Finally on Holiday… and celebrated it with a heavy dose of drinking and partying and all that stuff. Spent all of yesterday recovering from it and still feeling a bit of the burn.

Lets see… since the last post, I went to a drama camp for school and spent a weekend at Port Waikato Camp. The freakiest thing was it was a camp I had gone to about 11 years ago and the whole time, I couldn’t shake this crazy sense of nostaliga.

After a couple dozen treatments, four and a half scripts and a lot of stressful indecision, I’ve
finally decided on a script to shoot for our Term 4 project. It’s still a little shaky at best, but there’s about 10 weeks away till we actually shoot so in that time I plan on getting a lot of re-writes, storyboards and other various pre-prod stuff that’s always a pain in the arse.

Apart from that, not much else has been going on. Or not much worth remembering… I think.

Huzzah! The new Mountain Goats album, Get Lonely, is finally out so go get your copy and listen to it three dozen times and know the lyrics and the notes and the beats cause there will be a quiz later on and yeah, its worth using up your time for.

The music video to “Woke Up New” is now downloadable in higher res from the director himself here.

Even better, I’ve just found this resource site where they’ve compiled MP3 of the Mountain Goats’ live preformances over the past years. It’s a huge library and my mouth is still drooling at the prospects of listening to so much of Darnielle live. Get shows from as far back as 1994 here.

This week we’re filming a bunch of 2 minute short films… on film. Pretty exciting stuff, we get to work with some actual professionals, have really huge crews, each working on itty bitty tiny little details here and there and generally have a good time… most of the time. Only real issue is the really shitty weather we’re having to put up with. Really bloody cold.

I’m one of 12 in the writer/directors course that have been picked to shoot on film and I’m getting to go luckly last. By then people are going to be burnt out and can’t wait to end the week, so luckily my set ups and everything aren’t going to take long. That’s my goal for the day, be the fastest shoot of the lot. Don’t matter about quality. Just fast turnaround television.

Celebrate! For the new Mountain Goats album ‘Get Lonely’ will be released next week, but in the meantime, all should check out this new totally awesome music video directed by Rian Johnson, who recently directed the film “Brick” which is one of the many films that played at this years film festival, but missed cause I’m a broke ass student… enjoy!

Being affixed to the wonders of Wikipedia, I came across a page on Aphex Twin and in particular, the Windowlicker single and discovered that the end of the second track, if played and viewed through a spectrogram, you can see the face of Aphex Twin himself. It’s a crazy image that plays for just 10 seconds, but it’s really cool. To see a sample of it, this guy’s page here has all the details.

Meanwhile, deadlines loom and pass over at school as I’ve yet to turn over a script for a short film to be made at the end of the year. It’s like the wonderful life of a real writer as people start demanding to see pages and results and you do your best to justify the delay.

Thusfar, I’ve been able to come up with a multitude of ideas and storylines and characters etc… but have yet to settle on one that I actually like and am willing to further develop. So this weekend I’m setting myself a goal to get at least one script done by Sunday, else… screw it, else nothing, I gotta write something.

Oh yeah, and a minor happy thing, Microsoft have finally released the hotfix for Windows being unable to hibernate due to “insufficient system resources exist to complete the API”. Been waiting almost a year for the bastard and you can finally download it here.