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Thursday, June 25, 2009
possible meltdown
Fun bit first-- I just signed a giant stack of the three Clemency Pogue books over at Books of Wonder in Manhattan. Mildly obscene commentary added to every third signature! Go get some clempog at Books of Wonder.
The more frightening part-- Got within a few pages of finishing a script a few minutes ago and my computer felt like it was overheating. Tried to pull the power supply out and discovered that it was fused to the machine. Am now frantically backing up, blogging so that I have something to do while files transfer. ¶ 2:49 PM 0 Comments
The more frightening part-- Got within a few pages of finishing a script a few minutes ago and my computer felt like it was overheating. Tried to pull the power supply out and discovered that it was fused to the machine. Am now frantically backing up, blogging so that I have something to do while files transfer. ¶ 2:49 PM 0 Comments
Monday, June 22, 2009
Black Dog Runs at Night
Pretty much anything that comes from Canada I think of as something from the country that created The Big Snit. And those Canadian tax dollars do seem to support some amazing animated shorts.
This is The Black Dog's Progress, by Stephen Irwin. Some observations:
- All questions left dangling by "Fire Walk With Me" are in this answered.
- When in doubt, have a character vomit blood.
- If not answers to "FWWM," it at least expands nicely on the credit montage of "The Hangover."
Friday, June 19, 2009
Petty Pretty Horses
To follow up yesterday's post, here was another option for the music over the closing credits of Burrowers. In the temp score, we were using Tom Waits' "Green Grass," (and really, what artfag film geek who came up in the 80's doesn't want to end their movie with a Tom Waits song?) I told my cowboy Carolina crooner uncle Dave that I was thinking about finding somebody to record a version of "All the Pretty Little Horses," and he responded with this.
To follow up yesterday's post, here was another option for the music over the closing credits of Burrowers. In the temp score, we were using Tom Waits' "Green Grass," (and really, what artfag film geek who came up in the 80's doesn't want to end their movie with a Tom Waits song?) I told my cowboy Carolina crooner uncle Dave that I was thinking about finding somebody to record a version of "All the Pretty Little Horses," and he responded with this.
And yeah, I blurred the expletive from the post-it on the CD he sent because, you know, kids read this site.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
All the Pretty Little Horses
I've had a few requests for the song that plays as the credit crawl starts on The Burrowers, (and need some new posts quickish to push that mildly embarrassing "my rabbit is cute" video into the archives). The song is traditional, called "All the Pretty Little Horses," performed by Glaswegian troubadour Grant Campbell. I met him in a pub in Glasgow on my way to Up Helly Aa. From looking at him, you wouldn't think he's the result of putting Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits together through Seth Brundle's transport machine. But I'll be damned if he's not. Here's a link to All the Pretty Little Horses.
And, extra credit-- I know Grant's looking for a music-video type edit of footage from the movie to the song. Anybody wants to rip a DVD, cut a Pretty Horses montage, and post it online, I'll send them a DVD of S&Man. ¶ 9:51 AM 0 Comments
I've had a few requests for the song that plays as the credit crawl starts on The Burrowers, (and need some new posts quickish to push that mildly embarrassing "my rabbit is cute" video into the archives). The song is traditional, called "All the Pretty Little Horses," performed by Glaswegian troubadour Grant Campbell. I met him in a pub in Glasgow on my way to Up Helly Aa. From looking at him, you wouldn't think he's the result of putting Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits together through Seth Brundle's transport machine. But I'll be damned if he's not. Here's a link to All the Pretty Little Horses.
And, extra credit-- I know Grant's looking for a music-video type edit of footage from the movie to the song. Anybody wants to rip a DVD, cut a Pretty Horses montage, and post it online, I'll send them a DVD of S&Man. ¶ 9:51 AM 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Lorraine Operating Procedure
I don't really have a good explanation for this one, outside of figuring out the Zack Snyder cheapshot effect on my new camera and trying to maintain my position as the #5 slow-motion lop photographer on the web.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Burrowers at Flyover Film Festival
The Burrowers is playing in Louisville this weekend at the first annual Flyover Film Festival , co-founded by Kentucky native and Burrowers cast member William Mapother (Google Alert shoutout to Mr. Mapother). Who you can find blogging here if you want to find out why he takes the controversial stance of supporting elder abuse. I think. I just kinda skimmed it.
The Burrowers is playing in Louisville this weekend at the first annual Flyover Film Festival , co-founded by Kentucky native and Burrowers cast member William Mapother (Google Alert shoutout to Mr. Mapother). Who you can find blogging here if you want to find out why he takes the controversial stance of supporting elder abuse. I think. I just kinda skimmed it. And I know, I know, The Burrowers is already out on DVD, you could half-watch it on your iPhone while completing a sodoku and literally flying over Louisville. But Flyover has a 35mm print, and it's a goddamn Western, it wants seeing on a big screen.
Even if you have an awesome video set-up in your basement, watching a Western on DVD is like kissing the skinny little sister of the girl you're actually interested in.
So go kiss the girl you really like! It screens this Saturday, June 13th at 9pm. Buy tickets here! I'll be there on Saturday for the screening.
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