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Sputter (hooh hooh hooh, screech!).
Do you love TV and Movies? What about mashups?
Well, if you’ve always wanted to watch what would happen if different shows and movies got mixed up together in one quirky show, then Cut-Up is for you. This is a new show I got involved with and this is our first short-reel of what the show could turn into. Would love to know your thoughts if you have ‘em!
Give Cut-Up some linky-love if you enjoy. The Official Site is also up as well.
I am sad sad sad sad sad.
The reason I am five-times sad is because I recently got the opportunity to see the latest film by my filmmaking idol Wes Anderson and I found myself wondering what happened to my good friend and his ability to create unique characters, amusing situations and a narrative through-line that was engaging and entertaining. I wondered throughout the movie if the reason had something to do with the fact that Owen Wilson didn’t help write this one. I wondered if it was me who had changed and Anderson who had remained the same…over time.
But the reality, of course, is that The Darjeeling Limited…is limited.
It’s a regular quadfecta of important 411 today!
It’s truly rare that I take a break from my cavalcade of comedy to link elsewhere, but I experienced a slew of awesome things this week that I felt was worth breaking from WFME’s original trajectory in order to bring them here, to you. In a nutshell, they are a soundtrack, movie, film short & blog..
Once is “a modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Featuring Glen Hansard from the Irish band “The Frames,” the film tells the story of a street musician and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week as they write, rehearse and record songs that reveal their unique love story.” Besides being scripted and feeling more real than most films (in both character and setting), the music is absolutely inspiring and engaging. Click over to the official site (linked above) and give a listen to the songs before you buy. Which you will do. Because this is a soundtrack you’re not going to want to miss out on.
Yesterday, I had the great opportunity to see the upcoming film The King of Kong (coming out August 17th). The film, a documentary about two men racing against time to get the world’s record for Donkey Kong, takes what some might think would be a thin premise and turns it into an engaging story about good and evil in the world of blips and bleeps. Most interesting is the “villain” of the movie — video game record guru Billy Mitchell (famous from the 80’s and 90’s for his set records on everything from Donkey Kong to Centipede) and how his almost Darth Vader-like grip on the people around him make him an evil, conniving, sneaky little bastard who refuses to let his challenger (a nice family man/teacher from Seattle) beat his score. No matter what he has to do. It’s truly great stuff and you shouldn’t miss it.
In the world of film shorts, it seems that blogger/actor/world-can’t-stop-me-proponent Jessica Stover is at it again. This time, it’s Artemis Eternal, a film short she wrote, will be acting in, and will be producing — and is currently in her fundraising stage of the project. But most people “in the fundraising stage” usually haven’t raised a darn thing. Stover? She’s well on her way to making her new project a reality. Swing on over and drop her a few bucks if you want to support the kind of maverick independent filmmaking Stover is involved with. And if you do, you’ll even get your name in the credits of the film!
Finally, I wanted to make mention of a new blog that I’ll be contributing to at least once a month. Burt Reynold’s Moustache is a blog made up of roughly 28 different writers — and each writer is assigned one day a month. On that day, anything can happen as long as it’s funny. It’s going to be funny, right? I hope so. I’m sure it will be. You can swing by today, or tomorrow, or on the 7th of every month (which happens to be my day).
Everytime I go to the movies, I get Good n’ Plenty.
People look at me like I’m crazy, because who goes to the movies and picks a box of purple and white-colored covered black licorice pieces over M&Ms and ice cream bites and popcorn and so on and so on and so on? Who goes to a supermarket and just walks out with a red onion? Who loses a limb in a tragic car accident and goes to the limb-replacement store and chooses a wet piece of steak for a left arm instead of a hi-tech gleaming metal claw?
This thought process made me decide that I really don’t like Good n’ Plenty after all.
Words for My Enjoyment is the official blog of writer Paul Davidson. He lives in Los Angeles where, well, the magic happens.
