Trubble with Bubbles

Alien in Makeup
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Back in production, recording sound on this children's feature. We are shooting in and around Amherst, MA, but we've been in CT at an amusement park the last few days. The days have been short, and trying to control the park, has been futile.

It's been really hot too. With the sun, figure in the lights and reflectors, we've been at 100F on set.

But, as they say, the show must go on!

Killer of Sheep lives on

There has been a lot of hoopla surrounding the release of Charles Burnett's UCLA MFA Thesis film from the late 70's The Killer of Sheep. It's been held over for weeks at the IFC. Gushing reviews from all major media outlets.

The office went and saw it a few weeks ago, and we were kinda disappointed. Perhaps it's a milestone for it's time period, but quite frankly, I just don't get it.

Nevertheless, the story of the films journey is incredibly interesting and quite inspiring. Perhaps quite rare is the student film that can get released theatrically 30 years after it was made.

Clearly, there is something in it that strikes a chord with people, just not with me.

Smashing the Pumpkins

I've actually been interested in hearing the new Smashing Pumkins album when it comes out.

But ever increasingly weird Billy Corgan and Co, have made the decision to release so many different versions of the same album. Kissing up to Best Buy, iTunes and Target, each one of those stores will get different versions of the album.

The band, and Record Company can imagine that "True Fans" (which I am not) would have to get all of them in order to have all of the tracks legit.

I hope no one buys it, and steals it. Pitchfork really took it to them, rightfully so.

I can't think of a more deliberate example of a band and record company trying to milk their fan base, except for when Pearl Jam released 72 live albums over two years.

RIP: Old School Egg Roll

I've lived in a few different places in my years, and one thing that changes from city to city, is the Chinese food. Namely, the junk Chinese food.

People in these United States usually chuckle at the mentioning of "Chicken Balls". Please, we laughed at that in the school yard in Canada. We are so over that.

My biggest woe has always been the lack of a good egg roll. Not in Chicago, not in NYC, not in Germany etc...

They just don't make them like how they do in Toronto. Also, what's up with the lack of plum sauce? The philistines here use "duck sauce". Amateurs.

My troubles worsen: on recent trips back to Toronto, I've been seeing less and less quality egg rolls, and more and more spring rolls or the hated 'hybrid egg roll'. Even the old dinosaur of junk chinese, Manchu Wok is treading the dark path.

KA-CHING!

This weekend, I ended up recording sound for a bunch of folks that were making a short (hopefully leading to a feature). Skeleton crew (director, dp, sound - me). It was interesting to work like that, with minimal crew/setting up.

The good thing is that I got paid! Not a lot, but more than enough to cover groceries for a few weeks. I've got to admit that I was a bit rusty at first, having not being in production for like half a year!

The other big news is that I got a job recording sound on a feature that starts shooting next week. There, the pay is a lot better, and the equipment should be great too.

I guess my days of working for free are over.

Look for me in the Shadows

The Times has a great article on the recent discovery of devices that effectivley make some objects invisible. The material is able to bend waves around an object (not to be seen) and then bend it back on the other end. Basically, you see what's on the other side of the hidden object. Of course, they first were dealing with microwaves, but it's a start.

Still in the beginning stages, there is hope that my biggest fantasy - to be invisible for a day - may still be able to come true.

Greatest Picture in the History of Photography?

We love you TMZ.

Ozzie Sums up the Sens

It was kind of sad to see the Ottawa Senators pretty much not show up for most of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Anaheim Ducks. Though, we all know the Sens are hockey's answer to the Buffalo Bills. It's not a matter of when they will lose, it's more like how.

The Ducks skated circles around them and made the most of their chances. Props is up to NBC for actually broadcasting the games on the network (allowing me to see them), although their people really can't call a game.

Don Cherry had to go down there and tell them what's what. How I miss Bob Cole and Harry Neale.

Minor Celebrity Sighting

I think I saw Todd Solondz today in Union Square. He doesn't look like this picture anymore, and he was talking with some other dude as they walked by.

Not 100% sure, but it could have been him.

Trini to the Bomb?!

There has been so much talk about the plot hatched by some Trinidadians and Guyanese to blow up JFK, and some would have you believe, most of Brooklyn.

However, the Times had a nice article that brings the hype into perspective: the so-called terrorists were nothing more than big talkers (very trini!) and very little action (even more trini!). Pointing out fauxs such as "surveillance" photos to be nothing more than Google Map/Sat images.

I'm not saying that these people shouldn't have gotten in trouble, but does a half-baked/assed implausible (from all sources) terrorist plot deserve all of this news as if they caught them red handed?

To quote Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line: They want you dead, or in their lie.

Look Between the Lines

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Made this over at the Toogle page. Good for a lark.