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Friday, November 25, 2011

Friday's Notetaking Session at the coffee shop

     Hi.  Some kid went on the attack, calling me 'Dirk Homoflash' instead of Dirk Wampaflash.  Well, that was the first line he said, then he got onto another account, and did the same thing.
     The result was that I put him on my Ignore list for both of his characters.  
     His squad name said he was in 'Jessica Transwalk's Squad', so for him the attack was personal.
     Maybe it was her brother, or friend.
     Jessica is the girl who imposed her religion on me, trying to bring her religion to Star Wars, and building her church on an Asteroid lot.
     There is nothing wrong with that, but to impose her beliefs on me I didn't like much.
     It's all just fun and games, folks.
     I was mean in the video I made of her, calling her a 'cunt', among other things.
     Then my friend told her that I made the video, and I knew some heat was going to come my way.

     Anyway, I'm at the cafe, taking a break from my 'studio of chaos'.
     I haven't painted in some time, I'm going to have to do something about that.  I have no room to work.  I could paint here, but it is usually only good for an hour, and it is a big mess to set it up, and to clean it up, and there is no point unless I can make a video of it all.

     I don't know what I am doing anymore, but I sure am enjoying my free time.  I like my free time every day to do what I want.
     Last night I saw Guillermo del Toro's 'Cronos' ( 1993 ).
    
     It was pretty good.  Not necessarily my cup of tea.  I'm not going to run around the streets telling everyone to see it.  There were some scenes that were pretty gross.  Preparing the dead body for the funeral was kind of fascinating to watch, and repulsive at the same time, but it wasn't too bad.  I just don't like needles into skin very much, even if it is fake.  I feel the pain.  I'm still cringing from it the next day.
     I also saw some movie about Merlin, called 'Merlin and The War of The Dragons'.  It was a pretty lousy movie, but was watchable enough to keep me fascinated about how bad it was.  Yet, it was consistent in it almost being professional, but not quite.  It's like a stupid t.v. movie, and sometimes those are fun to watch.
     I would put the picture from that movie up, but they didn't have one on wikipedia, and I'm too lazy to look beyond that.  It's not worth it.  Go look it up yourself if you are that interested.
     It tried to be epic, but they didn't have enough extras.  There was no blood, and the sword trick of shoving the sword in between the arm and torso was used multiple times.
     One girl was cute, and one wasn't especially cute.
     The acting was average, like just putting a bunch of your friends in the film.
     The whole movie was a hack job, but they had someone do some pretty cool dragons.  The wings were not big enough to support the weight of the dragons, though.  Wings on a dragon have to be huge, and I ain't kidding, otherwise, there is no way in hell they could fly.
     So, it was pretty bad.  Also, they didn't do much with framing the composition of the shots.  Lot of close-ups, though, on people you didn't care too much apart.
     I also don't know how they got such nice haircuts back then.
     The filmmakers tried to put in some young people to make it appealing to audiences in that young vampire kind of way, and it almost worked.
     Nothing will make this film good.
     There were plenty of opportunities for comedy, though.  I just wanted the actors to say something funny, or to go beyond the staged lines somehow.  When you are making a movie that bad, what does it matter?  I just wanted them to talk like they normally would.  The whole movie was staged, to not great effect.
     Yet, it shows that anybody can make a movie.  Just write a script, get your friends together, and have fun.  Nothing to it.

     It's another Friday, but it was good watching movies and playing video games last night.  I had a good time just doing my thing.

     I have to get a job, though.  I am unemployed, and there is no demand for my artwork, so I have to figure out something.
     I can make some rad videos, that would be fun.  Maybe I can get good at doing those.  It helps to have good ideas, though.
     I make 'guerrilla warfare' videos.  I just go in there, do my thing, and get out.

* * *

     I try and imagine this area of San Francisco as the scene for a science fiction locale, or something medieval all the time.  I try to change reality with my mind, because I want real life to be better than it actually is.
     Most film making is all about pretend and make-believe.
     Reality is sooooo boring, that people need to be entertained All The Time.  That is about all I can figure out.

* * *

     I could talk about my oldest brother, but I don't want to bore anybody.  I want to talk about him because he weighs my mind down.  It's a mix of him doing it on purpose, and him not knowing what he is doing.
     It is much easier for me not to have contact with him.
     His mind actually does make sense in his own way, it's just not very practical or realistic.  He has a combination of religion and fantasy things going for him, almost as if he is a fictional character.
     The thinking lately is that he is from another dimension, and that the real version of him is out of place there.  The only solution is to switch them back, but I don't know if that is possible.
     It would be okay to base a fictional character on him, because he is already that.
     Otherwise, I don't know what to do with him, he doesn't make too much sense to me, and he seems out of place in this world.
     Sorry, Johnny, but the world isn't going to hand you everything on a silver platter.
     Too bad, but life isn't like that.

* * *
     Anyway, it is a nice day.  I'm a little late for things.  I'm caught up with my video making work, I'm just thinking of what I'm going to do next, and how I am going to do it.
     I need some funding, though.


     All I want to do is to have dialogues between two characters.  I would like to do male and female characters talking, but it is not easy to get a girl to do the female voice.  Maybe if I get a good written piece together, I can get a girl to read the voice. 
     I have found that you have to do the writing, because people freeze up during the impromptu, and don't know what to say next, even we say that stuff everyday, and with ease, because we are comfortable doing so.
     Therefore, I have to write a script.
     The ancient Greeks considered the dialogue to be the highest form of art, and that idea has intrigued me for some time.
     Now that I have the tools, I can make stuff like that happen.
     Cool, huh?

* * *
     Good times, watching movies, playing video games, I have some life going for me.
     Nice to hang out with my friend and talk about whatever comes to mind.
     It's a nice day.
     The coffee shop is a nice place to congregate, and it restores mana and energy.
     One of the reasons I come here is to get my blood going, hear some music, look at some girls, and be involved in life, rather than just be an observer of it.
     To participate is fun.

     I've never been the most social of people, I'm trying to fix that. 
     Have you ever noticed that when people are really nice to you, it is because they want something from you?
     Homeless people do it all the time, as an example.  They are your best friend in the world until you give them a dollar, and if you give that easily, they will try to get more.

     Anyway, I'm trying to get started with my life, and I don't know how.  It's a tough world out there.

     If only I could make this world into something more fantastic, that would be amazing.

     As a teenager I wanted to see the elves, and live with them like Frodo did.

     Now, I just want the dull thud of reality to go away, and be sent somewhere else.  I don't know where, that is the problem.

     Jack Black is pretty funny, he must have some life going for him.  I like Jack.  He kind of overdoes it sometimes, but he seems to have a lot of life to him.

     I miss John Belushi, but I also miss John Candy.

    

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