The Future of Digital Entertainment & Social Storytelling
From the monthly archives:
My interview with horror movie director David DeCoteau is out in GayWebMonkey. Available in your local gayborhood or online in convenient (sic) PDF form here.
David’s a sweet guy and considering the kind of movies he does, he’s amazingly mainstream.
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Catch my spiffy new Fall Move Preview in IN Mag Los Angeles on stands now or online here. For some reason, the web guy decided to use of photo from the upcoming Wallace & Gromit movie for this article, which is strange because that’s not one of the movies I mention. I’m looking forward to it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not- ya know…gay.
More article writing this week. Should be back on the directing music video/ writing scripts thing tomorrow. Also, I’ve decided to ditch my iRiver and go with an iPod Nano. I’m gonna make it my reward for finishing the Greek play, because I need to resort to bribery–on myself, when it comes to my own projects.
Martha is just a brilliant and weird TV show. I caught the second episode of the now-Oprahfied show last night at the Yalie’s house (I know lot’s of Yalie’s, but he gets the nickname since he was first). Rather than avoiding her prison sentence, Martha revels in it. There’s shots of her at the trial and getting released in the opening montage and today’s episode was dedicated to foods she invented while cooking in the kitchen commisary. She shows us her home made nutmeg/cheese grater (made out of an old sardine can) and candidly admits that she never used a microwave until she was sent off to the big house. What’s fascinating is that all in all, Martha’s as cold and prickly as ever, but now she’s up front about it.
When guest David Spade (yeah, David Spade) cracks wise about the dish taking a long time to make, but it being okay because she probably wanted to kill time in prison, Martha glares at him and says, “Yes, you do anything to pass the time.” Poor David kept waiting for someone to say, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”, but the whole thing was terrifyingly real.
I love Martha and if she turned to the television and told me to kill, I really would.
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When they make jokes about blogging in The New Yorker, you know it’s over.
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Have any of you seen Jim Cramer’s Mad Money on CNBC? I just saw it at the cafe I use as my office sometimes. Jim Cramer is like the Howard Beale of the finance world; this balding prophet of stocks and bonds who runs up to the camera, yells at you and literally shakes his fists. He slams a button and a graphic of two bulls pounding each other fills the screen. The camera never stops moving, constantly panning around him just so you know how crazzzzzy he really is and when they cut to commercial it’s a quick rack zoom back. Seriously, it seems like a Simpsons parody, but it’s not! On top of that, he was talking about unions and said something to the effect of “this is class struggle, plain and simple. The rich want to take from the poor and the poor fight back.” You don’t talk about class struggle on TV! I love it! Lou Dobbs better watch his back.
It’s been a wild week- lots of article writings and trying to get the first thirty pages of the greek play in order for the theatre group tomorrow. We’ll see if it happens. Also- I bought a shaving kit yesterday: the kind with the brush and everything and I swear it was the best shave of my life. Not only do I feel all old-timey doing it, my face is as smooth as a baby’s behind. Yee-haw!
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