book and movies

recently read Cormac McCarthy's the road. Good stuff. Terrifying scenes in that book. Optimism through Cynicism. The world is ruined. Envy the Dead. This is my favorite line from the novel- "There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground."

At first when I was reading this book I thought, "Why doesn;t McCarthy just blow his brains out?" But I don't think he really has a completely negative outlook on the world and its future. If he did, why write? and also why write this kind of book with its satirical themes. That is the writing of a cynnical man who does care for his world. I read Michael Chabon's revue of the book here it has a great passage in it about a book that is truly about the end of the world and an apocalypse like the one in McCarthy's novel would be a book just full of white pages. That's funny to me

I saw Margot at the Wedding. I loved it. A friend of mine said that Jack Black trying to act ruined the movie for him but I disagree. Sure another actor could have played it better, but he didn't bother me. I loved the lighting, the fact that it seems or with either is natural light. I also really loved Kidman in the film. Casting her as the jerkoff parent was hard to accept, which is really the same position the family is in. It is really hard to accept that a close family member is just a self centered asshole.

I'm Not There. a mess but an entertaining one. The movie is trying to be the contradicting, myth filled, confusing life of Bob Dylan, and I guess it does that. I just don;t know if the goals the film has are one's an audience really wants to watch. Cate Blanchett is great, she is asshole 'Don't Look Back' Bob Dylan in Fellini's 8 1/2. I can't say that setting this part of the film on the sets of another film really did much for me- I see the connection. I just don't care. The story between Heath Ledger and the pretty french girl was well done also- I just don;t know what it really has to do with Dylan. Maybe it didn't feel like it fit because it told a story. I guess it si the kind of movie I say to see but I won;t ever watch it again.

THE ADVENTURE

Hello everyone,

it is time for you to begin to help Mike Brune's amazing short THE ADVENTURE
here is something you can put on your own blogs or mymspace pages to help us spread the good word:

COMING SOON!!! CLICK TO WATCH TRAILER

and on MySpace,

I can give you the HTML code for that if you just email me at alex@fakewoodwallpaper.com
just cut and paste it into your blog or MySpace and that it the beginning of what is sure to be a sweet ass festival run for Mr. Brune

The Adventure just got into a really great festival in Europe- I can't let the cat out of the bag yet but I will say that the fest is days after Sundance in Europe. So help us get some exposure by posting stuff about it around so more folks will find out.

2008 is the year of THE ADVENTURE!!

Color Correction

Yesterday I attended the color correction of Mike Brune's new short The Adventure. It looks pretty freaking sweet. Jon Peterson at Cinefilm did the color- he also did my (and many other people's) student film. He used the new Final Cut Color program. I don't think it is the program but the operator. I can't wait to see what festivals The Adventure plays. It is a hell of a short. There was also some talk about s

Speaking of festivals - bad segway - I received my volunteer packet for Sundance '08. that's right I will be staying in a hostel and doing the entire Sundance Film Festival this January. It's gonna be great. Hopefully I'll be attending a screening of The Adventure there too.

Right now I'm on set, yes I'm blogging on set. But the spots are about water conversation. I wonder if I can buy stock in water? That's the future, not oil or apple stock, but water. I want to be a Water Baron in the future.

HOLY SHIT!!!! I was talking about The Adventure and I just got a call. We got into a cool festival. not in the US. I'll keep you posted!

Asheville

Asheville is a cool town of for only one reason- they have BANNED chain anything from their downtown area. No Wal Mart, No Starbucks, none of that crap. That is awesome. I was there for a day because Blood Car won Runner Up for best feature film. We lost to Year of the Fish. We tied with Randy and the Mob for that award. When I got the award Don Mancini gave it to me- he wrote all the Child's Play movies (and he's a Blood Car fan) how cool is that?

That's a short blog. I'm tired, I actually got a job.