2.28.2005 Check out this great poster for SPOILER7, a comedic film festival at NYC's Knitting Factory which will feature a new sketch by Olde English (I'd link to the sketch, but it has yet to be made).
2.23.2005 If I didn't think it would only worsen my present situation, I would make a website called MyMailmanSucks.com, where you could report that your mailman sucks. I say this, of course, because my mailman sucks. He never comes on Mondays--as if that's acceptable--and whether he comes any other day of the week is a total crapshoot. Oh, how sweet it must be to leisurely walk around with that fashionable mail sack, deciding freely whether or not to screw-over an entire portion of the town.
Last week, while driving, I saw him slip and fall on the sidewalk. He looks like Bobcat Goldthwait and he falls like Chevy Chase. Before I realized who it was and how much disdain I have for him, I stopped to ask if he was all right. Steadying himself against a tree, he reported that he was fine, and I wanted to ask, "Then why don't you deliver my fucking mail, you lazy bastard?"
Instead, like the polite pansy that I am, I wished him a good day and kept on driving.
2.16.2005 According to Dave Cavell, whose opinions I generally trust, there's a "picture of [me] if [I were] black" in the February 14th issue of Sports Illustrated. This statement--which, at first, threw me into a state of panic and then, after several more readings, left me confused--can be supported or refuted by the below photograph (#19). However, unlike Cavell, who reportedly "did a double-take the first time [he] saw it," I can only sorta see the resemblance.
I felt it important to stress that I (sorta) resemble a photograph, and not the actual Lorenzo Neal.
2.15.2005 Adam posted Michel Gondry's "Star Guitar" video on the OE Message Board, so I thought I'd spread that around a little before we get sued. To appease those who would sue us, I will add that the DVD this video is featured on, Palm's Directors Series, is absolutely worth owning. Michel Gondry's ideas/executions are amazing. More than anyone else, his work completely affects the way I think about filmmaking.
2.06.2005 In honor of my senior project, for which I have to make a substantial film in the next three months, I thought I'd design a new page to chart my progress. The page design is for the most part complete, though I still have to work out a few minor details. That said, every hour I spend tweaking the graphics is another hour I am not spending on my film. This is how I have to think of all activites for the next three months.
As an example of how secretly neurotic I am, I've included my handwritten mockup of this design, which I drew on airplane a month and a half ago. If you look carefully, you'll notice that (like too many of my past projects and hopefully not my senior project) I finished a week later than I'd planned.
