Thursday, May 20, 2010

An actual handout from Producing Independent Film class.

"Things I've learned at the Movies."

1. Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people--whether they are employed or not.
2. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb, you don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
4. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication system of any invading alien society.
5. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
6. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
7. If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
8. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
9. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
10. During all police investigations, it be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
11. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
12. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
13. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
14. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off--even while scuba diving.
15. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
16. Should you wish to pass yourself as a German or Russian officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German or Russian accent will do. (It used to be an English accent for the German.)
17. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
18. A man will show pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
19. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
20. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
21. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: Enter Password Now.
22. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
23. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
24. A detective can only solve a case once he's been suspended from duty.
25. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.
26. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their total opposite,
27. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

SF porn.


Effing adorable... I mean it really doesn't get any better than this....

Sad Tummy Food Diary.



Wed 5.19.10

1/2 banana with TJ peanut butter
a couple strips of smoked salmon
1 smoked salmon sandwich with avocado and colby jack cheese (cheese was a bad idea)
2 Snickerdoodle cookies
1 small bowl of Basmati rice with vegetarian chili and banana (try it! it's awesome!)

I just wanted to share the chili part :)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Cookies are bad if....



1. You can feel the oil/grease seep onto your tongue with each bite.
2. You're pretty sure that's a chocolate chip, but not quite.
3. It splits your tooth in half (has happened to me. with a soft cookie... I know, right?!)
4. When it's actually a...cough, nevermind.
5. Your roommate bites down and is immediately electrocuted.
6. Your dog/cat/hamster/piglet won't go near it.
7. Under "Ingredients" it says: wordyoucan'tpronounce, followed by extralongwordyoucan'tpronounce, followed by lard, followed by a telephone number.
8. It is a dictator cookie and dones a Hitler mustache.
9. Your child can't recognize it.
10. It has any other noncookie characteristic. Such as barking.

Haha that was fun! I ate a Snickerdoodle cookie before writing this and SF got jealous.

The movie women should avoid at all costs: Sin City.

Maybe it's because I hate watching movies in class because it's such a distracting environment and hard to concentrate, or maybe Sin City really is as bad as I think it is? I hate to say this, as much as I love this teacher, but damn you, Michael Bolus, for clearly not considering what it is like to be a girl and sit through this catastrophe of a male-oriented film. I get it, the graphic novel is dirty and grimy and X-rated in every possible way, but that does not mean the film should be also. I don't think it should have been made into a film at all.
I could tell just from the opening credits that I was going to get a sarcasm headache from this "Shot and Cut by Robert Rodriguez" piece of digitized bullshit. So much voice over. So much stupid-smart dialogue. It was so damn noisy my ears were buzzing uncomfortably.
[Note that I'm judging the film, not the graphic novel, which I'm sure sits proudly on its shelf of gore glory.] It begins with Bruce Willis getting shot repeatedly in the shoulder and not dying, then getting shot even more in the torso and still not dying. Then some stuff happens. Women appear left and right, flaunting full-frontal boobage and buttocks just hanging out even though there is absolutely no reason for it. I couldn't even pay attention to what was being said. The dialogue itself was just too abstract, sentences were more like "what can I think of that is both strong yet poetic and not natural at all?" Did I mention the blood is both sometimes bright white and lipstick red? Sure, this is a style, but it bored the hell out of me. Oh, primary colors! How imaginative.
One of the major irks: how women are portrayed throughout the entire movie. They're all the same. Not one ugly female to be seen, and all sporting what look like sex shop attire on a rainy night. And what was really disturbing to me? There were horrible, unspeakable acts being done to them, and I felt not an ounce of sympathy. Great. Horrible story, look, and I don't give a shit about who's who. Awesome.
Another major irk: Jessica freaking Alba. I'm sorry, but the girl does not pull a single muscle acting during this emotionally stressful movie that should be reflected on the faces of the actors, but really? You're being whipped into submission by a green, horny, pedophile and not an ounce of fear on your face? Apparently she's cool, calm, and collected enough to turn around and spit out some fuck-you lines of dialogue.
Clearly Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Terintino did not spend an ounce of brain power considering how it was to be a female in the audience and walk out feeling disgusted and degraded and used. Somehow it sunk low in my gut, this hanging feeling, like I was a piece of meat. Oh yeah? This movie can go straight to hell with you, ya bastards.

Monday, May 17, 2010

A Fat Day and Dinner Meeting Food Diary.



Sun 5.17.10

1/2 bag of TJ green apple slices with TJ peanut butter
1/2 smoked salmon and avocado sandwich
2 TJ vegetable egg rolls
1 small TJ banana with TJ peanut butter
1 small bowl of spaghetti with Ragu sauce
3 pieces of buttered garlic french bread (mischievous face)
1 chocolate chip oatmeal cookie

Told you. But our (Roomie and I) future film's producer came over, so I was obligated to stuff my face since he brought the amazing garlic bread and cookies.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

A Saturday Food Diary.



This one was fun.

Sat 5.15.10

1/2 bag of TJ green apple slices with TJ peanut butter
1 plate of fish n' chips (4 pieces of fried cod with fries) from Arclight
1/2 avocado sandwich
small handful of chocolate-covered cranberries

Those fish n' chips really filled me up.