Alone

Life, Movies

My script is officially under way. The title right now is “Alone” and so far I’ve finished the first act. I use “finish” as a loose term. I’m shooting for 20 pages, a horror story that is quick and easy, and with as few horrow cliches as possible. I’m definatly going to redo things after I finish (I actually have some place holder dialog because I wasn’t sure what to put, but just wanted to keep moving) as I want to make this as tight and good as possible. It feels good to get it out of my head and out on the page.

I came up with an idea dealing with Lucid Dreaming, but it looks like a movie that is coming out in the next month or so has done what I wanted to do. Not exactly what I have in mind, but it’s close enough to be annoying.

Side note: will the asses responsible for leaving spam comments please stop, it’s really annoying.

Movies!

Movies

Have seen a few movies lately.

Starting with Grandmas Boy which was hilarious. Then Hoodwinked which was a really wild mix of Red Riding Hood and The Usual Suspects. Not up to Pixar animation quality, but the facial animation is top notch and there’s some great characters in it. Great for kids and grown ups alike.

Jackie Chan’s New Police Story was a dissappointing. It’s one of his best series and while the action scenes were terrific, there weren’t enough of them. It’s a simple movie (like most Chan films) that I’d put somewhere in the middle of his catalog. Not bad, I think I was just expecting more.

Last is the Ice Harvest starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thorton. It’s a story set in the god forsaken winter landscape of Kansas where Cusack and Thorton steal 2 million from a mob boss in order to leave the hole they call home far behind them. It had a few funny parts but the movie left me cold for some reason. It’s a morbid tale really, I thought I”d like it a lot more than I did. At an hour and a half it was the perfect length though. Worth a rental on a rainy day.

Still haven’t seen X3, I hope to rectify that this week.

Sorry that I’ve been ignoring you

Everything, Movies

It’s been a combination of being busy with the mundane and not having anything really interesting to write about.

Looks like summer (read: not cold) weather has hit NJ. It’s a welcome change. With the change of weather I’m looking to make myself more creative. The plan is to make a movie with John, it’s been far too long since our last project and we need to get something going. I’m sick of being stagnant. Hopefully Xmen 3 will stir my creative juices. I just wish Brett Ratner didn’t direct it. I hate him.

My main goal is to write more, so this month should see many more updates.

Also: see Grandma’s Boy. It’s outragous.

No 360 for me.

Games

For some stupid reason, I just assumed that Best Buy would have xbox 360s in stock. Well they do, but it’s the retard pack, not the one I need. I have all my money set and now I can’t find a best buy with it in stock. Called all 4 best buys nearby and they don’t even know when they would come in, just by chance they come in. The one in Paramus said the last shipment they got was 2 weeks ago and it lasted till this weekend.

I completely dropped the ball on this one. I didn’t call ahead and when I finally got around to calling other stores, rockaway (50 miles away) had 2. Decided to wait until after dinner to avoid insane traffic and now they’re all gone. I’m so annoyed right now I could kill someone.

Gooooooo weather!

Life

Last night we jumped ahead an hour so right now at 6:37pm it’s still bright outside. Winter is finally gone as we’ve been hitting 60 degrees for about 5 days in a row. It kicks ass not having to wear a coat. That means one of my favorite hobbies is coming back; driving around with the windows down and the system up.