Archive for July, 2007

Manic^3

I’ve been hella tired lately, so this post is not going to make any sense.

It’s been a really busy few weeks - work has been manic, the flat hunt has been, well, manic, and pretty much everything relating to my personal life has been, erm, manic. I’ve not been through a period of this intense busy-ness for a long time, but am someone finding outlets for it all and feeling surprisingly calm about it all.

Tonight, the outlet has been listening to random music, quite loud. Right now it’s Faith no more’s ‘I’m easy.’ Earlier, for no apparent reason, it was ‘Orion’, as performed both by Metallica and Rodrigo y Gabriela. Before that, for even less reason, it was Iron Maiden’s ‘Fear of the Dark.’ Before that, it was some random French music.

Sitting here, letting the music wash over me, I feel a semblance of calm.

Eels’ ‘Novocaine for the Soul’ just came on. I think there’s a danger of slipping from calm to comatose. I hit ‘b’ and Winamp obliges. Powderfinger’s ‘Since you’ve been gone’. Result. A recommendation from Tony.

It’s been a very odd evening. I haven’t sat around and let myself get completely taken by music since I was at school (when I used to do it all the time). It feels good.

Addicted to Entourage

I watched through most of the second season of Entourage last night. There’s something about it - maybe the sense of family and friendship that the four principals have - that makes it intensely watchable. I’m not sure how good or realistic or representative it is, but I guess that doesn’t really matter (although I have been made curious and am also reading my way through Wikipedia on it!). For those who don’t know what it is, its loosely based around Mark Wahlberg’s life, where one slightly talented and beautiful male actor from Queens moves to Hollywood and his three friends (try to) help him make it.

The same sort of thing applied to Studio 60 (or ‘West Wing Series 8′ as Ben calls it), which, whilst again bears very little resemblance to anything within the realms of my experience, and probably isn’t representative of reality, has a wonderful on-screen relationship dynamic between the principal characters.

It’s almost enough to make you wish your life was more dramatic. Then you look out, watch the news, see the diverted traffic (Al Quaeda is really annoying) and other craziness going on around town and you realise that there’s drama aplenty already…

Vote for Vito!

One of my brother’s directors is in the running for a prize with MySpace: we’d really appreciate your votes for Vito if you have an active MySpace account. You can vote once a day. In a meta-social-network fest, you can also support the efforts (and read more about it, interact with the producers, etc.,) with this Facebook group.

Here’s a short film from him:

MyMovie MashUp Short Film Entry

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And his pitch:

MyMovie MashUp Director Pitch

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Cast your vote here. Much appreciated!


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