My Life in Videos, Pictures, or whatever I see fit. I successfully completed a Project 365 a video everyday for the year 2011. I still make videos and I post them on here. Lately I've been posting random shit I find on the web with some commentary in between.
I can't wait to showcase this thing on my movie shelf. Look at the that thing! If it doesn't look familiar to you it's the Zombie Andrea killed with a screwdriver
Want To See LEGO ‘Shaun Of The Dead’ Become A Reality? Help Make It Happen Now!
Posted by The Movie God | March 29th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Back in January we found out about an amazing LEGO recreation of the eternally awesome horror-comedy, Shaun of the Dead.
At the time it was just a great fan-made item none of us could get our hands on, but as it turns out, owning your own LEGO Shaun of the Deadis not impossible…with a little help from you and you and I and you.
While visiting Conan O’Brien recently, star Simon Pegg let it be known that if fans show their support of making this a LEGO reality—to the tune of about 10,000 people—it could become available in the future.
Head below to find out where you can help and to see a video of Pegg onConan.
At the moment, there is already over 7,000 fans supporting the project. If it does reach 10,000, LEGO will then enter it into the review stages where the company will decide whether they can ultimately make money on it or not.
This Saturday Elvis, Jay and I are going to meet Stan Lee. I can't wait! STAN THE FUCKING MAN LEE!
We're going to venture into the city for I have a few hard cover books for him to sign. We also get a picture taken as well. I'm hoping I find my press pass from comic con of 2011 to get signed as well.
I found this video today of a drunk that got arrested and he sings Bohemian Rhapsody in the back of the squad car. It sounded eerily similar when we sing the song at the bar.
I just finished watching, "Hunger Games". Now I don't like giving reviews on movies because I'm not much of a critic you should trust their opinion. Yeah I watch a shit ton of movies, Yeah I own over 400 dvds. When it comes down to it. I just really enjoy a good story.
This a screen shot of Lenny Kravitz playing... Lenny Kravitz? This guy couldn't act his way out of Seneca's most beautiful thing he has ever filmed. His part was to be a stylist for the tributes as they were to be presented to the new pastel wearing evil empire. I pretty much said to myself "HEY! It's Lenny Kravitz!" every time he was on screen....Yeah thats that.
The story began with the intro stating that after a great war, the victors now request from 12 different enslavement camps that two children (one boy and one girl) from the ages of 12-17 be picked by lottery to participate inThe Running Man The Hunger Games. A survival tournament where its also televised for the new empire entertainment. The participants are called Tributes and trained in the art of survival war games....Survival war games?....Children? Where have I seen this before? hmmmmmm?
OH FUCKING YEAH!
IT'S BATTLE ROYALE!!!!!
Which by the way is a far better movie than Woody Harelson's wig The Hunger Games.
I love funk soul and old school Motown sounds. I love record collecting and the experience it takes from digging through old record stores (when I can find them) to goodwill and thrift stores. Recently I came accross a blog named, "Flea Market Funk" .
From their About Us page:
What is Flea Market Funk? Flea Market Funk is an all vinyl blog run by DJ Prestige focusing on Funk, Soul, Jazz and Reggae music based out of Brooklyn, NY. Flea Market Funk is also a tribute to the art of the DJ, Hip Hop music, and the culture that goes along with it. I preserve the music and culture through my reviews, mixes, interviews, guest mixes, and the like. FMF has you covered from dusty 45′s to out of print Lps to sampling to live music to Modern Funk and Soul to producing to Classic Hip Hop and more. It’s all about “the way we live”.
I love the mixes he has on the website, it reminds me of the selection of records I always look for when I shop. There is a feeling of joy in finding that soul funky sound of old forgotten records after digging through bin after bin that can only be expressed by record collecting. That's half the fun of records, the search for the sound, the feel of going through stacks and stacks of used records in dollar bins. The smell of old cardboard and vinyl that always perminates old record stores.
Below is a video that captures a few D.J's and their vinyl obbsession.
Listen as they share there thoughts on the subject of vinyl digging as you enter the realm of the last true culture where music is key and collecting is a part of life.” Really great stuff.
Another all 45 Mix from DJ Prestige and FleaMarketFunk.com How about some Deep Funk and Soul for your listening pleasure? Put the shaving cream away, cultivate that mustache, have a pint of Ale, and turn on some World Cup reruns because it’s time for a party. 100% vinyl all day every day. FMF vintage warm up with 45 adapter applique extra!
Featuring tracks by The Dt6, Okie Duke, Lyndal Barry And The Apollos, The Fabulous Fugitives And Their Review Feat. Michael Sharkey, Lou Donaldson and more
Spring is here! With that comes the nesting Geese. These little fuckers will chase you away from the nesting area. I watch them every Spring doing so and I always have the Benny Hill song playing in my head when it happens. I never could really like these creatures. They are blessed with the gift of flight and yet they choose to walk everywhere.
I've been obsessed over these T-Shirts lately. I just bought this one on Amazon.
This one too! This is my favorite! I can't wait to wear it.
The first time I read, "On The Road" I was about 15 years old. I remember being at that age of discovering cult fiction and wanted to see for myself as to why so many have this on their list of must reads. I fell in love with this book. The way the sentences flowed, the eccentric prose and the fluidity of it all. It had me at many of times reading it out loud just so I can hear what it sounded like. Come to think of it, I should look for it if it is available as an audible book.
I love the age and the time this was all taken place too. An era when hitchhiking was a viable option for transportation. The way the main character, Sal traveled coast to coast with $50 and sometimes even less. I daydreamed of travelling and viewing the nation in the same manners as Dean, all carefree and just really enjoying the moments of living. Going where ever the winds take you. The freedom from the tired lives of the mundane structure of societal norms. I wonder the amazement of being there when the birth of Jazz and Rock and roll was happening in old smokey hole in the wall bars and clubs. I was really taken for a ride with this book.
I've re-read the book a couple of time throughout my life. It's funny how certain aspects of the book affected me at different ages. How I've changed growing from a a wide eyed teenager filled with awe, the feeling of excitement of discovering new ideas and life experiences. The fire, the ambition I've carried with me at the time thinking I too can blaze a trail into adulthood. "On The Road" always taught me to enjoy it all. Friendships, events, the beauty of life, the love I feel as well as the heartaches I've endured. To take it all in in. There is a quote from Rashi that reminds me of this book.
"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you" -Rashi
I try to live my life in that way because in the end what are we really left with? Just the memories and the stories we carry.
In 2007 I was also fortunate enough to see "The Scroll". The famous teletype paper that Jack Kerouac typed the first draft of the novel at The New York Public Library in NYC. Jack typed on this roll of translucent paper in single typed space and he corrected any typos or added notes with pencil. At the end, it measured 127 feet. Three years of collecting stories of traveling across the nation almost three times for the book and it measured into a little over a hundred feet. At the NYC Library about 30 feet of the scroll was rolled out for display inside this giant glass showcase. I loved looking at it. It was impressive to see how tiny the words looked. I've read stories of how Jack was on some Benzynine-or something or some sort of drug that helped him type so prolific. I thought about that as I went up and own that showcase just trying to read The Scroll.
The first time I heard about a movie was going to be made was about the same time I went to see The Scroll. I was afraid that Hollywood wouldn't be able to do it any justice. I always put in consideration that the adaptation wouldn't hold a torch to the book. I just always have to remind myself whenever I watch a movie made from a book that I enjoy, is to always treat it as a different take on someone else view. It's a new medium and should be treated as such. Just like reading about an animal like a fox. You can see pictures of a fox and learn its habits and what type of sounds it can make. Then to actually see it in real life moving and watching the mannerisms as they happen.
The same but different.
Francis Ford Coppola bought the movie rights in 1980 for $95,000 when Russel Banks approached him with a screenplay for 'On The Road". After watching the 2004 adaptation of "The Motorcycle Diaries", Francis decided on Walter Salles to head the production of "On The Road".
I'm excited for this. I'm a big fan of "The Motorcycle Diaries". It was just a few weeks ago I came across the movie playing one late night. I remember thinking to myself of the similarities of the travels of the characters of Ernesto & Alberto and Sal & Dean. Not sure of the casting though. I'm going to stop here because my shift is over now and I feel like a complete fanboy ranting about it. I'll address this some other time.
Here is the Trailer to the Motorcycle Diaries. You should watch it.
Found this today that made me laugh. The Disney ones we all knew about growing up. We would always look for it even to this day with the new pixar movies for new ones.
Here is another video from my Iphone channel
THE GREATEST THING I HEARD TODAY!!
HERE IS A PICTURE OF A FACEBOOK STATUS THAT MADE ME LAUGH!
HAPPY Pi DAY! NERRRDS! I'm going to start posting more shit on here that I usually post on Facebook. Only because I'm tired of not getting credit for finding shit on the net. Or having people say that they never saw it posted to their wall when in fact I know very well that I have.
My job I get the glorious task to sit in front of a computer anywhere from 8-10 hours a day 7 days a week. I have grown accustomed to the daily grind where I can maneuver anywhere between 10 different prompts at the same time at any given moment throughout my shift. Usually opening various rss feeds to blogs, websites, forums where I can scourge the internet for interesting data. Here it will be date stamp so future arguments will be invalid because I know I was right.
never again will I have the mundane conversations of:
"Did you see (INSERT ANY VIDEO/LINK/NEWS HERE)?"
"YEAH! I posted that months ago."
"No you haven't "
"YESIHAVE!! YEARRRGHHH!"
Besides that, I have completed the 365 project and I have taken a break from video vlogs. It has been longer than expected because I wanted to spend more time with organizing my notes and ideas in a more concise fashion for The Elvis and Alfred Show. Hopefully with more research I will start moving the show to a new format. We were pioneers once about a year ago, once I tried incorporating the live video feed, but since then most podcast I have been listening too already started to follow the trend while we fell by the way side. I'm bringing it back regardless if Elvis doesn't understand the importance being ahead of the curve.
So yeah, that was basically the winter for me. I'm going to start again with my videos, it would be stupid at this point to not make a regular scheduled video. I decided to start doing another YouTube channel for my iPhone. There I'm going to do daily videos of just mini vlogs of one takes. That will be everyday but my main channel will most likely be more edited and more planned for content. I'm going to keep the integrity of being my daily life just with more production value.
