Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
So Things
Hey.
So what's been up this past week? I was denied the job with Dan Wigutow. I got a job with Open Student Television Network and I have another interview with Arts Engine. I'm still holding out hope. And if I keep delaying these summer plans I may very well be homeless in May and living out of a subway station bathroom ala Will Smith.
We had the shoot for Gregor's movie and it went really well. It was strange to work on something where the actor didn't finish his lines and step behind the camera to hold up a flag or boom. Whoah professional!
The thing I liked best about the shoot though is it confirmed for me that I want to work in film and I most likely want to produce movies. It's kind of scary to pick a life plan like that. It's also kind of cool to think "hey I might be good at this one day". But mainly it's scary because the odds are hight that I will never find a job and wind up working at a Dunkin Donuts in Brooklyn (because come hell or high water I have pretty much decided to live in New York).
On Wednesday UFO (the whole 5 of us) went up to Ann Arbor to see a program in the AAFF. The program we saw was mostly experimental, some were good some were frustratingly arty. Really, 12 minutes of manipulated Hitchcock footage is more that I can take.
But I have to say that Ann Arbor is charming, it has all that small town charm of BG + better food and movie theaters minus rednecks and confederate flags. (to be fair they may have rednecks and confederate flags I just didn't see any).
I think that's it.
Have a good weekend.
So what's been up this past week? I was denied the job with Dan Wigutow. I got a job with Open Student Television Network and I have another interview with Arts Engine. I'm still holding out hope. And if I keep delaying these summer plans I may very well be homeless in May and living out of a subway station bathroom ala Will Smith.
We had the shoot for Gregor's movie and it went really well. It was strange to work on something where the actor didn't finish his lines and step behind the camera to hold up a flag or boom. Whoah professional!
The thing I liked best about the shoot though is it confirmed for me that I want to work in film and I most likely want to produce movies. It's kind of scary to pick a life plan like that. It's also kind of cool to think "hey I might be good at this one day". But mainly it's scary because the odds are hight that I will never find a job and wind up working at a Dunkin Donuts in Brooklyn (because come hell or high water I have pretty much decided to live in New York).
On Wednesday UFO (the whole 5 of us) went up to Ann Arbor to see a program in the AAFF. The program we saw was mostly experimental, some were good some were frustratingly arty. Really, 12 minutes of manipulated Hitchcock footage is more that I can take.
But I have to say that Ann Arbor is charming, it has all that small town charm of BG + better food and movie theaters minus rednecks and confederate flags. (to be fair they may have rednecks and confederate flags I just didn't see any).
I think that's it.
Have a good weekend.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
re-decorating!
Our garbage disposal broke today, which means we will have to put in a work order and hide the cats in a closet for a couple of days which is always a headache. Also the broken garbage disposal has drained any motivation I had to clean the kitchen which is pretty disgusting at this point and smells kind of funny.
The whole thing saddens me because I want a charming little kitchen that I can spend my entire day in cooking delightful things that should be photographed and put in the back pages of Better Homes and Garden. If I had a charming kitchen I would also have a breakfast nook (is that how you spell nook?) where I could enjoy everything I made while the sun shone in through the window.
Since the enclave probably wouldn't appreciate me knocking down that stupid bar in my living room/kitchen to make a nook and a better kitchen I thought of a couple of things I can do to make the domestic experiences more exciting.
1. Get a tea kettle: I'm not really a tea person, I much prefer strong strong coffee, and I also don't see the point of a tea kettle when it only takes me 2 and a half minutes to warm up a cup of water in the microwave but I think I still want a tea kettle.
Like my ideal kitchen a tea kettle is charming and very 1950s house wife, I don't think I would ever use the thing if I had one but I still want it.
When I was younger my dad and I would have tea parties every Friday. He would come home at 10pm and I would get out my favorite tea kettle (it was white with flowers and when you lifted it up it played a song) and we would sit around the kitchen table drinking tea and eating sardines on crackers with mustard (I haven't had this combination since I was about 8 but I somehow think it would not be as delicious now). It was very nice and my tea kettle would bring me back to that time.
2. Buy some awesomely kick knacks to liven the place up: There is this vintage store called Flower Child that has basically stayed in business on people like me who find hideous and tacky things like leg lamps and chairs shaped like a plush cheetah print pump hilarious and worthy decor for the modern home (I say people like me and not me because that high heeled chair will run me about 200 dollars and I am not Daddy Warbucks).
I am sure this store is my one shop stop for everything delightful and fun for my kitchen. I can get some ridiculous salt and peeper shakers shaped like Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose and a plastic pink toaster. Or a tin sign that advertises for some type of coffee.
By this is the point I have to be careful and go all out, buying one or two 'vintage' (used and sort of gross) things to put on top of the stove just looks like I don't know how to decorate (and I do) but going ape shit and going all out 1970s could give guests the impersin that I am a crazy serial killer instead of fun and kitschy.
I don't really know where I'm going with this but I know I now have to make a trip to Flower Child and spend $500 on used junk to re-decorate my apartment.
I'm sure I can think of more fun things to do with the kitchen and I will but right now I have to go use the plunger we use in the toilet in the sink. yum.
The whole thing saddens me because I want a charming little kitchen that I can spend my entire day in cooking delightful things that should be photographed and put in the back pages of Better Homes and Garden. If I had a charming kitchen I would also have a breakfast nook (is that how you spell nook?) where I could enjoy everything I made while the sun shone in through the window.
Since the enclave probably wouldn't appreciate me knocking down that stupid bar in my living room/kitchen to make a nook and a better kitchen I thought of a couple of things I can do to make the domestic experiences more exciting.
1. Get a tea kettle: I'm not really a tea person, I much prefer strong strong coffee, and I also don't see the point of a tea kettle when it only takes me 2 and a half minutes to warm up a cup of water in the microwave but I think I still want a tea kettle.
Like my ideal kitchen a tea kettle is charming and very 1950s house wife, I don't think I would ever use the thing if I had one but I still want it.
When I was younger my dad and I would have tea parties every Friday. He would come home at 10pm and I would get out my favorite tea kettle (it was white with flowers and when you lifted it up it played a song) and we would sit around the kitchen table drinking tea and eating sardines on crackers with mustard (I haven't had this combination since I was about 8 but I somehow think it would not be as delicious now). It was very nice and my tea kettle would bring me back to that time.
2. Buy some awesomely kick knacks to liven the place up: There is this vintage store called Flower Child that has basically stayed in business on people like me who find hideous and tacky things like leg lamps and chairs shaped like a plush cheetah print pump hilarious and worthy decor for the modern home (I say people like me and not me because that high heeled chair will run me about 200 dollars and I am not Daddy Warbucks).
I am sure this store is my one shop stop for everything delightful and fun for my kitchen. I can get some ridiculous salt and peeper shakers shaped like Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose and a plastic pink toaster. Or a tin sign that advertises for some type of coffee.
By this is the point I have to be careful and go all out, buying one or two 'vintage' (used and sort of gross) things to put on top of the stove just looks like I don't know how to decorate (and I do) but going ape shit and going all out 1970s could give guests the impersin that I am a crazy serial killer instead of fun and kitschy.
I don't really know where I'm going with this but I know I now have to make a trip to Flower Child and spend $500 on used junk to re-decorate my apartment.
I'm sure I can think of more fun things to do with the kitchen and I will but right now I have to go use the plunger we use in the toilet in the sink. yum.
Have a nice breakfast!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Back from New York!
Things we saw:
Things we did not see:
A Stage Version/Musical of Jurassic Park- Crazy People on the subway
- A Stevie Wonder singing homeless man
- A man flip over five people
- A puppy in a suitcase
- Overpriced comedy shows
- Illegal operations in Chinatown
- Alter Boyz
- The horrifying view of the empire state building
- Syracuse New York's Finest Steakhouse
- The Upright Citizens Brigade
- Laura Dern
Things we did not see:
- Woody Allen
- The real Stevie Wonder
- Any soap stars
- A crazy but kindly old woman covered in pigeon shit
- The decapitation of the Statue of Liberty
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Everything I needed to Know
I learned from an 80s movie.
I'm thinking about changing this blog's name to Theresa's Nostalgic Lists o' Fun.
But anyway, as you may have guessed I wasn't the most popular kid in school when I hit those awkward puberty years. A number of factors contributed to this, right now I can think of a few reasons:
Every weekend I would go to the local Movie Mart and rent about 5 VHS tapes to watch. Add microwave popcorn, Hungry Howie's pineapple pizza and a 2 liter of coke and you have got yourself a weekend.
I think I can say I was successfully raised by movies. And no decade of film making makes for better life lessons than the 1980s teen movies. One day I'll show up at John Hughes's doorstep and introduce myself as his daughter, maybe he'll set up a trust fund for me.
Lets look at what my adolescent Friday nights have taught me.
1. Pump Up The Volume
Fuck the establishment! This movie was like an infomercial for emotional Blog rants 10 years before the word "Blog" had been invented. Christian Slater calls out the man on his AM
frequency station every night by jacking off to his microphone as "Hard Harry". And hey, who said the FCC was boring? This movie makes them look less FCC and more FBI. With one of the most exciting slowly driving around Arizona while trying to maintain radio frequency chase scenes ever the movie goes down in my childhood memory book.
How it shaped me: I now have an irrational fear whenever an honors student comes anywhere near a microwave oven.
2. Footloose.
After I saw this movie for the first time I pulled out my mom's old cheer leading outfit, moved all of the furniture out of my family room and held a high school dance. Dancing, illegal? I knew I wouldn't want to live in that world so I thanked Kevin Bacon by playing his stupid game more times than it ever should have been played.
How it shaped me: Whenever I come across a staunchly religious person I assume they won't like me because my dancing is to hip for them.
3. Die Hard.
Okay, It's not a teen movie really but I spent enough time watching this as a kid that it should be mentioned on the list somewhere. I even made up a game where I was a cop stuck in a hotel full of terrorists who I had to fight with only my Vtech computer and nerf riffle. (See? N
o Friends.) This is still my favorite Christmases movie, my brother and I bought the series this break and are making it a tradition to watch all 4 while getting drunk on Christmas day.
How it shaped me: Whenever I am faced with a problem, I consider one of my options to blow shit up.
4. Can't Buy Me Love.
This move confirms that underneath every nerdy looser white guy there is a ripped beefcake just waiting to emerge.
How it shaped me: I will never spill eat or drink anything now when I steal my mom's white suede outfits.
5. War Games.
I still want to be a hacker because of this movie. When I was 12 years old I didn't need look any farther when it came to learning the dangers of the
arms race and nuclear annihilation. This movie was like my own personal Daisy ad for scary government and war rooms.
How it shaped me: I still believe that Mathew Broderick could take over the world if he had a IMSAI 8080 and the codes to some video games.
6. Some Kind of Wonderful.
It's like pretty in Pink except Duckie gets the girl, but in this case Duckie is a tomboy with a set of drums named watts and even though Keith wasn't particularly nice to watts until he gave her his date's diamond earrings Watts still ends up the winner.
This movie also taught me that pretty and popular girls will go on a date with a looser after enough badgering. But once she gets freaked out that her date painted a portrait of her for the first date and hired their punk rock friend to dress up like Hoke Colburn
and drive her around around all night she will pass you off on the first single broad she sees.
How it shaped me: I still want to make out with someone wherever I get my oil changed.
I'm thinking about changing this blog's name to Theresa's Nostalgic Lists o' Fun.
But anyway, as you may have guessed I wasn't the most popular kid in school when I hit those awkward puberty years. A number of factors contributed to this, right now I can think of a few reasons:
- My mom was a 3rd grade teacher, who sang in an embarrassingly high falsetto during our weekly choir practice.
- My bikes were always bought at garage sales and as a result I rode around on a frosted purple 2 speed with a giant panda on the handlebars until I was 15
- I liked the movie Scream so much I wrote a slasher screenplay in the 5th grade and saved my allowance to buy fake knives and stage blood for the production.
- I liked the movie The Craft so much I formed a coven with Rachel and Jessie in the 6th grade.
Every weekend I would go to the local Movie Mart and rent about 5 VHS tapes to watch. Add microwave popcorn, Hungry Howie's pineapple pizza and a 2 liter of coke and you have got yourself a weekend.
I think I can say I was successfully raised by movies. And no decade of film making makes for better life lessons than the 1980s teen movies. One day I'll show up at John Hughes's doorstep and introduce myself as his daughter, maybe he'll set up a trust fund for me.
Lets look at what my adolescent Friday nights have taught me.
1. Pump Up The Volume
Fuck the establishment! This movie was like an infomercial for emotional Blog rants 10 years before the word "Blog" had been invented. Christian Slater calls out the man on his AM
frequency station every night by jacking off to his microphone as "Hard Harry". And hey, who said the FCC was boring? This movie makes them look less FCC and more FBI. With one of the most exciting slowly driving around Arizona while trying to maintain radio frequency chase scenes ever the movie goes down in my childhood memory book.How it shaped me: I now have an irrational fear whenever an honors student comes anywhere near a microwave oven.
2. Footloose.
After I saw this movie for the first time I pulled out my mom's old cheer leading outfit, moved all of the furniture out of my family room and held a high school dance. Dancing, illegal? I knew I wouldn't want to live in that world so I thanked Kevin Bacon by playing his stupid game more times than it ever should have been played.How it shaped me: Whenever I come across a staunchly religious person I assume they won't like me because my dancing is to hip for them.
3. Die Hard.
Okay, It's not a teen movie really but I spent enough time watching this as a kid that it should be mentioned on the list somewhere. I even made up a game where I was a cop stuck in a hotel full of terrorists who I had to fight with only my Vtech computer and nerf riffle. (See? N
o Friends.) This is still my favorite Christmases movie, my brother and I bought the series this break and are making it a tradition to watch all 4 while getting drunk on Christmas day.How it shaped me: Whenever I am faced with a problem, I consider one of my options to blow shit up.
4. Can't Buy Me Love.
This move confirms that underneath every nerdy looser white guy there is a ripped beefcake just waiting to emerge.
How it shaped me: I will never spill eat or drink anything now when I steal my mom's white suede outfits.
5. War Games.
I still want to be a hacker because of this movie. When I was 12 years old I didn't need look any farther when it came to learning the dangers of the
arms race and nuclear annihilation. This movie was like my own personal Daisy ad for scary government and war rooms.How it shaped me: I still believe that Mathew Broderick could take over the world if he had a IMSAI 8080 and the codes to some video games.
6. Some Kind of Wonderful.
It's like pretty in Pink except Duckie gets the girl, but in this case Duckie is a tomboy with a set of drums named watts and even though Keith wasn't particularly nice to watts until he gave her his date's diamond earrings Watts still ends up the winner.
This movie also taught me that pretty and popular girls will go on a date with a looser after enough badgering. But once she gets freaked out that her date painted a portrait of her for the first date and hired their punk rock friend to dress up like Hoke Colburn
and drive her around around all night she will pass you off on the first single broad she sees.How it shaped me: I still want to make out with someone wherever I get my oil changed.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
TV
You know, the Wood County Library really is a nice place. Sure they don't have the best selection of books and their music collection sucks but as far as local libraries go it's a good one. Not only do you get a free cup of coffee when you are there (forget that sign that says you have to donate) but today I walked in and there was a string quartet set up just playing away.
It was nice.
But the thing I really like about the WCL is they have a surprising selection of movies.
There are only about 5 small shelves that they wheel out every day and move to different corners of the main floor on what seems like a whim. But in that small stack they have a lot of really good movies, classics and zany French comedies and action movies and TV shows; they have TV shows that I didn't even know existed on DVD.
Gems like Everwood and Absolutely Fabulous. It's really exciting.
Looking through the semi-obscure, (i.e. they don't have it at the Main St. Blockbuster) season's that are arbitrarily thrown in among the other titles I got to thinking about the other great TV shows of yore that I used to spend days waiting for and if there had been box sets at that time, I wouldn't have had a life.
Lets have a look back:
Are You Afraid of The Dark: Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I really believe that the Nickelodeon period from 1993-1997 was the station's hayday, back then the TV told me that Kids Ruled and I believed them dammit. The highlight of my week was SNICK with Are You Afraid of The Dark topping off the two hour kid-fest on my family's living room TV. This show really introduced me to the wonderful world of Campy-Horror, the stories were so cheesy but lots of fun. if it weren't for the midnight society I don't know if I could appreciate Maximum Overdrive and IT the way I do now.
Deadly Games: Now I'm sorry I don't remember more about this show but all you need to know is that Christopher Loyd is a supervillian who draws other villains out of video games to gain total domination in the real world, that should be enough to get this show on DVD so I can watch it over and over again.
Welcome Freshman: 1991-1993. There was a time there when a lot of SNLesque shows started pooping up for kids. All That gave us Amanda Bynes so I thank god for that but Welcome Freshman was my favorite, basically because I imaged that high school would be ultra cool and quirky when I watched these shows, I was disappointed when I became a sophomore at St Joseph Academy and I didn't get to stuff freshmen into basketball hoops.
Now I have to go to class but the list will be continued...
It was nice.
But the thing I really like about the WCL is they have a surprising selection of movies.
There are only about 5 small shelves that they wheel out every day and move to different corners of the main floor on what seems like a whim. But in that small stack they have a lot of really good movies, classics and zany French comedies and action movies and TV shows; they have TV shows that I didn't even know existed on DVD.
Gems like Everwood and Absolutely Fabulous. It's really exciting.
Looking through the semi-obscure, (i.e. they don't have it at the Main St. Blockbuster) season's that are arbitrarily thrown in among the other titles I got to thinking about the other great TV shows of yore that I used to spend days waiting for and if there had been box sets at that time, I wouldn't have had a life.
Lets have a look back:
Are You Afraid of The Dark: Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I really believe that the Nickelodeon period from 1993-1997 was the station's hayday, back then the TV told me that Kids Ruled and I believed them dammit. The highlight of my week was SNICK with Are You Afraid of The Dark topping off the two hour kid-fest on my family's living room TV. This show really introduced me to the wonderful world of Campy-Horror, the stories were so cheesy but lots of fun. if it weren't for the midnight society I don't know if I could appreciate Maximum Overdrive and IT the way I do now.
Deadly Games: Now I'm sorry I don't remember more about this show but all you need to know is that Christopher Loyd is a supervillian who draws other villains out of video games to gain total domination in the real world, that should be enough to get this show on DVD so I can watch it over and over again.
Welcome Freshman: 1991-1993. There was a time there when a lot of SNLesque shows started pooping up for kids. All That gave us Amanda Bynes so I thank god for that but Welcome Freshman was my favorite, basically because I imaged that high school would be ultra cool and quirky when I watched these shows, I was disappointed when I became a sophomore at St Joseph Academy and I didn't get to stuff freshmen into basketball hoops.
Now I have to go to class but the list will be continued...
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