hiimachocoholic

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:04:18 GMT

You Are Batman

Billionaire playboy by day. Saving the world by night.
And you're not even a true superhero. Just someone with a lot of expensive toys!

What Superhero Are You?

Update

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:47:32 GMT

so its been a few days. Lifes been crazy. Started casting train track. Looks like its going to be an awesome cast, casting directors are lovely people. :-)

Lifes pretty good for the most part, only missing a few things to make it as close to perfect as can be. I've gone back to my starbucks addiction, but its better than smoking I think, and i love starbucks so its worth it.

The internet at my new place is very odd. It likes to not work most of the time which annoys me. And then when it does work it likes to stop working randomly which annoys me more.

The only really bad thing right now though is that I think my wisdom teeth have to come out. Which is annoying for a few reasons. 1 it means i'll be out for a few days after my surgery. 2 it means i have to pay for the procedure which i can't really do but i think my dad will help for this. 3. it means i'll look like a chipmunk and not be able to eat solid foods for a little bit. and 4(and most annoying of all) my mouth feels like i tried to eat a porcupine and i wont be able to get the procedure for atleast a week. Luckily after this week I'm done with classes till september and i dont start shooting thesis films till august so i guess it could be worst ... i'll update you all with whats going down as i find out though.

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:13:25 GMT

My friends are awesome! But tonights been an up and down experience ... tomorrow should be fun, but yeah.

Sleep well all

Whheee getting drunk and seeing movies

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:04:14 GMT

So I missed yesterdays update and now i'm sitting outside Ceciles audition room being a "greeter" but no one is coming, casting sucks without a casting director. So I'll update now.

School was cool yesterday. I got to class late cause I finally fell asleep. So I got to class and helped with the lighting. Then went to my other class, directing actors with Paul Warner, who has in the last couple of weeks has become one of my favorite teachers here. I think its cause he says I do everything right when i'm holding auditions :-p. We held a couple of mock auditions with some actors from school, I had fun in mine. My favorite part of auditions i think is the interview, maybe i should be a talk show host.

After school I played hackey with Mike, Cecile and Fausto. Then went home to finish cleaning up for my shin-dig. My shin-dig started out as a bust. A lot of my friends are sick :-(. And more of my friends had work or something to do so they couldn't come. But then Anna showed up and we hung out. Mike and Fausto showed up a little bit later and Mike had brought over some bicardi. SO he and I got drunk, fausto and anna got buzzed and we all went to see evan almighty. It was pretty cool. And I have to say that even though last night started worst than I would have liked it turned into a pretty awesome night.

MY ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:11:38 GMT

So i still haven't been able to sleep. So I decided to put my room together! And its awesome. Its a tribute to my utter Jonness and awesome in almost everyway possible. From my dork-hood to my film-hood to my intellectual-hood it is all there and then some. I'll try to get some pics of it up or else you can all just imagine.

Lenny is also doing very well, I know starbucks argonaut has been wondering. He's got some new dino-friends and his new best friend eddie a lizard is one shelf down. And don't worry casi, he still wears his apron. ;-)

Thursdays ... yeah ...

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:09:52 GMT

Thursday ... yeah ...

Ok so let me just start with the fact that my thursday really started yesterday when i was on the phone with my dad. I wont get into much detail but my dad and I were doing budget stuff and he figured that NYFA owes me 900 dollars and he wasn't happy with that and wanted to make sure that all go cleared up. Mike left last night right before I did my post then I got a hair cut, well really a trim. Then my dad called again, and he and i talked for about 2 hours. Then I was all worked up and couldn't sleep so I tried to clean up some, and I couldn't(i'll do that tonight). So I watched movies and finished my book and then went over to the school at 10. I waited for awhile until I saw the financial aid guy who told me to go print out the thing my dad had figured out. All the union square printers were busy so I went to soho, where i ran into my DC teacher and explained to him what was happening and why I wasn't on mikes set(mike knew I wasn't going to be there) Then I went back to USQ and had a big discussion with Tom where he started to be very condescending and was trying to brush me off or talk down to me, and as many of you know that doesn't go over well with me. But I was quite confused over all the numbers he was throwing at me cause they weren't the same my dad were throwing at me late last night and I was really being hit by my sleep deprevation at the time. So I told him that I needed to talk to my dad and he would probably be getting a call from him. And he said then tom totally brushed me off. Then I talked to John about my deposit return, johns the housing guy and much cooler than tom. Then I went back to Soho and onto mikes set and turned into the goffer boy.

The rest of the shoot went well, I walked back and forth from the school to behind the school a lot. I got a call from my dad, and if you think I don't take being talked down to well, my dad takes me being talked down to much much worst. So my dad and I are all cool again(we were a little upset with each other after last night) and things are being figured out. We wrapped the shoot. And Mike saw that there were monologue presentations and wanted to go to scout for actors. He asked me to come so I did. I actually had some friends performing in it. AND I was pleasently and happily surprised that unlike a lot of NYFA actors my friends in this class and this class in gerneral was rather good. I saw some people I might want to use for a later project(they wont work for my thesis nor will there schedules.) And Mike saw someone he wants to use for his thesis.

THen Mike Fausto Cecile and I hackeyed some. Then we parted ways and Mike came over so we could watch films and maybe work on his script, I'm acting in that one and I'm trying to make my part a little bigger :-p, I'm also AD, its going to be a crazy week shooting his, I'm happy its after mine. And now we're watching a move and I'm making dinner. I plan on cleaning up the apartment tonight cause we're having a "Chillin' at" tomorrow and this time its ".. at Jon's" so yeah.

Ok water is boiling over. bye all!

Food came out good ... and i still haven't slept ... wheeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Short and Sweet tonight.

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:39:32 GMT

Ok yesterday I dropped two biggies on you and today I'm starting to write these at 1:30 am and I'm pretty tired and have a sort of big day tomorrow?

SO today was cool. I woke up, got to sleep in some. Then bummed around my apartment avoiding unpacking or cleaning up. I had a meeting with my producers at 5 but I went down to school around 3. I had to do some banking stuff at HSBC and wasn't sure how long it would take. I got down there and low and behold my banking took all of 10 minutes. So I went over to the school. My classmate paulo was there so I talked to him some. Then set myself up at a table and tried to figure out my "Gadzooks" issue again ... didn't fix it today either. Mike showed up, we hung out. I called my godfather. 5 came around and then I was pleasently surprised by my casting director. Apparently my producers had set up for her to come by so we can square away her schedule. My producers weren't there yet, but she and I talked stuff over. Nadia(one of my producers) came and said Maria(my other one) couldn't make it, oh well. We finished figuring out the casting schedule and I should be fully cast by the end of next week! I'm excited. :-) Then Nadia and I talked over stuff ... and lets just say I love my producers. My meeting was over and Mike and I headed to my place to watch the silent films I had rented so we could do some style research. I then called my godfather again and we're going to meet about my thesis next time he's in NYC. Then I talked with my dad while mike went looking for shots from the films. Turns out NYFA owes me 1000 dollars?! Then we went to dinner with my friend Anna. Then Mike came back to my place and we watched the second half of the Lord of the Rings:Return of the King extended version dvd. And yep that was it. Good day, and now good night!

A new age! ... Directing Myself? Fighting the French and showing Little Italy what a Jew is made of!

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:29:19 GMT

The start of a new age!

And that is the rebirth of my almost every day daily blog!

I realized while at dinner tonight(thats the story and main subject of this post), that I have been a horrible person. Seriously depriving many of my friends of the goings on in my life. And I just cannot live with that any longer. I am living in NY, this is probably the best and greatest time I've had in my life, but there are so many people out there who I love and care about who aren't here to enjoy it with me. And I can't stand thinking that you have no clue what is happening with me. I barely have time to talk to people from home online, I only really keep up with people through live journal or their facebook/myspace posts and they with mine. But up till now I have no facebook notes really(nor do I think I will start that at this point, one step at a time.) My myspace posts tend to be months apart and my LJ posts are sporadic at best. But not anymore! A new dawn is here! *tahdah*(i think i spelled that sound wrong :-/)

Anyways down to buisness. I'm at film school and loving it. The new profile pic is of me operating a panivision 35mm camera for my classes 35 mm workshop, thats the same kind of camera that most feature films are shot on and I was the camera operator(for one scene and Director of Photography for all the scenes in my section). It was a lot of fun, the camera is one of the new loves of my life! But too much has happened for me to back track over all the equipment and my past NY adventures. Just know that I am very into lighting and camera work now and though I fully plan on becoming a very successful director very quickly I'm starting to put together a cinematography reel as a back up.

(go look at my my space or these pics http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6002463)

So on to todays adventures. I got to school at around 9:20 because I had directing actors and I had to act in that class today. We were practicing auditions but no one had planned for actors to be there so all heads turned to me since I'm the only past actor in the class. I've been acting a lot for my class lately, last week an actor bailed on us at 35mm so instead of grabbing another actor from the school I ended up playing a bum, but what a bum I was(see my pics ;-)) Well I got to school at 9:20 and I was one of the first ones there. I hung out and got bored and ended up sitting in a chair watching all the timezone clocks ... according to the NYFA clocks Mexico City and Tokoyo are onlye 1hr and 55mins apart, I think they might be off by a bit. Then my teacher Paul Warner showed up and he asked me where my actors were and I said they were getting screen tested ... I got a casting director for my thesis and he knows this so we had a laugh at that. And then he asked if i could print out sides so if no one else wanted to practice I could and I did. Then 5 minutes before class was going to start I was still the only one there and it was odd. But by the time class started there were 5 of us and my friend Cecile "auditioned" first. I acted for her but it was tough cause the character i was auditioning for was far from the usual physical or comedic characters I used to play. BUt i made it through and so did the rest of the class. And then we did one of my scenes, my friend fausto really got into auditioning for me which was awesome.

Later that day we had a PW prep with our directing teacher and cinematography teacher. My friend Mike is directing and his script is crazy, I love it. That whole thing culminated in French(thats my nickname for Cecile, she's french) and I "arguing" she was trying to make fun of me doing Jew jokes and I was giving her a hard time of it and refusing to take the insult :-p it was fun! After classes we had a big hackey sack game. My crew and I are really into playing hackey sack, it gives us something to focus on other than work for a change and its a big stress reliever on and off set which is really really important and good, and we're somewhat good at it, at least for novices. We've even gotten teachers and TAs into the game. We're cool with anyone playing, its just for fun after all and we always give each other a hard time.

After that Mike, Fausto, Cecile and I went out to dinner. We walked around SoHo and somehow ended up going to little italy again, even though last time we were there we were screwed over AND it almost happened again, though we went to different restraunts. When we got our check they had added on an 18% gratuity which isn't that bad if we had money and weren't poor film students who all had thesis films to pay for I wouldn't care much, but the check was about 69 dollars without the added on 18% and somehow it jumped to 81 dollars. Now I still wouldn't mind that if the waiter had done anything but take our order, but thats all he did, he didn't even bring us our food another waitress did. They had said on the check that gratuity was added so I figured that it was probably on the menu somewhere so I asked to see a menu. Sure enough at the bottom it said "For parties of 5 or more an 18% gratuity will be added." Ok cool, wait! Me ... Fausto ... Mike ... and Cecile ... ... THATS FOUR. and we're poor. So I called the waiter over asked him about it he got the manager, the manager was very apologetic saying that it was only suggested and trying to cover for their mistake. It was all cool. And we left the guy with a 11 dollar tip all the same. But for some reason it was a great end to an awesome dinner with my friends. We got Cecile a cab to take her home and the Mike Fausto and I took the subway to union square, we started talking about our films then, mainly mine cause somehow we got to talking about voice overs somehow. Mike left us to go back to brooklyn, fausto and i headed up town fighting over cameras and now I am here.

All in all today was a pretty awesome day all around ... I wonder what tomorrow will bring?!

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:41:36 GMT

I'm homeless right now and staying at my friends anna and gretchen's until i can move into my new apartment tomororw/thursday.

And the person who is subletting gretchen's room is a basketball fan. So we're watching basketball right now.

Moral of the story: Basketball makes me miss hockey, :-(

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:00:16 GMT

The ducks fucking suck!

but yay for getting a casting director

... fuck you ducks

The rocking of worlds ...

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:07:20 GMT

Producers rock my world ... yay producers!!!

Thesis madness

Sat, 19 May 2007 22:20:42 GMT

Thesis script ... DONE!

well ... at least the first draft ...

Fri, 11 May 2007 05:23:09 GMT

Tomorrow is going to be a really really really tough night for me. I just thought i'd let everyone know that

Thesis screening

Tue, 08 May 2007 05:33:27 GMT

ALSO ... if you are in NYC on october 12th, that is when my thesis screening is. So you are all invited to that.

... ... ... ... ... YAY!!!

Tue, 08 May 2007 03:52:27 GMT

omg omg omg omg omg omg OMG YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thesis film has been conceptualized! Initial development and writing have begun tonight!!!!! YAYAYAYAY ... its going to be an awesome film if i can pull it off ... and honestly now, who can say i wont after i've pulled off everything else i said i would do this year ;-)

Sun, 06 May 2007 10:25:23 GMT

Oh and i'm watching homeward bound right now ... which actually has a very cool film style and even though the voices for the animals are only voice over and they don't even try to make it look like the animals are moving their lips ... its quite convincing

*reminder do a full review for this movie when the site is up*

night now for real

My visit to san jose and returning to New York

Sun, 06 May 2007 10:23:26 GMT

New York is my home now. Its that simple, San Jose/Saratoga/Los Gatos has turned into the place where I grew up. I have great memories here in Cali. This is where I began acting and theatre, this is where I made my oldest and dearest friends in the world, I got my first pay check here, the sharks are here. The first time I fell in love was here. As you can tell I have some pretty good memories from this place, it defined my life. And it was great to come back and visit. See my old store, go back to saratoga high in triumph and see all my friends back here again(toga wants me to be an advisor on the new media arts program.) ...

But New York is the place I live now. Its the place I want to be. Its where I've started to build my career as a filmmaker. I have tons of friends there who I see on a daily basis and work with. I have people who look up to me, people who I respect. I understand the ways of NYC more than I understand California. And i've missed it a lot since i've been gone this week. I will always love northern California because its where I grew up, but I love New York and I belong there now. (But the Sharks are a thousand times better than the Rangers or the Islanders and I will never abandon my boys ;-))

Now with all of that said onto my recap.

I got out here last week on saturday. First plane ride was uneventful, second plane ride i helped save someones life(ask me for the story and you shall recieve). Then dad picked me up and we went to dinner and i went to sleep in my bed, hard to get to sleep at first cause i'm used to the beds in the dorms.

I woke up and first thing i did was go down to starbucks argonaut and see people with lenny.(i didn't go down as often as i had thought i would though). Then i bought centa lunch. Came home, went over to scotts and we screened my movies, i came home and i believe i hung out with robby and andrea sunday night and then bought matt and centa dinner and then the three of use played pool.

Then monday I went down to the highschool to see some old teachers and make sure things were ready with mrs. woods for thursday. I saw Em at the school which was great. Monday night I went to the sharks game with scott and it was awesome(SHARKS WON!! that night)

Tuesday I went down to starbucks again and Kari and Alana convinced me to let them keep lenny for the week. Then I went to dinner with my dad and sister.

Wednesday I had lunch with Nick M and dinner wtih Nick P and then after dinner nick and i went over to a starbucks and played chess like we always do ... just in person this time(we went 1-1 that night, though i won the first one in 5 moves and then he won the second after the board was basically cleared and i made a fatal mistake)

I got home wednesday night I started to really miss NY and realized i had seen everyone i wanted to and that after the class on thursday I wouldn't have anything to do cause everyone was so busy and i didn't have a car to drive myself around. So i spent a long time trying to figure out if i could change my flight to being on thursday night or friday but it cost 200 dollars to change it so that didn't work. (I wasn't that happy about it but I just couldn't justify taking 200 dollars out of my film budget for next semester to bring me back, it just wouldn't have been responsible or smart so what can you do?)

Thursday I went back to the highschool and taught a class in the little theater that was crash course on the film set heiarchy and a little more indepth on basic film theory. They screened their music videos which actually were better(for the most part) than I expected them to be and they took my comments really well, if not defensively. Then I went and talked with Mr. Davey and Mrs. Hyde a little more on me being an advisor for the new media arts program and what that would entail. And then Ms. Chocrum and Ms. Nicholson looked at "Man On the Porch" for me and told me what sort of thins they as teachers would want to see in it, they gave me some really good ideas which will really help with the development. Then Centa picked me up nad gave me a ride home. Then we were hanging out and she left to go get ready for work and basically said she didn't want to be friends anymore. It still feels weird thinking about it but I guess its for the best, we're two different people now and while I wish she was still my friend, we didn't really talk all that much anymore, its not like if nick or robby told me they didn't want to be friends. But then she got online and had the nerve to tell me I owed her money still after she told me she didn't want to be my friend and I had bought a few meals this week already, so I'm not that upset that someone like that doesn't want to be my friend. :-/ Anyways i pretty much just laid around the rest of the night and watched all of what has been out of the tudors(my dad tapes them) and i fell in love with the series ... I really don't know how i'm going to deal with waiting for the box set, maybe my upper east side "roommates" get showtime?

Moving on, Friday started out pretty dull. I thought i was just going to have to be a bum all day, but then I got a call from starbucks ... LENNY WAS MISSING!! ... so i asked beth if she wanted to go to starbucks and then lunch so i can check up on this. And i went down to the store with beth and indeed lenny was missing. My theory is that Centa and the people on the night crew(who were never big fans of Jon) did something to him because Centa wasn't happy with me. But then I texted her and she realized people weren't happy about his missing so he magically appeared later and she told me to call the store cause they found him, I never called the store but I figured that they have him cause Kari said she would call me if he hadn't shown up by the time she got off. Then i was sort of bumming around still and Robby and Andrea showed up, which was really cool and we went to dinner and then to Spider Man 3(I'm pretty sure FP is going to start a website soon and i'm going to have a review section at first where i'm going to do movie reviews so you'll probably be able to find a review of it there.) Then we went back to robbys dads(in santa clara) and watched old home movies from when Nick Robby and I were two ... even then I had a cute butt ;-). I ended up crashing there. It was ok, but not the same as crashing at the upper east side and i got attacked by bugs and am now battling bug bites.

So I woke up on saturday to a phone call from gracie ... this time though she remembred about the 3 hour time difference and didn't wake me up obscenely early. But I talked to her for like a half hour and then woke up fully. And saw that the sharks game was on at 11 pacific(detroit has weird game times, i uh, i don't want to talk about the game) Robby and Andrea woke up and we took our time getting ready to leave. Then left and went down to petco where I decided i'm going to get a Ferret at some point in the future, hopefully nearer rather than farther future. Then we went to lunch, then we went on a quest to find casino royale and went back to my dads place to watch it and play risk. Then they left. And my dad and I went to dinner and the book store and watched a movie while i washed my clothes. Then I went to sleep but couldn't sleep so I started getting ready to leave tomorrow. And thats that.

I'm excited for my flight home, apart from it being a flight that is going to take me home its on jet blue and so i get to watch tv and movies the whole time. I'm going to start reading lord of the rings finally so i can see better how a great book got adapted into a great movie. Maybe i'll do some work though i probably wont. And i'll relax and get home and then sleep or see some friends and sleep.

Second semester starts either monday, tuesday or wednesday i dont really know which day i left my schedule in NY on accident. I'm excited, but i'll talk about that in next weeks post.

night now!

List of future jobs

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:48:45 GMT

I've decided to make a list of all the kinds of things i want to direct/produce in my life ... for now i'm just going to put one down cause i'm busy but expect it to be long when i update later

I want to:

Direct a Video Game

We wrapped

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:29:44 GMT

Ok so i'm going to make this one very short since I didn't do that last time like I said I would.

Today we shot the animation. Had to change some of the stuff cause it wasn't working the way we planned ... but thats the business and it all turned out well.

Came home, spent sometime with some friends and grace(got my hat ;-)). And now i'm looking forward to 2 days of post production to make my roughcut by tuesday night at least so i can do previews before my school screening AND my first class in 2 and a half weeks. It's writing and its supposed to be for my thesis, but with re-scheduling my final 5 times in the last week and then shooting all weekend I haven't had time to think about it. I'll likely tell my teacher about School Bell and New York Night and say i'm still trying to come up with other ideas and i'll have a better grasp on concepts by our next class and then ask if I can go start editing(yay for 3 hours of log and capturing and then an hour of organizing my program and then editing until they kick me out.)

I'll give you all an update either after the rough cut or ...

WHEN I'M HOME ON SATURDAY!!

Day 1 of production ... check

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:51:58 GMT

Ok so, I know you are all dying to hear how production is going since i left you at the edge of your seats after my monster of a post last night. So i'll fill you in, but i'm going to keep it short cause i have another full day of production tomorrow + traveling back home to brooklyn.

So day 1 went pretty well for the most part. I woke up at 7 and gathered all the stuff I was bringing and went down stairs to meet nikki(my leading girl who lives in the dorms) for her call time at 7:20 and then to penn station. Nikki was running a little late, but seeing how i set call at penn at 8 and the train wasn't till 9 it was ok(i did that on purpose so if people were late it was no big deal. So Nikki and I ended up leaving at around 7:35 and got to penn just at 8, just when Will(my DP for this shoot) got there. We met up with Derek who was doing a documentry on our class for his final and then Chip showed up with about 30 minutes till the train was supposed to leave. Then he realized he had forgotten all his make up at home. And since I wasn't exactly sure if I needed to put someone in and dress them up like an alien to hold the llama(i didn't want to but if i couldn't find something to tie him to i would need to) I sent Chip back to his dorm in a cab to get it as quick as he could and get back as quick as he could, hoping he'd make it on time for the 9 am train(or else there was one 30 minutes later). After that I went looking for Mike(who volunteered to boom for me) for about the 10th time and then gave up on him showing up(i didn't really expect him too). When 9 go closer I called chip and he was 10 blocks away in a cab, so I had everyone go down to the platform cause we were hoping chip would make it and we could get on the cab. I went up to the stairs leading to the LIRR so that i could run with chip and help him carry stuff. With 4 minutes till the train left Chip came running down the stairs and together we dashed down to the platform and onto the train. On the train I went over the schedule with the cast and crew and then over the script.

We got to the location set up the first shot and then had breakfast and rehearsed until 11:30 when the llama pulled up. I ended up not having the llama i though i would but Pedro(who was the llama i had) was very professional and i would love to work with him again :-p. Theresa the owner of the company was there with an aid. And they had brought one of pedros friends, a mini-pony named llicorice, to mamke him feel less nervous. Having a llama in my grandparents driveway drew quite a crowd, but i was able to get my shots in easily and everyone had fun. After i was done shooting I still had pedro on pay roll for a half hour so I took some posed production pics with him(check my facebook) And then released him to go to his next gig(he is one busy llama) And we broke for lunch.

During lunch I got thrown a little bit by some unexpected events not related to the shoot, but they were nice and made me smile for what they were.

After lunch we set for the rest of the live action shots. It was a pain most of the time cause it was when we were doing heavy dialogue and I was having trouble getting the people in the house to be quiet so I could get the shots in and not have problems with the sound(though my 4 year old cousin was the best at staying quiet). So we started shooting, Will came up with some cool and good looking shots on the go so we added them in. I also ended up taking a POV and a couple insert shots(not usually my style, but we'll see if I use them in post.) We basically raced with the sun near the end but some clever lighting ideas from both Me and Will kept us alive as far as we needed, and I got teddy into the film(score! my signiture will live on!!) And then we wrapped the live action and I am quite happy with it. We broke for dinner, I released Nikki back to the city. (SInce chip is head of my design team he's stayed to help with the animation prep and the shooting tomorrow). I got everyone who was staying dinner and then we took 3 hours or so to prep as much as we could for tomorrow.

Tomorrow we shoot animation. I need to finish my shot list but i'll do that in the morning. Too tired now.

OH! I almost forgot. The worst thing about today is that I left my hat in Gracie's room last night and she was asleep by the time I figured it out and I left before she was awake and she didn't wake up to my text messages. So I had to shoot a movie without my hat. I'm able to do it, but I feel like I come up with solutions faster with it, so my hat will be on the top of every checklist from now on

Wish me luck again for tomorrow. It brought me a good shoot today, so more luck can't be bad.

AND NOW ... sleep

Up late and finishing my 7th check

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:21:35 GMT

So. Tomorrow at 10:30 am production for BWMF officially starts.

Now we're shooting on long island, but everyone on my crew and cast(minus cuzco) lives here in the city, so we need to spend about 2 hours traveling to the location. So call time for everyone is set at 8 am at penn station. Being the stressfilled guy I am when it comes to my own shoots I wouldn't dream of leaving this dorm without being in the company of everyone going to the shoot who lives in the dorm, so call time for everyone who lives here is 7:20am so we can get out the door and too penn station on time for normal call.

For those of you who have missed it or haven't talked to me in awhile I'm currently going to the New York Film Academy here in NY for filmmaking(my main focus has turned out being directing and producing). Surprisingly enough it has turned out to be exactly what I want to do with my life and I'm good at it, not just good but I'm at the top of my class and in the top ten in school. I don't want to sound like I'm being snotty, but i needed to say something about that to help explain why this adds to the stress level. I've held the rank of top of my class since the second week of school, and have been one of very few first semesters to be in the top ten in the school in the history of NYFA. That being said part of the reason why I'm up there(along with my wonderful talent) is my ability to network, the administration seems to really love me, so much that two of the top people in the heiarchy that is NYFA have come to my last screening and have said they've shown the films to Jerry Sherlock(imdb him). I have a feeling their coming to my final screening and there have been hints that Jerry might come too. Yay stress ... but oh there is more.

BWMF stands for "But It Wasn't My Fault" which is my first semester final film. The story is about a guy who's two hours late for his date and so he's explaining to his girlfriend why he's late. It just so happens that his explanation has to do with a llama, aliens and time travel. The concept behind the film is a mix between live action and animation. I do have real llama coming(look at previous entry for pictures) and I have a LOT of tiny pieces for the animation. Because of what I mentioned earlier and the fact that I'm planning on entering this into festivals(actually its already been invited to the san jose cinequests(yay dad and his connections) i'm pretty nervous about something going wrong.

Oh yes, this is the film I want to use to make my debut to the world.

Anyways, i'm pretty nervous but also excited. I've spent about a month of pre-production(boy i wish i had more) on this and had to reschedule the shoot twice because of weather(my motto is bad weather is a free special effect, but llamas won't work in the rain). I always get excited when i'm putting something i've been dreaming and creating for awhile into the works and get it on screen. Was excited with freakshow(i'll explain freakshow another time) and am excited now. But being nervous i've checked all the props 7 times(and there's a list of about 32 pieces). Now its 2:17am and i'm waking up at 7, alarm starts going off at 6:30 so i'm going to hit the hey ...

If you want to call and wish me luck, please don't. Its not that i hate you, but tomorrow during the day is when we start shooting live action and any cell phone going off during a take will give me a tumor(i plan on collecting them all and putting them in a hat, except my ADs, she'll need hers) and then after that i'll be in such a filmmaking mode that any break in my concentration until i wrap for the night can be hazardous to my health. So leave me a comment if you want to wish me and my cast and crew luck(chip is co-starring in this one so you can wish him luck here too)

oh and one more thing ... SHARKS WON, TAKE THAT NASHVILLE, you shouldn't even bother playing next year just send your rep out saying that you know you'll lose to us and be eliminated in game 5 and you realized its not even worth it!(So excited to get back home to watch round two games!)

i am getting a LLAMA!!!

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:13:28 GMT

Thats right, you read the title correctly. For my first semester final film I am getting a live llama for my first semester final shoot.

I'm not sure how many of you remember the monologue that Kristen DCampe and I co-wrote together my sophmore year. But it had to do with a guy who was late for his date and was telling his gf why he was late. I decidd to make that monologue into a short film. And through many re-writes and consultations with many different people in the industry the explanation that the guy gives now has to do with a Llama named Kelly, aliens and time travel.

The catch is that the llama is 100 dollars more than our budget allows for right at this point. Now I don't want you to think that I'm posting this because i'm asking for money, I'll love you all just as much no matter what. But if you want to help me get this llama by donating any amount let me know by tomorrow ... and we'll figure out how you can get the money to me. Your name of course will show up in the credits under special thanks(and depending on how much maybe as an associate producer ;-) ) ...

and remember "Llama Llama"

(here go to my myspace: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=6002463&albumID=0&imageID=8141819 or my facebook http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=35992548&id=2257090 to see a picture of him :-))

KINGDOM HEARTS 3 KINGDOM HEARTS 3 KINGDOM HEARTS 3!!!!

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:42:56 GMT

http://kotaku.com/gaming/kingdom-hearts%253a-final-mix/kingdom-hearts-iii-extended-trailer-248612.php

... um, i've been writing or directing or acting for the last 14 hours ... no creativeness left

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:58:25 GMT

So I made it through quarantine pretty healthy ... i have asthma(which helped the bronchitis evade me for so long), have for the last few years actually ... that explains why i always coughed.

This week has been great, if not a bit stressful

Gracie went home to Jersey today, doesn't come home till monday night and i go to long island on tuesday for sedar and family visit ... yeah. Oh well, at least we both have good text messaging plans.

i'm tired i'm going to pretend to go to bed now! :-)

Quarantine day 2

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:25:01 GMT

I spent most of today sleeping. I didnt wake up until about an hour and a half ago and its almost 5:30 now. I'm pretty sure my grandparents were afraid I might have gotten worst cause they came in a couple times to check on me, made me feel good, but a little annoyed cause all I wanted to do was sleep.

I'm pretty sure i'll take a nap in an hour or so after i call school again. I e-mailed my directing teacher to let him know what was going on and reschedule my PW screening. I also texted gracie to let her know what was up with me.

Other than that i think i'm starting to feel a bit better. My fever is down i think(though it usually goes up more at night) and i haven't been coughing as much today either, though i have been sleeping most of the day like i said before.

Thats all for now, hopefully this is all over in a couple days and i can start being productive again.