DANGERFORCE PRODUCTIONS

11:51 pm: How cool is this?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/23/massachusetts.piano/index.html

03:56 am: One more thing.
Oh yeah, in other news...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwlpMzO2z0voECw2T4MfOPkOEXNAD94E0LB80

There's now a cure for AIDS.

!!!!!!!!!

Now granted, it costs a lot of money, it won't work for everyone, you need an ultra-rare compatible donor, and you have a 30% chance of dying during the procedure, but this is amazing. The possibilities for new research are really exciting.

The prospect of curing diseases via gene therapy is awesome, coupled with the fact that President-Elect Obama wants to overturn Bush's needlessly anti-intellectual executive order banning research using new stem cell samples.

WHY ISN'T THIS GETTING MORE NEWS COVERAGE???!?

02:55 am: Oh Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Raper

Yes, you read that correctly, "Battle Raper". A video game where you hit girls and their clothes fall off. There's also battle Raper 2.

Now, Hentai games are nothing new, but this one deserved special mention because it's logo promises

"Hyper Realaction!"




...

On that note, tomorrow I go to Vegas.

03:35 am: Film Meme
You get green lit for a 4 Million dollar Indy film.
Who would you put in your movie?

I pick Cliff Curtis, Michael Wincott and Vera Farmiga.

12:11 am: Barack Obama!
After following this election so closely for over a year, daily pouring over CNN, MSNBC, TYT, Google News, and realclearpolitics.com, and having the candidate I'd been watching and supporting since 2003 win...

...Wow.

03:58 am: Who is the Real Barack O'Batman?

01:47 am: Tony

My latest creation.

02:54 am: "Translated" Indian music videos
Just.Died.Laughing.



And!

06:43 pm: Watchmen Ad Contest


This is our entry in this contest:
http://www.youtube.com/watchmenmovie

Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible. Enjoy!

03:32 pm: Apple
Btw, does anyone know someone who works at an Apple retail store?

03:28 pm: RAN RAN RUUUU
Anyone who's been to my place in the past 4 months knows that this is my new obsession.

08:19 am: White People?
I saw some of friends on LJ found a blog called "whatwhitepeoplelike". I thought it sounded funny, so went to look at how I compared with John Q Whitey.

I divided my responses into either "yes" for things that I liked or that applied to my life, and "no" for that which didn't or I had little opinion on. Some of the concepts were foreign or asinine, so I put "huh?", "wft?', "Wayne Brady!", etc. for shit that makes little sense, which pretty much translates to a "no", but was too annoying to dignify with a binary response.

( How'd I do? )

04:13 pm: Insight
I realized today that the longer I stay away from online crap like Live Journal and Myspace et al, the happier I get.

:]

12:53 pm: Starting work tomorrow
So anyway, I'm now here in LA, I've seen many friends I'd not seen in months/years and things are good. I begin temping at FOX tomorrow, and that is exciting. Between IKEA runs, parking permits, and wonderful thousand-dollar saving surprises at the DMV (owning a hybrid helps), the move has gone well. Still a few people I need to see (that means you, Alex!)

Looks like there may be some video projects on the horizon, but the distant, mirage-like horizon. More to come soon, incl. pictures :]

10:27 pm: Justice a long time coming.
So back in January (on Martin Luther King day, to be exact) Omar and I drove up to Maine to visit solitryrefinmnt before she left for LA. We had an awesome time. On the way home that night, in a sleet storm we got into an accident with another car involving black ice and other elements beyond anyone's control. No one was hurt thankfully, save for my wallet. I was somehow found to be more than 50% at fault and 4 points were added to my insurance. My car insurance cost effectively doubled.

I appealed.

Challenging the call cost me $40 and took about 6 months. About a week ago I had my 5 minutes in court to explain my side of the story. Today I got a letter in the mail stating that I was not more than 50% at fault and the 4 points are to be removed from my policy. This also means that I will be receiving a retroactive refund from my insurance. I guess It's a fitting bookend, seeing how on Monday It will be my turn to head out to LA.

09:21 pm: You never thought it would be so fun...
...Typing the words "HARD" and "GAY" into Youtube.



And oh yes. There's more where that came from.

07:37 pm: Busy weekend, busy week.
So this weekend we filmed all of principle photography for Foghorn studio's Daemon 3: Walking Darkness. The film is about a serial killer with OCD and is part three in the now trilogy of Daemon films, which can be seen at themfish.com

We started Friday night with two leisurely slayings and then went 16 hours straight of film shooting that involved hiking, tumbling down cliffs, dragging bodies uphill, and enduring all the mosquitoes and humidity one could ask for...and we looked good doing it, too.

One of our victims turned out to be a burlesque dancer who goes by the moniker of "Machete". She's performing at Ralph's this Friday as part of Jerkus Circus, so Joanne, Omar and I are gonna go catch her act.

Once I got home from filming at midnight, I was pleasantly surprised to find that our Battlestar Galactica film had at long last been posted online! Check it out here.

Finally, my landlord-to-be called me up and said his neighbors were getting rid of a bunch of stuff, so he grabbed it for me, including a sofa bed that's "way better" than the one already there, a 5 speaker surround sound system, 5-disc DVD player, 20" TV, and some other goodies. Score.

For this week, I have jobs to apply to, DVDs to burn, and preparations to make. Hopefully my car will be all fixed up, too. Huzzah.

BTW, this is my new favorite song.

Tags: battlestar galactica, burlesque, filming, la

11:08 pm: The Legend of Zelda: Zii

06:45 pm: Hey there
It’s about high time for a LJ entry.

First off, Work has been good and it looks like I’ll be taking a few courses through them, including a Mac OSX course and a Dreamweaver course. This counts as “job training” so it’s all paid for by the company.

My co-worker (we’ll call him by his alias Frank) and I have been keeping track of the more ridiculous usernames people have. Some recent favorites include:

- Dragonslayer
- Dragonmaster
- Vampireofthenorth
- Starwolf

We had been making Dragon slayer jokes for the past week, which culminated last night with my boss and I posting

all over his work area. On his phone. His walls. His mouse. Speakers. Keyboard. File cabinets. Chairs. Inside his disk trays. DVD burner (+ inside the disc tray). His water bottle, little T-shirt cut outs on the picture of his wife, etc. It was pretty funny. I know I’m gonna get Starwolf’d next week though when I’m not looking.

In other news, it looks like I may have someone not only to take my room in the apartment, but my roommate Brad’s as well. They want to move in this weekend. They are meeting with us to hand over the proper paperwork and checks. Lets hope this all works out so this lame ass saga can end.

On a completely different note, the Sci-Fi channel is holding a Battlestar Galactica video contest:
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/videomaker
So my friends and I are trying to get a video made. We are looking at shoot dates of May 5th and 6th, and we need two female leads still. We also need a location that looks like the inside of a prison (no this is not Women in Cages. Should be awesome nonetheless.

Joanne and I saw the Aquateen movie. It was alright…not really worth the $10, but still funny.

Oh yeah, Zii should be done and online by the weekend.(!!!)

05:48 pm: The Room Is Cursed.
WTF.

I found someone to take the room in my appartment.

She moved in on Saturday.

I asked her to sign and mail in the paperwork to make it offical on Monday (decided to take it on Wed). She said ok.

Today (Tuesday), she says she's found another place, and is moving out at the end of the week. She never mailed in the paper work.

Feels great to be a youth hostel.

Fuck you.