Waiting for a Star to Fall Ohmygoodness... loved loved LOVED Stardust. What a clever movie. I don't want to say any more about it, but that it's a lovely realistic fairy tale, if that's possible.
I swear the king called one of the brothers Optimus Primus... is that true? Ugh, I can't wait to see it again.
And now that I have the song in your head, watch the Boy Meets Girl Video of Joy:
Busy Being Silly Sometimes it's good to just go completely over the top... that's what I think anyway. So three months ago, when I started looking at the footage of our little holiday, I thought it could be edited down into something watchable. Over the months, it has gotten a little... out of hand. And now it is 30 minutes of pure cinematic greatness including interviews, cut-aways, and a musical montage to A-ha's "Take on Me". And then there is also the bloopers and cut scenes and the slideshow.
Yesterday Hans color-graded the whole thing and did an animated intro and animated supers. It's heading into ridiculous territory considering it's a home movie. But we're production company people, and this is now apparently what we do.
So umm... tonight we're having the premiere, since Dan & Lisa haven't seen it at all yet. We've got a make-shift red carpet. We've got a bottle from our champagne stockpile. (For some reason people seem to give us champagne, and we don't really care for it... so it just gets added to the stash.) Hopefully it will be met with 5-star reviews.
You know, I KNEW you were going to bring that up. Problem is that I'm not sure we have enough footage to put something cohesive together. Lots of random bits with lots of giant holes. But I'll burn a dvd of the Great Dog Caper, if you must see it. Haha.
Redhead Demise Redheads set for extinction. Makes me feel just a little bad about being so grateful for my black-haired husband. Gotta love those dominant genes.
Docos The other night I was home alone and happened to switch to a channel halfway into the documentary called Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. I really had no idea. Being only one and a half when it happened, I probably heard references to the Jonestown Massacre when the Hale-Bopp thing happened. But I truly had no idea. If you have any way of seeing the doco, I'd highly recommend it. I watched horrified and even cried at the end when they showed actual photographs of bodies... hundreds of bodies lying face-down on the ground after having consumed the cyanide.
But in much brighter documentary news, be sure to see the trailer for the Sigur Rós doco titled "Heima".
That article on redhead extinction is an urban legend if I ever saw one... I believe Snopes has a page on it somewhere. Wouldn't be the first time coming from the Courier-Mail. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?p=296384
And.... CUT! I had to direct pedestrian traffic on a shoot today, and Tash is the only one who may see the ad. So I spent part of the afternoon getting bitten by mosquitoes outside the Queensland Club (WikiMapia) I was going to act like I had a Jack-Bauer-issued ear piece, but then the cameraman gave me a walkie-talkie, so I didn't have to... and considering we took up all of 15 feet of sidewalk, at the MOST, we really could have just yelled to each other. Oh well. It's surprising what you can get people to do when you're holding a walkie-talkie and wearing a high-visibility vest.
Potter-mania We're going to see Harry Potter in Gold Class on Sunday. Too bad Threadless had sold out of the Spoilt t-shirt before we ordered last. Hans said he wouldn't have had the heart to wear it anyway, for those who haven't read the next couple books.
P.S. We're both feeling better, thanks! But Hans has some white spots on the back of his throat... *meeer-mow* ...so hopefully that clears up before Thursday.
To Pass the Time I'm feeling a bit better, thanks. Hans isn't.
Someone asked how I know the difference between a headache and a migraine. For me, I can have a headache, take some Advil and still function. If it's a migraine, you'll find me on the floor by the toilet or with my head under a pillow in the darkest room in the house. It's like my senses are at war with each other. Yesterday, I couldn't be in the living room because it was too bright and the smell from the roast in the crockpot (normally a smell I loooove) was making me nauseous. However, in the bedroom, the sounds from the road were like jackhammers. Thankfully, a couple of pandadol with codeine knocked me out, and I slept for a couple hours.
The Fountain We had some movies due today, so we walked to the video store up the street. We got out The Fountain and just finished watching it. I'm not sure how I feel about the film as a whole, but that bathroom scene? HOT.
In other movie news, my very own copy of The Music Man is on our coffee table. (No thanks to EZYdvd.) We ended up ordering it from the local video store, and it came in less than a week. It seemed easier than trying to explain to my mother where my old copy might be in the mountain of boxes living in my old bedroom.
Belated Fourth Happy fourth of July! We had a picnic. Tons of sparklers. Plenty of food. Some pretty clever decorations, thank you very much! And we didn't even blow ourselves up, no thanks to Hans's father who attempted to spray silly string directly into the fire. Ugh.
No Good Reasons We were getting breakfast this morning, and Thirsty Merc's "20 Good Reasons" came on... because I just can't escape that song these days. (Song more overplayed -- "20 Good Reasons" or the Silverchair comeback single? Talk amongst yourselves.)
Anyway, Hans demonstrated how you can sing "With or Without You" overtop of it... which I argue can be done with half the pop ballads released since then. But to me it's a combination of Train (who I've hated ever since they decided they could start using "chicken" in their lyrics), the "WOWY" aspect of U2, and somehow the opening line of the song made me think of "Letter B"-- though after watching the youtube of it, it doesn't seem to be the way I remembered.
Play Along On the train, we somehow got talking about the Mrs. Potter movie. This led us to the question of how many movies we could name that had human/cartoon interaction. This is what we've come up with so far, but if you can think of any others, please leave a comment.
There was also an Australian film that came out last year that we were going to count, but neither of us could remember the name. I just remember I fell asleep to it on two flights to/from New Zealand.
EZYdvd Update Further to yesterday's post which ended with mention of a refund, as of this morning, the money isn't actually in our account.
1) There was an old movie where Gene Kelly danced with Jerry from "Tom and Jerry".
2) A lot of the old stuff Walt Disney did before he ever got famous for Mickey Mouse was a young human girl playing Alice in Wondeland, interacting with cartoon characters
3) Audrey in "Little Shop of Horrors" sings to an animated bird
4) Bugs Bunny (and others) in the recent "Loony Tunes: Back in Action"
OK, I'm a little late on this. But this Sunday afternoon, I was flipping through the channels and came across "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" (2000).
Procrastinator Stress I attempted to file my taxes today. Still a U.S. Citizen. Still paying U.S. taxes. Still technically self-employed. Still wondering whether the little I make is worth the hassle come April.
Weekend Perks
Watched two movies this weekend that we bought in the States... The Score and The Saint. I have loved The Saint since the day I first saw it. Only now I realize how bad Val's Aussie accent is. Hehe.
We're going to Ikea this afternoon. My goal is to come back with some sort of device to put extra clothes in and a filing cabinet. That's all I want in this world. Pretty much.
Sep 19 2007, 08:22 am
My roomies just saw it and said it was the best date movie. Also, they said Robert De Niro was just plain awesome.
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