My cousin Andrew and I just finished the first draft (sixth, really) of my movie for next semester, tentatively titled “Near Mint.” Andrew is, in fact, a genius screenwriter who doesn’t even need me. Here is some of his work:
INT - TOLIET - DAY
PAM, mid twenties, takes a shit.
PAM
Argggh!!!
End.
I couldn’t justify dropping $30 for this shirt at his concert, even though it’s a “limited edition,” whatever that means. Still, it’s a great shirt.
2/3 down the page here, but I’m reposting below, in case you’re too lazy to scroll through the other reviews.
For those of you new to the site via Aint It Cool News, welcome!
Here’s the review, written by Ryan McLelland: Read the rest of this entry »
Last weekend I took the increasingly-less-sketchy Chinatown bus up to New York to see some friends and hawk copies of Assholes #2 with Mitch at MoCCA. (Read Mitch’s account of the show here). It was a good show– not our best, but I can blame slower-than-average sales on the economy or the fact that our readers may have matured. (Random aside: My sister’s best friend was in charge of the show).
Anyways, I was kind of discouraged walking around. There seems to be more and more sketchbooks and art comics, less and less actual comics. You know, the kinds with a narrative. I’m not busting on these art comics types. Just the opposite– these people are amazing artists and I’d drop cash in a heartbeat for their comics. You know, if they told a story. I can flip through a sketchbook in a matter of seconds, I want something more substantial. But that’s just me.
Anyways, here’s what I did buy. All of the following come with my highest recommendation: Read the rest of this entry »
See that pretty picture up there? That’s the work of the insanely talented Megan Prazenica. Somehow I tricked her into doing a 10 page comic with me, which I will be shopping around to publishers this weekend at MoCCA, a fairly awesome New York City-based small press comics show. Stop by if you’re in town.
So what’s the comic about? Read the rest of this entry »
Desperate Debi screened as part of the end of the semester 507 celebration last Thursday… and received an award for “best use of a classmate cameo” (as well as a nomination for “most likely to get their ass sued for copyright infringement”).
Hooray!
… and no one bothered to tell me. This would’ve been good to know before I submitted my Pixar Internship application (yeah, right, like that’ll happen).
In other news, I finished shooting my second flick here at USC. It’s called “The Good Life,” it’s a Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) biopic. Like “Walk The Line,” but way nerdier. I’ve got a couple production stills I’ll post this week.
A couple random, uninformed thoughts from someone who has only been here three months:
- Los Angeles is stuck in the year 1986. Seriously. Everyone still skateboards, everyone wears speedos at the pool, all of the architecture and Day-Glo looks feels like, well, the 1980s. I’ve got a South Korean friend in school and I asked him if visiting Koreatown felt like going home. He said “Koreatown is bullshit. That is not Korea. That is Korea in the 1980s.” I told him that’s how I generally felt about Los Angeles.
- For some reason, every major road gets an article. It’s not “I-10,” it’s not “10,” it’s “THE 10.” (Likewise for 405, 5, 101 and 110). I can’t think of another city in America where the roads are referred to as such. Back home no one calls “I-95″ “THE 95.” (Or 495, 355, 395, 695, etc.) We call it “95″– and guess what? It’s a more important road than any of the freeways in Los Angeles. Sure, there’s “THE Jersey Turnpike,” but at least “The” is followed by a proper noun and not a number. So what’s up with Los Angeles? I think I figured it out. In Japan they call all mountains “san.” It’s not “Mount Fuji,” it’s “Fuji-san.” Meaning “Mr. Fuji.” In Japan they treat their mountains with reverence and respect. Here, it’s the freeways.
My buddy and collaborator Mitch is now a blogger/writer for Heeb Magazine (it’s a NYC-based Jewish hipster rag). Anyways, just in time for the Jewish holiday of Purim, he wrote a review of the cinematic masterpiece that is “Dr. Suzy’s Porn & Purim.”
Read all about it here: http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/1520
