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Friday, July 14, 2006

"Did you say the man in black?"
"No, I said the man in back."
- Pigiron


what up. not much going on around here. had a nail in my tire. closing in on the completed first draft of my western script. mixed thoughts right now about the direction it's heading. as usual, a side character has kind of taken over the story. i think this is a direct result of my appreciation for supporting supporting actors. not the ones that get the awards, but the ones that are one level below that, the ones with too few lines for anyone to say "he/she stole that movie!" of course, a "he/she" would steal any movie it was in, but you get my point. an example, in the movie "Crimson Tide" there's a weasely little dude named "Zimmer" who's only mentioned like twice. he only has three lines or so (one of them the perfect meathead war analogy, "you don't put on a rubber unless you're going to fuck!") and he doesn't do much at all really. but at one point the main character played by Denzel Washington says, almost as an afterthought when he's ordering his 2nd or 3rd mutiny, "hey, get Zimmer's sidearm." and right there, in my mind Zimmer gets mythic status. you never see anyone get his gun, you never see this guy even fire a gun, but apparantly the square-jawed hero is worried enough about Zimmer to order him disarmed??? whatever scenes that might have set Zimmer up as some sort of badass simply don't exist to justify that line. so it's either bad writing...or...a chance to use your imagination! in the world of this movie, exists a moment where, possibly, Denzel Washington was walking to his lunch table and Zimmer threw a skinny shoulder into him and knocked his fruit cup all over the mess hall. then Zimmer probably ran away. this is why this supporting, supporting role stands out in my mind.

what was the point of all that? oh yeah, the western i'm writing has too many Zimmers.

the last post down there is just a song list because i keep making cds to use theme music to read over the weather and advertisments at the radio station, but i lose the paper i write them down on. and i don't have a way to make a cool cd insert or something, so i'm frantically writing them down every time i get in there for the show. and with my new job ending at 11:00 pm, and the drive taking 40 minutes, and the show starting at midnight, i'm always running out of time and scaring the dj coming off her shift with all the cds flying around and the fast food sticking out of my mouth. so i thought, since there's a computer online right in the booth, right next to the mic, i could just pull up my website and click on that post, and there's the list of theme music and POW! ready to roll. i got the theme for Magnum P.I. ready to go whenever i read a weather report that's mostly sunny! or...i can play the last scene from Blade Runner (or any scene from that movie, really) when i'm reading a weather report that's mostly rain. this post should shave off about 10 minutes where i won't have to quickly listen to these mix cds to see what songs i want that night, time i desperately need with all this fucking nail-ridden construction in my path.

that Magnum P.I. theme was actually part of an aborted mix cd i was making where i combined music from that show with music from that Orbital techno stuff from the movie "PI." get it? Magnum PI? it sounded better on paper. just like my "Marilyn Hanson" mix. you know which one i still listen to? out of all those theme cds i made last year? the "(b)ryan adams" one. bryan and ryan adams songs actually flow very well together.

oh, here's some movie tips, if you like:
"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" was quite hilarious. think of a poor-man's "Adaptation." made me laugh a lot. and "Syriana" bored the living shit out of me. Matt Damon kept popping up to make smug speeches that the writer couldn't believably force into anyone's mouth but his own, and the only effective scene was a complete THEFT from "Patriot Games," which isn't a classic by any means. anyone remember that scene in "Patriot Games" where they're watching the satellite view of the Indiana Jones-ordered siege on the terrorist's camp? and Jones feels all guilty because of the cold videogame killing that's going on, but all around him are armchair warriors and button-down types casually sipping their coffee and laughing at the little figures dropping on the screen ("now that's a kill." coffee slurp) that same shit's in "Syriania" when they bomb Clooney in that caravan at the end. plus the movie gets negative 100 points for having that stupid-ass moment when someone walks away from an explosion without flinching. i'm more sick of that in movies than someone saying, "you are without a doubt the most stubborn...blah blah blah." terrible. "Munich" was a bit disturbing through. i'm starting the think that Spielburg is kind of a sadist. he takes these "true stories" as an excuse to exorcise some horribly violent (and historically questionable) imagery because it's simply the nastiest stuff he can think of (especially when they shoot that girl) but he can't use those scenes in his fiction stuff. i find his true-life stuff to be a bit exploitative and irresponsible.

not much else to say here. i need some cereal. "Dazed and Confused" is on tv all edited. making me want to throw in the regular one over corn flakes but i ain't got that kind of time. party at the moon tower! oh, here's my new glasses, i got real bored and took some pictures of them for out-of-town friends who wanted to see 'em. like someone just told me though, new glasses do lose their novelty after about 72 hours. kind of like a new cd actually.

i want the new Johnny Cash: American Recordings V very badly.

so i thought i'd post before work today to force myself up earlier than usual but my brain's still in a fog and it's all muggy in here in spite of the three fans pointed at my crucified position on the floor.

::: david - 1:25 PM [+] :::
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