by Mike Browne
on July 31, 2004
Yahoo! I got tickets for Carol and I to go and see MINISTRY on September 30, 2004 at the Commodore Ballroom. I love that place for concerts. I haven’t been to anything in a long time. This should be fun. I think we’ll go early and get a decent seat. The old legs can’t handle the mosh pit any more. I don’t feel like getting creamed. In preparation I bought Houses of the Molé and Animositisomnia, Ministry’s 2 latest CD’s today. You can download No W from House of the Molé if you like. Bang yer head!
Note to self: Bring light ear plugs and don’t sit next to the speakers like we did at the Gob/Doughboys/Offspring concert. My ears rang for two weeks.
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by Mike Browne
on July 31, 2004
A missing Hitchcock, Kubrick’s Napolean and Welles’ Don Quixote are three of the five great films we’ll never get to see.
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by Mike Browne
on July 30, 2004
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by Mike Browne
on July 30, 2004
It was today… that’s right System Administrator Appreciation Day (5th Annual – Friday – July 30th, 2004 – Celebrated annually on last Friday of July )
Thanks to Matt, Ray, Tyler, Chuff, Dimitri and Joe for all their nerdy hard work over the past year. Now get back to your caves and get me more RAM. Also, when you get the chance, I need FTP read/write access to a particular site (we’ll talk), my video drivers need updating and there’s some weird Windows registry crapola going on when I try to open Illustrator CS. *sigh*
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by Mike Browne
on July 29, 2004
Ordering a pizza may not be so pleasant in the future according to this movie from the ACLU.
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by Mike Browne
on July 29, 2004
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by Mike Browne
on July 29, 2004
It looks as though blogging is becoming more popular throughout Hollywood as well. Check out Zach Braff’s Garden State Blog. He is the the writer/director of Garden State (in theatres now). It’s kind of cool to read about a filmmaker’s experience in his own words. According to RottenTomatoes.com Garden State is getting 93% good reviews… Not bad at all.
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by Mike Browne
on July 28, 2004
I just back from a memorial service for our good friend Bo. He died way too early. His disease got the better of him. It was a sad service. His wife sobbed through the whole thing and Bo’s stepson just looked numbed by the whole thing. They have a lot of support though and I’m sure they’ll be very well taken care of. The chapel was packed full of mourners. I’ll miss his “hey buddy!”, great big smile and firm handshake. He was a damned good guy and, even though he had his struggles, he gave a lot to people. Goodbye my friend.
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by Mike Browne
on July 28, 2004
I’m not exactly clear as to why I haven’t shared about some recent good fortune until now. Perhaps it’s that I don’t want to jinx things or am in total disbelief that some of my dreams are actually starting to manifest themselves in reality. I began this new category on the ol’ blog called ‘Filmmaking’ where I wil bore you all to tears about my experiences. I have a feeling as things get going it’s all I’ll be talking about anyway.
So what’s happening?
About three weeks ago I got a phone call from the Independent Film Center about their desire to meet with me to discuss the possibility of taking me on as a producer on a project they would like to get off the ground. They chose me and two others for this project as bright spots out of all of the people who have taken classes at the Independent Film Center over the last two years.
I thought, Me? A producer? WTF? That’s what I’ve always wanted to do. This has got to be a gag with some scam at the other end. Apparently not. I went to the first meeting and got the low down on the production – a horror/thriller themed reality kids show.
Youre kidding right? I love that stuff. It’d be a gas to be involved in getting anything remotely horror related made. Anyway, it isn’t a joke. If I’m willing to put in the work I am able to participate in this project from concept to distribution (that includes raising the funds to get it made – gulp!). The project is to be overseen by Brian Leslie of the center and producer of a really cool horror movie called The Black Door that he let myself and the two other producers, Rochelle and Nancy, watch the first time the four of us met. I loved it, but they’re ‘fraidy cats and don’t like horror. Oh well, they want to make movies that’s all that’s important right now. This could be really fun. the cool part is that this can all take place on evenings and weekends, meaning I can keep my day job too. At the end I will have a genuine credit as a producer on a real show that, hopefully, will be saleable. Weeee!
I’ll probably bend Brian’s ear more as I’m planning and incorporating my company ZombieFreak Entertainment very soon. I want to do horror movies and perhaps a TV series or two… This whole ordeal has inspired me back to planning and writing again. My friend Pete (Sneaky Pete on this blog), who was on the Emmy winning Art Department team on X-Files and now works on Smallville, wants to get involved. We’ve already met, eaten steak and gabbed about what we’d like to do. I have even written a list of short term goals for the company. All of a sudden this isn’t talk anymore, it’s action. It’s becoming real very quickly and I love it. I guess I’ll be updating ZombieFreak.com.
A few of you have emailed and posted that you may want to volunteer to help me on some level get some of my stuff made. I may just take you up on it very soon.
Sometimes opportunity not only knocks, it kicks the door down. I’m grateful it has. I probably wouldn’t have answered.
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