note: a candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, so a candle that burns twice as dim must burn twice as long … but why bother?
double note: an unlit candle lasts the longest but it’s kind of useless without a match.
triple note: when I think about images of loving life and wanting to squeeze out everyday of it … I think of Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty jamming that nail into his hand in Blade Runner.
It would almost be worth it to work at a movie theatre for the cardboard display stuff you could get for free.
note: the “cardboard cut out charity” needs your support.
double note: yes, I’ve seen “The Lonely Guy“.
triple note: planetross wants this cardboard display bad. I think after November 3rd it could be gracing my front entrance!
quadruple note: this is Nozomi Ohashi, the little girl who sings the theme song for “Ponyo“. I think everyone in Japan knows it. It’s quite catchy actually … like the flu!
notes to myself #38
Your brothers and sisters are going to call you “Walter” when you get the mumps. They will probably stop calling you that if you don’t get so mad about it.
… same goes for “Eggward“.
Here is a little videoKelly Pettit and I made.
It’s a mixture of the “Really Bad Things” series with a bunch of new ones thrown in too!
note: a very very very very special “thank you” to Kelly Pettit who did all the work on this one: director, producer, cinematographer, sound engineer, and most especially editor. I really couldn’t have done this with out his expertise in things I know nothing about.
He also carried half the pool table around with me looking silly for a few hours. Kelly rocks!!!!
double note: I should have smiled more in this video.
When you are 9 years old do not do Morris’ paper route for him. He’s not going to pay you; and him and his dad are douche b … oh! … you don’t know those words yet! … they are jerks.
Do you ever wake up in the morning and just know that it will be a great big enjoyable day?
No matter what happens, your mood can’t be budged, bullied, or bothered.
Today isn’t one of those days …
but I was kind of hoping.
note: At the beginning of “A Hard Day’s Night” when John Lennon laughs at Ringo and George falling down … that’s how I feel on really good days.
double note: I’ve updated a few of the experiments, added a page at the top, and started something different at the bottom of posts.
triple note: most days I feel like George and Ringo.
notes to myself #1
In Grade 4 when you make a deal with Peter to run over the “50 yard dash” finish line together so you can both get 1st place ribbons, don’t do it. It’s a double cross!
I guess if you do it regularly, it’s pretty lucrative.
I wonder who’s appeared the most times as an extra. They must be pretty good at pretend eating in pretend restaurants and pretend walking down streets … or maybe the walking is real and the streets are pretend … or something like that.
“You didn’t stick out in any of those 2,000 movies. You are amazing! Spielberg is on the phone for you.“
Being Discovered
From “extra” to “bit part” to “supporting role” to “box office superstar“.
I wonder how many Star Wars’ stormtroopers are now big stars. I mean the old stormtroopers, not the “Once Were Warriors” guy that is every stormtrooper now.
Digital effects must have hurt the movie extra business: exotic locations have probably suffered too.
Being Part of the Magical Movie Experience
Fair enough.
I guess if you love movies, but don’t have the time or skills to do any other movie related stuff, it’s a pretty easy way to participate
… except you’re probably moving in on the guy with 2,000 movies under his belt’s territory. That guy’s a genius!
By Chance and Had Nothing Better to Do
A friend of mine was in an “Ernest” movie. He was just part of a mob walking in a parade or something.
He’s still impressing people with that story … and threatening to go to Hollywood.
Immortality
For some people it’s nice to know that a little piece of them will live on in a movie … except for that guy in the 2,000 movies, over 2,000 pieces of him will live on in 2,000 movies … hopefully they weren’t all crap. He’s playing the odds I guess.
My Take
I’d like to be a movie extra for another reason.
I want to say stuff like ” That sugarcane that tasted good, That cinnamon that’s Hollywood” and get paid for it while pretending to eat something somewhere behind someone who is also pretending to be doing something somewhere in front of me.
… but I’d never even pretend to be in the same league as that guy who’s been in 2,000 movies. That guy is the butter on the popcorn.
note: Are extras in a sci-fi movie extra-terrestrial extras?
double note: I have no idea who has been an extra in the most movies: the 2,000 number is pure fiction. I make stuff up sometimes; I’m like that.
triple note: having not ever been … or never been an extra I just assume they say stuff like in REM’s video “Imitation of Life“.
quadruple note: If you don’t know the “Once Were Warriors” film, it’s great. If you don’t know the “Ernest” movies, well … I congratulate you.
quintuple note: I’ve put my name in for a samurai movie, but so far no word yet. There’s always Bollywood!
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In my dreams I dream that all my dreams come true in my dreams. … then I wake up, realize I’ve slept on my arms again, and think “that was a confusing dream, but at least there wasn’t a bull chasing me“. note: photo taken in one of the DisneySea sections. double note: #1 and #2 and #3 and #4 [...]
I watched my girlfriend as she moved from rack to rack in a women’s clothing store. There were women of all ages shopping, but … three women in their late 60’s followed my girlfriend around the store and were all interested in the same clothes as her. I’m a bit worried. note: there are many possible reasons for what I [...]
