That's right the official title is "Mind Malady" (unless someone can convince me otherwise) Here are a few pomos/trailers, don't just watch one watch them all! It's film festival time people!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
SETH MACFARLANE LOOKS LIKE THE STAY PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN
yes people, the first time I saw him (the creator of Family Guy) that was the first thing i thought of, so when I tell people that, they think i'm on crack, check it out for yourselves.....
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
ROBERT JONES? WHAT HAPPENED TO BAUER?
Ok so here it is everyone, the story of my last name Jones.
My family was put on government watch in the early 80's to hide us from terrorists, thus giving us the name "Bauer." just kidding, not true, although it's much more cool than the actual reason we changed our name.
The actual reason is this....
part 1.. when my dad was about 5 years old, his father, (my grandpa Jones) divorced my grandma.
part 2...a few years later my grandma married some random guy named Fred Bauer. I have never met this guy, and my father doesn't even remember much of him.
part 3...For some reason my grandma thought it would be better to legally change my dad's name from Jones to Bauer. After the divorce i'm assuming she didn't like my grandpa Jones and didn't want anything to do with him, this included getting rid of my father's true birth name "Jones." My father was a bit too young to have a say in any of it, so they proceeded.
part 4....Years passed.....my grandma was in a car accident that paralyzed the right half of her body, (including the brain) and Fred Bauer left my grandma and my dad. They eventually got divorced.
part 5....Now my dad was a teenager and lived his life basically taking care of my paralyzed grandma who had a great physical recovery but mentally never quite got back to normal. Whenever he told her he planned on changing his last name back to Jones, she would respond, "Over my dead body!"
part 6.... Now to understand this part of the story you must know that my father was an only child. He could of easily just changed the name back to Jones whenever he wanted but he decided he would wait until she died or went senile. He did this out of respect for her.
part 7....Many years later after my father married and had children (me) my father chose a time that was good for all of us. We proceeded to legally change our name to Jones. I knew my whole life that my real last name was Jones, I also knew that we'd eventually be changing it.
the end.
I have told variations of this story thousands of times but yet people still can't seem to understand it. I once had an old acquaintance from high school ask me if Jones was my stage name, this was after I had explained him the story already. But what makes me real mad is the ignorant people that look at me like I'm an idiot for changing my name just to keep up with the Jones'
That is why I present my balls for all you condescending persons to suck.
My family was put on government watch in the early 80's to hide us from terrorists, thus giving us the name "Bauer." just kidding, not true, although it's much more cool than the actual reason we changed our name.
The actual reason is this....
part 1.. when my dad was about 5 years old, his father, (my grandpa Jones) divorced my grandma.
part 2...a few years later my grandma married some random guy named Fred Bauer. I have never met this guy, and my father doesn't even remember much of him.
part 3...For some reason my grandma thought it would be better to legally change my dad's name from Jones to Bauer. After the divorce i'm assuming she didn't like my grandpa Jones and didn't want anything to do with him, this included getting rid of my father's true birth name "Jones." My father was a bit too young to have a say in any of it, so they proceeded.
part 4....Years passed.....my grandma was in a car accident that paralyzed the right half of her body, (including the brain) and Fred Bauer left my grandma and my dad. They eventually got divorced.
part 5....Now my dad was a teenager and lived his life basically taking care of my paralyzed grandma who had a great physical recovery but mentally never quite got back to normal. Whenever he told her he planned on changing his last name back to Jones, she would respond, "Over my dead body!"
part 6.... Now to understand this part of the story you must know that my father was an only child. He could of easily just changed the name back to Jones whenever he wanted but he decided he would wait until she died or went senile. He did this out of respect for her.
part 7....Many years later after my father married and had children (me) my father chose a time that was good for all of us. We proceeded to legally change our name to Jones. I knew my whole life that my real last name was Jones, I also knew that we'd eventually be changing it.
the end.
I have told variations of this story thousands of times but yet people still can't seem to understand it. I once had an old acquaintance from high school ask me if Jones was my stage name, this was after I had explained him the story already. But what makes me real mad is the ignorant people that look at me like I'm an idiot for changing my name just to keep up with the Jones'
That is why I present my balls for all you condescending persons to suck.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
A GRAY MATTER MALADY UPDATE!!
Gray Matter Malady Update
Hello all, I just wanted to write down a few things for you guys...i'll call them the Frequently Asked Questions...
F.A.Q.
WHY IS IT TAKING YOU SO LONG TO FINISH THE FILM?
unfortunately I am not able to work on it full time, I have to pay the bills and am not making any money for this film yet. Also, I am the only person working on it...so in reality i'm probably making record time considering the circumstances!
WHEN WILL THE FILM BE DONE?
As of right now, the only thing left is to finish all the minor details, the sound effects, soundtrack, and some of the graphics. So my goal is to have all that done by the end of the year. It's sooooooo close!
ARE WE GOING TO SHOOT THE BAR SCENE FLASHBACK, AND THE RETURN TO THE ROAD?
yes we are, currently there is a slate on the avid editing timeline that explains the scene but obviously doesn't show it.....I've had a lot of scheduling problems, so I've had to put it off, if something happens and we cannot shoot them, I'll omit these scenes completely from the final film.
IS "A GRAY MATTER MALADY" THE OFFICIAL TITLE OF THE FILM?
No it's just the working title, due to the fact that people don't know what it is supposed to mean, it's not catchy enough, and because a movie about lesbians came out a couple years ago titled "Gray Matters"... The title of the film will be chosen during the promotions and marketing stages of the film which won't start until I'm finished with the post production.
WHAT ARE YOU'RE PLANS FOR THIS FILM?
I plan on entering it into several different film festivals to hopefully win some awards and find a distributor. But the most important thing is so I can show future investors what I did with such a small budget, hence giving them confidence in what I can do with a bigger budget for my next film. But my ultimate goal is to be able to sell the film for distribution and that's my plan.
IS THERE A WEBSITE FOR THE MOVIE/IMDB PAGE?
Not yet, the website will come very soon as part of the marketing/promotions package. Like I said earlier I'm not going to start on any of that until the films done. As soon as the film's done and enters film festivals there will be an imdb page. IMDB can be complicated, technically you have to have a distributor for your film before they'll accept your project.
Ok that's all I could think of, any other questions please ask!
HERE'S A TEASER FOR YOU ALL!
this is one of the several dream sequences in GMM.
HERE'S A FEW POST PICS
Hello all, I just wanted to write down a few things for you guys...i'll call them the Frequently Asked Questions...
F.A.Q.
WHY IS IT TAKING YOU SO LONG TO FINISH THE FILM?
unfortunately I am not able to work on it full time, I have to pay the bills and am not making any money for this film yet. Also, I am the only person working on it...so in reality i'm probably making record time considering the circumstances!
WHEN WILL THE FILM BE DONE?
As of right now, the only thing left is to finish all the minor details, the sound effects, soundtrack, and some of the graphics. So my goal is to have all that done by the end of the year. It's sooooooo close!
ARE WE GOING TO SHOOT THE BAR SCENE FLASHBACK, AND THE RETURN TO THE ROAD?
yes we are, currently there is a slate on the avid editing timeline that explains the scene but obviously doesn't show it.....I've had a lot of scheduling problems, so I've had to put it off, if something happens and we cannot shoot them, I'll omit these scenes completely from the final film.
IS "A GRAY MATTER MALADY" THE OFFICIAL TITLE OF THE FILM?
No it's just the working title, due to the fact that people don't know what it is supposed to mean, it's not catchy enough, and because a movie about lesbians came out a couple years ago titled "Gray Matters"... The title of the film will be chosen during the promotions and marketing stages of the film which won't start until I'm finished with the post production.
WHAT ARE YOU'RE PLANS FOR THIS FILM?
I plan on entering it into several different film festivals to hopefully win some awards and find a distributor. But the most important thing is so I can show future investors what I did with such a small budget, hence giving them confidence in what I can do with a bigger budget for my next film. But my ultimate goal is to be able to sell the film for distribution and that's my plan.
IS THERE A WEBSITE FOR THE MOVIE/IMDB PAGE?
Not yet, the website will come very soon as part of the marketing/promotions package. Like I said earlier I'm not going to start on any of that until the films done. As soon as the film's done and enters film festivals there will be an imdb page. IMDB can be complicated, technically you have to have a distributor for your film before they'll accept your project.
Ok that's all I could think of, any other questions please ask!
HERE'S A TEASER FOR YOU ALL!
this is one of the several dream sequences in GMM.
HERE'S A FEW POST PICS
Sunday, September 14, 2008
What kind of drugs are you on? Can I have some?
This last week I noticed on two different occasions people that seemed to be inhumanly happy. Interestingly, they were both people that worked as gas station attendants.
On the first occasion, my friend, "the Boy", and I went to get a beverage at the Maverick in Farmington in between mowing lawns. An astonishingly happy middle-aged woman greeted us at the entrance with probing questions of an impersonal nature. She was so happy and talkative it was almost offensive. We had been working extremely hard and were hot and sweaty… the last thing we wanted to do was to stand there and chitchat about the weather and other generic subjects with some crazy overbearingly happy stranger.
While paying for the beverages we tried to respond to her questions with as much enthusiasm and energy as she, but miserably failed to do so. We were tired and frankly we aren't the type of people to over due it in the social aspect of human communication. As she continued the conversation about how lucky I was to have a friend that would pay for my drink, (or something to that effect) we slowly backed away and slipped out the door while nodding in agreement, with the occasional one word response.
Even as the door closed after we exited the building she continued yapping at us. (So what time do you guys get off? Etc. ) After her voice was no longer audible I turned to the Boy and said,
"Someone woke up on the right side of the bed this morning."
The second occasion
I stepped in to a 7-11 on 3rd west in Salt Lake City just right down the street from KSL when I was welcomed with an unusual greeting, "Hey brother man." I proceeded to give him a nod thinking nothing of it, but as I was strategically picking out a nice refreshing beverage of choice, I noticed that he was saying it to every customer that not only was walking in to the store, but leaving it also. That meant that I would be getting it again on my way out. I felt disgusted.
Normally stuff like this doesn't bug me and I really don't even notice, but this clerk was very loud about it and not only was the volume of his voice high he was also saying renditions of the word/phrase, for example, "Hey brother," or "Brotha" or even, "Bro" and just when things couldn't have gotten any lamer he said, "Brother from another mother." Yes it's true he was actually saying that.
As I stood in line to buy the drink I couldn't help but wonder what his motive was, was he trying to be culturally dynamic by practicing greetings and salutations brought on by the African American descent? Or was he the religious kind with the assumption that we are all brothers and sisters from Adam and Eve, or was it, I don't know, humanity created by the big bang theory has made us all a big family in the cosmic sense? Who knows?
By the time I paid for my drink I was far too annoyed to question the clerk about his actions, I just wanted to get the hell out! If I heard "brother" or any form of it one more time I would pop! As I left the counter, the clerk said, "thanks my brotha man, come back anytime brotha."
I suffered a major migraine for the rest of the day.
On the first occasion, my friend, "the Boy", and I went to get a beverage at the Maverick in Farmington in between mowing lawns. An astonishingly happy middle-aged woman greeted us at the entrance with probing questions of an impersonal nature. She was so happy and talkative it was almost offensive. We had been working extremely hard and were hot and sweaty… the last thing we wanted to do was to stand there and chitchat about the weather and other generic subjects with some crazy overbearingly happy stranger.
While paying for the beverages we tried to respond to her questions with as much enthusiasm and energy as she, but miserably failed to do so. We were tired and frankly we aren't the type of people to over due it in the social aspect of human communication. As she continued the conversation about how lucky I was to have a friend that would pay for my drink, (or something to that effect) we slowly backed away and slipped out the door while nodding in agreement, with the occasional one word response.
Even as the door closed after we exited the building she continued yapping at us. (So what time do you guys get off? Etc. ) After her voice was no longer audible I turned to the Boy and said,
"Someone woke up on the right side of the bed this morning."
The second occasion
I stepped in to a 7-11 on 3rd west in Salt Lake City just right down the street from KSL when I was welcomed with an unusual greeting, "Hey brother man." I proceeded to give him a nod thinking nothing of it, but as I was strategically picking out a nice refreshing beverage of choice, I noticed that he was saying it to every customer that not only was walking in to the store, but leaving it also. That meant that I would be getting it again on my way out. I felt disgusted.
Normally stuff like this doesn't bug me and I really don't even notice, but this clerk was very loud about it and not only was the volume of his voice high he was also saying renditions of the word/phrase, for example, "Hey brother," or "Brotha" or even, "Bro" and just when things couldn't have gotten any lamer he said, "Brother from another mother." Yes it's true he was actually saying that.
As I stood in line to buy the drink I couldn't help but wonder what his motive was, was he trying to be culturally dynamic by practicing greetings and salutations brought on by the African American descent? Or was he the religious kind with the assumption that we are all brothers and sisters from Adam and Eve, or was it, I don't know, humanity created by the big bang theory has made us all a big family in the cosmic sense? Who knows?
By the time I paid for my drink I was far too annoyed to question the clerk about his actions, I just wanted to get the hell out! If I heard "brother" or any form of it one more time I would pop! As I left the counter, the clerk said, "thanks my brotha man, come back anytime brotha."
I suffered a major migraine for the rest of the day.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
I'm Not A Cannibal!
Idiom: "Don't judge a book by it's cover"
An ugly person walked by a group of us at work the other day and one of the guys exclaimed "someone got hit by the ugly stick." None of us thought anything else of it except for a young female co-worker that was deeply offended. She proceeded to drop the cliche' "don't judge a book by it's cover" referring to this ugly person that had previously walked by. She went on explaining that it isn't the outer appearance that's important it's what's inside that matters. It's the inner self. She then said "sure she may be ugly on the outside but it's what's inside that's beautiful it's what's inside that counts."
I didn't want to think about her insides being beautiful, that's gross, nobody has beautiful insides.
An ugly person walked by a group of us at work the other day and one of the guys exclaimed "someone got hit by the ugly stick." None of us thought anything else of it except for a young female co-worker that was deeply offended. She proceeded to drop the cliche' "don't judge a book by it's cover" referring to this ugly person that had previously walked by. She went on explaining that it isn't the outer appearance that's important it's what's inside that matters. It's the inner self. She then said "sure she may be ugly on the outside but it's what's inside that's beautiful it's what's inside that counts."
I didn't want to think about her insides being beautiful, that's gross, nobody has beautiful insides.
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