So this trend of Shit (Blank) Say is pretty, um. Well, it’s a thing. Anywhoozle! My friends Ilana Glazer, Eliot Glazer and Matt Mayer made this one so it’s great and they are great and we love them so don’t hate, appreciate. Jesse Jackson?

So I was just googling some stuff, and this movie came up. Don’t ask me what I was googling.* Anyway, this movie is really good. You get to see a guy get whipped in the dick. Also, it’s very funny and sweet. Remember movies like The Apartment, when the comedy and the sweet and sad were all intermingled? This is sorta like that but with more dick whipping.

*I was googling the IFC films website, if you must know.

This song is great.

“The beauty of the procedural quality and character of a work of art is that very often you set out to do something like X, but during the course of the action something else happens and takes the idea in a previously unheard of or surprising direction. It is not only a matter of ideas bouncing off and against one another, it is also about the material realities, about how the chosen material guides and directs the process. Sometimes the end result is in fact much more than even you yourself thought at the beginning, and you recognize some of its main connotations only afterwards. And this, of course, is the hardest part of the process, how to keep it open and alive – and to let those surprises really lead and guide you.”

–Mika Hannula

It’s 10:37pm on a Sunday night.  I’m looking at a clean cut young woman, all of 20.  She’s got a cute short boy hair cut, like a pixie, and is kneeling beside  a young man in his early 20′s, Asian, very fey, and well put together, in a matching cream scarf and rain coat.  What is striking about them?

They are digging in the trash.

They haven’t lost a term paper.  There isn’t a love letter that someone accidentally threw out.  When I walked by, what struck me about her, is that she was eating cupcakes out of the garbage.  This isn’t ironic or kitsch.  Also they aren’t (seemingly) crazy.  No, what I witnessed is Freeganism in action. Read the rest of this entry »

So this trailer does not in any way shape or form do this movie justice, but just trust me, High School Record is pretty great and really funny and raw and good. And just because I potentially was drunk when I first saw it, that MAKES NO DIFFERENCE! I’ve watched it sober and want to keep watching it all the time it’s good and no, I’m not drunk right now, and even if I was YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!

Ahem.

Yeah, so. Um, yeah. Also, the company that put it out, Factory 25, is doing some great stuff so show some love, y’all.

This is pretty great, and had me laughing all over the place. Thanks to Vashtie for putting me on to this. Good looking, kid!

I’m posting this video for two reasons.  One, I like it, which is reason enough, GET OFF MY BACK!  Also, it’s a good indicator of where I’m at right now with how I’m thinking about this movie I’m about to make and stories in general.  I was once told that story is a routine interrupted.  Which is such a great quote, I wish I knew who said it. Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to Channel 101 for making a space where this can get major (and totally deserved) props. And big ups to Brett Weiner and his awesome mom!

Have you guys read the New York Magazine Article Roseanne wrote about the process of making her sitcom? It’s pretty incredible.