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OH MY GAWD, WHAT!?

Chioke — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:45:44 +0000

LES film fest/totes wanna go to this

Chioke — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:03:49 +0000

Best Obit Ever.

Chioke — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:34:52 +0000

A few choice excerpts from his New York Times Obit:

In 1969, after six months alone on the Atlantic battling storms, sharks and encroaching madness, John Fairfax, who died this month at 74, became the first lone oarsman in recorded history to traverse any ocean.

In 1972, he and his girlfriend, Sylvia Cook, sharing a boat, became the first people to row across the Pacific, a yearlong ordeal during which their craft was thought lost.

For all its bravura, Mr. Fairfax’s seafaring almost pales beside his earlier ventures. Footloose and handsome, he was a flesh-and-blood character out of Graham Greene, with more than a dash of Hemingway and Ian Fleming shaken in.

At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.

At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.

Seriously!?

Untitled Web Series That Morgan Evans is Doing

Chioke — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:00:29 +0000

Are you guys watching Morgan’s Show yet? It’s so incredibly comforting, I don’t know what I’m gonna do when the series wraps Friday. It’s like Friends getting cancelled all over again!*

*What? Friends was voluntarily shut down?! That’s crazy!

Really love how simple it is and how beautifully it’s shot. I think it’s great how confident and boldly the ideas are presented, without trying to be overly cutty or really broad to hold attention. I was re-watching the film California Split which is one of my favorites and Altman does something similar. He’s not afraid to let the audience come to him, and that I think is a mark of a very talented filmmaker.

This series doesn’t skirt away from letting a premise be just one joke, or trying to hard to milk an idea. It’s really interesting that though there are a lot of things you can compare it too, it already feels like his voice is really strong. As I am in the middle of the edit for How to Follow Strangers I am constantly attempting to pare down ideas to their simplest point but it’s much harder than I often give it credit. I’m excited to see where Morgan goes next.

Hawt Song Thursday

Chioke — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:00:52 +0000

This shit cray.*

I’M GONNA GET SO MANY TATTOOS NOW!

What would you do during the apocalypse?

Chioke — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:42:23 +0000

So I had a short film that I made play at the Tumblr festival in LA awhile back and during the same block, this film played and was cute and great, and really had a lot of fun with a simple spin on the end of the world idea. I usually not into apocalypse films, because I’m too busy being anxious about today to worry about impending doom. But this I like.

Hawt song Thursday.

Chioke — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:41:14 +0000

I wanna go gay for Azealia Banks.

Shit New Yorkers Say (Mensch edition)

Chioke — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:44:26 +0000

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?

Complete History of My Sexual Failures

Chioke — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:16:59 +0000

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*.

Timothy Gone by Margo Guryan

Chioke — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:18:11 +0000

This song is great.