After Work Walk

Here's some pics I took while walking around Tribeca after work and at the train station on the way home:

Drinking and Filming in Brooklyn

Last night found me at a place called Studio B in Greenpoint. They were giving away free PBRs and free tequila, so I got my Chucks in gear and headed thru the door. At first the place was empty and it looked like a long night of boredom was ahead of me, but then... I started drinking PBRs and it all started. John from work and his friend Allison showed up and we found a little corner with big soft leather couches to sit in and down the free booze. John and Allison were fun to talk to and a good time was had. After the free booze ran out we walked around the streets of Brooklyn for a bit, where we stumbled on a spot that gave out free beers with their pies. We each bought a small pie and had our beers while we kept the night moving on.

Sometime around 4am I stumbled in the door and my head hit the pillow. Till the alarm's screaming woke me up at 8:30 later that morning, that is. I had to crawl out from the Crash Site and spend almost an hour and a half on various trains to Borough Park for filming adventures with Ken and his band of merry Hunter kids. Filming was rough with a hangover that coulda driven a monk mad, but I took a bit of a nap on the trains and as the day grew longer the hangover dissipated. More evidence of seid filming will be available for public consumption here shortly. For now the photo at the top of this entry will have to suffice. (I'm the one in the white t-shirt and jeans). Till later. Be good.

Walking thru the swamp

I went on a wandering walk thru the swamp near my house today with the least-significant-other. Here's some pics I took:

Maiden Voyage

It's been a couple years, so in order to get my act back in shape I did my first poetry reading in the state of New Jersey last night. It was at a small community center called the Williams Center in Rutherford and most of the people in the audience were over the age of 5o, but they were nice and it went well. The poem I read is called 'The Eternal Clown' and I 'spose I should post it, so here it is:

The Eternal Clown

 

the eternal clown

has come to town

riding on a wave of

compassionate ignorance

dressed up

in the guise of bliss

 

free money for businesses

big and small

don't worry about the poor

they don't matter at all

 

from coffers in town

the eternal clown

hands bills to churches

all the country 'round

 

he says

“don't mind if we listen in

on your next telephone call

we have to protect

the weak and small

from the evildoers

with towels on their head

who'd love nothing better

than to see us dead”

 

brand with your

black and white brush

don't take time to judge

just rush rush Rush

 

lock people up

gather them in jail

the eternal clown

all hail!

cut the taxes,

that's surely the way                                                                             

for a three trillion dollar

war to pay

 

cut the budget for needy

hands off the banks

our country works best when greedy

 

'uniter not a divider' you said

you've done a great job uniting

the world around a pile of dead

 

your time is over

your reign is thru

hope is riding into town

and we’re so glad

to be rid of you!

 

Officially Part of the big Time

I spent all day walking around the island of Manhattan in search of copies of the 'Hollywood Reporter'. 'Belle', the movie that we've been torturing ourselves over at work for the last 5 months was officcially announced Tuesday night and there was an article about it in THR. So, now everybody knows about it and it's really happening. You can check out the article here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3if21dd856cfb9103e9bc50578aa646eac. It's a really interesting story about the first and most prolific female serial killer in the history of the U.S. and you should definitely check it out. My boss is directing it and Angelina Jolie is possibly playing the lead, so Angelina covered in blood and hacking people to death with a hatchet sounds like a movie I'd wanna see. 

Filming.. or Not

 So... filming has stopped before it really even got started. My wonderful insignificant other has still refused to pick up my camera or be helpful in pretty much anyway, so filming isn't happening.. yet. She says I'll have my camera tomorrow. Let's hope. I've heard her say that so many times before I can't help but not believe her. 

The Unfinished Masterpiece

  Here's a few pictures from 'Lang Ren',  a short unfinished film I was making with a few friends about a year and a half ago. Just thought I'd share them with everybody.