Madman Al's Midnight Movie Mania

Things I've Been Up To...

In my previous post, I neglected to mention what I'd been up to. This is an omission I will now rectify.

I got a couple of new things edited and up on YouTube. The links are below:

Link to YouTube Movie   - Political Statement '08

Link to Second YouTube Movie  - Sunday in the Park with Deer (Revised Version)

Link to Third YouTube Movie  - Mama Muumuu

Link to Fourth YouTube Movie  - Batty Aunt Dotty

Try these on for size.

Cheers!

Al B.

Resultants

Well, I had planned to write something before the election stating my political beliefs.

The timing is now done, but the project may come about later on...

In the national results, the Democratic Party elected the first half-white, half-black president in Senator Obama, and consolidated its majorities in both the House and Senate.

Time will tell if this is a good thing.

If the Democrats can get the credit markets off the dime, there may be an increase in the film production slates of both independents and major studios.

Again, we'll see...

Cheers!

Al B.

Quicker (and dirtier)

It's an interesting thing when those whom you see on the Web actually contact you in person.

I have a YouTube page - not as active as I'd like it to be, but one does what one has the time and resources to do. I just got a subscription and friend request from the people behind Take Zer0 (www.takezer0.com ), whose podcasts and film reviews I've been watching for a while now.

Quite a thing.

Cheers!

Al B.

Am I Now, Or Have I Ever Been?

I've never been exactly sure if I can be considered "sane", in the psychological sense.

Can any of us actually be sure?

I can think of four guys (and a girl) who have no qualms about acting out the things that would classify you and I as "crazy". And what's more, they get paid for it.

Of course, I'm referring to Messrs. Hyneman, Savage, Bellaci, Imahara, and Mlle. Byron - better known as The Mythbusters.

Today was a marathon of episodes of the Discovery Channel series, including building a house in order to see if a malfunctioning hot water heater would destroy the house in failure… dragged one of their team behind a galloping horse to see if the denim jeans would reach ignition temperature… or sit one of their own in a tub of hot water in new unshrunken jeans to see if deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or compartment syndrome would occur from the shrinkage of the denim.

And then, there was the painting a seventeen-foot replica of the Hindenburg in thermite, diffusing hydrogen gas inside it, and then lighting it off, to see what would happen.

How did they think of this, and why didn't I think of it first?

Too bad, isn't it?

Cheers!

Al B.

ATTACK OF THE REAL LIFE!...

With the best of intentions, as always, I designed this blog to be set forth at regular (read: SHORT) intervals. Maybe two or three days between entries.

As you can tell, that hasn't happened... thanks to that unpredictable item called {dramatic fanfare} Real Life.

The need for activities that have nothing to do with writing, or blogging, or any sort of creative impulse at all... deplorable, but unavoidable.

I have a completed short screenplay - 25 pages - that I think I'm going to try to make soon. I'm working on another one that may be going feature length. I've been applying for extra jobs and crew jobs here in the Detroit area. I've also been looking for "real work".

Things are going such that I'm doing a difficult balancing act... if things go off-kilter, you'll know. {The noise will cue you, for one thing.}

Cheers!

Al B.