More fun at the expense of pRick Santorum! (link via metafilter)

Oh yeah, this blog is now the number 4 on Yahoo! Search Results for Rick the Prick Santorum!

Anne and I saw an awsome film last night: Everything's Wonderful. I met writer/director/editor/star Skip Schwink as well as his costar, Andi Shrem at Barebones and I had to leave before his film screened. Skip tried to set up a latenight screening in one of the hotel rooms, but we couldn't get a line signal to play on the cheesy Travelodge TVs. So I got to take a tape home with me under the condition that I see it late at night while partying (as it's a late night party movie). So we busted out the bourbon and popped the tape in. This movie ROCKS! It's a fast paced, character-driven comedy about a group of friends who are celebrating one of their 30th birthdays. Skip plays 5 different roles, including twin brothers who act together using splitscreens. Skip's background in music video really comes through in the incredibly stylistic editing, though it enhances rather than distracts. There are even arial shots which he did from a 2-seat ultra-light plane. I'm not sure where or when it's playing again, but I highly recommend it (as long as you're not easilly offended - if you like things politically correct, this movie is so not for you). Oh yeah, it even has a Ron Jeremy cameo. I can see this becoming a cult classic with college kids making up drinking games to go along with it.

Last night I was feeling a bit inspired so I completely redesigned the Washington Interns Gone Bad site. I had done the original design in the course of about an hour during the first day of the office shoot while I was waiting for the sets to be dressed and for people to get into their wardrobe and makeup. It did the trick for over a year, but now it's a lot nicer.

More on why the Dixie Chicks are the coolest country musicians ever.

Message Board Mayhem! The neocons have their panties in a bunch over the UN putting Cuba on the Human Rights council. They don't seem to understand that it's obviously a direct slap in Bush's face for going to war without their backing and they think that anyone who points this out is a friend to dictators everywhere. The insults fly and hilarity ensues, while hits to the Washington Interns Gone Bad site go up and up.

You may have some trouble accessing this site over the next couple of days. I've just switched my registrar from register.com to gkg.net. I think gkg might be one of the best kept secrets on the internet. They're the cheapest place to register a domain that I've found at only $9.99/year. Once the DNS servers have refreshed, everything will be back to normal.

I have to get myself one of these shirts! (via Warblogger Watch)

Another cool blog alert: In Apprehension... "In for a penny, in for a pound." I came across this one checking my referrers. He also comes up when you search for Michael Moore's Oscar revoked and he's one of the good guys. There sure are a lot of shrill rightwingnuts in a masturabatory feeding frenzy over it, like these asshats (big surprise that Lee from Right-thinking is one of these enemies of free speech).

Cool Blog Alert: I found Cogicophony while checking my referers. He didn't actually link to me directly but my blogsnob ad must have popped up on his site and somebody clicked. He's got some great stuff on good old pRick Santorum and I made sure to comment about Elizabeth's run in with his pimped out SUV back in DC. It's funny, I never get sick of telling that story, especially when I read news stories about what a far right moron he is.

I'd make a witty comment, but there are just too many possibilities...Jeb Thanks NRA for Helping Make Dubya President.

Damn, two links about pRick Santorum being a complete and total dingus in one 24 hour period... Apparently he thinks that colleges should lose their funding if anyone openly criticizes Israel. Reading articles like this sure make me glad that we milked his right wing ass for cheap publicity. (link via Joanne)

I've just returned from the Barebones International Film Festival in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where Washington Interns Gone Bad was nominated for Best Narrative Feature! I had a great time but couldn't blog from there, so instead of clogging up these pages, I've put my recap of the festival as well as the films I've gotten to see on their own pages. Major thanks to the Hatatas for hooking me up with their frequent flyer ticket. I would have never been able to go without that, and I can hardly put into words how much being able to attend helped me as a filmmaker.

Washington Interns Gone Bad's biggest fan in the US Senate, Rick Santorum, continues to prove what a complete and total cock he is. I'm personally hoping that the gay mafia can ruin his career like Mike Ovitz claimed they did to him.

The petty little rightwing wannabe dictators have now tried to hack my password for the Washington Interns Gone Bad message board. Idiots, do you really think I'd sign up for a message board that would let any jerkoff just get my password? This is too much fun! There's nothing that puts a smile on my face as much as rightwingnuts pissed off at yours truly. Keep it up, pathetic little nazis. Hey, if you really want to give me some shit, Washington Interns Gone Bad is going to be playing tomorrow night at the Barebones Film Festival in Muskogee, OK. Come picket a film where republicans get decapitated and conservative democrats get exposed for being corporate whores. Bring it on, chumps!

Incredibly lame blog alert: Right-Thinking from the Left Coast. Some little punkass rightwingnut who wants to start some shit with me and thinks he's so clever by posting my (outdated) personal information in the comments on my post about the chickenshits who anonymously registered the domain to lamely attempt to revoke Michael Moore's oscar. He has problems being a rightwingnut in the liberal oasis that is the Bay Area. I think he'd be much happier living in a trailer in Bakersfield, or just getting out of California altogether and moving to the south or Texas or back in time to Nazi Germany or aparthied-era South Africa. And big surprise, he's another little pussy who doesn't stand by what he has to say enough to actually register his own domain with his real name. So typical of the cowardly right wing chickenhawk crowd. And so pathetic.

Just posted photos of the new apartment. Oh yeah, and happy 4/20 everyone!

Message Board Mayhem! Some rightwingnut has taken issue with me on a Yahoo News Message Board about Tim Robbins and the Baseball Hall of Fame fiasco. This jerkoff even lamely attempted to mailbomb me by signing me up multiple times for the Washington Interns Gone Bad mailing list and using my contact form to send me back a few of my posts and calling me a "Democrap twat." Ahhhh, gotta love the maturity levels of the dittohead crowd. When I get hatemail like that, I know I'm doing something right.

Michael Moore will always be a target of the extreme right. Now they're trying to get his oscar revoked. They have a letter form to astroturf the Academy with manufactured outrage, but you can change the text of their letter to show support for Moore. Of course, the people who run this page do not disclose who they actually are and have registered their domain through Domains by Proxy, showing typical conservative cowardice. You'd think if you felt strongly enough to run a campaign like this, you'd feel strongly enough to stand behind it with your real name or the real name of your organization. This is just like the chickenhawk neocons who are all gung ho to send our kids out to die in their wars but used every weak excuse in the book to get their chickenshit asses out of Vietnam. (link via metafilter)

Madonna wusses out and tones down the anti-war message of her new video. And for a second there, I thought she wasn't a complete corporate whore. Oh well.

Bush Cultural Advisers Quit Over Iraq Museum Theft. Who's next? Colin Powell, why are you still associating with these people?

Tim Robbins opens a can of whoopass on the anti free speech fascists. "A bully can be stopped. So can a mob." You go, Tim!

Yesterday was full of pre-wedding fun! First off was a trip to Bed Bath and Beyond for gift registering. They gave us a huge gift basket full of promo stuff, wedding mags, nicknacks and some Ghiradelli chocolates and then sent us through the store with our own barcode scanner to go add things to our wishlist. I ordinarilly have a very low tollerance for housewares shopping, but stick a big electronic device in my hand that emits a small laser and that's enough to keep me interested. After that we had our second dance lesson where we continued with the foxtrot, learned how to turn (the magic left turn), and did a bit of the waltz. My steps are good, but holding my arm up is my weak spot. Our next class is a group class which should be interesting.

Graceland pictures are up, though I'm a bit disappointed in how they turned out. The outdoor ones by Elvis' grave came out nicely, the one of his living room was OK and the one of the dining room was really grainy even after some photoshopping, and the rest didn't come out at all. No jungle room. No basement studio. No jumpsuits that were taken in so it looked like Elvis never got fat. No gold records or movie costumes or round fuzzy bed with the built in car stereo. Oh well, I guess that means I'll just have to go back. But seriously, here are some better pictures that other folks have taken, or take the official virtual tour.

Yet even more protest music! The Protest Records collection is put together by Thurston Moore and Chris Habib and has a wide range of artists contributing original songs about the war, some definitely better than others but everything worth a listen. Many of the ones posted on the indymedia link from yesterday are from here. My favorites so far are Mudhoney's Hardon for War, Eugene Chadbourne's New New New War War War, and Mike Watt and Thurston Moore's Fourth Day of July. Besides the music, you can also download stencils, but you should never ever spraypaint stuff because that would be wrong, m'kay.

So tonight Anne and I had our first dancing lesson at Arthur Murray. 3 more private lessons, 2 group lessons and one group "dance party" and we should be able to manage not to embarrass ourselves at our wedding. I was pretty nervous about it because I've always been a horrendously bad dancer and my friends ragged on me pretty badly over it which made me even more self conscious about it. But once I learned a few moves it got a lot less scary. We'll see if I can actually cut a rug in a few weeks.

Save Janeane Garafolo from the neoMcCarthyist bozos who are trying to get her blacklisted because of her anti-war views. Click Here to find out more and see what you can do to help.

More anti-war songs than you can shake a stick at, from DC Indymedia.

Ha! I managed to get some free publicity on a real rightwingnut page by writing an outraged letter about my movie and the dummies actually ran it! Click here and then search for "Washington Interns Gone Bad."

While I don't know how much protest songs really contribute to their causes, the Not In Our Name Music Project is pretty cool. The likes of Coldcut and DJ Spooky lay down fat beats behind speaches from anti-war rallies. (link via I Like American Music)

Operation Perpetual War: Looks like Syria is next on Bush's agenda, and he's using the same baseless accusation of harboring WMDs. How long is he going to be able to pull this without showing a bit of proof to anybody before the rest of the world leaders realize that they had better do something to stop this idiot from starting the third world war? And who does North Korea have to nuke to get his attention? It just truly amazes me how far Bush has been able to continually exceed my expectations of his complete and total suckage.

It looks like this war is going to be the least of Iraq's worries... Yahoo! News - IMF, World Bank Ready to Help Iraq Rebuild. If people thought Saddam was bad, just wait till they see a Bush puppet combined with forced privatization and exploitation.

Well, we never made it to the movie last night. We got off to a late start and it took us even longer to get out the door, so after a few wrong turns and being lost in the park, we scrapped the movie plans and just drove around the city for a while. Ho hum. So it's pouring rain here right now and I've been spending the morning transfering all of my old files which were legal size, to my new letter size filing cabinet. It just doesn't get more exciting than that, folks! But that's not all. I'm going to start putting away more of my clothes next, and then try to figure out a way to organize all of my stuff that needs to go near my desk in an orderly fashion in the interim before I get my desperately needed shelving. Being messy was never this much work.

Three weeks without an internet connection and I'm making up for lost time. Photos and journal from the exciting cross country drive are up and we are off to the movies tonight to see Rob Zombie's long postponed House of 1000 Corpses. I'll see about posting a review tomorrow.

First post from the new apartment, DSL is finally up and our machines are finally networked, though Anne doesn't have a desk yet since her desk is in storage 4 hours south near her folks' house, so I had to rig her up one with the monitor box and one of our rubbermaid packing tubs (and it's not too bad if I do say so myself). I feel like I'm finally plugged back into the rest of the world now, and I can finally start working again. I'll be setting up a page for the move a little later on today or tomorrow.

OK, We've been in the new apartment since Friday and it's AWSOME! No DSL until probably the weekend, so no regular updates until then, but here's the deal... The apartment is about 850 square feet, a third floor walkup in the Sunset district about 14 blocks from the ocean beach and one block from the muni train. Right now every single bone in my body is aching from lugging all of our shit from the truck and all of the new shit we've been buying to stock this place up, as well as from assembling all of our new Ikea furniture. Pictures will be coming soon, as well as the details of the cross country move that I've been promising.

Well, today is day 4 of the apartment search from hell. We've looked at some very cool ones and there's one in the mid richmond that we really like and if all goes well, we'll hear back from the realtor today and start moving in tonight. Not having jobs yet out here has been the biggest stumbling block so far. We have a solid safety net that will get us by for many months, plus once I get hooked up with a decent internet connection I can be working too. These damn landlords need to understand that. Anyway, I still promise to post the diary of the trip along with pictures and videos, but that's going to have to wait until after we're all set up in a place with an ISP and a new monitor. As far as the movie goes, there's going to be three screenings in Pittsburgh this weekend, but I can't update the official movie site to show that because I don't have enough time or access to the right software. But I have no doubt that it will be a successfull screening. I also found a theater in the Haight that I could probably get a run at, and I'll be talking to them as soon as I'm all settled. Elizabeth has begun shooting her sequel in DC this weekend. I wish her the best of luck. She insisted on having the rights to continue using her character and the right to make a sequel because she would only play a villain if she had a chance for her character to redeam herself. I just wanted her in my film and couldn't give a rat's ass about any sequel so I said sure and even put it in her contract. As far as I'm concerned, Washington Interns Gone Bad is a one shot deal and when I'm ready to do another film it will be something completely different. But if her film makes money, I make money and there's nothing wrong with making some money doing what you love to do.