I have a hard time quantifying and sorting favorites, but my reading habits have changed this year to include a rather large amount of film criticism, and the result is I've been thinking about what my list of 2009's best would look like more this year than I have previous years. So I figured what the hell, and I wrote down all the new movies I saw this year and I tried to sort them based loosely...
Answers in green are left verbatim from 2007's answers. 1. Where did you begin 2009? At Union Jack's, the strip club, drunk, with my ex Jessie, sitting away from the stages and away from the bar listening to a lonely stripper try and make friends with a drunk Jessie. 2. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before? I became solely responsible for the well-being and...
... graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result. Yes, yes, it's true, those really staggeringly sloppy photoshop jobs are how I refreshed myself as I updated the main parts of travisezell.com and putting up my still-bland-but-at-least-it's-something gray gray gray ice9films page . I put news of the DVD up, reported on the screening, and got about two-thirds(ish)...
It's interesting. I had roughly one-third of the people who told me they'd be there actually show up, and yet Tiga was packed to standing-room only, with a row of people shoulder to shoulder along the barwatching at odd angles as we screened our program. There were of course wanderers-in who didn't seem to mind gossiping at full volume in the other half of the bar, over our films, and ...
I have been out or at Laika every night until after ten -- usually after midnight -- every night this week, preparing for the Worst Date Night Ever screening/party, which in case you didn't know is also the Premiere of Open . Fucking finally. Anyway, here's the fruit of my week's worth of neck-killing, sleep-dodging, cat-neglecting labor: Exhibit A , The DVD of my short films, which you get...
When I got the RACC grant to post-produce Open , they told me I couldn't do any work on it at all, not even editing, before January 1st, if I wanted any compensation from them for that work. So I shelved the entire project (a move that cost me well more than the three months I'd anticipated; I didn't get rolling again for almost a full year). To take my mind off the multi-thousand dollar ...
... and the cost difference between 500GB and 1TB was $20. Welcome, Turophobia, to the cluttered and mismatched family of external drives. (Joining Ice9drive, Joyrider One, The Astronaut, Sterling Hayden, and the boringly named Travisezell [no offense mom and dad; it's a brilliant name for a kid, just a lame name for a hard drive].) I met with Jon and Pat this morning, giving them a copy of the ...
I woke up with the song "Robophobia" by Electric President in my head. It's a good song. It took me a bit to figure out what melody I was humming; in fact I didn't know until I caught myself singing the lyrics "They can't sleep they have no eye lids/Their bodies hum just like the heaters in our microwaves." Last night's dream involved being on a film set being directed by my high school ...
I woke up with the song "Robophobia" by ElectricPresident in my head. It's a good song. It took me a bit to figure out what melody I was humming; in fact I didn't know until I caught myself singing the lyrics "They can't sleep they have no eye lids/Their bodies hum just like the heaters in our microwaves." Last night's dream involved being on a film set being directed by my high school ...
Tonight Patton Oswalt did a little Q&A at Cinema 21 after a screening of Robert Siegel's new film Big Fan , starring him. Big Fan isn't a perfect film, but it's very good, and Oswalt is dead on when he called it "in the spirit of the great 70s Hollywood films." It's a filmI'm glad was made and I definitely wish more people would see it. He was great for Q&A though, because he doesn't know ...
