Rivers and Tides and Holes in the Earth

Last night Karen and I watched a wonderful movie called Rivers and Tides.
It is about the art of Andy Goldsworthy.
He is Scottish.
The movie runs about 90 min and is truly amazing.
His art is made of natural substances (i.e. leaves rock, ice) and is made to be destroyed.
Not destroyed, but taken back into it's former elements.
I'll quote - "The piece is not meant to be destroyed by the ocean but to be taken over by the ocean."
There are some wonderful time lapse scenes and there are times when the piece just doesn't work out. Theses scenes are heart breaking to watch: all the time put in just to see it crumble before his eyes by a slight gust of wind.
He remains very calm abut this due to his view of his work. You'll have to watch to see what I mean.
The movie also shows his home life. Family, his home, the normal everyday stuff that connects us all.
I highly recommend that you put this on your must see list, just don't have anything to do afterward...It's a draining experience.

20,000 Copies in Japan

We are GODS in Japan, FOOL.
Lamont Tittykiss and Bootney Funkstein are loved by our little yellow brethren.
Tourin' tha nation under a red sun.
Blazezup

What, you may ask, is this about.
Pistolero sold it's 1st CD to a stranger.
And he lives in Tokyo.
His name will be withheld to protect the satisfied, but don't hesitate to follow his lead.
Y'erd.


Also, I saw my first episode of The Trailer Park Boys last night via Netflix.
It follws the exploits of Julian, Ricky and Bubbles in their trailer park in Northeast Canada.
It's low budget, shallow, toilet humor and I FUCKING love it.
They curse almost non stop.
I grew up one neighborhood over from a trailer park so I have a certain amount of experience with the inhabitants of trailer parks. RP and I used to make movies that could be called the 'retarded cousin' of this show......... or the 'genius brother'. I'm going to have to dig up some old footage and see. But I digress.
The show is way over the top but it works well.
If it were true to life it would be too depressing to watch, but because it is so stereotypical it's way funny.
They have a movie in production now and season 5 just hit the airways up in Canada.
If you get a chance, watch this show....without your mom.

On the Person of Tom Gilson

My Cousin Tom Gilson died last night.
He is survived by his wife Carlene and his 3 children.
Tom was a great guy and he was my confirmation sponsor when I was 12.
I saw him this summer for the 1st time in around 8 years. He was still fun, life and all of it's daily hassels had not dragged him down.
There will be no mass mournings for Tom, no news stories nor any large funural processions.
Tom was a normal guy, he had a normal job and a normal family.
In death he wil continue that tradition.
But I will remember him as the teenager who taught me how to swing a baseball bat
as a man who helped guide a boy in matters of the spirit
and as a father who showed me life is just getting started at 30.

My hopes that he was in Heaven an hour before the Devil knew him dead.

2006: Year of the corporation

Right Now;
Karen is 're-doing' our kitchen
Someone is building a house 2 doors down from us
People are arriving home from work
and I'm writing this post.
You see I should be working; on something other than this blog.
For 2006 is the Year of the corporation.
That's right folks, all, see all, of my business thus far this year has been from corporate clients. Hooray. I've been trying for the past 2 years to get the ball rolling with some Fortune 1000 companies (it exists, I swear).
It seems to have finally happened.
I have a rather important gig tomorrow shooting a training film for a new (and potentially huge) client. Exciting, yes; scary, yes; I am as prepared to handle these types of clients as I'll ever be so why the fuck should I worry.
IF I SHIT THE BED THIS TIME IT"LL BE ANOTHER 2 YEARS TILL I GET ANOTHER CHANCE.
Well, maybe that's not so true.
I'm in the process of working up proposal for another large company to do their training film. Huge job, months of work and planning. I mean the proposal has taken/will take 6 days to put together. All in all I think I have about a 25% chance of getting this gig, but if I did....
FADE IN ON BEACH SCENE
We see a couple sitting in beach chairs with a table in between them. On the table are BLAH BLAH BLAH
I should have said insert generic Corona commercial here.

good days to you and all