Yeasayer, you had me at Kristen Bell…
But seriously, could you please make a weirder video? Seriously?
Category: video
Phishing time!
I’m guessing that Jay-Z will NOT be in the building, but I am still seriously excited about the next two nights at Deer Creek (no, not “Verizon Wireless… whatever”). Heat be damned, I’m ready to dance my ass off!
If you haven’t seen Phish live, drop what you are doing and go get a ticket. NOW. You may not know their music (although I’d be surprised if you haven’t at least heard “Down With Disease” or “Bouncing Around The Room”), but they are an amazingly talented live act, and they always throw in a few cover songs to keep you on your toes. Favorites include Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Talking Heads, and this year they’ve played Rage Against The Machine, Bob Dylan and Francis Scott Key (OK, it was the Fourth of July) as well.
All in all, a good time can always be found at a Phish show. I’ll be there with 20+ thousand of my closest phriends… hopefully you are one of them!
Take that, Justin Bieber!
Maybe a few more water bottles to the head will convince him to stop making awful music. I would imagine that the fifty-gajillion dollars he made in the last week would convince him otherwise…
OK, OK, I know this post is mean, and I wouldn’t wish harm on (almost) anybody…
But I really, really, really don’t like Justin Bieber.
Information Society Saturday!
I don’t know why, but this song has been stuck in my head for the past two days.
So, now it’s stuck in your head too.
You’re welcome.
A happy ending for a “lost” film…
In 1997, Sundance film festival audiences warmly received a movie entitled “Colin Fitz Lives!” from first-time director Robert Bella. The film had a great cast (William H. Macy, Martha Plimpton and John McGinty, among others) and an original story, and it seemed like the fates were aligning for something special. There was just one problem.
Robert Bella ran out of money.
Even after all the buzz surrounding the film came to a furor right after its debut at Sundance, none of the distribution deals Bella was offered would cover the expenses he incurred during its production. Bella had raised over $150,000, and had maxed out some 20 credit cards, in order to produce the movie. Under this crippling debt, Bella lost his film to creditors, became homeless for a short spell, and spent over 8 years getting his life back.
In the aftermath of “Colin Fitz Lives!,” Bella worked on and in a few movies, and dug himself out from under his massive debt. He managed to finally buy back his film from his debtors, was offered a distribution deal from IFC Films, and the theater hits screens in a limited run in August.
Sounds like the plot to a good movie, right? Hmmmm…
This post copyrighted 2010 of Dusty Fingertips Films, Inc. (If you make a movie about Robert Bella, just remember it was my idea first!)