Now I Want You To Go Back To Sleep!

The Calm Before The Panamania was anything but. Although I have every reason to believe that I wasn't drunk enough. But I shall rectify that come St. Patty's Day which, once I check up on, may be being hosted at the FratCave.

Wednesday morning begins the first day of shooting for Experimental Film and I'm excited to finally get production underway on this project. I've got roughly five weeks to shoot and edit an hour long film, but I think it's possible seeing as how Marduk's Madness was thirty-five minutes and done in roughly two and a half weeks. We'll also be editing this as we go along so I'm confident we'll complete it in time and if we don't I'll just see about it screening it at the Union and enter it next year.

In band news, there are some rough demos of us up at purevolume.com/onenationunderbg and myspace.com/onenationunderbg. We're currently working on getting a new bass player and hopefully we'll have an album recorded by the end of April.

Since I have to borrow my buddy Tom's drawing table for Experimental Film, I might actually get started on that neglected notion I had of putting together a comic book, but I seriously need to hone my chops as an artist although I'm making some improvement.

I've also all but decided that I'm not working back home at Recreation Unlimited this summer. It makes zero sense to work my butt off when 80% of my earnings are going to pay for someplace that I'm not even using, plus if my plan to teach at BGSU works out, I'm gonna end up living here anyway so what better time to start than now?

Also, Liquid X Records is on my shit list since they decided to not sign my best friend's band at the 11th hour after they jerked them around with showers of praise and flew them to the old people capital of the world for a photo shoot and to cut a single...For shame, Liquid X Records...You may be artist owned and operated, but you're still a buncha jerks!

In closing, I still hate hippies.

"That's what we call this house now I want you to go back to sleep! Go back to sleep, my dear!"

No, These Are Not Bionic.

Firstly-I got a lead for Experimental Film! Booyakasha!

Secondly-The movie Ghost Rider sucks...Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, because if they do they're not your friend and clearly want bad things to happen to you.

Thirdly-The movie I did for UFO's 48 Hours Project last semester is finally up. Click this noise to check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3mSmrwZkXI

Last night was kind of a depressing moment in UFO, at least for me. We had something like eight or nine people show, counting officers. Our faculty advisor, Daniel (Professor Williams if you're nasty) made his first visit and it was kind of embarrassing to have him show up at a meeting with such low turnout. He stuck around afterwards and Peter, Steve and I talked with him for a good twenty minutes or so. It was nice to vent about my contempt of certain other individuals in the "filmmaking community" and the disgusting amount of apathy in the so-called "student filmmaking community" and actually have an authoritative figure who understood where I was coming from for a change. We're still trying to pull stuff together for the film festival, but hopefully it'll come together somehow.

The following things own me for the rest of the semester-My band, VideoBank, UFO, my friend's projects, Experimental Film and my girlfriend...Actually, strike the last one. That's a lie.

Also, I'm officially getting by on a steady regiment of energy drinks and Marlboro Reds...Life is good.

Grandma, Let Me Help You Out Of The Chair

Day Three-Johnson's team hasn't reported for almost four hours. I fear for the worst. Wierzbowski is adamant that we send out a search party, but for now I'm the next C.O. in the chain of command and I stand by my decision-It's not a good idea to send out a search party for the search party, not in this weather. We have zero visibility and our comms are already twitchy as it currently stands. Besides, SOP states that in this scenario we wait thirty hours before a unit is declared M.I.A. Wierzbowski is insistent that standard operating procedure no longer applies when it's not a standard operation anymore...maybe he's onto something.

BG officially looks less like the ice planet Hoth from Empire, which is a bit of a relief. Hiking to school is not nearly as perilous this week and less peril is always a plus.

In VideoBank news, we shot an interview with my pal Erik in his professional wrestler persona as Hobo Joe. It's quite entertaining, and tomorrow we're going to be shooting some B-roll on and off campus to intercut into the interview. I'm excited to see what else we'll get accomplished with VB this semester.

In Experimental Film news, I still don't have a goddamn lead, and it's quite irritating.

In other other news, I am still the boss, applesauce.

"Grandma, what was it like to be on that holiday site?"

And I Thought They Smelled Bad On The Outside

So, this is what's going down. We're currently in Day Two of what I like to call "The Calm Before The Storm." Now, typically, some disaster (natural or otherwise) occurs, potentially closing down some institutions (Bowling Green State University) and making travel difficult. From there, it's a hop, skip and a suspiciously coincidental act that renders all communication impossible, cutting off the peaceful village of Bowling Green from the rest of the world. Enter Phase Two-The invasion. Either by Xenomorphs, Predators or zombies, but by God you better believe there's going to be an invasion. I've strategically outfitted my domicile with weaponry to aid me in the event of such an...event. The FratCave will stand as the last bastion of survival for those in Bowling Green. Once the survivors have been rounded up and made it there, we'll make our glorious last stand before escaping the corporation limit mere moments before it is nuked into oblivion...It's the only way to be sure. Naturally, I'll survive (I have to, I'm the main character in this narrative) and chances are a female will make it out and she'll fall in love with me, and maybe one other survivor to provide us with moments of comic relief to ease the tension that we are the last living people in Wood County, which isn't that big of a deal...Until we find out that this has happened literally all over the world and we may very well be the last of our kind anywhere on this rock! With the aid of love, science and some big fucking guns, we'll take it back! We'll rebuild! We'll repopulate! We'll make it work...this time!

And who says romance is dead? That's my Valentine's Day story. Deal with it.

Now, this is what's really going down. It's V-Day and we just had a snow day yesterday. We also have a snow day today...But I don't have internet or cable at my apartment yet, so I didn't know these things until after I trudged all the way from downtown to the student union. Bowling Green very much resembles the ice planet Hoth in Empire right now. If this continues until tomorrow, though, I'll be pissed because that means Time Warner won't come install my cable or internet and they'll have to reschedule...I've already waited a fucking month! I want my window to the world and I wanted it yesterday!

But I suppose I'll clean the FratCave. Someone should call or brave the storm and hang out there, otherwise cabin fever might settle in and I'll start hallucinating and writing weird blog entries like I did last year when I was snowed in for a week.

Game Over, Man, Game Over!

"I don't know if you're up on current events man, but we just got our asses kicked!"

I love the Alien movies (Alien 3 or Alien Cubed, whichever, not as much, but the rest-so good). As such, I spent the better part of work back home this weekend watching all of them, and it was pretty goddamn sweet.

In other news, One Nation Under had our first practice since we played Howard's back in November last night...We're a bit rough, but we at least remember the songs, so that's a plus. I don't know if a UFO Fund Raiser show is gonna happen this semester or not right now, but we're gonna try to get some shows either way (hopefully with a couple of friend's bands). Once we get back-up vocals down I think we're gonna try to record as well because 1) I'd like to finally get something I've done musically done for an album and 2) I'd like to try to shoot a music video or two this semester for us, and 3) I'd like to be able to contribute one of our songs for the Experimental Film soundtrack.

"I say we grease this ratfuck son of a bitch!"

Experimental Film is slowly coming together. I've got a good portion of the minor roles cast, still need to talk to a few people about it but I'm still trying to find a goddamn lead which is proving to be a bit of a task since the few individuals I'd had in mind for the role are just obscenely busy this semester. So hopefully that'll come together soon.

Also, a couple parties coming up over the next few weeks, I'm pretty excited about it...Oh, and then Valentine's Day, I guess, but...whatev!

"They mostly come at night. Mostly."