Hey Flip-philes. Sure, it has been a little while since my last post, but since when has that ever stopped us? We're both here today, a little bit older (and, contrary to popular belief, not quite wiser), and we're as eager as ever to get some bloggin' done. That's right. No "g". That's how you know you're in for a good time.The biggest development over the last few months is that I finally finished my script for Trailer Trash Kidnapping. What I thought would be a 90-page sprint turned into a 127-page marathon. Usually brevity is a strong suit of mine. This time, it was one of my worse suits. A thrift store suit. The kind that itch.
Anyway, I turned it in to the Nicholl and am hoping for positive results. Hopefully, I can at least match the semi-success of Anywhere, Illinois, a project that managed to make it to the quarterfinals despite the debilitating handicap of being written by me.
I've managed to get a little bit of work in the past few months. The creators of MadTV made a webseries called Camera Cafe and I was fortunate enough to get on that as a production assistant. Not an amazing amount of money (that gold toilet remains an unrealized ambition), but enough to get my rent taken care of. Ah, the eternal quest of a twenty-something: paying rent on time. Good thing I don't have a whole lot of money right now. I fear I would blow it all on things I don't need, like DVDs and deodorant.
I went home a few weeks ago and worked as a PA for my buddy John Summerour's film, Sahkanaga. Though I only caught glimpses of how it looked on camera, what I saw was amazing, and I believe John has an astonishing film on his hands. I can't wait for you to see it, Dear Reader. It is being made with the upmost professionalism and enthusiasm, and if only a fracture of that skill is evident on screen, then it will still be a helluva film.
As always, here are a few youtube videos I'm digging this week:
The trailer for Funny People. Amazing.
Green Day's Know Your Enemy. Good song from a great album.
The latest trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Epic.
Oh, and the teaser for Toy Story 3. This is a very trailer-heavy edition of The Weekly Flippo.
I suppose that wraps it up. If you'll excuse me, all that awesome has left me tired. I'll catch you next week for a little bit more Weekly Flippo.
The Flippo
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