Man, the growing pressure of keeping this blog updated, I’m again getting messages that I haven’t updated it in a while and yeah, I’ll admit I’ve been lazy and not keeping up with it, but really, since the last post, next to nothing exciting has happened to me. For the last week I’ve been working everyday for long hours and with nothing much in between. Just coming off a few days off where I’ve basically locked myself in my room, played games and movies and basically tried to ignore the world for a few days. Which for the most of it, worked to a degree, but also I discovered emails and social networking messages can pile up quite quickly.

Anyway, for the next few weekends, I’ll be DPing on that Wintec short film that I was asked about nearly at the start of this year and have been planning ever since in between, which included a test shoot that turned out disastrously bad for my mental health and some minor run ins with the heads at Wintec, cause I’m just annoying like that. But yeah, all to be seen.

Meanwhile, some congrats should be mentioned… friend Ross is heading down to Wellington this weekend? Or was it next weekend? I dunno… hell, either way, he’s one of the shortlisted competitor for the… oh great, I forgotten what its called, the um… writer’s initiative? No? Well, either way, it’s a big thing that for some reason I’ve suddenly forgotten what its called, but its totally awesome and all the best of luck to him and his inhumanly creative brain.

And friend Arthur is heading down to Wellington as well in October to attend some student journalism award ceremony for his articles in the Waikato Uni’s Nexus magazine. I’ll possibly be going down with him just to have a weekend away and just get drunk and hobnob the night away. Possibly.

Anyway, hell, that’s all I’ve got for now. Tomorrow is another day of work and as much as I’d like to think that’ll be something to blog about, instead you can have two videos of hilarity…

First, this lady’s answer is just so smart, it makes Einstein look like a douchebag…

And second, something I’d actually love to see in real life, a business meeting, conducted like it were an online message board or something equally trivial.

Yep, slackness in the posting, but I’ve been working a lot again or still, to have enough money next month for a wintec shoot coming up. Actually, the shoot already started on Saturday and got off to a good start. But the schedule is broken down into weekends only, which for me, means a little work in staying consistent in both energy and levels of creativity. But still, I’m looking forward to it.

But let’s see, Saturday night we held a party shindig for flatmate Fabian’s Birthday at the flat and it was pretty cool. Did a lot of setting up of lights and gels beforehand and it was most pretty and a good night overall. Good people were there, lots of drinking to be had and good friend Daisy and Sean came on down from Auckland to drink with, and that made me happy. So did the cute girl on lap, who’s finally getting a mention on this blog.

Then Sunday was old friend Tim’s wedding to his lady Irene and that was a really great lowkey ceremony. Best of all from it was I got to witness quite possibly the best choice of a wedding song ever… Spice Girls… uh… what the hell do you call that song? ziggazigah? Or whatever the hell it is, that, “if you wanna be ma lover” bollocks. Bad song, but that being played for her walk down the aisle, was fried gold.

And also to mention an eeeeeh! to Nick and Sarah for finally giving birth to their way too cute son whom they’ve been keeping track of the pregnancy here, but its still awaiting the cuteness of photos to come. And not to mention last, Dan and Ester, who are in the UK, they too had a baby girl Maddy (did I spell that right?). Everyone is just growing up, aren’t they?

And as for photos, here are some favourites from the party courtesy of the immaculate Petra Jane. There were other people with cameras there, but I’ve yet to track them down. Stupid drinking… actually the photos are all with me, cause I’m a whore for the camera like that. In front and behind.

What a week. Been working a nauseating amount of hours recently cause I’m going to need the extra cash once I start working on this upcoming wintec shoot next month. Why do I allow my time and precious energy to be used on so many other people’s projects? Meh, guess I’m just a delicous whore like that.

Today was a bit of the worst where a long shift, was nicely rewarded with a trip to the liquor store and a stop off at friend Ross’ house, but upon leaving, I discovered that my car once again conspires against me and decided to first decide that the battery was flat, and then not flat and then turn back on the alarm system which it turned off a couple of months ago, thus immobolising my car with an immoboliser I did not even know existed until this very evening. Which all resulted in me waiting on the roadside for an ungodly ammount of time for the AA fella to turn up.

But been watching a large quantity of films again, which I’m happy to say relishing in doing so once more. That, as opposed to watching them as a chore. Those last two sentences rhymed. It’s way past my bedtime. Let’s hope I don’t keep rhyming no more.

Okay, that was a little wierd. I do need sleep, but I’ve also got to prepare for my class tomorrow, a rehearsal for a scene and two film festival movies to watch. Yes, the Hamilton run has finally started and it’s a very sexy line up. Much to look forward to.

After several weeks of drinking, today shall mark the start of a sober week. Not to say that I’ve been drinking to binge Peckinpah levels, but I’ve been having at least a few drinks every night, either socially or unsoicailly. So what to do in this situation? Check out the trailer for Michel Gondry’s new film Be Kind Rewind here.

Or even better, watch a video on models falling on the catwalk.

And have just finished watching Jesus Camp. My tagline for this movie is “It’ll make you say JESUS!!”. I mean, seriously, you know those scenes in films where someone or something is happening and everyone else can’t believe it’s happening and all they can do is stare with their mouth wide open and completely frozen in whatever their doing? Yeah, I was doing that quite a bit through the whole damn thing, but I also beat that super computer robot at his own game of chess at the same time. I’m too good. But yeah, do check it out at the film fest if you can. Hell, I’m tempted to go just to see how out there the reactions may or may not be.

Anyway, here’s Minesweeper… THE MOVIE!

Right after a post about how I’ve been taking some time off films and not watching anything, I go ahead and watch four movies in a 24 hour time frame.

First was a rewatching of Scorsese’s Gangs of New York which I haven’t seen since I first bought it a couple of years ago. Then the doco This Film is Not Yet Rated which was suprising, funny, informative and made me also scratch my head at the oddity that is the MPAA. Dinner with the folks and finally, I went to see The Simpsons Movie which was just great. There must be something wrong with audience members these days, I seemed to be the one laughing the most at so many of the gags in that film, yet so many seemed reserved in enjoying themselves. Douches. And finally, I just finished watching Ozu’s Tokyo Story, which I’ve always read great things about and great it certainly is. Such beautifully composed shots and such a simple story with so complex characters, I was moved to say the least.

Now to consider finally watching Flags of Our Fathers or set it aside for another night and get some of that thing people call sleep.

Well, well, well… been a while eh?

Since the last post I got bogged down a busy with work and several shoots around the place, while also having a near breakdown with the total overload of work. So much so, I dropped myself out of contact with the world for a bit and tried to center myself. Sounds like a lot of zen bollocks, but I was really needing it to just clear my head for a bit. But now I’m back, feeling a bit better and the supermodels of the world can now rest easy knowing I’m alive.

But to recap, there has been a lot of drinking and a lot of reading and just recently, finished watching an excellent TV series called Dexter, which is just neat. Oh and ate camel the other day cause they had it at one of the cafe’s and that was pretty interesting. Tasted good. Overall, I’ve just been getting away a bit from the film scene, tried not watching or think about any movies and just generally kept myself occupied on other things. So apart from the film festival and one small day of filming, I’m gonna try to keep the rest of August free of anything too film related.

I started writing this post with a lot of things in mind to mention, but now I’ve got nothing. Save it for another time I suppose. At least it’ll mean another post. Hopefully sooner, rather than later too.