So yesterday I had a bit of an adventure!
There has been alot of viral marketing for the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, that involve websites that you need to explore, real life scavenger hunts, etc. etc. So they had this one where you explore the website, then you get a time and a location to be somewhere but they dont tell you what it is (even though everyone knows that it is the trailer for the movie). Well I had the location and time even though I didnt have a ticket.
I had to real plan of going because the time to meet was at 6pm and I had class scheduled till 7pm. But lady luck was shinning on me the whole evening, because class ended around 515ish, I booked it to the R train. Transfered to the 3 in no time and made it to the theater around 535ish. The line was really long, and someone gave me a spare ticket. Around 620 they loaded us all in the theater, I got a fantastic seat, and the writer Johnathan Nolan introduced the movie.
The clip was shown in beautiful Imax, and was about five minutes long (Spoiler-ish description to follow), and it showed a bank robbery of people dressed in clown masks, mayhem insues, and at the end, the clown prince himself appears! After that there is about 2 minutes of footage from the rest of the movie shown(spoilers over). And obviously it was awesome! But still short. It was great because this is the first in motion footage shown from the movie. All we have had to see as of yet has been only pictures.
After the clip was over the lights came up and people started to leave. A few people were REALLY pissed off because they exspected an advanced screening of I Am Ledgend. They kept yelling "Give us Will Smith!!" but it never came. While exiting they handed out these fake news papers that had the head line "CITY AT WAR!" so on the way home on the subway people kept giving the paper some strange looks.
After that I went home. Watched Scrubs and then put in this movie called Heavenly Creatures which was really good, but REALLY disturbing.
Anyways, this weekend looks to be a fun one. Going to try and hit up the Moma and catch a screening of Golden Compass. Here is the radio show.
http://rapidshare.com/files/74270237/My_Mixed_Tape_12_3_2007.mp3
Friday, December 7, 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
My Lazy Weekend.
I have some work to do over the next few weeks. Two papers (one is finished). Shoot and edit an interview. And three finals. I was stressing them a little bit last week. But I used this weekend to compartmentalize what I need to do.
I shared my screenplay with my class and it went over really well. This one kid who I thought really hated said it was the best thing he's read of mine for the class. Now granted I'm not saying we are friends now but thats kind of a big deal for me. I am going to shoot it sometime next semester. And I want to try and scheduel it so that people can come up and make cameos in the movie.
Heroes first draft
I did get to see two of the six movies I was attempting to see this weekend. I saw I'm Not There on Thursday after spending time with my aunt and Ellery. It was a really insane movie. It was all over the place. To people who are not used to incoherent movies will not like I'm Not There.
Friday was the day that Mark celebrated his birthday. I had work during the day but we didn't really do anything. We did play the Wii for a while and was alot of fun. After work I met Mark and his friends and we went and got some really good pizza. After pizza we went and got margaritas. And before you ask "How did you do it even though you are underage", the answer is NO ONE up here cards. They just don't. After the mexican place closed we went to this hookah bar down the street. It was the coolest hookah bar ever. It looked like they stole it from out of the set of the Darjeeling Limited. I got really light headed and decided to not take the subway home. It was around 1am so it would not have been a good idea.
I had quiet possibly one of the worst nights of sleep of my life. I kept on getting woken up. It was a combination of the air conditioning being loud. Insomnia in general. And my roommate and his girlfriend talking to each other at 530 in the morning. After sleeping till about 9 taylor and I just bopped around the dorm getting food and what not. Then we decided that we would go see Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But when we got to the theater it was sold out.
I still haven't fully gotten used to the fact that movies sell out here all the time. And also the theater didn't accept credit cards! How lame is that.
We went back to the dorm after walking around Manhattan for a little while and just chilled for the rest of the night. I went to bed REALLY early. Like 1030 or 11pm.
Today really was a lazy sunday. I got up at 930 and got dressed and made my way to go see Diving Bell and the Butterfly. After that I spent the rest of the afternoon writing my two papers that are due this week. One is on the editing of a movie and how it affects the audience. I choose to do it on Diving Bell. The other is for my comic class and I think I might do Heroism VS. Vigilantism: where can you draw the line.
It was nice though. I used this weekend to analyze my anxiety about all my work and I realized that I have alot more time than I thought I did.
I shared my screenplay with my class and it went over really well. This one kid who I thought really hated said it was the best thing he's read of mine for the class. Now granted I'm not saying we are friends now but thats kind of a big deal for me. I am going to shoot it sometime next semester. And I want to try and scheduel it so that people can come up and make cameos in the movie.
Heroes first draft
I did get to see two of the six movies I was attempting to see this weekend. I saw I'm Not There on Thursday after spending time with my aunt and Ellery. It was a really insane movie. It was all over the place. To people who are not used to incoherent movies will not like I'm Not There.
Friday was the day that Mark celebrated his birthday. I had work during the day but we didn't really do anything. We did play the Wii for a while and was alot of fun. After work I met Mark and his friends and we went and got some really good pizza. After pizza we went and got margaritas. And before you ask "How did you do it even though you are underage", the answer is NO ONE up here cards. They just don't. After the mexican place closed we went to this hookah bar down the street. It was the coolest hookah bar ever. It looked like they stole it from out of the set of the Darjeeling Limited. I got really light headed and decided to not take the subway home. It was around 1am so it would not have been a good idea.
I had quiet possibly one of the worst nights of sleep of my life. I kept on getting woken up. It was a combination of the air conditioning being loud. Insomnia in general. And my roommate and his girlfriend talking to each other at 530 in the morning. After sleeping till about 9 taylor and I just bopped around the dorm getting food and what not. Then we decided that we would go see Diving Bell and the Butterfly. But when we got to the theater it was sold out.
I still haven't fully gotten used to the fact that movies sell out here all the time. And also the theater didn't accept credit cards! How lame is that.
We went back to the dorm after walking around Manhattan for a little while and just chilled for the rest of the night. I went to bed REALLY early. Like 1030 or 11pm.
Today really was a lazy sunday. I got up at 930 and got dressed and made my way to go see Diving Bell and the Butterfly. After that I spent the rest of the afternoon writing my two papers that are due this week. One is on the editing of a movie and how it affects the audience. I choose to do it on Diving Bell. The other is for my comic class and I think I might do Heroism VS. Vigilantism: where can you draw the line.
It was nice though. I used this weekend to analyze my anxiety about all my work and I realized that I have alot more time than I thought I did.
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