Now thats what I'm talkin 'bout.

I just finished watching Robocop for a second time in the past two weeks. It really is great. I had no idea they filmed a majority of it in Dallas till my friend told me a week ago. It was fun watching reunion tower bounce around the background.

The Plan

So here's the basic plan for my as-of-yet unnamed Action trilogy. The main characters are also unnamed so that shall go by generic names. This will be a trilogy of shorts approximately 10-15 mins each. I will post character profiles either later today or tomorrow.

generic title - abbrev for summary (actor's name)
Good guy - GG (Aaron Martin)
Good guy's brother - Bro (Jason Mueller)
Drug Boss - Boss (Hermes Ovalle)
Drug Enforcer - Enf (Adan Gutierrez)
Shaman -Shm (Richard May)

Part 1

GG returns from Iraq (as a contractor) to an empty house. Bro was left in charge of GG's house while he was gone. GG has lost contact with Bro while in Iraq and hasn't communicated with him in 3 months. The best GG can put together from a series of phone calls is that Bro is involved with some dope dealing gang. GG contacts the gang on the false pretenses that he is there to purchase a large amount of dope. GG goes to where he is told he can make such a large transaction with the boss himself. The front is a used-furniture store. Security cameras will play a big role in conveying the story at the store. After a tense period between the Boss and GG about the false deal. Boss rather suspiciously is very helpful once he finds out GG's true motives for contacting him. Once GG leaves with the information on locating his brother. Boss calls in Enf. Boss tell the Enf talk to Shm and put 'el Ojo' on GG. A lot of strange interaction goes on beyond the simple curse. Shm gives enf a medallion of sorts. GG picks up Bro from a party house without incident. GG awakes the next morning to find his lock busted and Bro gone. GG goes to see Boss that night. Asks Boss about Bro. Boss tells him to leave and to forget about bro. GG refuses. Enf comes in a fight ensues that eventually sends Enf over a balcony and crashing through a table. GG much more quickly puts Boss in a compromised position and gets the location of his brother. GG gets Bro groggy, blindfolded and gagged in the closet GG seeing no other choice mortally wounds boss for fear of further retaliation. GG exits the furniture store. The final shot will be enf laying facedown in the ruins of the table his hand clutching the medallion given to him by Shm.

I've run out of time and will have to run through the less develop 2nd and 3rd parts later.

Tech & TV

My newest technological obsession is the new p2p file-sharing Bit Torrent. Downloads are slower and it is very hard to get the less popular or older stuff. But I set some downloads before I go to sleep and wake up with 5 classic COMPLETE albums. Nice. I'm also currently d/ling the complete second season of "the best show on TV" The Wire. It'll probably take a week or two but that's the beauty of broadband. Also the second half of the first season of Deadwood is on its way. With no cable and no public television I still manage to get the serial entertainment I want to see and none of the bullshit I don't want to see. Apparently there's a way you can set up your own TiVo using Bit torrent to d/l the shows as they premier every week.

Speaking of TV there's a couple of really good shows on TV.

The Wire


Deadwood


Arrested Development

I'm sure there's more but this is all that's caught my fancy and comes to mind.

I've been doing my homework for the past year. I been taking in a lot of the classics of American Cinema. Most recently I've discovered the Arlington Public Library video collection. It's chock-full of classic films.

My most recent "holy-shit" moment has come by way of a fight scene early on in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. One of the best fights in movie history. It's a great blend of realism and dramatics in a two on one brawl where Bogey and his moral sidekick only barely overcome their large opponent. There's one shot where Bogart is knocked against the bar and the camera follows him as he slumps down to the floor. I definately plan on stealing that. John Huston thoroughly impressed me with the whole film. Since I just finished "reading" (audiobook) The Maltese Falcon. I'll have to check out Huston's film version soon.

On the subject of classic films if anyone knows how to get a hold of a copy of John Sturges' Bad Day at Black Rock I'd really appreciate hearing from you. There's no DVD copy available as of yet. And all VHS copies are either used (which i dont trust) or new and very expensive. I've gone shopping to pawn shops sometimes just looking for a lasedisc player because I hear there's a great LD with commentary out there of it.

One big reason I wanted to start blogging again was to help me get some ideas down on paper.

So here's one I had today:
While waiting for our shift to begin one of the girls I was working with started rolling her pants with a lint brush very vigorously. She was suffering from a nic-fit so I think that why she was doing it so hard and fast. But her pants and the lint roller made this really interesting combinations of noises. So I thought interesting to have this character who was really aroused by girls lintrolling their pants. I thought it was funny so I txtmessaged Aaron and he agreed.

Return

I'm back. And with good reason too. I spent the past year going through my first major heartbreak. It hurt.. it hurt really bad at times. But I'm strong now. I'm weathered. Somewhat jaded but that comes with the territory. And is not always a bad thing. My life is in more of a mess now than I will ever care to make known. But it's ok the only way is up, maybe even a bit diagonal but still up. My way up. Slowly using both my arms and my legs.

College is on hold, until next fall at the very earliest.

Exciting Things, Possibilities

• Making Action movies particularly an Action Trilogy I have in mind for a completely amateur cast & crew under the banner Black-Eyed Productions

• U.S. Coast Guard I'm considering training to go into the Coast Guard

• Teaching my friend Aaron how to box and wrestle (read: fight) and thus having a sparring partner

• I'm looking for a new job. Today I pretty much peaked at my current job (waiting tables at the Black-Eyed Pea). Thanksgiving day is our busiest day. I had the biggest station and sold the most food. Yawn. Some warehouse work with full benefits is starting to sound very appealing.

• More to come...

This past summer I spent teaching little kids how to wrestle at a summer day camp ran by my family. I did this in Corpus Christi where most of my family resides. The experience was wonderful. The kids were amazing they caught on so well. Our first demonstration was amazing. I'd put together little soundtracks for the demos. But the entrance music every times was the Kill Bill Vol. 1 trailer track. When the first demo was done I was ecstatic. I felt like I had one my first wrestling match all over again.

Another amazing experience I had in Corpus was, learning to surf. Surfing in my book ranks right up there with wrestling. It's an amazing thrill. It's hard to talk about surfing and not sound ridiculous so I wont go on to long.

ref. Step Into Liquid

I got a lot to put down but also a lot of time to do it in.