September 2008
WatchHere is my directing project. I was given a script and had to make due with it. I still can’t figure out how to upload video to the internet while maintaining the original integrity. We shot this with the P2 and it looks extremely nice, but once transfered to here it comes out like shit- image quality wise. I directed while Briana Morini did cinematography and Gabe Diaz held the boom mic....
“Wouldn’t it just rock and roll if liking someone meant they had to like you...”
– Olive - I could sit around quoting Pushing Daisies for days and never tire of it. (via vinh)
Nice. A tumblr-er with similar interests the town over!
Oh You!
Should most definitely be deleted from my facebook but I can’t do it. Stupid fucking feed telling me things about you. But no! Optimism! The grand campaign begins tomorrow! My old email system empties its archives tomorrow, so I must salvage our old contacts. And now to make new contacts. Fuck ‘I wish life were more cinematic’- I’m making it cinematic. Though the obstacles...
Life Lessons
christinahaberkern:
Drunk Tumbling is just as dangerous as Drunk Dialing.
Ha, most definitely. It’s so obvious which posts in my archive were made while drinking.
“If you have to explain the joke then it’s probably not worth it…”
– notes on one of my scripts
Well if I have to explain who Sarah Palin is then you shouldn’t be reading this sort of thing in the first place, let alone expected to laugh.
Thank You
I just heard the rumble of distant thunder for the first time in 4 months at least and now it has begun to rain. I’m excited. Maybe I can wear a sweater or a scarf or something. Bring on the fall.
Also- FUCK YEAH! Tony created a character who can only be described as ‘Drunk-Guy-At-Party-Who-Stares-You-In-The-Eyes-While-Reciting-Hip-Hop-Lyrics’. I thought we lost the good take...
christinahaberkern:
He/She/it knows… it didn’t make a difference.
Fuck. If it helps any the letter-recipient could quite possibly be getting married soon, if the path continues. Why can’t life be like the movies? Why can’t I do some ridiculous grand gesture and it would just work? Fucking years of box-office lies!
christinahaberkern:
lieslieslies:
I almost wrote you a letter today.
Whoever he/she/it is, do it. Don’t wait to tell people how you feel… you only waste time, and you don’t want to live to regret something…. it’s the worst feeling in the world. Take it from me, I’m older than you.
Plus, who isn’t a sucker for some real mail?? It’s a lost art, I always say (plus, I have about a thousand things...
I almost wrote you a letter today.
Deep
The casting session was hilarious and bro-filled and we’re kind of lost as to where we’re going to go with this pilot if we can’t get the right people on board. Is it so hard to find people with our same comic sensibilities? Maybe. But it was just day one so we’ve got time. Right now I’m scrot-deep in a pile of short scripts to give notes on and this is too hilarious...
actors
My roommate and best friend is doing a pilot. Today they are having a casting session to see if certain actors can work well together. One of the characters is based on me so I’m going and might play the role- this will be interesting. Though, for some reason, I think the other people were meeting with are d-bags and I don’t want to be in a forced awkward situation with...
Okkervil River - Song of our So-Called Friend
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haver hill party pass
Yesterday Tony, Gabe, and I started production on our internet sketch comedy webseries. We filmed the fake-promos and first sketch and everything was hilarious and fun and we got some really good takes. We’re gonna re-shoot most of it but it was nice to find our groove and see where we really wanted to go with the first episode. Time to write some more sketches in addition to reading 24...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
I only got to catch about 15 minutes of the debates tonight but goddamn McCain, answer a question instead of jerking yourself off in front of America, you decaying fuck.
In other news, we just logged the footage of today’s shoot and it looked really great. I’m pumped and I’m really happy about how I helmed the directors position and felt like I did a really good job.
In girl...
amandalynferri:
you won’t get with me tonight -...
wren
Picked up extra shift at work to help make those ends meet and the night is young. Seeing a new girl tonight and that sure is exciting. Got a camera rented for tomorrow and filming the first in a series of directing exercises- god please don’t let me choke. Let’s take this town down with light and sound and move in reverse until we’ve all been found. Time to go knock a couple...
4:
Like you’re married, you yell at each other on a street corner. 3 AM, the city of Orange, the drinks make you feel heavy. Warm night, she sits on the pavement- red faced and crying. This is not what you want, you think. Don’t do this, she pleads. 3 months go by at 3 AM as the happy drunks stumble by. She pleads as you open another one.
A Series of Other Works In Direct Contribution to...
I’ve made mistakes. Horrible things have been done at my hand. While I lie motionless on the floor, covered in sweat- I think about small things. I would throw in the towel today to see her in my kitchen. Cutting a tomato, covered in morning sun. Wearing a bandana.
Sitting on our couch. Feet wrapped in a blanket, reading a book. Trying to fix a stuck drawer. Aggravated, blowing her bangs...
Found coastlines
The Okkervil River show was so fucking amazing. They played every song I wanted. The crowd was brilliant. I went with my roommate/favorite OR fan I know. I got a good position near the barricade next to the most genuinely nice and friendly person I have ever met randomly. CHEERS CHRISTINA! (Oh god I hope I got her name right…).
Top Tuesday
I’m leaving for the Okkervil show in about an hour. I cleaned my kitchen spotless and that felt great. I got really great feedback about my script from someone I really respect. Although the whole Waitress situation was throwing me for loops and the writing of this all-too-personal film has been knocking me down- today feels great. For once, if only fleeting, I’ve got this shit...
how the west was won
I’m pretty certain I’ve finished my script I want to submit/shoot for festivals. Theres some tweaking needed in a couple parts but the whole character arc and plotlines are polished up and I’m pretty stoked about this.
new rules
I love my craft sometimes when the hardest part of what I’m doing is figuring out the best way to squeeze in a Sarah Palin joke into an astronaut sketch or agonizing over how to get Ned and Chuck in a new non-touching yet romantic situation for my Pushing Daisies spec.
Live blogging my television-writing lecture
7 minutes in and wish I had a knife.
Okkervil River
Tomorrow night. So pumped.
“BECAUSE I CUT THE BRAKES! WILDCARD, BITCHES! YEEEEHAWWWWWWW!”
– Charlie Day
Goddamn I am so glad these people exist.
The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
Get...
MAC: Fellas, we're about six beers deep so you're going to have to be more specific, I didn't really catch that last part.
hush hush/mumble mumble
Don’t kiss girls in bathrooms anymore. Don’t cast with your libido.
I should be working on my film but I find it funnier to work an a fake Skinemax script which I will do absolutely nothing with when I’m finished. I want to meet someone new and at the same time I don’t want to meet anyone and just stop worrying about these kinds of things at odd hours of the night, while...
SMILES ALL ROUND
else:
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mogwai
Mixed signals are such a beast of grief. However, I have the day off, have some Shipyards, having a party tonight, getting some work done, and got to see my old roommate/best friend last night/today and that has made all the girl troubles take a super backseat. Like the backseat of a fucking Astrovan, where all the crumbs and empty juiceboxes hang out. Suck it.
Melancholy
christinahaberkern:
I had a two hour conversation about you last night with my sister. It’s always eye-opening to see things from another perspective, and she was completely right. Moving on…
Wish I could do the same- but good for you if you can. You’re “street as the hood”.
Things I Need
Haircut
Motivation
A better job
Funding
Self-esteem
The White
More time
Pants
amandalynferri:
Illustrate the History - BOAT
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“Me and my friends are like: doublewhiskeycokenoice.”
Death Ray
christinahaberkern:
Great show. Great company. Then I found $15 on the sidewalk. Bonus!
Ha. This is better than 90% of everything I do. 15 dollars?!