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Poor grammar.
Adult themes.
Strange opinions.
Obscure references.
Foul language.
Utter madness.


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December 24, 2005

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!

http://x402.putfile.com/videos/d9-32110022328.wmv
What X-mas means to me, sort of.
(Thanks Mike.)



December 16, 2005

Revelations in the news

The Weekend Australian

" . . . three million people have watched another episode, Star Wars: Revelations.
The response has verged on the ecstatic."


December 11, 2005

Quick Notes

Sorry for the recent lack of post here. Here are some quick notes.

Having survived Thanksgiving everything is settling down again.
Gina and I prevailed upon Talia to extend her visit by a few days to let little Joseph get a bit stronger. Talia and family are back in NC and everyone is fine. Also the new PVC sewer line with it's two new clean-outs is working just fine. The yard looks like a bomb went off and the insurance is fighting us and trying to minimize anything they might have to pay for but otherwise it's all fine.

Gina has won 2005 Best Actress in a fan film award on theforce.net.
There were other awards for Revelations as well, but the voting process seems flawed and has touched off a good deal of debate. I refuse to get involved any further.

Meanwhile I went to see Narnia with a few friends the other night and that was pretty good and seemed to be a very faithful adaptation of the book. Although the actual experience of seeing the movie was spoiled a bit by a group of very belligerent girls sitting behind us. When asked to keep it down (or just move) they dug their heels in and made a point of being even more annoying. Talking, text messaging, (with the goddamn beep per button turned on.) and so on.

In any case, now I'm looking forward to KONG. That looks really fun.



December 1, 2005

ADOBE Shines Spotlight on "REVELATIONS"!

While making Revelations, Shane made heavy use of the Adobe suite. Now the company has an article about it up at their site. It's amazing to me that we're STILL generating buzz this long after the fact.
They have some really good things to say too.
Congratulations to Shane and everyone over at Panic Struck Productions.

Speaking of Revelations for a moment, (stop snickering back there!) recently Gina and I were both nominated for Best Actress and Best Actor respectively over at theforce.net and I must say just being nominated was quite an honor. I know everyone says that but I really mean it. However there seems to be a contingent of knuckleheads out there who aren't playing by the rules in the voting of the whole thing. To be sure there were other fan films this year, and I wouldn't tell anyone how to vote. All I would ask is that people be honest and vote fairly, and even that it seems is too much to hope for. (At first I swore I wasn't going to do this, but here we go.) If you're a regular here maybe you want to go over there, find the right place, and put in a vote. If you do though, please vote fairly. Don't vote for your friends movie because he or she is your friend, just vote for the best work or person in each category. Don't vote for a movie for best cinematography when the clowns making it clearly don't know what a goddamn tripod is.

If you're not registered, and don't want to give them your real information, allow me to introduce you to mailinator.com.



December 1, 2005

Our new theme for this month will be:
James Clavell's SHOGUN.

I loved this miniseries from the first. I can still remember how the first time it aired, I watched it, and talked about it, and waited for the next night. By the fourth or fifth night my friends and I were all sitting in front of the TV with Saki and a small fortune in Sushi in front of us, just waiting for the show to start.
Good times.
Toshiro Mifune as Toranaga always reminds me of my father.
Also it inspired us to read the book and other works by Clavell.
The book is way more intricate than the miniseries and totally worth the read. Actually Tai-Pan is my favorite of his books.
It was really hard to find art for this theme, so I cheated a little, but I think it's okay.




http://www.moveon.org/


Star Wars: Revelations

Reports, Reviews and Links:

Knight Ridder

Baltimore Sun

Inside Report

USA Today

CNN

TheForce.net

PanicStruckPro.com

 


This Month's
Theme:

SHOGUN
 
Sections
Command
 
 
 
Too much info
about me.
 
An independent, fan film; Starring Gina.
 
 
Commercial Links
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Communications
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Engineering
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
FUN
 
 
 
 
 
The Onion, America's Finest News Source
 
 
Musical Fun

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Started:
08/27/2003
Destinations

     
Farpoint Convention   February 17, 18 & 19, 2006
Revelations Premiere   April 16th, 2005
Shore Leave Convention   July 8, 9, & 10, 2005
NY Renaissance Festival   August 6 through September 25, 2005
MD Renaissance Festival   August through October, 2005
Lakewood, NJ Renaissance Fair   September 17 &18, 2005
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