Where I am this morning

Dentist appointment at 8:30am.
I don't floss, trench mouth, gutter gums, rot jaw, stank pit.
Good way to wake up, steel in flesh, graaaaah!
 
Sarah is into Dexter's Lab, thank you Lord!
We are slowly introducing other foods into her diet.
A girl can't live on Dora alone.
 
Cameron is sleeping through the night.
This makes all the difference in the world.
His sensor pad trips the alarm at night.
I think he levitates.
 
A new week at work, sigh.
I think of it as an 8 hour exercise in meditation.
I am like Carrie White, locked in the prayer closet.
A cell, a computer, something to keep my fingers busy, like rosary beads.
Let my brain soak and emit.
 
Tonight, Starbucks, my only social outlet.
I do love it so.
It's nasty, and my role is more of a dorky dad type,
But I am loven it these days.
Coffee is like cooking. It can be very satisfying.
 
I am always Conkle, always Drog, I never stop, I don't exert effort, I don't react, I flow.
 
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Sweeney Todd!

Hey, just rented Sweeney Todd!

 

Looooooooved this movie!

 

Wished I had scene it in theaters.

 

Photography, old school pink blood, chemistry between Carter and Depp, the look, Carter in general was awesome, Rickman is awesome, Depp was awesome, good pace, everyone had a big hurtful longing that made such great drama, I had a blast with this, I want more Burton - Depp colaborations, they are fun. Oh, and the bag lady twist at the end broke my heart. I love vengence stories, ones that revel in the futility and horror of it all.

 

The chanllenges - some of the same, Depp and Carter looked like Goth Ken and Barbie, maybe a bit over done, the whole thing a bit "big", so it was like a cartoon (it is a musical, so don't listen to me), the love story between the teenagers never had a climax.

 

Best part - the casting

Worst part - the teenage love story

 

But man I can't tell you how awesome the chemistry was between these two leads, and Rickman again, awesome, and his hinchman dude, AWESOME, perfect casting there.

 

Horror/comedy/musical- great!

 

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I am trying to accept the entire moment for what it is and not enforce my preconceptions on events that I perceive.

Prethinking / thinking / rethinking = prison

That being said, it’s a good movie.

They get a lot right, so I’m not going to let THAT FREAKING MONKEY SCENE get on my nerves.

Breathe in, breathe out.

It wasn’t like LaBoof was Tucker in Fifth Element (11 years ago, let it go, let it go.)

Think about the red scare, the cold war, the nuclear testing, the greatest generation, the whip, and Harrison Ford in the fedora, Cate’s hair do.

That’s the stuff I responded too.

Got to let LaBoof and monkeys and the Mission To Mars / X-Files ending go, or just accept them. Breathe in, just a movie, breathe out.

MAN I LOVED THOSE ANTS! (seriously I did)

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Zombeak Screening at The Swiff

Alright, to all those I have promised to mail a copy of Zombeak to, and whose copies seem to have been lost in the mail (wink), I will be handing out copies to cast and crew at this awesome event coming up... THE SOMETHING WICKED FESTIVAL OF FILMS!

 

This is Kevin Power’s ongoing series showcasing films produced here in GA, and he was gracious enough to include our vulgar little freak show in the line up.

 

Thus! There will be a nice screening of the finished (relative term) film and a Q and A afterwards so if any of the cast/crew would like to participate in that, I’m sure we can have Kevin find us enough stools for people to sit on. It will give everyone a chance to work on their Inside the Actors Studio answers.

 

AND!  Well that’s it. Please let everyone on your mailing list know about this, any one who’s asked “what ever happened to that chicken movie?”, please invite them! Here is you chance to prove that you had not been out binge drinking every weekend in the summer of 04.

 

If only you guys show up that would be awesome too! A chance to reconnect.

 

Here is the link to the website and myspace page!

 

http://www.myspace.com/somethingwickedfilmfest

 

http://theswiff.com/news.aspx

 

 

PS – I have been updating the blog more often due to the magic of sending video from my phone! WARNING! They are now mixed with gushy/mushy ponderings of life and yah yah whatevahs (baby pics and what if god was one of us musings) But it will keep you in the loop on where we are in getting a release date,

 

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M day

Yum

Sleep

Great!

Multimedia message

Caffiend!

Hanna-Barbera

Watching lots of Scooby

Scooby on demand

Sarah loves it

Dogs and Ghosts

I love the originals

They still work

Just scary enough for kids, not too scary

Never realized that most of the voices are Shaggy

The backgrounds are awesome

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2007/10/50-scooby-doo-background-paintings.html

Would love to get some of that art

Then we watch Flintstones

Made about six years before Scooby

Much better animation

And I think about Hanna-Barbera

How the 70s and 80s the animation was so sparse,

I would love to read their story

They have been doing this forever!

Tom and Jerry in the 40s until now.

Very influential.

Most of Adult Swim is riffing on it.

Wikipedia article is informative

Both wrote books.

Cool.

Off early today, Starbucks tonight.

Double shot here I come! BAM BAM!

Drog the Debaser

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Woo Woo

Yeah, anyway, working away at the cube.

Steph at home with babies.

Aching to run around

Must focus on moment

Not cloud it up

With undefined wants

Don’t even know what I’d rather be doing

It wouldn’t be enough

Chinese food dreams

Twenty minutes of fulfillment

A lifetime of takeout

Eat Eat Eat

Bottomless pit

Can’t be filled

Always empty

I only hate something to feel superior, nothing personal.

Are these my thoughts, or my assumptions of your thoughts?

(ivebeenreadingthatoperahbook)

Mr. Drogenstein

Got to talk to Chad today.

He wants to work on an oilrig.

From war to an oilrig.

He’s gone crazy butch.

To think we used to call him Femme.

Like we were Gladiators.

3 day weekend coming up.

No plans, that’s the point!

And I am looking forward to getting a HUGE group together for the Indy flick!

Sunday, 1pmish

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THOUGHTS

So it has been just over a year since we ended post, and I have kept my movie self busy researching distribution and writing the next projects.

It’s been a fun time; most interesting has been watching my babies grow and interact. Being a dad really changes your priorities around. I used to loose sleep over the fact that I wasn’t some hotshot horror director, and that things were taking so long, and stuff was not turning out as planned. But now I find that these kids really give me something that films never have. Peace.

These kids will only have one childhood. This is the one thing in my life that I don’t want to screw up. Screwing up a movie is the least of my worries.

But still, I do enjoy the process, and the people I’ve met have been awesome/groovy.

The film is being sent to the first three distributors this week. We will see what happens. But whatever, the film will find it’s way to the audience however it chooses. I’m going to let it tell me what to do. I don’t have the answers here. Just making it up as I go along.

BTW, we are showing ZOMBEAK! at The Something Wicked Festival of Films! Details to come later.

IGNORE EVIL

SAMD

Cold February

So I know that I'm all old fashioned and what not, but when I started making little films back in high school, I dreamt of the world we live in now.

We would edit on two VHRs and no matter the effort, it would wind up looking like crud.

Then on the shelf, no one would see it, no opportunity for them to see it.

Filmmakers worked only on film, and laughed at the nerds with their unromantic video cameras.
I love the web, think up an idea, shoot it, cut it on computer, post it, and move on.

People worldwide can see your work, and comment, something filmmakers had a hard time getting. You're film was seen by someone you would never meet, if at all. But now someone can just drop you a message and tell you what they thought.

To be a movie star is becoming like becoming a harpoonist. An outdated ambition.

It's all communication. All if permissible.

This is so cool. I love life.

Here is something shot last month with some crazies, here to the world, not sitting on my shelf.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2315359920215256356&q=cold+seconds&total=3609&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

On to the next thing.
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One Candle, Two Flames

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... Introducing Cameron Joseph Conkle, a rad lad born 1/13/08, almost two years to the date of first little one Sarah.

Child birth was INSANE! But not as crazy as last time as they didn't allow Steph's epidural to wear off. I don't see how she could have done it sans painkillier this time, Cameron came out 10.5 pounds!

So now I have a sound editor and an actress; just 10 more babies and in twenty years I'll have my own crew of indentured servants.

Any way, it's crazy of coarse for now, but the plan for getting zombeak sold is still in progress, I can only work on it when not feeding, changing, playing, or supporting. But I'm more delirious and happy, and still being more creative with my time, then ever before. If you only have 45 minutes a day to write or draw, by Joe you take those opportunities!

Time used to be abundant and squandered on introspection. Bah! Oh folly of youth!

FIGHTEVIL
SAMDROG

7:30am Blah Blah

Right now I’m brewing the day’s first pot of coffee and toasting up some toast, the Clifford Dog show is in the back ground, giving Sarah her morning fix of cartoons. I’m going to take this opportunity to just ramble bang the day into go mode.

Coffee at Starbucks is laced with crack, just in case you are wondering. Here is how it works. Columbian beans used for many Starbucks blends is grown in the same fields in South America where coca leaves where once cultivated. This has left a narcotic muck in the soil, a permeation of it. All things grown in this soil will create an addiction similar to narcotic addiction. If they where growing strawberries down there, it would be crazy addictive strawberries. There have actually been cases of armed robbery and muggings at and around Starbucks from this new bread of bean junkie. Be warned. Once a Starbucks opens in your neighborhood, the neighborhood will quickly determinate in to a slum. If you have Starbucks coffee in your house, keep it locked up and away from kids.

Last week there was the first case of a Starbucks heist, where seven men in Halloween masks stormed a store and forced the crew at gun point to brew gallons of coffee that where loaded into plastic five gallon jugs. This could be either for private consumption or resale on the street, where it is now popular to be taken intravenously.

Ever wonder why when you buy beans and bring them home the brew is not as potent as what you get at the store. Most home machines can not handle the amount of coffee used in the store to brew a pot, so it is weaker. Buy a bigger machine. Also those pots have been seasoned with years of that narcotic residue that can not be rinsed out. An addictive stain. In theory you could do the same with any stainless steel decanter. Fill it with some hot store made Starbucks coffee and then bury it in your back yard for no less then here weeks. The earth and darkness will mingle with the brew, and bond with the steel.

Now every time you brew a new pot, pour it immediately into this decanter and let it ruminate for a few minutes before serving. Notice the difference.

FIGHTEVIL
SDROG

Brain Eaters From Raccoon Island

I don't know, just a quick blog so people can know whazup.

I'm chillin on vacation this week, hooray!

The only big project is painting for the new baby. Next month, the madness begins again! No sleep, covered in vomit, and now because this is a boy, urine will have purpose and direction.

My eyes are still adjusting to the blues and greens of boy clothes. It is weird to see. Amazing how your eye begins to accept purple and pinks until that is the norm.

We are painting the extra bedroom something girly for Sarah and moving her to these larger quarters and the new baby will have the smaller room. Right now the walls are two tones of gray, a hold over for when it was my office for a week and a half. I really don't want to bring out Sarah's morbid teenage years before it is time.

Steph picked up some work from sister Angela, just typing up some documents for the law firm. She's up stairs working on that now. Sarah is watching Dora the Explorer, the shrillest show on the planet, but it is interactive and teaching her Spanish. Yesterday while jumping on the couch she started up with SALTA-SALTA!!! Awe shucks. This morning she started singing Row Row Your Boat, it was cute. Ouch! my heart.

Steph is about to burst with this baby. She is really sleepy and nervous that stuff won't be ready, she has spells of neurosis, but luckily about the complete opposite things that I do so we even out that way. Never fun to be neurotic at the same time about the same stuff, chaos ensues.

Zombeak!? Well the reviews have been kind, and I’m waiting to hear from a comic con in Texas, and I know the next thing to do is organize the legal stuff, something I’m teaching myself. I’m also researching the different distributors I would like to approach. Just going by feel. Day by day as I can. People get impatient, but I feel these cult like films have to have time to grow a cult and bubble and simmer. Give it time to grow. That’s the plan. I really just don’t want to splash it out for it to be forgotten 10 seconds later. Whatever. Justification on dragging my feet.

Christmas is coming up and the house looks cool with Christmas stuff everywhere and … have I mentioned The Mist?

The Mist rules 2007. Best movie I saw this year. Great adaptation to a great story. I was ready to be disappointed; having such a love for the material, but man Frank D and company really hit it on all fronts. I think this is a new classic for me. Something to put in the collection. A lot of fun. Very suspenseful. Gross. Great performances all the way through. Great Carpenter winks. Even Thomas Jane was pretty cool. I hated The Punisher, give me Dolph any day. The Mist makes up for it and any disasters he may do in the future. He makes a good everyman, someone to identify with, especially me having kids, I was with him the whole way.

Lots of people knock the ending. I understand. It’s a tough one. But I feel the ending is what takes this out of “fun horror movie” to “classic horror movie”. The movie is all about how people react to fear. And fear makes people crazy, it is a disease. The movie is about the importance of hope even when events seem hopeless, even when hope is irrational. It is a tough ending, and I felt like I was punched in the gut, and I staggered out of the theater, and I thought there must be something wrong with that sick mo-fo Darabont, but I loved it. Gave me something to chew on for days after watching it, something I can not say about most movies I see. So the best thing I’ve seen since The Descent and The Abandoned. See, there are still good movies coming out, you just have to be patient and choosy.

PS - Most sadistic ending to any movie I have ever seen.

PSS - I know someone who has seen this movie four times now (not me).

Anyway, still writing this project that is all over the place. Just the craziest thing I’ve written. Maybe impossible to film (it is a screenplay), but figuring it out will be the fun part. I’m basically writing something based on just pure creative expression, not trying to shoehorn it into any one genre, just making it up and letting it happen as it happens. A lot of fun. Could become animated or some combination of techniques.

Blah blah blah, fight blah blah
SD