So here it is. Let me lay the scene out for you. I am sitting in my office working away; I am listening to The Get Up Kids. For those not in the know The Get Up Kids ROCK and all should give them a good listen. So I have them turned up really loud as I am known to do with the crazy Emo Bands. But I can still hear this underlying sound or sounds as it were. So the song hits a slower mellower part and I can really hear this commotion so I stop the tunes and Listen. Long story short there is an Strike taking place kitty corner from my place. The Stats Canada Workers are striking and getting everyone that is driving by to honk there horns and they are yelling and they are getting everybody’s attention for sure. So me being me I grabbed my camera and went down stairs.

On an entirely different note we watched Ghost World last night. That was another truly fabulous movie, by all means rent it is you can. I went to Rodger’s with the intent of renting Zoolander on the expert advice of Jodie and Per. So after wandering around the store for 10 min I decide to ask if they even have the movie, which they didn’t, so I had to get another movie. One of the draw backs of refusing to know anything about any movie that is out, Upon writing this I realize that most of you haven’t heard my tirade about movies and my refusal to know much more about them then the title. Well here it is. I refuse to know anything about a movie simply because I feel that prior knowledge of the smallest details ruins a film. I hate to watch trailers and If I do see a trailer I would prefer to not see the movie for a long time so all memory of the events contained within are forgotten or at least very fuzzy. This is a neat way to watch a film and I totally recommend it to anyone to try. This is the same reason that I don’t get into the nitty gritty details about the movies that I enjoyed, simply cause I want you to take my word for it. One draw back to this system as it were is that when left to my own devices I am sorta lost when it comes to picking a movie. So here I am, wandering around Rogers video for a half hour before I am getting ready to blindly grab whatever is on the wall and going with it, when I see Drew and Tom. They happened to be in need of a movie as well so they gave me one of the “We have both seen this but it is a good movie” hand me downs and well that was Ghost World. And it was a good movie. There now that I have wasted your time and told you nothing that you really wanted to hear I will move on to this weekends upcoming festivities. I simply can not wait until Saturday. I sort of feel a tad giddy about it in fact. I don’t really know why But it is shaping up to be a good time, a lot of people are confirmed to be coming and It should be a good time. Any who I am going to get back at it.

This is a shot that is from the photo shoot yesterday :) Did I mention that I love working with these two.


Camera: Canon EOS Canon 10D
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/180 sec
Aperture: f 4.5
Lens: 75-300mm @210mm
Date Taken: Sept. 24 2003

Well here it is 4:43 in the morning and guess who is still up and awake? Mmmm…. I was just working in photoshop and well time got a way from me or so it would seem. I better think about bed!

Just got in from another shoot with Per and Jodie. I have to say that they are two of my fav people that have come out for a shoot yet. They are good times indeed. Well they have told me that I have to watch the movie Zoolander, because under all the cheese there is a really funny flick there so I may actually rent it this evening. Well we will see. :) I will have more photos up from today and Sunday soon, I have had some computer issues that needed to be taken care off and I am still getting used to them so I am very inefficient as it stands right now. On another note and Friend of mine Eli has a singer songwriter that he wants to help out and try to make bigger, and He thinks that it may be a great photo opportunity for me so We will see about that. I am also still in contact with this other local Edmonton band, that wants photos and such but I have discovered that singers and bands and the like are really hard to schedule in to stuff because they are always out of town or otherwise predisposed. How ever we will see how it works out. I was thinking about putting some of my web and graphic design skills to work in doing a Mad promo package for bands and such. I could do the photos and the websites and the print work that they need done. Lay out posters and other press kit type stuff for them. I should bring this up with Eli and see what he thinks, because for portfolio and getting my name out and about I could do a lot of it although I would have to get back into the swing on the graphic design and web sites stuff because I have been out of the zone for so long well we will see. I am really starting to get bit with the filmmakers bug again. I am such a seasonal manic I swear. I may think about dusting of some tapes and finishing these ten billion weddings that I have to edit and then finish Emily and DOTP. Well we will see.

So we went last night to watch the movie Thirteen that is playing at the Princess One. All I have to say is what a fabulous no a fantastic, no wait what a fabulously fantastic movie. I didn’t know if it because the movie is kinda close to home, or if it is that the movie is well made, but I just can’t get it out of my mind. Every scene and camera shot is burned vividly into my thoughts and when I try to do other stuff, to think about something else I simply can’t. I won’t get into the details of it simply because if I was you and hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t want to know, and I would have stopped reading, but this was a movie that captured my full attention and has had my full attention ever since. I say it is close to home, because it shows the way that it was when I was this age, people actually did these things then and it is interesting to see that things haven’t changed much halfway across a continent. Any way I will stop before I turn in to those people that I hate that blither on and on about the characters and about how the plot is expanded and blaaa blaaa bllaaa. But if I were to ever teach a class about movie making, or effective story telling, (not that I am an expert) this would be the text book. GO SEE IT!

This afternoon I had a photo shoot with Jodie and Per. We went to this crazy field that I drive by on my way to Devon every weekend. We started the day with a trip to Value Village for some crazy clothes, and then. We tried some of the normal sort of stuff at first which was a lot of fun, but then we started being a little more on the odd side. I will have some more shots soon, but for now here is what I do have.

Well I am off to work soon But before I do that I just have to drop and Line to my journal to say that After Much persuasion and letter writing I have convinced Darren The Tiger to start posting into a blog again. I am glad that it didn’t have to come to the driving down to Van and dancing on your doorstep naked screaming like a banshee about the evil the lives inside the door to get you to concede :) check it out here

Roo I have a song for you. Ani Difranco – Pixie. I have been madly finishing up the yellow page advertisement and stuff. *Thanks to Scotty for the back seat photoshopping :) We took our prospective ad and printed it off on crappy newsprint at the right size, we then cut it out, opened up the yellow pages and stuck it over top of other ad’s the same size. I think that it will look good and stand out from the others in the book. I am really scared about this whole Ad in the yellow pages thing. I mean what if I don’t get any customers from it, which would be a lot of money down the drain. Or worse what if I get swamped with people? I mean there is only so much that I can do :)
Well I have finished Melissa’s Wedding, Greg & Anita’s Wedding, and Jodie’s Cd’s. I just need to book some burner time at Mikes place and fire off a whack. I am happy with most of the shots although I can see room for improvement in a lot of places. We bought some colour ink for our printer and I realized that a 50 dollar printer is unable to compare to 300 dollar one in terms of quality :)
I need to sleep more. This going to bed at 5:00am and up at 8:00am thing is not working out. It isn’t really a healthy amount of sleep, especially when it is the amount that you get everyday :). I guess I am getting older, because I used to sleep 3 to 4 hours a night for, well, ever. As of late I can’t really do it anymore. Well I can, but it is less enjoyable :)

Clear your calendar for next Saturday (not tomorrow but a week away) for the ever loved R&M Shindig. We are having a rocken get-together next Saturday, so bring you self, your friends, and come on down to R&M loft. Much merry making and such will occur I assure you! More details to come as the week goes on!

Roo I have a song for you. Pixie By Ani Difranco. It is also the some of the day.

I have been madly finishing up the yellow page advertisement and stuff. *Thanks to Scotty for the back seat photoshopping :) We took our prospective ad and printed it off on crappy newsprint at the right size, we then cut it out, opened up the yellow pages and stuck it over top of other ad’s the same size. I think that it will look good and stand out from the others in the book. I am really scared about this whole Ad in the yellow pages thing. I mean what if I don’t get any customers from it, which would be a lot of money down the drain. Or worse what if I get swamped with people? I mean there is only so much that I can do :)
Well I have finished Melissa’s Wedding, Greg & Anita’s Wedding, and Jodie’s Cd’s. I just need to book some burner time at Mikes place and fire off a whack. I am happy with most of the shots although I can see room for improvement in a lot of places. We bought some colour ink for our printer and I realized that a 50 dollar printer is unable to compare to 300 dollar one in terms of quality :)
I need to sleep more. This go to bed at 5:00am and up at 8:00am is not really a healthy amount of sleep, especially when it is the amount that you get everyday :). I guess I am getting older, because I used to sleep 3 to 4 hours a night for, well, ever. As of late I can’t really do it anymore. Well I can, but it is less enjoyable :)

Clear your calendar for next Saturday (not tomorrow but a week away) for the ever loved R&M Shindig. We are having a rocken get-together next Saturday, so bring you self, your friends, and come on down to R&M loft. Much merry making and sucj will occur I assure you! More details to come as the week goes on!

First a song! Listen to this song while reading!!!

Well I was going to post this as a comment on Dar’s blog but as you can see it sorta got outta hand and I felt that the best thing is to post it here. Well in response to Dar’s post parking meter maid nazi I to have a story about how I was accosted by Gestapo while waiting to pick up Scotty and Miranda from work. He comes up and says that I will have to move, no problem, i mean there are rules for a reason, I can move my car, I shouldnt be driving so much anyway. I do hate circling the block around and around like a drunken vulture, but if the man asks, I will do it for the better of socity. I mean he is only doing his job right? At least that is what I thought until today. So the parking gestapo says “you will have to move your car.”I say ok and before I do I look to if there is any sign of the dynamic duo, and sure enough there is Scotty and Miranda walking towards the car. So I say in my best polite voice about how I am sorry but the people that I am waiting for are right there. To which he replies “if you don’t move your car it will cost you 45 dollars! How is that for Attitude” I though that it was a well expressed bout of attitude how ever I was failing to see the relevance to our particular conversation and situation. How is what for attitude? What the Fuck is that? I was nice to him; I was not in any way giving him any thing that could be remotely construed as Attitude. So I resist the urge to do something very bad to this man and say “I am sorry sir but they are right there. (Scotty and Miranda were about 10 feet from the car) to which he replies “well they are going to cost you 45 dollars you know! and he walks to the back of the car. Now I think that he didn’t really think that they were right there, I think that he thought I was full of shit or something cause as Scotty and Miranda damn near trip over him to get into the car he backed off and stood looking silly. I mean I am trying really hard to relax and take it easy when it comes to other people, I have been resisting the urges to grab people by the back of the head and smash there face repeatedly into the largest and hardest objects that are readily available, but its really hard some times. I am reminded of a particular spoken word piece that really expresses my feelings to a tee. This one is for you Dar :)
It is called A Little Restraint.