The Devil in the Details

Hey guys, I’m here to remind you that the deadline is fast approaching for the DC Shorts Film Festival! In fact, it’s just over two weeks away –April 15th!

What is the DC Shorts Film Festival, you may ask? The DC Shorts Film Competitions spotlight truly independent short films (under 20 minutes) in every genre, created by new and established filmmakers. There are many categories to enter — lots of cash prizes and limited distribution deals to win!

Don’t forget about the Screenwriting Competition going on as well. The DC Shorts Screenplay Competition for scripts under 15 pages. Finalists will be performed in front of a live audience to compete for a $2,000 cash award and a guaranteed slot in DC Shorts 2009.

Mail films and materials to:

DC Shorts Film Festival
1317 F Street, NW, Suite 920
Washington, DC 20004
USA

Sopranos series finale = FAIL.
Somebody please tell me that this isn't how it actually ends, and that our satellite just went out.

They're sending that bitch back to jail!

Look at her cry, muahahahaha.

Paris Hilton out of jail.

That cunt.

I'm meeting The Click Five on Monday, and my boss will be mock-interviewing them and I'll be taping them perform for the CosmoGIRL! website...but I don't know the first thing about them! Do you guys know anything?

OMG, right off I'll be meeting bands and celebrities!!!

I've decided that On the Lot is quite a bit like American Idol, without all of the horrible singing and musical massacre and with movies, so I like it a lot. In an effort to further hone my amazing critiquing skillz, I've decided to give a brief analysis of each of the films.


I read that the show isn't doing too hot in the ratings. I blame the Godawful host. But because it's summer, , it's most likely going to last this entire season.

And does anybody have any recs for good novel-length fic? Harry Potter, Doctor Who, House?

To those of you who are at Phoenix Rising:

Henry Jenkins is there, and I am mad crazy FUCKING JEALOUS.

Give him my info? ;-)

It's official: Girls have sucky taste in movies.

Anybody who knows me knows that romcoms are my Great Enemy. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, anyone? The only movie I ever wanted to walk out on.

*cries* There are so many better movies! Breakfast at Tiffany's. Love Actually. Clueless. Now I have a special place in my heart for Clueless. I don't think a movie influenced teenage culture intelligently as Clueless did. With a plot that was based on classic literature, for God's sake, and a main character who was sexy, intelligent, admired, while still being a good and moral person.

I left a comment on there, though it's not up yet, but please. Dirty Dancing?! Just look at the Wikipedia page for it. "The Star Wars for girl."

REALLY?! In my opinion, this does not make my gender look very good.

At least it's just a ranking of most watched, as opposed to favorites, or quality. I can, in my mind, imagine that when girls watch it, they know just how bad it is, that it's a "dirty pleasure" movie.

What's your dirty pleasure movie, or your opinion on Dirty Dancing? You know mine, and my dirty pleasure movie is Down with Love, and even that is a clever pastiche of 1960s romcoms. Lemme start over, then. One Fine Day. George Clooney, yum.

Also, don't get me started on Rent.

I suppose the only comfort I take in this statement is the fact that the girls who also admire Paris Hilton. OH, BURN.

I'm going to go watch When Harry Met Sally.

I spent all weekend trying to hook up my Tivo to my family's DirectTV...$70, a new cable, and a wireless adapter later, I find out that the dual tuner feature doesn't even work - and in my opinion, ends up being a rather bothersome piece of hardware instead of useful. It seems a rather childish and silly gripe, I know, but it's damn frustrating, as I worked rather hard on getting it to work just right. Especially compared to when I was at school, where the Tivo took me literally five minutes to set up.

Anyway, my parents got enough of a sneak peek of what Tivo's like to decide they want a DVR of their own...so, sigh. Yay. I now have PILES of clothes to put away...

I just watched Witness for the Prosecution for the first time ever, and I'll admit, it's my first Billy Wilder movie.

Wow.

Wow.

FUCKING WOW.

What a fantastic movie! Not just a compelling courtroom drama (I love that with the blood as the evidence, I wondered why they didn't do a DNA test, and I realized just how easy the case would have been then...amazing to think of how crime is so difficult to commit today! :-D) but also hysterical! What fantastic characters, and, of course, my God, that ending. So you're watching this fantastic movie, then BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! All in the last 2 minutes.

Fucking fantastic.


I read that this, The Usual Suspects, and The Crying Game are the movies with the best twist endings of all time. I've seen the first two, and I know the twist for the last - damn you, VH1!!! - so my question to you is this: What's your favorite movie with a twist ending?

And I'm going to be a wreck tomorrow, but I only have two classes, and my sophomore college year ends tomorrow at noon. OMG.

It almost makes my waste of a night worth it.

Okay, I know I said I would post...and I will, I promise. I wish Sanjaya hadn't voted off of American Idol. Am slightly tipsy still, yes. As much as I don't want to be. Sober enough to catch my mistakes, anyway. Will post starting summer - have an internship with CosmoGIRL! Magazine, anyway. Entertainment section, how perfect! Just typed "sextion," how appropriate. Ha. As if. Too bad Craig the Architect isn't still interested. Although I told him so tonight...mistake! We'll see how it works out, anyway.

Forgot the point of this post. Sober enough to catch my mistakes, not enough to keep me on topic. Point is? I have work tomorrow, at 12. So must get to sleep ASAP. Even if I did tell Craig that I still like him, in a completely embarrassing way.

G'night!

Friends, I come to you for help.

I am at college, lo, and therefore have a firewall against Limewire AND Torrents. Which means I cannot watch the new Doctor Who.

Which makes me want to die.

PLZ TO BE HELPING, KTHNXBAI.

If you had 100 free music downloads, what would you get?

Re: rec me some music, plz.

I don't care.

I don't care.

I DON'T CARE!!!!!

Nobody gave this much of a damn about her while she was alive, and I certainly don't understand everything now. Yes, nobody knows the baby-daddy, but I don't just. Don't. Give. A. DAMN!

In other news, I had a kickass dream last night, sort of like the model part of Project Runway, but for American Idol. While there was a competition for best singer, there was a competition for who could produce the best album. I was in the top two with this real bitch, but I lost because I drew a blank when it came to designing the cover (even in my dreams I lose, like the time I dreamt I lost the lottery!!! WTF, dreams?). I still managed to take the litle production logo of Il Divo and sorta-kinda copy that, although it ended up looking completely different. Paula and a REALLY GAY and REALLY FAT Ryan were giving me an ass-chewing, and Simon played Il Divo and a country cover of Il Divo to show me the difference (which made me laugh), when they noticed that the girl who was gonna win had this great cover art, but she somewhat copied my production logo thingy, and there was SCANDAL!!!! even though it was the tiniest thing. And then the dream turned into a bunch of nonsense, as my dreams tend to do.

So, back to school today! Which really does make me quite sad, though I won't tell my parents, of course, but I'm seeing them in two weeks anyway for my cousin's wedding!!! Which has the opportunity for so much SCANDAL!!!! and actually already has.

Eeeee! My mom made pancakes! BYE.

Oh, hey. Yeaaaaah, I'm gonna try to write in a livejournal again. I won't be dedicated, writing every day, seeing as my life isn't that interesting and I tend not to think too much. I friended everybody I like to read, and I don't know most of you in real life. If you friend back, nice! If not, that's no big deal anyway as I do have a few friends anyway. So :-P.

Kidding.

But wow, I'm digging the new posting format.

I said I won't be writing everyday, but when I do, it'll either be a slice of life or my media musings...have to work my way to grad school! So for today:

How long is too long for a movie?

I think a key point in this is article is that few people would gripe at the length at some movies. This is obvious, but there is a pretty basic ratio: the longer a movie, the better it has to be. Nobody's going to want to sit through a 2-hour piece of junk. True, nobody's going to want to sit through even a 10-minute piece of junk. I do think that the ideal is around 90 minutes, but if a movie is completely breathtaking, I would sit for hours.

There's not really much to say about this, except that, on a slightly different tangent, if Hollywood's worried about movies running too long: CUT THE BUDGET. You don't need 3 hours and $100 million to make an amazing movie. Actually, some of my favorite movies run around 90 minutes and generally are made for under $20 million. A tight budget forces the filmmaker to not get carried away.

Anyway.

Say hi!!!