Tra-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la!

So here comes Christmas. Three weeks today! I've been getting in the mood for it quite a bit over the past few days. This may be because I haven't been home for a bit so it's a chance to see my family and just hang around and eat and drink with no cares oooooorrr It's just because it's leading me into the next year. With 2013 hopefully being a great year! I'll be leaving my job which I hate right at the end of December and I am going to begin filming my pilot in January. But anyway I'm getting side tracked.

Helping me get in the mood I've begun to start watching different things to do with Christmas  While typing this I am watching this years Regular Show Christmas Special, and the other night I caught the Gavin and Stacy Christmas Special. I'm not yet ready to begin watching whole films to do with Christmas, but next week I shall be seeing Gremlins at the cinema which will probably kick start the film watching.

Obviously another thing to do with Christmas is gifts. Now my biggest issue at the present moment is that I have no money and so because of that I will probably not be able to buy the gifts that I really want to get people. This is putting a bit of a dampner on my mood but I will just try to not let it get to me. I mean after all it is Christmas and you know....fuck it! Let's just all have a good time. Eat, Drink and be Merry.


oh and if you're not in the same mood. ah well...each to their own.

yeah this blog sucks...here's a Christmas song!

White Christmas

Blues Brothers 2000

So I was watching some television the other day when I stumbled upon the movie Blues Brothers 2000. Now this film is a sequel to the classic 1980 movie The Blues Brothers and it was counted as a massive flop. It just completely missed the mark that the first movie hit so brilliantly.

Now this film came out in 1998 (not 2000) and so I know I am 14 years later with my post about it. But watching what I did of it the other day I realized that this film could have been good. There are so many elements that they could have kept and have it be a good film. It would never be as good as the first and most people would argue that as soon as John Belushi died so did The Blues Brothers and that should have been the end of it. I agree. But, if another film had to be made here is what I think they should have changed or kept out of the new one.

1. Lose the kid: It's as simple as it seems. Do not have a child actor as a lead role in a film such as this. The first film was a 15 certificate (in the UK) and because they decided to have a child in the this film it became a PG. This just doesn't work. Seriously just don't do it. I mean I can understand why they did. It gives Elwood something to do and look after. But the kid pisses me off. And then trying to say the kid is really good at harmonica when you can tell he isn't playing it. No! Elwood is the harmonica player of the band and he can actually play it.

2. Cut out the magic shit: One of the biggest problems this film has is it's use of magic. Now in the first film there are sections that are just truly ridiculous and it makes the film hilarious. Such as Henry Gibson's car driving off the end of the road and begin to fall from a insanely high height. You watch the film and think "what!?!" but you laugh at the same time. Where as this film has a man "finding god" and flying high into the air right in front of everybody who see's him do it. Then you have a voodoo witch who turns the main cast into zombies to sing a song that she wants and then turns the main antagonists into rats in front of everybody. This isn't funny. This is basically saying "yep look...magic! that's what this is..magic. Not just silly humor...it's actually magic" I'm sorry but I don't want magic. Oh and having the voodoo witch force them to sing a song she wants to hear as an audition to enter a competition doesn't work. That isn't an audition.

3. Don't just try to copy the first film: Having so many different people after the blues brothers worked in the first film. It was funny seeing the police, a country band, a mystery woman and Nazis all trying to get them. But in this film you change Nazis for Russians, a country band for some gun nuts, the mystery woman for a nun and the police for the police...You should have just had one or two. Now the police I can understand as try as hard as they can The Blues Brothers can't help themselves and break laws. But you don't need the others. Especially how they end the film. The Russians and Gun nuts get turned into rats (as mentioned earlier) and that is the end of that. The police (who are there to get their captain back) find out that he has joined the band and is OK, stop worrying and start dancing (I'm not even joking) and the nun (aided by more police or the FBI) keep chasing after Elwood who is wanted for kidnapping. Even though he could just say "I didn't kidnap the kid. He chose to come with me and you know what? I am going to adopt him" Problem solved. Also why have them have to play blue grass? Isn't that the same as the first film? I'm OK with you cutting that whole scene out thank you very much.

4. Treat John's death with more respect: The film begins with Elwood getting out of prison and waiting all day and night for his brother Jake to pick him up. Only to be told by Frank Oz that he has died. When the first film finished the whole of the Blues Brothers band were in jail. I can understand that the band members would get out early, but the two main guys who caused all the problems would probably get roughly the same amount of time. Also what kind of friends does he have if his brother (his only living relation, although they aren't really related) gets out of jail and then dies and nobody even bothers to tell him? They should have had a scene that dealt with John not being in the film better. Even if it's a cliche as a visit to a grave.

Now the films had some great parts in it. Most of them were the music. Having an all star blues band at the end of the film is just truly amazing. And some of the songs in the film are absolutely fantastic. I mean you can't really fault the soundtrack too much. I mean B.B. King was great in the film.

Anyway this has been the longest blog I think I have every written and I have kind of lost steam. I may do a problems with Blues Brothers 2000 part 2 soon. Or just start doing other films.

Cheers for reading.

Best customer experience

So I just got off of the phone to a company I have applied for a job at. I hate the interview process. There's always the same questions and I never have the answers for them. The big one is "can you tell us a time when you gave great customer service?" what I can't say every time can I? I don't mean to blow my own horn but I try to give everybody the same service. I always say in these situations that I serve people how I want to be served. Nobody wants to be served like they are a piece of shit.
So anyway I pick an example of serving a customer. Normally them coming in angry and leaving happy. I've even used a colleagues experience and passed it off as my own. I mean everybody lies. But I just wonder what the best story these people asking have heard back?

"I was helping a customer get something from a high shelf when they went into labour. I had to deliver the baby myself. They named the baby after me and the customer still managed to buy what she wanted. I then cleaned up the mess left and my manager gave me a promotion. Oh and did I mention the baby was the reincarnation of Jesus? "

Still I now have to wait to hear back. And even then I have to leave my other job before I start so I doubt they will hire me as they will have to wait for about a month. Also the job may end up being shit.

Everybody has a price

So last night the conversation took a turn into the how much would you want to..... And although people would try to hide who they were, we all know that everybody has a price. Some hirer than others.

I always find it hard to put a figure on something when asked those types of questions. My mind instantly jumps to a silly figure. When I know that I would probably do it for a quarter of that price, whatever it may be. That's what money has done to us. I mean some people are already doing some of these acts for money. Others would willingly do it for free.

Some times you just have to pray somebody doesn't ask you the how much question and they have the amount you quote.

As I really don't want cum coming out of my nose

Moments of embarrassment

So the other day I got on the DLR at my local stop. I had my mp3 player on and was in my own little world. I stepped onto the train and went to take a seat. I sat down and looked straight ahead. Right into the eyes of a mother breast feeding her child.

I quickly looked away and started getting worried. "what do I do now? Did she see me look? I didn't expect it!"

I knew I had to look cool and pretend it wasn't anything but I also knew I couldn't look over in that direction without seeming like a pervert or something. So I put my bag down, turned my music up and started reading Sin City which I had brought with me. Looking at breasts in there instead of the others.

What do you do in those situations?

Tonight you belong to me

So I got to thinking the other day about how things such as invites work. If somebody is planning on doing something. Who do you invite? How do you it?

I find that people don't take it upon themselves to invite many people to things anymore. You'll get the people who see them nearly everyday or just randomly turn up at where they live (which I have never understand, is it really accepted by everybody?) they will be the ones who do something with the person as it is much easier to speak to somebody face to face rather then pick up a phone and write a text. So then you get stuck in a loop of just these people going out and then when it comes to you or somebody wanting to do something you have to be the one to ask people "Does anybody fancy doing anything" only to normally get a reply such as "We are doing (insert thing here) you can come along if you want" so if the first message was not sent then there would have been no knowledge about anything taking place which you seem to be invited to if you wanted to go.

So I don't know how to handle this types of situations. I find just trying to ignore them seems to do the trick. If you don't get invited out you don't get invited out. There isn't anything anybody can do about it now. It's far too late.

I'm sorry that these blogs aren't very good. I mean I'm not really writing them for anybody in particular so I guess there is nobody to say sorry to, but still I know they aren't great. So if you do read them then, I'm sorry and also thank you.

I will also start doing some more drawings to put on here soon too, so get excited ya'll........I won't say that again.

Ian




Oh and if you were wondering the titles to my newest posts are lyrics from songs. Today's one is used in the film the Jerk and is truly wonderful

Here i go again on my own

So here I try again. I have decided to try to give this blog thing another go. I need to find more things to write about so I suppose I will have to try to do more with my life.

I am going to start jogging and cutting down on spending. This is because I won't be able to live otherwise. I mean I have rent to pay. I have also gotten back into script writing. I know a few blogs ago I explained that I was going to work on an idea again. I didn't do that but I started my T.V. series that I have been planning for a while now. Perfect Game is a drama with tiny bits of comedy (I find them funny anyway) It's got a heavy amount of bowling in it. But I don't want to give away too much information about it. Lord Sauron has many spies with many eyes. If you know who I am and fancy reading it then get in touch. I'd be more then happy for any feed back.

I'm about to start writing episode 3 for the 6 episode series. Why do I keep writing it when it will probably never get made? I don't know. It gives me something to do. I'm also really up for trying to adapt something, find a story and try to write a screenplay for it. I know this will be a big challenge but I think it could really help me crafting my skills. I don't even know if I can write so all of this could be for nothing, still you have to do something don't you.

I want to be creative.

But that's not as easy as it seems

Anyway I feel this blog has lost it's way so I will end it.

I will try to write another in the next day or so. I mean why not?

Bye

Waiting

I hate that when you go anywhere you have to wait. Different places  different waiting. At the moment I am watching bear grylls while wait to either go home or for people to do something. It's the tough choice. Tick rock as they say

Tales from the Script

So I have decided to start writing a script.

I know I have deadlines coming up faster then a bullet being pushed by Superman who's running late and in a rush. But I just feel like I need to do something else.

I'm going to be working on an idea I came up with a few years ago back in my college days that got completely shot down. I won't try to explain the plot on here, although I will probably post the first draft for any feed back from any of my many many followers.







This is the part I struggle with most when writing blogs, I run out of topics to talk about or expand upon very quickly and just let it teeter out. It kind of makes you look at your life and realise that you have absolutely nothing going for you that is of any interest to anybody else. Welcome to the cold cruel world of  blogging on the internet.

Stay Classy!

Having an idea

So I always seem to have a whole load of ideas. Be it for a script or a comic or something of the sort. Yet I can never get anything started. My brain seems to lack the keep part that helps me come up with plots or character development. I look at other people I knows stuff and am blown away by their thought process, by how they can build such a world. I can too! I want to scream at them, but it's in my head and I just can't seem to put the words onto paper.

I will have to just keep trying. The more I push myself to get out there and show people my stuff the more feedback I will get and I can hopefully grow from it.

I did say hopefully

Anyway thanks if you read this at all.

:)