Clips for "The Accuser"

Jordan Lundy, who shot and edited my film "The Accuser" has put some clips of it on the web. Check out little portions of our movie by going here: http://www.redearthdesign.com/gallery/jordan. These are meant to display Jordan's visual skill so they are not dialogue laden scenes but you get an idea.

"I'm a Scientist, I Don't Believe in Anything"

The Title of this Blog is now one of my favorite movie lines in history thanks to "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra."

For those of you who love the old creature feature horror films of the 50's, beware. For those of you who find those old movies to be like a train wreck from which you just can't divert your eyes, get ready. This irreverent parady of those old movies will have you rolling in the floor. The characters will delight, complete with the apple pie white scientist and his wife, space aliens (that strangely look just like humans and speak English), an evil scientist, a mutant, a half girl half animal, and oh....the lost skeleton himself, as they all try to find that most elusive element, atmospherion.

I hope you can fathom the terrible danger, but hey, "I guess if I didn't like danger, I wouldn't have married a man who studies rocks."

"I sleep now."

Sooner Born and Sooner Bred, I Will Vote what Switzer Said"

Former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer, held to be a god with a little "g," went public with his endorsement for Democratic Senatorial Candidate Brad Carson today. I guess that's okay. He can endorse who he chooses to.

What concerns me is that KFOR TV Channel 9 reports that, "his endorsement of Brad Henry (Oklahoma's Democratic Governor) two years ago was instrumental in getting him elected." It's okay that he endorsed Brad Henry. I probably would have voted for Brad Henry had I lived in Oklahoma at the time. However, it concerns me greatly that the endorsement of a washed-up football coach can be instrumental in an election.

I have doubts that he actually influenced that many people to vote for Brad Henry but, at the same time, I fear that this might be possible. Americans really are that shallow. "Any man who can beat Nebraska that many times can choose my Senator any day. After all, he knows option football, surely he knows how to run a Governor. Heck I'll vote for Switzer in the upcoming Emperor of the Universe election." Ah, yes, Susan Sarandon, Tom Hanks, Cheryl Crow and Barry Switzer. These are the best and the brightest. Shining stars in a dark sky. These are our countries most brilliant political minds and I shall follow them even to the ends of the earth.

"I Pronounce you; Man and Man"

In the comments section of "I'm a Christian, Leave Me Alone," a random blog user posed the question, "does gay marraige make your marraige any less valid?" For my response to the question: read the comments section of that post.

Some of you will be outraged. Some of you, delighted. Some of you will think that I'm a liberal, others will think I'm a bigot. But all will find it thought provoking, thought it be brief.

Who Do I Vote For When I Hate All These People?

It's not the presidential race that I'm worried about. To me, that's a no-brainer. I knew who I was going to vote for in Nov '04 when I voted for him four years ago. But my Senate Race here in Oklahoma has me in a cold sweat. The race got tricky for me when last week I saw a commercial trashing Democratic Candidate Brad Carson. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Brad Carson's by any means, but the problem came at the end of the commercial with one simple phrase; "I'm Tom Coburn and I approved this message." So what's the problem?

Let me set the stage. During the Republican Primaries, Coburn made it his war cry that no matter what the other candidates did, he refused to resort to negative campaigning. He produced commercials about his positive campaign strategy saying things like, "The experts say I can't win without making negative campaign ads, but I refuse to be negative." (this is a paraphrase by the way but very close to the exact quote).

I know, you're saying, "A politician lied and you're surprised?" No, I'm not surprised, but fed up. check out the candidates websites: http://www.coburnforsenate.com and http://www.bradcarson.com . The top several stories on each of their "news" sections are have titles beginning with the other candidate's name. On some point in our history, politicians stopped trying to prove that they were right for the job and just starting to say, "Hey, atleast I'm better than the other guy." We as voters have only to chose the lesser of two evils, rather than the best for the job. "I will vote for this guy, because he will destroy out country less."

Thankfully, this election will be over in a month. Then we will get a good seven month break before the campaigns for 2008 start.

cheers

Haha. Oh, Hemingway, you satirical rogue,you!

Donald Stewart, a 72 year old writer in Pompalona, Spain has hit the jackpot. He just happened to find, in a letter from Ernest Hemingway to Stewarts father, an unpublished short story by Hemingway. But the real surprise.... It's a satire.

The main character is a comical version of what was to become the Hemingway hero (those of you who reade Hemingway know what I'm talking about.) The main character, a bull fighter, kills a bull with his bare hands but loses part of his entrails in the process.

But alas excited Hemingway scholars, the story will not be published. Any Hemingway piece published must be approved by both the Hemingway Foundation and the Hemingway estate. The foundation says okay, the family says no. Bad, bad family. I want to read the story but they won't let us!!!

I'm a Christian; Leave me Alone!

The Title line of this blog links you to a news story out of San Diego discussing Proposition K in San Diego California. To give you the background, there is a war memorial in San Diego. It is a cross. This cross sits on a hill. This hill is city property. Oh, No! Seperation of curch and state, it must be torn down (thus saith a prominant San Diego Atheist who has been suing the city to have it torn down for the last 15 years.)

I am a moderate Republican and a slightly liberal Christian. It didn't bother me when the ten commandments were removed from the Alabama courthouse last year. I didn't whine about removing organized prayer from public schools. I'd rather teach my kids about God anyway, rather than some teacher. But when does it stop?

As the writer of this article points out, there are other religious sites owned by the city including Jewish synagogues and temples of eastern religions. Why, oh why Mr Athiest are you now concerned with those locations? When will they remove the Shriner images from our money. Please hurry, they bothering my sensibilities and must be removed.

I think my biggest gripe about the issue is this: does a big cross paying homage to our countries war dead make you want to be less of an athiest? Does it cause you to be intimidated into attending Christian church services? If the answer is no, which unless you, oh athiest, are an easily moved shallow person it will be, than why is it so important that you have the cross removed? Why is your comfort more important than mine anyway?

But then again, it's not about religion. It's not about politics. It's not about the constitution. It certainly isn't about honering those veterans that the cross was erected to memorialize. It's about me and my fifteen minutes of fame. God bless America!

Actor and Actress Needed

I have a script which I have been waiting a while to try to film. I am hoping to film it this winter, like January'ish. It is a three person script but I am saving one part for John Greening. I still need one actor and one actress who would be available to rehearse in the evenings a couple nights a week until January when I would begin filming. If anyone is interested e-mail me at jrspruill@yahoo.com. There is no pay but I am hoping to send the film to some smaller festivals so it's good resume work.

The Film is called "The Origina of Language" and is about two cavemen trying to invent language on to discover too late that they still cannot communicate.

Big Words = High Art? A review of "Waking Life"

"Waking Life":
A Film by Richard Linklater

Don't watch this movie. On second thought, everybody should see this movie as an example on how not to make a film. You'll see a great deal of praise for this movie such as "nothing short of Amazing," (Peter Travers,Rolling Stone) and "an amazing film that dances and vibrates with life!" (Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times) but I promise you, this praise is unwarranted. This prasie comes from those who are afraid to trash it because of it's high language and faux depth. They are afraid they may be seen as un-intellegent for not "getting it." Well, I tell you, take a stand. Be not afraid to say, "not liking your lousy movie doesn't make me stupid."

The film is about a kid who is in a dream state and can't figure out how to wake up (I guess this is what it's about). It explores the idea that we may be awake when we think we are asleep and visa versa. A fun topic to think about, I myself have made a student film on this subject. The problem with this movie however is that the entire film is made up of long-winded sermons about reality and existence. The film never introduces a ....you know....plot, something that I feel is essential in good writing. This film typifies the type of "art" which attempts to claim that if a writer uses big words and talks about deep subjects he is automatically hailed as a genius. Unfortunatally, I think that view is half correct. If a writer used big words and talks about profound subjects, lots of people do account him as a genius. Untrue I tell you!!!!

Discovering new ways to present old ideas, finding a way to connect your work to an audience to make them feel and think as they never have before, this is the mark of true genius! Anyway, don't see this piece of garbage. Oh wait, see it, bask in its artistic uselessness. Try to make it through the whole film. I dare you.

If you love this movie and think I'm a retard for hating it, feel free to post a reply.

Shout out to my homies in Beantown

Sweet Action! The Redsox beat the Yankees this afternoon to clinch this series 2 games to 1. We're still 3 1/2 back. but leading in the wild-card race. The wildcard is close enough to taste. Can you say re-match! It's almost October baby!