State of Mind 

[ GARDEN STATE: Destined for cult status for Generation X & Y? ]

“We may not always be as happy as you always dreamed we’d be, but for once, let’s just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are.”

Having only seen Garden State a couple of days ago it, I think I might reconsider giving it another half-star (so starstarstar_onestar_half) simply for the fact that I’m still thinking about it. I saw Taxi (starstarstar_emptystar_empty) tonight and have completely (and happily) forgotten everything I’d just seen. But because Garden State struck some familiar cords, that shit lingers with you and any film that does that is usually destined to become a cult classic. It’s already on my DVD wish list for next year and even though the US DVD is out just after Christmas, I want to wait a while before I see it multiple times again. I’m not sure how Australian audiences will react to it, but David and Margaret both enjoyed it. Just please, don’t go into theatres expecting too much because you’ll be ultimately disappointed. Those who connected with Lost in Translation will probably enjoy it (a film which obviously inspired director, writer and star Zach Braff)

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Saturday, November 27 2004
 
Film General
 

Fluoro Tan 

The 'Fluoro Tan' DVD menu. Yes it animates!

Well after four days of hardcore post-production and some DVD creation, the nightshift documentary is well and truly in the bag. Woooohoooo! Clocking in at just under 20 minutes, ‘Fluoro Tan’ concerns the lives of four individual shift workers at a Supermarket and how the job affects them mentally and physically. Well that’s what it’s supposed to convey but whether I managed to pull it off is an entirely different matter. However I just got news that it will be one of the documentaries screening at the Arts awards night this Monday night at the University so I guess I did something right. Unfortunately that’s the only place it can get screened since I only have permission to screen it for educational purposes because of certain factors (i.e the companies store I shot the documentary in and obviously some musical copyright issues). Not that I really care since this will primarily form another example to put on my show reel for future employment.

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Saturday, November 20 2004
 
Filmmaking
 

Rock ’till You Drop 

Joan Jett is still going strong!

RAGE are screening an awesome special tonight featuring a great selection of rock music over the past 30 years. You can check out the playlist right here. If Jack Black was to give the kids in School of Rock a quality rock history lesson, then he would have tuned them all into RAGE tonight. The Clash, AC/DC, The Ramones, The Who, The Stones, they’re all there. Plus RAGE never skimp on the 80’s cock-rock so you have Motley Crue, Poison and even Twisted Sister with ‘I Wanna Rock’. Man that’s classic. Any idea’s who the woman is in the picture above? Well it’s Joan Jett from the 1981 video clip Bad Reputation, a song that you might have heard recently-ish since it’s the theme song to the TV show Freaks And Geeks. As you would say D, “delicious!”.

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Sunday, November 14 2004
 
Music General
 
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