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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: August 08, 2011, 02:15:49 pm »
Soul Surfer

So this looked hopeful in the trailer, but then again, I think I confused it with Blue Crush 2. As we are watching the trailers in the beginning, most of them were from the maker of Fireproof which has  a huge religious slant and message. Unfortunately this had the same. Not overwhelming, but enough to hit you over the head. The acting was very mediocre, but the script was horrible. Despite this based on a true story, there really isn’t much to a story here. Felt I wasted a lot of time on a very bland movie.



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Television / Re: The Walking Dead (Season 2)
« on: August 08, 2011, 01:59:06 pm »






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Television / The Walking Dead (Season 2)
« on: August 08, 2011, 01:53:47 pm »
The Walking Dead (Season 2)

October 16, 2011

Love this show and from all account the first season was quite the blockbuster success.

Try to keep up the show's activities.

Dispactch from amctv.com

Ernest Dickerson, the director for Episodes 2 and 3 of Season 2, shares his secret for surviving the wilds of rural Georgia, explains what The Walking Dead has in common with The Wild Bunch and describes trying to outdo Season 1's guts. New Dispatches From the Set are released every week throughout the production.


Q: What was the inspiration to direct two episodes back-to-back for Season 2?

A: It was the set of the highway, which was going to be common to both episodes. So we felt it would be better to shoot all of that for Episodes 2 and 3 at one time because that was going to be the last time that the government was going to let us block off the road. Artistically, it was better to keep it all together. So part of the day I would be shooting Episode 2 and the other part I would be shooting scenes from Episode 3. It got kinda crazy juggling both episodes but it seemed to work. These shows are always fun to do -- they're just difficult. We always had to protect ourselves from ticks and snakes and poison ivy and poison oak and poison sumac along with the weather and uneven ground, all kinds of stuff.

Q: Did any of those afflict you personally?

A: No, I wound up being okay. My fiancée hinted me to the fact that peppermint soap is one of the best things to deter ticks and a lot of other insects, so I was showering with that every night and every morning and shampooing with peppermint shampoo. Usually mosquitoes love me, but I had no problems with the bugs. It turns out everybody that did not use the peppermint soap wound up finding ticks on them whenever they went home.

Q: You cut your teeth working with Spike Lee, and are known for directing urban stories. What was it like to be shooting in rural Georgia?

A: Yeah, I did all those urban films, but I've been a student of good horror since I was a kid. It was also good to get back to the woods because I used to go out camping quite a bit when I was younger. It's interesting shooting in the woods: Like any different environment, you have to go and just adapt. So we just dragged all of our tools and equipment into the woods and tried to make it through the day.

Q: You've said one of your greatest influences was Alfred Hitch****. Is there anything about your work on The Walking Dead that's reminiscent of him?

A: Well, Hitch**** was a master visual storyteller. He believed in something that he called "pure cinema," where the dialogue is almost superfluous. And I do try to tell the story as visually as I possibly can. For The Walking Dead, most of my influence comes from Westerns. Everything is there: Our main characters are pioneers trying to survive in a strange new world, the rules of which they're learning every single day; it's a hostile environment and they're trying to hold on to a semblance of civilization. And that's what westerns are about, especially the films of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah. The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, they influenced me quite a lot.

Q: You directed last season's Episode 5, where Andrea had to kill the zombified Amy. Did anything compare to that intensity in these episodes?


A: I'm really proud of that scene because it was beautifully written and just working it out with Laurie Holden on how to play it worked out really well. I think we got some pretty good scenes this time also: We have a walker autopsy. When we were shooting it, I kept wondering if it's gross enough. I can get pretty critical because I know what everything is, and that this is just plastic or rubber, so is it gross enough? I was actually trying to outdo the episode from last year where Rick and Glenn had to smear the zombie guts on themselves. [Laughs]

Q: What was your favorite aspect of being on set?

A: I think one of the reasons I'm a director is I'm 60 years old, but I'm still a big kid. And hopefully everybody else that I'm playing with feels the same way. Honestly, that's one of the things that I feel is my job as a director, to allow the actors to feel like they can play and try things and bring things to their characters as long as it works with the script. So I think the big kid in me tries to make sure -- as tough as it is, because it is tough -- that everybody's having a pretty good time doing it.

Q: What has The Walking Dead taught you about surviving the apocalypse?

A: Have lots of canned food, lots of bottled water, peppermint soap, and watch your back. Usually people that don't watch their backs, those are the ones that get jumped and eaten by the zombies.

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Music / Re: F*ck
« on: August 08, 2011, 01:48:28 pm »
You tell 'em chip

them sonsabeyatchezzzzzz

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The Concert Venue / Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
« on: August 08, 2011, 01:46:36 pm »
St. Louis is an excellent town for music. For some unf**king known reason, some of the big acts pass us by. Than again U2 just came through and set new records and heard it was excellent.


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The Concert Venue / Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
« on: August 08, 2011, 01:35:25 pm »
And if timing is right and stars align
Australian Pink Floyd - Oct 21

Exposed in the Light



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The Concert Venue / Re: Upcoming Concerts You Will Be Attending
« on: August 08, 2011, 01:24:16 pm »
Santana - September 6

Sound of Collective Consciousness Tour

Hot dayum... can't wait

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Music / Re: F*ck
« on: August 08, 2011, 09:55:31 am »
Huh, when I first saw this I thought it had to do with music and the word f**k, like the increase we've seen especially in the mainstream the last year.

Cee Lo Green - F**k You!
Travie McCoy/Bruno Mars - Billionaire


Both fantastic songs.

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Now Playing: Movies / All Things Horror...
« on: August 08, 2011, 09:50:14 am »
Loves me some horror movies. All kinds. Getting a tad tired of the torture **** stuff, or the group of kids going to the woods and mutant families attack... whatevah.

But anything and everything to do with horror, post it here.

Take this interesting little site

Zombies Ate Lauren

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Promote Yourself Here
« on: August 08, 2011, 09:44:40 am »
Good gawd, your right. The censor police have taken over (groan)

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Off-Topic / Re: The What The F*ck Thread
« on: August 08, 2011, 09:43:01 am »
No apologies. This is cool. There are far to many WTF moments to not capture  ;D

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: August 08, 2011, 09:31:44 am »

Yo Mac, are you getting all your rentals by way of your local Library? That's what I have been doing lately. I just wish I knew earlier that my Library was doing this before. It was during my book binge that I saw they were carrying **** loads of DVD's. It use to be just VHS, which for obvious reason never appealed to me to check out.

PS, I won't be looking to check out Yellowbrickroad.

Man, I've been promoting my library for a long time. I can get just about anything. They go as far as having a process to query other libraries around the country. Even colleges. It's a goldmine

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Music / Re: What Music genre do you listen to the most?
« on: August 08, 2011, 07:36:39 am »
When I turn on satellite radio, my go to choice is Adult Alternative. I'm always looking for something new. My personal burned CD's I lean heavily to Trip Hop. And that's kind of misleading. It's the downtempo stuff I like. Much like ambient with some beats.

Trip Hop? What the ****! Never in a million years would I have associated that to your musical taste.

Yea, it slowly happened over the years. When I was going after my graphic art degree, I was the typical college student, staying up all hours of the night tackling the next art project. I would play my rock music loud and just see where things lead me.
Then as I stood back and looked at what I did and how I felt, I noticed my art had a hard edge to it. It was aggressive. I also was tired and I don't mean from the late hours. I was just energetic and worked harder.  It hit me, when listening to Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, etc, I was approaching my art very different than say, nothing or just quiet music.
So I tried new things. Soft rock - yea, No!. Classical – that took a while to get used to, but I’ve come to enjoy it. Then one day I heard Massive Attack, which lead me Enigma, then on and on to other bands that have that relaxing downbeat sound. So when I really need to concentrate with work or just relaxing, that’s my music choice.

Now driving or working outside or partying… that’s a whole different thing.  ;)

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Music / Re: What Music genre do you listen to the most?
« on: August 07, 2011, 03:14:50 pm »
When I turn on satellite radio, my go to choice is Adult Alternative. I'm always looking for something new. My personal burned CD's I lean heavily to Trip Hop. And that's kind of misleading. It's the downtempo stuff I like. Much like ambient with some beats.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: August 07, 2011, 09:51:57 am »
Yellowbrickroad

Wow, totally screwed me out of my 1-1/2 hours of life. This movie blew. Not scary. Little if any action. All psychological and none of it makes sense. The cover is extremely misleading.

Avoid at all costs.


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