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pics from the movie premiere

jon — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:56:00 +0000

thanks to stephan for taking these!

thanks again to all who attended – it was supremely gratifying to see people laughing, clapping, and groaning in all of the right parts! We’ve been getting great feedback. Here comes the next one!

you can buy the DVD of the movie here

“it’s pretty much my favorite OS”

jon — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:30:00 +0000

One of my new ventures (with a partner) is a new t-shirt site showcasing our nerdy / smartass / off the wall senses of humor. Our first offering is a shirt sending up the latest MAC OS and the latest great cult movie, Napoleon Dynamite.

please support us – it’s either this or keep buying us dinner while we look for employment – either way.

so I made a movie…

jon — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:27:00 +0000

okay, for the few people who know me and who don’t know – I recently completed my first movie. It’s a kung fu movie, and short (about 30 minutes) and low budget. But the cast is huge (over 150 people,) the sets varied, and the production, I think, turned out really well. Come watch the premiere next Saturday! details are here.

Thanks!

my twisted bro

jon — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:06:00 +0000

step one: enlist creative friend for cartoon caricatures of you for new movie project.

step two: hilarity ensues.

please join me in encouraging him to keep drawing – he certainly has his own funny style.

pay those stains no mind – and I have no idea what that is on my finger.

road to nowhere

jon — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:40:00 +0000

another post of mine from Hollywood Elsewhere

I’ve just noticed a trend in a a great number of my favorite movies. They all revolve around a couple or few sad sacks, losers, misfits, who bump into each other and embark (or are forced) on a journey together. The path is unpredictable and sometimes is entirely internal. This may be America’s vision of itself – a ragtag fleet of outcasts huddling together on a quest to find haven. Or maybe all screenwriters are such people. Beside the obvious (Revenge of the Nerds, Thelma and Louise) there are: Tampopo, Rushmore, Sideways, Swingers, Wonder Boys, Star Wars, The Muppet Movie, Major League, Stripes, Shaolin Soccer, Fight Club, Lost in Translation, Better Luck Tomorrow. Hell, I can even make the case for Collateral. More?

lucas blows

jon — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:36:00 +0000

my latest post on Hollywood Elsewhere

After Return of the Jedi, George Lucas had a chance to enter the pantheon of great human storytellers. You laugh, but his Star Wars movies brought him to the edge of greatness. After his first three, all he had to do was a great followup trilogy. Had he blown us away with Episodes I – III, he would have joined…brace yourselves… Shakespeare, Kurosawa, the Brothers Grimm, and the others in the Hall of Stories. His influence on movies and marketing is not in dispute. I’m saying his stories themselves were good, and had potential to be great. His characters, their universe, the backstory – they bored their way into our minds until they became archetype. Jedi is even a recognized religion in some places. He was right there and he blew it. Like the Wachowski brothers, he had a chance to make something great; bigger than him, bigger than all of us. Something to last into the future. Had he made a cohesive six-story epic that excited and held our fascination, he’d be in, and they’d still be talking about The Force and Darth Vader a thousand years from now. But like the makers of The Matrix, he is going down in flames. Of all the storms creative people weather in their lives, why must the hardest be success? — Jon Rahoi

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