Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Duchess


I saw the Duchess last night and it was terrible!



how these types of movies get made is beyond me, with these blazee characters. I mean the acting was great, but the writing was awful.

But on the good news I found out I can write off going to movies as a tax deduction since I am a filmmaker. It's weird and very cool to be called an "artist" technically.

Beyond that, I'm going to the Samuel French store on Saturday to get the book of agents in the LA area, I'm going to spend the next few months dedicating myself to getting a directing agent and a literary agent and by god I will do it!

posted by Sassy Mohen @ 10:54 AM | 2 Comments

Friday, September 26, 2008

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evidently blogger has a scheduled outage at 4:00PM

I feel the awkwardness of this inbetween stage to be overwhelming. In the sense that I love directing so much and the shoot of True Perfection turned out so well, then I had to pick myself up Monday morning at 8:15 and bike over to my low level job at a Production Company.

It's a pain in the ass to require money to do what I do, but I know I couldn't survive without this job. Right now so many things are in the midst tho. I am in the works of getting an agent for directing and literary. I am also in the midst of selling Happy Holidays and OTV just got picked up by a small Indie Channel which is rad!!! I know this will all pay off in the long run and I'm sure that by May 2009 (my projected goal) I will be getting paid for doing what I love. It's just a matter of getting there.


BAM

posted by Sassy Mohen @ 9:37 AM | 0 Comments

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

America


Ohhhh so many things to post about!

The pressure of shooting is upon me again which is never fun. I wish that I had money to make this short and it wasn't like Happy Holidays in the fact that we have to cut corners for everything.

The one good thing about it however, is it is not like HH in the fact that getting people to help me cut corners is much easier. It's nice to have the confidence of friends and co-workers that I am doing the right thing, that they trust me as a filmmaker.

However, at my job I, like when I was a server am getting quite tired of people. This might sound weird to someone who doesn't understand what its like to constantly have to interact with human beings, but it's really disgusting how rude and cut throat people are. I would say about 70% of the people I interact with, mostly the regular people at work are great! But it's the people that come in and out, the phone calls that are just revolting. It makes you loose hope in humanity when even on a small scale, people are so eager to create a caste system, to treat younger people with no respect because they feel their age entitles them to be assholes. That because they have an extra zero at the end of their paycheck beyond yours, they have the right to disregard you as a person.

There is a difference between deserving respect and feeling entitled to service.

I worry that human beings are naturally assholes, that our natural state is to fuck over everyone around you in the hope of staying alive for a second longer. Those people are selfish and only see out of their own eyes. They make rash decisions not understand how what they do directly effects everyone around them, from people in a store to friends and family. They are polluting the earth not only with toxins, but with negativity.


The optimist or "real" me, wants to disagree, wants to believe that we can all get along and disregard social class, race, sex orientation, gender, and just progress into a happy future. But the cynical part of me thinks McCain will be elected.



Man that felt good to write!

posted by Sassy Mohen @ 11:38 AM | 3 Comments

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