9 November 15 – Monday – DAY THREE Captain Ahab gets us up at 4 AM for a 5 AM breakfast and out to the set before six. The production’s very own cold virus has got me now, only three days in. I was struck down with a painful sore throat in the middle of […]
10 November 15 – Tuesday – DAY FOUR Every night has been a blackout for me. I sometimes get to sleep before 10 PM (that has been my latest bedtime after dailies and general discussions) and then it’s total unconsciousness until the cruel dawn arouses us. A quick breakfast of fried rice and we’re on […]
8 November 15 – Sunday – DAY TWO I woke to the sounds of hundreds of howling stray dogs in the neighborhood. Apparently, Myanmar has legions of stray dogs – all friendly – and roughly organized into small gangs. These packs are not very tight, and it seems that membership can be pretty fluid. I […]
7 November 15 – Saturday After Snore Bear’s ordeal, I was awake, no matter what time it was. The sun began to rise at about six or so, and I watched out the window as we started up the winding mountain road towards Pyin Oo Lwin. The bus creaked around a myriad network of hairpin turns […]
6 November 15 – Friday Somehow it became the next day, due to the International Dateline and everything. By the time I staggered off the plane at Taipei I’d lost a day. I felt like maybe I’d lost several. Though I’d spent maybe a total of three hours “awake” on the plane I’d probably not slept […]
4 November 15 – Wednesday So I sat in the airport, waiting to board the plane for Taipei, my stopover on the way to Yangon. It’s an 11 hour flight, after which it would be another 4 hours from Taipei to Yangon and a 12 hour ride from Yangon to Pyin Oo Lwin. That’s over […]
This is the Prelude to the MYANMAR DIARY being not only an account of my travels to Myanmar, but also a record of the production of Gavin Wynn’s ”Magyithee La,” an independent feature film. In between all that we shall have a few meditations on the state of micro-budget filmmaking, local customs and travels, and […]
MORE STUPIDITY by The Weather Rabbit The Weatherman and The Naked Rabbit join forces to bring you almost 44 minutes of strange noises, including cheap keyboards, text-to-speech robots, a bevy of VSTs, Ultra-high frequency radio broadcasts, drones, secret radio transmissions, and a whole lot of accidents. The original tapes for this Easy Listening album were […]
At long last! A full HD restoration of BIG DONG is here! Yes, we are aware that you did not ask for it. But the original 16mm elements were lovingly dusted off, the soundtrack elegantly and painstakingly enhanced by surround sound technology, and the final, gorgeously grainy and hideously flawed film, shot in “GRIME-O-VISION” has […]
Every year for the San Diego Comic Con I try to get together a small digest sized comic to hand out to people. This year I was especially rushed, and the print quality was not so good. Nevertheless, the PDF version of “Burger Crime” is available for you here, suitable for your reading device. Did […]