5.17.2012
5.14.2012
Inspiration
Since the creation of the new poster for my film, The Color Wheel which COMES OUT FRIDAY
(see blogpost below!), I have been googling oodles of vintage movie posters from movies I love, and I must say, my all-time favorite movie, (besides Weekend at Bernies and Scary Movie iii),
The Holy Mountain, had some AMAZING POSTERS!
See above and below.
In other news, isn't this corn BEAUTIFUL?! It exists somewhere!
It is called Glass Gem corn and it is very rare but still edible!!!!
And look at this caterpillar! It EXISTS! (somewhere else!)
There is so much beauty in the world!
5.10.2012
The New Poster for The Color Wheel
This new poster for The Color Wheel was created by the talented Anna Bak-Kvapil, who played "the most popular girl in highschool" in the film!
If you want to see The Color Wheel (the movie I co-wrote/co-starred with Alex Perry, the boy who is painted above)
the movie will play at BAM in New York City from May 18th-24th
then Denver at the Denver Film Society on May 25th,
then San Francisco,
then Los Angeles,
then WHO KNOWS
But wherever you are, please get a ticket and come see it please.
I will be so very appreciative.
All screening dates are found at http://colorwheelmovie.com/
I will be so very appreciative.
This week it is in The Village Voice,
will be in this upcoming Sunday's NY Times,
and Purple Diary!
All screening dates are found at http://colorwheelmovie.com/
On a serious note:
IT IS VERY RARE THAT I WRITE/STAR IN A MOVIE THAT GARNERS THIS MUCH PRESS OR ATTENTION SO PLEASE COME SEE THE COLOR WHEEL! In the next year or so, there is a chance I will probably move far away "off the grid", to a remote house in the woods I find on TinyHouseListings.com , living completely on raw vegetables and my cuticles, sans internet connection. So come see me in the next few weeks in The Color Wheel (I will be attending most screenings!) while I am still shaving my legs and vaguely normal. :/
5.06.2012
GO SEE ALIVE INSIDE
ALIVE INSIDE, a documentary about how helpful music can be for elderly people suffering from Altzheimers and Dementia , is the best documentary I have EVER SEEN.
I learned about ALIVE INSIDE after seeing this viral youtube video below, about the most adorable elderly black man living in a nursing home, suffering from dementia, who comes back to reality briefly after hearing some of his favorite music from his youth.
If you haven't seen this video below, YOU MUST! IT IS THE MOST SPECIAL YOUTUBE VIDEO EVER, BESIDES LEPRACHAUN IN ALABAMA. I mean it!
Anyway, I became obsessed with this video (who was this man? who made this documentary? Will this man ever end up on Tosh.0? I wish!) so last week I went ALONE to the Rubin Museum in Manhattan to the screening of ALIVE INSIDE. At first I felt sort of pathetic going to see a movie at a museum by myself (I'll have you know that it was because I got the last ticket, and not because nobody wanted to go! OK? My mom tried to buy a ticket online but it was sold out!!!)
However in hindsight, I am so glad I went by myself because seeing this documentary was such a personal bowel moving experience for me, and I cried maybe the entire time watching it. It was actually so very nice to sit through this documentary alone, not looking over at anyone familiar, as I think I felt a lot freer to cry as much as I did. SORRY RANDOM STRANGERS WHO SAT NEXT TO ME WHO HAD TO LISTEN TO ME SOB FOR 81 MINUTES STRAIGHT. HOW DID YOU FIND MY HORRIBLE BLOG ANYWAY LoL :/?
The point is, you must see this documentary ALIVE INSIDE if you
a) care about your grandparents
b) love elders
c) are disturbed by the way our society treats the elderly as a burden,
d) are puzzled by the weird fact that Nursing Homes are designed just like sterile hospitals when perhaps that really isn't the best environment for someone to spend the last years of their lives.
and d) if you want to work with me on creating an old people smell perfume.. JK?
THE POINT IS, YOU MUST SEE "ALIVE INSIDE" !!! Go here to see where it is playing next...
After the screening of ALIVE INSIDE, I got to meet the creator of the documentary, Michael Rossato-Bennett. I went right up to him and told him that it was the best documentary I had ever seen and he gave me a hug. It was so nice to meet him and had I been with a friend, I might not have had the courage to approach him. I also got to meet a man named Dan Cohen, the brains behind Music and Memory, the organization which among other wonderful things, gives iPods to elderly people in nursing homes, (with their favorite songs programmed into it)
It's a shame that iPods and Apple products are made in such horrendous conditions... I wish there was something I could do to help! Why are people so greedy?
On a lighter note, Isn't it amazing that when our generation is elderly, the "Oldies" will be songs such as WAIT (WHISPER SONG) by Ying Yang Twins? FAILED VIRAL VIDEO BASED ON THIS PREMISE POSSIBLY COMING SOON.
I learned about ALIVE INSIDE after seeing this viral youtube video below, about the most adorable elderly black man living in a nursing home, suffering from dementia, who comes back to reality briefly after hearing some of his favorite music from his youth.
If you haven't seen this video below, YOU MUST! IT IS THE MOST SPECIAL YOUTUBE VIDEO EVER, BESIDES LEPRACHAUN IN ALABAMA. I mean it!
However in hindsight, I am so glad I went by myself because seeing this documentary was such a personal bowel moving experience for me, and I cried maybe the entire time watching it. It was actually so very nice to sit through this documentary alone, not looking over at anyone familiar, as I think I felt a lot freer to cry as much as I did. SORRY RANDOM STRANGERS WHO SAT NEXT TO ME WHO HAD TO LISTEN TO ME SOB FOR 81 MINUTES STRAIGHT. HOW DID YOU FIND MY HORRIBLE BLOG ANYWAY LoL :/?
The point is, you must see this documentary ALIVE INSIDE if you
a) care about your grandparents
b) love elders
c) are disturbed by the way our society treats the elderly as a burden,
d) are puzzled by the weird fact that Nursing Homes are designed just like sterile hospitals when perhaps that really isn't the best environment for someone to spend the last years of their lives.
and d) if you want to work with me on creating an old people smell perfume.. JK?
THE POINT IS, YOU MUST SEE "ALIVE INSIDE" !!! Go here to see where it is playing next...
After the screening of ALIVE INSIDE, I got to meet the creator of the documentary, Michael Rossato-Bennett. I went right up to him and told him that it was the best documentary I had ever seen and he gave me a hug. It was so nice to meet him and had I been with a friend, I might not have had the courage to approach him. I also got to meet a man named Dan Cohen, the brains behind Music and Memory, the organization which among other wonderful things, gives iPods to elderly people in nursing homes, (with their favorite songs programmed into it)
It's a shame that iPods and Apple products are made in such horrendous conditions... I wish there was something I could do to help! Why are people so greedy?
On a lighter note, Isn't it amazing that when our generation is elderly, the "Oldies" will be songs such as WAIT (WHISPER SONG) by Ying Yang Twins? FAILED VIRAL VIDEO BASED ON THIS PREMISE POSSIBLY COMING SOON.
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