Monday, October 31st, 2005
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12:59 pm - Go see my movie Pony Trouble on the big screen!
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This Friday midnight at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square!
40 Brattle Street!
and you can now get DVDs online at ponytrouble.com
!!!
current mood:  bouncy
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
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5:37 pm - interest meme
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LJ Interests meme results
- butterflies:
butterflies are free. soon they will all be dead from monsanto. I saw a monarch the other day and was elated because I thought they were extinct. - defying logic:
An excess of logic is illogic. What people think is logic leads to the most pigheaded conclusions. And most adventures would be "stupid" if you analyzed them before doing. - frances books:
Alice is the person nobody sees. And that is why she does not have a birthday. - indians:
Nobody believes in magic as much as indians. But I havent been to the res in like a year. - meaning in meaninglessness:
I think strong bad understands this best. Get down off that smokestack! - otherkin:
Im not so big on otherkin anymore now that I've found out 999/1000 of them are either:
-under 20 years old or
-fat agoraphobic shut-ins
So back in the otherkin closet i go. - pronoia:
Without this I would be a jaded miserable pseudo-hipster and probably a waiter instead of a filmaker. - silly voices:
These are essential in living the good life. You can take life seriously while not taking it "seriously". And you should. Talk in silly voices! - taoism:
Ok isms are starting to bore me. Everyone thinks I am a mormon because of pigeonholing. - uniqueness:
This is deep on my list of core being values after aliveness and playfulness
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
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3:51 am - the absurd state of modern physics
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I wont discuss this here because livejournal is just whacking off. How "live" is it to speak to the 2% of your friends still luddite enough to use lj or friendster, when you could speak to 60% of your friends by posting in your friendster blog?
Not very live. Deadjournal.
Anyway I after many years of attempting to reconcile quantum physics the mythology with some kind of meaningful sense which I could use to write science fiction movies instead of sci-fi's poor cousin fantasy, I have managed to slog through about 80 pages of "the dancing wu li masters" and have my own, new ideas about physical. Check my myspace blog to comment. And get with the times people ;)
friendster collates a good proportion of your friends. lj lets you blab to the friends you can get to join it, but serves no other purpose. myspace does both.
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Thursday, April 14th, 2005
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5:01 pm - look elsewhere for my blog
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myspace.com gives you a blog, and I have *48* myspace friends so far without even trying, and after 6 years on LJ I only have like *5* lj friends I actually know personally. LJ has lost any meaningful value.
So if you want to know what's going on with me:
-check the news section of ponytrouble.com, I update it every few days
-add me as your myspace friend. If I have anything non-movie to say I will do it in my myspace blog.
current mood:  content
current music: MSI
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Monday, February 21st, 2005
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4:32 pm - the scene in question
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11. INT. CINDY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
Cindy, Randy, Donna and Barbara are eating cupcakes. Eve comes in the
room looking sneaky and shuts the floor with a circumspect innocent
look. As the door shuts she whirls and flashes eyes at BARBARA.
EVE
You know what happens when you lose a dare, Barbara. [evil giggle]
DONNA
You have to pay a penalty!
we see eve's mischievous face
EVE
I pick the Penalty of Binding!
mean laugh from DONNA and RANDY. All 4 of them tie BARBARA's hands
behind her back.
EVE [whispery intensity]
Now you have to eat a cupcake off the floor!
She throws a cupcake on the floor. Close up on BARBARA who looks at it
like no i'm not gonna, then resigns herself to playing along and
slowly leans over and takes a tiny bite right before the cupcake is
CRUSHED by eve's boot which stomps down into the frame.
BARBARA
Ewww!
DONNA
You have to eat it, Barbara.
EVE
Eat it! Get on your fucking hooves and EAT IT!
DONNA
Yeah! Whoo!
[she pushes Barbara's head toward the cupcake]. We J-cut at "and" so
that during EAT IT we have...
CUT TO JERRY AND JOSH. we see their reactions to hearing Eve doing
what sounds like S+M sex. Throughout this shot we hear squeals from
DONNA, whimpers from BARBARA and "yeah! eat it!" type stuff from EVE
and RANDY.
JERRY
(sighs)
It's all so depressing.
JOSH
(distracted)
Yeah. Those girls got their booties goin on.
He gets up and does jumping jacks. Then he stops and points at Jerry
like an aerobics instructor.
JOSH (cont'd)
I know just what you need.
He drags Jerry out the door.
CUT back to closeup of BARBARA's face mooshed into cupcake on the
floor. Eve is pushing BARBARA's back of the head with her hand so her face mooshes
the cupcake.
CINDY
Eve, stop that!
BEHIND CINDY'S BACK:
DONNA
(really quiet, ideally just with a look, to Randy)
You like that?
(points at the BARBARA/EVE scenario)
RANDY, being his unabashed self, goes up to EVE obviously turned on
and like grabs at her, but EVE trips him and he falls sprawling on the
floor. EVE and CINDY exchange jealous looks and we CUT
current mood: happy
current music: stuunerbell steen
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4:04 pm - blog the hog dog
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Redtail parties are so wonderful. They are bliss. In real regular life I can hardly get a date. Not that I try. Actually I try to avoid them. But if I did try I wouldn't get any because I am 30 and dirt broke. And what 30 yr old woman wants to date a broke guy? Not many.
But one takes one step into Redtail and everything changes. Suddenly everyone allowed in is an artist. Suddenly there are tons of beautiful women all around who *all* appreciate the artistic lifestyle. Suddenly everyone is dressed like alien space booty creatures out of Barbarella. A guy can get drunk and talk to any woman there, because she knows and he knows they're both artists and will have something fascinating to say to each other.
It's like candy. It's like heaven. What was in that candy, Dave?
Speaking of candy I just had a humongous confidence boost. Irina watched my "What was in that candy, Dave?" monologue in the editing room over Scott's and she said it was the best acting in the movie. I suppose not every actor can intentionally dilate their pupils to method-act a scene where their character is tripping. But I thought my acting was pretty mediocre. And Jeremy's always catching shots of me in the worst light possible ever just to fuck with me. But we were trying out the new $30,000 cameras and I looked in one and smiled and I guess i didnt look so bad after all. I guess anyone can look good on camera as long as they like relax and center their chi. Even me!
The bad news is in 1 week I will be couch surfing in 1 week. But hey, c'est la vie. I'll happily couch surf to keep working 80 hours a week making a movie with cameras as awesome as these ones. Next up is the truth or dare scene where Eve mooshes Barbara's face into a stepped-on cupcake on the floor.
I am thinking when we start the scene we should have evidence of several dares already in progress. What kind of dares do yu think would come up among insane drug-addled pony cult members?
The premise of the scene is that Barbara got dared to go in the other room and get Jerry to have sex with her within 1 minute. And she failed so Eve is giving her the "penalty" and whatnot. But they would have already done some dares off screen before the scene. I'd like to think of some more. Here are the ideas so far. In this scene we have 4 girls (Cindy Eve Donna and Barbara) and 1 guy (Randy, Cindy's boyfriend).
-Smear lipstick all around your mouth (Cindy)
-Put a bra on your head (Randy)
-Write SLUT on your forehead in eyeliner (Donna)
Let me know if you have any ideas. I think it would be really funny if maybe Barbara was the one with lipstick smeared around her mouth and SLUT written on her forehead because when she comes in the other room in the previous scene being like "Jerry, why won't you fuck me?" it'd be more funny and also realistic when he is hesitant about it.
But we need some "dare evidence" for the other characters as well. Any suggestions?
current mood: artistic
current music: noon
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
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2:31 pm - dogme 95
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Dogme 95 bites the big one. What kind of moron would want their entire movie to look like that HBO Bail Bonds show or some crappy BBC special on purpose? I mean I understand if you have budgetary constraints but shooting a big budget movie in dogme 95 is basically shitting all over the medium in my opinion. Who cares if it's the fad to make everything look crappy? Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom was a boring piece of shite.
current mood:  nervous
current music: dogme 95
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Sunday, February 6th, 2005
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3:53 pm - How to get babes
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-Shower every day
-Do laundry
-Don't have crushes
-Dress nice
-Don't post in LJ
-Relax
-Remember what's important in life: Large stacks of green green money
Then sit back and relax, 20 packages of vacuum-sealed babes will be shipped to your address
current mood: cheerful
current music: form
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12:52 am - whats up with me
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Okay so...
Worked too hard on the movie, and failed to find 2 more roomates yet so me and mark are stuck paying 850 for now. But we have some prospects maybe. It is a bad time for vastly increased rent because I owe about 300 bucks to dark dangerous forces which I should not be owing money to.
But I will clean this place up, find roomates and not get my knees broken. Necessity is an excellent motivator.
Had first "big dogs" meeting with Marty, bringing along Scott, Dave M and David K. We did not get funding right away but Dave M and Scott insist that Marty is indeed going to give us money, we just need to give him enough proof first.
I am going to show him Teenage Catgirls in Heat, maybe that will help. And Dave M is diverting a large humongous fund towards Pony Trouble.
Um, yeah. So financial straits are very dire, but endless golden treasures loom on the horizon.
We better get this money right quick though because Melinda isnt getting any less preggers. And I like my knees.
I suppose one has like a full life to talk about but nothing else is nearly as important thus worth talking about. Guns, girls, pills, none of it matters but green bills.
However I seem to have found the pixy roll center of the business pop. It's no longer a dichotomy. Zyaaaaa!
current mood: chipper
current music: keen
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
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7:50 am - the recurring pattern
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It doesnt seem to make any difference being successful or not successful. Any girl I think "likes" me turns out to just have an affectionate bent toward men in general.
Of course if I didnt receive a LARGE COCK BLOCK from chyle after I just found somebody nice for her 30 minutes before. There's no gratitude I tell ya.
Not that it probably would have mattered anyway. Just a sucky day and I lost $100 in a blizzard. Whee.
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
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9:25 am - Oyster bar
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Swimming pools... movie stars...
Yesterday was a nice backer meeting at an oyster bar. I love how the producing end of things is always so bling bling. I spent 2 hours getting spiffed out with a nice pressed shirt and everything and it really helped. It was kind of ewey having Dave say I was going to be the "temple prostitute" at this meeting but it really helped me prepare. Because despite what your liberal views may tell you, in business it really is important to look your best. And having a backer usually involves someone having some kind of platonic crush on you so it was good he said that because due to my extreme hours directing, I dont give myself the time to be much above slovenly most of the time of late. This is why in the movies the guy who plays the director often has a beard or beard stubble, and why Michael Moore always looks like shit.
The backer's younger 30s male "wife" seemed most interested in the project and kept bumping my knee and smiling at me. I think we will get at least some backing from this avenue. He spent 200 bucks on dinner alone. But even if we don't it is great to eat fine food and be made much of and have money thrown at one. Dave M gave me 50 bucks for "cab fare home"
I got my head cut off yesterday and it looks really great. I don't know why Andrew complains about getting killed in Pony Trouble because getting killed is the most liberating awesome thing imaginable.
And today we're shooting another scene, which I sent out rewrites for only an hour ago. I hope the cast doesnt crucify me but I think actually Heather and Jared do not actually hate me and I am just being paranoid because of stress.
Funny to be so stressed out and so satisfied with my life at the same time.
current mood: accomplished
current music: early
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Sunday, January 9th, 2005
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12:02 pm - So lets see
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Yesterday I met with a potential backer and he served me fillet steak and absinthe and we talked about making Ellroy novels into movies. On Wednesday I have a meeting with *his* backer but I can't bring Scott and Kleiler with me yet. Apparently because getting backing is 25% having a solid business plan and 75% whether the investor thinks you are hot. Hehe, so THATS why all my investors are gay.
Tonight we finally have shooting after lots of scheduling mixup with Heather and Jared. They seem to have less and less free time for shooting and I really hope it doesn't mean that they secretly hate me or something.
They dont have as hectic schedules as Andrew though, so as long as they dont hate me everything should be ok. It's just that everything has to get shot faster now that Melinda is pregnant (!) But it should work out fine, I hope. Today we reshoot the Eddie/Melinda intimacy scene and finish the special effect where my head gets sawed off with a hacksaw.
Yesterday Damien told me that he just hit the jackpot and has some mansion in Florida with his two girlfriends, one of which fell for him because she read my mention of him in the Meatcake magazine letters column. Fame rocks. So he says that he now owes me a favor and I should come down to Florida and share his girlfriends with him in a warm palm-tree paradise of hot women and unlimited free booze and drugs. And Tay only lives a couple hundred miles away.
Gosh that sure is tempting with the frozen slush everywhere in boston and nasty weather about to keep getting worse for 2 months. But I have to finish Pony Trouble first dangit.
Life is getting easier in Boston though, since Melinda, Juliet, Adam and Craig are now kicking me down food on a pretty regular basis, and I have several decent sources of income. The new apartment is way bigger, airier and prettier as well.
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2004
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3:32 pm - The glass is half full
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Film Threat basically says that although they can make no guarantees
at this time, they are interested in considering the finished product
for distribution. Is that all we need?
"Again, I hope you will give me the opportunity to
consider the film once it is completed."
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mitchell Bard <mbard@filmthreat.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:45:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Film Threat distribution?
To: Warren Lynch <warrenlynch@gmail.com>
Dear Warren,
Thanks for your email.
While I certainly would love to consider your film
once it's completed, I cannot make a guarantee of
distribution based on five minutes of material.
Every time we agree to distribute a film, it is a
major commitment on the part of our company and one we
don't take lightly. We also can only make offers to a
limited number of films.
And, with FT DVD growing as fast as it is, it is
virtually impossible for me to predict what our
distribution needs and criteria will be six months
from now.
Our company policy is that we can only consider
completed films that are ready for distribution, and I
am afraid that I cannot waive this rule in this
instance.
Again, I hope you will give me the opportunity to
consider the film once it is completed. And, I wish
you the best of luck in raising the money. If the film
is as strong as you say, I'm sure you won't have
trouble getting another distributor that does acquire
films before they're done to give you a letter of
intent.
Best regards,
Mitchell Bard
Head of Acquisitions
Film Threat DVD
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current music: oz
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Sunday, December 26th, 2004
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5:29 am - the good people
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im getting so old that i have trouble seeing the Little People now. Plus my brother Adam chopped down all the old growth faery trees with a chainsaw.
I definitely cant see them while smoking a cigarette. Time to try the smoke-away system or something because if i turn into a cynical secular humanist pinkboy that will just totally suck.
Luckily though, I am still able to hike miles into the woods by moonlight at sub-zero temperatures. It's a lot easier to see Them when you're miles from anything human. Not if you have to take a shit though. You have to go home and take a shit because doing it on the ground in the snow with only leaves for TP is not fun.
Although taking a shit is a great way to see the Little People, as evidenced in the movie The Fisher King.
current mood: moody
current music: almost total silence
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Friday, December 10th, 2004
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1:26 am - update on me
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So we finally shot the "orgy scene". 3 more scenes (including my character's death) and we'll have all of Davecam in the can. Which means we'll have to get funding before shooting anything else but that.
And my financial situation is balanced on pretty much either getting funding or working insane amounts forever. But the funding front looks really really amazingly good for once and nobody has even seen the orgy scene yet.
Plus my dad and Scott are talking about starting a new cable channel so if we can make this movie and the channel takes off I pretty much have a job lined up for me and 12 of my best friends to make 50 grand a year making 4 movies a year for Scott's channel.
In the meantime you know, I still scrounge food and cigarettes off people. But hey, at least I have a totaly awesome swanky new apartment! Oh hey, did I mention that?
Oh pluss Scott Roi says he will score any scenes we want and we can have Pony Trouble screenings at Pan 9, which is basically the awesomest underground performance space left in Boston.
current mood: happy
current music: freezepop forever
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
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6:09 am - unwise drunk posting
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I have been avoiding LJ and got myself unaddicted to LJ because i find that if I mention people I do business with it will now generally get back to them cause enough people read my journal and people talk to people etc and insulting important business connections is disastrously bad. I literally wept when a certain disaster of the above kind happened recently. In front of people. Sobbing. This ridiculous pony movie means so much to me now.
But now I'm somewhat drunk and my subconscious is driving.
So yeah the infamous article came out and it has given me tremendous success with girls. three former friends i always chased after are now... something. I seem to have (temporarily) reached that area of success where you become "interesting" from your success. what makes people interesting i dont know. but people like to know you can walk the walk you talk. Especially when you are 30 and your looks arent going to carry shit for you completely anymore.
It's also pretty amazing how you can say things over AIM you would never say in real life. AIM is the stuff of love.
Last week I was at Zeitgeist watching some performances and sitting in the middle and this guy was singing and it was really good but I was steened and he was singing this song about "happy happy happy" and i just started cracking up laughing and you know, i was enjoying the song a lot but i was laughing. And the thing at the Zeitgeist is that its all very amateur stuff and the audience pretty much laughs at inappropriate steened times and it's all very accepting supportive, you know steened kind of clap-your-hands-at-that-weird-wonderful-thing laughter. But when I do it the guy totally breaks down stops, starts again into the song except he's singing about me now. "Warren made me mess up my song by being silly and gay". And singing along, improvising and he goes through 3 song round thingies of calling me "silly and gay". And I'm beet red sitting in the middle of the crowd with everyone looking at whoever this Warren person is who is so silly and gay.
It was very embarassing yet very flattering at the same time. And I realize I finally have a sense of humor about myself again.
Jess really messed up my sense of self-deprecating humor because she doesn't have one at all and I'm all into mind-meld and all that stuff. But I'm definitely finally cured. Maybe time heals all wounds or maybe all it took was to be propositioned by lots of girls again, but I totally made fun of myself in the article about me and it turns out the entire movie Pony Trouble is an oblique joke at my expense, which Gabe thought to write when he cracked up seeing me carrying around a My Little Pony lunchbox. I've been making fun of myself for 9 months without knowing it!
Speaking of Jess, she has begun AIMing me trying to make me jealous about how she is going to have a Hollywood impulsive marriage soon because she thinks babies are cute or something. Okay they are cute but she's crazy and evil.
So let's see. I seem to have very few close friends anymore and only 8 people came to my 30th birthday party although over 100 sang me happy birthday the day before at Redtail. I guess a lot of superficial friends isn't so bad but it'd be nice to have more close friends.
I guess I will see how real my friends are soon because come December 1st I'll be couch-surfing. I made a ton of money this month but I can't seem to find an apartment that I like that costs in line with what I expect to keep on making. When I make this much money it's just a "bull market" or a "spike".
If I dont find a decent place after a month I plan on moving to Georgia where the rent is like 75/month instead of 500. But I don't think my art contacts will allow that to happen. But we shall see.
Distribution seems like it's almost there as it always does, but Davecam scenes are going to run out in mid December.
So my life is a big gamble now but who cares. I've been in one place doing one thing for too long.
current mood:  lazy
current music: IFC
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Saturday, November 20th, 2004
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4:51 pm - strange glamour
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so yesterday i went to go see some musician and he was singing some happy song and i started laughing so he changed the song to be about me and how i was "silly and gay". it was really funny and embarassing.
it's weird when people come up to you and they know you but you don't know them, but it's even weirder when it's a performer on a stage and they start talking about you or singing about you.
stranger than kindness
current mood: shocked
current music: stranger than paradise
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4:05 pm
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You Are the Enthusiast |
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You are outgoing and playful - always seeing the happy side to life.
You're enthusiastic and excitable. You love anything new.
Multi-talented, you do many things well... and find success easy.
You prefer to keep things light with others. Opening up is hard for you.
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Sunday, November 14th, 2004
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1:15 pm - Article about me
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Monday, November 8th, 2004
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9:53 pm - mutiny!
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My actors and crew are near-mutinying on me over scheduling difficulties! Don't they know I love them all dearly, and my only wish is to make them famous?
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