Happenings Around Texas

[ehowton]

• onthetrails has an open tech position in Sherman, just North of Anna.


• drax0r has been training to be a mixed-martial arts "cage fighter" and I've been promoting an Exhibition Fight in my backyard - so far the response has been positive and we're going to have quite a turnout. I'm going to buy a bunch of folding chairs and we're all going to take turns smacking him with them. Please let me know if you're interested in fighting drax0r for training purposes, or showing up to watch the scrimmage.


• For those of you who don't know drax0r he's like the Nacho Libre of UFC. In that regard, if anyone has a luchador mask or stretchy-pants we can borrow for the fight, please bring them.

Dodge, duck, dip, dive and...dodge!

Comments

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DALfwu5doGU

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

The Wrestler

[drax0r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except that what you're voluenteering for has neither a script nor stuntmen.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

If you haven't seen the film, I highly recommend it.

[melancthe.livejournal.com]

I cannot WAIT for the video of this cage match.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

That was my thought exactly.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Darren Aronofsky: Not the only filmmaker on the planet. Honest to god - you should google it.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yraIaeMBbj0

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

If you haven't seen Nacho Libre I highly recommend it.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Rather than risk my backyard fence being damaged by drax0r throwing someone into it, and given that the lots are vacant all around my house, onthetrails suggested that we use 6-inch resin decorative landscape edging as a "cage."

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I didn't say he was. In fact, when both panacea42 and I read your post, our first thought was scenes from The Wrestler.

Tell you what: why don't you watch the movie and tell me how it compares to what [Unknown site tag] is doing. Then we can have an intelligent discussion on the topic.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Not a big Jack Black fan.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Not a big Darren Aronofsky fan.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, I wasn't making the rec to you.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

The fact remains that I've billed drax0r as the "Nacho Libre of the UFC" which would suggest you watch the movie so you know what to expect when he throat-punches you.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

We've been over this already. I'm not coming because as promoter, you can't raise enough capital to pay my guest appearance rate.

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're not being silly at all. Bea Arthur, mean, never. The comment was directed at Tom because he does not like any other genre than Drama. Sci-Fi and Comedy are below him. He would never watch the BBC version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for instance, let alone get the humor in it.

The avatar is from one of Mel Brooks masterpieces, History of the World Part I.

[panacea42.livejournal.com]

I don't really care about Aronofsky either way, but yeah, the beating with metal folding chairs image immediately brought that movie to mind, lol!

I was less than thrilled with it initially when boyfriend worked on it a few days and after a 14+? hour day the van was delayed coming back into nyc because other crew members wanted to do the 'hopping over the ropes' stunt instead of coming home, lol...but it did make for a great reel at the wrap party.

But when I saw the actual movie in the theater I was blown away, so gritty, and Mickey Rourke was brilliant!

[panacea42.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, Brooks' History of the World is classic!

So adore BBC Hitchhiker's, brilliant...in fact my favorite film is a British comedy, the original 1967 "Bedazzled" with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook (swoon!), and the final scene is incredibly prophetic.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/thewrestler/

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

I thought your link gritty and realistic. Too realistic perhaps to be a movie - but I know you're into that re-creation of reality (http://ehowton.livejournal.com/164696.html) (ref: The Weatherman). Unfortunately, being that its directed by Aronofsky, there's probably something they're not showing us in the trailer which will would render the show untenable. I'll likely never see it.

And may I assume you also gave me the courtesy of viewing my link? Or did you simply respond to one of your own out of poor taste?

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

I did watch you link prior to posting my own.

I thought they disgraced James Horner's The Mask of Zorro score. The trailer reeks of small budget, poorly executed indie "I'm going against the grain and made a unwatchable film." air. And I don't like Black's affectatious Spanish accent. In short, what I saw in the trailer was bad acting, bad filmmaking, attempts at slapstick and inane comedy--all those things that I hate and you love about film.

Regarding The Weatherman the whole point of the film is that Michael Caine's character knew what it takes to make a family work but also knew that his son had to figure it out on his own. Nicolas Cage's character was too stupid to see why he failed and at the end of the film was left unchanged. I think The Weatherman is an important film warning how not to live your life.

You're pissed over The Fountain because you had no clue what to expect, despite the fact that I urged you to see Requiem for a Dream first. Had you done this, you would have known going in what kind of a filmmaker Aronofsky is and would have been prepared for an introspective film that fit together perfectly and could only be expressed as the conglomeration of the parts as no one idea could be discussed without referencing the others in the film. It is for this reason that I never could properly review the film because for me, it was a rotating triangle built upon the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

I did watch you link prior to posting my own.
Thank you.

I don't like Black's affectatious Spanish accent.
Sometimes a man wears stretchy-pants.

I think The Weatherman is an important film warning how not to live your life.
I do not. I do not think its important at all, for any reason other than I stated. There is no guaranteed recipe for success. Look at your life - you've seen the film. You know what not to do. Yet your life still sucks? What went wrong? Exactly.

would have been prepared for an introspective film that fit together perfectly and could only be expressed as the conglomeration of the parts as no one idea could be discussed without referencing the others in the film.
I don't have time for such antics.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

Prior to The Wrestler, I had seen all three of Aronofsky's commercial films and was quite impressed. I loved the layer upon layer theme that Aronfosky had going. Granted, I heard through the grapevine that he's a real asshole to work with, but I think that's because he wants things done his way because he's making his film. To each his own.

I was skeptical going into The Wrestler. Matty Libatique didn't DP signally to me that we wouldn't be getting a whole lot of groundbreaking cinematography. The film wasn't marketed correctly either, nor did they push to keep it in the theater. On the whole, I think Fox dropped the ball. Thankfully, it got nominated for an Oscar.

Watching The Wrestler was a very uneasy task because of all the wrestling stunts. There were several places where it was so brutal that I honestly would have opted to have watched Passion of the Christ.

That having been said, Rourke is a powerhouse playing the role he was born to play. The way the emotional roller coaster was portrayed and the way Mickey rode it reminded me of Ellen Burstyn's performance in Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky knows how to get a performance out of his talent.

I don't know if I could sit through The Wrestler again. During the first viewing I though, "I couldn't sit through all that again. It's too violent and emotional" but I wanted to see it last night after having the discussion here and on AIM. I loved how the ending was so open-ended but mourned the characters failures to communicate in time to have a happier ending.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

you've seen the film. You know what not to do. Yet your life still sucks? What went wrong?
I'm not married, I don't have children and I'm not neglecting my family to improve my career.

I don't have time for such antics.
It's not an antic, it's an art form. This is why no one cares what you say about film. You're irrelevant.