Of course, being the incredibly prone to impulse dork that I am I bought the Vader/Obi Wan and 3PO/Chewie packs. (Shut up AMOD. I know by buying this stuff I'm actively trying to repel most women.)
Artsy Fartsy
Look at what I drew on the computer the other day. The color is a quick fill just to make it stand out a little better. This is the first step towards getting a little bit of animation and interactivity here on the site. I'll be working on the shading and firstly animating a title menu/logo, and then on a few other things.
Stay tuned as I teach myself a few new things. Hopefully I'll be able to work up to actual cartoons of the moving with sound variety.
John Shirley on the reason.
Clerks 2 News
Yahoo News story on Clerks 2
The sequel picks up 10 years later.
"It's about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise lasts into your 30s. Those dudes are kind of still mired, not in that same exact situation, but in a place where it's time to actually grow up and do something more than just sit around and dissect pop culture and talk about sex," Smith said during an interview at his Hollywood office. "It's: What happened to these dudes?"
A new 10th anniversary DVD of "Clerks" debuts Sept. 7, and Smith said working on that three-disc set inspired him to write about what became of those characters.
The sequel — titled "The Passion of the Clerks" — is set to begin shooting in January. Miramax Films, which turned the original into a cult-hit after buying it at the Sundance Film Festival, plans to distribute the follow-up.
"It's funny, it's very raw, insanely foul-mouthed. In many ways it's the antithesis of 'Jersey Girl,'" Smith said, referring to his recent PG-13 comedy with Ben Affleck (news) as the widowed father of a little girl.
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"I'm sure there will be naysayers who say, 'Oh my God, it's an opportunistic grab at a buck,' but it's not. We're doing it for nothing," Smith said. "We're going to do it insanely inexpensively. The budget will be somewhere between 250 grand and $5 million."
My thoughts on the story, firstly, a three damn disc Clerks Special Edition--Sweet!
I am one who would love to see the sequal, but my initial reaction to the idea before reading the entire story was--Didn't he say he was through with Jay and Bob and the Jersey Trilogy?
But if you read what he actually says about the story, it seems that he's planning on turning it a bit on its ear and making it more of the grown up movie that he was shooting for with Jersey Girl, with dick and fart jokes thrown in.
I imagine the point is to make Randall and Dante even more sad and pathetic. I also think it would be a funny gag to have Bob be clean cut and working as some sort of executive, with Jay working in the mailroom of his building and constantly using cuts to keep us from hearing Bob speak at length.
Jim Goad, He Make-a Me Laugh and Laugh
A nice sarcastic post on Islam from Jim Goad, which will probably offend some, but made me chuckle quite a bit. Following is the entire text since Jim doesn't have direct links to posts (I urge you if to read his site, as long as you don't blame me if you are easily offended. And also, I hope that Jim doesn't either a) fly out here to beat the shit out of me for posting this on my site, or b) just give me lots of bad juju vibes for it, I'm just trying to direct people to his site)
lite muslims® offer hope for unified world
CAIRO, EGYPT—Islam is the world's strongest social meme, yet its angry God and strict moral code have prevented it from swallowing up the Western mind like it has spread plaguelike over dumber, less-developed continents.
Now, a student youth movement of self-described "Lite Muslims®" may change all that, offering a version of Islam that is at once mellower and sexier than Westerners have come to expect.
"As depicted in the Holy Koran, Allah has a bit of an anger problem," chuckles Mazin Sami (second from left), an Egyptian graduate student in Islamic Studies shown here sporting some of his "Unisex Muslim Urban Wear" with a group of Arabic runway models. "The Lite Muslim® version of Allah isn't angry—he's perturbed...he's just a little offended by the way things are, that's all. But he's not a hothead, and he definitely doesn't lash out like the old Allah did."
Sami says his new 'n' improved Islam isn't nearly as anti-Semitic as the classic model. "We don't want to kill Jews," he assures me. "We just find them really annoying sometimes. Doesn't everyone?"
Perhaps the biggest selling point for Lite Muslims® is their embrace of Western-style carnality. "Let's put it this way," Sami tells me with a twinkle in his eye, "we don't believe that you should have to wait until you're dead to bag seventy virgins. And women don't have to cover their faces and ankles in public—just don't go wagging your gash around, and we're cool with it."
Sami's watered-down Islam makes its Initial Public Offering on Wall Street next week, and tastemakers predict that the West is finally ready to give Allah a fair shake. "We aim to put a Lite Muslim® mosque in every mall, alongside Starbucks and Hot Topic," Sami beams, "and the whole world will rejoice in the fact that Allah is beneficent, merciful...and pretty darned rad, too."
Ah, the deep belly laughs.
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