full Sail Update #2 -or- Writing my life's memoir at 19... absurd, but I guess I won't make it past 20.

So here we are again, week 2 is midway through. Over the weekend my group for BS (behavioral science) met and worked on our project. On monday morning we all met and filmed our proposal video which will be shown in class tomorrow. I didn't edit it, I helped in the beginning, but since then it's been handled by Patrick. From what I've been it's incredibly good, it feels so weird to not be editing something I worked on, but as long as it looks good I'm happy.

Ass for the memoir, that's our essay for English, which I was writing, but it seems I've stopped for the night (it's due thursday so no sweat). Speaking of approaching deadlines, I have my first midterm tomorrow (wednesday) at 5:15! Yes, that was fast.

Things are going swell, I've biked to class the past two days, it hasn't been too hot, and luckily it hasn't rained. On my to do list, get groceries, I've eaten most my hot/corn dog product, I'm out of toquitos, I have half a Pomegranate left, and the rest soup and frozen pizza products (rolls french bread, and bagel). And in the words of Jesus H. Christ, "Man cannot live on bread sauce and cheese alone." (can you believe they abridge that part?) I also need to pick up envelopes so I can mail people, as handwritten letter are way cooler than emails.

Last night I had a dream where Mom and I were sitting in the Weinburg right behind John Waters, watching Pink Flamingos. Somehow Mom wasn't appalled (I think god's suggesting movies for the thanksgiving visit). Anyhow, in the oddly placed intermission John came up and sat next to me. Dream me must be a moron because I remember little of what he said except "I'm working on a new movie soon, you should help out" and my response was something like "um... I'm going to film school so I can't really help, but you should come and talk to the students." While the second would be cool, we all know I'd jump on that opportunity in a heart beat.

Well with that I don't have class til 5:15, so I'm gonna sleep in tomorrow!

For the rest of you, Keep on truckin!

Full Sail Update #1

I probably should number this, if I get in a habit of updating it could be depressing once it's like Full Sail Update #158, who knows.

So I've taken my first to classes. On Monday I had Behavioral Science which is 4 hours long and psychology type class. It's pretty interesting, the first day I couldn't help but imagine the brain function doing their job in some David Lynch, Eraserhead world. We have some sort of project coming up but that'll be explained on Friday (my only friday class for the whole month by the way). I have to pick up a copy of Crash (not Cronenburg's controversial car-crash-sex-thriller that I still want to see, the 2004 oscar winner Crash) so I'm running to Best Buy in the Morning to pick that up.

The second class is English Comp. which is scheduled Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-9. But we get around 4 for an hour dinner break. Then at 5:15 we're back for a lab, which if in the future is like it was today, then we do some degree of written work, and then we can leave when we're done so I was home a around 7 today.

Yes, I'm making friends. Totally having a good time. One of the highlight of my day was barely talking to Jason Reitman, Director of Thank you for Smoking, Juno and the upcoming Up In The Air, also son of Ivan Reitman. Our conversation went a little something like this (read upwards)...

For the record my first @jason is in response to him commenting on driving past a bikini carwash called baywash, and I went out on a limb and threw that out, then I read he was in orlando in his previous tweets and the rest is history.

Anyway, I got home to find that I was so excited, the fact he actually replied kinda overdid the fact that I could've but missed seeing him in person. But super cool in my opinion.

Well that's all I'm writing now.

Stay healthy readers!

New Totally Illogical Films Short!

A new short. I (Kevin Cole) am away at Full Sail to study film, but Brad and Kevin (Madert) are keeping it alive. Below is their first short (They grow up so fast) Pimp My Face. Reportedly a project for their AP Lit class, similar to I'll Bring My Own Rope, but very different. Watch below, I really dig it.

Pimp My Mask - watch more funny videos

Now live from sunny FL...

So yeah, I'm at my apartment now. I have orientation tomorrow morning at 8:30 so me usually going to bed between the hours of 12 and 1 am won't cut it. But I'm probably going to close out the night with Full Metal Jacket (my favorite Kubrick flick).

On Sunday I made my way to the local cinema's an caught the matinee of Where The Wild Things Are, which was pure film magic that evoked pure joy, fear, and sadness. At least half the movie I had a smile on my face and tears in my eyes. It's a solid film, that delivers a swift kick in the pants to all movies based of children's books and cartoons before it. The downside to it being such a solid film altogether is that I probably wouldn't take a small child to it. I don't have a small child though so problem solved!

I'll hopefully be updating this more now that I'm away, but if I don't... sorry?

Until next time, have fun chilluns,

Kevin Cole!

hmm...

I just read the last post and I was like, what the hell was my promised unhappy blog about? Then I remembered that some asshole ripped my car in half while I was work and didn't leave a note. But that was a month ago, and it's been fixed. so we're all good.

I watched There Will Be Blood last night, and definitely should have beat out No Country for the Oscar that year, sorry Coen Brothers, you know I love you guys.

I started packing up DVDs for the big move in a week, sad times ahead.

Also, hello Donna, I know you're reading this.

Quick post

To follow up from 2 weeks ago, Inglourious Basterds is the best movie I've seen this year, and I've seen it twice so far.

There's another blog coming sometime soon, not a happy one mind you, just covering the events of this past day.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS!!!

Brad texted me today, confirming a wonderful thing. The Muvico at Arundel Mills will have a midnight release of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS this Thursday!!! The Regal in Frederick hasn't shown anything for it, so it looks like I'm off to Muvico Thursday night!

Hungover.

Not really, but 3 months after it's release I finally saw The Hangover. Brad, Hillary, and I caught it at the cheap movies a few hours ago. It was really good. Zack Galifianakis as Allen was probably one of the funniest characters I've ever seen. I'm not going to go indepth, but by the end I was honestly wishing there was a stuffed animal of the man. Anyway, it's been out for 3 months, so I'm sure you can find a better review anywhere. But let this be a reminder that if you have yet to see it, hit up the Holiday Cinema's and buy some tickets (it's still at Regal but it's only one showing and why the hell would you pay $10.50 for a movie you could see for $3.25).

That's it for tonight, I'm taking Hillary to her in-cars tomorrow and Tuesday, and also working both those nights. Brad's birthday party is Wednesday, before you know it INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS!!!

Thoughts.

Why am I up so late? Truth be told, it's not that late judging by how late I'm always up, in fact I'm a half hour early for bed.

A week ago tomorrow I saw (500) Days of Summer. Overall it was pretty good. I feel like there were too many different styles and separate bits that didn't really help the film and we could have gone without. I have to say though, as everyone else already has, there's a scene where the do a split screen between Tom's expectations, and reality that works wonderfully. That said, I'm worried a bunch of other films will try this to some degree now.

I've only seen Split-Screen in movies twice (Requiem for a Dream, and the above film) Both times it worked great.

Speaking of movies... INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS IS OUT ON FRIDAY!!! I'm hoping to pick up the print copy of the screenplay this week too.

The past week I was in NY where I saw:

The 39 Steps:

Which was really good and a nice take on the movie and hitchcock in general.

Shrek the Musical:

Which was ok, the jokes were lifted from the movie, and didn't make me laugh that much, but some other sequences worked. None of the songs stuck with me, but the show was well acted and had great production value. The guy who played Donkey, did a really good job playing an animated character, I mean that in his spot on mimicry of Donkey (cartoon)'s mannerisms and such. The audience however... had issues... let's just say that when you figure out the beat of the first four measures of a song you've never heard before (or even if you have) you have no damn license to clap to the beat.

Also, people who leave when the curtain call begins!?! What the hell!?! You sat through a two and half hour show and you can't sit and clap for 2 minutes (I thought our audiance loved clapping).

The Toxic Avenger The Musical:

Which was so incredibly good. The show was hillarious, well written, acted, directed. The music rocked hard core. (I always have less to say about the shows I liked). But this one worked, was by far the best of the 3 shows. I was laughing non-stop. Wonderful!

I work 3 days this week which equals a nice sum of money since I have hardly been worked this summer, and the next week I work 4 days while all my pals go to high school.

A very Happy Birthday to Brennan Dolson, who is with out a doubt the funniest person I have ever and probably will ever meet.

And finally INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!

Goodnight moon.

Funny People

Was really good, but not entirely funny. (Btw, I haven't listened to my review podcasts (AV Talk and Filmspotting for the movie yet).

The thing was in the beginning it was a lot of dick jokes that I don't think really worked (given a lot of these were during the stand up routines). Oddly enough for the most part I feel the stand up in Funny People wasn't that funny, while their actual interactions were. And people may disagree with me, but with a few exceptions I generally don't enjoy stand up as much (Some stand-up I can't stand at all, I'm lookin at you Dane Cook). But the first half gets a pass for not being super funny because it was more story driven, George Simmons (Sandler) gets diagnosed with cancer pretty early on and most of the characters are going through rough spots so the lack of funny works for me.

The funny begins to hit in the second half where things start looking up for the characters. I want to say that I liked Seth Rogan's character change in this movie, a lot of time he's all for the sex (don't get me wrong it works I LOVED Zack and Miri make a Porno) but in this one he was more modest and down to earth, and really wasn't looking for cheap sex. I think that's why his early stand-up in the movie didn't work as well, because as a character he was trying to be funny by what makes other people laugh, but when we learn about how he's more insecure about himself and he makes realizations his stand-up comedy changes in a way that really worked for him and me.

In the end I don't think Funny People has the best beginning but it finishes strong, and really is a good movie. So check it out when you get the chance (I suggest this weekend instead of seeing the new GI Joe). I have to add, I did get a kick out of seeing a 70-80 year old couple slowly walk out of the movie before the first half was over. I wondered how they had gotten in there in the first place, but I'm sure the youth of the future will wonder the same when I don't walk out of these movies and I'm 93.

Good job Mr. Apatow, I look forward to whatever's coming next (he's apparently teaming with Bo Burnham for a project so mark me intrigued).

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In other news, I'm doing swell, I recently came back for a week in Florida with my lovely lady, and I'm apparently off to NY next week. I downloaded the new Modest Mouse album today (No One's First And You're Next) and I'm quite enjoying it.

I've got a few short ideas and an actual full lengther in my head, and in my brainstorming journal. so hopefully a few of those will see the light of day before I leave for college.

That's all for now (more later?)