The Black Parade
There should be a superhero called ‘Emo-Boy’. He could bore criminals to death with his stories of adolescent depression, and how the world just doesn’t “get” him. Then he could take the criminals back to his bedroom and listen to My Chemical Romance at full volume, while pencil sketching images of his parents impaled on spikes. Or something like that.
News flash, emo kids. The world doesn’t get anyone. You’re not special… I like The Black Parade too. But I don’t carve my initials into my arm with a Gillette Blue 2.
So. How are you? All is well in camp Shepherd. The youCan2 ads are more or less locked off, just waiting a grade and a couple of VFX. We’re moving onto a competition which will be launched in conjunction with SBS and Film Australia in September. You have to complete tasks over a four week period, and the more tasks you complete the more chances you have to win prizes. Like iPods, and Macs, and TVs, and cars. So, yeah…
No one wants to see Spiderman 3 with me. Sad. Mind, that ‘Zodiac’ is out this weekend so that’ll be worth a view.
I have the very latest draft of the feature I’ve wanted to make for a couple of years. It’s great. I have a few timing issues, but we’ll be making it in the next 12 months. That’s a guarantee. And as we say here in Texas, you can put my word in the bank. A George Bush reference there.
Speaking of Bush – George, not the band, or the euphemism for a ladies rude part – have you been watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip? It’s Aaron Sorkin’s follow up to The West Wing, and it really is good. That man can write. Stella cast too. Not sure what that has to do with George Bush.
Website update will happen once I have the final ads to upload. In the mean time, why not search “Leonard Nimoy Bilbo” on YouTube. Classic stuff.
Michael Buble seems like a nice guy. But, in my experience, most Canadians are. Although Celine Dion does look like someone stuck a vacuum cleaner up her arse and sucked out most of her insides. Hope that’s not libelous.
Doh!
Hi Richard
Isn’t it just a little bit hypocritcal for a climate change advertising campaign to simultaneously run a competition in which a gas guzzling car is one of the prizes? Think of all those awful carbon emissions! And what of the other prizes? They are all produced in factories that create hazardous greenhouse gases. If an iPod or a television, once produced, had a positive effect on climate change, then I could see the intrinsic value in such a prize. But they don’t.
Surely, more appropriate prizes might include a) solar panels, 2) water tanks, 3) bicycles or 4)free public transport for a year. I’d be more inclined to pay attention to the YouCan2 campaign if you could be shown to actually practise what you preach. If not, then the only conclusion I can draw is that you’re every bit as hypocritical as Al Gore and, like Al Gore, just in it for the money.