This is the finished “Champagne Machine” for the shoot tomorrow. Jess built it based on my vague ideas and instructions. It is better than I imagined. It’s exactly what I want.

Also, duct tape! She used duct tape like the awesome, sexy, crafty, hands-on Alaskan she is! I love it.

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Jeff won’t give up when faced with reality. Be like Jeff. Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

We bought this meat grinder yesterday with some other things we’re going to use to build a machine of sorts for our shoot on Friday. I’m actually weirdly keen on getting it all cleaned up and sterilized after we use it for the shoot and trying to actually grind some meat with it.

The short I’m shooting Friday is inspired by one or two of the responses I got to my post “Do You Have Two Nouns and a Verb?” I will give those people their credit for inspiration once I post the completed short. I got several really interesting responses on Tumblr and on Facebook to that post. I might have to use you people more often.

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I need a handbook or iPhone app for this sort of greeting business. I am always unsure of what to do. With boys or girls, men or women. Do I offer my hand? Do I wait for a hand to be offered? Do I offer the awkward half hug? Do I simply incline my head slightly as a polite respectful gesture of acknowledgment? Do we fist bump and blow it up?

This is what flies through my head every time I meet someone and every time I greet someone I know. Ultimately, this leads to me doing nothing because I spent too much time not knowing what to do.

Perhaps I should just give everyone a thumbs up and a wink. Every time.

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paulscheer:

My Favorite Halloween Costume

That is a really great costume. King of Kong is one of my favorite movies. I almost tear up a few times. Very clever costume.

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vaderetromesatana:

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

I think I have found my new favorite movie alien designs. I love those. They have cabbage heads!

Finally watching the original German-Language version of Funny Games. I love this story. It’s kind of beautifully tortuous to watch. I really love the way Haneke takes film story conventions and uses them to torment the characters and the audience. You expect X to happen, because that’s the way things are done. That’s the way it always happens. He sets you up to expect it to happen. He gives you hope for the protagonists and then he rips that hope away and kind of mocks your expectations.

I kind of prefer the recent remake because I like the actors in it a bit more (Tim Roth, Naomi Watts, and Michael Pitt). It’s a shot for shot remake, so other than the actors it’s pretty much exactly the same film.