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Writing is a pain in the ass!

Sunday, Nov 13, 2011 6:09AM / Members only

I lost an entire chapter, but that's ok cuz I basically scrapped everything it was about. The month is half over and I should be some 25,000 words in. Eh, how bout barely 10,000. Even if I don't finish by the end of November. I'll keep going because I actually like the characters and the story once I got rid of the extraneous riff raff.

I wish I could draw. I'd make a graphic novel series or 2.

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One Asian Actor for Akira. Isn't that nice?

Friday, Nov 11, 2011 3:56PM / Members only

**found on animenewsnetwork.com**

The Actors Access, a website for acting employment opportunities, posted casting calls for two characters in Appian Way and Warner Brothers' live-action Akira film on October 24. The site posted another casting call for a third character on November 3.

The October 24 casting call goes as follows:

Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, 4:59 PM Pacific
AKIRA
Feature Film
SAG

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Feature Film Writer: David James Kelly
Producers: Appian Way
Casting Director: Ronna Kress
SAG Casting Assistant: Hannah dAngerio
Start Date: March 2012
Location: Vancouver

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[ TETSUO ]
Male; any ethnicity, 20-25 years old; strung out, intense, street rat. (LEAD)
[ KY ]
Female; 20-30 years old; any ethnicity; tough, sexy, strong willed, street savvy. (LEAD)

The November 3 casting call is as follows:

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, 10:24 AM Pacific
Addendum to 10/24 4:59 PM
AKIRA (Additional Role)
Feature Film
SAG

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Writer: David James Kelly
Producers: Appian Way
Casting Director: Ronna Kress
Casting Assistant: Hannah dAngerio, Emma Sands-Milsom
Start Date: March 2012
Location: Vancouver

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[ YAMAGATA ]
Male, 20 to 30 years old, Japanese-American. (LEAD)

The Hollywood Reporter entertainment trade magazine reported on Friday that Ezra Miller and Alden Ehrenreich are among the top contenders for the pivotal role of Tetsuo in this live-action film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga. Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) is in talks for the other lead role of Kaneda, which The Hollywood Reporter described as Tetsuo's "older brother" in Warner's film. The Twitch website and The Hollywood Reporter previously said that Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech), Gary Oldman (Dark Knight trilogy), and Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean films) have all been approached for roles.

According to Variety, the film's current story goes as follows: "Set in New Manhattan, the cyberpunk sci-fi epic follows the leader of a biker gang who must save his friend, discovered with potentially destructive psychokinetic abilities, from government medical experiments."

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Writing a Book Isn't As Easy As It Looks

Saturday, Sep 3, 2011 12:48AM / Members only

Alright, it doesn't look easy. If I'd stop reading what I've written and just write, I might finish before old age. The problem? I'm too descriptive/wordy for a script and not descriptive/wordy enough for a book. If I could draw, I'd turn to graphic novels.

That's what I've been up to. Well, that and playing games on Facebook.

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Electronic Santa Addiction

Thursday, Dec 16, 2010 5:34AM / Members only

I am so addicted to this stupid song and video. I'm even in love with the Target commercial. Besides making me laugh for some reason it always reminds me of VanNess. Damned if I know why. If you were to hold a gun to my head, I'd probably come up with something. Short of that, I gots nuthin'!

I'm half tempted to buy Blazer Force's cd. le sigh

Sing it with me! Ready? Let's go:
Electronic Santa's going to
ro-ro-rock your body.
Rock your body body.
Electronic Santa knows if
you've been nice or naughty.
nice or naughty.
Electronic Santa's going to
ro-ro-rock your body.
Rock your body body.
Electronic Santa's going to
crash your Christmas party.
Crash your Christmas party.

For some reason the 32 second Target commercial won't post. It can be found on youtube here.

The full video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxSZpZjoUX

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A Review: The Last Airbender

Monday, Aug 23, 2010 6:45AM / Members only

I acquired a copy of the movie. I did not pay my money for this crap.

The Last Airbender is an absolutely joyless and hideous movie. M. Night committed the #1 cardinal cinematic sin. He made a boring movie. This may be somewhat long because I'm going to try to review this as not only a HUGE fan of the cartoon series, but as a HUGE fan of fantasy action movies as well. Night failed colossally. Forget about the dubious casting, the adaptation is simply poor. The story isn't cohesive. It has gaps for anyone who doesn't already know the story and moves too fast for those that do.

It seems to me that when one writes an adaptation you want to keep the core of the story in tact. Obviously, Night's casting showed he wasn't interested in that, but it's further illustrated by changes in name pronunciation. Aang (ayng) becomes Ong and Sokka (sock-ah) becomes Sooka (so-kah) in the movie. Did Cameron's Avatar not only prompt a name change, but also pronunciation change? The cast says ah-vatar in most scenes. Yes, I know tomayto tahmahto but it annoyed the heck out of me. How could I waste so much time during a movie annoyed at pronuciation? It's easy when there's nothing else to do. Not only did I not enjoy the script and casting, but the acting is stiff and paper thin. Out of the 4 leads only Jackson Rathbone showed skill. Dev Patel seriously overacted. The young actor that played Aang can not act and the actress playing Katara was just slightly above him.

The movie, unlike the cartoon, is dark. No matter what the storyline Aang, Sokka, and Katara always managed to laugh and have fun in the cartoon. They're children afterall. They knew when to be serious, but they relaxed as well. The only dour character is Zuko. In the movie they're all dour. Aang doesn't laugh. He doesn't fly around on his air ball or much on his glider. I understand not everything can make it into a movie, but to omit Aang love of life was a serious mistake.

The fight scenes were half decent. The choreography was great but the filming of it wasn't. Benders were fighting without bending. Huh? One on one bending fights were short, very short. The CGI bending budget must've been low. The only good things about The Last Airbender are the sets (obviously where the bending budget went) and Shaun Toub as Uncle Iroh. Though he didn't look like Iroh and no one can compare to Mako's commanding voice, Toub did a good job showing Iroh's true nature. The sets were perfect. Everything else was pure unadulterated crap.

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sherlyn46
posted on Thursday, Mar 1, 2012 3:20PM [Report]

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Seeker-09
posted on Sunday, Sep 4, 2011 9:57AM [Report]

thanks for the b-day wishes! actually had a couple of birthday dinners this year, one at my bro's house & one at my sister's house a couple days apart. the day itself was quiet, also got some cards. it was a pleasant year for celebration almost made getting older worthwhile yuck yuck. : )
vanness08
posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 9:13AM [Report]

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spelmandiva
posted on Sunday, Mar 20, 2011 4:40AM [Report]

You're as bad as me! You haven't been on AnD forever!
Jaine
posted on Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 11:58AM [Report]

That's terrible about the Ed Department. What total bloody wankers. Fair enough - I wouldn't pay either. I'm sure you could cope with the work load - the issue is if you can cope with cutting back on Anime etc!!

I do still go on FB (it doesn't have the blogs etc that I get caught up with on AnD). I'll pm you my full name.
Junichi Kajioka
posted on Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 11:13PM [Report]

It's very easy - there are a lot of ways to make it, but this time I stirfried once and made them so it was delicious!! :-)
Jaine
posted on Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 3:18PM [Report]

yeah sorry bout disappearing like that
I was unprepared for the workload, even now I should be studying as I am about to embark on 3 weeks of full control of a class,which entails lots of planning on top of my assignments.
thanks for the bday wishes.
how have you been
Jaine
posted on Saturday, Mar 12, 2011 8:45AM [Report]

okay I'm a week late but Happy Birthday
it's been awhile since I checked in (bout a year - yikes coz I've been doing crazy study)

Hope you are well =)
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posted on Sunday, Mar 6, 2011 1:28AM [Report]

It's a day ahead... Happy Birthday!! =DDDD
elle
posted on Saturday, Mar 5, 2011 6:48PM [Report]

Happy birthday sis. I'm in Viet Nam, no FB and wifi is flaky. I hope you have a good one
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Happy New Years from everyone at alivenotdead.com!
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Happy New Year
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !
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posted on Monday, Aug 30, 2010 10:00AM [Report]

many thanks for the b-day wishes! :)
vanness08
posted on Monday, Aug 30, 2010 1:25AM [Report]

Dragon ball was better?? Boy then it must suck big time. Loving that pic btw.....lmao!!!!!!
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posted on Sunday, Aug 29, 2010 11:26AM [Report]

Tq for the birthday wish...Have a great week ahead! Cheers!
Aisha89
posted on Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 11:19PM [Report]

ok i sure will Ally! how are ya?
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