LIAH #1035

i had a pretty solid memorial day weekend. i took off the entire weekend plus thursday. the semester is finally over. i haven't had an opportunity really to truly dissect that thought, and damn it's a good one. it's been an intense couple of months, intense to say the least. but hey, what's life without it's challenges. positive challenges. it's a good feeling.
so here we are. may 31. summer, at least in my book. i've got a job, a bunch of weed, some good friends, i'm ready to go. whatup.

LIAH #1034

rest in peace, dennis hopper. a fantastic actor and filmmaker. he will be missed.

LIAH #1033

Scene from King Of The Foos

LIAH #1032

so that still frame at the end of once upon a time in suburbia, not supposed to be there. something is fucked up, but i kind of like it as the ending. it unintentionally evokes passion and feeling. or it just looks like i screwed up. either way, it's in!
i'm so fucking overworked from school. so fucking overworked. i'm so close though, so close to being done. i'm taking a week off from work to get my shit together. no. wrong way to phrase that. i am NOT getting my shit together during my week off. i've been getting my shit together the past two years. no, i'm leaving my shit completely apart and not even regarding it as existing. that's the gameplan.
so now as i finish up my book reports and final paper, i will smoke a fat bowl, enjoy a basic burrito, and look forward to my much deserved break from life. i was going to throw in another getting shit together joke, but that ship pretty much sailed.

LIAH #1031

as i wait for king of the foos to export, enjoy this re-edited cut of Once Upon A Time In Suburbia, my Super8 film shot last year.

LIAH #1030

there's a reason they call final week hell week. if satan rose from the underworld and decided to punish humanity for a week, i don't see how it'd be any different from finals week. i took my production final, remember i got the 49 on the midterm, well i think i did well! so that's good! and i finished my text analysis for the king of the foos scene. i still have five response papers and a 9 page research paper to do for english, i have to read three books and watch about ten films for my middle eastern film class, and of course finish editing king of the foos. that list used to include studying for my final, doing this text analysis, and write seven response papers. so i'm getting somewhere.
after finishing my text analysis, i had a choice to use these final twenty minutes before class to bang out a response paper or dick around on the internet. as you can see, i chose the latter.
it's only tuesday. hell week ends the 26th. cheers.

LIAH #1029

i've been eating a lot of beans at work. crispy basic taco with black beans, boss. trying to get healthy and whatnot. it starts with eating more beans, it ends with working out and quitting smoking. so it's begun.
i went home the past two days. had some time off, needed a mental break from school and shit. it was good. good seeing my bros. a very happy birthday to my boys zman and pisser, and a belated happy birthday to the fantastic mr. fox. as much as i love chillin with my boys, i'm looking forward to not being in my hometown 24/7. high school was fun and all, but i wouldn't want to go back. life was too fabricated back then.

LIAH #1028

for some reason i'm fascinated in the idea of the second sex in the city movie. i'm comfortable enough with my sexuality to admit that yes, i saw the first movie, and yes, there was a short time in my life where i watched a bit of the show. why? i dunno, but my point is i have a history and a slight understanding with it. the first movie, horrendous. i'm open to everything. 500 days of summer, one of the best "romantic comedies" there is. i have no shame in saying that i love that movie. the first sex in the city movie? not only was it terrible and had 0 story, but it had no morals to it. the lesson to women from that movie? its ok that a dude leaves you on your wedding day, don't be strong enough to move on just marry him when he comes to woo you back. bullshit, and really irresponsible.
so i see the posters for this new movie, and i just don't see how it could work as a movie at all. what the fuck do they have left to say? you did a movie with the whole mr. big storyline, ok, you did that made your money just let it die. what more could they possibly say? so after watching the trailer and studying it, i found two storylines. two things the producers think will get chicks to go see this. 1. carrie goes to a gay wedding in a tux. 2. one of her ex boyfriends comes back.
come on. female demographic audience, you can do better. please don't support this shit. have some backbone ladies.

LIAH #1027

King of the Foos scene, wrapped. boom.

LIAH #1026

in my production II class, the class that i'm doing all this shooting and whatnot for, things are going well. i'm getting to work with film, shooting a king of foos scene, it's awesome. except for the fact that i got a 65 on the first test and i just found out i got a 49 on my midterm. you need a C+ to move on in the program. so. i'm fucked? well, let me explain something to you first. there was a time in my life, up until maybe junior year of high school, where i used to kick ass and take names in school. honors classes, aps, all that shit. i was a good fucking student. what happened? well i want to make movies not be a doctor, what do i give a shit about grades. i don't. but, now i have a final staring me at the face. this grade is important. i'm talking 100 baby. 100. i'm going for gold. all that smartness hiding somewhere deep inside all the thc in my brain, it's going to be unleashed. get ready brooklyn college, andrew is back. back like he never left.

LIAH #1025

ah how i tease. look at that, two in one sitting. well, after spending my time in the library re-doing my storyboards and shot list for the scene i'm shooting for King! Of! The! FOOS!!, i wanted to liah about it. uh oh, liah about it? that just happened. but yeah, i am quite excited for this. after spending the weekend trying to get inside the great Paul Thomas Anderson's head and trying to emulate what he did in Magnolia, i get to get inside my own head and do something my own. and as i'm sure you are all aware, life inside andrew's head is quite the nifty place! quite nifty indeed!
anyway, for those not in the know, i started working on my first feature script, King Of The Foos, last semester. it's the tale of the great Johnny Manchester, once the best player the underground foosball circuit has ever seen. that is until he had a decision to make, use his saving's towards college or towards glory, glory being the illusive but very expensive King Of The Foos tournament. he was staring glory in the face, only to be stopped by the only man possible of stopping him, The Boss. cut to 5 years later, the great Johnny Manchester now works at the Burger Box and spends a bit too much time with his buddy Boomer. will he return back to the top of underground foosball where he rightfully belongs? even if he was to get back in the game, could he defeat the one man getting in his way, The Boss? will he win back the love of his life Penny or does she just get written out of the script?
i know. it's fucking awesome. i'm shooting a scene from it this weekend. i'm shooting the feature in 2012. get pumped.

LIAH #1024

what a weekend, in the books. shooting, prepping, lighting, all that good shit. later today or tomorrow, actually in southard time that's more like later tomorrow or wednesday, well anyone sometime soon i'll write a nice liah. for now? more modest mouse videos. july 23rd, so pumped.