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Yesterday, when the director & producer of “American: The Bill Hicks Story” were in-studio, I showed one of them my flickr pics of Bill & he exclaimed, “That’s in the film!” This was before I understood the technology that they used to bring the film to life & I didn’t really believe him, but I just noticed this comment under one of my Bill photos:
“Hi Marjoree,
love these pics of Bill Hicks - we are currently making a new documentary about Bill and are in touch with Bills family, so I have sent these pics to them, they always like seeing (rare) new ones.
Can I ask you where you were when you took them, and what was going on eg. Bill did a gig there, etc.
Many thanks,
Matt Harlock
American: The Bill Hicks Story”
Matt’s one of the guys I met yesterday — he’s the producer! Maybe they DID use one or two of my pics! Cool!!! (I did respond to Matt on flickr but I never heard back from him so I promptly forgot about this note until I saw it again just now.)
“Pushing documentary storytelling in a new direction, ‘AMERICAN’ uses a stunning new animation technique to bring the tale of one of modern culture’s most iconic heroes to the big screen.” The film had its North American premiere last night & will also show at the Paramount here in Austin on Monday. Incidentally, I have a friend who doesn’t have a SXSW badge & she scored some tickets for the Paramount show by simply calling the theater & purchasing them in advance. It looks amazing, can’t wait to see it. Click on the link to watch the trailer. (Photo by me, back in ‘91 or so.)
Those funky IE-only
<iframe>attributes we were injecting in themes have been adjusted to be 100% valid XHTML. Same for the Submit, Ask, and Answer forms.We also switched the Rich Text Editor to use
<em>and<strong>tags instead of<i>s and<b>s.
This update broke my theme. :(
Can’t embed videos & the html editor isn’t working properly; bold, italic and — I assume cross-thru — text aren’t working. Will be back later when it’s fixed.
ETA: Will find a new theme when I return from Ireland…
TGIF, y’all.
Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives: Maria’s Taco Express
We used to work out at the same gym. I love Maria. And her enchiladas, too.
This.
I only know who Pete Doherty is because of Michael K at DListed — he chronicled Pete’s tumultuous relationship with supermodel Kate Moss & at the height of their on-again off-again relationship, MK ran items about the couple nearly every day.
In most of the photos, Pete — then, and now — look(ed)(s) like this:
But Pete BC (Before Crack) — as you can see in the video — is clean-cut, clever & cute. I’ve never watched a Babyshambles video but I have seen him croon to Kate, & even high as a kite, he’s charming.
I worry about him. I worry about Britney. I worry about Amy Winehouse. There are a lot of effed up celebrities but for whatever reason, this is my personal trifecta of celebrity worry.
frog shaped
by fishsuckeggs
Spray To Forget functions as a beneficial editor for one’s consciousness, removing undesired memories from the user’s psyche via supported intent. Reed Seifer proposes that “in order to forget, we must remember something else. Spray to Forget acts as a conceptual sideways-elevator, nudging the unconscious to release a difficult memory and replace it with a more appealing one, or to create a new memory through experience… It also happens to smell quite good.”
was it something I said?
by Dean Forbes
With his mother? When I lived in CA, the Oakwood was an apartment complex that catered to actors during pilot season — mostly child actors & their moms. He came full circle. Sadness.
