1. Quetzal

2. Quark

3. Queer

4. Quasar

5. Quiz

6. Quill

7. Quiche

8. Quagmire

9. Quail

10. QED

11. Quick

12. Quid

13. Quell

14. Quip

15. Quintuple

16. Quarantine

17. Quiff

18. Quay

19. Quickly

20. Qatar

21. Queen

22. Quart

23. Quern

24. Quo

25. Quack

26. Queasy

27. Qua

28. Quicksand

29. Quit

30. Qi

31. Quintuplets

32. Quadrangle

33. Quizogy

34. Query

35. Quadratic

36. Quadruple

37. Quad

38. Quint

39. Quaint

40. Qing

41. Quadrant

42. Quantum

43. Quilt

44. Quito

45. Quench

46. Quicker

47. Quacking

48. Quarantined

49. Quesadilla

50. Question

51. Questioning

52. Quest

53. Quetzalcoatl

54. Queue

55. Quicksilver

56. Quinoa

57. Quiver

58. Quitter

59. Queller

60. Quadric

61. Quintic

62. Quadruped

63. Quintoped

64. Questionnaire

65. Quilter

66. Quarto

67. Quacky

68. Quote

69. Quotation

70. Quotable

71. Questionable

72. Quenchable

73. Queried

74. Quatrain

75. Queenly

76. Qualm

77. Quicken

78. Quantity

79. Quantify

80. Quantic

81. Quartz

82. Quitting

83. Quantification

84. Quality

85. Quilting

86. Quelling

87. Queasiness

88. Queenliness

89. Quebec

90. Quebecois

91. Quintessential

92. Quiet

93. Quainter

94. Quirky

95. Quirk

96. Quested

97. Quixotic

98. Quotient

99. Quota

100. Quibble

I looked down at the blood-covered doctors coat I was wearing. I should never have agreed to this. I should never had let my guard down.

Now they are dead. They are dead, and I am the murderer. It is also my birthday.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am a Man who has been pushed over the edge.  And someone has just eaten my package.  A storm is coming, friends, and that storm is me.

A few stray observations on the “Murderer” package:

1) The boxes are getting larger.

2) We still have the inclusion of YouTube videos.

3) Whats this? Actors? ACTORS and SPECIAL FILMING?!

4) Ah, yes, still with the popular songs, I see?

5) Thank you for the homage.

6) You’re not the only one who can make soup.

Here are what I remember of the previous one hundred posts:

1. We’re still not eating pie.

2. The relationship between Gary Coleman and Gary Oldman is still… being researched.

3. I’m still looking, Mr. Icke. I’m still looking.

4. Vvinni: Episode 1 was just too long.

5. Vvinni: Episode 2 was even longer.

6. Vvinni: Really? Posting three all at once?  You could have saved some.

7. Vvinni: Now you’re just running out of ideas.

8. IMdB is much more Puppy now. And thank God for that.

9. Mr Coyne: You are still groovy as Hell. Never forget that, will you?

10. Vvinni: Nobody watches these, you know.

11. JCVD: One of the year’s best?  Certainly one of Van Damme’s Best.

12. Vvinni: I like your hat.

13. The birds still want to eat the noodles, but they never will.

14. You know, Mr. Gaiman?  I think I’m seeing a common motif in your work.

15. Vvinni: YOU’RE MIXING PLASTICS WITH GLASS.

16. It’s almost time for my Yupd!

17. ZARDOZ. ZARDOZ. ZARDOZ. Beyond 2001, Beyond 2010, Beyond Love, Beyond Death.

18. Vvinni: We’re going back to the graveyard.

19. Shopping Penguin? Shopping Penguin.

20. I gave it  the “Lizards” tag because the Dream-Eating monster is only able to use the reptilian part of his brain. I AM WITTY.

21. He-Yah! We gotta save the farm, rope those… cows…

22. My other documentary was about carpet.

23. It’s changed in ways you can never imagine.

24. PEA SOUP?!

25. Hello.

26. Vvinni: It makes me feel kind of bad I haven’t been having as many adventures this semester.

27. Worship me as a God.

28. YOU’RE TERING ME APART, LISA!

29. It’s still dripping blood all over my floor.

30. I left off here.

31. I picked it back up here.

32. Then I got shot by some bullets.

33. It’s cold inside, you’ll have to wear a cape.

34. I feel I’ve made much more intriguing work than what I did Freshman year.

35. Really? This is when the quest began?  And I haven’t picked it back up until… a few weeks ago?  I am NOT doing a good job questing.

36. Vvinni: You’re trying to hard. Stop it.

37. Exploding Goldfish Films. Check them out, why don’t you?

38. OH MY GOD, IT’S A BEAR!!!!

39. See. This is a documentary about Carpet!

40. Help! It took six months to make this!

41. I kill you both.

42. Andrew did this, I have nothing to say about it.

43. Eggs: A common motif of mine.

44. The world would melt were it made of cheese.

45. OH DEAR GOD IT’S ANOTHER BEAR!

46. One of the best of 1991?

47. I got the problem fixed, but now I can’t see my tongue.

48. That’s definitely a Bear.

49. Chickens, Money omelets, and axe-wielding.

50. Gum: It’s really a disappointment nowadays.

51. No, Bicycles!

52. Goodbye.

53. Ethan Holbrook: He Travels through time and Astronauts.

54. If you want to know more about Discouraging Words, then you should be reading the EXGfilms blog. I’m too busy posting movie reviews that are too long and Filler.

55. The cat represents life because we are all being held by the arms of fate that are attached to the torso of our decisions and that torso is the torso of another cat which, oddly enough, represents the plight of minimum wage worker at Wendy’s.  So, in conclusion: A Cat is a hamburger.

56. J’ai besoin d’étudier à un examen français.

57. Sharks.

58. Sharks.

59. Sharks.

60. Sharks.

61. Sharks.

62. Sharks and Film.

63. Sharks.

64. Skin Removal Cream, Skin Removal Cream, Skin Removal Cream. SKIN REMOVAL CREAM! Skin. Removal. Cream. Skin Removal Cream? Skin Removal Cream! Skin Removal cream skin removal cram, skin, removal cream. Skin Removal Cream. Skin Removal Cream. SKIN. REMOVAL. CREAM. Skin, Removal, Cream, Skin, Removal, Cream. Skin Removal Cream; Skin Removal Cream. Skin Removal Cream: If it weren’t a product, it would BUY YOU! SKIN REMOVAL CREAM?!!!!

65. It is five o’ clock, and so Tea Time is over.

66. A Surprisingly coherent corpse, unlike a certain other one coming up.

67. One of the best of Moon-related sci-fis of 2009?

68. THERE ARE TOO MANY BEARS ON THIS BLOG.

69. ❦

70. Something (A Post).

71. Discouraging Words: Coming Summer of 2010.

72. Nom nom nom nomnom nom nom nom. Nom nom nom nom nomnom nom. Nom nom nom nom nomnom nom. Nom nom nom nom nomnom nom. Nom-nom, nom-nom, nom-nom, nom-nom. Nom-nom, nom-nom, nom-nom, nom-nom. NOM NOM NOM NOMNOM NOM NOM NOM. NOM NOM NOMNOM NOM NOM NOM. NOM NOM NOM NOMNOM NOM NOM NOM. NOM-NOM NOM-NOM NOM-NOM NOM-NOM NOM.

73. I don’t even care what the next post was, THERE WERE HAMSTERS IN THE LAST ONE.

74. Let’s see… Was there a tiger in this one? No, just time travel.

75.  Nathan Fillion: A Man of many talents. Like being both an astronaut and cowboy. Also, being pure evil’s right-hand man and an award-winning novelist.  Truly he accomplished more in a lifetime than any man can.

76. Nick Vogt: A Man whose cat might be a monster.

77. Trail of Terror?

78. I can’t stop this feeling. Deep inside of me. Girl you just don’t realize what you do to me. When you hold me, in your arms so tight, you let me know everything’s alright. I-I-I’m hooked on a feeling. And I’m high on believing that you’re in love with me.  Lips as sweet as candy, your taste is on my mind. Girl, you got me thirstin’ for another cup of wine. Got a bug from you, girl, but I don’t need no cure. I just take your picture (?) If I can be sure. All the good times, when we’re all alone, keep up girl. Yeah, you turn me on. I-I-I’m hooked on a feeling and I’m high on believing that you’re in love with me, oh yeah. All the good times, when we’re all alone. Keep it up girl, yeah you turn me on I-I-I’m Hooked on a feeling and I’m high on believing that you’re in love with me. I said I’m hooked on a feeling. And I’m high on believing that you’re in love me. Yeah, I’m hooked on a feeling!

79. A whole new web is about to be spun, methinks.

80. Does this mean I might be the next Batman?

81. 100 Untitled pieces, most them involve things breaking.

82. Nathan Fillion: He also battle killer slugs from outer-space. Truly, he is a god.

83. Heart attacks.

• 84. OH NO, IT’S ANOTHER BEAR!!! THIS MAKES FOUR! FOUR BEARS!!!
• 85. Beat yourself with a 2×4.
• 86. OooOooOooOOOO Castles. SpoOOOoOoooOOky.
• 87. But doesn’t that explain us all?
• 88. I’m thinking of being Everything next year for Halloween.
• 89. Towed away at owner’s expense.
• 90. Vvinni: I’m thinking of a wall now to block their thought beams.
• 91. I am Rea-Gan! I am-Rea-Gan!
• 92. Don’t even think about coming to rescue me because I’m probably dead.

93. I just made another letter which I baked in the oven with a honey glaze. It was for Christmas.

94. Sword of Doom: One of the best?

95. Why did you kill this Lawn Ornament?

96. Wagga wagga wagga.

97. You’re tearing me apart, Mummy and Robot.

98. Ronald Q. Metellus: Man of Mystery and probably Sandwiches.

99. Joss Whedon: I wish you luck in your ventures outside of the television box, for I shall be on your side when all comes crashing down.

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If you wish to see a higher resolution file, please contact me. I couldn’t figure out how to do an HD upload on Vimeo.

In writing a letter, you are given a series of statements and questions about yourself which you address in your reply.  For example The sender writes “Linda just gave birth to puppies. How’s your wife?” to which you reply “My wife IS Linda, what have you done to her you son-of-a-bitch!”.  I treated the video correspondence the same way.

I Got the Poops was the letter.

In Fridge is my reply.

I shall now discuss the motifs and ideas I decided to elaborate on.  This may be very pointless and self-indulgent. If you wish to skip this, be my guest. Also, if viewing this post on The Facebook, please visit the mothersite to see the video.

I Got the Poops presented me with the basic format: We first begin with a long segment to weed out those who may not actually be interested in viewing the work. In I Got the Poops it’s hand-processed 8mm film of people walking on the beach.  In In Fridge, it’s the interior of a refrigerator.  Of course, to the spectator it just appears as blackness.  About a minute of blackness.

This idea of terribly long things where nothing happens is a motif I continued throughout the piece, also seen in the minute of me staring at the camera (as the color grows ever so slightly redder) and the ongoing Mudkip exchange.  I also feel this was a motif in I Got the Poops, the segment I’ll call “The Alpha Cat Adjustment” takes it’s time, Andrew blinking in Night Vision is also drawn out, and who can forget the credits?  I feel I expanded on this, however that’s how correspondences work.

After the browsers have been taken out, it’s time for us to move into the meat of the piece, meaning YouTube videos.  Andrew decided to work with funny cat videos, specifically cat videos that are internet phenomena ranging from the horrible screaming demon cat to the cat who iterates “Oh Long Johnson, Oh Long Johnson, Oh Don Piano”.  I decided to focus on a different internet phenomena: Mudkip, the mud-fish pokèmon.  Why? Because I want to be the very best, that no one ever was. Catching monster is my quest, to train them is my cause.  However this wasn’t it, for I decided to explore this strange new world of YouTube.  I also included a Perry Grip music video with rodents, you know the one, as well as thirty minutes of Disney Films (Which I of course reduced to thirty seconds).

So, we have two motifs that I’ve identified thusfar: The motif of something terribly long and the motif of YouTube.  There is one final motif I want to point out:  Andrew stole my Adventures through Art School.  I returned the favor.  Many of you either may not know or may not remember, but Andrew himself had an unsuccessful vodcast many moons ago, much as I do now.  It was called “The Diary of a Mad Filmmaker”.  I decided that if I’d be making a diary of a mad filmmaker, I’d be mad. I’d be REALLY MAD. I’D BE JUMPING UP AND DOWN I’D BE SO MAD. Need I go on? No. Because you’ve seen the piece, and you’re probably not reading this unless you’re me.

Once we get through the weeding period and the montage of YouTube videos, we move on to the Chapters. I Got the Poops included three I believe, In Fridge contains ten.  One of the chapters in I Got The Poops didn’t work, but this works in to the overall stylistic difference between the two works, of which I will discuss later.

No, I will discuss it now, because I’m tired.

I Got The Poops was edited together in a way that showed extreme skill with Final Cut and the editing process, I believe.  This is reflective of Andrew’s overall technique, for he’s been working with Final Cut longer and more seriously than I have. I Got the Poops was also much more focused on sound design than In Fridge.  From the dripping water blinking to the much more developed Alpha Cat Adjust segment, I Got the Poops does show that the filmmaker is very technically savvy.

I am not technically savvy, and neither is In Fridge.  However, what I lack in technical knowledge I’d like to think I make up for in ideation and gusto.  I’d like to think that In Fridge has the same sort of Chaotic, Manic, Surrealistic (Almost Nihilistic) energy many of my other pieces have.  It has been said of some of my other work that if the world ended and all was left was that video, no one would need any explanation.  I’d like to think that In Fridge is the same way. But what do you think? Are either of them better or worse, or are they just different? What motifs and expansions have you noticed between the two works?  How do you Powder a steak in the 3rd Dimension?

AND HOW DID IN FRIDGE TRANSFER TO TAPE?  Well luckily this question I can answer, because there are now in fact TWO versions of In Fridge floating out there in the internet.  If you dare, watch it again. It’s gained a much different quality through the transfer.

I had the tape dubbed, however my journey was only half over.  For the TAPE itself is only the goose you quest for: You think it’ll be great, but really it’s kind of stinks and it’s loud.

I had to create a package.

I had to create a cage.

Do not kill the Bear, it only wants to LOVE.

They kill what they don’t understand.

Help! My Lawn Ornament’s Been Taken by ROBBERS! was filmed yesterday, and I’ve got some still photographs as you can see.

The shooting went surprisingly well, and we remained on schedule (more or less) the entire day. And, beyond and better than that, I believe we all had fun. Here’s a list of things we did:

1) We cooked a money omelette.

2) Blood explosion? Blood explosion.

3) Map licking in Storage Space 51.

4) We Killed a Lawn Ornament.

5) Shot a Camera into a speeding car as a Robber made his escape*.

So it was rather eventful. Stay tuned for the actual movie, as I’ll be working on editing it as much as I can during the upcoming month. Thank you, and good night.

*Hyperbole used to quicken the tempo of space-time.

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I have seen Videodrome and was wowed by it, I have seen Crash and was… confused and frightened by it, and I’ve also seen his two most recent films: A History of Violence and Eastern Promises (which presents a drastic shift in his filmmaking style). Anyhoo, I had those to base my expectations on. Those films, and this description:       

 Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, “unfilmable” novel is finally realized onscreen by director David Cronenberg. Part-ime exerminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project hat leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs’s novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching invesigation into the mysteries of the writing process. 

I knew I was in for something strange. I was not disappointed. Oh my, was I not disappointed.

Why did I enjoy this film?  I’ll sart by saying hat it’s intriguing.  The world of the film is completely ridiculous, and yet Cronenberg’s writing draws you in and keeps you capivated, and soon you accept all of the oddities and insects.  However, the writing of this film couldn’t have been realized properly if it weren’t for the actors. Peter Weller speaks in a fanastically flat stream-of-consciousness with a stone face to match.  Add Ian Holm (always a pleasure) to the mix with Roy Scheider and Judy Davis giving two different performances of the same person: And you’ve got a really nice cast.

However my enjoying of this film goes beyond this and into (yes you guessed it) the mise-en-scene with the coloration and special effects.  We’ll begin with color. It was fantasic, the first portion of the film is in incredible pastels and the second half in richly antique burgundies and browns, each enhancing the mood and style of the location.  And the special effects? The fact hat there’s both a human-sized fish-insect-phallus creature and several cockroach-ypewriter hybrids should speak for itself. However, what’s even beter is hat all of these otherworldly creatures are living, walking, breathing, moving, excreting entiies. And hat is cool. Furthermore, all of the special effects are real and not computer-generaed bullshit.  If Cronenberg pulled a George Lucas and digitized the whole film, then I think Naked Lunch would lose a lot of it’s charm and become a much worse film. Why? Because the fact hat they’re created adds to their insect-ness, it adds to the surrealism, and it adds to the overall ambience. 

So, why then is it that many people hate this film? Drugs playing an integral part, sex playing an integral part, homosexuality playing an integral part, general nonsensicality; take your pick.  Also, I have never read the Burroughs novel, and so I cannot ates to the adapation staying true to the writen word.  However, to those who dislike this film: I say fie! I give it:

A raher good film

“Vvinni”, you say, “You like this movie because it’s weird and surreal”.  No, person I made up, I don’t.  I like this movie because it’s well made, it had a fascinating narrative sructure, and it provides fantasic visuals hat are disturbing but lively. Good job, Mr. Cronenberg. I applaud you: clap clap clap.

Help! My Lawn Ornaments Been Taken by ROBBERS!

So read it why don’t you? If not, then I guess there’s nothing I can do to stop it. Anyhoo, let me know of any revisions or problems you have with the script. It’d be nice to know.