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Gregory Conley over at Your Video Store Shelf (who once gave my own Rise of the Undead a very nice review) is being sued over a negative review. Bizarre stuff. Read all the updates.

I had a dream last night. I was wandering around a cineplex looking for a specific theater. The cineplex was unique, as it was one theater stacked on top of another, twenty high, with a carpeted path coiling up around them like the exit ramp of a parking garage.

Each theater was decorated differently. I saw a few of them (a Tiki theater, a theater that looked like the deck of the starship Enterprise), but I couldn’t find the one I was looking for, which was covered in a dome of glass. Beyond the glass was salt water and fish and sea turtles. Kind of a reversed fish bowl. I had only seen pictures of this, and really wanted to see it for myself.

After searching for a while, I decided to ask someone and tapped a security guard on the shoulder. He spun around and, to my surprise, turned out to be Fred Ward. We talked about his career for a while. He was still bitter over the critical and commercial failure of Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, and blamed that for his having to do things like star in Tremors II: Aftershocks and work as a security guard.

I woke up right about then.

Speaking of theaters, some of you may know that I work at one now, and am a manager trainee there. Last night I was helping to clean up after a showing of The Simpsons Movie as the credits were still rolling. So I’m sweeping up, and this row of theater seats show up at the bottom of the screen and this pimply, animated teenager starts sweeping around them.

“Being assistant manager isn’t all it’s cracked up to be,” he mutters.

I laugh, smiling a bit sheepishly, as I navigate around leaving patrons.

He continues, “Four years of film school for THIS?”

“Oh, COME ON!”

Not cool. Not cool at all.

End season, seven strangers from the huge explosion engulfed cities flee to a disused government building as their shelter. Nowhere to go they quickly realized they were not lonely, hidden in the dark by the evil biological is slowly killing them. Staged a survival game, or a gun, or become killed.

Bad translations are funny! Weeee! Translated version of this page.

The promo trailer for Doom’s Gate is finished and online. Be ahead of the curve! Watch a trailer for a movie that hasn’t been made yet!

I Googled Rise of the Undead just now to see what’s going on with it. I admit, all those European hits (someone in Croatia was searching for it!) had me intrigued. Is it actually out yet in foreign markets? I have no idea.

Anyways, imagine my surprise when I stumbled across a Bittorrent of it, ripped from the DVD! No, I’m not giving you the link. You can buy it, you lazy bum! But that’s always a good sign. You can tell you’ve “made it” when people are pirating your work on the internet!

Looking at my hit stats, I’m seeing that a lot of people are finding blacksundae by searching for the Rise of the Undead trailer (most of them from Europe, interestingly enough). Unfortunately, zapruter.com is down right now due to a billing mistake, so the trailer is offline. I’m looking for a place to host it, so it should be up again soon and I’ll link to it then.

In the meantime, if you have come here searching for the ROtU trailer (and you can understand this post), drop me a line and I’ll email you when the trailer is back up.

Thanks for your interest!

UPDATE: I’ve found hosting for the trailer right here, so watch away.

5 camerapeople (M/F, must have DVX100 or better) needed to create a reality based
documentation of Bikinijam 20. 60 models. 50 photographers. 7 days all expenses-paid,
5 star hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Aug 30- Sept. 6, 2005

* Job location is Cabo San Lucas
* Compensation: all exp. paid plus 5-10% of DVD and TV sales

Needless to say, I have applied.

My co-director, Jason Horton, just got an email from somebody claiming to be a huge fan of his filmmaking. They asked for his autograph.

It’s sarcastic, we’ve decided, but he’s sending it anyway.

Why not me, though? Why can’t somebody be sarcastic to me?!

I don’t normally go for these online quiz-type things, but this seemed interesting. Take a gander. Besides, it was worth it just to see how incredibly neurotic I am!

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Overview: This post is a community experiment with two broad purposes. The first is to create publicly accessible data about bloggers’ personalities, which may have sociological value in addition to being just plain fun. The second is to track the propagation of this meme through blogspace. Full details and explanation can be found on the original posting: http://pixnaps.blogspot.com/2005/06/meme-worth-spreading.html

Instructions (to join in the experiment):

1) Take the IPIP-NEO personality test and the Political Compass quiz, if you have not done so already.

2) Copy to the clipboard that section of this post that is between the double lines, and paste it into your blog editor. (Blogger users may wish to use ‘compose’ mode to preserve formatting and hyperlinks. Otherwise, be sure to add hyperlinks as necessary.)

3) Replace the answers in the “survey” section below with your own.

4) Add your blog information to the “track list”, in the form: “Linked title - URL - optional GUID”.

5) Any additional comments should go outside of the double lines, including the (optional) nomination of bloggers you wish to pass this experimental meme on to.

6) Post it to your blog!

Survey:

Age: 24
Gender: Male
Location: New Orleans, LA USA
Religion: None
Occupation: Filmmaker
Began blogging (dd/mm/yy): 04/17/02

Political Compass results
Left/Right: -5.13
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

IPIP-NEO results

EXTRAVERSION: 74
Friendliness 58
Gregariousness 77
Assertiveness 70
Activity Level 52
Excitement-Seeking 73
Cheerfulness 72

AGREEABLENESS: 63
Trust 42
Morality 48
Altruism 63
Co-operation 66
Modesty 52
Sympathy 78

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: 2
Self-Efficacy 17
Orderliness 0
Dutifulness 39
Achievement-Striving 28
Self-Discipline 0
Cautiousness 24

NEUROTICISM: 84
Anxiety 96
Anger 61
Depression 84
Self-Consciousness 55
Immoderation 77
Vulnerability 82

OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE: 90
Imagination 94
Artistic Interests 73
Emotionality 63
Adventurousness 81
Intellect 29
Liberalism 98

Track List:
1. Philosophy, et cetera - pixnaps.blogspot.com - pixnaps97a2
2. blacksundae - blacksundae.shannonhubbell.com - blacksundae616
2. (add your entry here)

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Rise of the Undead has been reviewed again, this time by the same guy who interviewed us not too long ago.