Butch aka Travis

The Life o’ Simon

What a name, what fucking name, that is the name of our feature film, my 1st feature film.

It sounds good to say that, my 1st feature, whats more, i am only 23, 23 my first feature. Im younger than the immortal Orson Welles was when he shot his first child “C. Kane” at 25.

The film is fucking fantastic, admittedly we aint shot one scene as of yet, but the script Rups and I wrote is unlike anything you have ever read. People are shoekcd when trhey read it
it is Anti Australian anti - family anti - authoritarian and anti - establishment

WHY?? Because we are the fuckonmg voice, we are the muted, the forgotten, the misuderstood. Two white stright 18 - 35 year old males making a fucking film is unheard of in the PC times.

I am drunk right now, me and Mr. Walker have been discussing the worlds problems, he is the perfect partner, he never talks back….. what is the moral of the story? Watching WIthnail & I encourages you to drink

Peace

Long live the Roger Corman School of film making

About one year ago, i set myself a must see movie list. I have included it on the left page under the Polanski list, but i need to write it out anyway so ill write it out now. The crossed out ones are the ones i have seen

Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
The Wild Bunch
Midnight Cowboy
Easy Rideer
M*A*S*H
Five Easy Pieces
The French Connection
Carnal Knowledge
The Last Picture Show
McCabe & Mrs Miller
The Last Detail
Nashville
Faces
Shampoo
Paper Moon
The Exorcist
Reds
Mean Streets
Badlands
The Conversation
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Apocalypse Now
Klute
Days of Heaven
Blue Collar
Annie Hall
Manhatten
Carrie
All the Presidents Men
Coming Home
Scarecrow
Night Moves
The King of Marvin Gardens
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Straight time
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Silent Running
Bad Company
Tracks
Performance
The Wind and the Lion
Deliverance
Deer Hunter

Im doing a lot of reasearch for my uni assignment at the moment, and due to the natuere of my chosen topic i am goiung through a lot of interesting stuff and just deleting it. Alas i have deleted a whole bunch of interesting trivia already, but i will endevour to include the interesting parts from here on in

· At one point, Roman Polanski and Jack Nicholson got into such a heated argument that Polanski smashed Nicholson’s portable TV with a mop. Nicholson used the TV to watch L.A. Lakers basketball games and kept stalling shooting.

· According to Roman Polanski’s autobiography, he was outraged when he got the first batch of dailies back from the lab; due to the success of The Godfather (1972), producer Robert Evans had ordered the lab to give this movie a reddish look. Polanski demanded that the film be corrected.

· Roman Polanski forced Robert Towne to sit and re-write the script with him. Towne was so opposed to this idea that he would argue with Polanski non-stop.

· Faye Dunaway’s distinctive look was inspired by Roman Polanski’s memories of his mother, who in the pre-WWII era would fashionably wear penciled-on eyebrows, and have her lipstick shaped in the form of a Cupid’s bow.

· Peter Bogdanovich turned down the chance to direct Chinatown. He later regretted his decision.

· Paul Schrader has said that his main influence for Taxi Driver was the diary of would-be George Wallace assassin Arthur Bremer. Bremer’s writings, published under the title An Assassin’s Diary fascinated Schrader during a period of time when he found himself recently divorced and living in his car. Another influence Schrader acknowledges is the film The Searchers starring John Wayne. In it, a war veteran comes home to find that his young niece has been kidnapped by a band of Comanche Indians. Ethan (John Wayne) embarks on an obsessive quest to bring her back, completely ignoring her own feelings on the matter. This influence is directly evident in the latter part of the film when Travis attempts to rescue Iris from Sport. Coincidentally, Sport at one point calls Travis a “cowboy” and during their final confrontation Sport’s attire resembles that of a stereotyped Native American.

Jennie came up with the above name, I reckon its a great name for a movie., but more on that later.

It has been a while between posts. Mainly fucking around with Uni shit, it really gets in my way.

This week i continue my Underated Actors Series which actually has a small fan base. So i will continue today with another actor i would love to work with one day.

Dennis Farina

Dennis is a very talented actor, who has also had to resort to TV to get some recognition. He is also on Law and Order. Its funny, those law and order guys have a real eye for talent.

Dennis Farina is a little more well known, he has been in Snatch in which he was hilarious and also in Get Shorty, which he was also hilarious.

If you havent seen him in any of his gangster roles you are really missing out, grab a copy of Snatch or Get Shorty and watch it for the sheer enjoyment of Dennis at work.

I have changed the Onlines button, it is a real picture of Rupert being human

and me and and old friend

I had to by a black print cartridge for my printer, and then a colour one. The whole ordeal set me back almost $50. Why? Why are print cartridges so fucking expensive?

From what I can tell there are two parts to a print cartridge, the plastic casing, and the ink it contains. Surely these two don’t amount to $50? I wonder what type of person makes print cartridges.

“Interviewer”
So tell me about your job

Print Maker
Well, I put the ink in the in the cartridge

“Interviewer”
Anything else to it?

Print Maker
No, that’s about it

Its like when you were a kid, and you would get fizz wizz sherbet. Again it has two parts
1. Sherbet
2. The little spoon

Yet, sometime you would open the packet, and the guy at the factory had forgot where he was up to in his train of thought (”Spoon, sherbet, spoon, sherbet, spoon, sherbet……. uh…… sherbet”) and has hence forgotten your complimentary little plastic spoon. So you spend the rest of the afternoon trying to get sherbert in your mouth straight from the packet, without snorting it up your nostrils.

Why did they never forget the sherbet I wonder and just have an empty bag with a spoon only? That would be great.

Once I even got two spoons..

What’s my point?… to tell you the truth I have forgotten.