Hoop Dreams: April!

Hoop Dreams Comedy Hour! Wednesday, April 17! Music, comedy, characters! Neon Venus Art Theatre, 7023 Melrose Ave. in Hollywood! It starts at 10:00pm so be there by 10:15pm because we will actually start somewhat promptly at 10:30pm! It's $3!!!
More info here.

Hoop Dreams: March Edition

Hoop Dreams Comedy Hour! Wednesday, March 20! There is very little information on this flyer because I threw it together very quickly with MS Paint! There may be some surprise performers that are not advertised (there definitely will be)! I'm hosting! It's at the Neon Venus Art Theatre, 7023 Melrose Ave. in Hollywood! It starts at 10:00pm so be there by 10:15pm because we will actually start somewhat promptly at 10:30pm! It's $3!!!
More info here.

Holy Fuck!

Tonight! I'm on one the biggest, bestest shows in Los Angeles! It's at a movie theater! The one that I work at! This is exciting! The Sklar Brothers are also performing! I love the Sklar Brothers! They were in Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV!

Hoop Dreams: Santa Monica/Ex-Girlfriend

I just moved to Santa Monica, so Doug and I made a documentary about how I'm adjusting to it. We also address another important subject.

"That made me very uncomfortable. Love MOM" - my mom.

February's Hoop Dreams Comedy Hour

Hoop Dreams Comedy Hour! Wednesday, February 20! OMG!

At the Neon Venus Art Theatre, 7023 Melrose Ave. in Hollywood - $3
More info here.

The Hoop Dreams Comedy Revolution: "Are Men Funny?" Edition

"The reason why you know more funny chicks than funny dudes is that chicks are funnier than dudes." - Madam Carolla

"All male comedians ever talk about are video games and their johnsons." - Everybody

This month, on Wednesday, January 16, the Hoop Dreams gang seeks to find the answer to the age old question... "Are Men Funny?" Get ready to fall in love with a spectacular line-up of cray cray, super hot, masculine, funny boyz from all walks of life.

At the Neon Venus Art Theatre, 7023 Melrose Ave. in Hollywood - $3
More info here.

Stats 2012

Every day, I obsessively keep track of everything I do in Word and Excel documents, most particularly with the movies I watch. Then at the end of every year, I gather up some statistics and make pie charts. These are the stats for how I spent my 2012. The arrows indicate how it compares to the previous year's numbers.

Movies seen for the first time: 316 (↑70)
Movies rewatched: 101 (↑40)
Total: 417 (↑110)
Movies seen in the theater (including rewatches): 174 (↑5)

Short films watched: 27 (↓21)
Short films rewatched: 8 (↑5)

Seasons of TV watched: 12 (↓7)
Books Read: 10 (↑4)
Comedy Shows Gone To: 21 (not including shows I was on) (↑2)

Watched the most movies in October (49).
Watched the least movies in April (26).
Watched the most movies in the theater in October (44, a personal record).
Watched the least movies in the theater in December (5).

First movie watched in 2012: Back to the Future 1-3
Last movie watched in 2012: Pitch Perfect

Top Fifteen Best Films I Watched for the First Time
1. Child of Rage (1992)
2. Xtro (1983)
3. The Girl Most Likely To... (1973)
4. Hi, Mom (1970)
5. Modern Romance (1981)
6. Sheitan (2006)
7. Dirty Dancing (1987)
8. Highlander (1986)
9. Sybil (1976)
10. Martin (1976)
11. Patrick Still Lives (1980)
12. Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)
13. Daisies (1966)
14. The Entity (1982)
15. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)

Best book I read: Bossypants by Tina Fey

Best TV I watched: 30 Rock (Seasons 1-4), Parks and Recreation, Burning Love, The Mindy Project, Girls, The Heart She Holler

Movie Pie Charts

Decades


Emotions


Formats


Full breakdown of formats:
35mm: 117
Blu-ray: 38
DVD: 108
Streaming: 49
DCP: 42
Download: 32
VHS: 4
Projected HD: 20
Projected SD: 7
TV: 1
70mm: 1
11 in 3D (all DCPs)

As for Countries, the places I watched the most films from besides the US are (in descending order) the UK, France, Canada, Japan, Germany, and Italy.

Booty Call

Booty Call (1997, Jeff Pollack) - 7.0
A couple guys (Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones*) are trying to have sex with their partners late at night, but run into all sorts of prophylactic obstacles. Will you have to put a condom on your chuckle-dick to keep from spreading your diseased laughter gunk all over the place? Not quite, but it’s a funny, breezy film that held up better than expected.

*This is of course a typo, but, I wish it wasn’t?

1998: VHS (~2 times)
05/30/99: VHS
08/01/11: DVD

L.A. Bounty

L.A. Bounty (1989, Worth Keeter) - 8.5
Sybil Danning is a stoic bounty hunter out to get revenge on homicidal druglord Wings Hauser, who killed her partner when she was working as a cop. Fun, likable action movie with Hauser and Danning at their best. It’s fucking offensive that Sybil Danning is not in The Expendables movies.

08/03/11: VHS

The Karate Dog

The Karate Dog (2004, Bob Clark) - 8.0
A dog is taught how to talk and do karate by his master Pat Morita, who gets killed by assassins, and they steal some potion or something. As the only witness, Cho Cho the dog decides to help out a computer whiz detective in solving the case. Classic talking dog-buddy cop antics ensue with terrible special effects, and it’s ridiculous and amazing to watch, and occasionally genuinely funny. Chevy Chase voices Cho Cho, and he made me laugh here more than he has in any other movie. Jon Voight, as well, gives his fucking all to his over-the-top performance, and it is really something. There is a scene where the detective (Simon Rex) goes on a date with Jaime Pressly, and he’s nervous, so Cho Cho tells him what to say through an earpiece. You owe it to yourself to check this shit out, it’s super good.

08/07/11: DVD

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001, Chris Columbus) - 9.0
There’s this kid named Harry Potter whose parents were killed when he was a baby and he’s raised by a nasty aunt and uncle, but when he turns 12, he finds out he’s actually a wizard and he gets to go to wizard school and learn about magic. I hadn’t seen this since it came out and it’s much better than I remembered. It creates the magical universe extraordinarily well, bringing the necessary sense of wonder and excitement to both the characters and the audience. It’s a near-perfect fantasy film. I have issues with the ending, as I did in the book, where Harry defeats a villain by melting their face with his hands, and the only explanation given for how he did it is that his mom, like, really loved him. I know (from Erin explaining it to me) that it was actually a protection spell his mom cast on him, that required love to properly cast. That’s something I can understand, because it’s a fucking spell, and I know magical spells are for real (in the world of the movie). But the way it’s presented is more just like, yeah, mother’s love = face-melting abilities, why not. And it’s a bit cheesy for me. Still, if I hadn’t already seen them, I would totally be looking forward to more from this series.

11/15/01: 35mm
08/13/11: DCP

Daughter of Darkness

Daughter of Darkness (1990, Stuart Gordon) - 7.0
After Mia Sara’s mom dies, she goes to Romania in search of her father (the titular Darkness), who turns out to be Anthony Perkins and he’s a vampire with tongue-fangs. But he’s sort of a good guy, or at least tries to be, but there’s a younger, handsome-er vampire who wants to mate with the daughter to create super-vamps that can walk in sunlight. I don’t think Gordon had a whole lot to work with here, but he does what he can to make it an interesting story with some good effects and likable characters.

08/16/11: Download

The Kindred

The Kindred (1987, Jeffrey Obrow/Stephen Carpenter) - 9.0
On her deathbed, a scientist (Kim Hunter) lets her son know her experiments have gotten out of hand, and tells him to destroy all her notes and things. She also alludes to him having a brother. The son goes to her Science Cabin with a group of other scientists, and a mysterious protégé of the mother, to investigate, and the brother he has turns out to be a gooey, semi-aquatic creature with tentacles, homicidal tendencies, and the ability to impregnate watermelons. The special effects are fucking unbelievable, and it’s embracingly gratuitous gory effects, sci-fi horror fusion, and overall tone reminded me a lot of Stuart Gordon’s works. There’s even a fish monster transformation that predates Dagon. Fucking incredible movie. This desperately needs a DVD/Blu-ray release.

07/29/11: 35mm

The Clock (10:15pm-12:35am)

The Clock (10:15pm-12:35am) (2010, Christian Marclay) - 6.5
Someone made a 24 hour movie made up of clips of other movies showing clocks that tell the actual time. Clips vary in length, and sometimes the time is in the background somewhere, or sometimes it’s only implied and presumably approximate. It was a perfectly watchable experiment that was pretty interesting in the way it shows similar things happening in various films. Like, at 10:30pm in the movies, people are usually getting ready for bed, and an hour later they are being woken up by a phone ringing. And it's certainly fun trying to identify as many movies as possible. It ran from 5pm to 5pm, and I only saw about two hours, but I wish I had planned ahead to view the entire thing. I still felt weird going into a movie so late, and leaving it early. Eventually, I hope to see the rest.

07/28/11: Digital Projection

Lost Season 5 (Ambien Review)

Lost Season 5 (2009, Jeffrey Lieber/Damon Lindelof/J.J. Abrams) - 10.0
The theme of this season is why the people who left the island now need to get back onto the island, but run into shit when it may not be the island from their particular time period. What a way for the characters to learn backstory! Just go on through it. So yeah, there’s lots of time travel shit here and I love it. Characters continue to find connections they have to each other, and we learn abi=t Jacob, a deity type of guy who has been on the island since like dinosaur times probably. Locke is wandering around when he’s supposed to be dead, and there’s definitely something iff there if I may say so myself. What is going on with that story, is she right? She is a she, and she is wrong. Oh, and there’s a bomb to defuse that may alter the future, if that’s even possible! Maybe their plan backfires, as it always has, and actually causes whatever causes need be to make all the same things happen, and that’s how it will be in a loop forever. I don’t know! I haven’t seen Season 6 when dpes it get started!!! Good show, keeps me intrigued.

Finished 07/27/11: Netflix Streaming