I'm Slippin' into the Lava, and I'm Tryin' to Keep From Goin' Unda, Baby You Turn the Temperature Hotter

I just watched the movie Magnolia again and it's too good. If it's shitty out and you have three and a half hours to watch a movie make it Magnolia, because it's too good. You'll love every minute of it bossettes and boss.

I Got a Fresh Line-Up, Fresh Outfit Bout to Have the Parkin' Lot on Smash

This Boston/Bridgewater band just hired me to direct a music video for their single with the highest potential on their upcoming album.

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I'm pretty pumped. I like their sound a lot. This will be the first music video I've made, but I'm not nervous because they seem very simple to do. I've watched 1000000000 music videos because they are sweet even though nobody ever watches them. I'm just gonna try and emulate my favorite ones.

We're are gonna shoot it in September and the video should be up on their myspace in the same month. Go check it out then and tell me what you think!

Dark Knight and Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tons of potentially sweet movies are going to be coming out in the summer and fall, two of which I think are going to be the best movies of 2008. The first is The Dark Knight, I don't even care, this movie is going to completey destroy everything. Chris Nolan is so good at directing movies its stupid. He is easliy one of the best directors alive, but he won't be nominated for an academy award or anything until he makes a worse movie, because that is how it works. He shot to stardom when he made the movie Memento in 2000, which is one of my favorite movies ever, and then he made a slew of other movies that are also favorites of mine. Now, the Dark Knight will absolutlely dominate. It is written by him and his brother, who know exactly how to write a movie. It is directed by him, the absolute man. The cast is absolutely absurd, packed to the brim with superstars. The cinematographer is one of the best alive, and gets nominated for every single movie he shoots now, and Dark Knight looks to be the best looking of any of his movies yet. The music is awesome, the locations are gorgeous, and every single thing about this movie will be unbelievable because the team working on it couldn't produce anything less than that if they tried. Not to mention, Heath Ledger's passing will make the movie even more intense than it was going to be, which was already the most intense movie ever made.

Next up is the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which I think will be the best movie of 2008 that people in high positions will actually be able to call the best movie of 2008. David Fincher, the director, is an absolute beast who makes extraordinary looking movies that are very entertaining. This is his first chance to blow people away, and judging by everything I've seen, it looks like a masterpiece. Cate Blanchett will do her normal thing and be the best actress ever. Brad Pitt's ability is underrated, and he will explode with awesome in this movie. Make sure you see this movie in the fall.

The Happening is Awful

I am, without a doubt, the larget M. Night Shyamalan fan on this planet. I have been an extreme fan of his since the beggining of his film career, and I have continuously called him my favorite living director, but I think that has just changed for good. I just came from seeing his latest movie, "The Happening," and it is a bad movie, pure and simple. There is not one aspect of this film that was well done. The direction was a complete failure aside from a few sweet shots. The cinematography was bland. There was no intensity at all. The acting was horrid and the relationships were forced, rushed, and flat out stupid. The dialouge was embarrasing. I am so, so dissapointed. After his last movie failure, which I thought was an OK movie, many people saw him falling into oblivion, but I felt that this movie would be his turning point. Wrong. Horrible movie. I feel sorry for M. Night Shymalan but it truly seems that he has fallen victim to whatever it is that turns good directors into bad ones. Quentin Tarantino stated in an interview that directors begin downward spirals after making a personal movie that they thought was going to be unbelievable, and fails miserably. This movie was undoubtedly The Village, which I personally love to death becuase it's absolutely beautiful, but it failed miserably and most audiences and critics hated it. Before that movie, he was on a hot streak of making fantastic movies, three of my favorites ever. I feel so bad for him. I'll just hope that someday he gets it right again, and until then, embrace the fact that there was many better living directors. The Happening is awful, don't go.

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Here is the movie that I made for Campus Movie Fest this year.

Fox News and Katherine Harris

I was watching Fox news last night at around 1am because I do that, and the Florida Secratary of State during the 2000 election was on there absolutely PISSED on how she was portrayed in the HBO movie "Recount," about the recount in FL. Katherine Harris is her name. She was opening up a can on HBO, and Fox was backing her every word. It was hilarious. This got me thinking a lot about how real people are portrayed in movies, and how much it would suck to be portrayed negatively. Movies have an absolutely enormous audience, so there was no chance that there wasn't going to be a reaction from Harris, which could potentially turn into legal action. I think she has every right to be mad, even if she is as crazy as she was portrayed. Back in 2005, I remember the family of professional boxer Max Bear having a similar reaction to how their father was portrayed in the movie Cinderella Man. That movie is flat out awesome, no doubt, but it sucks so much to think that a man who was potentially a very nice person will be remembered by many as a murdering, womanizing, idiot. Basically, when a movie is dealing with a real human being, they should have to screen it in front of that person's family or the person themselves before releasing it, because it's just too awful to think that a movie like Recount is out there messing with someone's life.