http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:StatutoryApe&section=today deviantART RSS for by:StatutoryApe en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:29:19 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/25359163/ http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/25359163/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:42:01 PDT
Rewriting Divine Apathy from scratch, but it's not really Divine Apathy anymore. Trying to start completely from scratch, changed character names and premises, mixed everything up, give it more of an organic feeling.

Re-edited The Crow for no reason other than my own satisfaction.

Sort of stalled with Border City for right now, until we catch up. I'm probably going to re-read the ones we've got and the stuff we've already done before diving back into it. I keep struggling with the next issue's structure, then figure it out, then forget it before I sit down to write.

In the movie about the Runaways, Joan Jett is going to be played by the chick from Twilight, which I'm okay with (mostly because I've been inappropriately attracted to her since Panic Room, and she seems pretty cool). Now I found out Cherie Curry's going to be played by Dakota Fanning, who is the same age Cherie was when she joined. She looks like her, Dakota's a great actress, but I'm disturbed. Dakota Fanning is 15. Also, Dakota Fanning will be wearing white corsets and black panties with garter belts on stage with punk hair -- disturbing all on its own, but more so when I think about the implication that I MIGHT get turned on by anything Dakota Fanning does in a movie.

Anyway, the Runaways were awesome and I'm hoping the music video director they've hired can do them justice. I believe s/he was involved with Marilyn Manson videos, primarily. If s/he did the "Heart-shaped Sunglasses" video, it should be awesome. I dunno, I think maybe Marilyn directed that himself. Either way, F that song but the video was fuckin awesome.

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Plan is to finish the cut with new music and put it online for a year or so completely free (like a sort of online theatrical release, thanx Whedon & Co. for the germ of this idea).

Border City is coming along great. That reminds me, I need to get what I can to Monty in the emails today.

Here in Denver watching CNN play channel 6 New Orleans Gustav news and feeling that weird pit in my chest like when I was here last, which was right after Katrina. It's not going to be all that bad, but I am now seriously considering moving out of NOLA with all my breath so I never have to feel this way at least about whether I get to go home again or if my new project is being ruined by another natural disaster. This is only, in political words, a stop-gap measure, however, in that I will still suffer from New Orleans being fucked over and over and Global Warming will reach wherever I go, eventually.

Other than all that noise, it's been a great time. I was in Denver for DNC, fun since this is like all liberal Obama country and I don't offend anyone or start arguments when I say I'm going to vote for him. Most importantly, no one asks me "Why?"

Dana's wedding was the living shit. Her bridal procession was the theme song from Angel. Denver lets you marry each other, so it was "By the power vested in YOU by the state of Colorado". When the audience was asked for its blessing on the union, we yelled "So say we all!" The recessional for the couple was the end credit song for the game Portal. Dana was completely punk rocked out, with orange and yellow hair that matched her flowers, a white dress without the leg skirt and big black boots. At the reception, the DJ was the couple's iPod, then the wedding party played the Portal song on Rock Band on a huge projection screen and handed it off to everyone else. They made a mix CD for everyone who showed up with all their songs on it, most of which are from Rock Band.

Really want to move to NY. Just seems like where I should be, for more than five reasons. That's really not going to happen, though, unless I get this online film venture to take off like gangbusters, whatever that means. Mixing metaphors is fun!

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Starting to lose my cool at the drop of a hat, and my defense against becoming my grandmother or mother is that I shut down when I get inappropriately angry, but this is not going to work when leading a group of people toward a common goal. Have to start voicing my opinions when I get them, instead of letting them stew. This is possibly how people like my grandma are created, so ironically, in trying not to be them, combined with the fact that volatile situations make children into introverts, I may be turning myself into them.

Anyway, need to figure out why I can't see the footage from the camera on my computers. Thought the laptop didn't have the right requirements, but the new desktop can't see it either. I need to be the one editing this film. Anyway.

and i could go on and on and on... but who cares? ]]> ~StatutoryApe http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/16291615/ http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/16291615/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:42:14 PST
I Was a Teenage Prom Queen! starts filming on Tuesday. Working around people's schedules, it shouldn't take more than a couple of months to finish production. *crosses fingers, holds breath, and makes up a god to pray to*

Border City #0 looks amazing from what I've seen so far of it, and I barely wrote anything for Dezzy to work with. Should be done inside of a month.

Teen Age Waste Land is pretty much done, but still need to go through the process of ordering a proof from Amazon and approving stuff.

Rewriting Divine Apathy and deciding whether I wanna release it in separate volumes or as one. Going really well, depends how many pages it is when done.

Another idea of mine has evolved into a revolutionary viral website idea that I will not detail here for fear of the ether giving the idea to someone else with more resources.

Solidified idea for Plastered Wallflowers, my indie film idea about a bunch of friends getting drunk. Sort of Ice Storm, Big Chill feeling, only I'm going to make it about future Grandmasters of Art and Fiction.

MegaCrusher getting clearer. Goodnight, Moon still in idea phase but planning on it being a Werewolf Noir.

All this, and Schizogenesis is still sitting there, being a pretty idea that just lies there.

As if anyone cares? ]]> ~StatutoryApe http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/16037854/ http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/16037854/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:25:36 PST
So, starting in January, I will be filming I Was a Teen-age Prom Queen! (or: The Girl Who Ate Prom), the teen zombie comedy I wrote after Katrina, bored in the apartment of my friend Dana in Colorado. I predict panic attacks for the next year of my life.

Meanwhile, Teen Age Waste Land is in its final stages, just need to get a proof to go over and fix any problems with it, then it'll be online, and then I need to finish updating Divine Apathy and putting that up as well.

I need to start working on storyboards. All this, and I'm going it alone because Aly's once again incommunicado in NY, refusing to give me anything but nonverbal replies. And I might be going up to NY for New Year's.

I'm gonna have a fucking heart attack, if i even have one after all this is said and done.

sometimes, we get what we ask for. this is when we see how short-sighted and infantile our desires truly are. ]]> ~StatutoryApe http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/14702460/ http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/14702460/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:24 PDT
Anyway, new one is about a gun-toting bad-ass supermodel fighting aliens, bounty hunters, and evil corporations with a super handgun with an AI chip in it named TOM, or as he prefers to be called, The Original Megacrusher. It's my favorite thing in the whole world.

I would tell you anything about the plot only I don't wanna spoil it.

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Divine Apathy is not available in hardcover on lulu due to their steep pricing once I bought the ISBN. Probably switching to Amazon's new thing, cuz yeaaah. That is, if I don't get picked up by an agent or Tor publishing. More updates on that later.

Though it is waaaayyyy less likely for anyone to care, I am available for WRITING COMMISSIONS. Have a story but can't write dialogue to save your life? Have a plot but no way to organize it? Have nothing but ideas and character designs? I can help!

Preferences include stuff dealing with the occult, psychology, and alternate views of superheroes, but will be judged on a case by case basis. Since I'll probably only have one case, it shouldn't be too hard. Prices will vary depending on if it's a series, mini-series, one shot, and what you need written. Dialogue will be cheaper than, say, full plotting and development based solely on character ideas and premise. None of it will be expensive, though. I'll figure it all out an post as soon as I can.

]]> ~StatutoryApe http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/10761022/ http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/10761022/ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:05:53 PST [link] . I don't know if anybody out there in radioland is even listening to this, but if you are, my book doesn't suck at all. It's actually kinda good in parts, and since I'm pretty self-affacing, it means a lot that i feel i can say that about it. anyway, don't be a stranger, strangers.

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Schizogenesis going through some alterations...adding in the smoking element earlier, making the characters WAY more colorful. As in Callus being a little nerdy guy who is totally impervious to harm. I'm thinking Michael Douglas in Falling Down. Wraith will be essentially the same, bald pale girl, eventually short-haired pale girl necromancer/shadowcat type. Gate's also essentially the same, only I'm gonna play up the juvenile delinquent stuff. Adding a character who thinks he's a vampire, thus he is one. No name yet. Changing Reverie into a transvestite who can make fantasy creatures like fairie and dragons and stuff. The Institute being more fucked up and medical. Basically going more Grant Morrison, less Alan Moore. Though not entirely, because I love Alan Moore and both leave room for the magickal.

Thinking about a series of one-shots based around throwing "cyber" in front of different musical genres and seeing where it takes me. If anyone would be interested in drawing something I write, the ideas as of now are:

cyberglam: Ziggy, Iggy, and the Spiders from Mars
cyberindustrial: NIN's the becoming... man slowly becoming a machine
cyberfunk: P-funk's "Mothership Connection"-- party on a spaceship on its way back to a very changed Earth
cybermetal: Black Sabbath's Iron Man. Time-traveling steel abomination.

anyway, till next time,
Excelsior!

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But yeah so I have a thing for any girl who is artistic, let alone can draw, let alone can draw comics, let alone has a desire to draw one of my scripts. Let alone that I already had a crush on, who is also as spread out in artistic interests as I am. Blah. Helpless. ]]> ~StatutoryApe http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/7784545/ http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/7784545/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:18:56 PST ~StatutoryApe http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/7640040/ http://StatutoryApe.deviantart.com/journal/7640040/ Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:22:47 PST
I have art-crushes on Coey Kuhn and Becky Cloonan right now, and there doesn't seem to be any signs of that stopping in the near future. I just love their styles, and it helps that they're kinda skater/punk girls. Always good to see that, and rare find that they're also extremely talented.

For similar reasons, I have music-crushes on all members, past and present, of the band KiTTiE. Go Canadian High School Grrl Metal! ]]> ~StatutoryApe