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sylvia-lydia-morelos-baby-2023 · 2 months

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Sylvia Lydia Morelos. i'm at 7140 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 off DETROIT. Will & Ariel Durant Library. perps in here. GONZALES, GINA RUBY, dob 03 74; her stems/brothers, i.e. David Gonzales, JIHAD (i.e. CVS 10889 Wellworth Ave., 90024 off of WESTWOOD are here. hollywood rapists of children at the Salvation Army off of Bronson & Hollywood here too. 911. All perverts. short and huffy about it too. FUN. Confirmed. /S./ see my social media, internal reports in the past, etc. More power to Cesar Chavez and Women's History Month beginning march 1st in a few days. FUN. they're still aiming for my CA ID at 6636 Selma Ave., 90028, THE CENTER, C/O, my mailing address. We got more war criminals outside the USA. Victor Arias, CVS westwood here. Gavin Newsom, ANAHEIM, Lomeli, Raul Payan, "dob" 08 12 73, also here, Kelly quinn, dob 02 12 95 etc also here. safe space anaheim here. off the 460 MTA. MONTERO, RAUL, CVS westwood and my former employer involved, steven tyler perps here too, inc. but not limited to impersonators of good us military, threats to them, i.e. they're involved in the attempted murder of our 200 soldiers, my father, Jose Antonio Morelos, aka Jim Morrison and Bobby & Robert included. 911. Thompson thinks he got away with it. My little boy survived it…he related to Douglass, Frederick the Abolitionist? wow. he's beautiful no matter what. kkk scum and they're dyed skin here, as in "black experience." we got the rest of them in here. lynwood criminals of other students, ucla, usc, like me, too. hackers, etc. do the math. pretty penny. https://be.my.ucla.edu/studylist.aspx

very low IQ, they have. i'm being nice. barely. security cameras they keep threatening. 911. jihad threats real. i reported all 3. fat and stupid they are as usual. getting shorter. don't get comfortable. they're still alive.

please take care of my family you know where. these perps are involved. money's no object; my salary i mean. they need it. no hold's bar. mi casita! cool!

Signed; you know who.

they want my salary. boo hoo hoo. idiots.

see my twitter account, etc.

ANGEL CASTANEDA Community Service Representative Library Experience Office

LAPL 630 W. 5th St. Los Angeles, Ca. 90071

213 246 7173 [email protected]

involved. 911 TARZANA perps involved. KAREN BASS's scum, direct connection to Salvation Army San Diego at 825 7th Ave., San Diego, Ca 92101. Rachel's Women's Center is near there. More Lynwood perps, dating back to 2004 with Ray Schehl. Self Declared child molester, claimed to be bi sexual, did 6 months misdemeanor in jail according to his journal and…worked at 7/11 at 25th & broadway, 92102, in Golden Hills, though. I thought that was strange as he was around children in there. Maybe he got an expungement. DENNIS HINES, CNA, 2002? 2004, with John Kerry and George Bush also involved. do the math. they went after my journal online, tried to silence me. posted one on social media. Please advise my brothers, etc. please forward to my employers, you know where. they raped my dad. and bobby. and our children. SCORE! they're in here. good job. no more gases? WLA PD, bono cops still involved, near SAWTELL & Sta monica blvd., 90025. they tried it again. gas station near. i was a witness. bono -david paul hewson, the "hasidic jew" not smart.

Glad to be of service daily. Regards,

ADMIRAL MORELOS, SYLVIA LYDIA (CHIVIS): MARINES, ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE COMMANDER (of the UNITED NATIONS, each country. My 2 brothers, Robert & Bobby and i. We are honored. They're are now safe. Thx.)

more power to civil rights for children. Si se Puede. Yes, We can. we love marilyn monroe. LAHS, 4650 W. Olympic Blvd. near Rimpau involved. ugly perps, in more ways than one. LOUD too. All thompson's. I'm the mask and the tiger, eye of the tiger. how fun.WE THE PEOPLE, WE BRUINS, do not like the. Neither does USC. we are the UMBRELLA CORP. U for Umbrella, C for Corporation, UC LA , USC, UC …we are regents of all UCs in the state. Honored.

Sylvia Lydia Morelos, IA, Homeless Beat…FBI, DHS, CIA, DOD, DOJ, MAYOR, SENATOR, PRESIDENT. We are honored. These idiots: WHEN IN ROME. Gasp. they're still stupid.

ok.

cover me. they don't care. fun.

confirmed. PLAY! /S./

got more internet hackers, my job is DHS. not reading between the lines as in SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME. perps here, though,

/S./

#youtube #sylvia lydia morelos #political activist #american dream team a+: usa & allies #ops: usa & allies #m.o.m. 2023 #democracy 4ever #2024 #Special Ops: Special Forces

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cutipop1 · 9 months

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Island Of The Blue Dolphins - Opening & Closing Credits (Paul Sawtell - ...

#youtube #music #beautiful music

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monsterasia-zero · 2 years

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The Drive-In Film Of The Week - The Black Scorpion

Directed By Edward Ludwig

Story By Robert Blees and David Duncan

Based On

Starring Richard Denning, Mara Corday, and Carlos Rivas

Special Effects By Willis O’Brien

Music By Paul Sawtell

Distributed By Warner. Bros

Release Date October 11, 1957

Country United States

#movie monsters

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screamscenepodcast · 2 years

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From director Edward L. Cahn comes IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958)! Marshall Thompson stars in this photo-ALIEN film about a monster from Mars!

This horror sci-fi also stars Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Dabbs Greer and Ann Doran, with Ray "Crash" Corrigan in his last film role in Paul Blaisdell's last original creature design.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 24:53; Discussion 35:47; Ranking 56:00

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oldshowbiz · 3 years

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Some classic B-movie names associated with Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)

#tom conway #raymond burr #monique van vooren #lex barker #paul sawtell #tarzan #jungle #Second Feature

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symphonicdeathrevival · 4 years

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“Creatures Reintegrated” ~ Paul Sawtell & Burt Shefter

#paul sawtell #burt shefter #the fly #curse of the fly #movie #horror

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mariocki · 1 year

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Weird Woman (1944)

"Do you realise that you've been turning the hands of the clock back to the Dark Ages?"

"Norman, some things don't belong to any special age. They're a part of everything and of all time. Forces for good and forces for evil. I did nothing to hurt anyone, only to help you and protect you!"

#inner sanctum mysteries #weird woman #1944 #american cinema #lon chaney jr.#reginald le borg #fritz leiber jr.#brenda weisberg #anne gwynne #evelyn ankers #ralph morgan #elisabeth risdon #lois collier #elizabeth russell #harry hayden #phil brown #hanna kaapa #david hoffman #scott darling #paul sawtell #another delightful entry in the Lon Chaney Jr Has A Terrible Time cinematic universe (one of my favourites)#a strange blend of black magic voodoo whatnot with academic intrigues and melodrama‚ but hey it works!#an awful lot of fun. Lon returns from an expedition with a new wife in tow‚ much to the chagrin of Ankers' deliciously venomous woman #spurned; cue much skullduggery and potential voodoo among the campus set. it's undeniably silly but it's a good time and at an hour #long doesn't outstay any welcome. the treatment of voodoo is relatively non condescending (at least for a 1944 film) and the plot #zips along with multiple fatalities and a wonderfully nasty ending. good old Lon‚ he always has such a tough time in these films #Karloff did tragedy and madness well‚ Lugosi evil and seductiveness‚ but if you need someone to have a dreadful time #and look like a big sad wet cat then Lon is the go to guy every time

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badgaymovies · 5 years

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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, The Mummy's Curse by #LeslieGoodwins starring #LonChaneyJr, "mostly just silly excuses for the title character to walk slowly at terrified people" LESLIE GOODWINS Bil's rating (out of 5): BB. USA, 1944. Universal Pictures Corporation. …

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oslofusion · 2 years

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FAUVE from Jeremy Comte on Vimeo.

187 festivals, 90+ awards. Academy Award® Nomination for Best Live Action Short Film

FAUVE by Jeremy Comte

Synopsis : Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. "Fauve" is this week's Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/fauve

Follow FAUVE on social media (@fauveshortfilm): facebook.com/FAUVEshortfilm/ instagram.com/fauveshortfilm/ twitter.com/FAUVEshortfilm/

CAST

Tyler: Félix Grenier Benjamin: Alexandre Perreault The Woman: Louise Bombardier

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Writer/ Director : Jeremy Comte Production : Evren Boisjoli (Achromatic Media), Maria Gracia Turgeon (Midi la Nuit) Cinematographer : Olivier Gossot Production Manager: Julie Groleau Production coordinator: Kelyna N. Lauzier 1st AD: Catherine Kirouac Casting Director: Victor Tremblay-Blouin Costume Design: Renée Sawtelle Make-up & Hair Artist: Stéphanie Barette Sound recordist: Laurent Ouellette Key Grip: Roland Cody Laroque Best Boy Grip: Nicola Poitras Gamache Grips: Patrice Arsenault, Thibault Kersani 1st Camera Assistant: Jeanne Dupuis 2nd Camera assistant & Gimbal operator: Benjamin Granet Stunt Coordinator: Tyler Hall Visual Effect Supervisor: Jean-Francois Clément Assistant Visual Effect Supervisor: Alex Legault Unit Production Manager: Jean-Maxime Giguère Set Production Assistant: Gabrielle de Cevins Production Assistants: Stéphane Pierre-Dufour, Sophie Cullen Aubut, Sabrina Lavergne, Molly Manseau Production Driver: Antonio Gracia Molero Production Intern: Gabrielle de Cevins Medic: Dominique Laplante Catering: Reception GL Animal Wrangler: Alain Chiocchi

Script collaborators: Patrica Boucher & Daphnée Côté Hallé Script Consultant: Phillipe Lesage

Image Post Production: Outpost Post Production Supervisor: Simon Allard Editor : Jeremy Comte Online Editor: Simon Allard VFX Artist: Val Michailov

Sound Post Production: Cult Nation Mixing & Sound Design : Hugues Bertrand, Théo Porcet, Jean-David Perron Foley Artist: Michael Anctil Sound Post Production Coordinator: Sophie Bérubé

Colour: The Mill - Chicago Colourist : Luke Morrison Colour Assist: Lindsay Mazur Coulour Producer: Dan Butler Colour executive Producer: Laurie Adrianopoli

Music: La Hacienda Composer: Brian D'Oliveira

Distribution and international sales: H264 Distribution

Poster & Title design: Sebastien Camden - Pusher

Filming Equipment: Cineground, Achromatic Media, Cinepool, Multiservice Luna Vehicles: Location Via Route Production Accountants: Marie-Ève Desbiens Tremblay, Johane Bergeron Auditing: Benoit Gauthier Production Insurance: BFL Lawyer: Gabriella Rozankovic - Lussier & Khouzam

Produced with the financial participation of SODEC, CALQ, Provincial tax credit & Federal tax credit

* Awards * Special Jury Award - Sundance Film Festival 2018 * Best of the Festival - Palm Springs ShortFest * Grand National Jury Prize & Best Youth Short Film - Regard Int. Short Film Festival * Best Drama - Aspen ShortsFest * Programmers Choice Award - Cleveland Film Festival 2018 * Best Narrative Award - Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival 2018 * Jury Award for Live Action- Vienna Shorts 2018 * Best International Short - Rincon International Film Festival, Puerto Rico, 2018 * Jury Award, Public Award, Prix Ciné Tapis-Rouge - Festival Courts d’un soir, 2018 * Best Directing, Public Student, Young Voters & Public Award - Longue vue sur le court, 2018 * Premio SIGNIS MÉXICO - Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2018 * Grand Jury Prize (Short Film) - 12th FIRST International Film Festival Xining, 2018 * Grand Prix for Best Short Film - Melbourne International Film Festival, 2018 * Best International Narrative - DC Shorts, 2018 * Best Quebec Short Film - Les Percéides, 2018 * Artist Award Winner - Odense International Film Festival, 2018 * Honourable mention for Best Canadian Short Film - Toronto International Film Festival, 2018 * LeCentral Jury Prize - Off-Courts Trouville, 2018 * Best Overall Short Film - Calgary International Film Festival, 2018 * Best Short Film, FIPRESCI Award : Best Short Film - IFF Pacific Meridian, Vladivostok, 2018 * Brief Encounters Grand Prix - Encounters Film Festival, Bristol. 2018 * La Fabrique Culturelle Award - Long Week-End du Court, 2018 * National Competition Grand Prize, Audience Award - Quebec City Film Festival, 2018 * German Independence Award : Best Short Film - Oldenburg Film Festival, 2018 * Best Actor - International Shorts Competition (Félix Grenier) - Les Fantastiques week-ends du cinéma québécois : Vidéotron Award for Best Short (Argent), UDA Award for Best Actor, EVS Award for Best Upcoming Producer (Maria Gracia Turgeon) - Fantasia International Film Festival, 2018 CONTACTS H264 Distribution / Jean-Christophe J. Lamontagne/ [email protected] Midi la Nuit / midilanuit.com / [email protected] / facebook.com/MidiLaNuitFilms Achromatic Media / achromatic.ca/ [email protected] /

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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John Payne and Lee Van Cleef in Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, 1952) Cast: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, Dona Drake, Mario Siletti, Howard Negley, Carleton Young, Don Orlando, Ted Ryan. Screenplay: George Bruce, Harry Essex, Harold Greene, Rowland Brown. Cinematography: George E. Diskant. Art direction: Edward L. Ilou. Film editing: Buddy Small. Music: Paul Sawtell. This intricately plotted film noir benefits more from its supporting cast of heavies -- Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, and Jack Elam -- than it does from its nominal leads, John Payne and Coleen Gray. Payne's Joe Rolfe gets framed for a big heist, but there's not enough evidence to convict him, so he sets out to track down the hoodlums who set him up. The first twist is that none of the actual thieves know who any of the others are -- they were all sent on their mission in masks, supplied by the mastermind, known to them as "Mr. Big." And he turns out to be a retired police captain (Preston Foster) who was forced out of his job by politics. And he isn't interested in the loot itself but in staging a capture of the thieves and a recovery of the money so he can get the reward and maybe even be reinstated in his old job. As if this twist isn't enough, he's also the father of the young woman (Gray) whom Rolfe falls in love with after he sleuths his way to the Mexican resort town where the plot leads everybody else. Fortunately, Phil Karlson's no-nonsense direction keeps the movie from getting snared in its own twists and turns.

#Kansas City Confidential #Phil Karlson #John Payne #Lee Van Cleef

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plurdledgabbleblotchits · 4 years

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CLASSIC 1950'S SCIENCE FICTION FILM THEMES

THE THING Dimitri Tiomkin

DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Bernard herrmann

WAR OF THE WORLDS Leith Stevens

INVADERS FROM MARS Raoul Kraushaar/Mort Glickman

FLIGHT TO MARS Marlin Skiles

FORBIDDEN PLANET Louis and Bebe Barron

THIS ISLAND EARTH Herman Stein

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Carmen Dragon

THE BLACK SCORPION Paul Sawtell KRONOS Paul Sawtell/Bert Shefter

IT THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE Paul Sawtell/Bert Shefter

INVISIBLE INVADERS Paul Dunlap DAY

THE WORLD ENDED Ronald Stein

WORLD WITHOUT END Leith Stevens

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN Ronald Stein

QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE Marlin Skiles

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twiststreet · 5 years

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Progresso Report -- ??? 2018

It’s been a long time since I did one of these (August?)-- things in 2018 got messy.

This is an ongoing series of charts that I keep to track my slow but inevitable ascendance to a higher and more eternal plane of existence than you, a frail normal person bereft of the life force that courses through me. As I believe Paul Atreides once explained to a Reverend Mother of the Bene Gessit order, the First Law of the Mentat is that “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” Or as I believe Tommy Lee once said, in The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, “We partied like clockwork, bro. You could check the clock in whatever time zone we were in and figure out exactly what kind of shit we were into.”

I started new charts in September that I’m happier with, but then everything fell apart in that last half of 2018. Work/regular-life exhaustion-- things just got especially tiring over here; people dying-- this year had a little bodycount there for me; a lot of chart confusion this year; my New Years plans falling apart; people getting sick, me with this cold; dental stuff; housing stress (I’m trying to find a new place) which has meant a resurgence in budgeting stress.

I guess it’s been a long year. But I don’t want to be one of those “oohhhhh 2018 how dare you” people much either, because (a) it’s the same assholes who are like “look how busy I am” on the internet, give it a rest, and (b) they say that every single year, and it’s not like Bowie and Prince died this year.

I stopped cooking sometime in November, so I’m going to skip the numbers. Which means no number analysis for 2018 trends. But things just ... yeah, things fell apart. Except for writing, weirdly, where I’ve filled about two notebooks, since August (which is an unusual amount for me-- I’m usually pretty slow). I think that’s been a lot of it-- when I get in a good place writing, it’s hard to not tune out everything else, but.

So 2019 is going to be a dust it off and start over kinda year as it turns out.

The Weekly Section:

Cooking: I was cooking up until November and then stopped cold around Thanksgiving-- travel always discombobulates. Recipe-wise, though, I fell off on trying new recipes. Chicken oyakodon one night in August or September, which didn’t turn out too good. A lot of messing around with hot pot recipes and a veggie stew, in November-- I was kinda into the hot pot, and want to circle back to that, when I get cooking again. I have Thai Chicken written down for October, but no idea what that means, and I circled back to that Udon-Shrimp recipe again.

Got a little better with tacos, but not fully great there yet. Kept trying to make my own pickled onion, but never got it right.

Project Work: If I added up all the numbers here, this would be the bulk of my time during this span. A lot of writing-- almost every day. Mostly on a comic project, so one of those things that might become nothing (and maybe should be nothing-- it stinky), but. And a lot of reading for that, old comics mostly, the classics, revisiting stuff-- it all kinda devolved into me rereading Uncanny X-Men #260 a lot, though I couldn’t tell you why.

Trying to remember what makes something good. That’s a bit I never figure out how to deal with-- I have a thing when I’m in the middle of a creative thing, where I just kind of throw my hands in the air and go, “I have no idea what makes something good anymore.” Like, what do you want out of a thing?? What makes a fictional thing good? I don’t even know when I’m in the middle of all this.

Or I don’t know what’s good for right now-- what feels hokey or what feels hip and modern; like, you don’t want to be the guy doing ... remember when some Iron Man guys came back with a new comic in the 00′s with like ... an 80′s Iron Man comic except trying to sell that exact sound in 2005 or whatever, and were like “Hey kids”? I think about that all the time.

Looked at a lot of the big hip popular (non-DC) books -- but just from a vulture-y place, so nothing I’d feel comfortable talking about. I don’t know-- I don’t ... I’m a little lost at the moment, I guess! Or I know that I’m not making something good, because I’m not that guy, so wheeee.

I did like a Image book I saw, called the Outer Darkness. I thought that was kinda funny-- kinda cute. I’m really into LOEG: The Tempest-- I think that’s really fucking good. I scribbled down on a sheet that I liked some old John Porcellino comic where he plays football or something with his kids. I finally read the ending of Sin Titulo, which it turns out I didn’t have to do.

Gym: This has been a huge improvement for this year. Except for the last couple weeks while I’ve had a cold, I’ve managed to escalate the gym more. (A) Spending more money on it, (B) involving a trainer for a period of time, and (c) having the gym walking distance from my job so I could make it part of my “At work” time in my head and not my “me doing me” time, those all I think turned out to be the trick for me-- I was angrier about not going, when money got involved, especially. These would have good numbers...

The Monthly Section:

New Restaurants:

I had Okonomiyaki for the first time. (These are mostly not my photos-- I had photos but just changed phones so most of my photos got lost). I didn’t really feel strongly about it, though-- it felt like good hangover food and I don’t drink like that much anymore, so.

A lot of time got invested in Korean fried chicken and chicken wings. There’s a place in Koreatown that I got a little obsessed with (namely, the vaue meals over at Kyochon). Tried some Japanese fried chicken, that place on Sawtelle for comparison-- no question, the Koreans won that battle. (Though, Honey Kettle over the Koreans, but-- it’s a different flavor profile, is all, so).

New places around where I live and work. A new taco place. A new “Asian small dish” place. A vegan Thai place that ... I can’t say I recommend. A westside Korean place, so. In November/December, I’ve gotten really interested in the Indonesian food in my neighborhood so I’ve been eating a lot of that-- it’s like Thai but different ingredients, so a fun little adventure there. Some crappy 3rd street Asian restaurant I didn’t even write down the name of.

Finally went over to Guerilla Tacos. (That’s my photo). I really enjoyed those tacos-- Jonathan Gold had talked that place up for years when it was a truck, but I’m lazy and hadn’t gotten around to it. (I’m not really a truck fan!). Boy, those tacos, though... That’s the (a) Pocho Taco (ground wild boar, pine nuts, raw tomatilo chile, chipotle crema, aged cheddar & pico de gallo in a crunchy shell) and the (b) Albondigas Taco (chicken meatballs, stewd tomato salsa, castelvetrano olives, and parsley).

LA Stuff or Travel: Travel for Thanksgiving.

A Harlan Ellison memorial at the Egyptian theater. They played his Outer Limits and Twilight Zone episodes, and specially cut together videos of him talking or his TV work (his Gidget episode or his Burke’s Law episodes or what have you). LQ Jones talked about making the Boy and His Dog movie; Josh Olsen talked about co-writing that Twilight Zone episode; Leonard Maltin talked about seeing The Terminator for the very first time with Harlan in the audience yelling at the screen. It was nice, getting to be there.

I had car problems so I took some hour-or-two long walks on nights when I was relying on Lyft, just seeing what walking in LA’s like. (It’s fine! I mean, it’s not ideal, but it’s fine). It’s nice knowing that’s an option at the end of the day, at least.

One time at lunch, I walked by Mel Brooks having lunch with friends. I heard him say “I love that we’re doing this” but didn’t stand there and gawk or eavesdrop like I wanted to. But I don’t know-- I was really really excited about that. Mel Brooks!

I went to a comedy thing for the first time in too long-- Superego and Wild Horses did a team-up improv night, where they improvised a play about middle-aged white people, getting together at a house by a lake. I need to see more comedy-- I know that I find that very calming and I don’t know why I haven’t been, but.

Went to another Indiecade, the indie game festival-- two highlights there. One was Flight Simulator-- a game where instead of simulating being a pilot, you simulate being a passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight, in real time. So it’s just a simulator where you sit in a seat and wait for a flight to be over...? That made me laugh-- I really quite enjoyed the creativity of that, and getting to speak with the guy who was making it. (I asked a bunch of questions-- yes, your character will have a book he or she can read-- but not “Why” since that seemed extremely gauche to ask).

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The other thing was as I was walking by a room, a guy was like “hey, want to hear a guy talk about making music for the Star Wars games.” And I was like, “Fuck it, I don’t give a shit about that, but I want to sit down and I got no place better to be, so let’s do it. I GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.”

But it actually turned out to be a really fucking interesting discussion because... because the guy had a job that coincided exactly with where my head’s been at with the stuff I’m working on, with just thinking about comics, old comics, balancing wanting to invoke old shit while still doing new shit, and how that job of writing for comics exists for so many people, especially people not working on their own shit, who are working with pre-existing properties with expectations around what those properties and that kinda experience should deliver.

Which is-- they hire you to be you, but they’re also hiring you to do Star Wars, to do a thing that sounds like Star Wars.

So he talked about having to break down all the different ways that he could approach that problem-- with one way just being imitating the melodies that came before you. But he talked about the better route being how ... He put it in terms of like language-- like the music of Star Wars has a language to it (horns, woodwinds used against bloop blarps, whatever) and it’s about figuring out how to talk in that language, but that doesn’t mean you have to say the same thing once you speak the language. I don’t know.

I’m not doing it justice-- I found it very interesting, and weirdly on point to what I wanted to think about, way more than I expected.

Documentaries: I think I mentioned them all on here. That He-Man one. F is For Fake. (I saw the Lego and GI Joe episodes of the Toys That Made Us). Fighting in the Age of Loneliness, which I was really, really into-- I thought that was really cool. City of Gold. Some Netflix movie I’m forgetting. That last Star Wars video by the Red Letter Media guys, if that counts.

Oh, and ... one night I had a Twitch stream on for noise, because that’s what I do now I guess (???), and the people on the Twitch stream themselves put on a documentary about Logan Paul. It was the Shane Dawson docu-expose of Logan Paul or Aaron Paul or whoever those assholes are. I only saw the first one of those, via Twitch stream, but holy shit, that was... whatever the fuuuuuuck that was. I want to watch the rest of those. Just a window into a completely other dimension of humanity. But the window itself had a history of blackface...? Like, you lookup the host of the documentary, the guy DOING the expose, and it’s like online people going “why he do blackface?” What???????? What the hell is going on with Youtube???

I definitely want to go back to those. I want to see the Darkness That’s Coming.

Movies: I don’t know-- I saw a bunch of movies.

Let me see: Personal Shopper (terrific movie!), Support the Girls, Crazy Rich Asians, Buster Scruggs, that El Royale piece of shit, that Spiderman cartoon, Sometimes a Night Is For Us All (?), rewatched the original Suspiria, a shitty Netflix horror movie called Beyond the Gates, the Other Guys again, a Simple Favor, The Predator, Destination Wedding, Mayhem, half of Rampage. Saw a lot of movies with my nephews (rewatched Knight & Day and MI: Fallout, the Tooth Fairy, Jumanji 2, Castle of Cogliostro, rewatched Ant Man 2-- I know people aren’t into it but I like the wannabe-Elmore-Leonard plotting, Jackie Chan’s Skiptrace, Daddy’s Home 2 (no!), School of Rock).

I rewatched Buckaroo Banzai over Thanksgiving after people went to sleep and I didn’t have anything to do. I fucking hated that movie as a kid-- almost got thrown out of a screening of it because I was yelling stupid shit at my friends during it and whatever. But I always wanted to revisit since so it’s a touchstone for so many nerds -- it improved as an adult knowing what they were up to, at least, understanding better what they were trying to do, but I wouldn’t say that I was wrong as a kid either, not exactly... I’d put it down as “interesting” at the moment. It’s helpful knowing the reason it looks like shit is they hired the cinematographer of Blade Runner, but then the producers made them fire that guy after only two or three scenes...

I think I’m missing some stuff on this list, but...

(Saw a few episodes of that Jack Ryan show with my family, too, since that’s their kind of thing, apropos of nothing-- it was not great! Like, some guy’s in Vegas getting beat up because he wants pervy sex and then Jim From the Office frowns-- or I don’t know how to describe it, but ... not great).

Highlighter Videos: I did a bunch. I should do a separate video wrap-up for the year though, like people do. That might be nice to have done.

Goals:

Three Scripts for the Project: Technically I wrote way more than 3 but most of them got ripped up along the way. But yeah, goal met.

Flowchart for Game: Still in progress on the flowchart-- kind of feeling inspired again to tackle all that, after Bandersnatch though. The game within the game, not the show itself. I love the fake games people imagine when they make shit like that, how vivid they always seem as compared to the real thing. There’s a game that gets described in a Kelly Link short story that I think about more than I think about games I’ve spent 90000 hours on.

I didn’t do a favorite games of the year list, but this year was all about discovering the Yakuza series for me. And just... the way those games are all about excavating the same exact, relatively-understandable space, Kamarucho, year after year, game after game. I think that’s really ... I don’t know what the right word to describe that is. I just find that architectural obsessiveness really curious. They’re curious games. I could go on and on about them but instead, no.

2019 Plan: My goal for this year was to create a good plan for 2019-- making a list of movies I want to watch, types of recipes to try, that kind of thing. I think that’s what I’m going to do over the next couple days while I’m sick and have time off work.

Finish Books: I didn’t finish one! Got too consumed by reading ... some comics I will never admit to having read. Hoo-boy. I have gone all the way down the rabbithole.

Cooking Class: Nope.

Major Tidy: Nope. Smaller tidiness, yes, but I need to get rid of a lot of clutter. But like I said, I think I’m going to have to move (and I’m thinking to a smaller place-- I think I have more space than I need right now) so that’s going to happen whether I like it or not.

Finish Best-Of Assembly: I’ve been preparing a best-of this blog in case / when tumblr invariably goes down. But in the course of that, a lot of things have to be slightly rewritten or edited down-- a lot of weird raving pared off things, so.

Overall: There was more that probably I was too lazy to scribble down on the charts. Things got lazy. Things got derailed. Things have to get put back on track. I’m not back at square one-- I feel good about having written as much as I have at least (even if I have a lot of work left before any of that’s... anything??). But. I’m glad a new year is coming-- it’s my favorite holiday; it’s the only holiday that promises anything really valuable. A fresh start beats candy anyways, after you’re old enough to eat candy all the time because no one’s around to stop you. A fresh start sounds nice...

#what gets measured gets managed

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