Blog 012 "Elbow myths"

FUN FACT: "Armadillo"

Well, I have some 'news' I have a new movie in my top ten and a new movie in my bottom ten. Which you want first? I'm gonna go ahead and go with my new #9 0n the TOP ten. The film is foreign, and has subtitles, its about and insanley beautiful girl with hair dyed red, scenes of it are animated, can you guess? "Run Lola Run" is the english translation of the title. Its just a creative movie thats drenched in originality and brilliance. Like a Tarrentino if switched off from harsh realism and bitter truths and then fantasy situations, unlike a Tarrentino, this film takes place in a universe where love exsists and not everyone gets shot. "Run Lola Run" also includes amazing camera work, fantastic animation sequences, and lastly a fitting upbeat soundtrack as strange of film. After seeing Run Lola Run I was in a movie mood and decided to head to the theatre with a friend and catch TROPIC THUNDER, the worst movie of 2008. Tropic Thunder is everything evil in the world. Every joke wasnt funny because it was taken either too long, too far, or wasnt even far enough in the first place. It made fun of homosexuality, had a zillion poop jokes that where weven more repiticious and annoying than something you'd find on Nickelodian (or however you spell that), it was racially insensitive, its gore sequences where just awful. I hated this film and left the theatre an hour early, if Robert Downey Jr. wasnt in the film I would have lasted 3 minutes into the film. If I ever see Stiller on the street I am going to kick him down and steal his wallet. School starts in a week. kill me  

BLOG 011 "THE TAG ROOM"

FUN FACT: "Did you know that R.L. Stine is an awful author of terrible half-assed books?"

Today you are going to hear the legend of the tag room, as you may recall in Blog 003 I made a refrence to them with the promise, "A story for another day". well today is that day. Like some terrible J.E. Abrams show on ABC its my duty to drop some mystery in third episode of my blog and then let you pick up clues until finally in the eleventh episode the story is told in a series of wavy flashbacks. You basically know everything, movie on fridays, 7 always, 4 sometimes...well...thats really it, no twists, no turns....disapointed? yeah me too. We seperated over the summer because 90% of us went on 3 month vacations, one lost there mind and quit talking to me because of a insanley obsessive AIM realationship with somone in California, But I expect when the school year starts back up I'll be back to hanging with my legion of very awsome outcasts.

Long blogs soon

Blog 010 "Ebay is my role model"

FUN FACT: "Quality home-decks only come from the Alfred Deck Company."

Today I opened an Ebay acount to sell some old stuff to get some new toys, like a Xbox and then I'm also saving up for rehab of an future addiction to the x-box. I'm only telling you this because honestly I've run out of things to tell you...I guess we'll get to long blogs when things get excited, spicy, dramatic, or maybe even dynamic. I'll think of something to talk about one of these days...

Blog 009 "Johnny, don't eat the moon."

DISCLAIMER: I have a lot of crazy opinions and you can't get offended if I insult you...I hate very few people, I often times just hate there ways.

Blog 008 "Lance Armstrong: saving the world from cancer one shotgun at a time"

FUN FACT: "There has been only one black serial killer in the history of man!"

hey hey, guess what? my necks all better! it suddenly went away after a long bike-ride and sitting awkwardly on a odd shaped chair. Tonight I played more video games than I think I ever have, thanks to me the virtual world has over 2000 new zombie, cop, and terrorist soldier corpses scattered throughout the blood-ridden and bullet riddled CGI streets. That awful smell is in the air again, black cultural steryotyping, religious upevil with social dominance, an inacceptence of anything not steryotypical to the high class of texas, yep looks like I'm headed back to Highland Park High School. the school with the slogan "Work Sets You Free." HPHS is as corrupt as the united states goverment and at the same time is as coo-coo as some third world country with some nonsensical agenda. Its a tiny example of what the world would be like if we let people with money and good looks rule the world. Our best film maker can't make films, his dad just buys him good cameras, the local band that everyone loves is just three blonde jonas brothers....I hate it there so much...I can here them saying all of it....the white kids saying the N word over and over, me asking them to stop and having them treat me like some idiot for that, our schools elected student officials cheating on tests and getting drunk every friday, a golden cross blazing on all of there chests with no true understanding of the ethics of there own religion but a harsh back-handed responce to anyone who would dare challenge there spiritual word....My gay friends crying in the cafetira beacause they where verbally abused by the tall, dark, and handsome football boys who couldn't give a rats ass for human decency if they where on there death bed...My school is a farm, a farm for corrupt vampire lawyers, cheating hypocrital congress men, models, talentless celebritys and cosmetic surgeons...it is hell...

save me

Blog 007 "Become Wrath David"

FUN FACT: "Did you know that Hippos are the animal responsible for the most human deaths?...For Real!"

REST IN PEACE BERNIE MAC, A actually friendly celebrity

After I saw my third favorite movie, "Se7en", not only did Brad Pitt earn my respect, but I was able to memorize the seven deadly sins by thinking of the victims in the film (If you havn't seen the film you will still understand the rest of the blog.) Now, without further adieu

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF FILM-MAKING

1. Gluttony 

Primary example: Star Wars, Cacoon II, Jaws.

Gluttony in film-making is the act of making to many sequels that are all terrible and are all high budget.  Ussualy the commiters of this sin are big film-company owners who just decide they want to make another billion-making sequel, and if the original cast, original writer, or the original director they will just replace them. Rarley does replacing everyone work (A rare examples are 28 weeks later, and Aliens which where great) But unplanned sequels are always really dumb, first off in action or sci-fi movies you have to ressurect the antagonist from the dead or just find a new bad guy. In romantic comedy unplanned sequels you will often find that now instead of the lead guy and gal falling in love now they've moved in together and they have to "Stay" in Love. I have nothing against sequels if they're planned. People who make a movie and leave everything open enough so that they may make enough money. Unplanned sequels as I already said are messy and never capture the creativity of the original.

2. Sloth

Primary Example: Spider Man, Speed Racer

The idiocy of a film with lazy mistakes. Film-wise this may in fact be the worst sin. These films where ussualy made because somone wants to make a three hour film with "Really cool" CGI. Films like these have scripts written in less time then the films length, they ussualy have big actors being paid huge sums of money to make a film where none of there actual talent is needed, lastly they throw in some huge director who probobly never even shows up on set. These films make billions in the box office and are praised as classics by the dumb public. No creativity is used, no talent, just green screen, lots and lots of green screen.

3. Pride 

Primary Example: M. Night, Russel Crowe

Films really can't have Pride, but the people who make them sure can. You'll find pride when a film comes out that sucks and the director tries to defend it with worthless defense. then it also comes with actors with too much (well, Guess) to apear in low-budget films or work with directors.

4. WRATH

Primary Example: Happy Feet

Films with this often times have a moral or political objective not at all hidden in there film. This sin can easily be seen when you compare the film "Wall-E" to the film "Happy Feet". Both movies are cute kids movies, both CGI and both have the same moral. Only difference is that Happy Feet tied you down and gave you chinese moral torture, it went on an excesive hour where it tried to make every kid in the audience cry with bordeom and make every single adult in the audience feel guilty. Wall-E had the exact same moral but it was just kind of there, wasnt shoved down your throat.

5. Lust

Primary Example: Don't Look Now

Lust is simple. Transformers, one of the 10 worst films ever made, the only reason teen boys I know liked it was for a simple reason "It had a hot girl in it". See this movie because Kristin Dunst' ass can be seen for one frame, see that movie because it has nippers in it, When I go to a movie I'm not looking for porn...I like to watch films with my father, sometimes with my younger cousins and I don't enjoy having to press scene skip. 

6. Envy

Primary Example: Countless number of films

Envy isn't frequent in big-budget movies, you ussualy find a Envy film hidden at the back of blockbuster. These are rip-off films, I once found a movie called "Alien Versus Hunter" a film about two alien breeds fighting, both looked like "Alien Versus Predator" except in this case its just low budget and made with actors who can't even show emotions in real life

7.GREED

Primary Example: I am Legend

Primarily Films that have too big of a budget and that in term ruins the film. In a low budget movies the special effetcs which are comprised of kitchen supplies often look 100 times more realisitic then the best CGI. Unknown actors who don't look like models but who can show true emotion can do better than actors who are super-sexy and are over-paid. Imagine my fourth favorite movie 28 Days later, the same script, except now replace Cillian Murphy with Will Smith, Replace Saleena with Britney Spears, add in some cheesy jokes, and then make every single zombie CGI...I have so much fury at the film "I am Legend". Will Smith can act as a action hero and a dynamite emotional actor, but was in comedy mode he we made this. Stuffed with uncreative sets, 10 minutes of shrek, some untimley jokes and lastly the super-fake zombies that looked so so so so so so so fake and you've ruined what coulda been a good film

did I make any sence just then....my neck is still killing me 

Blog 006 "Ouch times seven"

FUN FACT: "OOOOOOUUUUCHHHHCHCHCCHCHCH"

Fans of my blog, or at least frequent readers, will recall that yesterday I went to sleep on a cheap cheap cheap couch that was way to small to fit me (reason #6 I hate traveling) and then went to graduation where I just sat down for two hours, then went to a long lunch where I just sat down for 1 and a half hours and then lastly went got into the car and hey hey I just sat for two and half hours. Well this list of sitting turns out to be the very same ingridients to the magic potion known as "Make your neck hurt like hell". I am okay with stomache aches, head aches, being sick, feet falling asleep, burns, cuts, but nothing in this entire world will ever be able to trump the extreme pain of a neck or back being sore, injured or harmed. I am bed ridden. I can move my arms, very painfully I can sit up or sit down and walking is a bitch, My head is at a constant 90 degree angle to the right and I have nothing I can really do. This is unbearable and if it where perniment I think its the worst pain in exsistance. and I am not exagirating (but I am exagerating on how to spell the word) If I had the choice of having this neck pain or loosing both my legs I think I'd go for the legs. I'm immoble right now, I'm completly usless. If my grammar seems worse than usual its because it is. I am under lots of stress right now, having to deal with lots of immature teenagers or as I call them "Puberty Sacs". Then school begins in 2 weeks...I hate school...so so much

My last few blogs sure are short

Blog 005 "Secrets of the yeti"

No fun fact today because there was nothing FUN about today

Lets begin at the Very very beggining of the day, Midnight last night. I go to bed on a couch that couldn't fit me if I amputated my own legs. I then woke up at seven to go watch a graduation...so....so....so boring...

then a three hour drive home

and now...I sleep

I sleep hard 

Blog 004 "Oh the Terror"

FUN FACT 1: Did You know that in 1967 a 30 foot bat was found on an island off the coast of Colombia, and it was responsible for the deaths of nine local villagers!

FUN FACT 2: The previous statement is complete and absolute bull!

Don't have much to say today, I'm gonna travel 2 and a half hours in the car to visit my sisters. I hate roadtrips. Why? I can sit in one spot for a long time and just read or listen to music but whenever I have to sit with a large amount of people for too much time I get kinda wierded out...I guess I'm not really here today....I've had to deal with so much hatred in the past day, not towords me, but towords my sisters, and I guess that makes it my problem too...Oh yeah, I thought more about the zombie movie series, as stupid as they are, I might actually start writing some scripts...I'm buying an X-box with "earned money" and by 'earned' I mean spare change I have accumilated throughout the year and a honorable donation from my grandmother. I love my grandmother, she goes so strongly against the old person steryotype, loves black people, loves the gays, and so fun to talk to. I'm not ashamed to say that sometimes I will call my grandmother just to chat.

Blog 003 "Mi Casa su Casa bu-bu-bu-Baby!"

FUNFACT: The Beatles White Album became the white album because the Beatles where fighting too much to agree on a cover or apear in a photo-shoot together.

What in the world does the title of this blog mean? I don't really know, its a incorrectly spelt spanish phrase "Your house is my house" except said by the Rock n' roll clown...you know what....don't ask. Today I am here to talk to you about the filming. Back in my very very young days my mother bought a camera, thought it was mostly used to film birthdays, film Chirstmas, and make my mothers arm sore with its enourmous weight it was also used was singular time to film a collection of fairy tales with my sisters, yes I have sisters I just never mentioned them because they moved away. Anyways, I have no memory of this but when I watch the home movies where I play little bo peeps one sheep I can see it in my little eyes that I was crazy for film. I would spend the late days of child hood and my "Tween"  years writing god awful scripts about robots and talking about becoming a screen-writer, this of course led to a twelfth birthday gift, a digital camera. MY very very first film is a stop motion called "Slug Vs. Dino" it was not unlike "Itchy and Scratchy" or "Tom & Jerry". I think I still have a copy. Slug Vs. Dino would have two sequels before my sixth grade class recruited me to make a short film for a science project. This, my fourth film, would be called "ELECTRIC MONSTER" a clay-mation in which a small clay-mation monster stood in front of the camera, while I (with no editing software) would do the voice into the camera. It was a smash hit to the sixth graders and from that point on every school project was a short film featuring Eletric Monster, one included a cameo of his brother and sister, while in a latter one my friend, James Crafton, would voice "Shadow". I am rambling on now, no one really cares. Well, Then after about age 13 I stopped making film and spent all my time just day-dreaming about making big budget films about robots. I spent all this time until one day, 5 months ago, I was sent an email by the official "Cloverfield" website. The message described a "MAKE YOUR OWN CLOVERFIELD SHORT FILM AND WIN 3500$" I instantly got a plot together in my head and recruited Arlen Sinks and James Crafton to come out and run around with me while screaming (Cloverfield was Basically Godzilla except it was filmed the way The Blair Witch Project was) I got a plot and we spent an entire day filming this five minute movie. after we had filmed all the day scenes we had to wait for nightfall and in that time we filmed the short comedy  "Cloverfeld (also known as "It happened one Night")" my by best movie to date. "Cloverfield: The Second Day" was my film, it wasn't good, but it did give me lots of perspective on do's and don't of filming, I'll get into that later, though. I guess I should tell you about James Crafton and my sisters, eh?  My eldest sister, Jenny, older by seven years is a very strong person. She's getting a four-year degree in literature this thursday, she went and helped the needy in Africa (Which I would like to do one day) and later this month is moving to Spain to be a nanny (she is almost fluent in spanish) Yes, Jenny does everything, knows everything, Always has a good story to tell, always has someone nice to introduce you to, and has a good come-back to any insult. My Other Sister, Jackie, Older by five years. A soon to be proffesional stylist, she's not even out of beauty school and she's already climbing the rungs of the hair-business ladder.  Jackie is shy and has the best sence of humor. Once was a time she was the fattest of the family, and now as it is, she is the most beautiful of all the Davis's. Not that the others of the family are ugly, its just such a sucsess story, a real "Ugly Duckling" Tale. Jenny may have helped more people in bigger ways, But Jackie has a heart just as golden. I am very proud to have them as sisters.  James Crafton I met in the fifth grade and we hang out time to time. James is tall, a giant and might as well be a Calvin Cline model, he's a ladies man with all the right things to say at the right time. I think I'm only his friend because my "George Costanza"-esque ways and looks make him feel better about himself, I'm kidding...a little bit....I called him James in sixth and seventh grade, in eighth I called him Jay-Mez and his nickname spawned a second nickname, "The Mez." Last people I guess I should talk about is 

T H E - - - T - A - G - - - G R O U P

The tag room was (maybe still is) a strong gang of friends. We sat together for Lunch every single day and every friday night we caught a movie. We where close-knit, 7 or so "Always Members" and then 4 or so "Sometimes members". We made a movie together "The Delilah Footage" for the Cloverfield contest, but that is a story for another day. In fact the entire tale of the Tag room is a tale for another day.

Blog 002 "Me Continued"

FUN FACT: RUSSEL CROWE IS IMPERVIOUS TO BULLETS! (and is also a real jerk!)

Yes, I happened to Catch "L.A. Confidential" last night, it was okay I just thought it was funny how many times he got shot and didn't die. Anywho, my love for music was really all started by a deep seated love for the Queen greatest hits album, Queen really turned my on to music and even still today they are a big piece of my music heart. Later that Queen best of CD would become the Beatles "1" album, Starting three years ago I became a HUGE Beatles fan, (favorite album: The white album) I Gobbled up every book, poster, album, documentary that came my way (my walls and bookshelves are still littered with the memorobelia). Recently though, I'd say in the last seven months, I grew apart from the Beatles, I bought the "Lennon: Legend" album, still the best purchase of my life. I became very glad that The Beatles had broken up because the solo career of John Winston Lennon, and the love became more deeper then his music. Lennon became a guide on religion and ethics to me, I didnt agree with everything, he could go way overboard on some views, but songs like "Imagine" "God" "Give Peace a Chance" "Woman is the ****** of The World" really impacted me. I have cried while listening to "Mother" and "Jealous Guy". On the other spectrum, My other hero is the dastardly Quinton Tarrentino, who I can never spell the name of. Tarrentino is brilliant, crazy, dark and violent. An example of his brilliance is that he uses racism to make an anti racism message and he uses violence to make an anti-violence perspective (I think). The reason his films are so much more than films is because they are so impossible while at the same time so possible. "Kill Bill" swerved back and forth between boderline farce and then moments of such realism you'd think you where there. Characters in Tarrarentino Movies are much like that of which you'd find in a cheap sitcom, they are unique and each and every one of them is slightly heartless, although they don't talk like cheap sitcom characters, the dialouge of a Tarrentino film is something of its own field and cannot be compared to any other writer. Now, if I havn't bored you to death with the "Hero Talk" lets go ahead and get this list out of the way now

MY TOP 10 AS OF AUGUST FIFTH 2008

10. Garden State

9. Kill Bill (counting both volumes)

8. Brain Dead (A.K.A. Dead Alive) 

7. American Beauty

6. Once

5. True Romance

4. 28 Days Later

3. Se7en

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

1. PULP FICTION

There are two zombie movies listed above, If there's anything about me you need to know I LOVE ZOMBIES! They represent a phycological fear of being alone and being unwanted/hated  by society, it also represents fear of loved ones changing and our deep fear of that or any change. On days where I really really get bored in school or on a road trip I think about a movie series I'd love to make (not really though) about zombies. The first one would take place in 1950 and it would be about a rugged scientist in an foreign land facing a tribe infected with a zombie virus (It would be like Indiana Jones meets the Mummy). Then in the second film (taking place in like 1965), the scientist who has a teenage son and daughter faces the very same virus in his own home-town, the scientist dies along with the childrens mother (This one would be like Night of the Living Dead) In the third film, now we're in 1976, the two kids have become scientists and are working together, the Virus breaks out again but is contained in a small research facilty and a team is sent in to try and gather information (Like Resident Evil 1) then I have no clue what happens in 1980, but then in 1990 the whole damn world ends causa the virus, and in the one that takes place in 2000s is about people living underground and being happy with there complicated hard lives and the leader of them is the son of the scientist...

I'm not ever really going to write a script or anything, and no one would see these movies, but they are lots of fun to daydream about

BLOG 001 "THE BLOG HAS LANDED"

Good evening family, friends, well wishers and strangers who have stumbled across my blog. My name is Tommy Davis and with luck that name might be on the silver screen one day, maybe even the boob tube, perhaps the radios? Though we'll get to that later, like the pilot episode of a terrible sitcom Its my duty to introduce you to my life, personality and the montage of characters who are the supporting cast to this life of mine. Lets start by saying I live with my mom and dad who are the best parents anyone could ask for. My dad chased being a rockstar his entire childhood and wound up a hugley sucsesful lawyer, and not the vampire kind of lawyer, my dad does property law stuff, all very boring and he never has to lie or harm anyone. He used to ride a motorcycle, has a second degree black belt and an impressive 14 guitar collection, he has a great sence of humor and has been a guiding light in getting a gameplan set for flm and music. My Mother is a sweet thing, she's one half Marge Simpson and one half Dory from finding Nemo, That really covers her. Me and my mom spend a lot of time together, we mostly watch "The X-files" and murder mysteries while eating fried chicken or ben&jerrys. My best friend is a guy named Arlen Sinks, he may be the only person I really trust. He's cripplingly shy when it comes to strangers, but when he's around me or his family he's quick on his feet, witty and hilarious. We met when we where both two years old and we've grown up together, doing nothing really more than writing scripts, making up characters, and for the most part making wise-cracks at b-rate afternoon television. He can impersonate anyone. On to me. I hate few things and am generally a happy guy. I have few opinions worth fighting for and pretty much live by the motto "If its not going to ruin your day why fight for it?" I trust few people, and I'm not to big on the city I live in, I've always gotten along better with young adults, people aged 20-26 or so better then teenagers, teenagers in america are pithetic. I am openly a negative pessimist reguardless of my strong positive intentions. My heroes are John Lennon and Quinton Tarrantino.

Things I hate:

Racism

Sexism

Religion Fundementalism

Intollerance

and The Jonas Brothers

I concentrate 100% of my freetime on Music or Film. Honestly the choice of being a hollywood director or being a rockstar are about equal in my heart. Also the thought of being a director for a straight to DVD kids film with a budget of 10$ and writing songs for the said kids film are equal. I have made 6 short films, and have written 3 screenplays, also have 7 songs written and a demo CD only my dad will listen to coming out the end of this month. The biggest problem was I always needed a cast for my films and other musicians for my bands but I don't seem to have much of a voice...people blew me off and broke promises...The biggest problem with that being the dream of film takes the highest toll, I can make a demo CD without anyone behind me, I can't make a movie all by myself I need my friends dressed in stupid costumes half-assing the terrible lines I wrote for them. I will say this, Music is a lot easier make but a lot harder to sell, while Movies are a lot easier to sell but a hell of a lot harder to make.