Movies Galore

I've been watching a lot of movies/shows lately. Keeping pretty consistent.

In the past week or so Ive watched:

-Summer Heights High (had seen, but is never a bad choice!)
-Ninja Death I & II (part of our Kung Fu night)
-Synecdoche New York (saw in theaters, but I fall asleep to every night)
-Primer (Sundance 04 winner. Shot on $7000. Amazing film)
-Burn After Reading (Hadn't seen. Enjoyable. I dig Coen's humor.)
-The Graduate (Been wanting to see for years. Finally. Great great film!!)
-Milk (Powerful movie. Sean Penn is fantastic. Gus Van Sant is remarkable)
-Arrested Development (Been an idiot because id never seen an episode. Thats changed)
-Tiger Love (Top 10 most ridiculous films ive ever seen. Wow...)

This month I'll watch:

-Life Is Beautiful
-No Country for Old Men
-Trainspotting
-Be Kind Rewind
-Sunset Boulevard
-The Last King of Scotland
-Doubt

+ MORE! ha


I am excited. These are some of the movies Ive been wanting to see for awhile but just never had the chance to. I've also made a list of every film in AFI's top 100 that I haven't seen yet. Which includes about 50-60 films. So it'll take a little while, but i feel they are important to see

Give me 6 months.

Im also very excited today because my lady, Colleen, will be here tomorrow evening until sunday! woooooo!! pumped! We have been together over 2 years and have not lived in the same city once.
And over that two years I :

• worked in freelance in iowa
• produced, shot and edited a feature film
• moved to albuquerque, nm
• and moved to los angeles

All while she was :

• going to school full time
  
• went to europe for a summer
• graduated from college
• and moved across the state.

But in a month from now, she is moving out to California. To live together. We decided we wanted to move here in January and now we are!! Which is good good news. She will be out here a twice befre she drives out, for a few auditions. She is an amazing dancer. Expect to see some sweet videos of her dancing in a few months!
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Id like for you to check out the trailer to Jack Major's first feature film called CONTRARY EUPHORIA! He's a good friend of ours and is brilliant. Enjoy.

Thats about it!
Have a delightful day.
Ryan

Making Progress

Ive been busy getting settled in out here, and getting everything in order. When i first got here (2 weeks ago today) I set two goals for myself to achieve before over the weekend before Mike and Andrew arrived. One - Find a Job .. Two - Find a place to live .. See, i needed number one to get to number two..(because im consistent with my money situation of not having any)

Luckily, i got hired at the second place applied...Walgreens. Which helped us get into our sweet ass apartment..since none of us had a job moving out here. Its funny because, when i moved to Albuquerque last year, i did the same thing, and got hired at Walgreens after 2 days of being there...and never finished training because i got hired doing VFX work. So Im hoping a similar thing will happen this time around as well. haha. So we moved into our apartment over a week ago in North Hollywood. We love it. Its a really nice place...big windows all over, brandnew carpet/floors, appliances and bathrooms. DIG DIG DIG.

So know that we are settled in, and have a little income, Im focusing on getting some stuff done. Mike, Andrew and I just made a huge list of things we need to get together/make for The Stevie Wondershow DVD we plan to release this fall.
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A friend of mine edited a film (among other positions) called "The Last Hurrah" that had its world premiere a few days ago at the Dances With Film Festival in Hollywood. I was fortunate enough to be there for it, and i was not disappointed. Peep the strategy!


More info @ TheLastHurrahMovie.com

Its a very witty, charming and technically great film. Look for it!