Mirajeff, I know you'll read this. I write you some stuff about the show I work on, and I got some more gossip! I saw a certain person expose himself to everyone in attendance at his or her birthday last week!

write me back, brother!

it's not too risque a story, just people discussing balls and cisco adler and then deciding to compare balls...all while I'm setting up my camera! I didn't have any batteries in it anyway, but I still wouldn't have shot...balls are not nice to look at in HD...

I've said it once and I'll say it again - Project Greenlight is how you make a show like this. Let's just give the win to Zack and get Project Greenlight 4 into production. Man, PGL 3 had me hooked from start to finish. Even though the finished 'Feast' film was a bit fo a mess, the process of getting there has so fantastic.

in other words: a flamer. he just wants attention, so like you would with a toddler, just ignore him.

but do google him...for his "greatest shits"...pretty funny stuff, some of the things he's claimed. the best is that conservatives championed the civil rights movement while the liberals did nothing. that one was particularly insane.

as for turning down the reality TV gig, I would have been shooting camera, and also doing some editing on B-Roll...so yeah, I might have been working 60 hours a week. but more importantly, it was a shitty job. principles aside, I wouldn't have any free time or flexibility to work on any productions that I was actually excited about.

you can call me a kid if you like, I don't care. I'm 27, I'm doing fine here in LA. I'm working a lot, networking, and I've got exciting stuff lined up. I just bought an HVX200, and I'm going to be shooting an indie crime film in Mexico in July and August with that camera, and later in the year, I'm going to be working on more stuff around LA. I'm working with an indie film collaborative here as well, shooting camera on a TV show, and doing freelance work for a PR firm shooting red carpet events.

if that translates to you as "going nowhere fast", then so be it. everything else you say is nonsensical, so why should your uninforned, misguided estimation of my career be any different?

bottom line, you're still just a crazy guy that has to make ludicrous statements just to get attention. so let's have some more. honestly, even if I find it annoying when you try to make fun of my life, when you don't even know me...I actually don't mind your senseless rantings about film. it's honestly entertaining. Spielberg's a hack? I mean come on...you're either a complete idiot, or you're jsut flaming. if it's the former, I wish you luck. if it's the latter, kudos to you for keeping the shtick up for so long.

flame on, brother...flame on...

I think last week's group, on the whole, were much better than this week's crop of movies. Marty Martin's was nothing more than his attempt to copy Tony Scott's style. And it was a poor attempt at that.

Kenny should be gone. Half the time I tought I was watching a music video, the other half I thought it was a beer commercial. Perhaps if he had gone to film school he would have gotten films like this out of his system. Maybe he is wrong: maybe you do need to go to film school to be a director. I think he could have a future in music videos and TV ads, but not in Hollywood making commercial films.

Anyways, this show is really starting to piss me of. The judges are useless; they should have chewed the shit outa Kenny but instead they had to make sure they don't lose future viewers (for this show or their independent projects) by insulting their favorite "film maker." Carrie's odd aside about the hostess having a crush on Kenny made me want to vomit just a tad. Only thing these "film makers" are learning is how to tool it up in Hollywood.

But I think the major problem is that the judges assume since the contestants are there they must be good instead of having them prove themselves every week. Even American Idol doesn't assume talent until proven innocent.

you're the same as a lot of confused TB'ers who love to spout off, but have no idea how life actually works in the industry. I'm new at it myself, but at least I'm here, I cna claim some level of experience. I don't counsel people on skydiving, since I have never done it and know nothing about it. but that is basically what you're doing.

you're implication is that, at 27, having been in LA for less than 2 months, I should be making groundbreaking, jaw-dropping masterpieces? and if not, I can't claim to be on the right track with my career? that is so ignorant, it almost makes your civil rights/conservatives speech seem halfway logical.

I turned down a shit job that would just be shoveling reality TV shit for a year or more. an indie crime film in mexico is a nice happy medium between making great films (which hopefully I will do one day), and reality TV.

bottom line, as much as our opinions differ, and as much as some of the senseless things you say make you look foolish, nothing you say makes you look dumber that when you deride me and my career for reasons that are so inane and illogical, I can't imagine you actually believe them. I wouldn't actually believe you truly subscribe to any of your opinions, some of them are so outlandish and illogical, except for the fact that you're so smarmy and self-righteous, you bring it back into the realm of believability.

by the way, I'm trying to get on a movie starting in September that's going to be edited by Julie Janata, whom I meet through one of my internships here last month. she saw a few shorts I had made, and I reccomended a book to her that she ended up loving, and she said she would reccomend me as an AC on a new project. do you know her? she worked as an editor with Micheal Mann on Heat...

does that get me a pass, you asshat?

tell me more about your position in the inddustry, that should push me one way or the other...

I ask again (even though the TB is no longer on the front page) what do YOU do, that gives you such lofty insight into my career?

I'm sorry you're so disenchanted with Hollywood. I'm not very eager to get involved with it, I've been trying to allign myself with more colborative independent filmmaking organizations liek the filmmaker's alliance, just because they seem to be more devoted to actual quality than guaranteed money return. (or, ANY money return, in some cases).

but your disillusionment is yours, brother. you can't assume that someone who comes along is necessarily a hack, just because you've had a rotten experience in the system.

it just seems petty. and considering, as you say, you've given up on even trying to squeeze quality out of the system, well, it seems overly petty to begrudge me my shot.