Wherein I Begin My Blog

Yes, I've decided to start a blog. Yes, I know. A blog. Who can stand it? Let's just accept this is happening and move on.

Why now, you ask?

Is it because I'm a reverse hipster and like things way after they're cool?
No, although I'm intrigued by the concept.¹
Is it because I found some secret method of making money off of sharing my useless thoughts?
No. Even if I had, would I really tell you? ²
Is it because I think that you, the humble reader, were dying to read what I have to say?
Well you are asking a lot of questions about me, so maybe. ³

The reason I've decided to start a blog is because I had no idea what to do with this picture:

It was the end of the day, I still had on my black eye make-up and thought, "Surely I have to take a picture of myself like this". And after quoting "Airplane" to myself, I did. So I found myself stuck with the problem of what to do with this picture. Facebook picture? Maybe.⁴ Then I thought, while not an actual black eye, the events leading to this are somewhat unusual. Perhaps I can justify forcing this onto to internet. ⁵

So here we go.

Today I was at, what I can only hope was, the world's first Nickel Fight. What's a nickel fight?⁶ My friend, Sam Vestey, and I are working on a video for an advertising competition where companies decide to pay random nobodies on the internet to make web-ads instead of paying real people money to ad agencies. The central conceit of our ad is "Imagine what we could do with all those nickels". The logical jump we make is underground street fighting with nickels as the primary weapon. Sound hilarious?⁷ We had an awesome band of extras⁸ as spectators at the fight between Sam and myself. It was quite the experience, and for our first stab at filming something like this I feel pretty good about it. We need to film a few other scenes for the ad, then edit it all together, so we'll see where we end up. I'll post a link here once it's uploaded.

True there's very little dialogue, and it's the shortest filmed project I've ever been involved with, but it feels good to take something from concept to finished project. It helps not having to build the gates of Hell, or ancient Rome. Cuts down on production costs.


Now here's my random thoughts from the night:
--Even if you don't know who he is, Spaceman Boone sounds awesome.
--ABC Family played "The Santa Clause" right into "The Santa Clause 3". Nothing missing there. Also, holy shit, Alan Arkin is in "The Santa Clause 3".
--Clark Griswald's boss from "Christmas Vacation" is the Mayor from "Groundhog's Day". Does he only act for holiday based films?
--Why is it okay to show topless female babies on tv? And why is the thought of putting them in a baby bikini top so much more wors?



¹For those of you playing along at home thinking about trying being a reverse hipster, try reading "The Da Vinci Code".
²No.
³Also that should really have been "read what I have to write". Shame on you.
⁴If I'd been more decisive on this you wouldn't be reading so many footnotes.
⁵Which as we know has the highest quality standards for its content.
⁶Seriously, you need to cool it with these questions.
⁷Rhetorical. Of course it does.
⁸Alex Lefeld, Emily Dorrian, Jessica Rigsby, Cole Deitch, Jack Miller, Sarah Gehring, and Michael Galusick.