Brian Flemming's Weblog
W H A T ' S G O I N G O N
My most recent film, The God Who Wasn't There, is available on DVD at the official site and elsewhere.
Bat Boy: The Musical is currently being staged in productions of various sizes around the world. A movie adaptation directed by John Landis is in development, with no casting announced or shooting date set.
My next feature film, Danielle, remains in development.
Bill Gates is still dead.
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Nora Murphy
Pharyngula
J O I N
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March 26, 2004
Nashville photos
I didn't take many photos, but here they are.
March 26, 2004
'Corporate terrorists'
One organization is part of an industry that painfully mutilates chickens soon after they are born, forces chickens to live their entire lives in misery and then scalds the birds in their final, conscious moments of life. Another organization points...
March 25, 2004
Free Culture is free
Wow. Lawrence Lessig reveals on his blog that his book Free Culture is available as a free online download at the book's official site. (You can also buy the paper version today.)...
March 25, 2004
Hi, Vanderbilt folks
If you are here because you attended the Nothing So Strange screening at Vanderbilt University and are interested in the links I mentioned, here they are: "Anatomy of a Fake" The mini-doc I mentioned about our shoot at the Democratic...
March 24, 2004
Blogging from the airport
I am blogging from LAX. I just wanted to say that....
March 24, 2004
Good times
Creative Commons' Glenn Otis Brown relates a hilarious scene from South by Southwest: Grandmaster Flash cut the music and prepared the crowd for some call-and-response. It was old-school audience participation time. He'd play a hook, then cut the music, and...
March 24, 2004
Banned Music
Downhill Battle, the folks who brought you Grey Tuesday, are launching bannedmusic.org today. Bannedmusic.org is a peer-to-peer collaboration that makes it impossible for the major record labels to ban or censor musical works. When record labels send legal threats to...
March 24, 2004
Reminder
Nothing So Strange screens tomorrow at 6 p.m. at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. I will be there to lecture on the theme "Ideas, Images, Internet: Who Owns What?" (the theme of a series of talks hosted by Vanderbilt) and to...
March 23, 2004
New dog!
L.A. artist and fellow Slumdance blogger Nora Murphy has posted a new dog painting. Nora also has a new real dog. You can help her name him....
March 22, 2004
Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke
So straight to the top of my wish list goes Against All Enemies by former counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke. From a transcript of the "60 Minutes" interview (posted by Sadly, No!): CLARKE: Well I kept thinking of the words...
March 22, 2004
'Someone's going to get hurt'
David Niewert writes about successful right-wing interference in a peaceful anti-war protest in Fresno, and warns: So expect to see a lot more of these kinds of open provocations this coming year: Bush supporters invading and disrupting Kerry rallies; threats...
March 21, 2004
Is 99% false a lie?
March 21, 2004
Flash mob alert!
March 21, 2004
'Nothing So Strange' at Vanderbilt University
Last time I was in Nashville I danced the two-step and got slapped in the face by a woman at a bar. The two events were related.
March 19, 2004
Jesus, bloody Jesus
So I managed to see that movie about those horrible Jews who killed the Savior of Mankind. Actually, I felt a bit sorry for the Jews while watching them instigate the greatest crime in history. While Mel Gibson chose to focus at length on poor, tortured Pilate and his impossible situation--damned if he does damn Jesus, damned if he doesn't--I tried to fill in the blanks a little and imagine the situation the Jews were in.March 19, 2004
Not much time to blog
So I'll just quote from one of the funniest Josh Marshall entries I have read in a while: I've always been strict about keeping four-letter words off this site. So I apologize for the graphic nature of this analogy. But...
March 17, 2004
'Dollar' Bill Lockyer
I got to do a teeny bit of reporting today at LA.com, following up on Xeni Jardin's excellent Wired News scoop about the apparently cozy relationship between California's attorney general and the Motion Picture Association of America. I can't imagine...
March 15, 2004
Human Reliability Program
Some military researchers and a former Texas Guard lieutenant colonel believe the stringent regulations -- known as the Human Reliability Program -- may have been invoked to stop Bush from flying Texas Air National Guard jets in 1972.
March 15, 2004
It is as it was
It appears Brian Flemming's Weblog has now been re-created on the new host pretty much as it was on the old one. I lost a few entries between March 4 and today, but they were mostly about how I was...
March 13, 2004
'Bush Takes Aim at My American Family'
If you read just one article about same-sex marriage......
March 04, 2004
Are you really my friend if you don't read my blog?
When friends ask me, "So, what's going on?" I assume they mean, "What's going on except what I already know about from reading your blog, which I do every day?" But, no, sometimes they actually mean, "What's going on?" As in, "What's going on that you already wrote about on your blog but I want you to take the time to tell me about because I can't be bothered to visit your little area of the internet?"
March 04, 2004
Kooky Dan
Wha--? That was my reaction upon going to playwright Dan Trujillo's blog today. Usually said blog is called "Venal Scene" and contains either a clever scene about current events (yeah, Dan actually writes) or some news about some staging...
March 02, 2004
Creative Commons "Get Creative!" contest winners announced
Creative Commons has chosen the winners of their "Get Creative!" contest. See them right here. The first-place winner, a punchy two-minute mix of ephemeral Prelinger Archives footage and motion graphics called "Building on the Past" by Justin Cone, is way...
March 01, 2004