Brian Flemming's Weblog about me   |   email me 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. B L O G R O L L FILMMAKING: Cinema Minima Filmmaker HD for Indies indieWIRE Blogs Hollywood Liberation Army The Movie Marketing Blog FREE CULTURE: Creative Commons Copyfight EFF Deep Links Freedom to Tinker Lawrence Lessig POLITICS: Atrios Daily Howler Orcinus The Raw Story Talking Points Memo OTHER FAVORITES: Boing Boing GreenCine Daily Nora Murphy Pharyngula J O I N Original text in this weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License A R C H I V E S March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 powered by

« March 2004 | HOME | May 2004 » April 2004 One year ago Is it possible to be more wrong? April 30, 2004 Get your RSS on Another big announcement coming. Don't know exactly when. Soon. Ish. But to reap the benefits of it, you'll need to be up to speed with a news reader or aggregator. April 30, 2004 Last chance Today's your last chance to click on that ad over there for Leonore H. Dvorkin's novel Apart from You. Just saying. (If you're reading this too late, click here.)... April 30, 2004 Google reports, you decide Google News accidentally lets the secret out. April 30, 2004 Abu Ghraib "The prison where the abuses are alleged to have taken place was a notorious torture center during the Saddam Hussein era." The more things change... April 29, 2004 iTunes 4.5: Now with 30% less freedom! Those songs you bought at Apple's iTunes Music Store sure are depreciating fast. Hope you didn't think those rights you had were permanent or anything. April 29, 2004 Jessica Dee tests positive for HIV Jessica Dee has HIV partly because the general squeamishness people have about discussing porn means that the main people who talk about it are right-wing zealots (who don't care about the sinners who perform in it) and porn producers (who have a financial incentive not to care about the people who perform in it). If you're wondering why I keep talking about this porn crisis on my blog (hi, Mom!), that's why. April 29, 2004 Walter Murch on film editing Murch has discovered some secrets about the art of filmmaking, and, to his credit, he is not only willing to share them, but also, with an evangelist's glee, he wants to share them. When he spoke to the FCP group, we didn't want to let him go, and he answered questions until our hosts kicked us out, giving answers that had every editor in the room taking notes, mentally or physically. Here's a slide show with captions. April 29, 2004 QUICKTIME MOVIE: "Trump Fires Bush" The "Trump Fires Bush" site needs help hosting this funny movie download, so here it is: Trump Fires Bush. April 28, 2004 Filmmaking blogs are the new black Now Mike Monello, one of the "Haxan Five" who made The Blair Witch Project, has a blog. He jumps into a long-running discussion about what an "independent film" really is. Yeah, yeah, everyone talks about it all the time--but that's because there's no good answer. April 28, 2004 Indie film box office by the numbers If you want to delve deep into the details of how much money independent movies are making in theatrical release, indieWIRE publisher Brian Clark has some good pointers on how to use indieWIRE's vast database. April 28, 2004 Comments disabled Had to disable comments, as Haloscan, the comments system I use, was causing pages not to load. UPDATE: I guess the server is having trouble. Growing pains at Haloscan. Too successful for its own good. I'll be keeping comments disabled... April 28, 2004 Evidence of absence: George W. Bush and the Air National Guard This AWOL issue just won't go away. Because there is clearly a cover-up still happening. "All the records" means "all the records." It's that simple. And the president has not released all the records. April 27, 2004 "Super Size Me" by Morgan Spurlock "Why are Americans so fat? Find out in Super Size Me, a tongue in-cheek - and burger in hand -- look at the legal, financial and physical costs of America's hunger for fast food." McDonald's does not want you to see this movie. April 27, 2004 You may also be interested in these items... If you are interested in Nothing So Strange, Amazon.com recommends the following items, you pervert. April 27, 2004 David Bowie lets fans bootleg his songs David Bowie gets it. April 27, 2004 We're Number Twenty-Five! We're Number Twenty-Five! As soon as we crack the Top Ten, everybody gets a free beer. Tell your friends. April 27, 2004 A riddle "A woman goes to her mother's funeral. There, she meets a man. They go out afterwards and have an amazing evening together. She falls in love with him..." April 27, 2004 Todd Haynes' "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" The 1987 movie that the director of Poison and Far from Heaven illegally made using Barbie dolls as his illegal cast is now available illegally for the low low price of free. April 27, 2004 Gabba gabba nay Another film you can't see. "OVER the last 15 months, End of the Century, a documentary about punk rock's founding fathers, the Ramones, has been shown at major film festivals in New York, Toronto and Berlin." April 26, 2004 Getting started with XML, RSS, newsreaders, etc. How can you experience Brian Flemming's Weblog? RSS, Kinja, Yahoo!, AvantGo--you name it, BFW now has it. What is RSS? What is XML? What's a Kinja? Here's a rundown on the non-web-browser ways you can use Brian Flemming's Weblog... April 26, 2004 "Nothing So Strange" DVD now at Amazon.com A big day for Nothing So Strange. April 26, 2004 Larry Flynt: Move along, nothing to see here The sex workers who are currently so ill-treated in his industry do matter. Instead of fighting the inevitable, Larry Flynt should be using his position in the industry to fight for them. April 24, 2004 Changes here at the blog -- please comment Any comments about the changes? Also, does anybody reading this use the RSS/XML (like I know the difference) feed to read the blog? Any comments on that would be appreciated. April 24, 2004 Cinema Minima is hiring The fast-growing indie-film weblog needs festival correspondents. "Cover what matters to you. Express your own point of view." April 24, 2004 My apartment looks like this right now PHOTO. Looks like I just moved in, doesn't it? I didn't. That's the sad thing. April 23, 2004 Baseball blogging blues Why are so many of my favorite bloggers writing about baseball? It's soooooo boring. April 23, 2004 Get yer tin foil hats It is the reality. April 23, 2004 Alexa toolbar: Evil? And, by association, am I therefore evil, too? April 22, 2004 Out of sight, out of mind Kevin Drum: "Hiding the pictures just makes it look like the administration is ashamed of its war." April 22, 2004 The fun begins Tupperware is popular with Brian Flemming's Weblog readers. April 22, 2004 Nielsen Media Research telephone survey "I don't watch TV." April 22, 2004 Daily News to porn industry: "Clean it up" "Critics of health regulations claim that forcing standards will run some productions out of town. Good." April 22, 2004 Management vs. labor At least a legal battle would force producers to state explicitly that they feel their sex workers have no rights. April 21, 2004 Helping Slumdance for free (and not) So, okay, you don't want to buy a Blogad. But, still, you ask, How can I help out Slumdance? April 21, 2004 Advertise here Entry level is only 35 bucks. Advertise your book, CD, website, religion, self, whatever. April 21, 2004 Improving your life through bad movies What is Subliminal Cinema? April 21, 2004 "Employer-employee issue" "You couldn't imagine a construction company sending a person to a work site without a hard hat, and nor should we think of someone in an adult-film industry production company working without a condom." April 20, 2004 Our Christian in chief If they don't have souls, they aren't really human, are they? April 20, 2004 Copyright laws: "The killing fields of culture" If you don't know Jed Horowitz's chilling story, there's a good and succinct write-up by J.D. Lasica. April 20, 2004 HD for Indies on a roll Mike Curtis of HD for Indies continues to blog up a storm from the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. April 20, 2004 Lulu JD blogs about Lulu Press. April 20, 2004 Regulating porn Taco Bell cannot employ a person without giving that person a safe work environment that can be inspected without notice at any time by the state. The state also tells Taco Bell that there are certain things it cannot even ask an employee to do (to work without breaks, for just one example). The question of whether the state of California should be allowed to tell a business what it can and can't ask of employees has already been answered. The state already does just that. April 19, 2004 Tales of self-distribution It ain't easy to self-distribute a film, and I admire anyone who does it. April 19, 2004 If you read just one story on Lara Roxx... "Lara Roxx: 'I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world.'" April 19, 2004 Morality in Media, Robert W. Peters Does anybody believe these moralists are interested in anything but asserting their own superiority? April 19, 2004 Government to mandate condom use in porn? Dr. Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, said regulations won't drive "the big boys" underground. April 19, 2004 Porn matters The pornographer's right to expression doesn't rank very high on the average person's list of priorities (even if buying the latest porn DVD does). But pornographers' rights do matter. April 18, 2004 Digital filmmaking roundup Imagine being able to make a feature film in HD with just a $3500 camera and a Mac. April 18, 2004 Lara Roxx story For the benefit of those arriving at this site from search engines, here is a direct link to the main article you probably want to see on Lara Roxx. Also: LATEST POSTS... April 17, 2004 WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER VIDEO: "Mistakes were made" The Democratic National Committee has some answers for George W. Bush. April 16, 2004 Sex worker story Check out a well-written tale by Pagan in her great blog Peep Show Stories: "It was a slow day at the dungeon; I was feeling a little sluggish--definitely not prepared for what was about to unfold." April 16, 2004 Let them eat HIV: Who failed Lara Roxx? Lara Roxx, who is too young to legally drink in a bar, has HIV not just because she participated in a dangerous sex act. She also has HIV because there was nobody to stop the producers from dangling money and other inducements in front of this young woman to get her to take that risk. It's important for porn to be legal. The government has no business outlawing sex or sexual fantasy. But this principle is not so sacred that we need to allow an industry to exploit and endanger its workers. There's no fundamental right to express HIV. There's no right to pay someone to play Russian roulette for your entertainment. April 16, 2004 Coming soon Pictures coming soon. Ish.... April 15, 2004 Our naked emperor Google News thinks Bush might have been drunk at his news conference. April 14, 2004 The Book Game Pick up the nearest book. Open it to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. April 13, 2004 Michael Chabon Two things you can always count on humans to fear: Their own children, and their own imaginations. April 13, 2004 Mmm...bake sale "On Saturday, April 17, MoveOn PAC will hold the world's largest bake sale." April 12, 2004 Movies and drugs The best real drug trip I ever had was in the California desert the night we finished principal photography on my first feature film, Hang Your Dog in the Wind. A bunch of us decided that the best way to mark the occasion was to drop acid and spend the night together on the large trampoline that was part of the desert set. So that's what we did. April 11, 2004 High definition, low budget There's little question that at some point HD is going to be as affordable and accessible to independent filmmakers as DV is right now. It's just a matter of when. April 11, 2004 "Killer of Sheep" "Despite the praise and honors, Killer of Sheep never found its way into theatrical release." April 11, 2004 Jew Fighting anti-Semitism, one search result at a time. April 10, 2004 Operation Ignore This chapter from Al Franken's book is online. Good reading. April 10, 2004 Amazon screenshot: Amazon recommends some strange items. April 09, 2004 The $14 Steady-Cam Build your own "steady-cam" (aka Steadicam) for only $14. April 09, 2004 Presidential Daily Briefing Using the same inside sources I have previously employed, I have managed to get my hands on that August 6 presidential daily briefing. April 09, 2004 ClearPlay DVD player It's a very exciting area of technology. Members of the Directors Guild of America are embarrassing themselves by reacting to it with such fear and hysteria. April 08, 2004 Walt Disney creativity It's probably not much of a stretch to say that the cartoon character we know as Mickey Mouse was born one Sunday in April 1900... April 08, 2004 Blog + Sex = BlogSex Two great things that go great together. April 08, 2004 What would Jesus blog? "I really think that if Jesus were around today, he would have a blog." I don't disagree. But WWJB? April 07, 2004 Sexiest vegetarians alive PETA's Tofutti cuties. April 05, 2004 Save Dr. Menlo! Dr. Menlo has launched a new site called gimmicky.org: Timelock: if by April 1st, 2005--one year from the formal launch of this site--I don’t sell a book, script, ten short stories, get a play produced or get a decent job... April 05, 2004 Conservatives for Kerry They say: Conservatives have historically stood as guardians of America's moral heritage, civic standards and national resources. Recently, however, this proud tradition has been sullied by an administration that uses the word "conservative" but betrays fundamental conservative principles. We have... April 02, 2004 Daylight Do you know it starts getting light around 5 a.m.? I had no idea. What a waste. April 02, 2004 Blogger gossip Utter Wonder's c monks has the dirt on bloggers. For example, did you know that Atrios likes sweater vests and is a "Panda nut"? True. And Wonkette "appreciates a good ear probe during sex." And Lawrence Lessig "wants to get... April 01, 2004 Heart of the Beholder I can't say the animated teaser trailer makes it look very good, but the story behind the feature film Heart of the Beholder is nonetheless interesting. Mike and Diane Howard (not their real names, but the events are apparently based... April 01, 2004 Film Threat Jack Valenti takes on evil IMAX! Members of the Academy front office have said that for over six months Valenti has lobbied extensively for their legal advisors to scour law books to find a reason to go after IMAX, but... April 01, 2004

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