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Alone With Loneliness:

don’t leave me all alone with loneliness
for she thrashes at my heart with what can only be the sharpest blade
my body is unscathed but i feel ceaseless pain
she makes my bed a bed of nails
how long can i bear her horrid caress
don’t leave me alone with loneliness tonight
it isn’t what we want
lets lynch the demon and walk away into the sunset
stop under the big blue moon, stars all a-twinkling
look into each others eyes and forget all the sadness we left behind
no more sorrow
no more loneliness
only bountiful togetherness
a feeling synonymous with happiness

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keep on breathing
reap all that is life

drown yourself in its majesty
and be suffocated by its agony

see the beauty in the darkness
perceive the ugliness of light

loose yourself in reveries
reveries of nice

experience the turning of the world
persevere when it stops

life is the pleasent nightmare.
life is the broken dream.

The Girl Who Defied the Laws of Physics and Made Me Float:

When I saw your face so full of glee,
The world, grim and dark, changed in a violent luminous blast.

My ocular bewilderment dissipated,
And I could see in such a splendid clarity,
The plane of my being, so drastically altered.

Your smile from your face, transcribed unto mine.

Your evident joy, filled my heart, coursed through my veins.

Your warmth, of which you radiate, was profoundly felt and tingled my body whole.

It was your brilliance that caused this extraordinary anomaly.
It was you that brightened the world,
Brought light to my day,
Made life worth living.

A Realm of Us:

My mind drifts to a far-off land,

where sadness and heartache bear no meaning,

where frowns are nothing more than upside down smiles,

where there are rainbows, sunshine, and never rain,

where everything is blissful and beauteous,

filled with an everlasting pleasure,

a place where you are by my side.

The Universe Is But A Foil Bag:

In a world of dismal existence, there is only never-ending sorrow and ever-lasting grief.

God weeps a storm cloud of apathy upon my head.

Only the Muse can brighten the day, with the light of inspiration.

But this woman with unmatched perpetual beauty, only comes to those with the complexion of perfection, her kind, not mine.

I cry, and I am filled with the fear that the tears will only add to the flooding rain and hasten my demise.

Then I ponder my life’s meaning, and I’m stricken with epiphany. I know what I truly am, and that is a potato chip, an inanimate object. I cannot think these thoughts nor feel these emotions. And this realization is a good thing; for my consumption is imminent, and if I were to be a conscious being it would suck the proverbial dick.

This would be my wishlist:

• To Be With Anyone Thar Can Supply Me With Happiness
• Teddy Scares: Series 2: Mundy Drudge
• NECA Cult Classics: Series 3: Dawn of the Dead Flyboy Zombie
• Safety Violation Helmet combining this and this
• DVD: The Twilight Zone (Entire Original Series Box Set)…expensive!
• DVD: Re-Animator
• DVD: Soylent Green
• DVD: American: Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore)
• DVD: American: Boy Eats Girl
• DVD: Zombie 3,4,5 Box Set
• DVD: Junk
• DVD: Return of the Living Dead
• DVD: Requiem For A Dream
• DVD: An American Werewolf In London
• DVD: The Crazies
• DVD: Martin
• DVD: Dead Alive (Braindead)
• DVD: Evil Dead
• DVD: The Fly (original)
• DVD: Return of the Fly (original)
• DVD: The Fly (remake)
• DVD: Return of the Fly (remake)
• DVD: I Was A Teenage Zombie
• DVD: Night of the Living Dead Millenium Edition (an upgrade)
• Since I will be in Las Vegas for a robotics competition, I’de like victory.
• Maul of America Board Game
• Chopping Maul: Maul of America Expansion
• Some Nice Speakers
• American Express Gift Card
• Money, of course.

First off, this post is bit more personal than all of my prior ones and I do apologize for this.
Poker was not fun last night! Everyone was arguing for either the purpose of further demonstrating their [false] superiority and proving themselves to be rich, arrogent, snotty assholes (*cough sam cough) or to blow off sophmoric (no pun intended) animosity and rage (*cough nolly). I am not saying that I wasn’t arguing, I was, but it was not with the same intention as the others. I will engage in an argument sometimes for the sole purpose of arguing. Arguing for the sake of arguing in combination with an open mind can be intellectually stimulating and a boost to your public speaking ability, but if done for any other reason, the opposite is accomplished. I do not hold grudges ,but I felt I needed to say that. Now, going back to the night’s discussion of religion: Aetheism and Religion Proper (nolly!) are equally illogical. I hold aethiest values but I am not an aethiast, and for good reasons might I add. There is no possible way to prove the existence of god and there is mutually no way to prove the non-existence of god. The only logical position to take on the subject matter is a neutral, agnostic one. So booooooya!

Show me proof of the existence of the devine and maybe I’ll believe it after I’ve studied it extensively and have reviewed my findings copiously.

-Me, Paulie

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I recentley read an article on Engadget entitled The Clicker: Apple’s real plan for iPod video?. I’m sorry to say Engadget, but some of your ideas are just wrong.

Apple definitely is not looking to control bittorrent. Under Engadget’s theory (my cynical interpretation atleast), Apple wants people to continue to pirate movies just as long as it’s with their codec. Not right! What Apple’s real motive here is to control video casting and IPTV. Currentley, video casts and IPTV show are offered in a variety of codecs. With the release of the new iPod, this is about to change. I’m going to go out and buy an iPod for the purpose of watching video casts and I’m sure that countless other are going to do the same.

The article never touched on the lack of fast-foward and rewind. I’ll explain this absence very simply; Apple doesn’t want you watching a full pirated movie on its iPod. It may prove to be tough to watch an entire film on your iPod when you don’t have enough battery life and can’t FF or RW.

There you have it, a few changes to Engadget’s article.

First of all, this interview soothed all of the qualms I had with Land of the Dead.
Second of all, my already venerate thoughts of Romero and his work now rush out my ears like a great flood.
Lastly, I’m totally psyched for the DVD (Oct 18th)!

On how having the unrated DVD affected shooting…

I felt like I got away with murder with the MPAA. I used some tricks to get some stuff into the R rating - literally walked zombies in front of a green screen so I could composite them onto the picture and take frames off some of the gore. I knew the DVD was coming but I didn’t change the film that much, or the intention of the film. The DVD’s a little harder, but not that much. I think what the fans are going to love are the extras. John Leguizamo shot a little film, the guys from Shaun of the Dead shot a little film while we were shooting the movie. I think that’s going to be the most fun.

On what was restored for the unrated version…

There were a few effects that Greg Nicotero did that I just didn’t try to get by the MPAA, I knew it wouldn’t happen. There’s a guy’s face gets ripped off, there’s a few things like that. There are some other effects that are in the film that are a little longer, you see them a little more clearly. I think it’s only five minutes longer, I think, and half of that is made up of a scene that I didn’t think worked as well as it might have. It’s a scene were Leguizamo, when he first comes into Fiddler’s Green, he goes into an apartment next door to Kaufman’s where a guy has hung himself. I didn’t think the effects came off that well, so we cut it out of the theatrical version. And of course it’s a little harder, there’s a little more gore. That’s not the important thing to me. I think the film worked as it was. I didn’t really have to change that much. I think the fans will get off on it, especially on the extras - even more so than the gore stuff.

On working with experienced and known actors…

I was a little more uptight going in, because I didn’t know some of these people. Simon Baker had shot a TV series in Pittsburgh, so we had some commonality there. Dennis Hopper - even though he’s sort of gone Republican, yes, Easy Rider wears golf pants, I’m not blowing his cover or anything, he wears them proudly - but we made our first films as directors right around the same time, so we had that commonality. I worked with Robert before, I’ve known Asia since she was three-feet tall. And nobody had an attitude, and let me tell you - this was a gruelling shoot, the toughest I’ve ever been on. Everybody came to work, man. It was great. There were no problems, it was just like old times. I didn’t sense any difference.

On making the film after 9/11 and Iraq…

I had this conceit, I did the first one in the 60s, the second one in the 70s, third one in the 80s and I wanted to do the 90s and I missed it, because my partner and I got involved in all these Hollywood development deals. No movies got made, I made a lot of bucks but never made a movie and in frustration I fled and made a little movie called Bruiser that nobody’s ever seen. As soon as I finished that, I went home and started to write a draft of this - it was called Dead Reckoning. I sent it around, literally days before 9/11 happened and then, of course, everybody wanted to make soft ice-cream movies. So I put it back in the drawer and came back to it after the (Iraq) invasion, and I realised “Wow, this is a lot stronger”. And it’s funny, you don’t have to change that much. After you see all that stuff on CNN it just resonated that much more to have this armoured vehicle going through a small village and wondering why everyone is so pissed off at us. I threw in some cheesy dialogue, like “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” and we made the tower darker. It’s not really post 9/11, it’s about 9/11. The idea of feeling protected by water, until the water gets breached. All of that. I’m not Michael Moore, I’m not trying to raise hell. I like the idea of these things being snapshots of when they were made.

On the political message of the movie…

I’m not trying to preach or anything. I think I was just trying to make this film dark and show some of the paranoia that’s going on today, and the mistrust. I don’t even know if it’s a wake up call. I don’t know if it’ll have that kind of impact. I don’t think anybody would notice it. I could show this movie at the White House and George Bush would say “that’s a piece of shit” and never notice that it was maybe a little bit about him. It’s a thrill ride, but I don’t want to do things that are shallow in that way. If I’m in the shower and I’m trying to dream up an idea for a new movie, I don’t think of guys in hockey masks with knives.

On using non-practical effects…

First of all, I’m a Harryhausen fan. I wanted - and Nicotero wanted - to do everything practically. There was really only one effect that we couldn’t pull off - the headless priest where the guy’s head is hanging off a little cord on his neck. We had to do that CG, which caught us by surprise at the end of production. We even tried to reshoot it, but the puppet just didn’t look real enough. We only really used CG when we needed more zombies than we could afford to hire, we had to tile in zombies as they were coming out of the river or up the street. And we had to CG the building, as that was fictional. None of the effects were CG.

On the character of Big Daddy…

In my mind the character of Bub in Day of the Dead was more advanced than Big Daddy in Land of the Dead. I mean, the cat almost spoke! I didn’t think it was a great leap. It’s amazing, you know, when people say “Wow, all of a sudden your zombies have character and organisation” and I think Bub was the perfect introduction to that. Big Daddy is, I think, maybe a little dumber than Bub was even. But he’s a strong presence. I tried to indicate by making him African American that I was switching allegiances and we should like this guy. He just has star quality. Where Bub was imitating the scientist who was trying to “tame” him, now other zombies are imitating Big Daddy’s actions and he’s almost teaching them and that makes them a bit more dangerous. And I’m sort of marching down that road - if you leave this stuff alone, if you don’t address it, it’s going to snap up and take over you. It’s like the war against terror - who’s going to ever win that war? Give me a break. Not a chance.

On a Land of the Dead sequel…

There’s nothing directly in the works. I thought for a while that, this being a big studio release, if it made a lot of money I might have to make a sequel quickly. Which I didn’t really want to do, because these have been so far apart and I like the idea that they reflect certain decades. So I sort of left it open in two ways, if I need to make a sequel quickly I could either follow the truck or follow Big Daddy and just continue the same story. At the same time, there’s no way to end this, right, except for some sort of détente. You stop eating me, and I’ll stop shooting at you. So I tried to wink at that at the end, when Riley says “They’re just looking for a place to go, same as us”. So if this is the last one, if I don’t live long enough to make another one, then I’m content.

Taken from Creature Corner.

check out these paintings I made:

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And this crayon sketch:

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