BBC News - Bloom plans Sarajevo siege film:

Pirates of the Caribbean actor Orlando Bloom has announced plans to co-produce and appear in a film about the siege of Sarajevo of the early 1990s.

Speaking in the city earlier this week, the 31-year-old said he hoped the film would be made in the Bosnian capital.

The film will be based on Fools Rush In, US writer Bill Carter's memoir of living in the city during the siege.

"I read the script and the very human story at the very core of this film spoke to me very clearly," said Bloom.

The actor, who made his West End debut in the play In Celebration last year, will not be playing Carter in the proposed drama.

Shortly before leaving for Sarajevo I got an email from a friend of Bill Carter, and about one day before departing got an email from Bill himself. They had found me via a blog post I had written about his film, Miss Sarajevo (if permalinks were working on my old blog I could point to the relevant posts...I think I blogged about the email as well). Because I was a musician, he cautiously gave me contact information for his best friend in Sarajevo, a blues musician who was featured in the film. Like as with most of the Bosnians I met there, I was welcomed with weary smiles, drinks, and smokes. It was the perfect introduction, however, and allowed me instant access to the music scene there. Sarajevo is such a small town, it is easy to meet people and nearly impossible to understand them or get them to open up. Old habits, especially those developed during wartime, are hard to overcome.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

I might be a little late on this one, but it is so good I had to share.

The HopeShow

on YouTube

...I'd be much obliged if you spread the word...series starts next Monday...

"Well that's way too easy. What else?"

The reason I don't get SO up in arms (like I did yesterday) about when TV and film industry blowhards do the suing for free publicity thing is because Google feels like the really big alpha dog that's going to protect our tribe from danger. Google needs to get into the online music delivery business. The benevolent dictator thing with Google came up last night. I heart Goog so much.

This video gets better as it goes...



(...like, "If I had known that being a jerk to fans made that kind of money, I would have spit on each and every one of you." and "And although 'drunk falling down the stairs' is normally attributed to Ted Kennedy, he nor Viacom actually own the rights.")

It's just that choice is so powerful.

We can choose to put our hearts aside. We've let them choose for themselves for too long, perhaps. We can give them a room upstairs, slip bread and water under the door. Maybe a book. Maybe a trashy gossip magazine.

We can choose to behave. Our mouths forming words, sentences filled with more lies than any we have ever dared breathe. "How are you?" "Good."

And we will, if it be your will. Goddess of this land, director of your creation. We are the people of Her pasture and the sheep of Her hand.

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every one of these hillmancurtis video's i've watched so far have been really good.

surely i posted this before

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/ and kind souls created an RSS feed

also: http://www.bike-films.com/trailer/trailer.html (anyone thinking themselves beyond bike geekiness should watch this) and this: http://www.mashsf.com/

I have no time, quite literally. But last night was quite good. Got to hang out with David Hopkins, Who the $#%& is Jackson Pollock? was an excellent film, the Happy Bullets played another good set, and dEUS played a good late set. The hangover wasn't too bad.

Danielson: a Family Movie is a documentary about unbridled creativity vs. accessibility, Christian faith vs. popular culture, underground music vs. survival, and family vs. individuality. The film follows Daniel Smith, an eccentric musician and visual artist, as he leads his four siblings and best friend to indie-rock stardom. Beginning in 1995 when the youngest band member was 11 years old, the Danielson Famile performs in white, vintage nurse costumes to symbolize the healing power of the Good News, a recurring subject matter. Though tepidly received by the Christian music world, the South Jersey farmland-bred clan is widely embraced by the mainstream independent music community, written about in Rolling Stone, Spin, the New York Times and elsewhere as an outsider curiosity backed up by innovative, experimental music.

But as with other family acts, and particularly those that don't make much money, members of the band begin to seek out their own paths as they go through college and Daniel eventually faces the struggle to become viable as a solo act. Along the way he mentors an unknown singer-songwriter named Sufjan Stevens whose own subsequent success stands in stark contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years prior. With production starting in 2002, at a high water mark for the band, all the drama is played out before the camera making Danielson: a Family Movie both engaging and entertaining.

This film was the only highlight of my day. It is incredible.

most poetry is just incomplete sentences ...forgot i had "penned" that. :)

Dropped Mr. Collins at the airport this afternoon after one disappointing panel (dispite the luminaries on it), then headed up to Round Rock where I'll be staying for the rest of the week. Mr. Hughes had already departed for the big D, but I know his family fairly well and it was good to see them again. A nice nap later I rushed back into town for The Law Project at the Vortex Theatre which I thought started at 7 but really didn't start until after 8. So I walked to a taco stand for some dinner, had a couple beers, and met Bostonian Baratunde, who had wowed the crowd at Fray Cafe Sunday night. Lots of good stuff on his site including a free PDF copy of his latest book (from which he read at Fray Cafe), "Keep Jerry Falwell Away From My Oreo Cookies," his podcast "Front Porch," and his blog. His very hot girlfriend was there too, as she is playing a few gigs here at SX. I will definitely have to check that out.

Speaking of hot, Heather Gold is as well, albeit thoroughly lesbian, which I silently cursed for the first half of your amazing one woman show tonight. She's also VERY smart, witty, funny, honest, and human. I got Erica Felicella an apron (but don't tell her!) and with it a CD that I will have to pass around the old fashioned way now that the mediashare is gone.

Then rushing off to the closing party, found great parking, ran into Derek Powazek and finally got to say hello, chat, and be introduced to his wonderful wife who then skirted him off for a drink somewhere else. And no sooner had I walked into the party then a Mr. Benji Smith showed up at the venue badge-less, so we strolled down the street and had a beer at a bar I recognized as hosting the opening party last year.

Again rushing off to the Alamo Drafthouse (one of them) for a midnight showing of F*ck, a movie all about the wonderful word.

Got home and had a reply to my email to Peter Wilson, turns out he's playing three times between Thursday and Saturday, and I have his road managers cell phone number. Should be some good times.