Here’s the weird short film we made for the Edinburgh 48 hour film project. T’was a hoot to make. The only obstacle we ran into was a tall guy with a moustache and a pony tail combo who wouldn’t let us film an old house. A curse on you sir for doing your job so efficiently!
La Caja de Elena from lee Patterson on Vimeo.
See the rest of the entries on the 48 hour youtube channel.
For a long time the moon’s been quiet, but we’re back baby! Happy 2010 earthlings.
For anyone who wants an explanation as to our silence; my dog ate my internet, so to fill the void I watched too much TV until my face got alarmingly hot. I wore a lot of trousers and I got a poncho.
It’s couples day! May the Gods of Valentines shine upon you.
This Star Wars based valentines cardy thing to your immediate left was created by this guy, and you can view the rest on his site. They are awesome. It’s good to see that in all the campy nonsense of valentines day, the importance of Star Wars is not forgotten.
So now that we’ve paid homage to the sickly love customs of the humans, lets get to business; first up, The A-team is on track to make me giggle like a girly girly man, this trailer is sweet. I like to see that they haven’t modified the van. Yet. Also check out the A-team surviving a mid-air plane explosion in a parachuting tank. Genius. Absolute genius.
It’s not out until november, so hold your junk, or let a loved one hold it for you.
Next on the menu, The Room, “The best film of the year” (I don’t know which year, or which planet) the cult classic stinker is being shown in the Cameo theater in Edinburgh on the 20th and I recommend it to everyone. It has the passion of Tennessee Williams, don’t you know. If Williams was making toast. Drunk. And didn’t want toast.
”You’re tearing me apart Lisa”, indeed.
Also worth checking out are this excerpt from Disneys Princess and the Frog, a welcome return to hand drawn animation by the house of mouse in the capable hands of John Lasseter. Finally, related to Lasseter, a new trailer for Toy Story 3 has appeared. Unlike many sequels and three-quals, Toy Story 3 looks to be a worthy and logical addition to the saga. I, of course, base this theory on the scant information I absorbed from the 2 minute trailer. I am glad to see there is at least one poop joke in there. Keep the dream alive. There should be a poop joke in every film. Every.
There is more that has happened and will happen, but we can jump that bridge when we burn it. Apologies again for the disruption to the ’service’. Hopefully (Shatner willing) this year will see a rise in content for this site, and we have the A-team to look forward to at the end of the year. It shall be my favourite year. I shall love it and pet it and call it George.
{…..large rant about the BNP being dicks has been deleted;….}
….’Fuck you guys’ was the short of it….
We are all human. Even the mildly brown looking humans. Even the those humans who look like they’ve been on holiday for a long time. Even them Browny-Brown ones from that magic place where the special horses have long necks… How many idiots does it take before we realise that we are all just idiots humans?
Humans = Everyone on earth.
Now that problem is over, let’s go to space…
It’s been a an exciting week for me so far, lots of things happening, the least of which being exposed as a misogynist because I tried to promote the work of a talented and successful woman. What a monster am I.
To correct this, I humbly draw your attention to an anti-smoking campaign that uses the two most genderless ‘things’ I know in the most sexless genre that is, of course, Sci-fi… (although they clearly love each other)…
There have been too many happy happy penguin films of late. And the March of the Penguins in particular was interpreted some right-wingers to suggest that penguins and, by extension, humans are naturally socially cohesive, monogamous and loving parents. Now, I have nothing against these values, I wish it were true but it seems that penguins may actually be little more like Gordon Ramsay and Chris Tarrant (only less fishy). For an an extremely funny if disturbing critique try to find Stewart Lee’s diatribe, ‘March of the Mallards’ (until 25 April on BBC i-player: Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle ep 2, 15 minutes in).
Now witness this clip from lovably bonkers film genius Werner Herzog’s awesome new documentary Encounters at the End of the World .
I could go on and on about Herzog and his manifesto. But I won’t. I’m not saying Herzog here isn’t as equally biassed and non-scientific. Just indulge in the contrast with some of the sentimental pap we are served up on a regular basis. Go see it.
The music from the moon stopped this past week or so for various reasons (my excuse is that I bought an X-Box. That’s a good excuse). To makeup for the lack of postage of stuff you’ve probably seen before, after the ’read more’ clicky behold 3 videos that are all different kinds of odd. We will try not to leave you again… but you’re all just so ugly….
For some reason the sidebar to the right has gone funky and been funky for a while. Ive been trying to fix it to no avail but I am working on it, so stick with us.
In the meantime listen to the music and perouse the site, just try and ignore the dodgy sidebar.
Cheers
EDIT : Its now fixed……just in case you didnt notice.
The Edinburgh Jazz and blues festival started yesterday, the beginning of a chain that continues with random-ness, madness and potential death. Join us.
And no; chances are the weather won’t be like the photo above. We don’t have good weather: We just have tears.
Here at the M on the M office we enjoy our music. So much in fact that we’ve now included a song that can be found at the top of the page that you can listen to if you find yourself in a cold quiet dark place. It makes sense to us that you listen to music whilst reading over the newest blogged articles introducing you to new music as well as making our site look more important than it actually is, roll on the A-team theme ……
Hence forth and tickle your senses.
Good day everyone,
Welcome to the world of spelling mistakes and plot holes. The site has finally passed its initial stages of design and is in no way completed, we shall be changing bits and bobs along the way to suit the needs of us and our readers, so stay with us. We are hoping to blog about various topics that tickle our fancy, with the writers interests ranging from ping pong philosophy to the musically mundane. This is just a quick intro post but if you would like to know more go to the ABOUT section above the header and educate yourself in the ways music can be made on the moon. Now hence forth and peruse the site.
Craig
