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Febuary 17, 2004
By Joe

SNOW BUSINESS LIKE, UM SNOW BUSINESS...

Here are some of the pictures we took from the snow that landed here in Texas. I think the news said it was the biggest/best snowfall we'd seen in 18 years. Just so happened we were up drinking when it started. That last one was made by the lovely talented Cynthia, in like five minutes on photoshop. CLICK 'EM to enlarge. They's thumbnails, yo.

Febuary 8, 2004
By Joe

HOTEL SHENANIGANS...

We just got back from Austin this afternoon, helping Mike with his picture HIGH FIVE. For the most part we had a great time, but opted to stay and fuck around in the hotel. In Austin.  This 2 minute tape is the end result.  RIGHT HERE

Febuary 6, 2004
By Joe

GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS...

THE GOOD: We now have an awesome new miniDV camera too shoot with.          THE BAD: I'm sorry to announce but our series DORK AND BIG SIR will not be ready to go in March. I may just be getting ahead of myself with this, but I'm not confident in it yet. So, it's halted for now.                                                                     THE UGLY: ...well, duh...click here.                                       

Febuary 3, 2004

Wizard World  Fantastica                                                                       
 or 'Better Late Than Never'
By Joe Franks

Should have posted this a while back when it was fresh, but ended up not. It was originally pushed on AMC.com, but I really wanted to tell the others that frequent our site the tale as well.....

If you’re not familiar with the above name, it’s not a convention of wizards, or worlds, or wizard’s worlds. It a comic convention, and a first time in Texas for         Wizard World. There wasn’t much to be said about the con itself. It was pretty small, my guess is they were testing to see if there was a point to even holding one in Texas. Who knows exactly. Either way, it was quite small and could be looked at in whole in around an hour. Of course yours truly would’ve taken longer, as he was diggin’ on the bootlegs (alas no Parker Lewis Can’t Lose eps were to be found) and on the Japanese import dvds. On a side note, I picked up VERSUS and recommend it.

Fuck, I’m terrible about trailing off on other topics, soI’ll ‘cut to the chase’ as the kids say. Okay, you see I’m sure everyone has something they consider a turning point in their lives. Be it the first time you had sex with the opposite sex (or same, I’m not judging here), a bad incident that turned out with positive results, or in my case, the first time I watched Clerks. That was a defining moment (I’ll get into it later, maybe) for me, as I like Mr. Smith with Slacker, saw it and thought ‘Say, I could do that!’. It was at that point I became interested in making movies. Okay, kinda trailing off again. Well that Sunday was another turning point in my life. I met the man himself. Kevin Smith.

When I say met, not just met, but hung out with Mr. Smith and Mr. Mewes. No, we didn’t go get beers and talk about ‘chicks an’ stuff’, but myself and Chad (partner in crime) volunteered at said convention, and acted as nerd patrol for them. That, dear readers, was the convention to me. We were lucky enough to sit with them,  and Mewes  requested Chad to get his cd’s out of his room. (apparently the crap sock hop music on the loud speaker, was the suck) It was a trip to say the least. It doesn’t sound like much in type, but just to be there. It was an amazing experience. Not only that, but they were actually cool. The most down to earth people as your best friend. Kevin seemed (and what I perceived as) genuine in every thanks he gave to a fan. That’s a rare quality, I tell you. As we were leaving, Kevin shook my hand, I told him what an inspiration Clerks and Chasing Amy are to me. Yeah, he locked eyes, and said with the most genuine look, ‘Thanks, man. That means a lot. Really.’

I tell you what, that Mewes was amazingly great with us too. I mean they took the time out to…learn our names. Bryan Johnson (Steve-Dave from the flicks) and I even held a brief conversation about Vulgar and how the nay sayers can suck the cock. Insignificant to them (maybe), liquid awesome to us.

As I wrote this, I was still buzzing from stupid fanboy glow. Listening to my Chasing Amy soundtrack. I’ll find out tomorrow that since my inspection sticker isn’t renewed I’ll have a hefty fine on my shoulders. I won’t care.

I met two of the coolest cats on this side of the planet that Sunday.