The short film I helped with, Frankie, aired in a theater in Fairfax Wednesday evening! While it wasn’t the best of the bunch, it was close, definitely a lot better than most of the shorts, and one aspect in which it distinguished itself was in the sound clarity. The editor has already asked me if I might be available to work sound on a project he’s doing in October!
I’m so post modern that I surprise myself, by hiding behind doorways and leaping out at me…
While I’ve never minded, or noticed, whether people call me Mike or Michael, it must ALWAYS be ‘Michael’ when used in film credits. Seeing myself billed as Mike Heaney seemed incorrect, even insulting, for some strange reason.
The Nickalodean animated television series Avatar : The Last Air Bender, is one of the single best television shows I’ve ever seen, especially for genuinely good, wholesome family viewing. In all ways, from acting to animation to a compelling, thoughtful story arc, this series has, in 29 episodes, failed to come close to disappointing. This is the show for people to be watching right now.
There’s little so gratifying as managing to earn a look of coherent, incredulous suspicion from a lunatic homeless person. When your behavior is strange enough that the most askew aspects of society throw you a glance that says, “who the hell are you, and what’s gone wrong with your brain chemistry?” that’s a high point. FREAK THE FREAKS!
Those asshats at the nearby bicycle shop actually put the wrong sized axle on my freaking bike. I have to get a new bikeshop.
Though most of you probably are aware of the phenomenon, I have only just recently learned of Cargo Cults, primitive tribal peoples who, subsequent to encountering manufactured goods of the western world, misinterpret how these goods come to be and set up religions, often which mimic in strange ways the western behaviors witnessed by the tribe. This is done in hopes of convincing the gods to send them manufactured goods, literally cargo. Some of the most famous actually fashion fake airports and go through the routines of ‘contacting’ airplanes, lighting the runways, talking into fake radios, and so on in hopes of contacting the gods and earning cargo.
Given how easy a religious prophecy/desire this is to fulfill, I say we do it. This would benefit the people by sending them useful tools and items, it would preserve a fascinating cultural oddity, and it’s really no worse, or different, than what Christian missionaries do, excepting that instead of trying to convert the people to a new religion, we’re merely encouraging one they already embrace. Let’s cargo up the cargo cults!
