Archive for November 18th, 2007

screen attempts

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Yesterday, I ran into an indie-film director friend of mine, Juliette and got thinking of the few projects we’ve done together over the past few years.

The first was her short ‘The Love Story of Alfred. J. Pintuck’ - a few years ago, she called me up and said that she had a ‘role so perfect for me she couldn’t cast anyone’. Now, I’m not an actor, but immediately thought perhaps a super-hero, or race-car driver was in the makes. I was to later find out it was a womanizing drunk bar owner…c’est la vie. It was fun nonetheless and she did a great job with it – fusing black & white with Shanghai backdrops adding with it a gorgeous score done by the first band I produced here, The Rock Star Posers.

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The other one was my failed attempt at making our local music show into television. It was great fun, everyone came out, ended up with me being put in jail for throwing a coked-up heckler through a glass window. Am still a bit bummed this never got off of the ground, but got a call from a friend yesterday who thinks we might be able to collaborate.

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Perhaps that ‘face for radio’ theory is right.

my coolest friend and a related story

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This is my friend Ben – I was actually going to steal another picture of him as he’s the chief composer for Ubisoft Asia and I wanted to tie-in my new job; but then I got thinking about Ben and while I’ve told everyone I’ve come into contact with here about him, I should break-it-on-down for the people who don’t know.

I first met Ben when he came to one of our indie nights at a local venue to go on the air and promote his involvement with a ‘noise’ show (pictured)- within 10 minutes of meeting him, I was totally enamored. Since then, he’s amazed us all with his piano/guitar/singing ability (an ability that led to the tour de force named ‘Ben and Aric’), sung backwards to impress his now-girlfriend, recalled a rap he once wrote in high school about the periodic tables and once stuck an entire mobile phone in his mouth. Fluent in French, not-too-far-away in Mandarin, raised in Kenya, composing music for Tom Clancy’s new game and practicer of his own mantra, one that actually makes sense:

‘If I fall asleep in the bar, then no one can say that I was lame and went home early – I’m technically still out’.

Ben is, by far, my coolest friend.

…on a related note, I got a call from a Japanese film director on Friday letting me know that I had been cast to play the ‘playboy assassin’ in a new video game. VOX work is hard, but to know that my voice will soon be forever immortalized in a sword-wielding partyboy, might make for an early retirement.