Month: October 2004

Lucky Canadians. Pepsi is being nice to our northern neighbors. They’ve decided to start a promotion this weekend giving away an iPod every hour of every day of every week of every month until Christmas. SOB. Why can’t the US get such a cool promotion? I might actually start drinking more Pepsi, and I don’t even drink much coke anyway.

John Woo. It seems he’s going to produce and direct a new movie based on the popular 80s cartoon He-Man. Yeah, the same He-Man which I grew up on! I like many John Woo films and I believe he’ll give this adaptation justice, but I hope he steers VERY far away from the 1987 version.

He has also been attached the the Metroid project. Metroid is pretty much one of my top 5 Nintendo games I used to love back in the infant days of the Nintendo. It pretty much is a cult classic as well. Video games made into feature films don’t seem to fair too well sometimes, i.e. Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter.

Ya know, I love IMDB.com. I’m sure I’ve referenced it here more than I’ve referenced any website. It’s just a great place to throw away hours of time. So, anyway, while I’ve been on the topic of video games and cartoons, have you ever read the credits of those voice actors that used to be your favorite Transformer, G.I. Joe, or Voltron character? Well, it seems that there are a few people who absolutely dominate that side of the industry. Peter Cullen, Tress MacNeille, Billy West, and Frank Welker just to name a few of the contemporaries. I think one of the most famous voice over actors is Mel Blanc, who imfamously voiced Bugs Bunny and Co. Anyway, take a look and see how everyone is so connected to each other!

I already tend to check craigslist a few times a day to see what’s out there. It’s such a convenient, cheap, easy way to find out if there’s anything there for me. But it makes me lazy because I don’t have to make any effort to do anything about it.

So what’s craigslist? If you’ve never heard of it, I’m sure that you will in the near future. It’s becoming huge, national, international, and it’s a very active community here in Los Angeles as well as San Francisco. Basically, craigslist is a community of people who buy, sell, trade, want, give, promote, provide, receive, and converse. It was started in the middle of the 90s by Craig Newmark and was named craigslist by his friends. He incorporated in in the late 90s and it has been huge for a while.

There is a craigslist community in just about every major metropolitan area now. All you have to do is type yourcity.craigslist.org and it might exist. I highly recommend using it to find housing, to sell your stuff, to find something to do, anything really! Craigslist is really the main reason why I moved out here so quickly. I didn’t plan on being here for a while longer but I picked up and left in March because I found a place back in February. In fact, I almost moved to Nashville by meeting someone else on craigslist back in February as well.

Here in LA, craigslist is frequently used by actors and people in the industry to find a job or to find someone to work in a production. In fact, I worked on a film set as production assistant because I found an ad on craigslist stating they were looking for extra people to help out. I didn’t get paid, but I did receive free meals and invaluable experience.