Match-Cut's Creative Collective

[Sven]

Your soundscapes are perfect places to lose one's self, D. Awesome stuff.

[D_Davis]

Thanks!

[Neclord]

And nice digital painting. What do you use?

Corel Painter X. It's a pretty rad program.

[Dead & Messed Up]

So the film festival my screenplay's in told me that I'm allowed to make posters for my screenplay. No idea why, but the exposure could be cool...

And tonight I won "Best Sci-fi Screenplay." ritch:

[TGM]

And tonight I won "Best Sci-fi Screenplay." ritch:

That's awesome!!

[Fezzik]

And tonight I won "Best Sci-fi Screenplay." ritch:

Wow, man! Awesome! Congrats

[D_Davis]

Let me know if your SF movie will need a killer ambient soundtrack.

I was very productive yesterday.

[youtube]0GoOz0NbNd8[/youtube]

[Dead & Messed Up]

Let me know if your SF movie will need a killer ambient soundtrack.

For the record, this is the script where I wrote the first draft with "Behind Clouds" on a non-stop loop.

[D_Davis]

For the record, this is the script where I wrote the first draft with "Behind Clouds" on a non-stop loop.

Nice!

[Qrazy]

Check out my new website! I put it all together myself (with a little help from wordpress).

www.aprioriproductions.org

[TGM]

So you've all heard me talking about my book on here, and now I'm running a little book giveaway. So anyone interested in the chance to win a signed copy, just click this link to enter.

[Ivan Drago]

And tonight I won "Best Sci-fi Screenplay." ritch:

Congratulations, DaMU!

[Skitch]

So you've all heard me talking about my book on here, and now I'm running a little book giveaway. So anyone interested in the chance to win a signed copy, just click this link to enter.

Neat! Entered.

[TGM]

Neat! Entered.

Awesome, thanks!

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

incredibly proud of this video, i think its my best work...LWH f/FRIENDZONE - Medus6sa
https://vimeo.com/51325072

[Sven]

incredibly proud of this video, i think its my best work...LWH f/FRIENDZONE - Medus6sa
https://vimeo.com/51325072

Nice. Have you ever seen the video for The Smith's There Is a Light That Never Goes Out? Directed by Derek Jarman. This piece reminds me a lot of it.

[youtube]INgXzChwipY[/youtube]

[Qrazy]

incredibly proud of this video, i think its my best work...LWH f/FRIENDZONE - Medus6sa
https://vimeo.com/51325072

Where's the image of the girl on the guardrail from?

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Where's the image of the girl on the guardrail from?

Pasolini's "Momma Roma"

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Nice. Have you ever seen the video for The Smith's There Is a Light That Never Goes Out? Directed by Derek Jarman. This piece reminds me a lot of it.

[youtube]INgXzChwipY[/youtube]

Yes...I absolutely love Jarman's work, but never really got into his videos for the Smiths, even being both a massive Smiths and Jarman fan. My favorite Jarman film is the 8mm short "Jordan's Dance", I sampled that for a different video (https://vimeo.com/43330823).

[Qrazy]

Pasolini's "Momma Roma"

Ah yes, thanks.

[Wryan]

Davis, your music is wonderful. There's so many great things here. Thanks everyone for contributing!

I write little pieces of (often dialogue-centric) flash fiction now and then, just for exercise mostly. I haven't revised these in a while, and I haven't gone back to the well to write something new in a while, either, though I always want to. I need to kick myself in the ass about it sometimes. I also have a longer, more protracted short story in the works, for which I've worked out the overall arc in my head and "only" have to write more of it than what I have so far. I usually post things quietly on my Facebook in Notes.

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"Serious Business"

L: I wanna have a lair someday.
S: Pardon?
L: Not so much for the lair itself, which is a given…
S: Sure.
L: …but so that one day, when I’m long gone and it’s fallen into disuse, people will wander upon it and say, "Look...there lies the ruins of his lair."
S: You’ve given this a lot of thought.
L: Some days it’s all I think about.
S: That’s adorable…will it be darkened?
L: No, no. Natural light is important.
S: K…what about a moat?
L: That’s really more of a castle thing…
S: You could put alligators in it.
L: I don’t really wanna have to be responsible for any fauna.
S: Will it have crenellations?
L: Again, castle…
S: They look pretty fetching, though.
L: Too neat, too orderly.
S: Not after years of decay.
L: Mmm, okay that’s true. I concede the point.
S: Have you considered the biome? (Did you say "can see" the point?)
L: "Kun-ceed" the point…well, I was pretty firm on a taiga somewhere, but…
S: But you don’t like to be cold.
L: Right, I don’t like to be cold.
S: Mountains might be perfect for lairs, build it up from the natural materials.
L: I’m not much on hiking…but maybe if I could zip-line to it from a distance.
S: Well, you’d still have to do some hiking, one of the ways.
L: I could zip-line the other direction, too.
S: Y—…you can’t zip-line both directions without—
L: Well, forget mountains anyways. That’s not what I had settled on.
S: Fine.
L: What do you think of…ready?……the rain forest.
S: Ehhhh, it’s awfully wet…and everything can kill you.
L: I’ve got—
S: Seriously. Anything can kill you.
L: I know, but I’ve got that covered.
S: Edge of my seat.
L: The animals will be my helpers and friends.
S: ...
L: Now I know that—
S: Do you have magical powers in this scenario? That’s not possible. Not even the Swiss Family Robinson were friends with all of the animals around 'em.
L: Were they even Swiss?
S: I can’t remember. But they didn’t have a lair. They were enormously wholesome.
L: Are you suggesting my lair is unwholesome?
S: Well, it’s a lair isn’t it? Unless you make it out of cake and marzipan, it’s not going to be a very uplifting sight.
L: I don’t want it to be too uplifting. I just want people to gaze upon it one day in wonder and maybe fear.
S: How long are you going to stay in it before abandoning it?
L: I was going to fling myself to chance, to the chaotic whims of fate. They will decide.
S: I give you one week before you’re bitten by a monkey.

]

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"Count to 10"

B: What color did she want?
M: What?
B: What color?
M: I...don't know.
B: What?
M: I wasn't listening...
B: Why weren't you listening?
M: ...to that part. I wasn't listening to that part.
B: She was very specific about the color.
M: And that color was?
B: ...
M: See? You weren't listening either.
B: I was in the other room!
M: Ha, you were not. You were in the doorway.
B: ...halfway in the other room.
M: And halfway in our room.
B: Fine, but she was talking to you; you could have been paying attention.
M: She was talking to the ceiling, and to the dog, and to the bowl of pasta in her lap. Sorry that I wasn't paying attention.
B: Well she wanted this in a particular....it was green! Right? I think it was green.
M: Okay, green it is...
B: ...wait, no, you don't remember if it was green?
M: It might have been green.
B: But you don't remember.
M: No I do not.
B: I don't want to get green and have it be blue.
M: Then let's get blue-green.
B: That's not funny.
M: (I'm laughing.)
B: I think it was green. Let's get green...
M: I'm good with green.
B: ...oh my God, there's like fifteen different greens here. How...is that possible?
M: Chemically? I'm not sure. Are there that many greens?
B: They have "Grass" Green..."Lime" Green..."Seawater" Green...this is madness.
M: Madness that someone somewhere actually considers seawater to be green? I concur.
B: Just be quiet for about two or twenty minutes..."Pea Soup" Green? Really? Ew.
M: Think they have "Ancho Chile" Green?
B: [Smacks] Shut up, I'm trying to concentrate.
M: Have you ever noticed how weird the word "green" is? It looks so...alien. Like it doesn't belong in our language.
B: Concentrating!
M: They have "Irish Blood" Green...that seems vaguely inappropriate.
B: This is driving me insane.
M: Yeah, who demands this much choice?
B: I meant listening to you. You're not helping at all, and if we don't get her the color she was talking about—the color you forgot—we won't hear the end of it for a month.
M: ...Beth?
B: Argh, what?
M: Two things. One, if she throws a fit at us for not getting the exact color she wanted, I would think we have a bigger problem. Two, sometimes you could treat me a lot better than you do. And when you're stressed out, it feels even worse. For both of us. So let's take a breath before we start jabbing each other with sporks and just get her something that doesn't come in any kind of green.
B: ......I......(breath) I like that doll.
M: So do I.
B: It looks like Katie...when she was a bit younger.
M: It does. Though I was gonna say it looks like you when you were younger, her age......same lopsided ponytails.
B: Ha! My ponytails were not lopsided!
M: Whatever! They looked like that in every picture! It looked like you just finished carrying a large weight, but only from one side of your head, hanging only from one pendulous ponytail...

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"Roundtable"

Teddy: Do you know your porn name?

Mary: Psh, obviously.

Donnie: We get names?

Teddy: What is it?

Mary: "Sigourney Weaver."

Teddy: ...uh, I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to do that.

Mary: Fine, "Tawny Thize."

Donnie: Ripley's such a great character.

Teddy: Aww come on! You really have to—

Mary: Oh, I don't care! Why do you care?

Teddy: Good to be prepared.

Mary: Prepared...for a sudden uptick of fortune in the pornographic industry?

Teddy: Better than being unprepared. They might have to assign you one if you don't show up with one picked out already. Then who knows what you'd be stuck with.

Donnie: ...Boy Scouts...

Mary: ...I don't think it's accurate to say you can just "show up"...but, alright, fine, how bout you? I'd say you look like a "Hunter"...or maybe "Tab."

Teddy: What? No!...and those sound more like gay porn names.

Mary: Eh, probably interchan—wait, how do you know that?

Teddy: I just want something sexier, something edgier. The best names are touched with a bit of grandeur...like "Dragon"...or "Phoenix"...or "Turbo."

Mary: Turbo was on American Gladiators.

Teddy: Was he? Well he probably did porn on the side.

Donnie: That's unsavory.

Mary: Yeah, we need to shift gears here. I wanna have nice dreams tonight...I will not be tainted by you.

Teddy: Don't even begin to think that you can escape my taint.

Donnie: Uhhh, this conversation is going places I'm scared to go.

Teddy: I think I could handle it.

Mary: You're serious, aren't you?

Teddy: Absolutely.

Mary: And you're talking about mainstream porn, right? Not like the "specialty" kinds? The folks with hairplugs, three nipples, and webbed feet?

Teddy: I thought that was pretty implied.

Mary: But you do own a variety of mirrors placed around your house?

Teddy: I think I would do alright.

Mary: And I think this desire comes from a visceral place where oxygen flies right by the brain and heads south for the winter.

Teddy: Jealous.

Mary: That must be it.

[long silence]

Donnie: Porn always makes me sad.

]

[Sven]

Funny 'logues, Wryan. Remember reading one or two some time ago.

Anyway, in honor of I'm Too Busy To Do Anything New Anymore Day, here's Hot Damn Sammiches:

[Sycophant]

Newest game, a vampire action resource management thingy, put together in 4 hours last night.

VILLAGE VAMPIRE FEAST

[Qrazy]

My Big Beat electronic mix is up.

http://www.mixcloud.com/DJQrazy/big-...cing-feet-mix/

[Skitch]

A couple years ago I began working on a graphic novel my artist buddy wanted me to write. Its been stalled for a while as I got engaged, moved, married...life...and we had been working on the comic in the mean time. As the magazine came to an end, I told him I wanted to finish it.

But I was stuck. The premise and plot were solid, but as I developed it I felt it was a situation were the ending was really the most important part. Mishandled, it would be cliche and boring. But if I struck a decent idea...it could be really cool.

Then, my infant son fighting his first head cold drove me to sleep on the couch, and as I awoke in an insomnia-laden fit, the idea came to me like a punch to the mouth. With renewed vigor, I've been writing like crazy. Inspiration is a beautiful thing.