Law and Order

This past week became a crazyfest. I saw Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans three times and was beginning to slowly loose my shit. I've taken a day away from Terence McDonagh, only to find myself watching Face Off.....Nick Cage you've got a hold on me

Arrested Development

O M G! Halloween is coming up! I'm so excited, loves it! Some more exciting news, I made friends up here finally. I heard these nerds talking in one of my film classes and I just joined right in, which is usually totally out of my nature. So we're like bffs now, we hang out every day, they teach me the joys of LAN parties and I teach them the joys of gossip rags, it's fantastic. They are all encompassing nerds and it is so adorable, I feel like our relationships should be a sitcom, three nerds and a fantastic hottie (haha...right...but go with it) they play video games, discuss movies in scrutinizing detail, comic shop and......gossip?! That's my life.
I'm working on a couple of scripts right now, one kind of dramedy and one ridiculous horror comedy, I will hopefully be submitting these to be made by my school. I'm not sure the ridiculous horror will get made, it's called Doggy Style and the tag line "These dogs know how to potty", it's about dogs that all unite in a world wide mass murder against their owners. I'm going to use puppets and tap knives to their paws, the first scene will involve a dog/human rape, it's going to be so tasteless and so wildly inappropriate I may just get kicked out of the program.....in fact I'm counting on it. The most fucked up thing about this, though? While I'm writing this I'm listening to a lot of Owl City, for those of you who have not heard them yet, let me give you such a fantastically typical innocent line "I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightening bugs as they try to teach me how to dance"....these happy, childish tunes just help bring out the inner sick shit that helps me write such a thing as....Doggy Style. Am I social deviant? Most definitely.

Wow it's late.
-Katie

Are you Afraid of the Dark?

Well I made it back from my trip to ATL, which was really fun. I had a lot of delish southern food and I got to see my big shot sister. This was the first vacation I have had in a long time, even though it totally wasn't a vacation, eh, but that's besides the point, it was fun. Besides the whole flying thing. For those of you who know me you know I HATE to fly. It's scary, it's uncomfortable, it's impending doom. For all those internet predators floating around out there, well, there it is, I have a fear. Of course I probably made this worse by looking up plane crash pictures the night before, I don't know, I thought somehow it might help....fuck it I'm just weird. I also watched my fair share of explosions and death for my in-flight entertainment, which probably didn't help either. On the way there it wasn't that bad though, I thought hey, I'm cool, I'm the big mama cat in town, I can do this, and fuck me on the way back it got turbulent, I almost threw up, the whole impending doom thing caught up with me again. Next time, I'm going to knock myself out and I don't mean the nice swallow a few heavy sedatives, as I learned this time don't fucking work, I mean full on run into a brick wall until I'm almost medically dead or else I will never board a plane again.
This weekend is a big weekend for me. Tomorrow I have a huge test I've been studying for all night, hence the hour of this blog. This test is bullshit and I'm not just being angsty, it really is bullshit, I have to memorize terms and dates just to forget it all after the test, but whatever, I have to get through it so I will. I will also have my NBC line up tomorrow to look forward to, ah the joys of television. Friday I will be seeing A Serious Man, which I have been wanting to see for quite a while now, Saturday I will be seeing Where the Wild Things Are, which I expect to be magical. Then that night, off to Universal to get my ass scared and yes I will cry, I will run, and I will scream. I can talk about horror, I can write about horror, I can watch horror, but if that shit comes running after me, I'm fucking out. Sunday I will be seeing Black Dynamite, which Steve and I have been looking forward to for a loooong time, so that should be awesome.
This is really creepy, but the guy next door, with whom I share a wall, I think is humming like Gizmo, you know from Gremlins, it's super weird.
Anyway, some csun student got attacked pretty much halfway between my house and the school, which is scary because that was suppose to be the "nice" part of Northridge. So I'm going to go this week to get some pepper spray. I wanted to get a gun, then I was like I don't know if I trust myself with a gun, then I was like oh a knife, then I'm like oh man I know what happens to bitches who have knives.....they get shot (count it!), so I decided to get myself some pepper spray, I mean it's not so pussy, I can blind mother fuckers eyes.....eh. I mean, I actually fended off a rapists with my bare hands once!.....but I don't want to risk it because in this case this mother fucker had a pipe.
I know I say this all the time, but check out the New Bev schedule and seriously hit me up if you want to go. I'm going to be going by myself to some of these things and they shouldn't be missed! Now I have a snoring, cuddly pug to attend to. I should probably put on a nice movie and go to bed, but I can't find my copy of Dead Alive....eh goodnight and until next time
-Katie

Stalk force five

Well I haven't written in a long time. Damn a lot has happened, a lot have died. Michael Jackson, John Hughes, P Swayz, just to name a few. We'll miss you guys.
But on to the good news, I got a new poochie, Hamlet, well that's his official name, but he also responds to ham, hammy, hamster, mark hamil, hamilton, hamly, hammy lee you get the point. I just love him and I have been having so much fun with him! He's a lot of work, but it pays to be cute I guess. Also I moved! Don't get too excited, I moved to Northridge. I just feel like I suck when I walk down the street, like everyone gives each other this sad, painful look, I can hear them just sighing through their eyes. I don't have it that bad though, I live in a pretty cool place.
Living in LA definitely has it's upsides, I'm close to the theaters I like to go to and within stalking distance of all the hip celebs! The New Bev is having a great month and next month even better, so I'll be there everyday, so if you haven't gone yet what the fuck are you waiting for?! I have also just discovered the Egyptian theater which is having a Kubrick week this week, super fun. I just have so much fun every weekend, like last weekend I dropped so much dough in Amoeba I bought King Kong (og), Gojira, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (spec ed), The Wolfman (spec ed), Frankenstein (spec ed), Halloween II, Friday the 13th part II. I searched for Pieces, but alas nothing, if anyone knows where I can find it that would be a great help. Oh how I wish I was rich and could do this without crying a little after realizing how much money I dropped.
I also went to see Extract, which was really good, funny, and sweet! So go see it, by the looks of it, it needs all the money it can get :/ Also another good movie, Big Fan. My man Patton was pretty decent! This film also helps me realize, I'm obsessive, but also reaffirms I'm not nutso. ....Probably not a good thing to admit on here. Okay so anyway on to the elephant in the room Basterds! Wow wow wow wow wow! Looooved it! I can't say enough! It even led me to my new celeb crush, Eli Roth, damn that man is mighty fine and a good director too! I ended up sitting down to watch his movies, after much deliberation. I was never into the torture-porn genre, I know even though it seems right up my alley. I watched Hostel, Hostel II and loved them, then Cabin Fever again and loved that, just real down home campy fun! I was impressed and now smitten, a dashing, charming, bear jew of a man, who loves and makes great, gorrific (I made that word up) horror movies, god damn how could I not fall for this mancake. So now all Steve and I talk about is Nazi Killin and Eli Roth what better visions could I have dancing around in my head?

-Katie

P.S. I made a rotten tomatoes account check it out http://www.rottentomatoes.com/member/katied

Jon and Kate plus divorce

Most high schools had their graduations tonight, I'm feeling extremely nostalgic. I was tempted to grab my cap and gown and blend right in. I love high school graduations, so much excitement, so much promise, so much to look forward to. You're still kind of a kid, but with all the best parts of adulthood. Growing up increasingly fast, it seems, makes me yearn for my younger years I don't want to leave my youth behind. Growing up is just another part of life, but it's also really scary. I have to pave my own way, I mean this is the rest of my life, there is no "one day", it's today, right now, it isn't some far away fantasy anymore. I still have two more years to think about it I guess, but it scares me I don't want to be a part of the real world I want to be stuck in my bubble.
I saw the hangover tonight, it was such a good feelin movie. I just want to be a dude sometimes there are no buddy/crew comedies with bitches. I don't know, I just want to go to Vegas and have an unbelieveable fucked up weekend now, it's totally out of my nature, but fuck what good feelins.
Recently I've been spending my time advertising and being scared to fuck about moving on, but the Hangover definitely helped me get over it, atleast for a couple hours. Vegas anyone???

-Katie

The Best Years

Wow it's been a long time since my last entry! In the interim, I had a swine flu scare, had bronchitis instead, had another kidney infection (only mild this time), graduated Saddleback, saw some flicks and decided to start my own dog walking service so I can quit my horrible life killing job. I will first talk about my swine flue scare, I did not nor do I have swine flu. Having a cold during this period was the worse punishment as you can imagine. I just ended up having something more severe instead so I was relieved. Kidney infections always suck, but I got over it. Oh graduating Saddleback was just awful, I just want to stay there forever, I don't want to go to real college! I'm not just a real college sort of girl, I have horrible social skills, I'm incredibly awkward, and I look like I'm fourteen! Which makes me realize I could make a killing working for perverted justice, haaay old dude hit this up, but not really...but maybe, no.
I saw some great movies! I'm not a trekkie I always felt like Star Wars been there done that far superior blah blah, but Star Trek was great! I was really impressed and although he had just a small part I just adored JJ's addition Keenser!

I also saw Observe and Report and loved it! Now I know people hated on this movie, but they're just lame. Honestly, one of favorite movies! I'm not the first person to make this observation, (I'm just furthering its validity) that it is the Big Lebowski of its time, didn't do so well in the box office, however, became a cult classic, I think Observe will follow in these footsteps. Not only do I relate to Ronnie so much, minus the bipolar and penis, the movie was fucking BA as shit! And omg Brandi reminded me of all the bitches out here in the oc to a fucking T! No one in the theaters laughed at her parts because that was their life; they didn't get it was a joke! Now I don't want to be too hard on the oc I love the oc, I'm technically an orange county girl; bitches all around are like that and I'm so glad some movie finally went there! And you better believe everyday I wish I had a Ronnie to come smash my evil boss's head into an oven! Damn and the penis! (the first penis count for this year I believe, nothing tops last year, though) And bloody ending, I just adored this movie! Shots!
Let's see I also saw I love you man, which I, well, loved! I love the bromances they get me everytime! I honestly wanted those two to be friends more than the lame wedding to go through, but don't worry the romance didn't ruin the movie for me, Jason Segel and Paul Rudd are just too damn awesome!
I also saw Crank 2, nutty and fucking awesome! I loved the first one of course and couldn't wait when I saw they were making another. This definitely did not upset! I don't think I've ever had this much fun in a theater, damn great stuff! Chelios I can't wait for yet another adventure in Crank 3. Fuck I just want to light someone on fire!
I also saw some great things at the New Bev: Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, Ride the High Country. Fuck I love Peckinpah! I was so pumped after those movies! I plan on going to the New Bev a lot this summer, in fact next week I plan on going to the Back to the Future Trilogies, I actually might leave before the third, I don't know compared to the first two, weak. They actually have a lot of great movies coming up, so I would like to suggest to y'all, and the few Internet predators, that read this to check it out!
Pop Culture time, what the fuck was up with Adam losing Idol?! Seriously? I don't even remember the other dudes name! Fuck that, even though I only sparsely watched the show and never voted, I was rooting for Adam! I say we temporarily suspense democracy until we can get this whole thing sorted out. Goddamn America is so damn fickle! Except little Shawn John did win Dancing with the Stars and by only 1%, so you can thank me later Shawn for the five votes I gave you! I wasn't always on the Shawn boat, but the night before voting she swayed me and the rest is history.
Okay movies I can't wait to see:
Terminator, I feel like a thirteen year old boy whose balls just dropped, I want some fucking action!
Night at the Museum II, yep I like these movies say what you will, I think they're cute
Drag Me to Hell, such a Raimi fan
Up, pixar can't go wrong
Inglourious Basterds, I can't fucking wait
Shutter Island, loved the book, looks like an awesome movie, I love Leo, I love Scorsese
Public Enemies, how BA does this look?
Funny People, come on who could resist, dramedy featuring Apatow crew+Adam Sandler
Sherlock Holmes, my man RDJ
Harry Potter, well duh I want to see this!
Where the Wild Things are, yep
Away we go, I'm kind of into Mendes now
Taking Woodstock, I heard my man Jeffrey Dean Morgan gets nakey, I'm so totally there
I'm sure there are others I just can't think of them now

Thanks for anyone who actually read through this bullshit
-Katie

Murder she wrote

My thoughts/experience almost exactly.


AN OPEN LETTER FROM A WATCHMEN SCREENWRITER

So it has been five months since I saw my first rough cut of WATCHMEN, and eight days since the premiere of the film I've been working on since late in the year 2000.

The reviews are out -- Some outstanding, others rankly dismissive, which can be frustrating for the people involved, (though I can only speak for myself,) because I firmly believe that WATCHMEN, the novel, must be read through more than once to even have the faintest grip on it. And I believe the film is the same.

I've seen it twice now, and despite having run the movie in my head thousands of times, my two viewings still don’t' allow me to view the film with the proper distance or objectivity. Is it Apocalypse Now? Is it Blade Runner? Is it Kubrick, or Starship Troopers? I don’t know yet.

All I know is that I had a pretty amazing experience the two times I've seen it. And both viewings produced remarkably different experiences. The point is, I have listened for years, to complaints from true comic book fans, that "not enough movies take the source material seriously." "Too many movies puss out," or "They change great stories, just to be commercial." Well, I f***ing dare you to say any one of those things about this movie.

This is a movie made by fans, for fans. Hundreds of people put in years of their lives to make this movie happen, and every one of them was insanely committed to retaining the integrity of this amazing, epic tale. This is a rare success story, bordering on the impossible, and every studio in town is watching to see if it will work. Hell, most of them own a piece of the movie.

So look, this is a note to the fanboys and fangirls. The true believers. Dedicated for life.

If the film made you think. Or argue with your friends. If it inspired a debate about the nature of man, or vigilante justice, or the horror of Nixon abolishing term limits. If you laughed at Bowie hanging with Adrian at Studio 54, or the Silhouette kissing that nurse.

Please go see the movie again next weekend.

You have to understand, everyone is watching to see how the film will do in its second week. If you care about movies that have a brain, or balls, (and this film's got both, literally), or true adaptations -- And if you're thinking of seeing it again anyway, please go back this weekend, Friday or Saturday night. Demonstrate the power of the fans, because it'll help let the people who pay for these movies know what we'd like to see. Because if it drops off the radar after the first weekend, they will never allow a film like this to be made again.

In the interests of full disclosure, let me also point out that I do not profit one cent from an increase in box office, although an increase in box office can add to the value of the writers' eventual residual profits from dvd and tv sales.

But I'm not saying it for money. I'm saying it for people like me. I'm saying it for people who love smart, dark entertainment, on a grand, operatic scale. I'm talking to the Snake fans, the Rorschach fans, the people of the Dark Knight.

And hey, if you hated the film, if you think we committed atrocities, or literary mistakes of a massive, cephalopodic nature. If the movie made you a little sick to your stomach, or made you feel bad about your life. If you hated it for whatever reason, that's cool too. I'm not suggesting you risk gastro-intestinal distress just for the sake of risky filmmaking.

But if you haven't seen it yet? Well, I'll just say this...

It may upset you. And it probably will upset you.

And all along, we really meant it to.

Because face it. All this time...You there, with the Smiley-face pin. Admit it.

All this time, you’ve been waiting for a director who was going to hit you in the face with this story. To just crack you in the jaw, and then bend you over the pool table with this story. With its utterly raw view of the darkest sides of human nature, expressed through its masks of action and beauty and twisted good intentions. Like a fry-basket full of hot grease in the face. Like the Comedian on the Grassy Knoll. I know, I know...

You say you don't like it. You say you've got issues. I get it.

And yet... You'll be thinking about this film, down the road. It'll nag at you. How it was rough and beautiful. How it went where it wanted to go, and you just hung on. How it was thoughtful and hateful and bleak and hilarious. And for Jackie Earle Haley.

Trust me. You'll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.

Might as well make it count for something.

David Hayter

hahaha this guy is my fav!
-Katie

Good Times

Seriously, new celebrity crush Jeffrey Dean Morgan


How can a man be this hot? my god


-Katie

Six Feet Under

My life was dedicated to finding this book that scared the motherfucking shit out of me when I was little. For the life of me I couldn't remember what the hell it was called though, then as I sat down to watch the bachelor about five minutes ago, it came to me, Scared Stiff. I used to be a little page master in my day, reading and visiting the library as often as I could. One day when I visited the friends of the library store I found this book for only ten cents, it looked interesting so I bought it, big mistake. My god I literally could not sleep for days! I was about eight when I read it and the cover said the book was targeted for my age, but I soon realized that might have been someone's sick joke. Don't let the cute cover fool you this children's novel involves death, zombies, brutality, and murder. Well, read the back cover for yourself:
Living in a funeral home can be a riot . . . until a body comes alive one night. Kelly and Chace are determined to stop the vengeful bag of bones from terrorizing their town. But how do you stop something that's already dead?
It's out of print now, but you can find it on amazon and ebay literally for pennies. I suggest you have a read. I'll never forget this book, this is the sole reason in which I have irrational fears of butchers, zombies, and windows with no curtains. And for god sake never sit with you back facing a large window ever!
-Katie Somebody let the body out of the bag