The Big Book O'Rape

You have to love it when an idea just comes out of everyday conversation. The original concept for this came from Me, Dan, Fred, and Brian talking in the parking lot outside of a pizza place.

Also: How often as a person do you get to here some of the following?
"There's a cactus in my ass!"
"Did I just hump a cactus? AHHH! I DID JUST HUMP A CACTUS! OW!"
"I will get my bare ass on camera sometime today" (he failed, every time he tried the camera was at too high an angle or a close up, resulting in it being out of the camera's view)
"You were straddling me way to hardcore there buddy"
"I raped you then you raped him, no. Scott raped you then I raped him, then Fred jumped on top of both of us, then Brian joined and was raping me"

And this is the first time that as a director I've said "You have to throw the cactus at his ass with a toss like this, don't pelt it, I don't want the cactus to rape him, just to make his raping uncomfortable"

Hopefully this is the start of doing regular, weekly releases again, it feels good to be back.

Here's the Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dy_DcXnf5g
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The Awkward Stripper

Finally! After 3 or 4 missed updates! The computer I used to upload from (as opposed to the one I edit and do everything else from) is dead! It's been dying a slow death, causing the missed updates because it wouldn't stay on and functional for long enough to put something up, I now have a new one.

Updates are back to normal, possibly going to 2 updates per week in the next month, I haven't quite decided. In the meantime...Stripping, just got awkward.

Here's the Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b8k-f16ss4
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Legalize Murder PSA

The time has come to legalize murder!

Here's the Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wghfO9qDLYY
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[square()ne]: Before the Studio: Part 1 and Part 2

First: a quick announcement, Starting soon, I will be switching from my current once a week update, to twice a week! That's going to start within the next month or so, after I get back from a couple of vacations to Dominican Republic, and Vermont. The delay is because I currently doubt that i'll even be able to do one update while i'm away, though possibly will be able to. There's no way I can (or if I can, no way i'm going to take the time to) do two updates while on vacation.

On to this...

On May 17th, 2009 Square One (or [square()ne] ) went into the studio (Retromedia Studios, in Red Bank, NJ) to record a demo. I went with them "to film our epic journey into the studio" - Dave B., the drummer.

Originally, I was going to upload this as just one video, but it was too big to upload to youtube (1.87gb) so I split it into two parts, because at first I tried compressing it and that made the video look bad. Others have told me that it still looks high quality, but I noticed all sorts of little things that happen when you compress a video, and they annoyed me.

I'll let them describe themselves: (from their myspace)
"Square One is a four piece melodic hardcore band from the shore of central jersey. With uplifting melodies and diverse technical writing but still remaining true to the roots of hardcore with breakdowns and 2 steps. 51709 was released (by pure coincidence) on May 17, 2009. It features the first four songs composed since nearly a year ago. The band has been formed since winter and its live practice sessions have only been present for about the beginning of spring. Currently looking to complete their lineup with a guitarist spot. The recordings off of 51709 ware done with only one guitar so it would help. Some of the members have only been playin their respected instrumets for half a year.
John Sorrentino- bass
Brian Amorim- lead vocals.
Dave Benning- drums, backup vocals
David Algalva- Lead guitarist.
Expect to hear more in the future and we hope that everyone will be pleased with what we have done."

Here's the Link(s):
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujBMKw3hvRo
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ_oLEyb3No
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also: Check out the band's myspace - www.myspace.com/squareonenj

Against the World by Ignition Live Music Video (At The Relay For Life)

Originally I was going to take the footage from this and do a full live dvd type thing of the show, but the original audio ended up sounding like crap. It was an outdoor show, and when something like that is outside the sound just disperses everywhere and ends up unbalanced/lousy. So I just ended up doing this one song, using their demo for audio, similar to what I previously did with footage from their show at The Stone Pony for their song Do It Again. Though unlike that one, I filmed this one, and with 4 cameras (and it wasn't handheld).

1 camera getting an upward angle at the singer
1 behind one guitarist/the basist
1 behind/to the right of the drummer
1 encompassing everything from out in front.

Here's the Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeQLwDgYSig
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Macabre World Real Estate

This was shot on the same day, just after Wigger-Ology. It's been written since shortly after the filming/release of Macabre World CSI, but hasn't been filmed until now.

Overall, the only thing that I'd redo is the knife flying at the end, I tried to figure out a way to rig it to fly out, but that idea (and several quick modifications) failed. So I put that in in editing.

Here's the Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSz0yfQJos
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Wigger-ology 101: Becoming A Wigger

Fact: There are 66 jump cuts in this. This is only 2 minutes and 12 seconds long. That's a total of a jump cut every 2 seconds.

It took about 10 minutes to edit, but 2 days to get uploaded. I had to try to upload it 6 times, and it worked on the 7th, because people kept closing out the window, or youtube was being retarded ("under maintenance"). By the 3rd time, I was ready to put a hole in my family's computer's monitor (my computer is in my room with a wireless connection so it's not great for uploading large files).

Here's the Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HALtUczaQ
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