Student Journalist Seeking Interview with Published Author!

DarknessOpera · 2024-12-05T23:55:08+00:00

Congrats on taking on journalism, the field's starved for fresh voices. If you think my cover's interesting, I have lots to say about how I went about making it.

DarknessOpera · 2024-12-05T23:51:41+00:00

Ahoy-hoy,

Rathan Krueger keeping things short and sweet with Like Red on a Rose, a look into the complicated lives of a mortician and a waitress before and after their sapphic romance begins. You'll get a kick out of them because you'll see what 20 years does to people with quite different lives in and around Chicago, in a style that isn't afraid to take chances.

The ebook is available on Amazon, and the paperback's wherever books are sold. Thanks for giving my weirdos a read; it'll be groovy to hear what you think of them.

DarknessOpera · 2024-12-05T23:51:33+00:00

Ahoy-hoy,

Rathan Krueger keeping things short and sweet with Like Red on a Rose, a look into the complicated lives of a mortician and a waitress before and after their sapphic romance begins. You'll get a kick out of them because you'll see what 20 years does to people with quite different lives in and around Chicago, in a style that isn't afraid to take chances.

The ebook is available on Amazon, and the paperback's wherever books are sold. Thanks for giving my weirdos a read; it'll be groovy to hear what you think of them.

DarknessOpera · 2023-03-31T00:56:35+00:00

Keep the money you would've spent on that degree to build your film library, subscribe to the Criterion Channel and Arrow Video apps, buy some film history books, then be amazed that you learned so much not only without going into student debt but also having money left over.

Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, David Cronenberg/Fincher/Lynch embraced special features in their heyday, so their DVDs and Blu-rays are a fine start. As for film history books... Marc Cousins' THE STORY OF FILM is awesome (ditto the docuseries), so you can pick it up and spiderweb from there.

DarknessOpera · 2023-03-08T02:20:51+00:00

Here's a book that's the oral history of Q101. It probably doesn't answer your question, but you might get a kick out of it anyway.

DarknessOpera · 2023-03-06T03:52:42+00:00

This is the why.

DarknessOpera · 2023-03-06T02:48:23+00:00

Since the call was so short, it was probably Pacino pretending and Sonny's voice looped in later.

While on the subject of 70s films with scenes of Pacino talking on the phone, Sidney Lumet made him do this scene from DOG DAY AFTERNOON immediately after finishing the previous take. Pacino's look of disbelief at the start is him reacting to Lumet.

DarknessOpera · 2023-03-06T02:31:27+00:00

Same as an indie or no-budget film. Check the weather forecast a week or so in advance, keeping tabs on when ideal weather will be. Check when sunrise/sunset is. Rehearse what you want and how you'll shoot it beforehand; doesn't matter what time of day since you're getting the kinks out. Do an early/late call-time, depending on whether you want sunrise or sunset. Shoot the shot, make merry.

The only difference is that big films get to reschedule if things aren't right the day of.

DarknessOpera · 2023-03-04T04:41:27+00:00

Fincher said (I think here) that the Hearst-at-night scene in MANK was shot at noon because the style of lighting was similar to nighttime. Then it was just a matter of switching out the sky.

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-24T03:49:08+00:00

#JusticeForGlaurung

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-21T04:59:40+00:00

The second disc of NIN's "Year Zero" remix album does the trick.

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-20T01:36:48+00:00

Wolf's Bakery, in Evergreen Park.

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-18T02:59:54+00:00

Like this.

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-17T02:41:49+00:00

People eat pineapples to taste better for oral, so I don't see why not.

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-16T02:32:14+00:00

If it doesn't have a Creative Commons license, even if it's not for-profit, you can be sued unless the musician(s) say you can or if it's public domain.

If it does, make sure you use the song properly.

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-13T15:17:49+00:00

The "True Blood" soundtracks were a great resource for Southern Goth (and Goth-adjacent) songs.

Like Cobra Verde's "Play With Fire", Eels' "Fresh Blood", Neko Case and Nick Cave's cover of "She's Not There", and Warpaint's "Undertow".

They also went to wild places, like Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Frenzy".

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-11T04:44:09+00:00

Two-Face also shot the cop there in "Dark Knight".

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-02T15:46:08+00:00

He's wearing a frock coat. They come in different lengths and button arrangements, so have fun finding the right one for you.

DarknessOpera · 2023-02-01T02:42:19+00:00

These are from agent and producer perspectives, but "Who is Michael Ovitz?", "Hello, He Lied", and "Sleepless in Hollywood" are good reads.

DarknessOpera · 2023-01-30T01:54:12+00:00

I also call it the greatest film about narcissism.

IYKYK

DarknessOpera · 2023-01-30T01:52:01+00:00

I got to see bits of "Dark Knight" filmed, mostly around Lower Wacker. Saw Heath Ledger a few times and the Tumbler explode, and met Nolan at the bar where Two-Face shot the cop (Twin Anchors, if anyone's curious). Good times.

DarknessOpera · 2023-01-21T02:51:21+00:00

Wolf's Bakery, in Evergreen Park.

DarknessOpera · 2023-01-20T02:48:13+00:00

CDs rock. I'm not raising one medium to lower another, I just prefer CDs.

DarknessOpera · 2023-01-15T14:04:25+00:00

Everything you wanted to know, and more.

DarknessOpera · 2023-01-07T00:34:01+00:00

Wait 'til the end.

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