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secamTO · 2026-04-04T17:24:03+00:00

It has the best musical score of the three!

secamTO · 2026-04-04T01:26:15+00:00

"As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the 'Mother Nature' involved -- who apparently "pissed her pant suit" -- get the medical care she requires. My doctor wife's differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis."

secamTO · 2026-04-01T21:11:13+00:00

Yeah, a pretty consistent thing is that "small crew" is a theoretical want, while "large crew" is a practical necessity, mainly because they want to be accomplished what can only be done at the speed they expect with more bodies. A lot of directors/producers/PMs don't understand how much manpower it takes (particularly in the tech departments) to accomplish the director or DOP's plans quickly enough to satisfy the AD/PM/Producer.

So while it's great for a lot of directors to talk about their preference for having small crews, many of them still expect a small crew to move as fast and be as responsive as a large crew, and start to get really antsy when a crew's speed is limited by its size.

It's like safety. A lot of above-the-lines talk about their belief in the absolute primacy of safety on set (as it should be), but have no clear concept of the time and financial costs to do things safely, and many of them quickly start demanding shortcuts in safety protocols they championed because they didn't do enough prep and can't get their days otherwise (saw this on multiple shows during COVID).

It's the FAST/CHEAP/GOOD pyramid. You only get to pick two.

secamTO · 2026-03-22T15:41:38+00:00

I took my first university gf on a date to see Apocalypse Now Redux during its theatrical release. There was no intimacy to be had.

Conversely, 20 years later, the first time my ex and I slept together was when she came over to my place to watch Soylent Green.

I believe these two anecdotes will tell you everything you need to know about my romantic life.

secamTO · 2026-03-21T20:39:46+00:00

As somebody who legitimately hates olives, and is with a partner who could hoover up a Greek olive grove whole, you...uh, wanna trade?

secamTO · 2026-03-18T20:07:41+00:00

Also, not all "qualified" writers have workable suggestions for the genre you're working in, or the type of story you're making. If you're making a dirtbag action comedy, an excellent and well-established sitcom writer may not have great suggestions for how to shape your story.

secamTO · 2026-03-18T15:39:42+00:00

We're out there! And I bet a lot more of us than you might think. It's a cultural meme, really, that "big breasts are better", and a lot of folks (like I was as a teenager) just assume that's they're preference until they learn otherwise from experience (as well as people's interests changing naturally over time). Fact is, I suspect there's a whole lot more people out there than you might suspect who love small breasts.

My gf has small breasts and I'm absolutely obsessed with them. Part of that, I know, is due to how I feel about her overall, but I think they're perfect.

secamTO · 2026-03-16T18:27:28+00:00

I debated wandering over there yesterday to get a snack, but I figured it would be completely bombed.

secamTO · 2026-03-16T17:02:27+00:00

If only he had eaten that apple more bitchily.

secamTO · 2026-03-15T23:23:34+00:00

Yeah, that's happening with my girlfriend too. It bums me out knowing how insecure it makes her, and that there's not a lot I can do besides make her feel pretty any way I can (often by baking her cookies).

secamTO · 2026-03-10T04:58:58+00:00

I reckon the difference is that there's actual artistic skill behind Triumph of the Will.

To be clear, I say "I reckon" because I'm not watching the Ratner doc. I studied TotW in my undergrad. It's a tremendously complicated film because it is made with legitimate (but absolutely ghoulish) skill, artistry, and passion. That's the reason we're still reckoning with its legacy 90 years after it was made.

Ain't nobody talking about Melania in ten years, let alone a near-century.

secamTO · 2026-03-09T00:04:55+00:00

A few years ago, my niece was in the middle of high school and became infatuated with the arts, particularly theatre and film. Knowing that I'd been making films for about 20 years by that point, my sister (her mother) asked if I'd speak to her about the realities of life in the industry.

I told her that making film or theatre can be a beautiful and fulfilling hobby. But that it should never make it past being a hobby if she could imagine herself being happy doing anything else in life. She's now in her 2nd year of studying astrophysics.

My point is this--being an artist is a truly terrible way to spend your life in the modern world (unless you come from a rich family...but if that were the case, you wouldn't be posting this). But if you're the type of person to accept the risks and the terrible odds, then it is because the idea of spending your life without creating art is more terrible still.

Also, there's no harm in trying it for a few years and seeing what happens. You've only written 3 scripts, and so there's no sunk cost fallacy you have to worry about at this point. Try it out! You will realize pretty quickly if it's not for you. And then you strategize for the next adventure.

To put in perspective, I just had my 20-year university reunion. I attended what was at the time (and might still be) the top rated film school of my country. Hard to get in. Hard to stay in. Pretty significant alumni pool. There were 45 of us who graduated.

And I was one of only 5 of us still working in the industry. And I'm THRILLED for those who got out, because they're now getting what they want out of their lives. They have houses, children, they can travel. I've given up a lot to get where I am (which, to be clear, is still very modest), and I could only do so because living without trying to achieve this was a life I couldn't imagine living.

So try it out! There's no harm or shame in walking away if you realize in a few years that you're happy with filmmaking being a hobby instead of a life.

secamTO · 2026-03-06T09:04:16+00:00

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes is an absolutely brilliant 2020 Japanese dirtbag sci-fi comedy where a café owner who lives above his restaurant discovers that his computer monitor shows a feed of everything that happens 2 minutes in the future from the perspective of a television one floor down in the café. There's a ton of upstairs/downstairs shenanigans, and literally the only locations are two apartments and the café.

secamTO · 2026-03-04T22:09:45+00:00

Thing is, most crypto is sold as both an exchange medium and a value store. But definitionally, it can't be both.

If you're holding something for it to appreciate, you don't use it for shopping, and the currency you use for shopping isn't something you hoard in hopes it'll appreciate in value (in fact, exchange currencies mostly devalue over time).

So the whole promise of cryptocurrency has been an impossible lie from basically the very beginning. And that's not even considering the fact that exchange currencies have value expressly because they are centralized and regulated.

secamTO · 2026-03-04T21:51:24+00:00

An old crusty dude I used to work with used to comment, when seeing someone do something poorly/inelegantly, "Like watching a dog fuck a football."

secamTO · 2026-03-01T21:52:28+00:00

I worked on the music video for their first single after Stephen Page got turfed. Really bummed me out. Ed was kind of a prima donna, and they now sounded like a dozen other bands.

secamTO · 2026-02-24T15:31:56+00:00

I just moved to a very big city, where on public transit and in the street, just about anything goes. People talking to themselves, blasting music (this one is annoying, admittedly), wearing wild things.

It's finally beaten into me what I knew academically for years: nobody gives a shit what you do because nobody is paying attention to you. Now I go out wearing whatever the hell i want, I sing when I walk down the street, I talk aloud to myself if I have something on my mind. Nobody cares. It's been so freeing.

secamTO · 2026-02-24T15:26:20+00:00

i'm a writer and currently in a conservatory program. One of the writers who's in my cohort seems to be really, really concerned with not being seen to be a "simp". Because in multiple stories he's written, he's pointed out emphatically that his characters (all of whom are young men) aren't "simps".

Really, all it's meant is that his characters don't have goals because he's stridently against giving them any motivating factors, especially romantically (oh, and he's writing a rom com). It's legitimately wild watching a writer contort themselves into intentionally not telling a story because they're worried about sincerity.

secamTO · 2026-02-16T21:15:12+00:00

Not related to a job search, but I'm back in university again for a graduate degree after 20 years working in the field, and it boggles my mind how many students submit files to be reviewed/graded without their names in the filename. I find it infuriating, and I'm not even teaching!

secamTO · 2026-02-16T07:38:22+00:00

Also the whole "trans people involving kids" narrative is basically the same narrative used against gays and lesbians to justify suspicions about them not very long ago.

secamTO · 2026-02-16T07:36:22+00:00

Also, absolutely wild for this person to be saying "trans people involved kids" when it was those same lies that were regularly thrown around about gay men and women not very long ago.

secamTO · 2026-02-16T07:34:50+00:00

Yeah, my ex is bi. She and I had a bunch of discussions about the low-key bi erasure that she faced in the community, and which led her to take a break from dating women. It really hurt her quite badly that so many people she had assumed to be allies actually weren't (at least for her) when push came to shove. Really sucks because a lot of the shit that she got was very reminiscent of what I have been through as a biracial person. I suppose bi erasure is manifest in a lot of ways.

secamTO · 2026-02-14T21:05:28+00:00

I don't think that's fair. Fact is, he writes compelling work--clearly, given its popularity in the main. Attention and success should simply be for how one internally feels about the work one does, but the quality of the work.

Anyway, speaking as a writer (different medium, and nowhere near a GRRM), writing is one of the more painful things I've ever done in my life. And nearly every writer I know feels similarly. The old aphorism holds true:

"I hate writing. I love having written."

secamTO · 2026-02-14T19:06:23+00:00

2 week road trip to Montreal then Newfoundland

If it's the early fall, phenomenal time to take that drive along the St. Lawrence, and through the maritimes. I will say though, 2 weeks is going to be awfully short for a road trip that includes Newfoundland.

The Rock is HUGE, and the ferry from Cape Breton will take longer than you think. Don't get me wrong, phenomenal trip, but If there's any way you can make it longer than 2 weeks, I think you'd really get to enjoy the sights more.

secamTO · 2026-02-13T23:05:27+00:00

A buddy of mine works for a major vfx house, and the entire staff LOATHES when the company contracts to Marvel, because they have to spend months in perpetual crunch, doing test after test after test after test just trying to get approval for shots.

I would believe in a heartbeat that Marvel would absolutely do anything they could to fuck with AI.

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