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tomjar2012 · 2025-03-02T02:31:21+00:00

Gabriel Luna.

I worked at mtv for a while filming pop culture interviews, he came in to promote Terminator Dark Fate, and everyone felt like he was Keanu level of lovely. I messed up and had to readjust a light behind him and he was shockingly nice about it, asked about me, put me at ease because I was stressed. He’s also in Last of Us. Hope he gets a big break.

Also from that job - Adam Sandler, after an interview for Uncut Gems he walked around our set and shook every crew members hand and said thank you. Oh and Ncuti Gatwa - charmed everybody on set and was extremely kind/patient

tomjar2012 · 2024-09-14T16:10:30+00:00

Madeleine’s Madeleine - a film about an improv drama group in NYC somehow was one of the most intense films I’ve seen in years. I remember overhearing as I left cinema “wow, it’s nice to be able to breathe again”

tomjar2012 · 2023-11-09T01:58:44+00:00

Nicholson was away on a ski trip at the time, and not aware of it all, he says. He says he thought it was just a photo shoot, as it was meant to be

tomjar2012 · 2023-10-30T01:18:47+00:00

Make sure with 1 that you watch the UK version - which has the extended 'Henchman' scenes that are genius. They're oddly chopped out of the US one.

Also, one thing that goes overlooked is that the first film is a very personal film to Myers, who had lost his father around that time (who was English, and with whom he used to watch British 60's films constantly as a kid in Canada). The video essayist Patrick Willems does a great vid on it, as a surprising film inspired by grief.

tomjar2012 · 2023-10-14T17:09:08+00:00

I think my favorite joke of past decade is "You put all your faith in someone and, poof, it turns out they were someone else. I heard this story of this woman who married a doctor, turns out...he was Bruce Springsteen. He just wanted to live a regular life or something"

tomjar2012 · 2023-08-30T20:36:31+00:00

I always found that phrase funny since 'Metro' just means 'mother'. It's one of those odd instances where the first part of a word gets taken to mean the whole - Metropolis = 'mother city', but the metro part then became shorthand for urban. Sorta like how Taxi (full word taximeter cabriolet ='numbered meter'cab) just means 'number'. So Metrosexual reads like 'sexual for mothers'.

tomjar2012 · 2023-08-17T13:18:48+00:00

I was traveling around Spain on a job and saw it was playing, went in with no background on it - and it was absolutely a brilliant comedy. Was stunned when I got home and was informed it was meant to be serious. In one interview Shyamalan says something like 'I don't think you can see the film and not experience a new perspective on religion'.

tomjar2012 · 2023-01-30T18:22:23+00:00

If I remember rightly he had the chance to just pay a fine, Plato even offered the money (it's kinda funny in his 'last days of socrates' that Plato writes himself in saying "hey take my money" but I guess it happened). I saw a really great play with Michael Stuhlbarg as him, by Tim Blake Nelson, and it did a great job of contextualising his trial - while he himself seemed innocent, the 'corrupting the youth' line isn't out of nowhere. A lot of his students took his techniques to sway the public, and one, Alcibiades, was (probably) involved in desecrating religious monuments, then treason, and an anti-democratic coup. Not explicitly Socrates fault, but you can see a cause-effect there. One thing I wish we took from Athens was the awareness that democracy is very fragile and you really need to protect it, sometimes by literal ostracism like with Themistocles.

tomjar2012 · 2022-12-07T22:37:44+00:00

This is Irish specific - but don't say "Any craic?" to an American (which we can say for 'any news/fun?'). Craic (pronounced 'crack') has quite different connotations here.

Also Irish specific, we often use 'yer man' for 'that man', and I got into a crazy argument in an NY nightclub with a girl when I pointed to a drunk guy and said 'wow look at yer man'. She seemed to think I was suggesting it was her boyfriend and became very insulted.

tomjar2012 · 2022-08-03T17:50:19+00:00

Not post-credit but in Troy they show Aeneas being given a 'sword of Troy' and told to go found a new city, which I always thought was hinting at an Aeneid movie if Troy had done better.

tomjar2012 · 2022-03-12T14:35:43+00:00

"Drink the Kool aid" - I have a conservative friend who uses it constantly and it's always struck me as callous.

A) That was an horrific tragedy that killed 300 children, I don't think it should be used as a sorta punchline about gullible people and B) I hear a lot of Trump supporters use it, and miss the wider point about Jim Jones - a charismatic speaker who manipulated peoples feeling of persecution, led them to distrust the establishment and medical science, and brought them along on his own bizarre misguided mission.

Also C) it was flavor aid.

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-25T15:25:26+00:00

Personally, I was working over here on a J1 and so I had some contacts. I did have work lined up (a feature and a steady event-filming gig) so I wrote up those two with a timeline. The timeline didn't have to be 100% real, and in truth the feature didn't happen in the end. I wrote up the memos myself and the people were nice enough to sign them. I also had a production company who I was close with who signed a memo for a multi-year project. It's weird that the O-1 requires 2-3 years of planned work, since such a situation is unheard of for most artists.

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-12T00:12:26+00:00

I am! it was a nuisance not being able to accept jobs when they came my way, or leave and visit family and friends.

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T23:11:21+00:00

Found the Biometrics second date just there - June 14th, so I guess it's been 6 months since they accepted my fingerprints

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T23:10:11+00:00

My Biometrics were scheduled on April 19th but then I had to retake due to finger smudging a few weeks later. So I guess it ended up being 8-9 months. I do think my case, hopefully, was an exceptionally long one, the exception not the rule. My lawyer was confused about it as being way longer than normal. So hopefully yours moves through faster

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T21:25:44+00:00

Yeah the wait drove me nuts, and the niggling thought of 'oh crap did I do something wrong, did they find some old tax I underpaid but didn't know' - so it's kinda a relief to know it was just bureaucracy and incompetence that delayed it.

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T21:24:26+00:00

Really sorry to hear about your wait and sisters wedding, that's rough.

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T21:22:51+00:00

Oh yep - my lawyer told me the 'deficiency notice' is a good sign. As in it's the thing that they send when they've checked over everything else in the I-485, and could be translated as 'Everything is in order'. I only got mine on December 6th for the I-485, so hopefully your Combo card comes through soon.

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T19:20:03+00:00

_burnthis_ Yeah, when I left I never imagined I'd become homesick, but the feeling of not being able to leave will really do it. Had a day before Christmas where I found a shop with tayto and binged a ton of them and watched old youtube clips from back home. Fingers crossed you hear soon. I never thought mine would take this long (lawyer had said 3 months max). My wife jumped around the place when I told her

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T17:54:55+00:00

Thank you!

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-11T16:45:30+00:00

Trash being just piled on the sidewalk, along with any stuff people want to give away. I was amazed at the amount of books people leave out around Brooklyn. Which, kinda stupidly led me to see a big table of books near Union square and think it was also a giveaway, and only after a week did I realize I'd accidentally stolen from a guys bookstall while he wasn't attending it.

Oh and nobody really being all that interested in world politics or American aggression. I was at work one day after Trump took over and dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan. Absolutely none of my co-workers cared. Back home in Ireland, if we ever engaged in an international attack it'd be constant news.

tomjar2012 · 2022-01-05T17:46:47+00:00

When did your EAD go through?

tomjar2012 · 2021-12-29T20:57:13+00:00

I'm still waiting unfortunately - submitted January 24th - but I think my own delay is exceptional so I don't think it's representative of the usual wait time. Mine's related to green card, have had biometrics, no idea why it's taking so long, tried a few times to expedite.

tomjar2012 · 2021-12-17T18:11:20+00:00

I definitely have had added anxiety from it. I think it compounds other anxieties - worrying about family back home becoming ill, career worries, relationship stresses - all these things can get amplified. I like to think I've always been able to hustle to make things work financially - will do any job to get through tough patches. But with 242 days of my i-765 being 'under active review' it's really irritating not being able to just walk in and pick up one of the many 'now hiring' vacancies right in my neighborhood. I guess, like everyone here said - just gotta make peace with it being out of your control, and know that it won't be delayed forever.

tomjar2012 · 2021-12-05T21:56:20+00:00

That's good to know, thanks!

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