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Jason Kottke · @jkottke 🚶 245.8K 🚶
Responsible for kottke.org. Irresponsible about everything else.
Hoo boy did I ever dodge a bullet with that.
jason you posted this on main
My tweets aren't for you Matt
RT @kottke: Cinemaps are illustrated maps of movies like Star Wars & Back to the Future that show the characters' routes through the films'…
I am heading to LA in a couple weeks for pretty much the first time (I know, I know). I have zero idea what neighborhood to stay in...I find the sprawl bewildering!
I've updated my Black Mirror Soundtracks playlist with scores from the latest season https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7EUlHObeoNqmGgEE1rZrzu
I can feel summer already starting to fade and I'm holding on as tight as I can... https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6c0haFIM7/
For those who use an iPad in tandem w/ a Mac, what's your setup for seamless switching back & forth? Esp interested in cloud storage, lightweight image editing (resizing etc), a text editor that does lightweight HTML/Markdown w/ regex-able text shortcuts. (to make @kottke posts)
Some daring fans went around barricades before and after filming to get close-ups of some of those interiors, including Radio Shack, The Gap, JC Penney, and many more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v6A1YSXv0I#t=1m45s
This is amazing—Stranger Things 3's Starcourt Mall wasn't a sound stage. It was all built inside an actual dying mall in Georgia. And the set designers made more than simple storefronts—they made FULL INTERIORS, even for stores that were never seen on-screen…
Am I wrong in believing that a fully built-out Stranger Things-themed 80s mall would be a significant tourist attraction, at least for a little while?
RT @kottke: Several high-res versions of Hokusai's The Great Wave are available for free download, including a whopping 51-megapixel image…
Here is a picture of the Sesame Street characters all sitting around reading each other's books :')
Sooooo, Bert and Ernie had a fight, Ernie went to the bar to cool off, came back after closing and didn't want to go back inside, so Oscar let him crash outside his trash can, and Bert is worried b/c Ernie never came home?
How does this go? Oh right: Wow, this blew up. Check out my Soundcloud here https://kottke.org
RT @adamconover: At this New York subway station, exactly one stair is just slightly too tall, causing every single person who climbs it to…
Don't miss the Spotify playlist in this post… I've been bopping around the house to it for the past hour. https://twitter.com/kottke/status/1148625615442128896
I have never donated to anything faster than this. Mitch McConnell is a ghoul who is holding America hostage. He must go. https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1148544945265020928
RT @kottke: Must read: "Our laws essentially force driving on all of us – by subsidizing it, by punishing people who don't do it, by buildi…
Blessings to the folks fact-checking the marshmallow test in the mentions of a joke tweet https://twitter.com/jkottke/status/1148297952500355073
It... me? https://twitter.com/kottke/status/1148363381256142848
Your phone is the adult marshmallow test you fail 250 times a day.
RT @kottke: 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki, a behind-the-scenes documentary that followed the legendary animator as he worked on Ponyo and Th…
Nothing but respect for *my* Salute to America event! #USWNT
Sun Jul 7 ♥ @ RT
Ugh writing is hard and stupid why does anyone even do this
Sat Jul 6 ♥ @ RT
Swearengen: You ever think, Bullock, of not going straight at a thing? … Bullock: No. Me: Ditto.
I have a wound on my finger and I put a pinch of salt in my food and now I know where that expression comes from.
Thu Jul 4 ♥ @ RT
"I just tapped my paper notepad to check if I had any alerts" is how my morning is going…
The Moon's shadow is just starting to ease its way across the Sun… https://twitter.com/kottke/status/1146129163797114880
I went out skipping rocks this morning and the tips from this video made a big difference in my consistency. Almost every throw was 15+ skips…and one had to be 30+. Fun! https://twitter.com/kottke/status/1145739097148968960
Seriously: https://postlight.com/work/the-players-tribune
My people are having a MOMENT. Did I mention I helped build this web site? https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/sue-bird-megan-rapinoe-uswnt
This is such a great line (and aspiration): "Megan is at the boss level in the video game of knowing herself."
RT @kottke: You gotta listen to this: the otherworldly sound of a giant seven-foot gong being played is nothing like you'd expect. "You can…
A solar eclipse is happening in South America today. I decided not to go and I'm feeling just a tiny bit of FOMO.
RT @kottke: According to a recent survey of experts on women's issues, among the top 10 most dangerous countries for women are India, Somal…
RT @kottke: In 1587, Urbano Monte published the largest known early map of Earth (10 feet across). The full map was recently digitized and…
RT @tcarmody: Maps! Muppets! Lists of books that go on and on! It's the first summer edition of Noticing, the newsletter I write for @kottk…
The Mississippi River LIDAR maps mentioned on @kottke make perfect iPad wallpapers https://www.flickr.com/photos/165735975@N07/43345684644/
RT @kottke: Check out these amazing infographics by Emma Willard, America's first female mapmaker. They have names like "The Temple of Time…
RT @kottke: A two-hour mixtape from Boards of Canada, featuring the first new music from them since 2013 https://kottke.org/19/06/two-hour-mixtape-from-boards-of-canada
These cumulonimbus mammatus clouds were absolutely bonkers tonight https://www.instagram.com/p/BzMi3hylMsO/
Manhattan sunsets
VT sunsets
RT @bryanboyer: matterbattle dot com is still blocked from Twitter for no apparent reason. @TwitterSupport doesn't respond via Twitter or e…
Boston-area pals: go to this! It's a small exhibit that packs a lot of punch. https://twitter.com/HoughtonLib/status/1143893054673190913
1. I am glad this already exists: https://imgur.com/a/gfcEr?gallery 2. I would read the heck out of an interview with the person/people who designed all those screens
I still remember this fondly https://gmunk.com/TRON-Board-Room
It was fun, but I think we can wrap it up
OK, that's it I've read your tweets (Yes, all of them) You can stop now
Finally, thank you.
I've gotten reports that @kottke is unreachable in China. Perhaps it was this link about China's surveillance state (which explicitly mentioned Tiananmen Square)? https://twitter.com/kottke/status/1137031965394128896 Or this post about Tank Man that gets passed around each June? https://kottke.org/12/06/more-views-of-the-tiananmen-tank-man
All the random shit I've done in California during my lifetime https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2019/06/24/california-love/
I love that there's almost 0 tech/work things on here.
This x1000. Being pissed at other people not going through your same hardships is some toddler being jealous of the new baby nonsense. https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1143004475831046144
RT @kottke: A six-part documentary series about Jim Henson. Each episode focuses on a different Henson project, like Sesame Street, The Mup…
Here's a clip of the scene I was in (I'm the one coming out of the gas station) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTJabC8F5og
Two years ago today, I was in Atlanta shooting a scene for Halt and Catch Fire. It was a wonderful adventure! https://kottke.org/17/10/that-time-i-was-on-halt-and-catch-fire


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3 Impossible Questions
Given that it's mentioned in the Fishnapped! program, I believe I can safely announce this now: A play I'm in the latter stages of writing, called 3 Impossible Questions, will be the fourth play in Olympia Family Theater's next mainstage season. It adapts fables from all over the Islamic world and introduces Western audiences to a beloved figure in many of those countries: Mullah Nasreddin. Nasreddin is a sort of wiseacre imam who teaches via riddles and paradox. I compare him to Bugs Bunny in American popular entertainment. For folks who think of Muslims as humorless, especially with respect to questioning Islamic beliefs and traditions, his popularity will come as a shock; but he appears in comic books, TV cartoon shows and bedtime stories all over the world.
I've had a wonderful time getting to know Mullah Nasreddin (as I also spend time with the congregants at the Islamic Center of Olympia), and I look forward to helping introduce him to you. This show will be directed by Ted Ryle, and it's my debut as a full-length, professional playwright. (I've had short plays produced in four states.) Look for exact dates and audition notices as we get closer to Questions' early-2018 run, insha'Allah.
Incidentally, my Muslim friends know I'm agnostic and are absolutely fine with it. One of them, in fact, likes to introduce me to other congregants at the mosque as "Christian...who isn't one."
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If William Shatner Can, He Can, Too
Note: I recently had the opportunity to interview actor/playwright/singer/songwriter Jeff Daniels. My wife and I caught his live show last night and greatly enjoyed it. Because of that, I wanted to publish my full interview transcript, which was cut down to less than 500 words for print. The edited version appeared online here and in last week's print edition of the Weekly Volcano. Enjoy.
If William Shatner can, he can too
The multi-talented Jeff Daniels
Christian Carvajal
If you've seen a movie this week, there's a good chance you've enjoyed the work of reliable talent Jeff Daniels. He plays a NASA chief in The Martian and Apple CEO John Sculley in Steve Jobs, written by multiple-award winner Aaron Sorkin. We spoke to Daniels in advance of his Broadway Center appearance as singer, songwriter, guitarist and raconteur. He was amiable but groggy, understandable given his movie career plus concert tour plus Emmy-winning lead performance on HBO's The Newsroom.
Weekly Volcano: A lot of your music is very frisky and jokey, but is there a song in particular that moves you when you perform it?
JEFF DANIELS: Yeah, we do a song in the show called "California." I've always had a love-hate relationship with the place. I couldn't imagine living there. The problem was all mine. That's where I've done most of my work over the career. It turned from a necessary evil to a place that I needed and grew to love a little bit, doing Newsroom. It was written in the early '90s, when I'd fly out there and do meetings and take the redeye home that night. It's kind of, "I'm out here, and yet I don't feel at home here, and yet I need to be here," kind of looking around at all those things it is. "All's fair in love and war, and everything means so much more in California." It's a young actor observing that this is where his life took him. The other one is "Back When You Were Into Me." Amanda [Daniels, daughter-in-law] sings it in the middle of the show, and it stops the show. This is the fourth tour we've done together with [the] Ben [Daniels] Band, and the first one was last year, August. It did what it did: it stopped the show. So we were putting Days Like These together. We were almost mastering, and we stopped, and I said put it on the end of the CD. I don't care, It's a good song. It's well-written, and she sings it great. They're going, "Well, you aren't singing it." I don't care. I tell the story in the show, which is true with a lot of these songs. It was a crew member sitting in McAvoy's office with me, and they're lighting something somewhere else. You spend seven months with people, sixteen hours a day, you get to know 'em. It's kind of forced friendships and you tell each other things that you wouldn't ordinarily, because you're spending so much time together. And she started talking about her marriage. I was more just a listener, and she's talking to me about talking to me, talking to herself. And she said, "Y'know, he used to do this for me, he used to do that, but that was back when he was into me." And she said it so plainly, it just hung in the air. I just grabbed it. Those are the ones that you grab, and they usually come pretty quickly. "Mile 416" is a song that we aren't doing in the show right now, but I might, 'cause I wrote it driving down Route 2 at the top of the country. I went via eastern Montana, which is flat, as you know, and you go by and there's one of those wooden crosses with flowers at mile 416. And I just grabbed a legal pad and had a conversation with this person that had gone away.
WV: Did the woman whose husband wasn't into her anymore give you any feedback on the song? Have you heard from her?
JD: No. Never told her! She would never know. She would never remember. That's what you do as a writer. Playwrights do it. Lanford Wilson taught me that. Just grab things. People say things. Grab 'em, and they'll turn into something: a play, a book, a song, a poem, whatever. But you have to be listening. You have to be aware of what people are doing. It's all fair game. I mean, you put her name in there? Sure. Absolutely. But I don't. It could be anyone, and that's the universal truth of the song, is that there are a lot of people out there going, "Y'know, back when he was into me." You're damn right. I probably have a couple of wives out there looking at their husbands after the song.
WV: Speaking of your playwriting, tell me a little about your new play Casting Session.
JD: Casting Session is a love letter to the off-Broadway actors. And I used to be that, and I still occasionally go to New York and do a reading for an off-Broadway company or a theater like that that's considering doing a play. You'll come in and you'll read it, and they'll make a decision as to whether to go forward with the play or not. But I've been in that casting director's office. It's the fifth floor of some midtown casting office, and you go in, and it's for a play that's not good, but you need the job. And it's gonna be off-off-Broadway, and you'll play to 14 people a night.
WV: For 14 bucks.
JD: Yeah, and I would do those plays. I mean, my God, that's how you start. It was seven years before I got Terms of Endearment, kicking around off-Broadway, just trying to stay in the business. And you worked where you could. And a friend of mine who's in his 60s, and you know, he's doing some television and audiobooks and stuff like that, so he's out of that room. But sometimes he'll go into that room, because he wants to do a play and wants to stay in the city and all that. But he said he was sitting in that room, and he started telling me--I mean, you just wonder why you're doing this. And the young director for this play is not back from lunch yet. He's late and unprofessional, and the receptionist doesn't care whether you're there or not, and you hear these footsteps coming up to the fourth floor 'cause the elevator's out. And you see another 63-year-old guy that this actor recognizes, 'cause they go up on the same auditions quite a bit and have for decades. And the guy just leans into the doorway breathing heavily, and just says, "I'm too f***in' old for this." And I said, there's the play. I blew it up, I put two 60-something actors in there who have auditioned against each other for decades, and their careers have never progressed. They've never gone beyond that kind of play at that level. And they hate each other. They compete, they're rivals, they're Michigan/Michigan State, and they're just saying, "Here's that guy again." And they're stuck in that room together, auditioning for what they think is a play.
WV: Boy, I've been in that room so many times. If you could have your manager email me that script, I'd love to read it.
JD: I imagine it'll be available soon. Here's what we do with my scripts. We premiere 'em at the Purple Rose, and it'll go till Christmas. I don't know when they'll make the script available, but we license them out of the Purple Rose. I've done a couple Samuel Frenches and Dramatists Play Services. Four of them are with Dramatists, and the other twelve including Casting are Purple Rose. And I just split the cut, heavy on the side of the Purple Rose whenever someone does the play. So the point is that they'll have a printed copy of the script, I would think, by the end of the year.
WV: Back in those early days, Jack Lemmon once told you to "be a little strange" in auditions. How did you put that advice into effect?
JD: You gotta stand out. That's [the name of a song] I do in the show. He went on. He said, "You can't be normal. You gotta be strange. You gotta be a little bit different, kid. Go in with a corncob pipe." I said, what? You mean an actual--? He goes, "No, it's a metaphor. I'm kidding. You gotta stand out. Don't be like the five guys in front of you and the ten guys after you. And whatever that means to you, and to crazy actors who need work--some guys can get pretty...you know. I know one actor who during an audition punched a hole through the wall to show them. 'Cause the guy gets angry in the scene, so he punched a hole through the drywall.
WV: Did it work?
JD: He ended up getting the part, yeah.
WV: It's interesting, because both you and Lemmon are known for being in that "everyman" mold, so I guess you probably are sitting in a room with twenty-four Jack Lemmons, or wannabe Jack Lemmons anyway.
JD: Oh my God, yeah, I mean, you get to New York and L.A., and trust me, there are a hundred guys behind you who can't wait for you to get done with your audition. And they all look just like you. They're all variations on you or whatever that "everyman" thing is, yeah.
WV: I've seen both The Martian and Steve Jobs. I quite enjoyed both. Sorkin wrote you a terrific argument scene in Steve Jobs, and I don't know your method in particular, but how close were you to punching Michael Fassbender?
JD: Oh, not at all. Not at all, and that's the fun of it for us. It becomes a dance, because once you get on top of the words--which is a lot of work, because Sorkin writes so many--a lot of work and a lot of repetition so that they become second nature. Y'know, you may have read this somewhere, but you try to get them so ingrained in you that it feels like the one-hundredth performance of a Sorkin play. I mean, you aren't even thinking about it. The curtain goes up and you just--it's like dominoes. It just falls, one at a time. And that's different from the opening night, where every line, every moment, you're all, "God, I've gotta remember this, remember that." Once you get on top of it, then it becomes this, you know, "it takes two to tango" kinda thing. And we'd come out of a take, and cut; and I'd go, Michael, I was late on that. He goes, "No, no, I was early. We'll fix it." Okay, good. And then you go: take two. It becomes this choreographed thing that, when we work together and we use each other—that's what's so great about working with the people at this level, in Jobs and other movies. We use and abuse each other, and then help each other up when they say cut. That's the fun of it. That's the joy of it, you know, in taking your emotions and twisting 'em like a pretzel in front of the camera. And also making it happen for the first time in front of the camera. I mean, a lot of what Michael and I did was--the camera just had to catch it. We never had gone that hard at it, purposefully, in rehearsals. We kinda walked up to it and kind of did the speech maybe at 25 percent steam. But when they say action, it's like the start of the Kentucky Derby.
WV: Well, it's just an amazing scene, and I think people will be talking about it for a long time. What is the key to performing a Sorkin "walk and talk?" And I ask because I just came off a Sorkin play myself. I'm an actor as well, and I find the speed of it is very challenging.
JD: Yeah, back to that--it's the repetition of the lines, the preparation. Because it's one thing to sit in your chair at home and do the scene. It's--in a way, because you're moving now, you're doing two things. It's the walking and chewing your gum at the same time, that joke. But you're doing an independent activity, other than what you're saying. You're going somewhere. You're going from point A to point B. So part of you has to be focused on where you're going, and I've got to get to the newsroom, and what is it you want? Y'know, but you're going somewhere. And you just have to be talking as you're going from point A to point B. A helpful thing for me was always--I mean, it's silly, but you memorize the lines and you walk from the living room to the kitchen, and you pour a glass of water, and then you walk back and set it on the table in the living room. You're doing something else while you're saying this other thing. And that's confusing and difficult, and your body and your mind want to do one thing, not two. It's getting your mind right, and that's just forcing your mind to multitask when it's trying to remember lines, if that makes any sense at all.
WV: No, it absolutely does.
JD: You gotta do the mechanics of what you're gonna do as well as remember all those words. Yeah, and the two are not really related. You're going to the newsroom to do the broadcast, and Mac's talking to you about the weather. They don't relate, but...
WV: But it adds urgency to the scene.
JD: It allows you to do two things at once.
WV: Right.
JD: Which is what we do in life, y'know? We're constantly walking and talking and going somewhere and saying something and probably having a conversation that has nothing to do with where we're going.
WV: Is there a movie of yours that, if you pass it on cable, you have to watch it to the end?
JD: No.
WV: No?
JD: No, they um, no. There are movies of other people. I mean, I'll--no, I tend not to even look at my stuff, to be honest. I mean, I'll see Purple Rose of Cairo or I'll see The House on Carroll Street. I rarely go to it, rarely if ever. I can't remember the last time I stopped and said I'll watch--let's watch Dumb and Dumber, y'know?
WV: If I pass Pleasantville, especially if it's before the scene where you see paintings for the first time, I'm done. I'm stuck till the end. That scene is one of my favorites ever. It's a stunner.
JD: Gary Ross wrote a great, great script. I loved what he did with that. I wish that film had gotten more attention.
WV: My wife would slaughter me if I didn't ask you: is there any chance of a Dumb and Dumberest in our future?
JD: Y'know, I think the second one did pretty good. Y'know, there were a few studios that just said, it's gonna die, it's just a horrible idea, and so it did fine. It comes down to Jim and the Farrellys, and I have a feeling it'd be like Lemmon and Matthau, y'know? Maybe when we're almost 70, Jim'll go, "Hey! One more time!" And you go, okay, here we go! They're always fun to do. It's so inappropriate, so outlandish, and the second one--to be middle-aged and still that stupid was uh--it's very refreshing, I must say. It's like a cleanse.
WV: Well, I really enjoyed your SNL appearance in support of it. That seemed like a fun day in New York.
JD: Oh, it was. It was great of them to include me, yeah.
WV: All right, Mr. Daniels, I know you're super busy, and I will let you get back to it, but I appreciate your time.
JD: All right, thanks, Christian. Take care.
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The California Report Magazine
4:30 pm – 5:00 pmThe California Report Magazine
Funneled From Criminal Justice to Deportation
Sandra Castaneda was 20 when she was given a life sentence for a murder she didn't commit. After she'd spent 19 years in prison, a judge overturned her conviction and ordered her release. But instead of Sandra walking free, she found herself behind bars again, in a holding cell in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. That's because California prisons notify ICE whenever they release a person who wasn't born in the U.S. – even someone like Sandra, who's a legal permanent resident and lived here since elementary school. What happened next is a window into an all-too-common story for immigrants who get funneled from the criminal justice system into the deportation system. Even when states like California have overturned their convictions. KQED's Senior Immigration Editor Tyche Hendricks has been following Sandra's case for months, and brings us this audio documentary. see more
Michael Eric Dyson on Obama and America's First 'Black Presidency'
(Nina Subin)
The election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States was an undeniable milestone in American history. But according to author Michael Eric Dyson, Obama's presidency has been marked by a constant struggle between political pragmatism and a desire to be an ally to people of color. In his new book "The Black Presidency," Dyson examines President Obama's relationship with race and how it has influenced his time in office.


The Guild has now received confirmed price changes for 1 July 2018 from the Government.
An extra 70,000 patients of community pharmacies will benefit under the expansion of the Dose Administration Aids program under 6CPA.
The Guild has now received from the Government confirmed price changes for 1 June 2018, excluding the statutory reductions due to the F1 10 and 15-year anniversary catch up round.


As cities struggle to control the blight inflicted on their ash trees by the emerald ash borer, they also are working hard to prevent danger to residents posed by the sickest trees.
As cities struggle to control the blight inflicted on their ash trees by the emerald ash borer, they also are working hard to prevent danger to residents posed by the sickest trees.Hilliard has about 550 city ash trees, about 400 of which are infested by the invasive Asian beetle that is wiping out ash trees throughout the Midwest.Only about 157 and counting, however, pose a public danger because they're in the right of way, in parks or near homes.
"Long-term, they pose a liability," city safety director Clyde "Butch" Seidel told the Hilliard City Council this week. "It's a big problem and growing."
Trees with at least 80 percent of their canopy damaged are to be removed this year, Seidel said.
Unlike potholes, which cities repair within days of discovering, sick trees can linger for years before succumbing to the Asian beetle that has wiped out ash trees in neighborhoods and entire cities.
There is less urgency to fell the stricken trees, but there is still a responsibility, said Pam Fox, Hilliard's law director.
"Our policy is that if it becomes a hazard to people and property and if it's located on public property, then we'll remove them.
"Once we get notice of it, we have a reasonable time to take care of it," she said, noting there is no standard to define reasonable when dealing with trees. The Ohio Municipal League has heard of no lawsuits related to ash-tree maintenance, spokesman Kent Scarrett said."Our communities are typically proactive in addressing the condition of these trees," he said. "But there's no one set policy of directing the forestry aspect. "Once infested, ash trees can take three to five years to die, said Don Walters, Grove City business-relations officer.
"You don't have to take them out tomorrow when you discover them," he said.
Walters is using a chemical treatment on eight ash trees at his Worthington Hills home. The treatment is too expensive for most cities, however.
Grove City already has removed 1,250 ash trees. Another 250 will be taken out soon, Walters said.
Worthington, meanwhile, just completed the third of five annual insecticide treatments on about 200 ash trees within the city's right of way.
The city is one of several in the Midwest getting free ash treatments as part of a test program by Valent Professional Products.
"We're basically delaying any removals, and spreading removals out over a longer period of time," said Tom Gilkey, Worthington's public-service maintenance superintendent.
The insecticide, Safari, appears to be successful, Gilkey said. "They're still healthy and still living."
Worthington's law director, Mike Minister, said he's unaware of any "extraordinary liability" facing cities that don't remove sick trees quickly. It's up to arborists and service directors, he said.
"When I deem they could possibly be dangerous, then I take them down," Gilkey said. "When there's dead wood present in the tree, it always catches my eye."


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New R. Kelly Accuser Comes Forward
In the wake of the Lifetime documentary 'Surviving R. Kelly' another woman has come forward claiming she was sexually abused by R. Kelly as a minor...
From WGN
A Michigan woman who claimed she had a six-year relationship with R. Kelly since she was 16 years old, spoke to WGN News to share her story.
The 36-year-old woman, who now goes by Danielle Williams, said Kelly lured her in when she was 16. She said she wanted to tell her story for a long time.
The aspiring model said she was given Kelly's business card by his manager at a downtown Chicago restaurant in 1998.
She said she skipped school to go to Kelly's studio on the Near West Side and said she thought she was auditioning for a music video.
"He just told me to take off my clothes and we would proceed from there," she said. "When I got in the cab, I got an envelope with $1,000. I had never seen that amount of money in my life. I had no concept of getting paid for sexual acts. I didn't think it applied to me, only for adults."
Williams also said Kelly always wanted her to talk like a baby. She said he once held her in a hotel for three days against her will.
"I always felt like if I crossed him he would kill me," she said. "I just felt like he had the power to find me wherever I was."
"As I grew older, he lost interest in me," she said. "So I know that he's a pedophile. I think that he should go to jail and the victims should get some type of restitution. Because the trajectory of my life changed at that moment. Nothing has ever been the same."
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she "skipped" school... I don't even know what to say at this point.
Shit, let me say he tried to get me too. Why not? Everybody else jumping on the train. I could use some money and I'm fucking struggling and could use some extra cash. Sorry...not buying this. Out of control and out of hand.
The Bible don't call the woman a weaker vessel for nothing SMH.
@3:03 and then added the victims "should get some type of restitution", that completely lost me.
Ahhh ignorance must be blissful! What part of predator don't some of you understand. This man had a system of handling these females.
He trolled high school's and the local McDonalds to find his victims. He choose the females who had little to no adult supervision, usually from single parent homes.
He focused on females that were easily manipulated emotionally, sexually, and financially. Uopn meeting him, they were instructed to call him "daddy", they were coerced into sex at their first meetup. He coerced them into having sex with other girls, videotaped it all, so that he could use it against them both at a later date.
Those are the hallmarks of a predator! Seek out the weak, coerce, convince, and abuse. The fact that some of these females didn't use better judgment, doesn't negate the fact the R. Kelly is a predator!
From a text book perspctive, he's technically not a pedophile. Because based upon the young women that have been revealed, none of them were prepubescent. Is he a sexual deviant, and a molester however, absolutely.
Well said at 3:55p ... Thank you!
Mybidness said...
Thank u 3:55
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Agreed, Well Said Anonymous at 3:55 p.m.; Anonymous at 3:05 p.m., If You Haven't Watched "Surving R Kelly", Take a Look If You Dare! Maybe You Will Think, Feel and Comment More Responsibly.
I cannot bring myself to watch SRK but if ever a time this monster was gonna be locked up and the key thrown away is during this #metoo movement. I did see online where one of his vics wrote some online book and stated that he beat her into having a miscarriage and afterwards had some obea woman watching after her and she overheard them talking and basically he was collecting these people urine and using it for spells and shit. Shit is not that far fetched considering the magnitude of damage he did to these people. It just keeps getting worse and Im sure him beating on these women that came to the situation lost and broke didnt make it any better hopefully now they away from him and can get justice.If anyone of them was white this shit would have been a wrap!!
R. Kelly really wrote the lyrics to this! He been sick af for a LONG time!
It's like a jungle atmosphere
And we're two monkeys baby
It's like we're on a vine
The way we're swinging it baby
See, you're a tiger girl
The way you're scratching me
I'm a lion
In this jungle I'm a king
Girl, I got you so wet
It's like a rain forest
Like Jurassic Park
Except I'm your sex-a-saurus baby
You and me hopping
Like two kangaroos
Rattling and moaning
Out here in these woods
[B-section 1]
Ooo ooo ooo ooo
Aaa aaa aaa aaa
Those are the sounds I wanna hear
When you're moaning in my ear
Girl you're singing to me
You got me locked up in your cage of ecstasy
And I don't wanna be free cause it's
[Chorus 1]
Wild like a zoo
And that's the way I like it baby
Crazy me and you
Making love like we was just two heated animals
Baby come and lay with me in my jungle
What more proof do you need? He is a monster and the record labels know it. All the girls who slept with him know it. What grown man writes this garbage?
This is for them big girls, smalls girls, tall girls
And this is for them skinny girls, white girls, black girls
Don't matter the color, any nationality
I got a sweet tooth, come and get with me
When I saw you at the club girl leanin? and rockin? wit it
Ooh you made a ***** wanna get with it
Let me put you in the back of the coupe and hit it
And now all I wanna do is babysit it
I been feenin?, wantin? to kiss it
Hungry girl, let me raid your kitchen
Fix me a plate of that
I'm not playin' girl I'm on a mission
Legs won't stop shakin? once I do it
(Uh uhn)
Tongue game tight, girl let me do it
(Uh huh)
Tease you then please you girl
Open up, let me in your world
Girl I wanna be alone with you
I'm tryin' to see what that booty do
Baby first let me know
What you gonna do about this sweet tooth
Got a sweet tooth for you girl
Baby I'm tempted to taste
I can't wait to drink your milk
You're lookin? like a big ol' piece of cake
Can anyone ask where is "shawty" that child that he kidnapped from her aunt Sparkle.
Where is Shawty?
They Call Me Cocoa said...
Surely, anyone over 12 years of age and given somewhat of a free reign on the internet, has heard, read or discussed R. Kelly. These young girls skipping an education to hang out with a grown man with a history of sexual abuse against young women and girls needs asses beat. If my parents ever caught a man trying to holla at me or busted me in the company of a grown man, my ass would be whupped, his ass would be whupped and cops called.
ebonyhud said...
As a young teen I had so many posters on my wall of celebrities that I had crushes on. At 14-16 I would imagine about meeting them among other things that I would want to do to them. I'm sure R. kelly had thousands of girls feel this way about him. To take advantage of that is wrong. R. kelly is morally flawed.
@3:06 It's not about women being weak. Most women could turn plenty of 14-16yo boys out as well just by looking sexy without money and fame. You morally just don't do it because it's wrong.
How is this dude still alive or even free?
Girl, you too late... the documentary has aired ;(
99% of these comments are absurd
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I've been waiting for an opportunity to see David Francey again for nearly a decade since first seeing him at Towersey Festival. His songs have become a massive part of my life and I now have three beautiful children who have been brought up listening to his music. So nothing, not even "Gaga" would have prevented me from being there last night. It was a great pleasure to meet you all and I truly appreciate your commitment to promoting an art form outside the mainstream. It can't be easy.
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Posted on February 8, 2012 by Gerry
We predict that everyone loosely or directly connected to the folk music scene in the UK will all feel the benefit and be effective winners. There will be lots of media coverage, plenty of newspaper reports about the vibrant scene we all love to one extent or another. There'll be five hours of network radio coverage from the awards starting at 5pm on Radio 2 followed by a special programme about the Dubliners.
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Review – Ellis Paul and Lizanne Knott – 24th July 2011
Posted on July 24, 2011 by Dan Evans
Ellis Paul returned to the place where five years ago he made his UK debut to find that the show had been moved 'upstairs' i.e. to a larger venue (on the strength of advance ticket sales) that it was packed out with all seats filled and only standing space available. He was jokingly introduced to the audience as 'a long-haired, waistcoat-favouring American singing MOR acoustic country-folk', which is how he'd been written up in a London listings magazine!
The long-haired description was right; the waistcoat wearing part wasn't but that was corrected when he was presented with one to wear (and very natty it was too, patterned with car number plates from each US state), the American part was also right but the reference to MOR acoustic country-folk wasn't – his music is far from being 'middle of the road'. One of the leading lights of the Boston school of songwriting he together with the likes of Martin Sexton, Dar Williams, Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin played no small part in stimulating the folk revival of the 1990's. An award-winning musician, whose songs have appeared in film and TV soundtracks, he has built up a loyal following, touring extensively in the US so it was wonderful to see him return to the place where he previously, to quote a fellow reviewer 'lit a flame that is likely to burn this side of the Atlantic for a very long while to come'.
Playing two sets, Paul's choice of material ranged from 1994's STORIES with Here She Is right up to the current day with a new song Kick Out The Lights inspired by a story about Johnny Cash being banned from the Grand Ole Opry for kicking out the stage lights, yes all 52 of them!
Paul almost immediately mentioned the passing of his friend and mentor Bill Morrissey, the previous day. Overshadowed in the news by Amy Winehouse's demise, also on July 23rd, Morrissey's death was much harder to bear for those like Paul, who grew up in New England and were inspired to followed the path laid out by the critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, poet and author. Morrissey produced Paul's first commercially released album SAY SOMETHING in 1992 so their association was a long-standing one. In tribute to both Morrissey and Winehouse Paul played two songs this evening Jukebox on my Grave and Martyr's Lounge. In the former he sings about having a jukebox on his grave instead of a headstone and in the latter he envisages deceased celebrities hanging out at 'Leo's – a bar in heaven' and imagined that Morrissey and Winehouse would be sharing a drink there!
With many facing challenging times across the world, Paul dedicated Mark Erelli's The Only Way to the people of Norway recognizing the pain and suffering inflicted by the Oslo bombing and Utoya shootings, and Hurricane Angel (originally written in response to 'Katrina') to the victims of natural disasters across the globe this year – hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes. He lightened the mood considerably when encouraging the crowd to sing along on a sequence of songs Kick Out the Lights, Lights of Vegas, Dragonfly and Alice's Champagne Palace. The first set ended with Annalee unplugged and in the audience, much to the surprise of a young couple from Devon sitting in the front row. He repaid them later encoring the evening with The Speed of Trees and dedicating it to them.
An assured performance, mostly originally penned material with just a few covers, he had the full room wanting more and much applause greeted his comments about promising to come back 'now that his daughters are old enough to look after themselves – they are seven and four years old'!
The opener during Paul's short UK tour was Lizanne Knott, a singer/songwriter who has headlined shows on both sides of the Atlantic. A particular favourite with BBC's Bob Harris she played a six-song set to warm appreciation. Opening with Holiday, her vocal style is intimate, gentle and delicate; she writes from the heart viz. Too Much Love and has a new album in the works. We got a taster of what is to come when she played Miss You. Knott will be returning in the spring to tour behind its release. In recent years she has become well known to UK audiences through radio airplay and has garnered many fans here.
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Review – Chuck Brodsky – 19th June 2011
Posted on June 19, 2011 by Dan Evans
American folk-singer Chuck Brodsky, so very well received at last year's Shrewsbury Folk Festival, opened the first night of his first full UK tour at Twickenham Folk Club, an ideal setting for a man whose literate style just demands the listener's ear.
Brodsky has built up a reputation for writing about ordinary people who doextraordinary things. He gives credence to the belief that once you start to peelaway at the layers, there is no such thing as 'ordinary' in the human condition.
The first set of eight songs was slanted towards his humorous, satirical tunes and included five from his just released album SUBTOTAL ECLIPSE. He commenced by pairing Out of Time and Place with The World As You Once Knew It both of which allude to being out of step with the modern world. Amusement and nods of acknowledgement were evident as the audience perhaps recognised traits within themselves that were being reflected in Brodsky's words.
Engaging the audience in laughter, both through his lyrics and the stories he told between songs, he created a relaxed and informal setting for a cleverly paced performance. One might say it was an evening of two halves – the first was light, jokey and full of humour, the second serious and at times, emotionally charged.
His gentle delivery is what gives his songs such impact – the soothing voice delivering a barbed comment make his lyrics all the more powerful and affecting. To move an audience almost seamlessly from laughter to tears is a real skill and tonight there was no doubt that Brodsky is a master at doing just that.
The back-to-back coupling of Lili's Braids with Gerta, songs whose settings are firmly rooted in the horrors of the Holocaust, were genuinely heart wrenching. There were quite a few in the audience, me included, who were taken aback by the emotional intensity wrought not just by the stories of Lili Hirsch and Eva Modval Haimovitz but the coincidence of finding that after taking a few days break from recording the new CD due to a cold, Brodsky resumed and recorded these two songs on what turned out to be Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Writing about Brodsky means that one can't omit reference to his trademark baseball songs and again he showed his contrasting approaches to these with the humour of The Bellyache Heard 'Round the World and the sorrow of Roberto. The former a light-hearted tale about Babe Ruth's state of health and the latter, a sombre memorial to Roberto Clemente one of the first Latin-American players who lost his life during a humanitarian flight delivering aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.
Many of his songs contain specific American references, not surprisingly you might add, but they nevertheless travel well. That's testament to his skill as a wordsmith; he paints pictures and draws you in to a world full of unlikely characters that by dint of a little exploration become flesh and bone. Brodsky has in the past spent time finding some of those protagonists again and given them a copy of the CD containing their story – what a wonderful way to show appreciation to those (no longer) unsung heroes.
Review – Greg Trooper – 8th May 2011
Posted on May 8, 2011 by Dan Evans
Touring the UK for the first time in six years, Greg Trooper with ten albums to his credit, one acoustic guitar in hand and an abundance of ready wit, opened tonight's show with 'the hits' (his words, not mine) before moving into songs from the new album UPSIDE DOWN TOWN which is of course the catalyst for his long awaited return visit.Starting off with the hook-laden This I'd Do he followed up with Green Eyed Girl – 'it's called Green Eyed Girl because Brown Eyed Girl was taken!' he said causing ripples of laughter throughout and endearing himself to the audience. It's worth mentioning that on the basis of advance ticket sales and anticipated payers at the door, seats were set out but in the event, and pleasingly so, it was necessary to rearrange the room to accommodate larger than expected numbers!
He played We Won't Dance but not before regaling us with the story of how it came to be recorded by Vince Gill on his WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME album in 1989. Trooper, when first approached about the cover, thought 'who the (expletive deleted) is Vince Gill? Okay let him cover it, I might be able to help his career' Needless to say Trooper subsequently found out just who Vince Gill was!
Only two songs from the new album featured in the first set, these were They Call Me Hank (which one highly respected critic is suggesting is a contender for 'Song of the Year') and a ballad, Second Wind. One of the older songs performed was When I Think Of You My Friends which includes the lines:
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Up to ten, 12-inch speakers,
Send them in to Karl, they'll need an overhaul'
The 'Karl' of the song was in the audience, having travelled from Spain for the show. He and Trooper go back a long way and it is moments like this that give you the measure of the man – loyal, fun and inspiring huge affection. That song, a tribute to all travelling musicians closed out the first set.Returning after a short break, Trooper said that he'd received so many requests during the interval that he had to change his planned set list. Six requests therefore followed (Those Sunday Nights, Lucky That Way, I Love It When She Lies, Little Sister, Hummingbird and Muhammad Ali (The Meaning of Christmas) after which he 'got back to the new album' with three more offerings and then going right back in time with Ireland from his 1992 debut EVERYWHERE.
He wasn't going to get away without an encore from the highly appreciative audience so returning with a 'you okay with country?' he yodelled his way into Hank Williams' Long Gone Lonesome Blues and then completed the show with one of his own songs because 'people only remember the last song you play' – Hannah's Dreams.
This audience will remember much, much more than the last song. Without doubt Trooper is one of the most under appreciated singer/songwriters on the circuit. The two varied sets were testament to his versatility as both a writer and performer. He tackles alt-country, roots, Americana, folk, blues and soul all with equal aplomb. He deserves much greater success and as he left the stage with a message for the audience – 'keep on dreamin' everybody' you only hope that his own dreams come true. They certainly deserve to.
Review – Carrie Elkin – 17th April 2011
Posted on April 17, 2011 by Dan Evans
My long weekend enjoying the music of Austin, TX based Carrie Elkin started by listening to the session recorded with Bob Harris, broadcast on his BBC Radio 2 Country show on Thursday, April 14th. Chatting animatedly about the recording of the new album CALL IT MY GARDEN Elkin confirmed that it had been recorded over a four-day period, at Sam Baker's house in Austin, with the assistance of her 'folk family'. The latter refers to a host of friends who were in Texas for the Kerrville Folk Festival and who lent their services during the recording process.
Harris drew out some wonderfully warm anecdotes from Elkin as he explored her willingness to remain open to whatever circumstances she found herself in and how a seemingly chance meeting can have a major impact. For example, the story about the Medicine Man in Santa Fe, New Mexico telling her to travel sixty miles further to Taos where she would be happier. She followed his advice and settling in Taos, made friends with Colin Brooks (now in The Band of Heathens) who has worked with her for a number of years and is co-producer of her last two albums.
Playing live, accompanied by Paul Cataldo, she chose Lift Up The Anchor and Jesse Likes Birds and then as is customary on the show, Harris asked her which track he should play from the CD to which her response was Edge of The World, the last track on the CD. Finishing the interview Harris gave out the remaining dates of her tour schedule and I found myself thinking 'I hope that this session results in lots of people coming out to her shows'. She just enthuses warmth, talent, graciousness and you just want hard working independent musicians such as she is, to succeed.
Friday 15th driving to and from 'my day job' I slotted the CALL IT MY GARDEN CD into my car's player and as is my habit, listened to the music that I knew I would be hearing live over the succeeding days. I did hear Elkin perform a few of the songs live during my Texan sojourn last year and have particularly affectionate memories of seeing her at a house concert she curated in Austin. Her own performance showcased a selection of the new material and a couple of the songs Lift Up The Anchor and Dear Sam moved her, others and me to tears. The lyrics are written from a very personal perspective and were made even more touching by the presence, that day, of the songs' protagonists – Danny Schmidt and Sam Baker respectively.
Saturday 16th and celebrations for Record Store Day were taking place all over the country. The initiative, which started in the USA in 2007, celebrates independent record retailers. 2011 is the third year the UK has participated and the stores together with artists, celebrate with quizzes, signings, giveaways and live performances. Elkin appeared at the Union Music Store, Lewes, East Sussex as part of their festivities. Accompanied by Cataldo (dobro and guitar) she sang six songs including 'one for the kids' Jessie Likes Birds in her afternoon set and finished with a Dylan cover A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall with audience participation on the chorus. Clearly converting new fans, she sold not only CDs but also tickets for her evening show in Brighton.
The show in Brighton at The Basement, attracted a nicely sized audience including an American couple, from Dallas, who were on holiday in London. They have been Elkin supporters for a good number of years and she was clearly delighted by their surprise attendance. Opening the two-set show with Obadiah from 2007's THE JEOPARDY OF CIRCUMSTANCE Elkin (again accompanied by Cataldo) captivated everyone with the beauty of her singing voice – when she sings she seemingly uses every sinew in her body to create such a pure sound and such is her range that she doesn't need a microphone at all! Her petite build belies stunning and powerful vocals.
Alternating between songs from the last two albums she then led into the interval break with her partner Danny Schmidt's song Company of Friends dedicating it to the American couple, much to their delight.
Returning after the break during which she made herself available to sign CDs she played a shorter set, six songs as curfew time 11pm placed a restriction on anything longer. Five songs from the new CD, four originals and a cover of Dar Williams' Iowa completed the evening's performance……….save for a quick return for one encore, just Elkin with voice on Amazing Grace. Preceding it she said that she wasn't originally planning to sing it but it had been requested and it always reminds her of family of whom she thinks about a great deal as she tours. A heartfelt performance for sure, it left me looking forward to more the following evening.
Sunday 17th and a headline show at Twickenham Folk Club (Twickfolk). The beauty for artists about playing a club like this, which has been running for more than twenty-five years, is the regular following it attracts, a number of whom are musicians in their own right. From that you might correctly gauge that this is an audience who really appreciate good music. The venue is very much a 'listening room' and as Elkin and Cataldo took the stage, to warm applause, the audience sat back to enjoy an evening of charm, grace and beauty. A two set show featuring a couple of songs that hadn't been played in the previous shows I'd attended – Roots and Wings and Berlin. The latter is one of her older songs, the only 'old' songs she performs live. Berlin initially appearing on her 2001 release LIVE AT THE FRONT ROOM, then on the studio album THE WALTZ in 2004 and was re-recorded for the new CD. It was the first song I ever heard her sing (in 2007) and from that point on I sought out her work and as you might surmise, became a huge fan.
Tonight, it was good to see Cataldo perform one of his own songs Drinking and Sleeping. He is a quiet presence and a good foil for the exuberant Elkin.
Finishing again with Amazing Grace, Elkin's voice filled the room and I knew that it was the end of my long weekend in the company of a delightful musician whose work and work ethic, I have nothing but admiration for.


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Interview: Larry Ziegelman on Chicago Web Series 'Geek Lounge,' Screening on Apr. 19, 2017
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 17, 2017 - 7:34pm
9 to 5 Feet Under
Geek Lounge
Larry Ziegelman
Little Man of Steel
Terry Ziegelman
CHICAGO – The idea was to combine the TV series nerd culture of "Silicon Valley" with the back-and-forth bar banter of "Cheers," and creator/director Larry Ziegelman came up with a natural composite entitled "Geek Lounge." The web series will have a sneak preview screening and party at the Holiday Club in Chicago, 7pm on April 19th, 2017 (details below).
Larry Ziegelman is a veteran short film director who began that pursuit in 2007 with "Check Please." In 2013, he broke through with a film festival favorite, "Little Man of Steel," a riff on Superman and Lois Lane's relationship. His twin brother Terry also works in the industry, and has collaborated with Larry on the shorts "Boom Boom" and "9 to 5 Feet Under." Ziegelman describes "Geek Lounge" – his first web TV series – as a show that follows the lives of a group of friends as they sit around, sipping watered-down beers, and arguing over important issues like who is hotter, Catwoman or Dark Phoenix, and who would win in a fight between The Hulk and Superman.
Director/Creator Larry Ziegelman (upper right) with the Cast and Crew of 'Geek Lounge'
Photo credit: Larry Ziegelman
HollywoodChicago.com talked to Larry Ziegelman, in anticipation of the Sneak Preview screening, and talked about "Geek Lounge" and his film career.
HollywoodChicago.com: What was the origin of this idea? What is it about bar culture today that inspired you?
Larry Ziegelman: It came from my producer's boyfriend. There was a place in Chicago they used to go to, since closed, called Geek Bar. That sparked the idea, even though I don't go to bars these days, [laughs] but I loved that there could be a Geek Lounge with geek-type arguments. Imagine it's like a Quentin Tarantino film, but the whole thing is the pop culture and geek references. That was an interesting place to me, to put situations into.
HollywoodChicago.com: Web series are all the rage right now. As a filmmaker, what makes the timing right for you, as far as evolving what you're doing as a media creator?
Ziegelman: I've made several short films, and I had a great time doing that, but I really wanted to do something episodic. This seemed like the best way to expand my craft and grow as a filmmaker. This format was a natural way to learn how to do a series, without doing a full television production. I liked the idea of keeping it simple with one location, but developing characters stories and comedy. It was a safe place in which to move forward.
HollywoodChicago.com: The web series format use structure that rarely goes beyond seven minutes. What is the challenge of doing a self contained short form, and keeping it consistent within the theme of the series?
Ziegelman: Just like any kind of storytelling, it has to have a beginning, middle and end. Now some web series don't do that, it's more of a series of sketches. Originally that's how I thought 'Geek Lounge' would be, a series of sketches. But then as the characters developed, it became a mash-up of the characters and those sketches, and so it ended being character driven as they were created. The important thing to me was to have characters that people would be interested in, and to tell their stories.
'Little Man of Steel,' Directed by Larry Ziegelman
HollywoodChicago.com: Let's talk a bit about your directing technique, since you came from doing short films. What changed in your style to create these short web series clips, as opposed to the other form of filmmaking?
Ziegelman: Well, the first challenge was I shot four episodes in one day. [laughs] My Director of Photography was asking for the usual coverage, and I just said, 'I can't, I have to move on.' I wanted to see how much I could do in a day, and I shot it with two cameras, which really helped.
I would have loved to have more time, but by the end of the shoot it came out like this – first day four episodes, next shooting day three episodes, the next day two episodes and by the end we had enough complexity to take an entire day for one episode. That's just how it worked out. I thought everything got more interesting.
HollywoodChicago.com: You did a long run on the festival circuit with your short film 'Little Man of Steel.' What did you learn through submitting and then attending film festivals, and what was your personal favorite moment during that run?
Ziegelman: The first thing I learned is that film festivals are an addiction, akin to playing a slot machine. Another thing was learning to let go. In the midst of these screenings I finally thought, 'the baby has been born.' It is what it is and it was done. At that point, I stopped watching the film and started watching the audiences. And one of the advantages was that my short was a comedy, and it played sometimes in a program with serious short films, heavy stuff. It gave the audience permission to laugh, and I think they appreciated that moment.
It was also very gratifying to get an award from Dragon Con. I started submitting to the top tier festivals, and worked my way to the niche festivals, the comic cons and such. The audience for those festivals are the geeks and the fans. To win Best Fan Film, there was an appreciation directly from the people who love the genre. That was a great experience.
HollywoodChicago.com: You are a twin, and your brother Terry is also in the film business. In your collaborations with him on the short films 'Boom Boom' and '9 to 5 Feet Under' did you find that you were of one mind, and how did that spill over from your childhood?
Larry Ziegelman of 'Geek Lounge'
Ziegelman: Terry and I are of like minds for sure. We collaborate well, because we're on the same wavelength, but in some respects it can be a negative. At some point, I needed someone to compliment what we were doing, not duplicate it. [laughs] When we wrote and shot 'Boom Boom,' for example, we did divide and conquer. Because I had more experience, and he hadn't been behind a camera at that point, I took the main action and he handled a lot of the background direction. But our collaboration works best when we co-write, because as I said we're on the same wavelength.
HollywoodChicago.com: This is your sixth project as director, what do you think was your biggest leap as a filmmaker – from which project to which project – and what made that leap particularly notable?
Ziegelman: 'Geek Lounge' is the biggest leap, because it's the biggest project as well. It was about creating characters, and having those characters last through ten episodes. I also loved working and collaborating with improvisational actors. I came up with the episode concepts, and would lay them out for the performers, then we would work shop the material. They ended up adding a ton of jokes.
Chicago has amazing improvisation talent, and in many ways it's underutilized. I wanted to work with them, they're right here, and it was a great resource. They wanted to make great episodes, so we worked together towards that goal. I gave them writing credits when they contributed in these workshops, and then would use that as the script on shoot day… but even then I encouraged them to stray if they came up something funnier.
HollywoodChicago.com: What are your plans for 'Geek Lounge' and how ideally do you want it to evolve it?
Ziegelman: I am realist, and have been doing this for a number of years without being 'discovered.' [laughs] I want to get the series online, get some eyes on it, and hope that the audience likes it, and get a following. If that happens, at the same time I'll be entering it into film and TV festivals. My actors are moving on, and in some cases moving away. We raised the initial funds through a Kickstarter campaign, and I contributed my own funding, so I would need more backing. So basically it's a calling card for me and my actors. It will show what I can do with a series, and help to discover the next level of Chicago talent.
The Sneak Preview Screening Party for "Geek Lounge" will take place on Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 (starting at 7pm), at Holiday Club Chicago, 4000 North Sheridan Road. For more information, click here.
By PATRICK McDONALD
Writer, Editorial Coordinator
pat@hollywoodchicago.com
© 2017 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com
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