Videotape

Good news on a couple of shorts I was in.

The first being "The Kumbio Takedown" with my buddies at Intergral Arts, Barry Gribble and Kevin Good. We shot this short last spring for the 48 hour film festival in DC. It ended up winning Best of DC, Best Acting, Best Screenplay, and the Audience Award. It also starred the very cool Missy Doty who was in "Sideways". Well I just found out that "Kumbio" is going to be shown at Cannes! Like the film festival Cannes! We aren't competing in the festival, but our film and about 10 others will be shown twice during the festival as apart of a 48 hour film presentation. You can watch the film here:

The Kumbio Takedown

I'm in it at the very end. DFG is in it too getting his ass kicked in jail.


The other film is "Lizzie Strata". I did this with the boys of Integral Arts too in January. "Lizzie" is a 40's period musical comedy road movie based on the Greek classic of a similar name. Basically it was me sitting in a 40's Cadillac for a few hours with some really cool chicks. Hard job, I know. The boys had been selected by a panel of judges to be one of five teams competing in the Panasonic HD Showdown. Which meant that Panasonic sent them this amazing, high tech camera is use to make a brand new 48 hour film, being "Lizzie Strata". The film took first place in the showdown, winning the boys a Panasonic HVX200 camera. I don't know what that means, but it sounds expensive and high tech and awesomefantastic. And it showed on the big screen at the festival, which kicks ass. You can watch "Lizzie" here:

Lizzie Strata


Good times!

Welcome mat

I have created a blog. I'm not really new to this. I used to blog on myspace but, since I have been eaten up by facebook, I am not on myspace as much as I used to be. But I still had the urge to blog. Mostly because I'm temping and get bored very easily. I don't know if I will offer much profound, life altering posts. But I do come across the occasional fantastic youtube video or article. I do rant. There will be ranting. I get annoyed. Mostly about stupid things that don't matter. So I purge them so I can worry about real things that actually matter.

Now about the blog name.

Southern.

I am. I'm proud of it. I'm proud of my family, who are all still living in the south. It has become a place to visit for me, not so much a home. But it is apart of me, and always will be.

Bellicose.

- adj. Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament.

Ok, so, I'm not really like this. I am fiesty, opinionated, and passionate. But I'm not looking for a fight. I don't like confrontation. This is mostly a play on words. Southern Belle. You get it. My good friend, Barry, came up with the title of this blog. So all the credit must go to him. What do you expect? He is a writer. Clever bastard.

Anyway, welcome. Thanks for reading. Be seeing you soon.