Taylor Makes Me Sick (also butts)

Neglect

Taylor — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:46:15 +0000

Goddamn, have I been neglecting this blog. Oh well, that’s what it gets. This filthy, whorish blog.

I’ve been busy. I started a film company with my brother and my cousin. We have several projects that we’re working on, and one of them is going into pre-production now. I’ve been slaving away at some of the necessary pre-production things…shot lists, getting new script revisions in from my brother, etc., etc. I’m going to be approaching this film with more seriousness and really do a good amount of pre-production to make sure that this film kicks ass. The website for the film company is almost done being revised. I just have to go over to my brother’s for a final revision and then I’ll post it, so look for that in the next couple of weeks.

http://www.westernsubvertstudios.com

I’m hesitant to announce the film yet, becuase I kind of want to wait until the website is published, because it’s on that. Yeah…I’ll wait. But soon, you’ll get an announcement. I need some good crew for this as well, no experience necessary, but willing to work hard. Casting will take place soon as well.

Anyway, that’s enough for now. I’ll post more after the site goes live.

Picture blog

Taylor — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:04:57 +0000

I started a Tumblr blog for a new experiment I’m going to try and test myself in. My goal is to take at least one creative photograph everyday, so I set up a Tumblr blog to try and motivate myself to do it. So far there’s 5 pictures up on there if you’d like to check it out!

Feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed on it so that you can see a new picture everyday.

http://taylorgenovese.tumblr.com

That’s my annoucement for now. Prepare for a filmmaking blog very soon. Several large annoucements will be coming!

Garmin Nüvi 270 GPS Unboxing

Taylor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:37:53 +0000

Recently, I pulled an “ol’ one-two” to a credit car company. Well, not really, because people do this kind of stuff all the time, but it’s cool to get free stuff. Anyway, recently, I was turned onto the site mygpsoffer.com* from the SomethingAwful forums.

If you signed up for their credit card, you get a free GPS. So I said what the hell…got approved for the card instantly (good credit) and bought myself a Timbuk2 Messenger Bag that I had been eyeing. I was going to get one anyway with the recent acting gig money that I was getting, so why not get a free GPS along with it?

Well, today it has finally come. Here are pictures of it’s unboxing for those interested:

Here be the Nüvi!

The coverage area on the Nüvi 270 is really good. All of the blue is covered. The advantage of the Nuvi 270 is that it offers coverage of not only all of the U.S. and Canada, but also most of Western Europe (and parts of the Baltics and Western Asia).

The first thing you see is pure AWESOME.

Everything that comes with the Nüvi in the box. From left to right, dash disc, car charger, the unit itself, and a dash mount.

Apparently, Garmin likes to cut down alot of trees and ship ELEVEN manuals in different languages.

Anyway, that’s it for now. I think I’ve lost the blog off this month, AGAIN. I got too busy in the middle of the month.

*The offer is currently unavailable, but it doesn’t seem like it will be forever. If you’re interested, bookmark the page and keep checking back. The card itself isn’t such a bad deal, actually, and now I have Miles if I end up wanting to keep the card.

Featured on the BREAK A LEG Thank You Video

Taylor — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:39:10 +0000

If you’re unfamiliar with the internet sit-com “BREAK A LEG” then you are WAY out of touch. I’ve been watching this show since it’s began. It’s one of the unique times that you can start watching a show in new media when it just starts because you have the ability to openly communicate with alot of the people who are making the show. I did this and have talked to the shows creators and stars on several occasions. I’ve gotten shooting advise from several of them as well. Always very approachable and always very friendly and helpful.

Anyway, awhile back, as they were starting to get popular and gain sponsors/backers and trying to get into the public eye, they held a contest where you would vote and review them, then send in your name and they’d add you in their credits. I, of course, did this. I was the second or third person to do it, actually, I think. I’m sure that this, and because I talked to them, asked them for advice, encouraged them is why they had my name in their thank you video.

Awww yeeah, boyyyyy! I also got an ENTIRE VERSE devoted to me. And how I make Mint (a character in the show) so CRAZEHHHH, in the HAZEHHH, FO SHAZEHHH. You can watch it at 1:18 in the video below.

Sukki’s Bag of Tricks

Taylor — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:13:38 +0000

Well, it is currently 3:45 in the AM and I just got back from a shoot with Brian at his gig at Casino Del Sol. This was my first time stepping inside of a casino, and the only word to really describe this evening is: surreal. I saw some crazy shit tonight that I am glad to have brought my camera for. Brian had never done anything like this, as it wasn’t so much stand-up as it was to mingle around the huge bingo hall and make fun of people between games. He did great and people liked him, but there were some strange people there.

The first and foremost that needs to be talked about is an older, Hispanic looking woman who must be a regular there, because every knows her and her infamous purse full of dildos. Her name is Sukki (I don’t know how it is spelled, but I’m spelling it the way it is pronounced, which is “Sue-kee”). Not even two minutes into Brian’s routines, Sukki comes up to him and grabs his dick. No joke. Just walks right up and grabs his shit. Needless to say, this startled him quite a bit, and also needless to say, this was excellent footage. Brian’s relationship with Sukki lasted most of the night, climaxing with Sukki handcuffing him to her and dragging him into the family bathroom to pretend to have sex with him. This ended with Brian playing along and then subsequently pretending to shit on Sukki’s chest. This also on film. The crazy thing was, Sukki had her entire family there with her, INCLUDING her mother, who must have been in her 80s. She was unfazed by the bag of dildos.

I have, of course, taken a picture of Sukki for everyone to see. Here’s a picture of her and Brian before we took off.

Now, onto my observations from tonight. This was my first time inside of a casino. The times when I wasn’t filming or after Brian was done and we were wondering the casino floor, I had alot of time to observe alot of the casino people. They are a strange breed of people. As I walked around, or observed people, I couldn’t help but think about the American Dream. People were getting genuinely pissed off whenever they didn’t win. Each one of those people in there came there to strike it big. They were going to win the jackpot. The constant grind of loss must have driven many of the people, including Sukki, insane. I witnessed Sukki flopping a giant dildo around in Brian’s face and waving it around for all to see. I saw a lady playing a “Skin Flute”, a flute in the shape of a cock and balls. What exactly is wrong with these people? What happened in people’s brains that allowed all this to be socially acceptable. You would never see someone waving around sex toys in public, would you? You would never see anyone becoming the Pied Piper of Penis in public, would you? I’m not refuting how entertaining it was, but I’m just curious as to why it’s acceptable in a casino and not outside.

Anyway, I’m just rambling now, but it’s something to think about. That’s all I have for tonight. Stay tuned for more updates about the documentary I’m filming.

Camera and Storytime

Taylor — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:21:02 +0000

There it is! About a month ago, I found this camera on a listing on cinematography.com (which is a great forum if you’re a filmmaker, by the way, check it out) and in my mind I said, “I MUST HAVE IT!”. The reason I needed it was because I used to be able to borrow an XL2 from Robert Encila, but because of certain circumstances, he needed to give it to this other guy, Tom DeMoss. Now, prior to this, Tom DeMoss seemed to be a nice guy. However, the moment he got the camera, he turned into a cocksmooch.

First of all, this guy didn’t know how to use this camera whatsoever, but that doesn’t matter so much. We had both been borrowing the camera from Robert previously. Well, I needed to use it, so I e-mailed him asking for it back. He returned an e-mail telling me that he owned it now and that he didn’t like lending out HIS equipment. I’d been using this camera for months before he came into the picture, so it didn’t make much sense to me. So this asshole started to get all arrogant towards me about the camera and owning it and stuff.

Well, in order to appreciate the absurdity of this, I think I need to tell you what he project was he was working on with the camera. He was going to get one hundred people and have them sing “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” one-by-one. I usually don’t like to judge other people’s film project, especially before I see them, but…give me a fucking break. You don’t need an XL2 to dick around.

So anyway, fueled with a great want to up him in terms of camera equipment and fueled even more so by the NEED of some high level camera, I was able to secure $4100 loan from my parents and bought the camera you see above.

My first project that I’m working on is that I’m making a mini-documentary on Brian Neufang, the homeless comic, while he is still around town. Tonight I head over to some casino to record some footage at a gig he’s doing. I’ll do another post about it later.

Update and October Post Off

Taylor — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:00:02 +0000

Well, I haven’t been able to update my blog in awhile. I’ve been so incredibly busy, it’s been ridiculous. So I’ll attempt to write a not as long update on everything that’s been going on. I have to save myself for this month because of the Post-Off, which I’ll get to in a little bit.

The main reason why I haven’t been able to post regular blog posts is because I’ve been doing back-to-back shows for…well, I don’t even know how many months now. It can really kill you doing shows back-to-back at a repretory theatre like Top Hat Theatre Club is. For example, my schedule for these past several months have been: rehearsals Monday-Thursday and then shows Friday-Sunday. Absolutely no break, although there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. I should be able to get a break after we open “The Nerd” on Friday. Come see it by the way…it runs October 3 – November 16.

Also, on September 29th, I scored an acting gig thanks to my good friend Brian Neufang from homelesscomic.com. Apparently in Japan, karaoke videos have videos playing behind them. So I scored $150 for only 6 hours of work (in actuality, I only spent 2 hours actually working). So that was actually pretty interesting. It was cool to see how different cultures film movies as well. Here’s a few pictures I took on my cell phone on the set:

They were shooting on Sony HDV for anyone that is interested. And that second picture is the camera mounted on the truck that I had to drive. Pretty crazy, but it was fun.

Now, the other reason that I’m starting to post more starting now is because it is a blog POST-OFF, yet again! Back in June, Jacob Karnas and friends had a blog post-off, and we are doing another one for the month of October. So far, the contestants include:

Myself
Jacob Karnas
Ryan McShowoff
Nikki Brzescinski
Kate Russell

And hopefully more to follow!

Anyway, that’s all for now. Next post will be about my new camera, etc.

One toke? You poor fool! Wait until you see those goddamn bats!

Taylor — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:25:50 +0000

I’m beginning to think the most common way I start a post is to say “Well, I haven’t posted in awhile, so…”. I really should fix that and just post more often. I do, however, have a feeling this post is going to live up to it’s “Crap post” category quite nicely.

I’ve been on another Hunter S. Thompson kick recently (hence the title). I’m reading through an oral history about his life right now that I shamefully borrowed from my brother without telling (I’ll be returning it tomorrow). Very interesting life, very interesting character. I get in Thompson moods sometimes where I’ll just consume all of his articles (not just the Vegas book, as he used to call it).

Also, I’ve added my sister’s blog to my links section to the right. Check it out! My brother’s blog, however, remains deceased.

Humadah, humadah, what else…started school, blah blah, going to be purchasing a nice camera so I can start doing some filmmaking again. Also possibly purchasing a Rebel XTI for photography class and hobby.

“138″ is chugging along. Hopefully, my brother will have the screenplay’s first draft popped out soon and pre-production can begin.

Psha! The courage to rage; and kill is cheap.

That’s all I’ve got.

Peace, love, and the cold side of the pillow.

P.S. Tomorrow this blog will be one-year old. Huzzah!

Movies I’m Looking Forward To

Taylor — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:29:08 +0000

I haven’t been able to write a post for awhile now. I apologize. I’ve been quite busy with alot of things. Constant rehearsals, shows, and work have really been taking over my time, and at the end of the month, school will take up the remainder. I’m hoping that I’ll still be able to update somewhat frequently, but that will all depend.

Anyway, recently I drove up to Phoenix with some friends of mine to experience “The Dark Knight” on an IMAX screen. Needless to say, it was pretty damn awesome. A few pictures of this trip can be found on my Picasa page: http://picasaweb.google.com/wherethehellistaylor

So, in the spirit of movies (since there is a lack of good ones out right now). He’s the Top 5 movies that I want to see, definitely in NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

1. The Road (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/)
Starring: Viggo Mortenson, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall
Director: John Hillcoat

Adapted, of course, by the novel by Cormac McCarthy, I cannot wait for this film to come out November 26 this year. There’s no trailer yet for this film, but I’m hoping one comes out soon. I’m really worried about them ruining the book, though.

2. Killing Pablo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284236/)
Starring: Christian Bale, Javier Bardem(?), Chris Pine
Director: Joe Carnahan

This movie is going to be based off of the book by Matt Bowden (one of his other popular books that was turned into a movie was “Black Hawk Down”). It’s about the life of Pablo Escabar, one of the world’s most notorious drug bosses in history. He was a huge Colombian cocaine kingpin. Now, yesterday, when I saw this, it had Javier Bardem (from “No Country For Old Men”) cast to play Pablo Escabar. When I looked today, that credit was removed and Chris Pine was magically on there with no credit. The casting of Bardem confused me though, because Escabar was a very short, fat guy. Bardem is most definitely not. Needless to say, the book was amazing, and I’m looking forward to the movie all the same.

3. Terminator Salvation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/)
Starring: Christian Bale, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood
Director: McG (I’m not making this up. He’s director alot of TV, including “Supernatural”, “The OC”, and “Chuck”)
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/terminatorsalvation/

I haven’t been a HUGE fan of the new Terminator movies, but this one looks pretty awesome. I’ve also been a growing fan of Christian Bale. I wasn’t a huge fan of him, but I’ve grown to like his very subtle style (one of the reasons I first disliked him). I love apocalyptic shit, so I think that’s why I’m drawn to this movie (as well as “The Road”). Thanks to Hudson for giving me the trailer. I saw it in “The Dark Knight”, but it was good to see it in HD.

4. Watchmen (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/)
Starring: Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Billy Crudup
Director: Zack Snyder
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/

Based off of a graphic novel/comic book (yet again, another comic book that I want to see a movie of). I have no idea what this shit is about, but it looks really visually awesome. I’m thinking about reading the comics/graphic novel just so I know what’s going on, but I like Snyder alot in terms of his visual direction.

5. High School Musical 3: Senior Year

5. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Well, I guess there’s only FOUR movies that I’m looking forward to right now, and that I’ve discovered. Feel free to leave some comments on movies that you think I’d like that maybe I haven’t found out about yet. Anyway, that’s more than enough of an update for now.

Dr. Horrible

Taylor — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:16:07 +0000

As I sit here at my parent’s house because of a very heavy rains tonight that made all exits flood over, I decided to write a blog that I’ve been putting off writing for too long, which is a shame.

A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon Joss Whedon’s (of Fiirefly and Buffy fame) project that he started during the writer’s strike when everyone was out of work and wanted to work on projects that were outside of the conventional Hollywood circle. Whedon, along with Neal Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day created a supervillian musical called “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”.

I have come to say that: IT IS PURE GENIUS.

This looks like it would be an amazingly fun project to do and it’s very funny. Everyone does great performances and the show itself ranges from hysterical to the sucker-punch sadness at the very last 2 seconds of the series that Whedon is so good at doing.

It was shown over the course of a couple weeks, and is in three Acts. It’s supposed to be taken down by Sunday at midnight EST, but it’s well past that and I’m still able to view it so I don’t know. If you know me, and want to see it, let me know because I am going to be purchasing it from iTunes (it’s only about $4 and it’s worth it).

Anyway, check it out: www.drhorrible.com

ALSO: The Dark Knight was incrediable. I hate superhero stuff and I absolutely loved this movie. As well as “Batman Begins”…it’s something about these new Batman movies that are really great. See that too.