I play a casting director in Episode 5 of “The Big Time”.  Thanks to David Wuest and his gang.  It was fun.

Film and art and music, they all mean the same thing to me when I reflect upon my association with life.  A film called “The Mirror” by Andrei Tarkovsky is the greatest and only work that needs my attention here in the 21st century.  It’s here forever and always needs to be returned to forever and ever.

Sean Meehan invited me to a screening of one of my favorite Director’s James Gray’s (Little Odessa, The Yards, We Own The Night) latest film “Two Lovers”.  Pure tragedy pitted against fantastic hope and the mundane truths of reality.  I can’t say that everyone will like this film, but I will say this,  James Gray has proved over and over again that he is one of the most distinct visionaries in the field of Directing.  I loved “Two Lovers”.

Just finished “Into Great Silence”.  If you are interested in spirituality on any front, I highly recommend this film.  Beautiful beyond belief.  It’s very long, no score, just peace and imagery taken from the heavens here on Earth.  Transcendental filmmaking.

From Zeutgeistfilms.com:
Nestled deep in the postcard-perfect French Alps, the Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the world’s most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks’ quarters for six months—filming their daily prayers, tasks, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. This transcendent, closely observed film seeks to embody a monastery, rather than simply depict one—it has no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. What remains is stunningly elemental: time, space and light. One of the most mesmerizing and poetic chronicles of spirituality ever created, Into Great Silence dissolves the border between screen and audience with a total immersion into the hush of monastic life. More meditation than documentary, it’s a rare, transformative experience for all.

I’m pretty much lost for words right now.  The piano in the opening track “This Land” is straight out of “The Calm at the Edge of the Sea“.  This whole album makes me very nostalgic for a time when I was lost in the ethereal space of Mendocino and Fort Bragg, creating and divining art through means that I now can look back upon and understand, but never reinvent.  I feel like the high water mark of my 20s is set by the force which was bringing together “The Calm at the Edge of the Sea” and everything else before and after has been beside a hidden point that stands stronger than ever.  “Hirror Enniffer” brings dead memories to the surface of my mind, like a body in an iced over pond at springs thaw.

Although it’s not the artists intent, for those who have seen “The Calm”, this album is very essential, it’s a companion piece, as if the credits have rolled but the theater is still dark, and this is what you are forced to live with.  Murder is art, art is beautiful when it brings tears.  For reasons that you must understand this is the best album I have heard this year.  Good job Faith.

There is light around the next bend.

If you want more information on the band go to their myspace.  Mamiffer.

Here is AKASA’s first single YOMI. Directed by fellow Northern California boy, SEAN MEEHAN. Starring Camerin Kelly and Stella Berkofsky. Music by AKASA. Akasa is Josh Benedict and Camerin Kelly. Produced by THE COMPANY OF OWLS.

Self Titled Album Available at www.TradeMarkRecordings.com

Finished YOMI poster.

Here is a little taste of the “Yomi” video.

Good job Sean and Kyle. And James of course.

This is from an interview with George Lucas on the subject of “Indian Jones”.

Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that.

Hmm, no comment. Everything is starting to make sense.

I once thought a live action version of my favorite video game of all time “Castlevania” was a genius idea. I imagined a flaming whip taking the heads of beasts of all shape and size, and the rank dark corridors of the castle glowing with slime. I imagined the score composed by Varg. Imagining too much is bad for me.

Paul WS Anderson, the director of such classics as Mortal Combat, Resident Evil, Soldier, has taken the helm of the “Castlevania” film in reality, beyond imagination. The fucked thing is;

He has replaced the Dracula Slaying Belmont WHIP, with a SWORD. Retard.

For your information:

The Belmont family (ベルモンド pronounced as “Berumondo” and romanized as “Belmondo” in Japanese) is the bloodline sworn to oppose Lord Dracula in the Castlevania series. They are not the only heroes in the franchise, but often play an integral role in any game’s storyline. The Belmont surname was lost to some characters due to the European patrilineal naming tradition. If not Belmonts in name, they were certainly Belmonts by blood and conviction, and are accordingly considered part of the Belmont clan. Most, though not all, of these characters wield a holy whip called Vampire Killer as their primary weapon.

As you know, The Company of Owls has been in flux over the past couple years. We don’t know what “The Calm at the Edge of the Sea’s” future holds, or if there is a future at all. Recently Booth Feller, Brian Zarin and myself have been working on an acting company. More information will become available soon. I present to you the latest facet from everyones favorite psychos.

This is one of the most brilliantly ACTED, WRITTEN, and DIRECTED films i’ve ever come across. It’s almost unbearably brutal at times, long before American Psycho left it’s mark. I’m not a reviewer, I won’t say more. Just watch it if you get the chance.

Directed by Camerin Kelly
Starring Faith and Morgan.
Thought Adjusters . 2008

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I present to you the first half of “The Calm at the Edge of the Sea” gag reel.

Directed by Camerin Kelly Burns
Director of Photography Nick Trikonis
Music by Lantern Black Lodge
Filmed on the Permanent Set at Calarts in Valencia California in the spring of 2000.