< Monday, July 17, 2000 >
Hello Hello! Ok, lemme introduce myself to those who mightn't know who the hell I be. M'name's Steve Nagy - that's me at the top left. I'm currently a student attending the University of Maryland at College Park, specifically in the compsci undergrad program (yeah, yeah, I'm a computer geek) ... I'm a member of the Mighty Sound of Maryland (the marching band here). Yeh, we rock. Come check us out sometime at one of the home games at UMD. We're always there.
< Thursday, August 10, 2000 >
...I'm gonna get me some pussy."
I am in pain. I skipped work yesterday to go help Garrett out with his latest movie venture Excaliburger or The Spatula in the Stone. It's sortof a spoof on the Aurthurian legends (ya think?). I played random bit roles. I enjoy playing random bit roles and running gags in small time movies, especially Garrett's. But yesterday, it seemed all my roles somehow involved my character getting beaten or thrown or dying in a shocking manner. I had to throw myself at the ground in at least three seperate scenes. Each scene required at least six or seven shots, most took more. I was also a stunt double for a few scenes in which I was required to stretch up to the height of Dave Ashe (he's a good eight inches on me easily) and flash Sarah Rowe and Tom Vandevoordt. All in all, it was a grand and glorious day that resulted in me waking up this morning sore. I am in pain. The lesson learned: I need to excersize more often and practice throwing myself at the ground.
At least I got my favorite line of all the characters I've played into yet another movie... =^) now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the brothel...
"...Hey -- don' knock it `til you've tried it, sistah!"
< Tuesday, August 15, 2000 >
Ah, back on the Excaliburger set. Or rather back from being back on the Excaliburger set. Been gone since `bout 715 yesterdee mornin'. Mostly I was used as an extra who didn't hafta throw himself at the ground all too much, so I was happy. We spent most of our down time discussing plans and ideas for The Animal Effect, the sequel to the apparently highly acclaimed The Animal Game (1999) which I also starred in. I can't disclose too much about what's to come, largely because I don't know it. TAG was shot in one night, with six people who didn't ecactally know what the other intended or who they were playing exactally, so mostly all of it was improved. Maybe three scenes were scripted (loosely at that). We're attempting to recreate the same free-flowing feel that ensued this time around.
While TAG was intense and crazy and a load of fun to shoot, TAE looks to be even better. We're bringing a couple new characters into the circle, but it's mostly the group from before; we have a slightly better idea of what to do and what to aviod. (I am especially going to steer away from profanity-ridden speech this time and hope everyone else does as well. "Fuckfuckfuckfuckin'fuckers!fuckfuckfuck<<eat camera>>fuuouh.." is bad.)
I'll try to get some more info about TAE up after the shoot, which will be thursdee night through friday mornin'. For now, just check out The Animal Game or try Orange Cow Productions, Garrett's current list of movies (really, I think the man is a creative genious).
< Friday, August 18, 2000 >
so spake some critic about our performances in The Animal Game. So, as the trend goes, a sequel was shot. Lucky us, it turns out the unique inspiration that we all shared and relished in last year were all spent up last year. The Animal Effect should never have happened. This morning when asked how it went, the first thing that came to mind was the immagery of slurping rancid wombat feces through a 2 inch wide straw (which was harsh and overly dramatic, but I was tired and it shut my mother up for a bit so I was able to sleep).
It's a shame really, we actually spent quite awhile planning out charecter histories and interactions along with possible plot twists and whatnot aforehand. The main downfall of this one was lack of sleep on the part of Dave and the lack of timing in getting everyone together (I was picked up five hours late). In all honesty Garrett really tried to put on a performance, but the rest of us just were not up to the task, or had curfews to contend with (Tal.. heh, poor kid. He'll be in college in 2 weeks an' `is mum gave `im a 1130 curfew) or had no idea what was supposed to be happening.
Don't get me wrong though, not all of the evining was that bad. There were a few good moments that I particularly enjoyed. The one of greatest note would be when Larry (Garrett) was shooting a conversation between Audrey, Griff and Jimmy (Liz, Justin and myself) that pretty much revolved around sex and life and relationships and a touch of religion -- you know, stuff you talk about when you first meet someone. We were being fairly candid and (appart from the names we used) I was keeping it pretty much me (except for the hitting on Audrey thing, I really am sorry about that Liz; I'd never hit on you on camera, it's just rude =^) b'sides Helen'd kill me). But that was a good 30-40 minute scene, and though interesting to me, on camera it's gotta drag and drone on just a little.
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