read all the news from 2001, archived
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n e w s f r o m 2002
September 22, 2002: Sweet Jumpin' Mama, have I got some news for you! I can't believe how long it's been since I posted a new news bulletin. Hopefully you've been keeping informed in the forum, where I post all the latest stuff. But yeah, it's been a while, which means an insane amount of stuff has happened.
First, to start with a new short ... I've Been Mocked Enough is now online! That's a RealVideo file, about 18 megs. A tale of superpowered insanity in the old west. Visit the website for more info, but in short this is a 7-minute long western/sci-fi comedy, written by Jonason Ho of Oregon's Bravado/Funeral Home Entertainment, and directed and edited by me ... starring Volcano Todd and Colin Brown, with cgi by Jason Porath (president of SCFX, USC's special effects society). The story: When the evil Tex Reeves and his clan of bad men invades the peaceful town of Yukonville, a stranger with no name must stop them by any means necessary. Wackiness ensues. I have no idea if anyone but me will find this amusing. But watch, and enjoy.
For more enjoyment, watch the House of Fun promo video! A Realvideo file, about 9 megs. This is a music video montage of Orange Cow clips, set to the tune of Madness' "House of Fun." With Squiffy the cartoon cat and Michelle Caruso the dancing fool! This one's for the Orange Cow fans ... you may remember the "Urban Spaceman" promo from early in the year ... I cut together a lot of rare and goofy old Orange Cow footage into a little music video. That promo turned out to be the most popular promo I ever did, so here's the bigger, badder sequel. Features goofy behind the scenes footage from Excaliburger, animated clips and lots of never before seen stuff (including a sneak peek at stuff like Gods of Los Angeles) to equal 3 minutes of unbridled wackiness. Enjoy.
Now, on to the big stuff. Gods of Los Angeles is 85% shot and is moving into editing. A staggering 33 hours of footage has been shot. Nearly done, folks! When last I posted about our romantic drama epic, only 20% was shot and we had no lead actor. Well, everything worked out unbelievably well ... "former" Orange Cow productions star David Ashe flew out here from Connecticut to star in the film! He did an amazing job with the role too ... I had thought I'd never have Dave to kick around again, and we picked up shooting like no time had passed, working day and night for an entire month trying to shoot this 255-page epic monster ... our D.P. Jason Gutierrez was busy elsewhere, and I wound up having to light and shoot the entire movie myself ... well, I think Dave and I did the best work of our lives on this movie. The cast was flawless -- Katherine Hoagland, Cori Haisler, David Maddox, Mariana McConnell ... they were such talented actors it really forced us to work harder to keep up with them! It's the best cast I ever worked with, the movie is romantic and sweet and beautiful and it's absolutely everything I've always dreamed my movies could be. I'll let you know how it's going as I edit the thing.
The movie now has a trailer, a 9 meg Quicktime file you can view here. This trailer premiered at the Rewind Awards in Rapid City, South Dakota, where Dave Ashe, John Brugmann and myself took a long long long road trip up to see some great amateur movies (I highly recommend Queequeg Films' "The Robert Cake" and Divergent Thinking's "Lethal Force"), and see some great amateur moviemakers. This was my second time at the fest (my first time was documented in Ghost Busted), and Dave's first. While we were there, Dave and I shot some footage which will become Ghost Busted 2: The Quest for Ghost Busted 2! Dave actually took over as director toward the end, and currently has the footage, with plans to edit it ... either before or after he finally releases his short To Film School!. I am not sure if "Ghost Busted 2" will be watchable or not ... but I had a lot of fun, Dave had a lot of fun and got to meet and work with people like GMP's Rich Evans and Mike Stoklasa (Rich and Dave have a scene together in Gods of Los Angeles ...), and Blanc Screen Cinema's Jay Bauman and Lisa Renley ... you know, the Gorilla Interrupted folks.
Speaking of which, if you didn't know already, GMP Pictures' Gorilla Interrupted has still not been officially released, since director Mike Stoklasa doesn't like it very much. However, most of it HAS been UNofficially released, in a bootleg cut I slapped together from the unfinished, incompletely edited shreds of Mike's original cut. This cut was screened at Camp Rewind on the barn. It was missing many scenes as well as the entire ending. Mike is currently shooting a new film, Oranges 2, and plans to edit and release Gorilla ... eventually. The music was tossed in by me very hastily, and most people hate it. The bootleg version doesn't do it justice ... maybe we'll get to see the full version someday. And actually see that climax where Monkey Man fights Satan in hell! Actually, I'm now the webmaster for GMP Pictures too, I guess. They're in Milwaukee and I'm here, but here's the website I made for them.
This is a good time to pick up an Orange Cow short films tape (hint hint) ... I've been putting out LOTS of new stuff lately, much more than usual ... Basically I've been on an editing spree, spending very late nights until 6am editing unreleased material, to get it out there before I get deep into editing on Gods of L.A. (Am I just bored and lonely now that my girlfriend's left me? Probably, but it's good for you guys, as you get lots more Orange Cow quality entertainment.) Well, you've already seen I've Been Mocked Enough and the House of Fun promo video. I also created a remastered version of the old Excaliburger trailer (the picture quality of which is now a lot better than the actual released movie), and created a sped-up, fixed-up version of my Sugarhigh Film Animations, with music and sound! I previously released a rough version of this material in the forums, but this is a much faster, nicer presentation. Done on 16mm film for a class at USC, these animations star the characters from my old comic strip The Sugarhigh Crusade. Hey, hell with it, let's have an Orange Cow animation fest!
Blobby Thing Does Stuff
Toshiro
Joel and Miss #749
and Lucky Xenon: The Sugarhigh Saga
(realvideo file, about 3 min. total)
An abstract animation, tests of Toshiro, Joel and Miss #749 (from the Sugarhigh Crusade) ... then, Space hero Lucky Xenon (from "Stripped Away" and "Easier than Thinking") and his sidekicks Deirdre and Colin the Computer battle the evil Army of the Unblinking Eye. With a special appearance by Lord Aleric Sugarhigh (from "Sugarhigh Crusade").
MORT - special edition ... This is a pretty big file, but for 26 minutes of animation it's worth it ... This is the full version of my adaptation of the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel. This one has an ending. Apart from that it's no different from the old version. (I have audio for an extra 20 minutes of scenes, and would love to do an audio director's cut one of these days if I ever find the time ...) More info at the Mort website.
I am doing some animation for "Clowns and Suicide", the next movie by Jay Bauman, of Milwaukee's Blanc Screen Cinema. I won't talk much about the short piece, but I will say that the animation is extensive (and offensive) as hell and involves Frank Gifford. ... Yes folks, it's Squiffy! Some clips of Squiffy appear in the House of Fun promo, so that's another reason to watch that. I also designed the logo for Cool Bear, a soda that appears in the film, and there will be some other Orange Cow related surprises when the film is released. Jay's a good guy, and if you haven't seen his film Pervert Goes Home yet, you haven't lived.
Late this summer I had some free time and began to program an old-fashioned videogame in the same style as the mid-90s Lucasarts games like Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, and Monkey Island. I only got through 1 dialogue scene before going back to school and ignoring the project, but it was a good dialogue scene. The game was a sequel to Excaliburger! It had the working title "The Quest for the Mummy's Shoes." I posted a demo of the game, with only four rooms, only one working room (the first room), only one working dialogue scene (the fourth room) and no puzzles to solve or any real game content yet ... that demo seems to have vanished though. I'll get it back up here eventually, once I figure out where it is.
I've been steadily updating this website this whole time, and there are now 518 pictures viewable in the pictures section ... that's a lot of pictures, and 200 more than before. Lots of good stuff. And of course I've been updating the websites for the movies like Gods of Los Angeles, so stay tuned. ... Oh, there's so much more to say, so much more to talk about, but it's late and I must move along ... I will catch you with more good news and lots more fun stuff in the next update.
May 31st, 2002: Gods of Los Angeles Shoots On! And we've got three new video games for ya!
Haven't been reporting much news the last few months ... been far too busy shooting Orange Cow's coolest, most ambitious and best feature yet! Gods of Los Angeles stars Cori Haisler, Katherine Hoagland, David Maddox and Mariana McConnell, it's a romantic drama about life, love, and breaking the laws of physics in the City of Angels, and .... saying anything more would give it away, but this is the big one, folks. If you ever look forward to an OCP movie, this should be the one. We're about 20% done with shooting right now, with many many thanks to my partner on this shoot, Jason Gutierrez of Transcend Entertainment, the best D.P. I've ever had the pleasure of working with. 
It's been an interesting shoot ... at one point the entire male cast quit on us! But the footage has been terrific, the performances are terrific .... it's gonna be terrific. Look for more on it soon, keep up with our madness at the Gods of L.A. website.
GMP Pictures' Gorilla Interrupted, which has a character played by yours truly, and a script cowritten by Orange Cow alum David Ashe (who cameos in the film), has not been released yet. Director Mike Stoklasa was in a state of depression when he was editing the movie, and has said for the moment he will not be able to complete and release it. However, he has edited an excellent trailer. Most of the movie is edited, and if Mike doesn't finish it, we'll edit it right here in L.A. at Orange Cow headquarters. He plans to turn the near-finished product over to me in late July, at Camp Rewind.
In the middle of this hoo-ha, "Gorilla Interrupted" became the first amateur film I know of to inspire its own fighting game! "Moron Kombat" is 12 megs of fighting insanity for windows. It was created and programmed by yours truly using Corel Click and Create. It stars the whole cast of that film, stars from GMP Pictures, Blanc Screen Cinema, and of course Orange Cow, beating the crap out of each other in amazing 2-player action for windows! It's gotten great reviews all over the web ... but don't take my word for it. Play it yourself, it's free.
But that's not the end of it, oh no. Shortly after "Moron Kombat" became such a huge surprise hit, people began asking for a sequel. Because as fun as those characters were, they got old pretty quickly and people wanted new ones. And then I began to work on new locations, new sound effects, improved play, a new goal .....
Moron Kombat was just the warmup, my friends. This is the real thing. It's ORANGE KOWBAT, the first fighting game starring the stars of Orange Cow Motion Pictures!
-- 6 new playable characters!
-- 5 new background characters!
-- new moves!
-- new design!
-- a "win counter" so you can keep track of how many times you've kicked the other player's ass!
-- Trophies during marathon play -- get a trophy every 5 wins! It'd take 55 wins to get all of Jacob's, though most fighters can get them all in 20 wins, some in 5 or 10.
-- New sounds! Now when you're kicking Garrett's ass, you'll hear it!
For images from the game, flip through http://orangecow.org/games
What have you got to lose?
PLAY ORANGE KOWBAT!
http://orangecow.org/games/kowbat.zip
(11.7 mb, windows only)
And if you want to kick your friends' asses online ... check out our "chat room with missiles" ... it's Oranges: Chat War, it's only 700 kb so it's a very fast and easy download, it's based on the film series by GMP Pictures' Mike Stoklasa, and it's a hell of a lot of fun.
As for my student work this semester, I completed four short animations on 16mm film. I'm quite proud of them. They're only about 30 seconds long apiece. The last one was done in color with cel animation. The first one is partly in color too. The titles are "Blobby Thing Does Stuff", "Toshiro," "Joel and Miss #749," and "Lucky Xenon: The Sugarhigh Saga, parts 1 and 2." If you can't tell from the titles, the last 3 animations feature the popular characters from my late and lamented USC comic strip, "The Sugarhigh Crusade," as well as everyone's favorite space ranger, Lucky Xenon 
(last seen in Stripped Away). This is the best animation I've done to date. I don't have video copies of this material yet, but look for it on future tapes.
The USC sitcom pilot "The Weekly Insider" (which I wrote), was taped successfully at the end of April. I even had a small part in it as an extra. Overall it was a good learning experience, but the sitcom came out rather generic ... don't look for it here.
"I've Been Mocked Enough" is still not released, but I did a bit of editing work on it a bit back. I need more editing time. Jason Porath's CGI eagle is excellent, though. Worth the price of admission alone. Before and during the "Gorilla Interrupted" shoot I also shot a documentary called "Talking to People About Star Wars." Perhaps that will be edited and released one of these days ... the stars of that film appear in it, along with the OCP West crew.
Our buddy Jay Bauman at Blanc Screen Cinema in Milwaukee is now starting shooting on a new movie, currently titled "Clowns and Suicide." You may recall that myself and many other Orange Cow alums had cameos in his last (very good) movie, Pervert Goes Home. (Jay and me also costarred in Gorilla Interrupted). So, will Orange Cow be involved at all in Jay's latest? You betcha, though only in a minor capacity. I have contributed some design work, and may be doing several animated sequences for the film as well.
Now on to the rumor mill -- a lot of project ideas have died recently, mainly because I won't be reuniting with the old Dr. Fred cast anytime soon. So, if you're following this stuff, there are currently no plans to shoot Please, No More Star Wars Parodies, or Sword of the Time Killer. I'd just like to kill those rumors right away. However, you WILL be seeing certain members of the old Fred cast again very soon, in very unexpected places. That, I promise. As for the long-rumored Musical of the Living Dead, I may tackle that as an L.A. project after Gods of Los Angeles is done.
But make no mistake, folks, Gods of Los Angeles is the big one.
March 18, 2002: Garrett's in a new feature! And very very sick. I am sick as a dog. A dead dog. I spent this past week in Chicago with Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman and Rich Evans, the wonderful amateur moviemaking comedians from GMP Pictures and Blanc Screen Cinema -- they are fans of my movies, I'm fans of theirs, and they decided, out of boredom I think, to pay far too much to fly me up there for a week. Mike Stoklasa had written the script in five hours, and we were going to shoot it in 8 days. Via email, former Orange Cow star and comedy genius David Ashe did a rewrite of the script. Then it was off to Chicago to meet Mike, Jay and Rich. They're terrific people, and lots of fun. And together we fought through the worst week of movie shooting in the history of the entire world. It was a study in illness, injury, vomit, violence, depression, and pain. It resulted in a wonderful movie. But a satanic illness caught us early on and the cast was so sick throughout, especially me, that at times the director and I lost our voices to the extent where we could not physically play the part anymore. Still, we continued shooting, because we are insane. It was the "Apocalypse Now" of amateur movies. We decided, on a silly whim, to call it "Gorilla Interrupted."
Hard to believe it's over. The whole "Gorilla Interrupted" shoot seems like a very very strange dream. I think we made a movie. I think it was about this nerd,
this punker, this safari asshole (me) and this guy who turns into a monkey trying to save the world. I think. But I woke up this morning next to the woman I love, back in L.A. with no sign of the blood and vomit of Chicago, or the depression and suicide of Milwaukee, or the wonderful people I'd spent the past insane suicidal week with.
Did this really happen? Why the hell would Mike and Jay want a no-talent hack like me involved with their movie? As an ACTOR, no less, and god knows I'm not that ...
Did Rich really kill himself throwing himself down a branch and thorn and broken glass covered hill 28 times, in zero-degree weather with a t-shirt on? Did he really destroy his entire house on-camera? Did I really get my nose smashed in? Did Mike really spend the entire week with green hair shouting obscenities in a faux-British accent, and say toward the end of it that if he died right now he wouldn't care?
Gorilla Interrupted, ladies and gentlemen. A tale of romance, anarchy, punk rock, random destruction and a guy in a monkey suit. We killed 
ourselves for this movie, we were dead when we shot it, and it still turned out a billion times better than it had any right to, every single day.
It was great spending time with Mike, Jay and Rich -- even in a state of waking unconsciousness and death. Can't think of any other moviemakers I'd rather have vomited for. Great to meet Lisa Renley, who is remarkably easy to work with and did a great job as usual even as we stumbled like sick vomiting zombies around her ... I left with a bad headache, a terrible cold that isn't going away anytime soon, some stolen videos and hazy memories of time well-spent. A good movie, the most painful shoot of all time. Oh, and a Mike Stoklasa character y'all may just like more than Big K.
So there you have it.
Jay Bauman
Rich Evans
Mike Stoklasa
Garrett Gilchrist
and Lisa Renley
in
GORILLA INTERRUPTED.
conceived and directed by Mike Stoklasa
screenplay by Mike Stoklasa
and David Ashe
So ladies and gentlemen, we have a new vaguely OCP-related feature-length comedy on our hands. A very funny movie that was utter hell to shoot. Should be out very soon from GMP Pictures. In the meantime, check out an even better movie, the last thing Blanc Screen and GMP did together - Pervert Goes Home. Some moron plays Jesus in it.
I am resuming production on Gods of Los Angeles this weekend. The lead role is still not cast, nor is the script finished. Yay. I am too sick to worry about such things, though.
I have spent this past semester as the reluctant headwriter on a sitcom pilot being taped for a class at USC, my soul-sucking university. It's a real, professional sitcom pilot for a class taught by TV veterans Doug Wellman, Howard Storm and Sam Denoff, who have more tv credits than god. The pilot is called The Weekly Insider and is a generic sitcom about the goings-on at a tabloid newspaper in L.A. I was given a very bland and generic and cliched script and asked to rewrite it. I did, completely. I think I've done well, but I've also gotten a taste of industry politics, USC-style -- the class is constantly changing the script as a committee, on a whim, and to keep any level of quality I have to be always on my toes. The final pilot should be interesting, if not exactly an Orange Cow sort of thing. Orange Cow's David Ashe tossed in a few jokes, but they've since been cut out by the class -- still, those wanting some nice Ashe writing will see it in "Gorilla Interrupted", so worry not. "The Weekly Insider" will be shot and finished in early May.
More interestingly, for another USC class, I have been completing several short animations on 16mm film. I started with an abstract piece I will simply call "Blobby Thing Does Stuff," but my more recent work has been more interesting -- at long last I am bringing to animated life the characters from my USC comic strip The Sugarhigh Crusade! This is actually the best animation I have ever done, I think. Already completed is a short 30-second test of the character "Toshiro". I am currently animating "Joel and Miss 749." Those of you who enjoy my animations will enjoy these clips - I will release them in mid-May. I may edit them together into a music video sometime in the future.
Speaking of animation, GMP Pictures' Mike Stoklasa (him again!) released an animated class project called "CAVE MEN" a while back that featured animated neanderthals and cro-magnons drawn by yours truly. The short educational film is voiced by Stoklasa and Rich Evans, and has a little bit of GMP Pictures humor in it, but not nearly enough for my taste. Yeah, it's crap, and this is probably the last you'll hear about it.
David Ashe still hasn't edited/released "To Film School." Let's kick his ass.
Then again, I haven't edited/released "I've Been Mocked Enough" or "The Animal Effect" either. Maybe it is I who should get his ass kicked.
More news on "Gods of L.A." and "Gorilla Interrupted" very soon ...
March 15, 2002:
Gee, wonder who drew that poster? =)
Well kids, it's finally out, and it's one of the best amateur comedies I have ever seen .... maybe the best. And I'm not just saying that because I have a little cameo in it. =)
"Pervert Goes Home," from Blanc Screen Cinema (based in Milwaukee, WI), written and directed by and starring Mr. Jay Bauman -- it's an hourlong DV feature about a struggling young comedy writer (who has a reputation for being a pervert) who tries to escape his humdrum life by going back to his old hometown, and seeing his old friends again. What he finds is not what he expected ....
http://www.blancscreencinema.com
Members of Chicago's GMP Pictures show up in supporting roles, and the whole cast is wonderful. It's a dark, very offensive, and very funny movie.
So what's the Orange Cow connection? After hanging out with Jay (and GMP's Mike Stoklasa, who turns in one of the movie's best performances as "Big K") at the Camp Rewind fest this past summer, and having Jay and Mike appear in my little Camp Rewind short, "Ghost Busted", not to mention starring in Jay's Camp Rewind short "Torgo and the Quest for Fuck", Jay asked me to shoot a few little bits for this movie. So I am in the movie as Porno Jesus. Yes, it's that kind of movie. Also expect very brief cameos from lots of OCP West players, and David Ashe. There's also a special treat for Troma fans.
Copies of the movie are not currently circulating, but I'm sure if you bug Jay and give him 5-10 bucks or so he'll toss a copy your way.
The movie also stars Lisa Renley, Rich Evans, Ryan Erke, Kyle Laurent, Jessie Cuellar, and James Cuellar.
Blanc Screen and GMP are some of the funniest talents in no-budget cinema today, and just plain good people. I recently .... well, you'll see ... Mike flew me up to Chicago for some reason and we just spent this past week collaborating on an epic comedy feature, "Gorilla, Interrupted" .... so you'll be seeing a lot more GMP and Blanc Screen on this Orange Cow website very soon. =)
More on "Gorilla Interrupted" soon, but for now, check out "Pervert" ... it's a great flick.
March 4, 2002:
It has begun ... gods of los angeles.
http://orangecow.org/godsofla
mockedenough.html
Here we are, space kidettes ... the first production photos from Orange Cow's new movie, "Gods of Los Angeles." These are from the first day's shoot on March 2, 2002, featuring Cori Haisler ("Stripped Away") as Lily Benton. Production crew consisted of Colin Brown and Mariana McConnell, with thanks to Transcend Entertainment D.P. Jason Gutierrez, who will be joining the crew later.
Production will not continue until March 22, as I am flying to Chicago to appear in a still-untitled movie for GMP Pictures director Mike Stoklasa. Production will then get underway in a big way. At this point not only is the script not completely finished, but the lead actor has not been cast. But what is "Gods of Los Angeles?" For now, and for those who haven't read the script, I will say only that it is a 2-hour-long drama about love and Los Angeles, and that judging from these pictures Cori Haisler's character does sit in a chair at some point. That is all. I will say that Cori is a wonderful actress and it's good to be working with her again. Rumored additions to the cast include OCP newcomers Katherine Hoagland and Toby Brusseau (who has previously appeared in some short films for South Dakota amateur legends Linn Productions).
Other current OCP projects to be explained later --
"The Weekly Insider" - sitcom pilot. writer.
"Blobby Thing" -- animation. 16mm film, color.
"Toshiro" -- animation. 16mm film, black and white.
"I've Been Mocked Enough" -- short for Bravado's "Random Eyes."
"Teenage Bingo Brigade" -- short for Bravado's "Random Eyes."
http://orangecow.org/godsofla
and for info on "I've Been Mocked Enough" and "The Teenage Bingo Brigade" ...
http://orangecow.org/lamovies/mockedenough.html 
Catching up on old news, have you seen the Orange Cow TV ads yet? You can watch the first two, Hey Jar Jar and Urban Spaceman online. The first is a short comedy bit inspired by an old Jim Henson Wilkin's Coffee commercial from the 50s. The second is a montage of rare old Orange Cow footage you haven't seen before. This is now being used as the opening sequence to the Dr. Fred cable access show, because I'm too lazy to edit anything else, and features clips from Fred 2 and Phantom Movie deleted scenes, the monologue that inspired "The Animal Game," and Fred cast members on the Masuk stage. These were edited with the help of Damien LeVeck of Incendiary Productions. A third tv ad, the world's worst music video, is entitled "Catchphrase" and is not available online (though I'll put it on some short films tapes).
Why TV ads, you may ask? Well, I met a fellow from Oregon at Camp Rewind, he's in Ghost Busted, his name is Alan Winston of Bravado Entertainment, he runs (or used to run) a college tv station called KBVR-tv and created 60 episodes of a tv series, "Delusions of Grandeur" while he was there. Alan's a good guy and has been nice enough to play our movies, like Excaliburger, The Phantom Movie, Ghost Busted and more, on the station there. Hell, maybe you even got to this site from a showing on KBVR. Who knows? Anyway, he's got a friend and coconspirator named Warren Blyth of Funeral Home Entertainment. And whenever Alan makes a friend, Warren likes to try and get them involved in a collaborative video project, or Gauntlet. Warren went to Rewindvideo.com and asked the amateur moviemakers there, including myself, to make little tv ads for their companies. I like a challenge, so I did it - hence the tv ads.
But Warren wasn't done yet, oh no. In a normal Gauntlet, various people from Bravado and elsewhere write and/or direct a short film, and these short films are cobbled together into one big movie. I enjoyed the last Gauntlet project, Gauntlet 216, because it made for a creepily David Lynch-like whole when edited together as one story. So Warren decided, with an evil cackle, to involve me in the latest Gauntlet, Random Eyes. So I selected a script written by Bravado's Jonason Ho, and directed a short film entited I've Been Mocked Enough - it has basically no dialogue and features Colin Brown, Volcano Todd (from Beautiful Zelda), and lots more OCP west people -- I shot it quick over two separate days. I wrote a script for Random Eyes as well, entitled The Teenage Bingo Brigade. Warren liked my script, and decided to direct it himself. He has not yet done so as I write this, but while on a visit to L.A. I got to meet Warren and appear in some hastily shot-narrator bits for the movie ... as a character called Vivian. So I will be in the movie. Yay.
more news soon ...
January 11, 2002: 
Garrett Gilchrist writes - Hey, have you taken the Orange Cow Personality Test yet? Wow, it's 2002 already. The past year flew by, I nearly missed it. For me, and for Orange Cow, it was a year where much was gained, but even more was lost ... a year of hope and pain, but most of all of growth and learning ... but growth doesn't come without pain, and the lessons learned often hurt. You can read all about it here - where all the news from 2001 is archived.
We are still mourning Niket Doshi, who died over the winter break, two days before his 21st birthday. Niket was one of my favorite people in the entire world, and it's still hard to believe he's gone. I have revised his biography here at the Fredpage, but will not remove it ... Niket gave so much to this little company, and to remove him just because he's no longer with us would be a discredit to his legacy. Instead, I have expanded the page, adding a picture gallery so we can remember him as he was, and I intend to try and include some reference to Niket in all our future films. He has been a great light for OCP and for amateur film, and everything we do from now on is dedicated to him. God bless you, Niket.
As for the founder of Orange Cow, I've recently had an emotional breakdown, or eight. I'm feeling better now.
So, in happier news, Orange Cow is moving on ... moving west, actually. Although I have been attending college at USC in Los Angeles for three years now, Orange Cow movies has still been rooted in Connecticut in many ways, since I haven't shot a feature film on the west coast, only a lot of wonderful shorts. Well, that's all about to change. Say hello to Orange Cow West! Orange Cow West was opened up in August 1999 but not officially incorporated into the company until now. The new base of operations for OCP will feature a new cast and a new outlook on things. We want to surprise you with the best movies we can possibly make, movies to make you laugh and cry, all on DV. Our first feature will be Gods of Los Angeles - more on this soon. Production is slowly beginning, with the script being revised and, uh, finished. The film is described as a romantic fantasy about finding hope in spite of pain in the City of the Angels. For this first project, Orange Cow is finally upgrading to a completely digital production, start to finish ... although our recent shorts had been shot digitally or on film, and edited digitally, our actual equipment was not digital ... we are upgrading, and are now in debt.
Florida director David Ashe, formerly star of Orange Cow's Dr. Fred series, has recently (Dec. 2001) completed his first short film, "To Film School!, or, the Killer Machines Have Their Car Keys." It has not yet been released, but much of it is edited. This marks Ashe's first substantial effort as director -- Ashe stars in the film as a struggling college student, unable to get into the film school at Florida State University, but desperate to complete a light-hearted musical comedy about killer machines sent from the future to enslave humanity ... yes, it even has musical sequences, lyrics by Ashe, music and vocals by Greg Nicolett [another former OCP star who is now making his own films, such as "Roundabout"]. Ashe lip-synchs to Greg's voice, singing such hits as "There's No Fate But What We Make" and "Game Over Man." If you want a good laugh, I've included two of Greg Nicolett's songs for Dave Ashe's "To Film School!" at my unofficial Ashe fanpage --
http://orangecow.org/ashe/tofilmschool.html
Greg Nicolett himself chimes in with this tidbit: "I am
scoring a film here for a friend, working on a competiton piece for Turner Classic Movies, as well as writing the first movement of a piano concerto w/ orchestra..." He uses all this as an excuse not to do the music for my next film ... yet anyway. =) He is considering doing a remix of his "Beautiful Zelda" score ... Greg recently completed a 16mm film, and disowned it because he didn't like it. I know the feeling. Visit his website.
I am still making student films and will complete 4 short animations on film, within the next few months. A release of my last film, the Craptacular/OCP co-production of Maureen McGinnis' "Where There's a Will There's a Wade" is planned for later this month ... the film premiered on 16mm film at the George Lucas building at USC on December 15th, 2001. Wade Weliever plays about ten roles in the silent film, for which I served as cinematographer, editor, and body double. It's not a major OCP project and will come out with little fanfare ... however, it may come out in special edition form, as editor me did manage to put together a reel of deleted scenes before the premiere.
Recently, I have completed some animation work for one of my favorite (other) amateur comedy directors, GMP Pictures' Mike Stoklasa ... I animated a neanderthal and cro-magnon for a class project of his. Stokes is based in Chicago and wants me to appear in his next film this summer ... we'll see.
Also from the middle of the United States, another one of my favorite amateur comedy directors, Blanc Screen Cinema's Jay Bauman from Milwaukee, will very soon be releasing his latest and greatest comedy, Pervert Goes Home. Twisted, smart and funny stuff. I will be appearing in the film as Porno Jesus. David Ashe even has a cameo as a college guy, as do many of the stars of OCP West. I also drew the poster for the film. So check it out at the website!
Orange Cow's most recent release was a special edition of our animated film from summer 2001, "Mort." The film, based on the Terry Pratchett novel, finally has an ending, and runs about 23 minutes. As for our other films stuck in editing, such as The Animal Effect, of which about 47 minutes was completed before the edit was abandoned, they are still "stuck in editing" ... and will be for a while since I am shooting new material ... but I have plans for the OCP back catalogue. Who knows? Towards the end of this year we may yet see a completed "Animal Effect" ... and perhaps, finally, that loooong-rumored special edition of Dr. Fred Strikes Back? Well, maybe not. But with Orange Cow upgrading to all-digital, it is very possible that if there's sufficient demand, ALL the old Orange Cow films will be reedited in new digital special editions. But for the moment, I've got no computer to edit on and a lot of other stuff to think about, so we'll wait on that, ok? Trust me.
Over the winter break, I intended to shoot a followup to 1999's The Phantom Movie, entitled Please, No More Star Wars Parodies ... it would have been a reunion for OCP East. However, after the death of Niket Doshi the project was delayed, perhaps permanently. If it does get shot, it will be shot AFTER the release of "Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones", this summer. The original plan was to have our spoof out before the real film.
However, with all the excitement at OCP West, OCP East is not dead yet. David Ashe plans to reunite with me for the most action-packed, exciting project OCP has ever done -- an adventure film currently titled "Sword of the Time Killer," to be shot this summer. "Musical of the Living Dead" is currently on the back-burner because Ashe doesn't like the script, sadly ... however, I am still behind the concept 100% and will shoot this film eventually.
Also planned for this summer - the week of July 22nd will mark the second Camp Rewind for Rewindvideo.com -- amateur filmmakers gather from all across the country and eat fast food. Last year I created a film about the fest, Ghost Busted, and this year will hopefully shoot "Ghost Busted 2." What then -- perhaps a followup to Torgo and the Quest for Fuck? Hehheh. We also hope to win some awards, or something, but aren't counting on it. Orange Cow's last feature was 2000's "Excaliburger" ... an inordinately long time between features by OCP standards. That film, a love-it-or-hate-it comedy epic, was not released until the Rewind fest of 2000, and is eligible for the awards this year, so we'll see.
As for the old Dr. Fred tv show, it is still airing on cable access in many areas. We're about to start airing in Wisconsin, very soon. We have been shown in places as farflung as Oregon's KBVR-TV (thanks to Alan Winston), and Bismarck, North Dakota. Thanks to our friends at Mercury Zero, Dr. Fred can apparently still be seen in northern Indiana every Wednesday night at 10:30pm (sometimes at 11:00pm) thru the good graces of AT&T Cable, on cable channel 03. This started January 26th, 2000. We have played in Michigan, at the University of Notre Dame, we've been in Fort Worth, Texas, we've been in Tucson, Arizona ... but we're not airing many places now, I don't think. Please write me at TygerBug@lycos.com if you've seen us on TV, and/or if you can get Fred shown in your area!
So, it was a tough end of the year, but it's going to be the best year yet for Orange Cow, as you can see.
So, with some tears and a little nostalgia, let's look back on allll we did last year, and realize once again that I must be the hardest-working man in amateur film ...
As director in 2001:
"Excaliburger, or the Spatula in the Stone" [2000]. Position: Writer, director, lead actor [Spanky], editor, director of animation, effects and special sequences. The last and best of my seven feature-length comedies to date was finally released in 2001, though it had been shot in summer 2000. Releasing it required months of editing and special effects work. Showcased at the 2001 Rewind International Media Festival. Jason Santo of Random Foo Pictures called it "funny all the way through." Telling a wild tale of adventure, magic, sex and fast food in a medieval fantasy setting, "Excaliburger" was more original and artistically ambitious than "The Phantom Movie." The last of the no-budget, old-school "Fred" movies, and a fitting end to a great run.
"Stripped Away" (2001). DVcam video, student production for USC, 18 minutes. Position: writer/director/editor/artist/animator/actor (Larry). The fourth, and generally regarded as the best, of the five DV student films Garrett completed in his first semester at USC's film school. The film shows the final thoughts of a dying cartoonist (60-year-old Richard Havens, in his first film role), as he tries, with the help of a mysterious young woman (Cori Haisler), to come to grips with himself, and the memories of a life that didn't always work out the way he wanted it to. The film is punctuated by Garrett’s original artwork and animation.
"Terry Pratchett’s Mort" (2001). DVcam video, student production for USC, 23 minutes. Position: director/animator/editor/adaptation/voice actor (Death). Death takes an apprentice in Garrett’s 5th student work. An original, nearly full-length animated adaptation of the novel Mort, by British humorist and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. The animation style is highly original, melding cutout drawings with clay bodies and real-world settings. It was first released unfinished, but is now available in a "finished" version.
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Music for the Mind Ballet" (2001). DVcam video, student production for USC, 16 minutes. Position: director/writer/editor. Garrett’s third student work shows off some striking splitscreen and other special effects, to tell the story of a socially awkward young woman who finds herself confronted with an alternate, wilder version of herself.
"Ghost Busted"
(2001). DV video, 21 minutes. Positions: Director, concept and script, interviewer. Never before have directors and actors from so many different amateur movie companies been gathered together in one place, and in one movie. Pity the place had to be South Dakota, and the movie had to be this one. In a way, this very strange, funny short film is a documentary about the 2001 Rewind Media Festival in Rapid City South Dakota. In a way, it is also a Ghostbusters movie.
Beautiful Zelda 
(2001). 16mm film, 5 minutes, 2001. Love me, love my robot. Directed, written, built and drawn by Garrett Gilchrist. Starring Volcano Todd, Jaimie Nakae. The story of a socially-inept artist who, unable to make friends, builds a robot to keep him company, and pursues the girl of his dreams. Orange Cow's first done on actual film, is also Orange Cow's shortest movie, and one of its sweetest. With music by Greg Nicolett.
"Legend of the Lazy Fighters" (2001). DVcam video, student production for USC, 10 minutes. Position: director/writer/editor. Garrett’s second student work tells the tongue-in-cheek story of a bunch of couch potatoes who become action heroes to rescue their fallen leader. An all-out stunt spectacular.
"The Hope Dress" (2001). DVcam video, student production for USC, 5 minutes, silent. Position: director/writer/editor. Garrett’s first student work tells the story of a loser who finds love.
The Animal Effect (2000, not yet released): The unfinished(?) sequel to 1999's "The Animal Game" is rarely discussed, but it does exist, and definitely has its moments. Shot in summer 2000 and not released, it was not released in 2001 either, but the first 47 minutes of it was edited digitally with the Avid system and included on some short films tapes, to very positive reviews. Perhaps in 2002 we'll see the rest of it.
Radio work:
July 2001, "Fastforward Radio Episodes 1-11." Writer/performer. Comedy radio production for the web, shows ranging from 5 to 30 minutes in length, about 2 hours total. "I am Batman. I smell like Batman." Garrett performs solo in this amusingly odd show. The "host" is clearly incapable of hosting a radio program, but nevertheless yammers on randomly about such topics as "Why the world should be more fuzzy" and "Why Alien Invaders Should Be More Like the Cast of Friends," before taking us on a magical mystical journey through time.
July 2001, "To Whom it May Concern: Tales of the Elf Gas." Performer. Radio adaptation of the comedic "Elf Gas" tales by Mike Stoklasa of GMP Pictures.
Comic strips:
August 2001, "The Sugarhigh Crusade, book one, Raiders of the Lost Oscar." 50 pages. Position: writer/artist. Collection of the first 43 "Sugarhigh Crusade" comic strips, as created by Garrett for USC’s The Daily Trojan. The strip follows the comedic adventures of a knight, a samurai, a comp. sci major and an attractive young woman as they go on a quest in USC’s cinema school.
For other directors:
The Cancer by Jonathan Block. Digital video, 11 min. Starring Garrett Gilchrist, Jason Walsh. Actor/editor/preproduction supervisor. In this twisted documentary-style film about an anti-smoking film gone horribly wrong, I played the non-smoker on the brink of madness. Jonathan Block (who helped film my short Stripped Away) wrote and directed it, but allowed a lot of adlibbing, so that many of my lines in the film are my own. A very successful collaboration, we also collaborated on the editing, and I think the film came out quite well.
"Where There's a Will There's a Wade" by Maureen McGinnis and Craptacular films. 16mm film. Starring Wade Weliever as the entire Wade family. I served as cinematographer and editor, and it was my job to create the illusion that there were actually 10 people there, and not just Wade playing many many parts, in this short comedy. Check out the splitscreen shot!
Torgo and the Quest for Fuck by Jay Bauman and Blanc Screen Cinema, in collaboration with Queequeg films. Actor/writer. Starring Garrett Gilchrist, Jeremy Gardner, Natalie Sanders, Ryan Winford. Trapped in a hotel room at Camp Rewind with the very funny stars of Queequeg films' "The Bags," and director Jay Bauman, we were asked to simply improvise a film on the spot, which wound up being called "Torgo and the Quest for Fuck" ... a very funny little film.
Pervert Goes Home by Jay Bauman and Blanc Screen Cinema. Actor/adlibber (Porno Jesus). Jay Bauman stars as Arlo, a wanna-be comedy writer with an immature attitude toward women, who returns to his old hometown in a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to reevaluate his life. I have a small part as Porno Jesus in this comedy, and wrote my own lines for a dream sequence where Jesus confronts Arlo. Look for David Ashe, and several OCP West stars, in cameo roles.
"Transients" by Jason Santo (formerly of Random Foo Pictures), a Camp Rewind Team Production. Actor (Douglas). I appear in the official Camp Rewind 2000 film, as a poor Jewish boy confronted by some racist thugs (including GMP's Mike Stoklasa). Funny, I don't look Jewish. =) A thinking man's short, about the observation of our race by otherworldly beings.
"The Mixed Up Psycho Communist Martian Invasion" by Rob Keith and Green Holly Productions. Provided the "Ford" mask (from Phantom Movie), used for all the aliens in the film, and did special effects post-production work (bluescreen). A fun film with OCP West's Cori Haisler in it.
"Friday Night" by Jonathan Block. Actor/Special Edition Editor. Starring Cori Haisler, Sean Carr, Mariana McConnell. My girlfriend Mariana McConnell's part was originally cut out of this film -- I had a small part in it as well. Jon was an inexperienced editor, and his version of the film was a failure, very unsuccessful in and out of class. He had given up on the film when I reedited the whole thing, restoring the deleted footage, going back to his original vision for the film, and speeding the whole thing up to about twice the cuts of his original, very slow, edit. The result was a big hit with Jon, and resulted in our later collaboration on "The Cancer."
"The TV Thief" by Jonathan Block. Assistant editor. Starring Rob Keith.
"Dark Night 2" by Rob Keith and Green Holly Productions. Dolly operator. Starring Cori Haisler, Paul Zirkle.
"Untitled War Film" by Rob Keith and Green Holly Productions. Cameraman. Starring Colin Brown. My work was mostly unused in the final cut.
Garrett Gilchrist's "Easier Than Thinking" adapted by Kara Dennison and Best Fishes Audio Productions. Writer/voice actor (Ian Leonard II). Amateur anime voice actress Kara Dennison, of Best Fishes Audio Productions in Virginia came upon Garrett's 1999 play Easier Than Thinking, and loved it ... she decided it would make a good radio play, and recorded much of act 1, with herself in the lead role of Teal. Her version is not yet complete or released (perhaps in 2002), but Garrett did record voice tracks for Ian Leonard II, the role he played in the original (unproduced) stage version.
"Stop Think and Choose" (2001). Promotional video for the San Diego Children’s Museum/Museo De Los Ninos. 15 minutes. Position: Camera/editor. Children from schools in the inner city painted murals for the "Stop Think and Choose" program, which helps kids learn to resist violence, drugs, abuse and hate. Interviewing the people involved, Garrett probed the deeper meaning of the program in this work for hire shown at the museum, with music by 50 O’Clock.
Screenplays completed in 2001:
Midnight Blue -- best damn thing I ever wrote.
The Lawman (hourlong version) -- The sheriff has defended this old west town. Now can he defend himself?
Screenplays worked on in 2001:
Musical of the Living Dead -- all singing, all dancing, all zombie fighting.
Gods of Los Angeles -- In a city of dreams and illusions, they found something real by breaking all the rules.
Short writings:
The Incumbent's Wife
The Business Meeting
Sobriety Test
Debbie Rochon in : Sandy Hook Robot Lingerie Ninja Party Massacre in Space (similar material was later made into a short film by Jason Santo)
Moon Beast 2: Beast From the Moon (similar material was later made into a short film by an anonymous director)
The Last Two People On Earth (treatment)
The Video House (treatment)
"Friends 4-Ever" (short treatment)
Go Dog Go (short treatment)
Ghost Story (short treatment)
Homemade Toy Shop (short treatment)
NIKET DOSHI
Born December 23, 1980, Ottawa, Canada
Died December 21, 2001, Columbia University, New York
"I just received word from my closest friend Danielle that one of our own has passed on in a tragic event. I'm sure everyone is sending out email condolences, but just in case someone didn't know, Niket Doshi died December the 21st. I do not know details at this time, his obituary will be in the paper this sunday. I'm completely shocked and stunned. I have no idea what to say and who to say it to. That's about all I can manage to say right now and maybe that's all that needs to be said." - Justin Bielawa
It was two days shy of his 21st birthday. He will be remembered as a son, a brother, a friend. He leaves behind many friends. He was my friend. One of my favorite people in the entire world.
He was humble, but possessed of a rare intelligence that allowed him to always do better than me in math class. He was studying biochemistry at Columbia and might have made a fine physician. But I will always remember him for his cheerful attitude in any circumstances, his selflessness and willingness to help out his friends. Lord knows I called on Niket's help many times in our friendship. I was trying to make movies - still am - and needed lots of help. Well, Niket was always willing to help ... very willing. I asked him to be an actor, and he wound up being a fight choreographer, a percussionist/composer, a consulting producer, a location manager, wardrobe provider ... And if you've seen any of the movies Niket worked on, you know that he did all these things wonderfully. Niket was the essence of what amateur filmmaking is all about -- endlessly creative, versatile and generous, ready and willing and up to any challenge. He was a rare talent. He is my favorite thing about The Phantom Movie [in which he played Darth Ass-Kick] and Excaliburger [where he played The Lord of the Sword]. He delivered hilarious comedy and exciting swordfighting scenes. The FAST, minute-long fencing swordfight he created with David Ashe for Excaliburger is perhaps the best sword sequence ever seen on the amateur screen. I discover something new each time I watch it. Niket had not only great skill but a charm and warmth that shined out on and off the screen. Those are my fondest memories of Niket, making those movies.
He was a wonderful human being. He left behind many wonderful memories. And now, when memories are all we have left, perhaps it helps a little to know that those memories remain. But I know it hasn't sunk in for me yet. If I think about it too much it'd just be too much to bear right now.
Filmmaking is difficult insanity, and somehow with good friends like Niket - especially like Niket - we all survived it, not only survived it but made it fun. A lot of fun.
To say he will be missed is a great understatement.
I was happily surprised, though, when on December 23rd - what would have been Niket's birthday - fond memories of Niket's film work made front-page news on the major amateur filmmaking sites of the Internet.
On Rewindvideo.com, where amateur filmmakers from all across the world gather, John Ashby wrote:
Niket Doshi, 1980-2001
We said that we wouldn't be posting any news for a while, but to hold off on this sad bit of news would be disrespectful. We regret to announce that Orange Cow actor Niket Doshi, known as Darth Ass-Kick in the Phantom Movie, and Lord of The Sword in Excaliburger, passed away on December 21st. ... Our hearts go out to Niket's friends and family, today would have been his 21st birthday.
On the Amateur Movie Database [go-amdb.com] was this headline:
Niket Doshi 1980-2001
Wow. Some very sad news from Orange Cow Productions. I didn't even know Niket, but I was extremely entertained by his performances in OCP's Excaliburger and The Phantom Movie. Reading the message on the REwind Forum tonight totally knocked me for a loop. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.
- John Simpson, founder of The Amateur Movie Database [go-amdb.com] and Junkpuppet Productions
And in a remarkably short span of time, fans of Niket's work - people who had never even met Niket but had been touched by the warmth and humor he showed onscreen - began to write, and post, and talk about, and honor Niket.
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"My thoughts and prayers are with you." - C.C. Chapman, Random Foo Pictures
"I am so sad and sorry about what happened." - Laurie@neilinnes.org
"Niket was one of the best, and my personal favourite in the Phantom Movie." - Jon Ashby, rewindvideo.com
"No. What? I can't take that in. I didn't even know Niket and I can't accept it. He was just damned funny. ... And just plain cool. Damn. I'm speechless."
- Janina Robbins (robbinsjay@aol.com)
"You can tell how much he'll be missed. My condolences, there's not much else I can think to say. Too young, too tragic." - Frank Parker, Random Foo Pictures
"He had such poise in Excaliburger; I will never forget his sword fight. Rest his soul." - Wei Quek, Infiniti Productions
"The swordfight in Excaliburger is one of my favorite amateur movie moments and Niket will be missed. I'm watching Excaliburger tonight in Niket's memory. Keep the faith." - Jay Bauman, Blanc Screen Cinema
"Darth Ass-Kick is so damn funny. His clip with Lord Hologram as he was screaming about his face was the first clip I watched online from THE PHANTOM MOVIE before I ever watched the whole thing. 'What the hell is wrong with my face??' ... The screenshot of Ass-Kick and Hologram was the wallpaper on my computer at work for at least a full month, if I remember correctly... and the next time I wear my PHANTOM MOVIE t-shirt, I'll remember Niket again with amateur movie pride. Others like Garrett have far more to remember him for, much deeper memories and stronger friendships, which is a blessing and a gift. I only encountered Niket through this one movie and one performance but that was enough to make an impression with me. The truth is I'll never forget him because of Ass-Kick and the passion he showed playing that character, and that really inspires me. I'll never forget that. He is immortal." - Dan Gorgone, Random Foo Pictures
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If you told Niket he was a brilliant comic actor, he wouldn't believe you, but I think he was. His Phantom Movie scenes alone assure him a place in amateur movie heaven. And roughly all of his scenes were all shot in the space of a day or two -- all his scenes with Lord Hologram were shot in about 15 minutes, because Niket could nail the scene in one take. His big rooftop scene, only one take was shot, because we had to get down from that roof. Some of the best scenes in the film, shot in one take.
Sometimes I don't know what we'd have done without Niket. Without the Doshi family camcorder, The Phantom Movie would never have been finished - shot or edited. Mine broke down early into shooting. Without his camcorder's long-life battery, The Animal Game could never have been shot. We "borrowed" a lot from Niket. His drumming skills, his clothes, his talent ... his house we "borrowed" often, with the generous help of his parents. The first movie I ever tried to do, a class project in 6th grade, "Square 2," terrible thing, never finished ... the only memory I have of it is hanging out at Niket's house, shooting the opening titles. He was playing Mr. Spock. I would do anything to have that footage today ... but I doubt it still exists anywhere. We lacked a composer for Dr. Freds 2 and 3, but Niket could play the drums, marvelously. So with Niket's help [and at Niket's house] we were able to improvise ... lots and lots of percussion, and a bit of keyboard and trombone. The result was rough, but it sure was fun. Niket provided his own costumes for the men in black he played - always adding an extra flair of style - a neat black vest, and light black pants that would move just so in battle - that might not even be seen onscreen, but made his characters authentic. The entire end sequence of "Excaliburger" was shot at Niket's house -- That was his garage where Merlin is wrongfully, invisibly imprisoned [and Niket put up with holding up a harmonica on a string for about an hour to make the "invisible" effect work]. Those were his woods that Spanky meets Oona in. And the title object, the big finale, the Spatula in the Stone ... that was his stone.
For The Phantom Movie, Niket kindly allowed himself to be stuffed into a garbage bag and dragged for 5 minutes through the gravelly woods and up his own doorstep stairs. Then I cut all that from the final version of the film. Yeah, Niket put up with a lot. Niket put up with standing out in ninety-degree summer heat while wearing layers and layers of all black, and red-and-black paint all over his face, without ever complaining. He'd come home with red lips, red hair and purple teeth. We had to explain to his parents that we weren't making him into a drag queen.
He fell 14 stories off a building at Columbia University. Circumstances unknown.
Why do the best people have the shortest lives?
I will never forget him. I will remember him as a great friend.
If you would like to send condolences to his family, please write to:
The Doshi Family
15 Gerardo Drive
Monroe, CT 06468
God bless you, Niket. You're in a place without pain now.
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Garrett Gilchrist
http://orangecow.org/fredshow
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