Veer Towards Support for the Local Boys

My buddies from the band The Veer Union have finally got their first CD released nationwide!

I highly recommend you get yourself a copy! And easily enough, you can find it at Amazon.com
(direct link).

And if you really wanna help out, but are just short on funds at the moment, call into your local rock stations and request The Veer Union's soon-to-be hit song Seasons.



Spread the love and all the best to TVU. These boys have been on tour since forever, let's make their blood, sweat and tears worth it.

Respect!

Memoirs of the Blue: Vancouver Shoot

"Marc-Anthony Massiah prepping on set of MotB"

I may or may not have blogged about this before, but there have been some pretty big developments in the way our mini-feature, Memoirs of the Blue, which we shot the majority of last year in Antigua.

We ended up doing some rather drastic script revisions and altered the storyline quite a bit through the editing in order to work out the kinks and altogether make the movie flow a lot better dramatically have a much more powerful dramatic arc to it. In doing these storyline changes we had some interior pickup scenes that we had to shoot. So we flew a few members of the cast and crew out to Vancouver in order to get these final revisions in the can so that we can push this thing out in editing as soon as possible.

I took this last Monday and Friday off work and we shot through the weekend at our buddy, Alijan's apartment, which we set-decked to look like a hospital. We're pretty well don't all the shooting that needs to be done here in Vancouver and the only thing that remains is a few insert shots that will be done today and some voiceover recording and ADR that will be done tomorrow.

After that, we'll be hitting the post production stage like a freight train and some really exciting things are going to be happening as this project finally comes closer to completion. Stay tuned and I'll keep everyone up-to-date on how Memoirs of the Blue is coming along.

Peace!

ShamWow Dude Arrested

Remember this Guy?


Well he apparently was arrested for beating up a prostitute after she "bit his tongue and wouldn't let go." Yeah, I know, crazy huh!?

From The Smoking Gun:

Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue.

Billy Mays muse be having a hay-day now, especially after Billy tried calling him out to a pitchoff:


"Billy May's doesn't take this! I'm the ultimate pitch man, if you wanna come after me I'm any time, anywhere!... I'm not the Beastie Boys or Run DMC, I'm Billy Mays and I'mma knock you down to your knees!"

A Return to Shaolin

I've been watching a lot of Bruce Lee and kung fu movies lately and it's really making me want to train again. I found this clip of my Shi De Cheng, my Shifu ("master/teacher" in Cantonese) from when I used to train Shaolin Kung Fu in Dengfeng, China, doing the form Xiao Hong Quan (Little Red Fist) and thought that I'd share it for nostalgic purposes.

Below that I also have a clip of my doing the same form after 6 weeks of training under shifu Shi De Cheng.





And another of shifu Shi De Cheng just being an absolute don with the rope dart: