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I was going to write "day job hell" but day jobs, even though they take time & energy away from film projects, makes those same projects possible - so, I guess sometimes an annoying friend of indie filmmakers. Check out Filmmaker Mag's article on indie filmmakers & day jobs .

Encountering all the religious mythology & historical quotations in Stargate SG1 (as I catch up on missed episodes on Hulu & Netflix DVDs) made me look up some of the lesser known old religions. Zoroastrians (NYT article, wikipedia ) are interesting: the religion has the familiar concept of good vs. evil & the world being the space where the long battle between the two takes place, and the religion encourages individual choice, and is not interested in monasticism. Here is a video about a documentary about Zoroastrians: Crisis in Faith: Zoroastrians Today

Great move by the Prez, read all about it here .

The Onion has been sold to a Chinese company, & they've made some changes to their morning news show: Police Still Searching For Missing Productive, Obedient Woman

Oh yeah, you know I am going to check this out:

This was a comment re: my post about Humpday & G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra , I've been laughing about it for days: "Wait. So you "definitely want to see GI Joe" - a big budget Hollywood piece of crap although you admit "it might suck" but you're "not so sure" about Humpday?? Someone with no budget roots and really no real budget and you dont support, no forget that, you are not the least bit interested in something more real and honest and a more organic way of working that has coming out of the no budget digital community that you claim for years to support and you wont support it? So typical. You subtly hate on any no budget film that achieves ANY level of mainstream success. I guess you only support DIY work that has to rely only on DIY distribution. Tully was right. You are a fucking fraud. Your blog is done. You have been exposed. Thanks for the heads-up warning, Tully." So, watchout bloggers, don't say that G.I. Joe might be...

The Washington Times is the conservative paper in DC (not as good as The Washington Post, in my opinion), & they've got a positive review of Humpday today. From the review : "In this way, "Humpday" is less about the blurring boundaries of male friendship than an examination of a classic alpha-male power struggle. It's impossible to believe either man actually wants to have sex with the other. Instead, they appear to be more interested in figuring out how far they can push things in order for the other guy to back down first. Setting this struggle within the world of the liberal artistic community gives it an extra freshness, if not the edgy transgressive quality some critics have assigned the picture: After all, Michael Mann has been examining alphas going toe to toe for years." Times gives it 2 & 1/2 stars, not sure what that means in their context (do they go up to 3 or 4 stars?), but the review is positive, I'd say. Check it out here . - Su...

Made it to the 5th season of Stargate SG-1 (there are 10 seasons, catching up on them now on NetFlix), this season looks solid so far. Here is an intro to/ad for an episode that I have not seen yet, from Season 5, where the "real" Stargate people learn that there is a TV show about them called Wormhole X-Treme:

I'll definitely have to go see G.I. Joe even though it may suck 'cause I used to collect G.I. Joes. Humpday, not so sure, but the clips look funny, & the interview with Mr. Duplas is entertaining - check it out: