48 Hour Film Project

Checkout this short film that was featured in the 48 Hour Film Project Festival a couple weeks back. Remember, The 4 elements; Genre- Comedy, Character- Vanessa Black A Musician, Line of Dialogue- "My Motto? Mind your own business", and the Prop- Chopsticks.

Enjoy.........

IGGY POPELLA

Bella always sings "Punkrocker" By Teddybears featuring Iggy Pop. With that said, She finally saw the video for it tonight and you guessed it. She wanted to make one and act just like Iggy Pop. Hence, her seriousness and standoffish tude is all part of the act. I promise! I kept asking her what's wrong and she simply looks over at me and says "Mom, I'm a punkrocker, Yes, I am. I'm acting like I'm not happy driving the car, like he is".. I reply with "Honey, if you were a punkrocker, you'd be walking not driving Riot's car." If you know Bella, then you know how she always has to have the last word... and Yeah, she looked at me and just smiles and says
                                         
                        "Touché!"

I swear, my kids deserve a Reality Show for just being as Awesome as they are. Take a look for yourself and seriously enjoy the ride. 

Bella is a PUNKROCKER. Yes, she is! I posted the Official video to the song too... Just in case you live under a rock and have no clue what the hell I'm talking about. <3

PLAYHOUSE OF HORROR

Do you want to know what a morning is like for a parent who has AWESOME FUCKING KIDS!?!?!?! Just watch these videos I took this morning... 

                                       -PLAYHOUSE OF HORROR-

 THE CAST: 

    

Bella Banjo- Herself

C Murder- Neighbor

           

   Riot- Annoying Neighbor

 

               

          (After C runs off, you can hear her say "he's so adorable" in the background)            

-PLAYHOUSE OF HORROR-

SHARKS

Brendan kept talking about this band for awhile and kept saying how awesome the name was, etc.. Finally his preorder of "The Joys of Living 2008-2010" came in the mail a couple weeks ago. Since then, my ears can't tolerate anything else. I actually haven't found an album that I can listen to every single track and love every minute of it since MORRISSEY'S early 2009 release 'YEARS OF REFUSAL'.


Just like their one word name 'SHARKS, this band is fucking 'EPIC. Go out and buy their album or download it off iTUNES and when you do, be sure to crank up that volume knob to full blast and be prepared to have 1,000 ear orgasms. I can't get enough and seriously this band is refreshing. I don't listen to the radio for a reason, so it's nice when a band like this comes along.

With track names like; The Joys Of Living, Three Houses, More Blue, Bury Your Youth, and The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is Hell.. how can you be let down? Like I said before, this is definitely an album you can just let play all the way through. 


I have to see them live, it's a must.




and

Here is their music video for "It All Relates"

48 CARNIE

Last week I was asked if I would like to be a part of "The 48 Hour Film Project" by a dear friend of ours, Kris Krainock. He thought the girls and I would be perfect for the part. So I agreed and met him and his crew with Bella and Cecilia on that upcoming Saturday to shoot.

Let me educate you a little on this "48 Hour Film Project" festival.

The 48 Hour Film Project is pretty much a lack of sleep weekend that an inspiring Filmmaker gets to endure along with his crew for 48 hours. This project is nationwide, it's pretty huuuuuuuge. Ok, you might be asking the same question I did at first, "How the fuck do they know if it took you 48 hours and you're not turning in a full months work?" Well, let me break it down for you. Friday night the countdown begins.. TICK TOCK.. the filmmaker receives four elements they must include in their film; a character, a line of dialogue, a prop, and of course a genre. From Friday night they have 48 hours to; write, shoot, edit, complete their film, and turn it in. Pretty neat huh? Once those chaotic hours are completely demolished, the film gets a screening at the local theater. Even neater huh? Who doesn't want to see their work on the big screen? I think the whole concept of this project is fucking superb. SUPERB.

The girls and I are very honored to be a part of this project no matter what the outcome might be. Kris has a very unique vision and I know on a personal level, we both share the same taste in films. Which means he has good taste. Not once did I doubt his talent or question his ability to pull this project off and fuck man, he fucking destroyed it. It gives me goosebumps to imagine what kind of work we will see from him in the feature, if 48 hours was simply child's play for him. FACT: Krainock's offbeat mind will soon conquer the film industry. Epic Filmmaking. Maybe not today, but definitely 'tomorrow'.

So, with that said, iThink iCam and Hole in America presents "The Carnie" a Film by Kris Krainock, the film's screening is held at Suncoast this Thursday, April 14th. If you live in Las Vegas, you better cancel your plans and check the festival out. Starts at 7pm, and I believe it's 2 hours worth of short films. If you attend the festival, please vote for the obvious choice... "The Carnie" a film by Kris Krainock.

SUPA POWAS

C-Murder likes to randomly throw rock shows for whoever is around to watch them. Yes, I'm the type of Mother who has to videotape everything. Can you seriously blame me though? My little spawns are amazingly awesome!

Enjoy..

 

After she did this for awhile, she decided she needed to get dressed and put on the "REAL ROCK SHOW"..

MY MAD MEN FIX

I found my Mad Men Fix til 2012, thanks to a friend of mine, Ben. I can't wait to play L.A NOIRE. One of my favorite characters off Mad Men is "Kenneth Cosgrove" played by Aaron Staton. This game looks incredible and to have him in it, can definitely help the Mad Men wait be a little more easier for me. Check out the videos, you know you're impressed. MAY needs to hurry up and get here.

Lydia Vance's Number Ones.

What can I say? My kids love music. I know a lot of people automatically assume kids who have parents that are into music or play music in a band MUST have been pushed into it by their parents. I know for most cases they are probably right. But in our case, they are wrong. My oldest daughter Bella, has shown interest since the get go. She definitely has awesome taste in music.Yeah, I'd be lying if I said I don't try to influence her by blasting MORRISSEY or THE CURE all the time. You know I don't want to toot my own horn, or anything..But, I do have excellent taste. No Big Deal. Her and Cecilia both on their own grew curious about music, and I believe if they want to pursue that curiosity who am I to stop them. As long as I know I wasn't that over bearing parent forcing them into something.

 

 

Cecilia is the "wild" child, the eccentric leo everyone knows at one point in their life. She loves LOUD and FAST music. You know, the kind you can head bang to or dance crazy to. Currently idolizes Joan Jett. She can even tell you when The Beatles are on, she can tell you when her Daddy is on too (Lydia Vance), she can inform you about a lot of bands if you ask or she can tell you a very scary story, she's good at those too. I'll save that for another entry/ other time.

The girls finally saw Lydia Vance for the first time play the other night, and seeing how proud Cecilia was of her Daddy, definitely had my eyes water. She sat there and sang along and would just stare with her BIG BROWN EYES at her Hero, her Father. 

 HOWEVER, Cecilia did decide it was a good time to tell me her complaint while she was peeing after the show.."Daddy was so awesome, But he didn't play the Hannah Montana song, maybe next time."

My Prince Of Darkness

On Sunday April, 3. 2011 our son Riot James Picasso was Baptized. I will tell you one thing, he wasn't too fond of the man in WHITE, he wanted nothing to do with whatever he was being a part of on that Sunday afternoon. The entire week leading up to that date, Brendan and I would constantly make jokes about how we think the baptism will go. That's what we get, because it all came true.

But, you know what? We wouldn't have it any other way. That's just our life, and we LOVE IT. The crazier it is, the deeper I fall in love with it.




A glance back to that Sunday afternoon......

My Boys...

           

                                          Mother and Son......

                                                 GODFATHER AND GODMOTHER.

                                                   Riot's sisters C-Murder + Bella Mafia.....

 WHO ME?!

A Quote to remember..

"He doesn't like me because I'm not wearing black" - Father Marc Howe.

The cake that made his day special to him. I'm pretty sure Riot Thanked God for Retro Bakery that Sunday.

  
YES, THAT DOES SAY "GOD'S LIL DEVIL"..

Pray for us!

MEAT WAFFLES.

Most people like to prank their friends, family, or even co-workers on April Fools. That's the certain kind of thing one would do on April Fools, RIGHT?!

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and my story starts now...

I received a call Thursday morning from Skydivelasvegas to discuss my Jump Reservation I had booked for April 2nd. They informed me I had to reschedule due to some wind alert for that Saturday. What are my options???  "Tomorrow at 8am or Sunday at 8am"...

I had no choice but to book for the next morning, My Son's Baptism is on Sunday, has to be tomorrow. After I hung up the phone.. I was sort of just in a daze. "I'm going to jump out of a fucking plane tomorrow morning, tomorrow, not in 2 days, TOMORROW! jump, me... jump, I'm jumping, FUCK!" I kept saying in my head over and over, sort of like a song on repeat.. You hear the same song over and over and after awhile you can still hear it, but the words just become a big muffled sound.

Incase you were wondering why the hell I was even going Skydiving in the first place, it's because I wanted to do something rad for my Deathmate's Birthday. He had no idea what we were going to do, all he knew was that, he had the morning off and I was taking him somewhere Friday morning.

5:30am alarm goes off, by 6:45 am we are driving to our destination, to him it was. DUN DUN DUNNNN wait for it.... "DESTINATION UNKNOWN" YEAAAAAAAH!

As soon as we entered Boulder City, he started to get this look on his face, the disappointed kind. He kept asking if I was taking him hiking and if so please turn back around. We started to enter the airport and all he can see are huge hangers and he's so confused... then he see's a shuttle parked outside of one that read "SKYDIVE LAS VEGAS".... Yeah, I would definitely say that was a huge DEAD GIVEAWAY.

He was indeed very surprised and maybe a little nervous, I think him smoking as soon as he got out of the car gave me that vibe.Who am I trying to fool? Hell, I was stupid nervous. Don't let the sweet ink fool you guys, I'm not that tough. I can't even open most lids on jars, it's pathetic. I thought cutting off my sleeves on most of my shirts would automatically give my awesome ass superhuman powers.

Ok, back to my story...

Around 9:30am we were about to get suited up, we were told to remove jewelry, wallets, etc... and for all belongings to be placed in lockers. I took off my Virgin Mary necklace last... and shut the locker. Moments later Brendan went to go grab something and that necklace fell out of the locker and broke in half... I was staring down at the virgin mary cut in two and Brendan kept saying sorry and that's not what I was upset about. I was just worried about what that meant. WHY DID THAT HAPPEN? IS THIS A SIGN? Brendan reassured me it wasn't. But why did it have to be windy on the day I originally booked this for? WHY out of everything else in the locker, did that necklace have to fall and break? ... and it's April Fools! Ok, he was right, I was being really dumb.... or was I????

Ten minutes later the guy putting my gear on out of nowhere asks me "Are you really superstitious, I hope you're not" and I'm starting to panic and ask him "Why? Why would you ask that? What is it?" ... "Oh, just curious because your harness is LUCKY number 13!" ... "Are you serious, OMG, My Virgin Mary necklace just broke, it's April Fools, and We were supposed to be doing this tomorrow not today, OMG!" Him and Brendan just laugh and say you're fine, it means nothing ... So I tell Brendan not to talk to me because I have to get in my "Johnny Utah" mode and the guy asks If I just used a point break reference ...I said Yeah and he then said "Well, Now I hope something does happen, you deserve that for quoting a bad movie" HAHHAHAHA that made me laugh and it was extra funny due to the guy being a ginger.


NO ONE COULD STOP THE FRANKIE UTAH! I was loving every moment of it... I was about to jump out of a plane with my Deathmate, it felt right, nowhere else I wanted to be, we belonged there. Soon after that incident we went off with our instructors and boarded a plane. My instructor was Brandon and he was radical. He went along with my Point Break references, he was working for that tip. HOLLA.

About 10 minutes in the air, we reached our jumping spot, I was second to jump and Brendan was third.I remember getting to the edge of the plane, hanging out of the plane making my banana position, and before I leaped, I looked back at Brendan and yelled "SEE YOU IN HELL JOHNNY"... After that, I felt peace. I can't describe it, it was like for the first time ever in my life that I honestly didn't have anything on my mind, it was amazing, I fell in love with that peace. You have no time to be scared, nervous, or to even think, you just feel free from the world, from life, from yourself.

When Brendan and I reunited, We both had the biggest smiles on our bright full of life faces. I FUCKING LOVED IT.... sharing that experience with him, seeing how good he felt, knowing we both were feeling the same kind of high...

It was definitely worth the risk of both becoming meat waffles on April Fools.