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Sundance Report – First 28 Hrs

Posted on: January 23rd, 2011 by wmapother 8 Comments

Bottom line: Busy, tiring, fun. Stop. Stayed out too late last night. Curse my Slated partners this morning. Stop. Sidewalks very busy, esp. with snow and some heavy snowage today. Serious about not parking (see sign at right). Stop.

Interviews and photo shoots apparently not disasters. We’ll see. Stop. Another Earth generating lots of interest for its intriguing premise. Stop. Pianist playing on sidewalk for passersby and bear (bear right). Stop. Accidental, first-time meeting with fellow actor from Louisville Jess Weixler (Teeth). Stop. Such is the fun of Sundance.

Posted in Acting Projects, Film, Film Festival, In Person (or, like, Live), Interviews and Q&A's, Louisville & KY, Photos by Wm, Random, Slated

Park City, here comes Another Earth

Posted on: January 21st, 2011 by wmapother 6 Comments

Off tomorrow morning for the Sundance festival. I’m kind of prepared but not really. Have probably packed too much of the wrong things, most questionable ideas of how to answer the inevitable unanswerable questions from the press, What would you do if there really were another earth, How do you feel, and the perennial What’s your favorite _____?

Fingers crossed that our little movie gets shown some love..

Posted in Film, Film Festival, Random

Tears a Turnoff?

Posted on: January 11th, 2011 by wmapother 5 Comments

Here’s a bit of randomness for you: According to this New York Times piece here, researchers investigating the evolutionary purpose of tears discovered that women’s tears can be a sexual turnoff for some men.

The mind reels with possible directions in which to take this post. I mean, how many more ways can we men fail to understand what you women aren’t saying?

Posted in Random

Hold onto your body parts..

Posted on: January 7th, 2011 by wmapother 5 Comments

Huffington Post has released a list here of about twenty things that done gone obsolete in the last decade. Some of those things to which you can wave bye-bye:
   • VHS Tapes (well, yeah, of course)
   • Bookstores (mostly true)
   • Forgetting (they did not check in with me before publishing this list)
   • Hand-written letters (saddest item on the list)

There are about fifteen more. I’d forgotten (see?) how many I no longer use.

Another list from a non-HuffPoer is here. It’s has the far grabbier title, Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know.

Posted in Random

A Vote for Independence

Posted on: January 7th, 2011 by wmapother 4 Comments

This Sunday, January 9, the people of Southern Sudan will begin voting in an historic referendum on whether to create their own nation. For two decades, they fought a civil war with northern Sudan, and it has ravaged the county.

In 2009 I narrated ‘The New Sudan,’ a documentary which introduced, to most of us, the abundance of both horror and optimism in post-civil war southern Sudan. The filmmakers have posted an interview with me here.

For perspective, Sudan is 1/4 the size of the United States. Some overview information on Sudan is in Wikipedia, the New York Times, and CNN.

If you’re able to donate to the southern Sudanese, there are numerous ways to do so, including some mentioned in the interview and through various non-govermental organizations.

Posted in Charitable Causes, Random, Voice

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