Brian Flemming's Weblog about me   |   email me W H A T ' S   G O I N G   O N My most recent film, The God Who Wasn't There, is available on DVD at the official site and elsewhere. Bat Boy: The Musical is currently being staged in productions of various sizes around the world. A movie adaptation directed by John Landis is in development, with no casting announced or shooting date set. My next feature film, Danielle, remains in development. Bill Gates is still dead. B L O G R O L L FILMMAKING: Cinema Minima Filmmaker HD for Indies indieWIRE Blogs Hollywood Liberation Army The Movie Marketing Blog FREE CULTURE: Creative Commons Copyfight EFF Deep Links Freedom to Tinker Lawrence Lessig POLITICS: Atrios Daily Howler Orcinus The Raw Story Talking Points Memo OTHER FAVORITES: Boing Boing GreenCine Daily Nora Murphy Pharyngula J O I N Original text in this weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License A R C H I V E S March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 powered by

« March 2005 | HOME | May 2005 » April 2005 "Parents Wary of Dark Side of 'Bat Boy'" L.A. Times on the La Canada controversy. Good, fair story by Pat Biederman, who did her research. Apparently they're talking about this story on KROQ this morning. Keythe, Larry and I can't wait to see this production.... April 28, 2005 When I'm busy, all I do is cut and paste my email into my blog Sue me. Dear Friend of the Center for Inquiry, As you probably know, science and reason are under attack in virtually every area of society. Nowhere is this more dangerous than in matters of public health. The Center for Inquiry... April 28, 2005 Sam Harris in L.A. More from my mailbox: Sam Harris will be speaking in West Los Angeles on Sunday, May 15, 2PM at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute: 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., LA 90025. The lecture is free.... April 27, 2005 Final Cut Pro 5 and Soundtrack Pro Michael Horton, tireless leader of one of the great filmmaking resources in L.A., writes that LAFCPUG has the exclusive local debut of the new Apple awesomeness: The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will host the “LA Debut... April 27, 2005 Commons Music New player on the free-culture scene. Damn radicals. They think it should be easy to create and distribute music. What about all the record execs who will be out of work? UPDATE: And one of the principals behind Commons Music,... April 23, 2005 End of story? I hope so. 'Bat Boy' all set to make its LCF run They get letters: At 16, I was exposed to a play containing many of the controversial references and then some found in "Bat Boy": patricide, incest and even... April 23, 2005 Luigi Cascioli Luigi Cascioli has filed a lawsuit based on the claim that Jesus never existed. From his site: Press Release Luigi Cascioli declares: Christ never existed Court hearing  at Viterbo court  on April 29 th to bring an action against a... April 22, 2005 West Memphis Three World Awareness Day Supporters all over the world are working on West Memphis Three World Awareness Day 2005, with events already being planned in more than 50 cities, from San Francisco to New York City, from Boston to Los Angeles, from Australia to Antarctica. April 21, 2005 Roundup of today in Bat Boy... --NOTbatboy.com has taken down the copy of the formal complaint from the website, for reasons unknown. But if you want to see what the site looked like previously, Google has a cache of the previous version. --Commentary by Ann Doneen... April 21, 2005 Perversion Apparently my sarcastic comment below calling the La Cañada High School drama students "little perverts" has resulted in a mini-storm of scandal itself. The students, naturally, loved the epithet, but some supporters of the students have written me that Bat... April 21, 2005 Bat Boy update Glendale News Press on last night's meeting: Parents, students and teachers packed La Cañada Unified School District's board meeting Tuesday night, some to express support, others disapproval of La Cañada High School's spring musical. [...] Most students...spoke passionately about the... April 20, 2005 Bat Boy 1, Focus on the Family 0 Sweet Jesus! I just got an insider update on the Bat Boy situation in La Cañada (see entry below). The Board has officially supported the drama department's decision to put on the play. Even though, as my source tells me,... April 19, 2005 Bat Boy banned again? Now a second protest movement is brewing to ban a high-school theater department from staging Bat Boy: The Musical. But this one could be bigger than the last one. Tonight there is a school board meeting in ultra-conservative La Cañada... April 19, 2005 God Jim Gilliam: AllAboutGOD.com is an incredibly well-thought-out evangelistic search engine optimization firm: “These vortals are built and positioned as expert sites in the top search engines and will maintain top positions because of the sophisticated algorithmic structure and more importantly... your... April 18, 2005 Participatory Culture Foundation Downhill Battle never stops. Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video,... April 18, 2005 Final Cut Studio Holy crap. This is amazing. Walter Murch nails it: “Until now the border between sound and picture has been this crisis point. By making the interaction between the two transparent, the integration of Soundtrack Pro with Final Cut Pro is... April 17, 2005 Obituary Cartoon Contest The deadline for the cartoon contest is coming up...... April 15, 2005 Abstinence-only education You'll almost surely be surprised by what you learn about abstinence-only education at this site about abstinence-only education. It's all about abstinence-only education. (And, yes, I'm trying to help them with their Google-juice on the search term "abstinence-only education.") Abstinence-only... April 14, 2005 Digital projection: The indie filmmaker's best friend Unless it isn't. (Update: Link goes nowhere now. Mike Curtis has taken down the article pending further research.)... April 13, 2005 The Atheist I am one of the few males I know who has never bought a comic book in his life. But that may change. Desperado Publishing today releases issue #1 of The Atheist.... April 13, 2005 Miracle man The Pope apparently had the power to heal people but chose to let the vast majority of them suffer instead. He would only heal anonymous people whose claims could not be verified by qualified experts. Interesting choice. I wonder why... April 12, 2005 Kentucky Fried Cruelty Looks like KFC has refused PETA's simple demand (and the advice of KFC's own appointed experts) to have their suppliers kill their birds without torturing them. After two years of campaigning against KFC, PETA announced on February 28, 2005,... April 11, 2005 On the radio Last Sunday I was on WBAI 99.5 FM New York talking about The Beast and The God Who Wasn't There with Steven DeVries. It's on the list of archived "Equal Time for Freethought" shows here. And here's the direct Windows... April 11, 2005 JVC GY-HD100 camera Film Imaging interviews Dave Walton on the ProHD JVC GY-HD100 camera. April 09, 2005 Does Verizon need to hear from you? Drop the Hammer: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is widely regarded as the most powerful member of Congress. DeLay's abuse of this power has encircled him in a web of scandal. He has already been admonished three times by the... April 08, 2005 Return of the Boston strangler It isn't enough that the Australian version of the Screen Actors Guild has forbidden its members to participate in films licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Now that union has apparently declared its opposition to the very production of films licensed... April 04, 2005 Alan Dundes, 1934-2005 So just now I was reviewing the interview footage I shot for The God Who Wasn't There, selecting some highlights for the special features part of the DVD. One of my favorite interviews was one I did about six weeks... April 02, 2005

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