A Man Called Jon is…dead?
By jeff | November 9, 2008
So does this mean would should go in another direction?
Video from the Hobo Convention 2007
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Solving All Our Problems
By jeff | October 1, 2008
As you may or may not know, we’re working on our story to beef it up, strengthen our theme and blow up our ending. Not literally, but make it bigger.
Since the beginning, we’ve been talking about cell phones and the having or not having them. The following clip shows that we clearly should have them, and we’ll solve many of our script problems in the process.
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We got an Intern
By jeff | September 30, 2008
As we all know, interns are priceless. Meaning…they cost nothing. And they do the best jobs (see above).
Dan Svec, the newest member of the Hobosoul team, has “volunteered” to be an intern, and he’ll get college credit thru his school, Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA.
Listen in on his voicemail to us…where it was his school’s idea for him to get credit for cleaning our toilets.
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Friendly Suggestion
By jeff | September 15, 2008
“You know you should do, is sit out front of church, and look for the guy who rolls up in the Bentley coupe. He has got to have some spare cash.”
Thanks, Adam, for the brilliant idea. We just might do it.
Anyone else have any earth shattering fundraising ideas?
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Choosing Actors
By jeff | September 11, 2008
Snippets from a conversation a few months back with Chuck on iChat regarding actors (photos not included to protect the struggling thespians):
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(insert ridiculous headshot here)
ME: wow
CHUCK: KISS
CHUCK: check out that beef cake
ME: its weird you sending me photos of dudes
CHUCK: open shirt and all
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Popularity Contest, Part 2
By vern | September 8, 2008
Today marks the end of my 2-Week Free Trial Offer from IMDB Pro.
In the last two weeks, thru something known as STARmeter, I’ve been able to monitor not only Heath Ledger’s popularity (he’s the #1 most popular person in Hollywood right now), but also that of our current Hobosoul staff. After two weeks of heavy competition (see part 1) to see who could become the most popular Hobosoul employee the results are in:
Jeff Stone: 368,403, good enough for 2nd place becoming more popular than 18,018 people in just 2 weeks.
Vern Moen: 297,580, takes 1st place by becoming more popular than 150,765 people in 2 weeks.
Deandra Rich: 370,376, in 3rd, and winning the “Most Improved” plaque, trails just behind Jeff and became more popular than a whopping 318,241 people in Hollywood.
Chuck Oldfield: 2,050,918, in 4th place, our poor Charles, who mid competition looked like he was going to take home the most improved trophy (he was around 400,000), plummeted in popularity this last week. (That’s what that feeling in the pit of your stomach, Chuck. I’m surprised grocery stores still let you shop there.) Chuck became less popular than 1,073,942 Hollywood people in two weeks.
The team record is held by Jeff Stone who clocked in at 200,074 mid competition. Look out Heath Ledger.
(On a serious note, IMDBpro has turned out to be quite a valuable resource for news and research. Actor/actress and agent contact info, budgets for films, production companies, charts and graphs, news, plus you can only list your productions as “pre-production” if you’re pro, which means free publicity — I might just spring for the $12.95 a month.)
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Pushing It Back…
By vern | September 8, 2008
I remember a few months ago when 3 Trees approached us with the idea of a feature film. I believe it was in the middle of April. We originally thought we’d be done with the script at the end of May and filming a week after I got back from Africa around August 23. Well, it’s now September 8 — and we’ve almost got the casting part down.
It’s incredible how much time this all takes. Jeff and Chuck consider this a full-time job. Deandra — I don’t even know how many millions of hours she’s spent on the script. So when we realize we have to push the shooting dates back AGAIN, it makes it all the more difficult. Seems like we keep pouring time and energy into this and it seems to keep getting further and further away.
But, it’s for a reason. We are planning on making the best film we possibly can with what we have. A lot of that, as in many movies, relies on the script. So we are rewriting and reworking. There’s no reason to jump into a script we’re not all sold on 100%. So we are pushing our shoot dates back.
The scary part is - we don’t know when we’re pushing them back to…
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Ghetto Casting
By jeff | September 2, 2008
Not in the ghetto, but in Mar Vista. When your casting location falls thru and your tripod breaks, you end up at the writer’s house and this…a tripod from stacking two tables.
Casting, the hobo way. To all those who showed up thru our incompetence, thank you.
And to those who came to the next audition session with cans, thank YOU. You’re helping to make our film possible.
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Covering Your Tracks
By jeff | August 27, 2008
When you’ve got to get rid of your old scripts, go camping. Light a nice fire, and watch all the hard work go up in smoke. Not sure if it’s particularly green, but it seems better than just throwing it all into a garbage dump somewhere outside Los Angeles.
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Hobosoul Popularity Contest
By vern | August 26, 2008
I just started the 1st ever Hobosoul Popularity Contest (without any of the contenders knowing). As we all know, most Hollywood careers are dictated by a persons popularity. “Oh, I know a great Assistant Editor”. Or, “$20 million for Jim Carrey!”. Employment and the money you make is directly related to, yes, how good you are, but ultimately, how popular you are.
Everyone knows of IMDB.COM. Some know of IMDB Pro. Few sign up there wives after they themselves have previously used up their free 2 week trial.
IMDB Pro has something known as a “Star Meter” that measure the popularity of everyone in Hollywood. So, I have simply typed in the names of our principal crew: Jeff Stone, Vern Moen, Chuck Oldfield, DeAndra Rich.
Here are the results from most popular to “who??”:
#1. Jeff Stone - 386,421(th most popular person in Hollywood as of 9:10am today.)
#2. Vern Moen - 448, 345
#3. Deandra Rich - 688, 617
#4. Chuck Oldfield - 976, 976
And just so Chuck doesn’t feel so bad:
#5. Melinda Moen (Pfeifer) - clocks in at 2,309,537
2 Week Free Trial, so we’ll see what happens to the contestants.
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