by cameron | Mar 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
Inspired by Miriam, I’m going to shave my head for the World’s Greatest Shave 2007. For those who haven’t heard of it its a charity event for the Leukemia Foundation. The idea is that people sponsor me to shave my head and the money is donated to the Leukemia Foundation.
The Leukemia Foundation supports patients with leukemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders. The Foundation provides free support services including:
If you would like to sponsor me you can do so by credit card here. Just click on sponsor an individual, then enter my name and state (Cameron Reilly, VIC) and enter how much and your card details. Easy!
To make it more interesting:
– if I raise more than $1000, I’ll put a video of the event up on the blog
– the person who puts up the biggest donation can, if they choose, come over and do the deed
by cameron | Mar 12, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
I know one projectionist who isn’t having a good day. I am sitting in a special preview screening of danny boyles new film sunshine and halfway into the movie it started to go backwards. it was we had suddenly jumped into a david lynch film. it took ten minutes for the cinema folks to notice and stop the screening. the worst news? director boyle is here for a Q&A. so is star rose byrne. at the moment the audience is just taking an unscheduled intermission. UPDATE: its 30 minutes later and we are still waiting. apparently the projectionist discovered that the next reel was reversed as well. ouch. someone is going to get their ass kicked over this. I bet popcorn sales are up though. UPDATE 2: well another half hour has past and we are still sitting here. thank god I have my ipod and dopod. Popcorn Taxi, the organisers of the event, are still trying to get it sorted but have offered everyone a refund if they don’t want to hang around. I’m sticking around for the Q&A. They should have brought Boyle out to chat to the crowd while we wait….
FINAL UPDATE: when they finally got the film re-started after an hour, it was the wrong reel. so they let it run for ten minutes then stopped it for good. Boyle explained that the reels are all in the wrong order and there is no way of telling which order to run it in without him watching all of it first. So we are doing Q&A without having seen the film….
FINAL UPDATE 2: I’m home now. Popcorn Taxi, who do a great job putting on these events in Melbourne, told everyone that they will get a free ticket to see SUNSHINE when it opens. Danny Boyle and Rose Byrne did a great job at the Q&A. She seemed more pissed off than he did – perhaps because it was the first chance she had to see the finished film as well. She said that when she first realized the reel was “fucked up” (her words), she had to leave the cinema. I thought Boyle would be majorly pissed off but he seemed to take it in his stride with good humour, which made the audience relax. I guess I can’t do the review of the film that I hoped to but I can say that the 35 – 45 minutes of it that I saw – out of order – I very much enjoyed. I look forward to seeing it properly when it opens.
by cameron | Mar 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
To take your mind off the news today that Eddie Van Halen has checked himself into rehab, I present this clip of him performing his porn soundtrack “Catherine”. Just try not to watch the last few seconds where he throws his guitar on the floor and takes a swig from a bottle of Johnny as he shambles out of the studio…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpACZS0vSO4]
by cameron | Mar 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
Inspired by my chat with Dave Nelsen from TalkShoe today, I’m going to have another crack at doing a live show – this Sunday, March 11. It’ll be 9pm AEDT which is 5am US EST. You’ll be able to jack in via telephone/SkypeOut (there is a US call-in number), a SIP-friendly VOIP client (such as Gizmo), or Instant Messenger. Check out the details with the link below. I hope a few of you will join me!
Get details for G’DAY WORLD LIVE.
by cameron | Mar 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
According to MTV’s website:
Friends of Britney Spears have revealed the singer scrawled the devil’s digits, 666, over her bald head and screamed “I’m the Antichrist” in rehab last weekend. One pal told the News Of The World, “The clinic people just didn’t know what to do. Then she started screaming, ‘I’m a fake! I’m a fake!'” The friend added, “Later that night she tried to kill herself. She attached a sheet to a light and tied it around her neck. Paramedics were called but luckily she was unhurt.” Fortunately, friends say Britney’s apparent suicide attempt was just a cry for help rather than a serious bid to end it all.
Hey – to all my friends and pals out there – if I ever go nuts, shave my head, start screaming I’m the antichrist, and try to hang myself – do me a favour and SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT IT.
Thanks.
by cameron | Mar 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
The press was awash with stories yesterday that pop princess, Britney Spears, called herself the “Antichrist” and then tried to hang herself. A source told Britain’s News of the World newspaper: “She was crying and shouting, ‘I am the Antichrist!’ Then she started screaming, ‘I’m a fake!’ My guess is that after years of being protected by her mother, she finally got to hear some of her own records and realized that she has been the willing tool of the RIAA (Recording Industry Antichrist of America). The poor girl – what a shock it must have been. She always thought she was making the genuine delta blues music that she learned to love in her native Mississippi. I have it on good authority that she originally wanted to call herself “Muddy” Spears or “Long John” Spears before her career was cruelly stolen away from her by a handful of lawyers and accountants who appropriated her prodigious talents for their own ends.
