Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Odd facts about Fatale Noir

1. Andie and I met on the set of Horrotica. Our short in this film was shot in less than 8 hours. We are the only actresses not nude in that short. We play girlfriends who take home women to literally eat.

2. We have been in five movies together, one trailer, a music video and various YouTube clips.

3. In Holy Ground we traveled north of Harlen county Kentucky to an abandoned rangers station to film with no heat, in below 30 degree weather.

4. We released a horror themed calendar in 2011.

5. In welcome to the funny farm we filmed at a haunted attraction closed for the summer.

6. Vampire Bikers from Hell was originally shot to be in the upcoming film midnight show staring Ron Jeremy and Gilbert Godfried, however I decided to pull it due to a disagreement with the producers.

7.The Grindhouse sleepover of terror was shot in 4 hours, however it took 7 months to edit. The movie is shot with a cast and crew entirely made of friends who wanted to help us do a fund raiser for vampire bikers from hell.

8. In almost all shots of Andie and I together, no matter the film, we have usually been drinking.

9. Seriously even the interviews. I prefer Merlot and Andie likes PBR.

10. Our casts and crews always call us the most fun set to work on. We believe in letting actors do just that, act and having amazing after parties where the PBR flows like red wine.

11. Our footage from the pilot episode of Bloody Mary's, along with our cameras were stolen in August 2013.

12. I was stopped coming home once from the deadliest gender by a concerned police officer who thought from all the blood, that I had been hurt.

13. The first time I met Dee Snider I told him, did you make a movie or something? His reply was...or something. He then posed for a picture with me.I'm not exactly a Twisted Sister fan.

14. I have a huge celebrity crush on Stephen king and John Kassir.

15. Andie is very talented with special fx's and has done all of or spfx work on a budget that is laughable even by indi standards. (Vampire bikers was shot on 40 bucks for example)

15. I direct movies like a photographer and freak out when someone movies the camera by even an inch.

16. In the deadliest gender, I really get my head bashed into the car in one scene, however that clip was not used. In Addition in the scene where the girl spits in my face, she actually did that too...my reaction is real. In the fight scene with me and andie we are both freezing and are holding each other for warmth..not aggression. You can also see me shake a bit if you watch closely.

17. My character in the Deadliest Gender shows the back story for my character in Horrotica.

18. The footage from Holy Ground was lost between 3 editors, including our hard drive which was also lost. We have a definite problem holding on to footage.

19. Holy ground was filmed as a tribute to the evil dead and Sam Rami.

20. Holy ground was filmed in a dry county, so we did beer runs twice a day to the county 30 minutes down the mountain for..."supplies".

21. Vampire bikers and bloody Mary's is filmed in bars, and the Grindhouse Sleepover will probably move to a bar for filming.

22. The budget for the grindhouse sleepover was 240$ all of it was spent on pizza and alcohol.

23. I swear we are not alcoholics.

Enjoy this insanity..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TibY4tX88pE


Wednesday, January 1, 2014

2013 is all wrapped up

These are things I learned about people this year. I've done quite a bit of people watching this year. These are the lessons I learned from that.

Volunteer. No one volunteers. I meet so many people who live in a bubble where nothing bad ever really happens. They haven't got a real idea about loss, or what it's like to really be poor, hungry, alone  or frightened. Volunteer and work with real people who are hurting. Don't give money,  don't run a marathon for cancer, sit down and talk to someone alone and frightened. Give yourself. I volunteered for years at meals on wheels(delivered meals) the Red Cross and at a nursing home. I can see the difference it made in me.

Time is the most important thing you have. Once time is spent you can never make more of it. Choose to spend your time on people, places, things, ideas, and work that is worthy of the most valuable commodity you will ever have. This year I watched people waste so much time and energy on things and people that was so trivial, and that time will be gone forever. Dont spend time on regret or hate. Remember each moment is precious. Don't bother worrying about what your ex..anything is doing, remember the ex part? I see so many people dwelling on ex experiences...to what purpose?

Be your own cheerleader because if you don't believe in yourself no one else will. Actually, when the world is against you, you know you are on the right track. The world doesn't want you to succeed. The world wants you to know your place. Show the world it was wrong. I've never had great successes without great adversity. Usually the harder it is to reach a goal, the bigger your success will be. Don't give up just because "they" want you to.

 I can't say this enough, people are busy. You are not their priority. Don't expect people to live up to your standards of friendship. Acknowledge that they are the center of their world, you are not. Love people, be there for them, and they will give back to the best of their ability. If you sit and keep score, you don't understand friendship. I see so many friendships die because people just expect to much. Oh yeah, being passage aggressive on Facebook never helps.

If you don't like your life, react differently. If you want change..you have to start with your behaviors. Sometimes that means losing in another area of your life to gain something else. Life is funny like that. I think the main thing is just figuring out what you really want. No one gets everything, if you don't settle you may not get anything. I think this has been the hardest thing I've had to learn in life. No one gets it all.

What are you fighting about? No really. If you love someone, sometimes you should just shut up.

Don't make promises you can not keep. If you say you are going to do something, do it. Your words hurt people, and promises should be taken seriously. There is nothing I hate worse than people who say something but can never be counted on to follow through.

You can do things alone. I have found the best things happen when you go places alone. Opportunities have trouble finding you in a crowd.

Happy 2014 everyone!