Upon suggestion from my dear friend, I have decided to change the name of the first movie back to it’s original name- Waveland. Vagueland will be the name for the second movie, and it will be appropriate as the main characters will most certainly placed into a “Vague Land.” The final movie will be called “OmegaLand.” Although that is subject to change.

I am very upset that was unable to write at all this long weekend. I wish I could say I blew the weekend on booze and fireworks, but alas, it was spent at two computer screens cursing at Vista. I was all fired up to write, now I am screwed till next weekend, which is when I am going to have free time again.

I have been a champion of Vista for quite some time, but I have spent the better part of FOUR days fixing not only my computer, which all of a sudden decided to go apeshit, but I also fixed my friend Susan’s computer. Just as I partitioned the main drive, Vista crashed, taking everything with it. Fortunately, I kept an emergency backup of my important files, but my main files, some things that are very hard to find, are gone. I am trying to recover those lost files now, but the program I am using is going to take the better part of a DAY to recover.

As much as I would like to detail the events of the past four days, I can sum it up with two words: FUCK VISTA.

Oh, and if any douchebag tells me to “buy a Mac,” I’ll go “America all over their asses!”*

*From It’s always sunny in philadelphia

I never had any problems with Vista, and I have not had to do a full system wipe in almost a year. Well, that came to an end yesterday when I was informed by Vista that I HAD to install a copy of Vista. Even though I had activated Vista, registered Vista and furthermore, it’s an OEM DELL copy for my Dell. Anyhoo, long story short, saved most of my data, especially anything related to the movie, but lost my bookmarks. Sigh. I had a lot of good sites bookmarked, some of which I visited infrequently, but wanted to keep.

This weekend is write-city.

I just upgraded to the new version of Wordpress and this is the first test post. Getting used to the new version.

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OMG, I never thought selecting the theme/style for my blog would be such a pain in the ass!  I even got fed up and designed my own blog theme from scratch, but it would not output, so the them I am using now (Dreamworks 1.0) is most likely going to be the style till at least after the screenplay is written and done.  However, there are going to be some tweaks over the next couple of weeks, as I re-add some plugins and widgets.

I just read a 114 page heaven vs. hell screenplay on Triggerstreet which made me feel a whole lot better about my abilities.  Here is an excerpt from the dialogue from one of the characters at the end of the movie showdown.  Keep in mind that this is supposed to be a serious script.
Daemon

When I defeat you. I will make
you my slave. I will feast on
your skin. I will wear your
heart like a trophy. And oh
little Annemarie, I will find
her and feed her to the demons.
They will have their way with
her for an eternity. She will be
the demon whore.

and here is an excerpt from the pilot of the cartoon “Korgoth of Barbaria” a comedy.

Ponytail Warrior
You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe… and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainbow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its…

You get the picture.
Here is the scene from Korgoth so you can see how long exposition by the villain simply does not work anyone except in comedy. (NSFW!)

http://tinyurl.com/rrcc5

The great thing about having Nazis as the villain in any movie is that the audience automatically wants them to die regardless of the situation. The other good thing about having Nazis as the villains is how formidable a foe they were in real life, let alone any concoction in a movie. Take for instance, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the freaking airplane mechanic of all people, took on Indy by himself. Sure, he was much larger than Indy, but he did not even wince, nor call for help; he was going to take care of this miscreant himself. When the mechanic got shredded in the rotors of the airplane motors  you wanted to yell out, “Yeah, die you fucking Nazi!” but instead you sat there and silently noted to yourself how great it felt when the Nazi got shredded into blood puree all over the windshield of the cockpit. Then at the end of the movie when Beloq and his buddies get their faces melted off you know you wanted to stand on your seat and yell out “YEAH, BURN NAZI SCUM!!!”

What I have always been amazed about the Nazis is that they were once previously normal people going about their business in Germany prior to the start of World War II. Even Hitler was a relative failure at life up to his election of Chancellor of Germany. However, once the Nazi party and the war was in full swing it was like a total metamorphosis for the German people. A German man who might have been stringing brautworst up in a butcher’s shop prior to the war was now stringing up people in a concentration camp. A German doctor who always wondered how long a human could survive without blood now could simply carry out an experiment on a real human and actually be encouraged by his peers. As much as it is said that not all Germans sympathized with the Nazis, a sure whole hell lot of them did. With the Nazis it was like the deepest, darkest pits of the human soul were finally unchained and unleashed on the world. Certainly there have been equally evil and horrible rulers and conquerers in history, but none ever actually had the chance to conquer the entire world and enforce it’s evil on it.

Also there is the absolutely amazing achievements made by the Germans during WWII; they had their hands in freakin’ EVERYTHING. Such was the knowledge gained in by the German scientists during the war that the retrieving of the scientists shortly before Germany fell was one of the most important priorites for the Allies and the Russians. Regardless of the war, Germany had a lot of most intelligent people in the world at the time and a lot of them were Jews. Lord only knows how many “Einsteins” were killed by the Nazis.

Anyhoo, back to the movie and the point.

There has been a lot of Nazi lore of lost gold, UFOs, Superweapons, bases on the moon, and the like. I am happy to say that you will see all of these wondrous fabrications in Vagueland (well more specifically, the second movie, Summerland) Oh yes, I am going have instances where you are going to be like, “You damn filthy Nazis, I can’t wait till you die!” And, oh yes, there are several twists that are going to be pretty funny.