Alternative Mindz Blog

We are in the process of editing the film and just wanted to show you guys a bunch of stills from the movie.

My crucifixion

Devil in me wants you to stay

The angel in me wants you to stay as well

But knows it has to let you go

The lover in me needs you close

The hater in me wants you to go away

But hates itself for thinking so

The father in me needs you to learn

The failure in me wants you to run away

But tells itself to lie for you

My crucifixion

My imperfection

My sadness

My welfare

Devil in me tells the angel to fly off

The lover tells the hater to fuck off

The father keeps nurturing

As the failure keeps failing

My crucifixion

My imperfection

My sadness

My welfare

Devil man and angel walk hand in hand

The lover figure and hater attack each other constantly

As the father keeps telling the failure to be good

And they all know they have no control over you

My crucifixion

My imperfection

My sadness

My welfare

Robert greenwood 11/13/03

Poem/song/therapy

goodbye my lover of time

don’t blame my shame on love
don’t take away my good night kiss
don’t steal away my love

say goodbye
to my goodnight kiss
say hello
to my sadness

my impending emptiness

this is my last request for you
please don’t change who you are to me
don’t dye your hair  a shade of grey
don’t perm nor press
and don’t color your nails this is my request
just stay the same way as you were before the night
I screwed it all up for us
I’m just a fool inside who can’t change your mind

no gift can mend your shattered heart
and no words could save this broken soul of yours

don’t blame my shame on love
don’t take away my good night kiss
don’t steal away my love

say goodbye
to my goodnight kiss
say hello
to my sadness

my impending emptyness

goodbye my love
is all you say to me now as you turn away and walk
so very fast out the side door
the clouds begin to pour
rain drops on the floor

goodbye my love goodbye

don’t blame my shame on love
don’t take away my good night kiss
don’t steal away my love

say good bye
to my goodnight kiss
say hello
to my sadness

my impending emptyness

goodbye  goodbye goodbye goodbye

robert greenwood songs/poem 2/15/04

One of the most talented actors we have ever worked with just had a principal role in this film which stars, Alec Baldwin,Cynthia Nixon, Kieran Culkin. the story is set in a late ’70s Long Island, the coming-of-age story follows two families who fall apart when precarious relationships, real estate problems and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia.

its produced by Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin.

The Film is set for a 2009 release!

congrats to Isabella

Wynne Wharff

will make her TV debut on Monday March 31st, 2008 on general hospital.

plays  “Hermione, the Sassy New York event planner hired by “Kate”.

we wish her good luck

history of the comic book: Golden Age part 2, Batman and beyond

The Hero from Krypton blazes the path for the new Archetype, the costumed crime fighter!

In the wake of the new found “super” hero comic book publishers rushed to capture the love of america’s new myths.

heroes appeared from around the globe and sometimes under the ocean.

Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis) pre-dates batman as their first masked crime fighter. Lee Walter Travis is the alter ego of the first Crimson Avenger. The original Crimson Avenger premiered in Detective Comics #20, dated October 1938 (predating the appearance of that title’s most famous character, Batman, who debuted in #27). He was a wealthy newsman named Lee Walter Travis residing on Earth-Two who took up the identity of the Crimson Avenger to battle crime.

Doll Man “The World’s Mightiest Mite,”was created by comics legend Will Eisner and first appeared in a four-page story entitled “Meet the Doll Man” in Feature Comics #27, the December, 1939. research chemist Darrell Dane, who invents a formula that enables him to shrink to the height of six inches while retaining the full strength of his normal size.

The Invisible Hood, first appeared in Smash Comics #1 in 1939, as published by Quality Comics in a story titled “Hooded Justice”.Kent Thurston’s origins or the origins of the cloak and chemical he used.

The Sandman (Wesley Dodds,Attired in a green business suit, fedora, and gas mask,he used a gun emitting a sleeping gas to sedate criminals. later on he became more of a traditional hero acquiring sidekick Sandy, and joining the Justice Society of America.

none of these heroes matched the selling power of Superman. that is until a shadow fell over the comics industry in the form of a Bat

Batman: referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman.

First appeared in detective comics #27 1939, Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a child leads him to train himself to physical and intellectual perfection and don a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime.

Batman operates in the fictional Gotham City, assisted by various supporting characters including his sidekick Robin and his butler Alfred Pennyworth, and fights an assortment of villains influenced by the characters’ roots in film and pulp magazines. Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers; he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, and intimidation in his war on crime.

created by

Bob Kane

and written by

Bill Finger

although only Kane receives official credit. The Batman was created based on a silent movie called the Bat Whispers and Da Vinci’s flying machine

and combined with the popular crime fighters of the time

Doc Savage, the Shadow and the detective skills of Sherlock Holmes.The first Batman story, “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate,” was published in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939).

Finger said, “Batman was originally written in the style of the pulps” and this influence was evident with Batman showing little remorse over killing or maiming criminals and was not above using firearms.

With the debut of The Batman, DC comics had two gang buster hits and open the flood gates for the Golden Age of comics.

Timely comics this same year released its first anti-hero Namor the sub mariner

Namor the Sub-Mariner first appeared in April 1939 in the prototype for a planned giveaway comic titled Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, produced by the comic book packager Funnies, Inc.

When the giveaway idea fell through, creator Everett used the character for Marvel Comics #1, the first comic book by Funnies, Inc. client Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel.

next part of the history of comics: Golden Age heads to war!

big Ben

the Film Crew

Franco and Crystal (talking Japanese)

Full Cast Group Shot 1

Full Cast Group Shot 2

the Players

The Players 2

In Between shots

Thanks to everyone in the film and who help us out

we will have some more pics with

Izzy after we film the Flashback scene this week!

History of the Comic Book: Golden Age; comic spotlight

Sometimes comic book heroes aren’t from comics but are inspired by them instead.

here is the history of Mighty Mouse!

Terrytoons story man, I. Klein, proposed a story to Paul Terry which was a spoof of the popular Superman character. The hero of the story was a fly with super powers (Hal Seeger later developed such a character, Fearless Fly, for his Milton The Monster series). Terry, who liked to control all the Terrytoons product and make it seem as if he originated all story ideas, listened to Klein and then vetoed the idea.

Terry then took the premise, changed the lead character to a mouse, and presented it as his own original idea. The Terrytoons story department devised a story from the idea entitled Mouse Of Tomorrow, featuring Terry’s new character, Super Mouse.

The Mouse Of Tomorrow retold the origin of Super Mouse. The rodent inhabitants of the city are terrorized by the cats. The cats have set numerous traps to capture the mice and it is impossible for the mice to live in peace. One mouse, having escaped from a hungry cat, finds refuge in a large supermarket. Having surveyed the contents of the store shelves, he sets out to transform himself. He takes a bath in Super Soap, eats Super Soup, chews on Super Celery and dives head first into a chunk of Super Cheese. He emerges from the chunk of cheese as Super Mouse.

The transformation has changed him from a tiny four-legged rodent, scurrying about, into a human-like mouse, standing upright on two feet, with super powers, a massive physique, and a cape and costume similar to that of Superman’s. He has the ability to fly through the air and bullets bounce off of his chest. Using his new-found powers, he sets out to rescue his fellow mice from the scourge of the cats, and sends all the cats to the moon. He returns to the Earth a hero, with the mice hoisting him high in the air as the narrator closes with “Thus ends the adventure of Super Mouse…he seen his job and he done it!”

Super Mouse was a huge success. In the meantime, a Terrytoons employee had left to work for a small publishing company, and submitted a version of Super Mouse for publication. The Super Mouse story was published in the first issue of Coo Coo Comics in October, 1942, at the same time that Terrytoon’s version was released to the theaters. Terrytoons, not wanting to promote a similarly named character owned by someone else, decided to change the name of Super Mouse to Mighty Mouse for all his future cartoon adventures.

watch a free cartoon of Mighty Mouse here