Tick Tock Time Emporium

Hello friends and family:

I’m excited to announce that this July I am shooting a short film in Bellows Falls, VT entitled “The Tick Tock Time Emporium”. It’s a modern fairytale about a little girl with a sweet smile and a penchant for petty thievery who discovers a mysterious pawn shop on the edge of town that buys and sells time. Good Time, Alone Time, Quiet Time, you name it, they have it. When she’s caught trying to steal some time, she learns that the real value of time is determined not by how good it is, but by who you spend it with.  Humor, adventure, fantasy, adorable scene stealing 10 year old lead actress, lead actor with credits that include “Happy Days” and the horror classic “Critters”- we got it all.

This film has built an incredible team of over 25 professional crew and actors. We have also brought on over a dozen local high school and college students as interns, working to learn the craft of filmmaking in an intensive and hands on way.  We are working with the community of Bellows Falls to make this an event the whole town can participate in and enjoy – culminating in 2011 premieres in Vermont, Boston and New York hopefully followed by an international tour of film festivals.

With the support of grants and a few broken piggy banks, we have raised over half of the $20K budget for our project – but we are still in need of those final funds to transform this from a great idea into a great film. So I am reaching out to friends and family to ask for help to get over that final hurdle. Any support you can give is greatly appreciated and goes directly to building the sets, renting the equipment, and feeding the cast and crew.  And I mean it when I say any amount: $10 buys breakfast for 3 crew members. If you have any suggestions for fundraising resources, or other forms of in-kind contributions (food, equipment) please let us know – we are grateful for all help!

Of course in exchange for your support, you will get to see your name in lights – in the THANKS section of the credits. But wait, there’s more!
Click here to find out about all of our enchanting thank you gifts on KICKSTARTER: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1954859461/tick-tock-time-emporium-a-short-film-by-morgan-fau

Kickstarter is fast and convenient fundraising tool, however given that it does not include a 501 (c) 3 option, we have made one available through our fiscal sponsor Kingdom County Productions. All donations made through this option are tax deductible and should be sent to:

Kingdom County Productions
Attn: Tick Tock Time Emporium
949 Somers Road
Barnet, Vermont 05821

Hope you are all having a wonderful summer, and thank you for your support!
Morgan

The Dominican Republic – explained!

Not all of it, actually.  Just the portion that corresponds to the recent trip that Morgan and I took there.  We went down to premiere the short film EL PELOTERO (The Ballplayer) that Morgan produced (and I associate produced!*) last summer.  There will be video of said premiere posted here soon, so for now I’m just going to share our favorite kind of photo album – the kind that includes seemingly random photos with little-to-no narrative through-line and deceptive or misleading captions.  Disfrutad!

*Being an Associate Producer is sort of like being an Associate Manager.  It just means you get to associate with the producer without anyone giving you dirty looks.

The Music Bucket: Baby Tribute, and an Exclusive Interview with Morgan

It seems like in the last 9 months, most people we know have had babies.  In fact, baby-having has spread through our friendship torus* like a mysterious and wonderful case of the chicken pox on an elementary school playground. Sometimes we will be talking to someone on the phone and they will spontaneously gestate, give birth, and name their new kid after us, all within the span of minutes.**

*Friendship circles are so two-dimensional

**This is patently false.  Everyone thus far has demonstrated a remarkable ability to name their children after people who are not us.  Booooo, everyone.

In honor of Emily, Lucy, Cassidy, Miranda Rose, Amira, Quentin, Sidney, Liliane, Chloe, and all the other babies I am forgetting, the Music Bucket presents: Baby Daze – a high-concept mix where every song title has the word ‘baby’ in it. Download it here and now.

As a special added bonus feature, I recently scored a big interview with Morgan and used my time (wisely) to ask her to share her thoughts on babies.  She showed up to our interview wearing Tyrolean jodhpurs and a boiled leather cuirass.

Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?

Is I is.

Do you think babies deserve the vote?

I don’t think babies deserve anything.  They have to earn it like the rest of us – by living for eighteen years.  But once they do that, yeah, sure.

What one thing would you change about babies and why?

I would make them pay for seats on planes and trains.  Life is not a free bag of donuts for you to sit on, kids.

Were you ever a baby?  If so, what was it like?

It was small.  Actually, I can still put my toes in my mouth, so not too much has changed.

What advice do you have for babies?

Grow…and don’t bother with Season 3 of Veronica Mars.  You have better things to do.  Like paying into Social Security and thinking about who you’re going to vote for in 18 years.

What about baby corn?

I don’t buy it myself, but if someone else is serving it…. bottom line, I don’t want to be rude.

Why do you think babies refuse to talk to us?

Because we can eat sushi and do pilates whenever we feel like it and they are jealous.  Get over it, babies.

Who’s bigger?  Mr. Bigger or Mr. Bigger’s baby?

Mr. Bigger’s baby.  He’s a little Bigger.

Who are your top 5 babies?

Baby Houseman, Baby Ruth, Baby Jessica, L’Enfant Terrible, and Baby (the one with the Three Men).

With that, Morgan hiked up her dolphin skin Mary Jane’s, tossed her worsted bolero coat over her shoulder, and strode imperiously into the living room, where we now have a date to watch the latest episode of “Lost”.  Fin d’interviu.

We Still Have The Walrus!

Umm, I know that this post is redundant, and I promise the next post will a) be of more general interest, b) be longer, and c) employ wit and verve…but I hadn’t actually inhabited the Walrus until today.  And it was freakin’ cool.  The previous Walrus headshot was none other than Max Isaacson, and this shot is all me.

Me and walrus in an unholy amalgam.

Thanks to DeVon for the picture!

Is it a dance move or a karate punch? Come closer and find out...

We have the Walrus!

Or does the walrus have us? Crap.

Investors: Steel yourselves for a special email in a few days. And if you haven’t completed your investor directory entry yet, shame on you.

Non-investors: This is what it must have felt like to have missed out on buying Google stock when it first came out, or to have been a caveman who thought that the wheel was a “passing fad”.  Let us know about the depth of your woe in the comments section.

Fame. I Want To Live Forever.

And now, thanks to David Broyles, the talented and totally cool director/friend/classmate of Morgan’s, I can.

Remember back a long time ago when I posted pictures from a short film shoot?  (http://morganpatrick.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/catching-up-is-hard-to-do/)

Now said film is available online.  I play a briefly alive and then mostly dead person named Baron.  I have no speaking lines, but I do have a nice hat.

Be gentle in your comments, I am a diva.

The Music Bucket: Halloween in the City

When in doubt, put up a mix.  That’s our motto.  Also Abutebaris modo subjunctivo denuo (literally: “You’ve been misusing the subjunctive again”).  You can never have too many mottos.

As many of you already know, EEPB is moving to Brooklyn.  This means that you can safely forget all about the previously unfinished Virtual House Tour.  It will soon be replaced by a new (and more easily finished) Virtual House Extravaganza which showcases another motto of ours: Locus enim est principum generationis rerum (“For place is the origin of things”.)  Happy Halloween and never forget that: Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum <— that’s for you and Google to figure out.

Download Halloween in the City Mix here.  You’ll like it.

At least they didn't bleed on the chair.

Only the DOOMED see double

The Music Bucket: Summer Haze

Download the Summer Haze Mix

This summer has been somewhat of a blur – and with new jobs, a new cat, and a new apartment lurking on the horizon (actually only the apartment is lurking, the cat and the job are already squatting squarely in the living room), I thought it best to offer up something to drown out the silence that has been Everything Else Plastic Bag as of late.

Wait 'til he hits a pimple...

Tracklisting

Sabio Mancát Supreme Pet Confirmation Hearings Underway

Sabio Mancát and some dude in a tie

After weeks of speculation and rampant punditry, Supreme Pet Nominee, Sabio Mancát, appeared yesterday in front of the full U.S. Senate.  Mr. Mancát, who has dazzled the Faust/Noyes administration with his ability to turn everyday cat events, like sleeping and walking down stairs, into concussive blasts of pure cuteness, seemed relaxed and poised as he calmly batted a ball of aluminum foil around the Senate chambers.

Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada was predictably laudatory in his opening remarks, stating that, “[Mr. Mancát] has proven that he can purr loudly in the hallowed Halls of Justice”.  He went on to describe Sabio’s “intense dedication to pursuing that fuzzy blue thing dangling on the end of the elastic cord” as well as his “decisive role in desegregating schools and getting the U.S. off the gold standard.”

A young Sabio Mancát experiments with cross-dressing

Debate was spirited, but even Sabio’s main detractors, Republican Senator Brian Staveley of Utah, and Independent House Representative Colin Woods of Ohio, were hard pressed to come up with any substantial reasons why confirmation should be delayed.  “Sometimes he hides under the couch,” grumbled Rep. Woods, “and then I can’t be loving him the way my heart wants to.”

“I just want the record to show that I think Sabio Mancát is a total pussy,” said Senator Staveley, “a shorthair, mottled gray pussy.”

Mr. Mancát at home

Though Mr. Mancát seems to have a penchant for controversial out-of-court statements – claiming that a “wise male cat” may be more suited to judge certain cases than “your run-of-the-mill mutt”, such proclamations seem to present few problems for an administration that, by its own admission, would “rather invite flesh-eating goats to share our bathtub than have a dog as a pet.”

If confirmed, Mancát would become only the third cat to hold the position of Supreme Pet during the Faust/Noyes era.  Long-standing Supreme Pet Gita has gone on record as saying that she looks forward to “licking Mr. Mancát’s head, sniffing warily around his tiny private litter box, and shedding inordinate amounts of hair together.  And also probably upholding Roe v. Wade.”

Summer Sublet – Please spread the word to your cool friends

Morgan and I just had what we thought was a done deal of a sublet fall through…so we are looking for a subletter this summer.  Here is the basic info, all of which can be conveniently passed along to people by referring them to our temporary webpage about it: http://sites.google.com/site/subletmhnewyork/ (which has pictures)

Remember when we helped you find a subletter?   And you said that if you could ever return the favor, you would? Hmmm?  ‘Cause we remember it just as vividly as if it had actually happened.

Le Details

Where: Morningside Heights (Between Upper West Side and Harlem)

Near to: Columbia University (2 blocks), 1 train (3 blocks), A,C;B,D trains (3 blocks)

Availability: June 7 – Aug 15th, 2009  (dates negotiable)

Price: $1380/month, includes electricity, gas, water, $700 deposit.  Laundry in building.

Please contact us at patricknoyes@gmail.com with the Subject: Summer Sublet if you would like more details/have specific questions