On Thursday, I learned that I had been awarded a screenwriting grant from the provincial government for a short project about my father.

Then, just last night, as I was attending Osheaga festival, I won a memory game competition and walked away with a brand new PS3.

Best week ever?

So I've been on TV all week long, playing a game show called Synchro, which is a bit like Who Wants to be a Millionaire but 3 people get selected to play. The game begins with the qualification question, like usual, and immediately, I know I'm not going out there. Here's the question :

"Put those 4 Twilight books in their chronological order of release"

Now, if the choices would've been in English, I could've done it. But to top it off, they gave us the lame ass French titles, which can be translated so : "Fascination", "Temptation", "Hesitation" and "Revelation".

FUCK. ME.

On a bright side, only 2 out of 15 got it, but they were both men. No need to mention that they were quickly stripped of their Man Card at the end of the show.

And in a funny TV meets real life moment (or in this case, TV meets TV I guess), the last question was almost exactly the last question asked in the Steve Harvey Millionaire SNL skit (see below). It was hilarious to see the host struggle trying to say the names right! :D

Are you a fan of Drawn Together?

Do you have a Facebook account?

Are you a fan of Drawn Together's page of Facebook : LINK.

If you said yes to all these questions (even if you said no, I'm not judging you), go to this page and vote for me, mr. A.

There is no price at the end of the line and, in all honesty, I have no idea how I ended up there. Must be a random thing. But in all fairness, it would be pretty cool to be named general of the Assbag Army.

Free 3D porn to anyone that votes!

(I am a perv, by the way)

So I've been working on a screenplay with a director I met at my old job for about 6 months now. I've written, re-written and re-re-written the whole damn thing on my own time without getting a cent out of it, but I still a blast. This is also why I'm really excited right now!

My director just announced to me that we'll be meeting with one of the countries' biggest producer next week. He managed to book the meeting through one of his pal directors who's currently working with her. I doubt you'd know her, but if you were by any chance at Sundance a couple of weeks ago, she's the one that produced "Les 7 Jours du Talion" or whatever the english name is...

And this is not even the best part of it. Usually in Quebec/Canada, to get some financing on a movie, you have to deposit the project to a government agency called SODEQ and TELEFILM CANADA. The process takes months and months and you may have to wait up to 2 years to actually get paid for you movie *that is if they like the project). This is not the case with this producer. Since her movies have done fairly well at the box-office, she has an "enveloppe" giving to her by SODEQ, which means she can finance the development of the movies she likes right from the get go!

tl;dr of that last part : If she likes it (the director tells me she's really interested), I might get paid right off after her meeting!

The movie is called ROSE, it's a dark comedy and I'll keep you updated on what's happening, cause this is only the beginning...

P.S. Luis, if this all goes well, next time I see you in Montreal, I'm paying for ALL your booze :P

So the Oscar nominations were announced last week and, except for the obvious Wallace and Grommit short, it's usually pretty hard to find the nominated animated shorts on the web. Well, I managed to find one and it's pretty amazing.

The name's LOGORAMA and it is made ENTIRELY OUT OF LOGOS.
Yes, ENTIRELY!

Here's the clip in 2 parts :

PART 1

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PART 2

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Enjoy!

Last night, I dreamt I was in some kind of commune with Alan Rickman in a poor dictatorship country in a middle of a country wide flood. At some point, I try to stab Rickman cause he's a psychopath (Hans Grubber, anyone?), but he ends up wearing a bullet-proof (and also knife proof apparently) vest. He remains strangely calm about it, choosing to just take the knife away from me and stabbing me in the neck with it. Of course, I wake up scared to death.

Later, I eventually go back to sleep and dream yet again. This time, I met Vince Vaughn who was going clubbing with a monkey. That's pretty much the only thing I can remember...

Analysis, anyone?

Props to the new batch of Communication students of the University of Quebec in Montreal (the University where I got my Bachelor in Communications - Cinema) for doing this incredible one-take video and getting some props from CNN!

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Here's the original video :

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This is the proof that initiations don't consist only in drinking and making a fool out of yourself. You can do both while doing something constructive (if you can call this constructive anyway :P)!

PROPS AGAIN, BITCHES!

Last night, I was at a friend's birthday party and I met the agent of an awesome Montreal band called Misteur Valaire. I was wearing my Dr. Fetus t-shirt and he noticed it, so I started talking about Newgrounds. The conversation soon got to viral marketing and how the band had become known because of that.

So, seeing a great opportunity, I threw back Newgrounds into the mix telling him how interesting it would be for the band to have an animated video done by NG members (aka a collab), and he really REALLY liked the idea. So I'm calling him later this week to settle everything (music, deadlines, budget, etc.) and to see if the band liked the idea, and if so, I will have a professionnal collab to present to you guys!

So, if you're interested (note that I'm looking for top-notch animators and I will be VERY selective), just drop me a mail or comment here, and I shall get back to you!

Also, here's the EPK for the band. It's in French, but their music is only instrumental.

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Also link if you want to download their album for free!

Here's a quick schedule of how things will run for this meet :
(This is all suggestion at this time, so check back often to see if things change)

Thursday June 4th

7 PM : Happy Hours at St-Bock

This is a pretty cosy place that serves excellent microbrewery beers and delicious food (their burgers are off the flippin' hook). If we see the group is getting too big for the place, we'll move to the St-Ciboire, home of the very first Montreal Meet-up.

Friday June 5th

10 AM : La Ronde

Meeting point : at the Papineau metro station (green line on which most of the out of towners will be staying) around 10 AM. We will then take a bus that will lead us directly to La Ronde, our Six Flags park. Should be pretty fun and it will be open till 9 PM, so let's hope for some sun.

9:30 PM : Foufounes Électriques

AKA, The Electric Bumcheeks. This place is widely known for being an institution in alternative rock. This place has seen lots of great bands pass though its doors for memorable performances way before they get mainstream attention like NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, etc. It's also one of the first bar outside Seattle that has seen Nirvana perform.

Today, it's a pretty casual bar with a nice outside terasse, pool and babyfoot tables and cheap beer. It's situated 2 steps away from the St-Laurent station on the green line.

Saturday June 6th

12 PM : BEEEERFEEEEST! Meet point - Lucien L'allier station (orange line)

This is it, the big one. This place is bound to be crazy packed, so if you can, bring along your cellphones. We will most likely split into smaller groups, so we'll need at least one cell phone per group to keep track of everyone. Remember that either way, everyone's on their own here, so if you get very drunk, don't count on us to a) find you in the crowd or/and b) drag your ass to the next point.

Afterwards for dinner, I suggest we head out to La Banquise, a gourmet poutine place that is reknown toserve one of the best poutine in the province.

No activity is scheduled so far for Saturday night, but I'm sure something will pop up soon enough!

Sunday June 7th

1 PM : Tourist crap Meet point - Place d'Armes station (orange line)

DancinTurkeyGod (a Montreal regular) suggested that we hang around the old port a bit, which is not a bad idea since it's one of the best (and cheapest) touristic points in Montreal. Lots to do here for out of towners.

So to people coming from out of town, I'd suggest taking a look at our public transportation's official website, STM.info for maps or any information regarding the subway lines or the buses.

Peace out!

First off, I must say that I rarely save this spot for a front page post, but it's too good to let past. And for the record, I just want to remind everyone that Montreal's population is 3,635,571 inhabitants..

Last December, I dated a girl who was pretty nice, but it never clicked and I broke up with her on December 21st. The girls's name was Mary. I always felt bad about it, until tonight. Here's the story...

From 2005-2008, I lived with this crazy bitch ass girl who was driving me crazy with her OCD and control freak balls-chopping like attitude. She actually drove me right to a shrink and made my life a living hell for the following 2 years, since there was no way of communicating nor dealing with her that didn't involve violence or shouting. That girl was at the time in love with a boy boy named Andy. But while she was seeing Andy, she was also seeing Eric, a friend of mine from Film School.

Last Wednesday, I went out with Eric to a fundraiser party for our school, and I had the pleasure of meeting an awesome girl by the name of Emily, but that's beside the main point. Eric than told me that after their trip to France, he was about to dump my ex-roomate that goes by the name of AMELY, I didn't care and just went on with my night, really happy.

TONIGHT, I happen to meet with my ex-GF, with who I'm on good terms with. She had already told me about ANDY, since he's a childhood friend from her's. So we small talk about our current relationship situations. I mention Emily, and then she mentions she has new boy in her life...

Yeah, you probably guessed it...
motherfuckin' ANDY!

So right now, I'm sitting at my PC, halfway drunk, and it might be the most immature thing on Earth, but seriously, I don't care...

Just knowing that my bitchy jack-ass fucker of an ex-roomate is about to get dumped by one of my best friend, without knowing that the ex-boyfriend she left to go with mentionned-friend is now dating my really nice ex-girlfriend (no competition there, trust me...) just makes me feel so much better...

Now, I'm not the one to pray for another being's misfortune, but in this situation, I can't help but to feel happy, cause with all that went through psychologically with that bitch, kama just been served... :D