I've just released the first prequel trailer for Jathia's Wager - the open source sci-fi film I've been working on.  You can watch the prequel trailer at http://moviepals.org/blog/open-source-sci-fi-movie-trailer-for-jathias-wager-released/ .  The story line takes place before the main film.  I shot this is as a test and to get my production team working together.  Unfortunately I lost most of my production team in the process and ended up doing all the effects myself.

I'm casting next week for more roles and can't wait to start shooting the main film.  I've got lots of REALLY exciting new personal developments to share too.  More updates coming very soon.

Holloween rocked, but first - It's official I just cut my eyebrows and changed the way I look.  Now to most people this would hardly be worthy of a blog entry and would probably get a response similar to "whoop whoop" in eighties / early nineties slang (no idea why, but I'm  in the mood to use dated slang terms). 

When I came shooting out of the womb in 1981 I was born with especially pointy eyebrows.  They naturally curled up to a point in the center, this little feature was more than enough in combination with a late growth spurt to have made absolutely sure I received constant teasing and name calling throughout my early and mid childhood.  As I got older and finally filled out, girls finally started to notice me and afterwards I built the super nifty unbreakable self confidence that I have today.

Multiple times as a kid and even in high school I REALLY thought about cutting them and getting rid of the points to make myself look more normal, but I never did and to me it came to represent my individuality - plus it made me stick out and attract attention in a good and bad way.  I met many of my X girlfriends from conversations that started with someone either complementing my eyebrows or asking me some smart ass question about them.  As I got older people mentioned them less and less until I almost forgot about them, until Holloween.

I dressed in a gothic, zombie mixed with joker type costume and went to a cool party with my girlfriend.  I just uploaded the pics it was immediatley noticable, that my eyebrows look terrible, I mean terrible.  They stick up high enough to almost appear clownish, it definitley does not look "natural" and I wonder if they grew higher as I got older or if I brushed up against something or what, but I was very unhappy with the way they look.  With the white face paint, they stick out like weird addons, I decided that it was time to give them a trim.  People cut their nose hairs, I shave my chest (otherwise I'd have a SUPER harry ape chest) and women shave their legs.  I'm glad I did it on my time and not in response to any social pressure (IT's WAAAY past middle school, high school, and college for me).

If you're reading this please tell me what you think.  I've had the points for so long it was a little strange seeing myself without them for the first time.  Back to Holloween, my father who never dresses up, did for the party we went to and so did my roomate Darren.  We had a great time and got to spent a whole day with my beautiful girlfiriend Honey who I'm so in love with I can't stop thinking about.  Most of the party people were older, but everyone was having fun and getting down.  It was fun to "people watch" and there was this beautiful mountain trail I took a walk on in the dark with my girly.  It was cool.

Other updates:  I'll be casting on November 9, for my Sci-Fi film and I've already finsihed the prequel trailer, which will be released very soon.  I'm super pumped.  I've been working out like crazy (see the most recent pics in my profile) and I may have a great new job (more on that coming soon).  It's time for me to drink A TON of mountain dew and get back to work on my film and maybe even try to sleep a few hours.

PS.  I don't edit these, they're more like personal rants to keep all 3 of you reading this informed on what I happen to be doing at 2:51 am in the morning (hey no dirty thoughts - lol)

One more update, I'm STILL SOBER - I'M STILL SOBER, I'M STILL SOBER.  That's right Solomon D. Rothman, party boy extravaganza no longer drinks and I feel fucking wonderful!.

It's early and I only slept 3 hours so I'm not that talkative, or in this case writ-ta-tive.  That's a not funny joke encase your sleep deprived too.  I launched a new political blog complete with 5 video rants I made after 2:00 AM when I was high on enough caffeine to kill at least 1 small animal.  They're spreading online like a virus, make sure to check them out at ( http://www.nerd.la ).  Isn't that a cool domain name?  nerd.la? I've got a lot more in store for that site, stuff that's outragous, crazy, creative and controversal so stay tuned.

I've been sober for two weeks now and holding out very strong.  I'm done drinking and this team I actually mean it.  I'm really excited about all the extra time I'll have and not getting sick anymore (I use to binge drink until I was very sick the next day with a massive hangover ).  I'll be able to focus more on achieving my goals which include creating kick ass original movies like Jathia's Wager.  Speaking of which I recieved an e-mail from the London Science Musceum, they're doing an event on the future of filmmaking, I also working on netowrking with other filmmakers and there maybe an episode of Jathia's Wager filmmed in Malaysia.  How cool is that?

Ok no more delaying the boring ass web dev and blog building work I have to finish so I can go out later and then come back SOBER and work on my movies.  I do want to proclaim that I LOVE Honey Law more than anything else in the world.  It's official, you read it on myspace first.  I lover her and I'm not scared of saying so.  I don't think I've ever loved anyone as much as I love her.

Hey everybody, meaning 3 people.  Hi mom - lol.  After my sad encounter described in the free style rant in my last blog entry, I thought it was time for a happier update.  I got back together with my girlfriend.  I dumped her, deleted her number from my phone, and from my instant message.  I was all ready to never speak to her again and then I got a message on my voice mail.  She told me she loved me and that being with me was more important than anything else, so we talked, then went out and everything since then has been electric. 

Actually we talk too much and I think I love her too much considering the short time we've been together, but I'm not complaining.  I hope we end up together, but for now the middle part of my story is happy and I think a lot about her.  I will tell you now, if this relationship dosen't work out, I'm going total slut.  It's party time.  I'm going to date the hottest chick I can amd wait A LONG time before I let her get close to my heart.  Ofcouse all that fades away as soon as I look into the eyes of a beautiful sweet girl who likes me, so I'm mostly kidding.  Don't take the superficial stuff too seriouly I'm a romantic underneath it all, at least I hope so.

I finished shooting a movie scene for the prequel to the Open Source Science Fiction Film Jathia's Wager.  It turned out great and thanks to Susan who is helping with the production I've got some great behind the scenes stills.  I posted them in my myspace pictures so be sure to check them out.  Ok, enough sales talk.  It's GREAT to be making a movie again.  I've got 2 feature length scripts collecting dust, at LEAST 10 drafts and 5 short films that were just itching to be made.  Now that company isn't doing so well, I'm poor and at a relative low point in my life, I'm happy because I'm with a girl I love and I'm pouring my creativing energy into filmmaking - one of my strongest passions.

Sobriety.  All of you who know me, understand that I like to work hard and play hard.  This usually involves drinking heavily in binges and then drinking less so I can concentrate on work and my creative projects.  One of my lifelong resolutions is to cut WAY down or quit drinking altogether.  The last year of my life was pretty rough in comparison and I took too much refuge in the sultry escape alcohol, music and beaitufil woman can provide.  No more.  It's time to get my stuff together and devote myself fully to my passions and the girl I love.  I haven't drank in 5 days.  That dosen't sound like much, but to a heavy drinker, it's a lot and I'm taking it one day at a time.  Life is good, but I still need to recover financially and stablize my life and my relationships with other people.  I moved 3 times int he last 6 months and I'm feeling a bit like a displaced person.  I LOVE Ventura California, and I also like Santa Barabara, so I'll probably stay where I am now, plus I'm still in driving distance to LA and Hollywood for the times I need to meet people there.

Ok, I can't blog all night, but I'll post again soon. Please comment if you read this.  It makes me feel good to know someone is reading about what I'm doing and who I am.

Solomon

Occasionally a good rant, can make you feel a lot better so here goes it.  Today was officially one of the worst days of my entire life and that's saying a lot considering it started off with one of the most fun dates I've ever had.  You think that would be a recipe for one of the better days, but it wasn't.  After having one of the most fun dates of my entire life I had to dump a beautiful girl that I REALLY liked and basically was in love with - although I mostly avoided that word because it was too early to say that without sounding a bit too 'fast and furious', but nonetheless I loved her.

Why did I go on such an awesome date and then at the very end - after sharing an amazing kiss, Dump her and avow to never speak to her again?  Well the answer is complicated, but basically it became very apparent, that although she liked me all her plans and thoughts about the future were amazingly selfish and evolved around her moving around alone and were intertwined with wild immature fantasies.  I don't understand how you can go on all day dates with someone, call them like every day, share all your secrets with them, tell them how much you care about them and have your future be painted out as a wild traveling single adventure, when that is obviously 100% incompatible with the person you're with?.  Was she that short sighted, just plain stupid, or trying to doom our relationship before it had a chance to get too serious, I'll never know, but I knew I had to end it. 

I'm not saying you should start making wedding plans or even serious plans that quickly, but I do believe that if you're going to date seriously and make someone care about you to the point of "falling in love",  you should at least be considering what that would mean for your future and not trample all over their feelings like they mean nothing to you.  Fine mean nothing to me, go **** yourself – you don't deserve me.

It sucked, no it totally sucked.  Looking into the beautiful eyes of a girl you care so much about and even though you really want to hold her, kiss her, and see her again, you have to say goodbye forever.  I mean WTF, she could of at least had the proverbial 'balls' to either let me know she was "casual" about dating or to break it off with me herself because she didn't want to get that serious.  Going on 7 hour all day dates, and calling me every night is **** up when all your plans are to run away and care only about yourself in under a years' time (a year passes so damn quickly as you all know). Cool,  be a feather in the wind, but don't **** date anyone and make them care about you to have you ditch them for some dumbass trip and fantasy move.  WTF – GROW UP!

One thing I learned to spot early and to end if you don't find it there.  Any relationship were the individuals talk more about their individual needs and use "I" 100 times more  than "us" or "we" is probably doomed.  Unenlightened f***s sometimes say things like "I have to do what's in my best interest".  Well if two people both do that, it's impossible to have any type of relationship you might as well just break up right then and there.  You have to balance what's in your best interest with what's in the other person's best interest and arrive at a compromise which is in the couple's mutual best interest.  I can't believe some people can be so sweet to you in the moment, but be soooooooooooo self serving and selfish in their goals and future plans.

Some of you may think I jumped the gun and should have seen if she 'changed' if I really cared about her, but that's not how life typically works out.  People usually don't change and  I'm too passionate to be able to enjoy a doomed relationship or to like the other person way more than they like me.  Talk about torturing yourself.  Life is hard enough without me dong that too.

On top of everything, my X showed up at midnight uninvited and refused to leave for a long time.  It was ugly.  She's been sending me TONS of text messages, e-mails and phone calls despite the fact I told her we'll never get back together, we're horrible for each other and I don't want her in my life.  This is the fourth time she's done this and on top of that she know gets other people (some dude) to call me and ask me to "forgive her".  Damn it, I'm moving on  - no forgiveness for her -  it didn't work she needs to leave me alone!

On a positive note we're moving into production on my science fiction movie "Jathia's Wager", I already got an Assistant Director and we've created a meetup group for the cast and crew which you can see here:

http://newintown.meetup.com/844/

I've always wanted a mohawk, no really I always did, and probably many of you think they look cool too, but were just too conservative to actually get one.  Well after having thinning, "angel hair" and having to mess with it in the mirror for like 20 minutes everytime I go out and ALWAYS feeling self conscious about it, I've had enough.  I didn't want to shave my head completely, so I went the way of the mohawk, what do you think?

Since I live on the harbor, I went to a boat show this week to check out the yahts. I've decided to teach myself how to sail and start saving to buy a huge boat capable of sailing across the world. It needs to have 3+ rooms sleep at least 6 people and be comfortable enough for a real voyage. So that gives me a nice goal to work twords later on.

Like I said before all my immediate creative energy is going into my current movie project, but I was adding things up and I pay almost as much for an apartment with utilities etc as what a HUGE yacht would cost me.

So maybe I'll save, save, save, finance this boat, and then spend a year sailing around and not have an apartment , just slip fee rental from the harbor (when I wasn't traveling) and live in the yacht initially, it'll be 40-60 ft long and have tons of room.

Ofcourse I still have to:
1. learn how to sail
2. save up a bunch of money
3. Decide if it's worth it.

,but so far it's looking pretty good.

I never was a person who wanted a regular boring life. Anyways so that's something I've been thinking about.  I saw HellBoy II on friday, it was awesome.  I wrote an indepth review complete with a little humor too here (my movie site):

Hellboy II 2 The Golden Army Movie Review Analysis – Guillermo Del Toro's Visual Kick In The Ass

If you read that LEAVE A COMMENT!!!

I'm super exicted  about getting to shoot another film (I just posted the initial sketches I made of a few of the scenes).  It's going to be so much fun.  One of my goals for this year is to keep this updated and try and stay in better touch with my friends (the few of them I have and keep everyone up to date on my creative projects.  I just moved, tons to talk about.  Feeling young.  I partied in Santa Barbara this weekend and all the college girls thought I was 22, even the ones who were 24.  For fun I submitted a new pick to "hot or not" and I got person of the week.  I need to meet some new people whereI moved to, that'll probably take care of itself when I start filmmking and get use to the community here.  I love the beach, for once I'm not pale.

If anyone near Ventura or LA read this, let's hang out!