Friends of Steve Buscemi
My friends in Blogworld!
So far its been a great week for the man ALIVE boys. We’ve been out and about doing some of the more mundane film makery stuff as well as the “yes this is why I became a film maker” stuff. Yesterday saw Liam and myself take to the woods to film our newest short film due to be screened at a local art centre (‘center’ if there’s any American followers) later in the year. More on that later, unfortunately its not edited yet so I can’t add it to this post, so instead i’ll add a couple of our more recent sketches.
BUT BEFORE THAT, Liam and I are really excited to say that thanks to the communicative powers of TWITTER, we’ve been able to chat to THE REAL Steve Buscemi. A friend of ours Mr Gregor Maltman messaged Steve on twitter suggesting he watch our Award winning Matt, Ben and Buscemi. In short, he watched it, he liked it, and he told his 7000 strong following to check us out. So if you’re here because Mr Buscemi sent you, WELCOME.
A special thanks obviously goes out to Gregor and the man ALIVE Award for ‘making our week the best ever’ goes to the man, the myth, the legend, Steve Buscemi.
Enjoy the sketches!
Cheers!
Stu
Tax Doesn’t Have to be Taxing, but it F***ing is!
Yes!
Tax is a flaming (that’s the starred-out word in the title, obviously) nuisance! This week we finally caught up on a year’s worth of “book-keeping”, and sent off some forms to the inland revenue, who were trying to fine us £100 (each!) for not filling in yet ANOTHER form they’d never sent us or even told us about! Every form was as pointless as the next one and contained the EXACT same information. One even started with our business name and tax reference number, then proceeded to ask for our business name and tax reference. Twice!
My tax fury was so intense that I had to let Stu take over for a little bit while I went outside to smash a bin lid to pieces with a spanner.
Still, some good news as Matt, Ben and Buscemi will finally be making it to the small screen sometime in the next couple of weeks on Paramount Comedy. We actually cringe watching it now, but it’s still exciting!
Below is another of our recent sketches. We’ve been firing out 3 a week, so keep checking www.youtube.com/manaliveblog to stay up-to-date. Like all sketch stuff, these are pretty hit-or-miss, but let us know what you think! Constructive criticism is always welcome, and even insults can be funny.
Catch you later.
L.
"Glad to finally put a face to the name…"
Good News!
Our vid, “Matt, Ben and Buscemi” has made it into the final shortlist for Paramount Comedy/The Smalls’ competition! This means we’ll be aired on Paramount Comedy and will be in with a chance of winning the award!
We’ve also just completed this entry for the Virgin Media Shorts competition. It’s called “Mr. Alice”, and is a little darker than our usual stuff…
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Good day to you.
It’s been a while since our last blog, but here’s what’s happening right now at man ALIVE; we’re bored! We’ve recently finished a couple of big jobs and are at the moment in a dry period of pursuing our next clients. These times are always great for the creative juices though, so we’ve also been working on competition entries.
Here’s our entry to the Paramount Comedy Smalls competition:
If you like it, leave a comment! Or you could leave one on our YOUTUBE CHANNEL or our MYSPACE.
We also completed a promo for our Pocket Shorts project, which you can view on our website’s NEWS PAGE.
That’s all for now peeps.
L.
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