Please enjoy this video for “The Executive Look”, the electrifying anthem from the Blondes in the Jungle soundtrack!

link: http://www.blondesinthejungle.com/video.php#executive

And, remember SF premiere tomorroWW!!
L + W

Withoutabox.com has this program where they select films to get IMDB pages. And yeah, uh - CHECK IT OUT!

Best part was filling out the form, e.g.:

For some reason they haven’t added our guides and some other people yet. And we’re still figuring out how to credit the movie’s crucial soundtrack contributors.
But, yeah.

L

Seeing this, I just ran the Blondes script through Worlde. It looks like a Godard poster of Whitney’s!

(click to see fullsized)

Sweet,
L

Oh, wait. Here’s Jazz Christmas:

Last week W and I bought THE AGGRESSOR

for a shoot, planning to return it to Guitar Center afterwards. But fate, Andy and parapraxis have conspired to make us keep it.

It wasn’t too-too expensive but I am feeling the hurt a bit. So from now on, for just fifteen dollars, I will bring THE AGGRESSOR with me to your party or function! Yes, you can have a “phantasmagoric display of 40 sound-activated, moving beams of multicolor light” flashing in response to your music! Seriously, this light easily adds a $75 dollar value to your and your guests’ evenings.

Think about it,
L

Please send positive energy to Latitude: 15.7167, Longitude: -86.7833

Laters,
L + W

Something happens every time we make a movie. During early stages of post-production, we become convinced “man, we’ve really made an accessible piece now. This is so straightforward.” Then we finish, see what we’ve done and are like “oh, right. We’re WEIRD filmmakers.” All the mixed emotions of self-recognition follow.

Right now, we’re editing a piece of Blondes in the Jungle where a narrator takes the viewer through a book he’s read. The book has back information and asides and complicated setups. In the original edit of this sequence, the narrator talks the viewer through all of those.

I screened this edit with the actor last week and realized (duh) it is very hard to follow flashbacks within flashbacks - especially when they aren’t illustrated. At best you can visualize the narrative you’re hearing right now, not the frame story around it. At some point you are inevitably lost.

That night, I stayed up in bed for hours worrying and finally decided to suggest we pare down the sequence - just tell the most important story and not the framing stories around it. I made my case to Whit…

Then tonight I was reading Documents to Serve as an Outline, written by Raymond Roussel in 1932-33 (Why didn’t anyone tell me about this guy?!). It’s a truly internetty piece, where EVERY PARAGRAPH is a backstory to the paragraph before. Here’s a sample:

The autopsy furnished proof of a double poisoning.
An investigation of foodstuffs having led to naught, it became necessary to look elsewhere. Suspicion finally settled on the glue of a supply of stamps of touching origin.
Two years previously the American T… had attempted, on his vessel the B…, an audacious polar expedition.
When the anticipated time of his return had been largely exceeded, a public subscription drive to finance a search party was launched.
Notably a stamp was created which, showing theB… lost amid floes, accompanied the franking stamp on many an envelope.
More than one hand was forced by the ploy of sending out an unsolicited sheet of a hundred stamps - for which a canvasser soon appeared, to request either the return of the sheet or a contribution.

It’s impossible to read these stories and not get lost. Being lost is essential to both the pleasure of reading them and to their meaning (that Europe is so old that everything in it has a complicated, beautiful history.) And remembering back to writing the Blondes script, the maze-like texture of history’s provisional and incidental details was part what we wanted to convey. We wanted you to get lost.

Still - is being lost in a story as fun on the screen as it is in a book? After all, in a book you can reread, and with effort retrace your steps. But in films, you’re pressed endlessly forward (of course, if you’re watching at home, you can rewind, but that’s considered “cheating” in someway it isn’t with books). In other words, is being lost a rewarding experience only when you can find your way? Or is being lost in itself worthwhile? And even if so, is that right for this scene? in this movie? in this way? etc…

Um,
L

Merry Christmas from Lev, Whitney and the Jaguar God. Stay hot!

We’re siked to announce we’ve found our AMBER: model actress Ingrid, thus completing the BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE cast!

Big thanks to all the girls who auditioned, and to all of you who sent potential Ambers our way. We expected to have a hard time finding somebody right, and instead ended up having too many.

Amber alert,
Lev and Whitney

ATTN: The first round of auditions for AMBER in BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE takes place September 30th in Manhattan. Get in touch, girls!
L + W