20140306
20140305
Channel Plex: Fandom
Mayganne shrugged. "I know, it sounds silly. But when I stream the latest episode, and I know that there are thousands of other people like me watching it too... And then I check the sites, and I check in on tumblr, and everyone is posting and reacting and speculating and making gifs... And this thing, this thing that's fake and made up and not really real, but it makes me feel so much, and makes all these other people feel so much... And it's like it matters, like we all matter. We're all in it together and we all matter."
Goner smiled. "That's not silly at all. That's probably the same reason I want to join the army."
Mayganne stopped herself from making a comment along the lines of, "Yeah, but with less invading and killing." It was an argument they had had before, and they would have it again before the end of high school. He was really listening to her though, and being sweet, and he didn't deserve it. They were both lost and both searching.
Instead, in that moment, feeling close to him and welcomed, she chose to ask the question that had always gone unspoken.
"Goner... Do you ever think it's strange that we can't remember how we met?"
Goner smiled. "That's not silly at all. That's probably the same reason I want to join the army."
Mayganne stopped herself from making a comment along the lines of, "Yeah, but with less invading and killing." It was an argument they had had before, and they would have it again before the end of high school. He was really listening to her though, and being sweet, and he didn't deserve it. They were both lost and both searching.
Instead, in that moment, feeling close to him and welcomed, she chose to ask the question that had always gone unspoken.
"Goner... Do you ever think it's strange that we can't remember how we met?"
Channel Plex: Tapestries
Sandrine Riveta: "It was just... It was a really special
time. We would do a show every second Saturday, and we'd pick the
setting and characters for the next show while we were striking the
latest one. So we were just constantly in this creative fugue, each show
like the cresting of a wave, then building momentum to the next. For
the two weeks between the shows we would work out our characters, their
histories, the performance of them. Then they'd all meet on stage on the
night of the show. So it was improv but with some design to it. Not so
much a goal, but a pathway, maybe?"
Josiah Stone: "We'd use this one idea that Max got from a comic he loved, 'The Invisibles'. Each one of the five characters would be sortof informed or built around one of the elements. And their role in the play would represent that. Nothing obviously symbolic, but a way to control the interplay a bit when we were on stage..."
Milton Reddings: "To me it felt like we were involved in this weird ongoing Live Action Roleplaying game."
Sandrine Riveta: "But the best was the show. Spending the afternoon setting up the basement of the church, the table for ticket sales, putting on a pot of coffee. Running through the lighting cues. Stretching."
Josiah Stone: "Then we'd head backstage and wait for the sound of the people starting to arrive. The murmur, the scraping of chairs..."
Sandrine Riveta: "I love that sound."
Josiah Stone: "We'd use this one idea that Max got from a comic he loved, 'The Invisibles'. Each one of the five characters would be sortof informed or built around one of the elements. And their role in the play would represent that. Nothing obviously symbolic, but a way to control the interplay a bit when we were on stage..."
Milton Reddings: "To me it felt like we were involved in this weird ongoing Live Action Roleplaying game."
Sandrine Riveta: "But the best was the show. Spending the afternoon setting up the basement of the church, the table for ticket sales, putting on a pot of coffee. Running through the lighting cues. Stretching."
Josiah Stone: "Then we'd head backstage and wait for the sound of the people starting to arrive. The murmur, the scraping of chairs..."
Sandrine Riveta: "I love that sound."
20140304
Channel Plex: Off Book
Max dropped the Heaven's Gate Fiasco script onto the table. He wasn't sure if this was a good play to be involved in or not. He leaned back in his chair, fished out a smoke from the pack and threw the pack onto the table. He had been a part the local community theater for several years now; each play was a challenge for him, but this one... This one seemed off.
"What's sup," Darius said as he entered the room.
"Nothing worth noting at the moment," Max replied after taking a long drag of the smoke.
"You know you aren't supposed to be smoking in here," Darius warned. He was over at the vending machine and putting quarters into the slot. "If 'The Professor' catches you there will be hell to pay."
Max chuckled.
"Something funny?" Darius inquired.
"Hell toupee," Max repeated the words.
Darius began to chuckle as well, since the wig on the Professor's head didn't sit quite right. He grabbed the chocolate bar and sat down on the couch after taking his beat up script from his jacket. "You off book?"
Max let the smoke drift from his mouth before answering. "Yeah."
"What's sup," Darius said as he entered the room.
"Nothing worth noting at the moment," Max replied after taking a long drag of the smoke.
"You know you aren't supposed to be smoking in here," Darius warned. He was over at the vending machine and putting quarters into the slot. "If 'The Professor' catches you there will be hell to pay."
Max chuckled.
"Something funny?" Darius inquired.
"Hell toupee," Max repeated the words.
Darius began to chuckle as well, since the wig on the Professor's head didn't sit quite right. He grabbed the chocolate bar and sat down on the couch after taking his beat up script from his jacket. "You off book?"
Max let the smoke drift from his mouth before answering. "Yeah."
Channel Plex: Under the Weather
Q: So when the Chakra Secrum Project disbanded, why
did you three decide to stick together?
Frank: I guess old habits. We had played together for so long that I guess we were afraid to branch out.
Dexter: When we lost our lead singer it was like The Doors going on without Jim Morrison.
Frank: He was a crazy cat, that Jim.
Q: So you guys knew Jim?
Dexter: Of course. Back in the day at the Zombie-A-Go-Go's we performed before them.
Frank: Chakra Secrum Project was Simon's baby. We didn't feel it was right to go on... The Doors did, but look where that got them - a crappy project called American Prayer.
Frank: I guess old habits. We had played together for so long that I guess we were afraid to branch out.
Dexter: When we lost our lead singer it was like The Doors going on without Jim Morrison.
Frank: He was a crazy cat, that Jim.
Q: So you guys knew Jim?
Dexter: Of course. Back in the day at the Zombie-A-Go-Go's we performed before them.
Frank: Chakra Secrum Project was Simon's baby. We didn't feel it was right to go on... The Doors did, but look where that got them - a crappy project called American Prayer.
20140303
Channel Plex: The Method
(the following clip is an excerpt from the Behind the
Scenes documentary to be included on the upcoming digital release of The
Passion of the Cube 2: Max Cube Must Die. Simon responds to a question
on the press tour about being the second actor to play the titular
hero…)
"Well, I did a lot of the obvious things to prepare for the role… Spent some time on the firing range, got some instruction from a guy who’s pretty much a real life version of the character Frank. And I took some martial arts classes from another really great guy named Dave Wright. I meditated, and read a lot about the Tarot and other occult ideas. Did a few pagan rituals, which were very… moving, really. I even had lessons in piloting a helicopter – I figured Max would know how to do that, even though it doesn’t happen in either movie…
"The really neat stuff though, the stuff that got me most in touch with what I think Max was about… It was when we started filming, and, well I had heard all the rumours about Suki as a director, that she tried strange stuff with her casts, to get these really interesting performances out of them – like Kiera had told me that on Passion 1, Suki had her and Jason volunteer on a help line during pre-production… So Suki gave me a cell phone and would have people call me on it at, like, well any time, at all these weird times, sometimes even during shooting… I think some of them were PAs, and some were even buddies of hers… And they would have these assignments for me, these little sorta missions… Once I had to leave set and go to a local café to pick up an envelope and deliver it to a hot dog vendor – I have no idea if he was in on it or not. And there would be a lot of late night calls, one AM, three AM. So I’m routinely getting out of bed – actually by that point I was sleeping on the couch in my clothes, like the clothes from wardrobe… So yeah, it got intense… Really, say like in the scene in the LEGACY parking garage, when Max trips and starts to cry and he’s fumbling to try and reload his guns… Well, there wasn’t a lot of acting happening there… So hopefully that all comes across in the film, and everyone enjoys it."
"Well, I did a lot of the obvious things to prepare for the role… Spent some time on the firing range, got some instruction from a guy who’s pretty much a real life version of the character Frank. And I took some martial arts classes from another really great guy named Dave Wright. I meditated, and read a lot about the Tarot and other occult ideas. Did a few pagan rituals, which were very… moving, really. I even had lessons in piloting a helicopter – I figured Max would know how to do that, even though it doesn’t happen in either movie…
"The really neat stuff though, the stuff that got me most in touch with what I think Max was about… It was when we started filming, and, well I had heard all the rumours about Suki as a director, that she tried strange stuff with her casts, to get these really interesting performances out of them – like Kiera had told me that on Passion 1, Suki had her and Jason volunteer on a help line during pre-production… So Suki gave me a cell phone and would have people call me on it at, like, well any time, at all these weird times, sometimes even during shooting… I think some of them were PAs, and some were even buddies of hers… And they would have these assignments for me, these little sorta missions… Once I had to leave set and go to a local café to pick up an envelope and deliver it to a hot dog vendor – I have no idea if he was in on it or not. And there would be a lot of late night calls, one AM, three AM. So I’m routinely getting out of bed – actually by that point I was sleeping on the couch in my clothes, like the clothes from wardrobe… So yeah, it got intense… Really, say like in the scene in the LEGACY parking garage, when Max trips and starts to cry and he’s fumbling to try and reload his guns… Well, there wasn’t a lot of acting happening there… So hopefully that all comes across in the film, and everyone enjoys it."
Channel Plex: Saturday Night Plex
The Skit Is The Thing
A Metaplex Skit
Cast of Characters:
Max Cube
Max Cube VII
Max Cube VIII
Max Cube Cyborg
Kelly's Diner, Max Cube is sitting at a booth with laptop open and his fingers dancing across the keyboard. He takes a moment to sip a coffee and light up a cigarette. VII enters through the door to the left of the stage.
VII: Hello Max.
Max: Do I know you? [Max reaches for his signature weapons]
VII: Don't fret, I am an echo of your future self.
Max: Hmmm.
VII: I am here to tell you not to type the words "forever", "data" and "autumn rain".
Max: Huh?
VII: I am here to tell you not to type the...
VIII enters from center stage.
VIII: Stop VII. I'm here to tell you not to stop Max from typing.
VII: What?
Max: Huh?
VIII: I am from the alternate future where Max didn't add "forever", "data" and "autumn rain" in his one act play.
Max: But, why?
Cyborg enters from right door.
Cyborg: Hold On Fellows!
Max: Whoa now.
VII: Us?
VIII: Alternate reality us?
Cyborg: I'm here to tell you that this skit is now over.
The End.
A Metaplex Skit
Cast of Characters:
Max Cube
Max Cube VII
Max Cube VIII
Max Cube Cyborg
Kelly's Diner, Max Cube is sitting at a booth with laptop open and his fingers dancing across the keyboard. He takes a moment to sip a coffee and light up a cigarette. VII enters through the door to the left of the stage.
VII: Hello Max.
Max: Do I know you? [Max reaches for his signature weapons]
VII: Don't fret, I am an echo of your future self.
Max: Hmmm.
VII: I am here to tell you not to type the words "forever", "data" and "autumn rain".
Max: Huh?
VII: I am here to tell you not to type the...
VIII enters from center stage.
VIII: Stop VII. I'm here to tell you not to stop Max from typing.
VII: What?
Max: Huh?
VIII: I am from the alternate future where Max didn't add "forever", "data" and "autumn rain" in his one act play.
Max: But, why?
Cyborg enters from right door.
Cyborg: Hold On Fellows!
Max: Whoa now.
VII: Us?
VIII: Alternate reality us?
Cyborg: I'm here to tell you that this skit is now over.
The End.
20140302
Channel Plex: Late Night With...
*click*
Announcer: - and now heeeeere's the hero of the hour: Max!
[applause sign lights up] crowd goes wild, hooting and hollering, chanting: Maxie! Maxie! Maxie!
Max enters through the curtain in the center.
He acknowledges the band who are playing his theme song - 3AM Eternal - nodding to Frank, the band leader, then does the double gun finger over to the podium where his wing man is standing.
MAX: Woot!
FRANK: WOOT
Announcer: WHUT.
MAX to Announcer: That's Woot...
Crowd laughs...
*click*
Announcer: - and now heeeeere's the hero of the hour: Max!
[applause sign lights up] crowd goes wild, hooting and hollering, chanting: Maxie! Maxie! Maxie!
Max enters through the curtain in the center.
He acknowledges the band who are playing his theme song - 3AM Eternal - nodding to Frank, the band leader, then does the double gun finger over to the podium where his wing man is standing.
MAX: Woot!
FRANK: WOOT
Announcer: WHUT.
MAX to Announcer: That's Woot...
Crowd laughs...
*click*
Channel Plex: Medium vs Message - the Love Affair
"There's a real hunger for it
right now, all the gossip and the trash. This real almost joyful
reveling in the misery of their lives...."
"Yeah," Dexter agreed with Frank. "Maybe it's some sort of justice thing?"
Frank sipped his coffee, shifted on the steps of the trailer. Faint music could be heard from inside, someone singing along. "How do you mean?"
Dexter scanned the floodlit parking lot, the herd of the other trailers. Angst's, Pity's, Aqua's. "Like, there's not a lot of accountability these days, the bad guys get away with all the lying and greed and abuses of power... So maybe we're hungry to see people get what we think they deserve..."
"So the celebrities are the symbolic martyrs for our jealous resentment of the powerful?"
Dexter checked the time on his cell. "Well, we build them and then we tear them down. But instead of going after the real villains, the ones with real power, we attack these constructs. It's almost a religious sacrifice-of-gods-thing."
Frank ground out his cigarette. It was almost time to get her on set. "You think the kings and companies have the real power? That, in the final tally, an army is more mighty than a book? Who wins in the fight between MacDonald's and the Bible? The Senate or The Koran? Microsoft or The Art of War?"
Dexter smirked. "You're just trying to validate the importance of art because you work security for an up-and-coming film star."
Frank laughed and knocked on the trailer door. "Ms. Fujimoria? It's time."
"Yeah," Dexter agreed with Frank. "Maybe it's some sort of justice thing?"
Frank sipped his coffee, shifted on the steps of the trailer. Faint music could be heard from inside, someone singing along. "How do you mean?"
Dexter scanned the floodlit parking lot, the herd of the other trailers. Angst's, Pity's, Aqua's. "Like, there's not a lot of accountability these days, the bad guys get away with all the lying and greed and abuses of power... So maybe we're hungry to see people get what we think they deserve..."
"So the celebrities are the symbolic martyrs for our jealous resentment of the powerful?"
Dexter checked the time on his cell. "Well, we build them and then we tear them down. But instead of going after the real villains, the ones with real power, we attack these constructs. It's almost a religious sacrifice-of-gods-thing."
Frank ground out his cigarette. It was almost time to get her on set. "You think the kings and companies have the real power? That, in the final tally, an army is more mighty than a book? Who wins in the fight between MacDonald's and the Bible? The Senate or The Koran? Microsoft or The Art of War?"
Dexter smirked. "You're just trying to validate the importance of art because you work security for an up-and-coming film star."
Frank laughed and knocked on the trailer door. "Ms. Fujimoria? It's time."
Channel Plex: Lunchtime in the Cafeteria Part Three
Goner swirled the fry in the
gravy, slow brown waves. Mayganne kept reading. Angie scrolled through
the playlist, picked a track, adjusted the earphones. Goner ate the fry.
He couldn't wait anymore.
"So how is it?" he asked Mayganne. Angie turned up the volume. Mayganne looked up from the comic book.
"You will not believe what happens." Goner grinned. He felt great.
"So how is it?" he asked Mayganne. Angie turned up the volume. Mayganne looked up from the comic book.
"You will not believe what happens." Goner grinned. He felt great.
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