Movies by elmerlang

[elmerlang]

@Krud - Once again, I issued you a challenge. Are you yella?

MY FILMS v. your FILMS

ELMER v. krud

All your pretensions to being a voice of authority, wisdom or intelligence, I challenge. Your hypocrisy and bullying I stand up to.

Are you chicken like other bullies or are you gonna back up your mouth?

It's simple. Are you a fella or are you yella? Are you a man or are you a coward?

I'm bettin' you don't have any movies. I'm bettin' you're not creative. Look at your posts here. Not a single lick of creativity to your insults, just ham-fisted stringing together of old bores that have been around since Cain and Abel went at it.

Put up or shut up.

ELMER v krud

Are you a fella or are you yella?
Are you a fella or are you yella?

(I think that'd be a good chorus to a spoken word song, what you think, krud?)

[elmerlang]

Thanks for watching, guys, and thanks for the tips, Huey!

[elmerlang]

H2E PRODUCTIONS
presents

a film by
ELMER LANG

THE MAGNIFICENT LOOMIS - This is my first film. 2001. I came out of poetry looking for a poet's way to use film.
The film has its faults but all the raw clumsiness and cinematic frumping around
can't stop me from thinking this is one of my best stories.




H2E Productions - "Better Than Water"
http://elmerlang.com - 70+ films strong

[AJUK]

Ah yes, Fred Rabbeth. One of the best production guys out there...

That was pretty good. I liked the simple idea, very Edgar Wright, reminded me of the finger gunfight from 'spaced'

[elmerlang]

It's funny how these trolls follow everything you say, replying, spitting invective, till you issue a challenge. Your films v theirs. Then they go visually deaf. Bullies gone wobbly.

Bullies gone wobbly.

They got no films, they got no creativity, they got no talent, they got no cojones.

Bullies gone wobbly.

CHOPPERS @ NOON is directed at a particular aspect of that malaise, the tired old men on the internet syndrome. It's fresh, funny and dead on accurate. I hope you enjoy it.

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I've amalgamated some threads.

elmer, please post new films/movies/clips into this thread, and not a new one.

Also, chill some, it's getting a tad old with all the name-calling, etc. and is against our rule #5 (and #1 should be applied also!):
Some "guidelines" for posting...


It really is becoming a drag!

[Jim E]

It's funny how these trolls follow everything you say, replying, spitting invective, till you issue a challenge. Your films v theirs. Then they go visually deaf. Bullies gone wobbly.

Bullies gone wobbly.

They got no films, they got no creativity, they got no talent, they got no cojones.

Bullies gone wobbly.

CHOPPERS @ NOON is directed at a particular aspect of that malaise, the tired old men on the internet syndrome. It's fresh, funny and dead on accurate. I hope you enjoy it.

Elmerlang, against my better judgement, I'm responding to your postings here one last time, to confirm to you what you already know, and that is that you are wasting your time trying to goad me. And I'm sure I can speak for Palmer as well, and any other members here with whom you have a problem.

This device of issuing a challenge to someone who you are absolutely sure will never respond because they have already dismissed you, is so well-known that it's no longer effective. It no longer has the hoped-for effect on the other members of a group, for whose benefit it is employed. Still, no doubt you're resorting to it in the hope that you just might manage to persuade other forum members that you have made a point in your own favour and scored a win over your opponent merely by pointing out the obvious, which is that I continue to deliberately ignore your "challenge". Of course, the fact is, I am actually deliberately ignoring you, personally. And clearly Palmer is, too, and for the same reasons that I am.

Surely you must know how ridiculous you look, by expecting me to react to your nonsense by accepting your "challenge". You must know that it is simply not going to happen. Don't you know that, to me, you are simply not worth the time? It hasn't escaped your notice that I've been ignoring you for some time now, but you don't seem to understand the reason why...

Clearly, you still need convincing, so do read this carefully: The reason that I have deliberately ignored you is that you are not important enough for me to give attention to. You are not a person who elicits respect or favourable opinion from me, (and, I strongly suspect, other people whom you may encounter). To put it more simply, you don't rate, as far as I'm concerned.

So, read this slowly: I am not going to present a film here to be judged against one of yours. It is not going to happen. The reason for this is as I've just explained to you. Maybe you need to read it again. Take your time.

What willl be expected of you now, is that you post a reply to this post, declaring that you have proven some point which apparently is of extreme importance to you. In any case, whatever you write in response is a matter of supernatural indifference to me.

My only concern is to record, for the benefit of other forum members, what is really the case here, as opposed to your "interpretation" of it.

Please be assured that any further communication from you to me will remain unread.

[elmerlang]

I've amalgamated some threads.

elmer, please post new films/movies/clips into this thread, and not a new one.

Also, chill some, it's getting a tad old with all the name-calling, etc. and is against our rule #5 (and #1 should be applied also!):
Some "guidelines" for posting...


It really is becoming a drag!

Mal--I understand how that particular thread "is becoming a drag" but I believe it is wrong to amalgamate all my threads into one. In my opinion you should have stopped or even deleted that thread. My other threads, on which there are no trolls, should not be penalized because trolls keep posting on that one thread and I feel I must defend myself. None of my other threads are so infected.

To penalize me because I'm defending myself I believe is wrong. When you don't penalize them for calling me names or squatting on my thread blabbing about irrelevant things just to prove they can squat, etc, you are siding with the bullies.

I ask you to be fair and not penalize me by amalgamating my threads.

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No time to read all the threads - this was just a simple way for me to show everyone what a fat, ugly bully I really am.

[CycleWriter]

I ask you to be fair and not penalize me by amalgamating my threads.

This is not a democracy.

[elmerlang]

@CycleWriter - You're funny. Fairness and justice mean nothing to you? So I take it the quote at the bottom of your post (see below) is not something you believe or live by, it's just something to impress the girls.

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. --Albert Einstein"

ps it makes a lovely screenshot, but then I have so many already.

[Anton Sugar]

I'm a complete outsider to this discussion, but just in terms of debate/argument: Elmer, do you (and if so, why) feel that someone has to have comparable and/or better films/work than you, before they can criticize you?

[elmerlang]

I'm a complete outsider to this discussion, but just in terms of debate/argument: Elmer, do you (and if so, why) feel that someone has to have comparable and/or better films/work than you, before they can criticize you?

No, sir. But when those who call me names and unfairly criticize my films don't create anything, just attempt to destroy, it's something to note. Of all those blasting me, only one has posted a film on this site, and that one pretty miserable as even the auteur acknowledges. I challenged those who defamed me to show they can do better, that seemed reasonable, but of course none took up the challenge. If you look at all my other threads you will see I have been courteous to those who courteously posted criticisms.

Now, just in terms of fairness/justice, why not pose a probing question to those who have taunted and maligned me, or is your interest solely in discrediting me?

[Palmer S.]

I am actually deliberately ignoring you, personally. And clearly Palmer is, too, and for the same reasons that I am.

Indeed.

[mark84j]

Everybody, just stop the nut flexing.

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Has anyone on here converted their diesel car or truck to biodiesel or SVO/WVO?

[Erik Bien]

Has anyone on here converted their diesel car or truck to biodiesel or SVO/WVO?

No, but I'm on the Diesel Benz Digest e-mail list where it's an oft-discussed topic.

[Dr. Benway]

There are some old Mercs around here - in Thailand - and with the abundance of fried foods, bananas, pork, chicken, vegetarian tempeh and corn snacks - there is no shortage of used cooking oil. I'd be interested in owning an old diesel Merc for that reason alone.

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Apparently there's not only OLD Mercs that are suitable nowadays.

The pioneers, Elsbett in Germany make a one-tank system they claim fits MANY cars & two-tank systems that work on the ones the 1-Tank doesn't.

I'm thinking about converting a C250D myself, 1994 vintage.

[Dr. Benway]

I'm thinking about converting a C250D myself, 1994 vintage.

That'd be awesome for attending premieres. I also really the whole idea of a retro-fitted dune buggy running a diesel engine on cooking oil - I just like rawness of dune buggies; rollbars, etc. They are a little wacky.

[AJUK]

Elmer, you want to see films that others have made to prove which is 'better' but surely that's all down to the personal tastes and interests of each viewer?
Some might consider a film to be good because it has a good story, others because it has a high level of image quality, others because it is thought provoking.
There is no way to agree on which film would be best. Unless through some public vote, which on a technical forum like this, would most likely result in the prettiest film coming out on top.
Personally, I prefer well shot films that are intelligent. So a 'blog' style film like yours, where it is mostly tripod shots using available light and ungraded, with muted sound, will turn me off before I get more than a few seconds in.
That said, I appreciate what you seem to be trying to say about life and art in your video projects, I just wish you'd make the visuals match the vocal content.

[elmerlang]

... a 'blog' style film like yours, where it is mostly tripod shots using available light and ungraded, with muted sound, will turn me off before I get more than a few seconds in.

I believe your above definition of my style wrong and misleading to others. Except for my first film, recently posted, I often appear less than 50% of the time or not at all. Your label reminds me of opera buffs pooh-poohing blues or rock n roll and ignores the use of archival footage, public domain footage, pictures, music etc--not to forget my own charismatic to camera pose--that provide complex visual entertainment.

If you cannot appreciate those elements of a new genre in film so be it, but I am a poet and doing what I as a poet think appropriate.

A more accurate definition would be this description from a review: "...a multi-dimensional mix of hi/lo kultur, eclectic cutups of music and media, with voiceover and to camera tapings, spinning tales comic or chilling; of family and ancestors, of weird encounters on The Lower East Side, and the odd excursion into history/science."

ps I take it you too don't have a film illustrate your preferences.

[Dr. Benway]

Has anyone on here converted their diesel car or truck to biodiesel or SVO/WVO?

No, but I have been taking ikebana (生け花?, "arranged flower") classes in the nearby town. In this mad world it brings me peace. And, the middle-aged Japanese women spoil me.

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That's cool. Any chance of an ikebana-Hv20 cam?

[elmerlang]

A health spot on tv interviewed a psychologist who specialized in teenage rebellion, frustration, signs of explosion. His name: Dr. Simmering. On signs of explosion: Dr. Simmering. And don't that make your blood boil.