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Posted in Blog on November 1, 2009

Interview – Indie Cinema Showcase

For those who are out of range, here’s the interview from Indie Cinema Showcase, a great new show on Orange TV broadcasting for Orange County. Visit VISIONTV.US » for showtimes and a web streaming simulcast. Many thanks to John Theisen, Tim Anderson and Gerald Godbout. Orange TV / Vision TV are available in Oran ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on October 15, 2009

Average Community at CMJ in NYC!

The feature length documentary Average Community (Directed by Fred Zara, Assistant Directed/Shot by Ali Imran Zaidi)  is premiering at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City! The Zara Brothers’ feature documentary Average Community will have its official World Premiere this month at the CMJ Film Festival. Adva ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on September 12, 2009

There’s No Such Thing as Hate – Part I ...

Why do we hate? I really do enjoy Bill Maher’s show, but when he goes on his tirades about religion, he’s so emotional and (ironically) dogmatic about it, it really is like watching [insert religious zealot here]. On the one hand he complains that religions take their scripture too literally, and on the oth ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on August 1, 2009

SoCal Film Festival

Two in the Bush has been accepted into the 5th annual Socal Film Festival! It’s in Huntington Beach, CA, an hour south of LA. Hmmmm, worth a visit. Keith David is going to be there. Love that guy. It takes a special kind of actor to be able to make you laugh and totally terrify you at the same time. Keith David i ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on June 6, 2009

Be the Change

How can we be expected to live up to a phrase uttered by a scrawny, starving little man who rendered useless the broad sword of an empire? He said to open your eyes and find what’s wrong. To know the change you want to see in the world, and to become it. To start with you. But then there’s the colossal, per ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on May 19, 2009

Magic and Miracles

I don’t believe in magic. I don’t care if you code-word it and call it a miracle. The reality of human existence is such that we’re subject to these systems, these symptoms of existence, these rules of entry. We live within them, by them, subject to them. They are as unavoidable as gravity and as obv ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on May 16, 2009

Indie Film Jam ‘09 – WINNER!

Update! We’ve won the Special Jury Prize! Congrats to all the cast and crew; the whole small band of criminals. A new laurel (coming soon) to post on the Two in the Bush» page! — We screened at the Florida Music Festival’s Indie Film Jam» last night, and it went great. Happy crowd, John Thiesen was ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on May 2, 2009

Albert Was Right

Airplane travel never ceases to amaze. Not so much when doing the traveling, but more when dropping someone off at the airport. It starts innocently enough – you do your good friendly deed and swing by, stuff the trunk, speed off to the nearest port and hug them goodbye as you’re shooed away by that securit ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on April 30, 2009

ZOMG It’s a New Site!

After much ado, to-do and hoodoo, FINALLY, a new site. A place to house the films, the screenplays, the musings, the whatevers. If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably the first (and only) one. Heart you for getting this far. Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on April 27, 2009

This isn’t the new site

The new site is coming soon. This isn’t it. 4/30 Update: Yes it is. Continue Reading

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