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HPJ Trilogy, ACT I Shooting Begins!!! - 11.24.09

There's always been something lucky about Friday the 13th. Oh sure, not if you're a Templar Knight, or a half-naked/fully inebbriated co-ed camp counselor, or a fully naked/nicely baked camper couple going out for your coitus badges - no, those people seem to end up on the Mr. Pointy side of something deadly... but for many others it's a day of quirky celebration. Since quirky is HPJ's middle name (or rather it would be, if velvet hot pink messiahs with oracles in their bottom bits had middle names per se), Friday the 13th seemed like a perfect day to start shooting "The Missionary Man"!

After a temporary setback involving a location falling thru, the sheer clusterfuckery of the American housing market, and a magic bean, I rounded up Nhia, Jesse, and Mikey and we ran out to Brown Summit, NC to check out a potential location recommended by our new movie magic BFF, Ms. Rebecca Clark. The location was bloody perfect and to celebrate we hauled Rondo's ass back to Greensboro and junked up on tacos and tasty goodness - except for Nhia who wanted to play hooky but couldn't... poor Money (several tacos were poured out for our missing esé).

For the rest of this Mad Ones adventure, check out their "Everything BUT a Blog"

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Max's Mad Films - 10.26.09

(By Frank O'Neill, from the October 09 issue of Hippo Magazine)

Groovy greetings and sinfully salacious salutations to all you loquacious, lustlorn Lotharios and jasmine-scented Jezebels who waft waves of aromatic allure in your wake, Hippo's Max Diablo (ye Great Devil) not only has an altered ego, he has an alter-ego by name of Jaysen Buterin. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, the 33-year-old Buterin came to Greensboro almost nine years ago.

And the romantic cherry on this bit of biographical cake is that he followed a girl to come here. Most people wince, expecting a heartbroken postscript when he shares this information with them, but instead he smiles and continues, "It all worked out well. We've been happily married for five years now." Buterin pays the bills with a day job at UNCG as a graphic artist and web designer, yet in his long-haired, goateed, nose-ringed, tattooed and black fingernail polished persona as Max Diablo, he is drummer for the Malamondos. And with Jennie Prince and J. Evan Wade, Buterin is also a co-founder and creative director of the independent film production company Mad Ones Films.

Read the whole article in the Mad Ones Films Press Section - available here!!!

Right now everything with MOF is trilogy, trilogy, trilogy - 09.22.09

MAD ONES FILMS have gone into pre-production on their latest film project, "The Gospel According to Booze, Bullets, & Hot Pink Jesus" and are currently, and blatantly, seeking dependable investors interested in bringing this thrill ride to life! Originally conceived and created as an award-ignored and action-packed cult crowd-pleaser for the 2007 Greensboro 48 Hour Film Festival ("Booze, Bullets, & Hot Pink Jesus"), everyone's favourite pink idol has been resurrected to star in a brand new holy trinity... of films!

This feature-length short film trilogy, "The Gospel According to Booze, Bullets, & Hot Pink Jesus" will be a life and death love story of revenge, lust, and faith. With this project Jaysen Buterin has formulated an ambitious vision that will consist of three different 20-25-minute tales that illustrate the meandering and madcap adventures of everyone's favourite Hot Pink Deity. Part Twilight Zone, part Tarantino, and all MAD ONES FILMS, the three tales that comprise this cinematic second coming blend dark comedy with even darker action - all with a supernatural twist and razor-sharp wit.

But we can't do it without you!!! Apparently casts and crews like to eat while they're on set for hours at a time, and for some odd reason location owners generally like some sort of compensation for their space/time. Despite the sinfully spiritual subject matter of our movie we haven't figured out how to turn water into wine and feed 30 people with a fish sandwich... so if you want to help, please donate anything you can via the Paypal Donation button below. Have a hot pink blessed day!

(For any questions, concerns, or obnoxiously large donations, please email Jaysen Buterin).

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