Atomic Proving Ground

I'm starting post-production work for my documentary "The Atomic Proving Ground." Interviews ring true and archival footage is staggering in its depiction of careless treatment lives.

My dedication of this film is to the soldiers and Native Americans who suffered from the Atomic Bomb Testing- such needless pain and affliction. The least I can do is bring their past to the forefront, I have only respect and admiration for the way they (for the most part) silently accepted their fate- yet it is important for America to realize their plight. If nothing else, I want the 1988 Congressional statement concerning Nuclear Weapons Testing burned into the American conscious:

“The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.”

Scolding

Last year I was rummaging about in my great uncle's junk yard when I ran into the devil. I could tell he was Satan by his faux velvet hooves and blue bone collar.
When I asked what business he had in a a shed of old toilet seats and 3-legged dogs he flicked his nipple piercing and elated the fact that where summoned he arrives. I quickly ran to my grandmother's house next door to tell the news. I found my 11 year old cousin sucking on one of my grandfather's dirty socks and asked if he'd want to see Satan.
He bounded out the door and before I could say what's what he saw a pair of gleaming eyes staring through a low-lying bush. He began screaming and crying running home stepping on bullfrogs in the process. At home I got yelled at for showing my cousin the devil. I really did get scolded for that- not a joke. Just ask his mother who has to clean his soiled sheets weekly.

Frosting

I heard a story told to my mom by a man who works at her prison. He was walking across the compound when apparently he saw an inmate swinging a sweaty brown tube sock in the air before pounding it into the cement. When the man asked the inmate what he was doing he squinted in the sun and casually said, "making frosting."
Just 3 days previous to this incident this man celebrated his 36th birthday and was presented with a cake the inmates had made from scratch themselves. Such toil and labor obligated him to have a piece, yet after taking a good look at that stenchy tube sock and the naked, hobbit-like foot next to it he vowed never again to partake in inmate-crafted confectionaries.

Painter's Mask

My Grandfather recently told my mother he's never trusted his brother. When she asked why he replied, "He breathed in too many fumes when he worked in that autobody shop. He said masks were for women."

My mom who lived with her uncle Bart when she was 18 still harbors animosity because he never let her paint. "He would say, mask? What mask! And make me drive all over LA to deliver cars. When I told him I was a bad driver he said, it's ok- we can take out the dents."

As they were talking Bart mysteriously walked through the front door. He lives in the next state over and hasn't visited in the past 7 years so his unexpected visit was a bit unnerving. He did some Elvis impressions for the camera and talked about his days of playing taut stringed guitars in cantinas in the 50s.

Game Show Ideas

Alright so I get full rights if any of these ever comes to be:

1. "Are you Hip?"
A Gameshow where senior citizens compete under Jeopardy-like conditions to answer pop culter questions like "Who is Zac Effron?" and "Do you haz a Cheezeburger?" to find out if they're hip or just need hip-replacement surgery.

2. "Animal Instinct"
Here we'll have young girls from Colleges across the nation compete one on one answering trivia questions about animals. The draw is the girls have to wear furry outfits, and stand on little pedestals over an arena of mud. And if they get too many questions wrong the winner can push (and is encouraged to wrestle) the looser in said mud.

3. "Good Taste"
This will be a celebrity game show where guests appear to discover if they are truly high class. They'll be blindfolded and sat at a table where placed before them will be meals and drinks. One meal will be extremely expensive, the other extremely cheap. One drink will be expensive wine, the other cheap etc etc. So if the celebrity is able to tell which is which blindfolded they can move to the next step where they are confronted with two different pieces of jewelry- one fake on real. I think you get the point. Great way to find out who really knows their stuff.

New Web Site

Woah there filmys, I've got a nice new website to help me get this filming career of the ground. I call it mischacantu.webs.com Yes I do believe that is appropriate. It has everything you need to know about me to hire from my oil painting skillz to my no-budget student film endeavors. Quite nice quite nice. So hopefully I can get a gig sometime soon eh? Yes, perhaps. ^_^