Vlog #13: Some of the SGP Gang's Favorite Actors

alright guys, here's vlog twelve, as promised.

this one will have you guys all smiling by the end =]

[Austin, Nicholas, and Hilarie all sitting on a bench outside.]

Hilarie Burton: Hi guys! It’s the Southern Gothic team, bringing you another vlog! We’re just spending a beautiful Monday afternoon… [Austin puts up bunny ears behind Nick’s head] Bunny ears is so funny… We’re spending another beautiful afternoon…

Nicholas Gray: [to Austin] I knew you were doing that.

HB: …not at work. [sees both boys are leaning back] Lean back. You can’t… don’t bunny ear me either! Anyway, it’s Hilarie, Nick, and Austin, and we were shooting a little bit of a short film today, and wrapped for the day, and now we’re just waxing on who our favorite characters of all time in movies are. You know, the character we saw when we were younger and were, like, ‘Oh, I want to do this for a living. That’s so cool that somebody got to do that.’ So, Austin, do you want to go first?

Austin Nichols: My favorite character is Chance, the Gardener, from “Being There.” Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers. He later became known as Chauncey Gardiner, but he was Chance the Gardner. And Peter Sellers is one of my favorite actors, first of all, /comedian/writer/amazing man. But for some reason, Chauncey Gardiner was just incredibly memorable. His bowler, and his suitcase, and his jacket, and his clothes that were just an old man’s from like, the 20s and 30s. Just the idea that they’ve got a simple guy that’s not a simple-minded man, who’s disabled mentally, can have this incredible impact on society and the world and everyone around him.

HB: Was that something you were into when you were doing “John from Cincinnati”?

AN: [nods yes]

HB: Was that your muse?

AN: [nods yes]

HB: Oh, fabulous! How neat!

[both laugh]

NG: Shirley MacLaine is in that movie.

HB: Oh, my god! Dear Shirley, I heart you. Love, Hilarie.

NG: She has a really uncomfortable moment in the movie…

AN: The sex scene? When she’s dancing for him? She’s so good.

NG: Yeah. Okay, Hilarie.

HB: I have to go next?

AN: Yup.

HB: Alright, the movie I saw when I was, probably like, eight years old, is “Funny Girl” with Barbra Streisand. [Austin starts to laugh] You’re laughing! Why are you laughing already? What’s funny about that?

AN: Because it’s Barbra!

HB: One, I wanted to be Jewish forever.

NG: Still do.

HB: Turns out I can’t get away from this WASPy thing. [laughs] No, Barbra, in that movie, you know, she plays somebody that really, really just wants to perform. It’s the story of Fanny Brice, who’s this really famous radio actress. And I used to… We weren’t allowed to listen to modern radio. We weren’t allowed to watch a lot of TV or movies growing up, but every Sunday night NPR would play these old radio shows. So, I would listen to the real Fanny Brice, and then watch this movie about her life, which Barbra Streisand is just so dazzling in. And she has this song, before she makes it, that’s “I’m the greatest star. I am by far. But no one knows it.” And I just remember going to auditions as a kid and being like, ‘Yes! No one knows but, it’s about to go down.” So yeah, that’s still the soundtrack I listen to when I need to get pumped up.

AN: Nice.

NG: I thought you were gonna do your Jewish monologue.

HB: No! I did it last night. I won’t do it now. [laughs] Whatever. Who’s yours?

NG: Well, I don’t know, I really like Sarah Michelle Gellar in “Cruel Intentions.” [Hilarie and Austin burst out laughing] No, I like, I love Eliza Dolittle. [starts laughing]

HB: [laughing] You want to play her!

NG: You know, they recently did a production of “My Fair Lady” here, in Wilmington, and I really wanted to play Eliza Dolittle, but…

HB: [still laughing] …they wouldn’t let him!

NG: … they wouldn’t let me.

AN: Nuts!

HB: I was telling him today, we should do our own YouTube version of you as Eliza Dolittle.

NG: Just you wait.

HB: [starts singing] “Just you wait, Henry Higgins, just you wait…” Anyways… Those are some of our favorites, please, send us some of yours! Can’t wait! Bye guys.

Vlog #12: SOGOPRO BOOK CLUB

here is yet another vlog. =]

Cue the unicorn whore...

[Hilarie and Nicholas in restaurant]

Hilarie Burton: Hi guys! Hilarie, hanging out here with Nick. Kelly operating the camera. Wave Kelly. Can you wave? Can you put your hand in front of the camera? [Kelly waves hand in front of camera] Oh, look, there he is! [laughs] We are hanging out in the balcony of the Phoenix Café, having our weekend meeting, over French toast, and… [looks at Nick] what did you have?

Nicholas Gray: I had eggs benedict.

HB: Gorgeous. There is a flautist playing, which makes everything feel really surreal, and beautiful.

NG: And it’s an amazing word, flautist.

HB: Yeah, flautist. You feel like a unicorn is gonna come trolloping out here soon.

NB: Well, there’s like a dragon right there.

HB: There is a dragon. You can’t see the dragon, just us. Also have some wonderful artwork… [motions to painting behind them] I don’t know if you guys recognize big Edie from Grey Gardens. The quote on this picture: “I’m going to get naked in just a minute, so you better watch out!” God, it’s like they eavesdrop on me, you know! I’m gonna get naked in a second! Watch out! Um, Nick has a selection that he is going to share with us today for our book club.

NG: Yeah, chapter next in the SoGoPro book club. I actually brought a play today, which I know isn’t really a book. Some people don’t like to read plays, but I love to read plays!

HB: Plays are meant to be read out loud.

NG: I think so. And I do. When I’m alone I read all the characters.

HB: I would love to watch that.

NG: This is called ‘The Pillowman’ by Martin McDonagh. He’s a really awesome Irish playwright.  [speaking in an accent] Maybe we should speak in Irish accents or something.

HB: I’m not good at that.

NG: And this story, I saw it on Broadway with Billy Crudup and Jeff Goldblum which was amazing. It’s about this author named Katruian Katurian Katurian, which is pretty Nabokovian, I guess.

HB: Beautiful.

NG: And he writes these children’s stories about… that are just really grisly and gruesome, and they start coming to life! So this is one of the… this is the beginning of a little story that he’s reading. [reading from ‘The Pillowman’] “Once upon a time, in a land not so very far away, there lived a little girl. And although this little girl’s gentle parents hadn’t brought her up very religiously at all, she was quite, quite determined that she is the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

HB: Amen.

NG: “Which was somewhat strange for a little six-year-old. She would wear a beard, and would go around in sandals blessing stuff. She could be forever found walking amongst the poor and the homeless, consoling the drugs and the drug addicts, and generally consorting with the type of person her mommy and daddy didn’t seem suitable for a six-year-old to be consorting with. Each time they would drag her home from some unsavory sort, she would stamp, and scream, and throw her dollies about. And when her parents would counter that…”

HB:[also reading from text] “Jesus never stamped and screamed and threw his dollies about!”

NG: “She would reply, ‘That was the old Jesus, get it?’ Well one day, the little girl slipped away yet again, and for two horrifying days her parent’s could find neither hide nor hair of her. Until they received a distraught call from a priest they didn’t know saying, ‘You better come down to the church. You’re daughter’s here giving us a lot of shit. It was cute at first but now it’s getting really irritating.’ Well, her parents didn’t care about that at all. They were just relieved to know she was alive and well. And they sped downtown to pick her up. But in their haste, they careened into an oncoming meat truck, were beheaded, and died.’” So that’s just the beginning of that little tale, and…

HB: I hate it when the parents get beheaded!

NG: I know.

HB: They always have such good intentions!

NG: They do, they do. And that story continues, so you’ll have to get it to find out. I suggest you do.

HB: Go pick it up, guys.

NG: “The Pillowman”

HB: “The Pillowman.” Until next time, this has been SoGoPro’s book club.

Vlog #11: Poems in the Tree

Vlog eleven! Don't you love our SGP team?

Enjoy the answer to the last cliffhanger!

[shot overlooking a restaurant. Pan to Hilarie and Nick sitting at a table.]

Hilarie Burton: Oh, hello. Southern Gothic team hanging out here on a beautiful Sunday, having brunch. Now, we know we left you guys hanging with our big cliff hanger as to what the note in the tree said. Wasn’t that majestic, finding that?

Nicholas Gray: It was majestic. It was…

HB: Serendipitous?

NG: It was kismet, again.

HB: Again!

NG: Kismet just follows us all around.

HB: It’s so true. We just love magical things…

NG: And I thought you were cuckoo.

HB: [laughs] You didn’t believe there was really something there?

NG: No, I didn’t believe there was a note in the tree.

HB: There was totally a note in the tree. That’s true love, and so, we are now gonna reveal to you guys what was written down in the tree. And I just feel like these words are meant for you and me, Nick. [laughs] I’m going to read you the first quote. [reading from copy of note] It is “Sonnet 17. Pablo Neruda. ‘I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.  I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.’” Bam!

NG: Snaps on that one.

HB: Right?

NG: And this is the other one, because one was clearly not enough for these lovers. [reading from copy] “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along.” Rumi.”

HB: Rumi. [Both snap] There it is kids. Go put a note in a tree. You never know who will find it.

NG: I wish we had brought your beret for me today.

HB: [Hilarie makes French noise and laughs] We will see what we can find next time, on our treasure hunts!

Vlog #10: My First Project.

Hilarie and Nicholas and Austin are giving us vlogs daily and its awesome and they deserve their own site.

I also wanted to take the chance to thank those in the chat who have read the transcripts and those who have commented on here. I love knowing that I am actually helping people understand the SGP love! =]

So i now present you a vlog full of skinny dipping, drugs, and talking gator heads....

[Subtitle reads: “Our First Location: Nothing says ‘the South’ like a Cigarette Outlet!”]

Hilarie Burton: [from behind camera] Hi Nick.

Nicholas Gray: Hi! We’re here at this gas station.

HB: [reading side of building] Cigarette Outlet!

NG: [also reading sign] Cigarette Outlet. Snacks. Drinks. Sandwiches. Boiled Peanuts. [turns to gas station behind them] Do you think this looks abandoned? Or do you think this is uh…

HB: I mean, there’s tools still out, right? I don’t want to get too close in case there is a junkyard dog! [both laugh]

[Bad sound quality. Subtitle reads as Nick talks: “ ‘Remember the time you actually thought I was barking?’ Yes, Nick. I do.”]

HB: [laughing and turns the camera around to show her face] Nick and I had a meeting and where we went had a little tiny dog, and it had this awful little bark, and it sounded like a human. And I totally accused Nick of being the barker.

NG:[camera back on him] I did not bark.

[cut to Nick standing in front of a convenience store. Subtitle reads: “Dollar Holler: Boyfriend’s place of work”]

NG: Now we are at the convenience store… where boyfriend…

HB: [from behind camera] Boyfriend.

NG: I guess, boyfriend.

HB: Boyfriend!

NG: Where boyfriend works. It seems to be closed, but there are career opportunities available.

HB: Oh, certainly! Look…

NG: So this is where [towards Hilarie] you’re going to be.

HB: Okay. I’m playing boyfriend.

[cut to reflection of Hilarie in convenience store window]

HB: [waving] That’s my reflection, you guys. Check this out. [focuses to show inside of store] Radical. Welcome to… can’t see! [readjusts camera] Wrightsville Beach! That’s what it says! [walks camera around side of store] Nick, where’d you go? I think Nick’s hiding from me! [shows lake behind store] This is where we are going skinny dipping when we’re done shooting. We won’t film that! [laughs]

[cut to Nick walking through trees]

HB: [behind camera] We are doing a camera test to see how the light is back here.

NG: It’s about 12:22 on a Saturday.

HB: Okay. I feel like the light’s pretty good. It’s kind of behind you, so you are a little dark. I don’t know how to remedy that. Do you know? Because I didn’t go to film school. I just work in T.V.

[Hilarie’s phone rings. Subtitle reads: “It was Chad Michael Murray texting me. Perhaps we will trap him into doing our next short.”]

HB: My phone’s ringing.

NG: Well, I went to film school, but I didn’t pay attention in lighting.

[cut to Hilarie walking across a cement beam.]

NG: [from behind camera] Here goes Hilarie.

HB: So, this is a little bit of a screen test. You may very well see this in the movie. I hope I’m not running into, like, poison ivy.

NG: I don’t see…

HB: Should I be doing this, like, barefoot?

NG: I… no, no, no… I don’t think so.

[Subtitle reads: “Why do I have so much stuff in my pockets?”]

HB: What I need is like, ballet slippers, right?

NG: Yeah, I don’t want you barefoot on that.

HB: [reaching other side] Ta da!

NG: You did it.

HB: There are creatures back there.

NG: Creatures a’scurryin?

[cut to high shot of Nick looking at camera. Subtitle reads: “Dumb Camera”]

HB: [laughing from behind camera] It’s recording! It’s recording right now! You look so cute!

NG: [grabbing camera and now speaking from behind camera] I thought it was saying… Cuz I thought it was saying before… [Hilarie on beam comes into view] Oh, there it is!

HB: There it is! Alright, are you ready?

NG: Alright, dismount!

HB: [while bending up and down] Ready? One, two… [jumps and lands] There it is, kids!

NG: Ta da!

[cut to Hilarie laying on floor next to water. Subtitle reads: “Getting down and dirty.”

HB: Can you get this creek in the background?

NG: [behind camera] Well, I can tell you right now, one bad thing is that reflection right there, of the sun…

HB: Can you get it from a low angle, over there, so you are not so much, looking into the water?

NG: [changes angle] Yeah, I think that’s what we have to do.

HB: [gesturing to in front of her face] So if the gator head is, like, right here… and it’s talking…

NG: Yeah, I mean…

HB: Will that work?

[cut to Nick in front of lake, pointing across it. Subtitle reads: “We are not looking at the cranes right over there…”]

NG: …Because there is something a lot more awesome [points to ground] right here.

[zoom to animal bones laying in grass]

HB: [from behind camera] What in the hell is this, kids? Um… We don’t know what kind of animal this is, so if anybody is like, a scientist, it would be really awesome. But, here’s the joint…

[cut to different view of animal bones]

HB: [from behind camera] Dear god, please bless this creature that is now gone. I’m sure it was very beautiful, at some point. We miss it dearly, and wish it could be in our movie.

NG: [off camera] Amen.

[cut to Hilarie standing in front of a tree]

HB: So Nick and I were just looking at this tree, and we found something in its knot, here. [reaches into knot and grabs white package] And it’s wrapped up…

NG: [from behind camera] This is Boo Radley.

HB: [unwrapping package] Dude! I always look in knots! I don’t know if it’s a note, or if it is drugs. Oh my god, if these are drugs… Hold on… Please don’t let it be drugs.

NG: It’s a note!

HB: [gasps] It’s a note! [begins to unfold it]