Some samples from Alan Spearman’s tweets from Haiti:

diplomats check out the crumbled national palace as naked women give themselves bucket baths and dogs eat trash across the street. queasy.
about 10 hours ago from OpenBeak

they have to improvise a lot here. three eagle scouts are on the team. crile is definitely corporal radar o’reilly. temp. just above hell.
about 15 hours ago from OpenBeak

way hot in O.R. team jokes they could maintain sterilization by operating in the nude. pulling on this man’s junk. ouch! joking 2 maintain.
about 15 hours ago from OpenBeak

p.s. thanks “sunny” for the cipro hookup. god knows what we inhaled today.
8:20 PM Feb 10th from OpenBeak

I love Snowglobe. They make smart, sad, funny, catchy music and they’re great guys to boot. Making a music video for a band that I’m really into was one of the things that made making movies seem like a good idea when I first started trying to make movies.

We’ve been working on the release of $5 Cover Seattle – it’s going to be great. It’s directed by Lynn Shelton, whose Humpdaywas the talk of Sundance 2009 (and is funny and subtle and a great film to watch in a crowd). The bands are awesome. A lot of talented filmmakers contributed. They’re doing a preview of selected scenes at Sundance 2010 and it has the same release date as Savage County, which is to say – I have no idea when it comes out.

Norman Buckley was the professor who had the biggest impact on me as a filmmaker. I had him for one semester at UCLA (he was filling in for Nancy Richardson, another great editor and UCLA prof), but he’s definitely for me the WWJD of the editing room…

I first met Jason Rzepka when he worked at mtvU and was helping spread the word about HowDoISayThis? – my mtvU digital incubator project. Now, he’s VP of public affairs at MTV – in New York and a genuine MTV mucky-muck… All of which adds up to – he’s a colleague, not someone I know that well. But, I follow him on Twitter. In honor of his “Jesus Birthday” – he’s been tweeting his autobiography. It’s a simple idea, but interesting and revealing and a …

They got it almost right. The headline reads “Alums Harris and Wolske inflict killer rednecks on the birthplace of the king.” (For clarity: the king of rock n’ roll, not pop). But, there’s a lot more team spirit than they realized. There are actually 5 UCLA alums involved in the project in critical roles. Daniel Alvarado wrote the script with me (UCLA MFA Screenwriting). Corey Wish is one of our three producers (Justin Wolse and Erin Hagee the other two), and Corey was the …

This is all watchable at the official $5 Cover site – but I’m posting it here as we wind-down on the official launch and TV airings of $5 Cover.
This was an incredibly exciting project to be a part of, and has been a continuation of a weird intersection of my life and Memphis, Tennessee that started with my first-ever short film “The Knocking Box” playing at Indie Memphis, continued with $5 Cover, got deeper when “Address to Silas on the Occasion of the Retreat at Los Angeles County” won best …

From Warrior Queen (a UCLA thesis film I produced – filmed in Ghana, Africa) Hezekiah Lewis (director), the other two producers, Heather and Yule and two real superheroes, Hiro and Robin.

This came in an always-welcome email from Ho Keen Fi:
My feet is my only carriage
But I have to push on thru
-Bob Marley, “No Woman No Cry”
a dedication to all immigrants worldwide…legal or otherwise, one time…I hope the Fugees would not sue me from sampling this one line!
the past months were monsterous and I kept listening to this one song of late great prophet, Bob Marley over and over again.
A great friend Jonathan asked me once if I was ever afraid or even apprehensive of the next step in my …

An old photo, but these are the perks at work – the munificent Johnny Knoxville bought manicures for the staff of jackass world that didn’t attend Dave Carnie’s wedding. Me and Wes H (an MTV developer) partook. Thanks, PJ – that was fabulous.