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		<title>New Character Poster &#8211; &#8220;Evelyn&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theroomiesmovie.com/rpb/?p=901</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Yanez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everybody, here&#8217;s the last in this series of character posters for The Roomies. This one features Carly Carcione as Evelyn Hall. (Click to view larger) This one goes with yesterday&#8217;s Leland poster in the same way the Irene and Matt posters go together. Also got a few more familiar figures in the background, so ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey everybody, here&#8217;s the last in this series of character posters for <cite>The Roomies</cite>.  This one features Carly Carcione as Evelyn Hall.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostEvelynSg.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostEvelynSg.jpg" width="550px" alt="The Roomies Character Poster - Evelyn" />
<p><em>(Click to view larger)</em></p>
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<p>This one goes with yesterday&#8217;s Leland poster in the same way the Irene and Matt posters go together.  Also got a few more familiar figures in the background, so if you&#8217;ve seen the movie or have been keeping track of who&#8217;s who, you might recognize a few folks.</p>
<p>I really hope people dug these, maybe down the road we&#8217;ll try something completely different.  See you then.</p>
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		<title>New Character Poster &#8211; &#8220;Leland&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theroomiesmovie.com/rpb/?p=897</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Yanez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everybody, happy Thanksgiving Day. Hope you&#8217;re having a good one. This has been an eventful year for us at Mongrel and there&#8217;s been a lot to be thankful for. This will be the fourth Thanksgiving we&#8217;ve spent in Portland, the third since starting The Roomies and the first since finishing and releasing the film. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey everybody, happy Thanksgiving Day.  Hope you&#8217;re having a good one.  This has been an eventful year for us at Mongrel and there&#8217;s been a lot to be thankful for.  This will be the fourth Thanksgiving we&#8217;ve spent in Portland, the third since starting <cite>The Roomies</cite> and the first since finishing and releasing the film.  Looking forward to the customary Island of Misfit Toys dinner with our friends and family here in town. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the next <cite>Roomies</cite> character poster, this time featuring Benjamin Farmer as Leland Barnes.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostLelandS.jpg" alt="The Roomies Character Poster - Leland" target="_blank"><img src="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostLelandS.jpg" alt="The Roomies Character Poster - Leland" width="550px" />
<p><em>(Click to view larger.)</em></p>
<p></a></center></p>
<p>Just one more left in this series, coming up tomorrow.  See you after the season&#8217;s gorging.</p>
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		<title>New Character Poster &#8211; &#8220;Chase&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theroomiesmovie.com/rpb/?p=892</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Yanez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, here again with another character poster, this time featuring Geno Romo as Chase Ulrich, getting champagne all over the place. (Click to view larger) I like how this one turned out, hope you like it too. Two more to go, who&#8217;ll be next? I don&#8217;t know. I haven&#8217;t decided yet]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, here again with another character poster, this time featuring Geno Romo as Chase Ulrich, getting champagne all over the place.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostChaseS.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostChaseS.jpg" width="550px" alt="The Roomies Character Poster - Chase" />
<p><em>(Click to view larger)</em></p>
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<p>I like how this one turned out, hope you like it too.  Two more to go, who&#8217;ll be next? </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know.  I haven&#8217;t decided yet.</p>
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		<title>New Character Poster &#8211; &#8220;Matt&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Yanez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey again. Here&#8217;s the next entry into our new character poster series, featuring Quinn Allan as Matt Rua. (Click to view larger.) This one and the &#8220;Irene&#8221; poster fit together pretty well. All the posters in this series are set during the Entropy All-Stars after-party scene, so they&#8217;re all supposed to fit pretty well together, ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey again.  Here&#8217;s the next entry into our new character poster series, featuring Quinn Allan as Matt Rua.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostMattS.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/the%20roomies/RooPostMattS.jpg" width="550px" alt="The Roomies - Matt Rua Character Poster" />
<p><em>(Click to view larger.)</em></p>
<p></a></center></p>
<p>This one and the <a href="http://theroomiesmovie.com/rpb/?p=881">&#8220;Irene&#8221; poster</a> fit together pretty well.  All the posters in this series are set during the Entropy All-Stars after-party scene, so they&#8217;re all supposed to fit pretty well together, but these first two feel much more directly linked.</p>
<p>Three more coming up for this series, next one&#8217;s tomorrow.  Hope you&#8217;re liking these, they&#8217;ve been fun to make.</p>
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		<title>New Character Poster Series &#8211; &#8220;Irene&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Yanez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, how&#8217;re things? Been awhile, huh? Last time we checked in, The Roomies was finally available for sale right here on DVD and over yonder as a digital download. Since releasing the film, I&#8217;ve shifted my focus toward completing the screenplay for the next feature, renovating our Mongrel Studios homepage and developing some more upcoming ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, how&#8217;re things?  Been awhile, huh?  </p>
<p>Last time we checked in, <cite>The Roomies</cite> was finally available for sale <a href="http://www.theroomiesmovie.com/theroomies_buy.html">right here on DVD</a> and <a href="http://www.filmbaby.com/films/5766">over yonder as a digital download</a>.  Since releasing the film, I&#8217;ve shifted my focus toward completing the screenplay for the next feature, renovating our <a href="http://www.mongrelstudios.com">Mongrel Studios homepage</a> and developing some more upcoming media projects.</p>
<p>We really appreciate all the nice comments we&#8217;ve gotten from folks who&#8217;ve seen the movie.  I don&#8217;t think I posted about this before but if you&#8217;re in Portland and would like to rent <cite>The Roomies</cite>, you&#8217;re in luck &#8211; <a href="http://www.moviemadnessvideo.com/" target="_blank">Movie Madness</a> is the only video store in the world currently where you can rent the DVD.  Even better, it&#8217;s available under their local films deal, so you can rent it free along with any other rental.  So that&#8217;s pretty neat.</p>
<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been trying to do more art for my day-job at <a href="http://www.truth-out.org" target="_blank">Truthout</a> and Mongrel as well.  I got on this big Saul Bass kick awhile back and started working in a more simplified, cut-out style for my Truthout stuff (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/truthout/tags/jaredrodriguez/" target="_blank">seen here on the Truthout flickr</a>, under my day-jobbin&#8217; name).  I&#8217;ve been working with Photoshop since high school and it&#8217;s only <em>this year</em> that I finally figured out how to use the pen tool properly, so I&#8217;ve been making up for lost time.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;d always intended on going back and doing some more posters for <cite>The Roomies</cite> at some point, but other things usually took precedent over adding to the <a href="http://www.theroomiesmovie.com/theroomies_pics_posters.html">five perfectly good posters we already have</a>.  That situation hasn&#8217;t necessarily changed, but my willingness to use art as a means of procrastination has increased, so here we are.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the first in a series of character posters I&#8217;ve been working on for <cite>The Roomies</cite>.  This one features Irene, as played by Katie Mentesana:</p>
<p><center><a href="http://s337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/RooPostIrene.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://s337.photobucket.com/albums/n363/deadminotaur/RooPostIrene.jpg" alt="The Roomies - Irene character poster" width="550px" />
<p><em>Click to view larger.</em></p>
<p></a></center></p>
<p>Let me know what you think, hope you guys dig &#8216;em.  See you tomorrow with the next one.</p>
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		<title>Lost DVD Interview 3: Brian Bressler</title>
		<link>http://theroomiesmovie.com/rpb/?p=875</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Yanez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the third and final cast interview left out of The Roomies Special Edition DVD. This one features Brian Bressler, who played the Grandfather in The Roomies. Brian&#8217;s had a long history in the business of show and his interview is our longest so that we can get into a bit of that. He&#8217;s been ]]></description>
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Here&#8217;s the third and final cast interview left out of <a href="http://www.theroomiesmovie.com/theroomies_buy.html"><cite>The Roomies</cite> Special Edition DVD.</a>  This one features Brian Bressler, who played the Grandfather in <cite>The Roomies</cite>.  Brian&#8217;s had a long history in the business of show and his interview is our longest so that we can get into a bit of that.  He&#8217;s been one of my favorite people to hang out with here in Portland, so I hope you enjoy getting to know him in the interview.  Here goes:</p>
<p><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b9QgnuxqJ_M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
So that wraps up our lost DVD interviews for now.  We did trim quite a bit out of the fourteen interviews that were conducted so I still might get some more of that cut together and posted up here in the future.  In the meantime, I hope these have been fun.</p>
<p>In other news, <cite>The Roomies</cite> is now available on DVD and digital download at <a href="http://www.filmbaby.com/films/5766" target="_blank" title="The Roomies at Film Baby">Film Baby</a>!  Although it&#8217;s still cheaper to get the DVDs <a href="http://www.theroomiesmovie.com/theroomies_buy.html" title="Buy The Roomies on DVD">right from us</a>, you can <a href="http://www.filmbaby.com/films/5766" target="_blank" title="The Roomies at Film Baby">download the movie from Film Baby now for $9.99</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s nice having that option now available.  We&#8217;re still working on getting the movie available at a couple of other online venues, so we&#8217;ll keep you posted as things develop.  More when there&#8217;s more.</p>
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		<title>Lost DVD Interview 2: Tracy Conklin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Yanez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the second interview we cut from The Roomies Special Edition DVD, featuring Tracy Conklin, the actor who portrayed the Pastor in the film. Tracy&#8217;s a hell of a character in real life and you get a little taste of that here. When we&#8217;ve met up there&#8217;s been no shortage of philosophical back-and-forth mixed with ]]></description>
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Here&#8217;s the second interview we cut from <a href="http://www.theroomiesmovie.com/theroomies_buy.html" title="Buy The Roomies on DVD"><cite>The Roomies</cite> Special Edition DVD</a>, featuring Tracy Conklin, the actor who portrayed the Pastor in the film.  Tracy&#8217;s a hell of a character in real life and you get a little taste of that here.  When we&#8217;ve met up there&#8217;s been no shortage of philosophical back-and-forth mixed with whatever accents Tracy feels like rolling out at any given moment.  So here he is, telling us how it is:</p>
<p><iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DV_YUmFDl4c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
We&#8217;ve got one more interview coming up.  It&#8217;s the longest one we had to cut from an actor with the least amount of lines.  Check back soon for that and more as we keep pouring all our surplus <cite>Roomies</cite> special features into the blog.</p>
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