{"id":6724,"date":"2012-05-19T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2013-01-01T01:13:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T08:13:52","slug":"karaoke-vampires-by-cos-the-shroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2012\/05\/19\/karaoke-vampires-by-cos-the-shroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Karaoke Vampyres by Cos The Shroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Film]<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Creative Differences Among <em>Karaoke Vampyres<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Why this is no longer billed as <em>&#8220;A film by Malifick Stayrino&#8221;<\/em><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6725\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/karoke-vampires.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6725\" title=\"karoke-vampires\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/karoke-vampires-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/karoke-vampires.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/karoke-vampires.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the facebook page for KARAOKE VAMPIRES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>[Until recently Cos was working on a film project, now completed, called KARAOKE VAMPyRES with a co-producer he identified as &#8220;Malifick Stayrino.&#8221; There appears to have been a falling out and now the plot thickens as Stayrino&#8217;s name is taken off the title of the film&#8230; ~Editor]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Cos The Shroom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had gone into the project fully expecting Malifick to do most of the work on this project. because it was his idea to make a vampire movie based on karaoke I truly thought he would forge this film.<\/p>\n<p>As the film progressed I ended up doing all the directing, create a workable storyline, and took over the project, No one who was in the film will dispute that this became my baby.<\/p>\n<p>Still in my own mind I exaggerated the importance of his contributions. Firstly because he was my friend and played a great Renfield-type character, and then because I wanted to keep him motivated and hoped he could contribute more in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I also considered his ideas a major part of the cosmology presented in this film, even though I developed it all myself. Why? Well Malifick created an atmosphere of pseudoscience by his presence in my home. Malifick believes in Niburu, 9-11 conspiracies and practically every insane paranoid pop culture idea that is rampant among isolated misfits who spend their lives wired to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>I had often read that people could mistake planets for UFOs but I never actually believed that this was possible until the night Mal called me outdoors to point out the incredible UFO that was &#8220;moving around in the sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He pointed strait to Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to run him down or suggest he is somehow a bad person for all of this &#8211; he suffered catastrophic brain injuries, lost stereoscopic vision, and has regrettably poor judgement as a result. He was a wonderful friend in spite of my difficulty putting up with his crazy ideas. I just looked on him as a child and in a sense our difficulties probably arose from me having to look after him like a parent.<\/p>\n<p>Mal somehow got it in his head that I would be OK with him bailing out on his financial obligations to me&#8211; which were so minimal that even the most amoral freeloader would have gladly lived up to out of sheer envy.<\/p>\n<p>This seemed to me like a devastating betrayal because it came at the worst possible time and jeopardized everything I had been working for.<\/p>\n<p>But now I have said my last cruel thing to him. It is pointless to try to make someone feel like shit for something they have no concept of&#8211; the value of money, how badly you can harm someone by betraying their trust, etc.<\/p>\n<p>He is like a child and I would be as mean and foolish as Captain Ahab in &#8220;Moby Dick&#8221; to hate a child.<\/p>\n<p>But this does not mean I have to continue working with him as an artist or putting any effort investing in an artist who can&#8217;t even invest in himself.<\/p>\n<p>I have reclaimed all the credit that I am due for the making of this film. At first I did so out of malice, but now I do so simply because I am no longer willing to debase my own creativity to put an undeserving person on a pedestal for my personal feelings.<\/p>\n<p>It was hurtful for me to lash out at him like that, and ultimately that is why I never should have treated him like I was some kind of father figure who would share everything with him and make him my protege.<\/p>\n<p>It was wrong of me to coddle him, because it enabled his irresponsible and childish lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>But that is why I have to forgive him and no longer hate him, because I can be irresponsible and childlike too. Indeed it was this common ground for which I loved and continue to love him.<\/p>\n<p>I may be able to forgive him one day for all of this hardship his dereliction created.<br \/>\nI may never be able to forgive myself for being so hateful and cruel to him.<\/p>\n<p>His portrayal of Sarco was brilliant, but in the future I will be using a stand in for Sarco like Ed Wood used for Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from outer space.<\/p>\n<p>Again, not because of any malice I had to him, but because my work will never have any lasting value if I debase it by investing so much in an artist who is simply incapable of making my efforts worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I sent him an email that pointed out that at least one of his screwy ideas had proven wrong, and that is the last hateful thing I will say to him.<\/p>\n<p>I have love in my heart for Malifick, but to treat him like he was a friend would simply enable him and ultimately harm him by allowing him to get away with making so many poor decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I have no wish to harm him any more than I already have.<\/p>\n<p>I hope he will forgive me for all of this, although I do not expect him to ever understand why I can&#8217;t treat him like the friend my heart knows him to be.<\/p>\n<p>The most I will ever give him credit for beyond his acting is to publicly acknowledge that it was his incredibly strange mind that inspired this film.<\/p>\n<p>Since it is creative commons he is free to do anything he wants to make this his film.<\/p>\n<p>He could re-edit it, drop in his own footage, drop in 3-d cgi animation or whatever. Hell he could re-shoot the fucking thing. So could you or anyone else, yes, even the big studios, as long as they give me credit for writing the thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m letting go of the hate. I know it was ugly and hurtful to show it to so many people. My apologies to everyone for making them see that kind of hate.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Cos T. Shroom is an independent fim maker (very independent) in Ruidoso, New Mexico. You can read more about KARAOKE VAMPYRES on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Karaoke-Vampyres\/234159036615880\">Facebook page HERE<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Film] Creative Differences Among Karaoke Vampyres Tweet Why this is no longer billed as &#8220;A film by Malifick Stayrino&#8221; [Until recently Cos was working on a film project, now completed, called KARAOKE VAMPyRES with a co-producer he identified as &#8220;Malifick Stayrino.&#8221; There appears to have been a falling out and now the plot thickens as Stayrino&#8217;s name is taken off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[581,730,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-opinion","category-reflected-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":143,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/09\/15\/kara-oke-empty-orchestra-at-peter-ds\/","url_meta":{"origin":6724,"position":0},"title":"Kara-oke &quot;Empty Orchestra&quot; at Peter D&#039;s","author":"admin","date":"September 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"In Wikipedia the listing for karaoke reads thusly: \"Karaoke (Japanese: \u30ab\u30e9\u30aa\u30b1, from \u7a7a karano, \"empty\" or \"void\", and \u30aa\u30fc\u30b1\u30b9\u30c8\u30e9 \u014dkesutora, \"orchestra\") is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. 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