what is "talking about the weather"?

Well, while we wait for Rik is Major Drama to respond to senshisun or me, I decided that it's time for an updated summary of what we have right now:

Talking About the Weather: A 1994, 11 minutes short movie directed by Carl Forest Sandler, the music was composed by David E. Johnston, Lydia Lo took care of the sound department, Andrew Blair was the operator, and the stars were Joan Jett (Blakk?), Nancy Kates and Rikaard Dam Olafsson. The movie was suposedly shown in some movie festival called Film Arts Festival '94

Film Arts Festival '94: We know nothing about it yet, the official website redirects to a hotel website which contains some information about it, but nothing groundbreaking

Carl Forest Sandler: He studied economics in California, there's a possibility that he's residing on New York

David E. Johnston: Director, writer, actor and composer. He worked on at least 2 other shorts besides Talking About the Weather

Andrew Blair: Movie operator and actor, he's from russia

Lydia Lo: We know nothing about her, other than she took care of the sound department

Joan Jett: Famous rockstar, we thought that she was the star of the movie, though recent evidence suggests otherwise

Nancy Kates: Succesful independent filmmaker, awarded several times in her career. She studied at the Stanford University

Rikaard Dam Olafsson: Actor of, presumably, romanian descent. He seems to have a big fan on YouTube who goes by the name of "Rik is Major Drama". Hell, he might even be RIMD himself

Joan Jett Blakk: Recent evidence suggests that she's the true star of Talking About the Weather, and she was being confused with the rockstar Joan Jett. Her real name is Terence Smith

Rik is Major Drama: YouTube user who makes really... specific videos, he seems to have some knowledge about the film and its cast, he might even be part of it. His Twitter is @rikmaddrag

And I think that's pretty much it, let's wait and see if RIMD has something for us, in the meantime we can keep digging other stuff up, in case he won't respond to us. Both senshisun and myself already tweeted him, so there's no need for more people to do so

Nice! You got lots of info!

Regarding the credit card thing, maybe you could try creating a temporary digital one? That's what my father does when he buys stuff from the internet to avoid being scammed

I'll try to search something about Bob Smith earlier, though I won't promise anything, since I had no luck with Lydia

As for the LGBT thing, yes I read on RIMD's Tweeter that he was an openly gay person, so it makes sense about the film festival being about LGBT, I guess now we solved the mistery of why that pic from IMBd despicts two dudes about to make out

I might hunt around for more information with Tor if we need to, but I'm still learning about it right now.

How unfortunate. I guess all we can do now is wait.

By the way, your tweet sounds way more professional than mine.

By the way, I just noticed on his Twitter that he lives in California, so yeah, the probabilities of Rik is Major Drama being Olafsson just increased a lot

He responded, his statement was:


I was in that film - my name is Rik


I guess that's more than enough proof that he is, in fact, Rikaard Dam Olafsson, however I asked him just to be 100% sure. Next I'll ask him about the movie's plot

I just checked senshisun's Twitter since she doesn't seem to be online, and he responded to her as well, he said:


Hey there - I was in that film in the early 90s – my name is Rik – yeah, it was Joan Jett Blakk (I never credited Joan Jett)


So it seems that Joan Jett the rockstar wasn't in that film and the confusion came because somebody saw "Joan Jett Blakk" and assumed it was that Joan Jett or something like that. Our assumptions are being slowly confirmed, if everything goes well, we'll be watching Talking About the Weather on te next hours

EDIT: senshisun, if you see this, please ask him, if I haven't, if he knows why did that confusion occurred since every other source we've found so far credits not-Blakk-Joan Jett