The Movie About Me Has Been In These Film Festivals!
I'm interested in being a really good cab driver and in learning everything I can learn about New York City because I want to drive a Yellow Cab there someday and part of being a great cabbie is knowing your town even if it's a city. Driving in The Big Apple is like being in the Olympics of cab driving and I want to be a gold medalist. Or maybe silver if I can't win the gold. But who wants bronze? Nobody that's who. And you could end up with the bronze pretty easy if you weren't at your driving best. Like maybe if you hit a trash can when you're turning a corner too tight maybe you just wing it a bit and they give you the bronze. Then you have to stand up there while they play the national anthem from some other country cause some guy put his trash can too close to the street? No thanks.
Music
I don't like jazz too much because it doesn't have any words and that bugs me about music unless I'm in an elevator. Then it's okay. I listen to a little bit of everything. I like polkas when it's Octoberfest. Pound for pound a tuba and an accordian are your best entertainment value. I used to like Pink Floyd's The Wall album until I saw the movie and it scared the bejesus out of me pardon my French. I thought it was just about a wall but it had some kind of deeper meaning about putting kids in a meat grinder and shaving your eyebrows for no good reason. And I like Johnny Cash.
Movies
NOT Taxi Driver because that movie was crap pardon my french. NOT should be underlined but I don't know how to do that. DC Cab was pretty good but I don't think I'd hire Mr. T to be a cabbie. He has a hot temper. I like movies with Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks. They should make a movie where they're both heroic cab drivers who are invited to the White House to accept the National Congressional Medal of Cab-Driving Excellence and then when the President is about to put the Medal on their necks someone in the crowd stands up and says "That's not the President!" And then Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford have to kick the fake President's butt and his bodyguards too because they're also on the side of badness. Then Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford could run out of the White House. They'd have to because everyone would think they had kicked the real President's butt because they saw it on TV but couldn't hear the sound. So Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford would be on the lam. And they would probably run up to a line of taxis in a taxi stand and trick one of the drivers and steal his cab and it turns out that guy had a special souped-up cab with rocket launchers for headlights and oil slicks and secret tricks in it. Like you push a button and it shoots a tiger at someone. No one would ever see that coming! So you have the tiger gun and the rocket headlights and Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford have to drive the cab and find the President. But they'd be such dedicated cabbies that they would respond to the radio dispatcher and pick up the fares on the way so you could have guest stars in the back of the cab. Like Steve Martin or Foster Brooks or someone else funny. And then Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford bust into where the President is being held prisoner by his brother who has always been jealous of him ever since they were kids. And it's even worse now because his brother's the President. And then Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford save the day somehow. I'd pay to see that movie.
Television
I like the news. Taxicab Confessions. I saw that once on the Home Box Office channel and I thought it was great how they showed how cabbies talk to people and get their stories out of them even though most of the stories on this particular show seemed to be about sex confessions and not taxis as much.
Books
Catcher In The Rye
Heroes
I think cab drivers are the unsung heroes of the American roads. Except for those songs Harry Chapin did about that guy driving taxis. I guess those were sung. But for the most part they're pretty much the unsung heroes of the road. They work around the clock and drive people in emergencies or when they need help or when their car is maybe broke down or maybe they just want to go to the store and don't feel like driving. That's a cool thing about cabs too. Like, if you just feel lazy and you have a few bucks you can call a cab and that guy comes and picks you up and drives your lazy butt where it wants to go no questions asked. Except for "Where do you want to go?" I like that.
I was in this movie, "Cabbie," so I guess I'd like to talk to other people and ask them if it was weird for them as it was for me to have people pointing a camera at you all day and asking questions.
Marty Yacovelli is happy because the movie about him, "Cabbie" got into another film festival this one in Ohio. Posted at 9:19 AM May 23 view more
About me: Hi. My name's Marty Yacovelli. Not Martin or anything long. I'm from Minnesota but I live in Chicago now and one day I'm going to drive a cab in New York City. That's about it. A couple of guys came and made a movie about me wanting to drive taxi and they still owe me fifty bucks for doing it. So if you see a movie named "Cabbie" and the guys who made it are there tell them for me, "Hey! You guys owe Marty Yacovelli fifty bucks!" I think they keep meaning to send it to me but they make movies so I don't think they're too reliable. Movie makers aren't like cabbies at all except for they both like to eat donuts.
Who I'd like to meet: Everybody. I like almost everyone I meet and I hope I can give everybody in the world a ride in my cab one day. It'd probably have to be a short ride and it couldn't be one person at a time it'd have to be like a full cab every time for maybe only a block or so but I'd do it because I'd like to be everybody's driver at least once.
Here's what they call the trailer to the movie they made while they were talking to me.
Hi, stopping by to wish you the best for your upcoming birthday.
I've written a book of short plays and two books of poetry. One poetry book is of peace called “Aspire Peace” and I will donate all proceeds from sales of the book to charity, please add the site (click on the picture below) for this book and pass the peace along...
HEY! MARTY SWEET MOVIE! I JUST GOT IT! THANK YOU! SO,,HOWS CAB DRIVING GOING? IS IT EVERYTHING YOU WANTED IT TO BE!? YOU KNOW I LOVE DRIVING AND A COUPLE OF FIREFIGHTERS ONCE TOLD ME,,CAB DRIVERS ARE A DIFFERENT KIND OF HERO! WOW! HOW THAT HIT ME! HOW MANY LIVES WE MUST SAVE? HOW MANY PEOPLE DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE BECAUSE THEY STUMBLE OUT OF A BAR AND WE YELL HEY! YOU NEED A CAB? YOU GOTTA LOVE IT! YOUR FRIEND/CABBY,,,,KARLA w/a K!
The Movie About Me Has Been In These Film Festivals!
