I decided that I'm going to let my hair grow out for a little while. I haven't done that for a very long time. Well at least intentionally. I do let it grow out either because I'm too cheap to get a haircut or I'm too lazy to seek out a place to get it cut.
Back at work for the first time in a little over two weeks. There are no productions in house so its just the 6 main people who actually work here who are all pretty cool people. I spent about 6 hours cleaning out office supply room. And I must say, it looks good. I pride myself on being able to organize. Even though I'm not very organized myself. I just randomly get a itch to clean every once in a while. It usually happens when I have a paper to write, or a test to study for.
Reason number 74 that NY is awesome, the advanced screenings of movies that are always playing. I went and saw Juno last night and I am going to see The Orphanage tonight. The Orphanage is Spain's selection for best foreign film this year for the academy award. It is "Presented By Guiermo Del Toro"which means that he had nothing to do with but they will slap his name on it to sell tickets. It basically makes him the Spanish equivalent of Quentin Tarantino.
It is ridiculous how many movies that are out or that are coming out on Friday that I really want to see Margot at the Wedding, I'm Not There, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and The Savages. Hopefully I can fit them all in.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
My Southland Tale
I went and saw Southland Tales again. It is the first movie in a while that I seeked out to see it a second time. I don't have a problem with seeing a movie multiple times in theaters. But lately I only have the time and finances to see films once. I know that I would not be apposed to see Southland at least two more times.
Here is the show! Enjoy. Look for a post this week of a new script.
http://rapidshare.com/files/72549346/My_Mixed_Tape_11_29_2007.mp3
Here is the show! Enjoy. Look for a post this week of a new script.
http://rapidshare.com/files/72549346/My_Mixed_Tape_11_29_2007.mp3
Thursday, November 22, 2007
My Three Plates of FOod!
Yes. Haven't blogged in a while. But I have found some free time while I am digesting all of my food and my mom is watching silly Grey's Anatomy spin offs to write my audience of at most five, a long diatribe about my life for the past two weeks.
So when I last left you guys I had a weekend where I finally got caught up on some movies. I saw American Gangster, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, and No Country for Old Men. It was a crime trilogy weekend.
I got off work on Friday (Nov. 9th) and just didn't know what to do with myself. Everyone was out of town or busy and couldn't get any calls back from anyone. I got off work early, and had almost two hours to kill until a movie I wanted to see started. It had been raining off and on all day. But luckily it wasn't raining when I walked to the Angelika. I bought my ticket to Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and was just chilling for the movie to start. But I got a call from my uncle and we planned to go to a later showing of American Gangster. So I started to walk to their apartment and of corse it started to rain again. By the time I got to their building I was soaked with cold rain. Not so fun. But I dried off, played with Ellery, and put her to bed. Stacy and I booked it to the theater and made it just in the nick of time. It was a pretty ok film.
On Saturday ( Nov. 10th) Alexa came into the city for an open house at SVA and afterwards we went to the Angelika to see Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. A really interesting movie, really depressing, but really well acted. It was shot beautifully considering it was on HD cameras. And apparently the director Sydney Lumet who is 87 years old, only does one or two takes per shot. I tip my hat to him!
Got done with the movie and put Alexa and her family on their way. I expected a few people to go with me to see No Country for Old Men, but they all more or less bailed. Which kinda perturbed me. We changed plans to see the film the next day. I was back at the dorm at about 8. Elias was there with some friends from Connecticut. They were about to head out to a party or something. I didn't feel like being that desperate and begging to come along so I decided to pack it in for the night. I cleaned my room and did my laundry, then watched The Fountain with director's commentary.
Sunday (Nov. 11th) was a great lazy Sunday. Elias, Samantha, Taylor, myself, and Elias's friends all went and got delicious bagels and coffee. Then played guitar hero in the afternoon before going to see No Country for Old Men in the evening. But getting there was no easy feat.
There is a curse upon the city of New York. It has no name but it can be described like this. Imagine you want/need to get somewhere by a specific time and you are going to use the subway. Your curse is that you will always have 3 trains come to the station going in the opposite direction that you want to go in. Then when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, the train will run all the local stops instead of the express. The trains somehow instinctively know that you need to get somewhere and they will fuck you over as much as possible.
Thats what happened with us when we were trying to get to the theater. All the trains we wanted weren't running. And the trains that were running were all local stops. So through a good solid 30 minutes of misadventures with the trains I decided to screw it and get a cab from the West 4th station. Again we made it to the theater just as the credits were rolling. The film was great. One of the best I've seen this year. I can't wait to go see it again and read the book.
But arriving almost late was NOT fun at all. I wanted to leave alot earlier than we did.I have a lot of -isms. But getting to places early (especially movies) is a big thing to me. I just like getting to places and not having to worry about rushing there late and what not. I like being able to go to the movies buy my ticket. have plenty of time to go to the bathroom, buy pop corn, and get a good seat.
Monday and Tuesday were kinda blah days. Just passing the time till I go to Cali. But before I went to L.A. I had a very appropriate experience with a little film called Southland Tales.
The story of Southland Tales, for me begins two years ago, when I read about it on IMDB. Then in the summer of 2006, the showed an unfinished version of the movie at the Cannes film festival. It was booed and received the worst reviews of that year. So for the next year the director Richard Kelly (who is from Richmond !), re-edited the film and added over a million dollars in special effects.
The plot of Southland Tales is this, in an alternate reality where the US has been attacked twice by nuclear bombs in Texas, World War 3 has started, we are running out of fuel. The insanity all culminates in a 4th of July weekend in Los Angeles in the year 2008, where the world may very well end, and it ends in the Southland.
I haven't been more excited to see a movie for a long time. And it did deliver. I was literally left speechless at the end of this movie for a good 2 minutes. I could only recommend this movie to very few people. It is a mind fuck on the grandness of scales. Its like David Lynch meets John Waters on acid.
Thursday (Nov. 16th) was kind of a bland day. I was basically counting down the hours till I went to the airport. In my screen writing class we talked about my script, and the teacher had a very different take on what he thought the story was about. He thought it was about two people who aren't sure if they want to be in a relationship. But through seeing others in a happy relation ship they decide to be together.....Now if you have read my script (its posted below) I put absolutely nothing like that in my script. I thought that it was kind of funny that someone could have that interpretation of my script. I felt that it was pretty straight forward. But I guess not straight enough.
After classes I went back to the dorms and packed my bag for L.A. and watched the last new office until the writers strike is over. I packed very light and only took my back pack. I tried to get some sleep and went to bed around 12ish.
I woke up at 4:30am. Took a quick shower and made my way downstairs. I was waiting for my car to come pick me up. But I got a call them saying they would be late. I got lucky and found a cab that was the same price as the car service. I got to the airport on time, grabbed a bagel and a chai and waited for my flight. We took off at about 7am. I luckily had the window seat and caught a few Z's. I woke up and looked out the window to see the country pass by. I got to see the grand canyon for the first time and it was really cool.
The plane landed in L.A. at about 10am their time. Jeff was a little late picking me up but as soon as he did, we booked it to a movie theater to catch an early screening of Beowulf in 3D. I throughly enjoyed it. I loved the animation, to me it added alot to the visuals of the story.
After that Jeff, Annie, and I bopped around L.A. for the next few hours. The city was just how I imagined it would be. It is a very spread out city. And the layer of smog above the city DOES exist. It is kind of cool to see all the souvenir shops all centered around Hollywood memorabilia. I went to a store that centered in selling old and current screenplays. They had over 10,000 scripts for purchase!!! I bought the script for Southland Tales. It should be sent to me soon!
Scientology has run a muck there. On a joke we walked into the Elrond Hubbard Museum, but it was closed for renovation. They gave us free tickets and told us to come back. We saw about tow other Scientology stations within two miles of that place.
But after walking around for a few hours it got dark, and we started to look around for Mulholland Drive, which is this twisting and winding road that goes up a hill and gives a great view of the city. We found it after a few tries and the view was quite impressive.
Being exhausted, we went back to Jeff's place in Ventura county and went to bed around midnight.
On Saturday (Nov. 17th) we went to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Which is quite possibly the best amusement park I have ever been to. They have so many roller coasters that they had to start building one in the parking lot. I kid you not. One of the rides there is called simply X, and its considered by most to be the best roller coasters ever, I would happily agree with them. The video below is not something I shot. But its really funny to watch. For some reason they keep saying "sexy" for no real reason
On Sunday (Nov. 18th) we all just lounged around for the day showing each other random videos on youtube. I will share some with you right now.
So for the rest of the day we relaxed and enjoyed each others company. Annie and I packed our bags and began our journey to L.A.X. We stopped and got food at In and Out Burger. Which was fucking delicious. If someone put one in N.Y. they would make bank. Saying goodbye was kind of hard. Because I wont get to see Jeff until July.
My plane left at midnight on Sunday. I had the really stupid idea to take a Tylonol PM before I got on the plane. I thought it might help me get some sleep on the plane. It didn't. Around 3am in sometime zone, I was really awake, but really asleep at the same time. And of course they had to play the most culturally devoid movie of all time (High School Musical 2). I think I fell asleep a little while later. The plane landed around 9am and I took the subway back to the dorm and caught a few hours sleep.
After getting up around noonish I repacked my bag and made my way to the bus stop around 4pm. The bus ride was really uneventful. I just read a bunch of books and listened to some great music. I arrived in VB around midnight. After 4 days of travel. Two cabs. Two airports. A bus. 5,500 miles. I finally got a chance to sleep. And sleep well.
The last few days in VB have been pretty relaxing. I've just been watching movies and visiting with my friends. In the last few days I've seen Dan in Real Life, No Country for Old Men, Hitman, Top Gun, and I'm seeing Enchanted tonight with my mom. I was able to see Denise for the first time in over a year. And I ran into Christina Cox in Borders. I also got to meet Erin in person for the first time. So alot of first this weekend.
Thanksgiving was good. I ended up not going to Richmond like I had planned. My mom, my sis, and my grandma all ate some delicious food. My mom is an excellent cook.
So AMC Lynhaven is doing a modern classic series every Friday and Saturday for the next few weeks. Some of my favorites like The Goonies, E.T., Army of Darkness, Mallrats, and many others. And what is great they are film prints, not projected DVD's which is what normally happens.
I'm going back to my city where I hang my hat. I have some big projects and term papers
coming up pretty soon. I have a new screenplay in the works so I will post it when its finished. Its very different than my previous script.
The last nine days have been a well deserved vacation if i do say so myself. It was great seeing everyone. And I'll be back faster than you can say OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE! Ok maybe not that fast.
So when I last left you guys I had a weekend where I finally got caught up on some movies. I saw American Gangster, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, and No Country for Old Men. It was a crime trilogy weekend.
I got off work on Friday (Nov. 9th) and just didn't know what to do with myself. Everyone was out of town or busy and couldn't get any calls back from anyone. I got off work early, and had almost two hours to kill until a movie I wanted to see started. It had been raining off and on all day. But luckily it wasn't raining when I walked to the Angelika. I bought my ticket to Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and was just chilling for the movie to start. But I got a call from my uncle and we planned to go to a later showing of American Gangster. So I started to walk to their apartment and of corse it started to rain again. By the time I got to their building I was soaked with cold rain. Not so fun. But I dried off, played with Ellery, and put her to bed. Stacy and I booked it to the theater and made it just in the nick of time. It was a pretty ok film.
On Saturday ( Nov. 10th) Alexa came into the city for an open house at SVA and afterwards we went to the Angelika to see Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. A really interesting movie, really depressing, but really well acted. It was shot beautifully considering it was on HD cameras. And apparently the director Sydney Lumet who is 87 years old, only does one or two takes per shot. I tip my hat to him!
Got done with the movie and put Alexa and her family on their way. I expected a few people to go with me to see No Country for Old Men, but they all more or less bailed. Which kinda perturbed me. We changed plans to see the film the next day. I was back at the dorm at about 8. Elias was there with some friends from Connecticut. They were about to head out to a party or something. I didn't feel like being that desperate and begging to come along so I decided to pack it in for the night. I cleaned my room and did my laundry, then watched The Fountain with director's commentary.
Sunday (Nov. 11th) was a great lazy Sunday. Elias, Samantha, Taylor, myself, and Elias's friends all went and got delicious bagels and coffee. Then played guitar hero in the afternoon before going to see No Country for Old Men in the evening. But getting there was no easy feat.
There is a curse upon the city of New York. It has no name but it can be described like this. Imagine you want/need to get somewhere by a specific time and you are going to use the subway. Your curse is that you will always have 3 trains come to the station going in the opposite direction that you want to go in. Then when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, the train will run all the local stops instead of the express. The trains somehow instinctively know that you need to get somewhere and they will fuck you over as much as possible.
Thats what happened with us when we were trying to get to the theater. All the trains we wanted weren't running. And the trains that were running were all local stops. So through a good solid 30 minutes of misadventures with the trains I decided to screw it and get a cab from the West 4th station. Again we made it to the theater just as the credits were rolling. The film was great. One of the best I've seen this year. I can't wait to go see it again and read the book.
But arriving almost late was NOT fun at all. I wanted to leave alot earlier than we did.I have a lot of -isms. But getting to places early (especially movies) is a big thing to me. I just like getting to places and not having to worry about rushing there late and what not. I like being able to go to the movies buy my ticket. have plenty of time to go to the bathroom, buy pop corn, and get a good seat.
Monday and Tuesday were kinda blah days. Just passing the time till I go to Cali. But before I went to L.A. I had a very appropriate experience with a little film called Southland Tales.
The story of Southland Tales, for me begins two years ago, when I read about it on IMDB. Then in the summer of 2006, the showed an unfinished version of the movie at the Cannes film festival. It was booed and received the worst reviews of that year. So for the next year the director Richard Kelly (who is from Richmond !), re-edited the film and added over a million dollars in special effects.
The plot of Southland Tales is this, in an alternate reality where the US has been attacked twice by nuclear bombs in Texas, World War 3 has started, we are running out of fuel. The insanity all culminates in a 4th of July weekend in Los Angeles in the year 2008, where the world may very well end, and it ends in the Southland.
I haven't been more excited to see a movie for a long time. And it did deliver. I was literally left speechless at the end of this movie for a good 2 minutes. I could only recommend this movie to very few people. It is a mind fuck on the grandness of scales. Its like David Lynch meets John Waters on acid.
Thursday (Nov. 16th) was kind of a bland day. I was basically counting down the hours till I went to the airport. In my screen writing class we talked about my script, and the teacher had a very different take on what he thought the story was about. He thought it was about two people who aren't sure if they want to be in a relationship. But through seeing others in a happy relation ship they decide to be together.....Now if you have read my script (its posted below) I put absolutely nothing like that in my script. I thought that it was kind of funny that someone could have that interpretation of my script. I felt that it was pretty straight forward. But I guess not straight enough.
After classes I went back to the dorms and packed my bag for L.A. and watched the last new office until the writers strike is over. I packed very light and only took my back pack. I tried to get some sleep and went to bed around 12ish.
I woke up at 4:30am. Took a quick shower and made my way downstairs. I was waiting for my car to come pick me up. But I got a call them saying they would be late. I got lucky and found a cab that was the same price as the car service. I got to the airport on time, grabbed a bagel and a chai and waited for my flight. We took off at about 7am. I luckily had the window seat and caught a few Z's. I woke up and looked out the window to see the country pass by. I got to see the grand canyon for the first time and it was really cool.
The plane landed in L.A. at about 10am their time. Jeff was a little late picking me up but as soon as he did, we booked it to a movie theater to catch an early screening of Beowulf in 3D. I throughly enjoyed it. I loved the animation, to me it added alot to the visuals of the story.
After that Jeff, Annie, and I bopped around L.A. for the next few hours. The city was just how I imagined it would be. It is a very spread out city. And the layer of smog above the city DOES exist. It is kind of cool to see all the souvenir shops all centered around Hollywood memorabilia. I went to a store that centered in selling old and current screenplays. They had over 10,000 scripts for purchase!!! I bought the script for Southland Tales. It should be sent to me soon!
Scientology has run a muck there. On a joke we walked into the Elrond Hubbard Museum, but it was closed for renovation. They gave us free tickets and told us to come back. We saw about tow other Scientology stations within two miles of that place.
But after walking around for a few hours it got dark, and we started to look around for Mulholland Drive, which is this twisting and winding road that goes up a hill and gives a great view of the city. We found it after a few tries and the view was quite impressive.
Being exhausted, we went back to Jeff's place in Ventura county and went to bed around midnight.
On Saturday (Nov. 17th) we went to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Which is quite possibly the best amusement park I have ever been to. They have so many roller coasters that they had to start building one in the parking lot. I kid you not. One of the rides there is called simply X, and its considered by most to be the best roller coasters ever, I would happily agree with them. The video below is not something I shot. But its really funny to watch. For some reason they keep saying "sexy" for no real reason
On Sunday (Nov. 18th) we all just lounged around for the day showing each other random videos on youtube. I will share some with you right now.
So for the rest of the day we relaxed and enjoyed each others company. Annie and I packed our bags and began our journey to L.A.X. We stopped and got food at In and Out Burger. Which was fucking delicious. If someone put one in N.Y. they would make bank. Saying goodbye was kind of hard. Because I wont get to see Jeff until July.
My plane left at midnight on Sunday. I had the really stupid idea to take a Tylonol PM before I got on the plane. I thought it might help me get some sleep on the plane. It didn't. Around 3am in sometime zone, I was really awake, but really asleep at the same time. And of course they had to play the most culturally devoid movie of all time (High School Musical 2). I think I fell asleep a little while later. The plane landed around 9am and I took the subway back to the dorm and caught a few hours sleep.
After getting up around noonish I repacked my bag and made my way to the bus stop around 4pm. The bus ride was really uneventful. I just read a bunch of books and listened to some great music. I arrived in VB around midnight. After 4 days of travel. Two cabs. Two airports. A bus. 5,500 miles. I finally got a chance to sleep. And sleep well.
The last few days in VB have been pretty relaxing. I've just been watching movies and visiting with my friends. In the last few days I've seen Dan in Real Life, No Country for Old Men, Hitman, Top Gun, and I'm seeing Enchanted tonight with my mom. I was able to see Denise for the first time in over a year. And I ran into Christina Cox in Borders. I also got to meet Erin in person for the first time. So alot of first this weekend.
Thanksgiving was good. I ended up not going to Richmond like I had planned. My mom, my sis, and my grandma all ate some delicious food. My mom is an excellent cook.
So AMC Lynhaven is doing a modern classic series every Friday and Saturday for the next few weeks. Some of my favorites like The Goonies, E.T., Army of Darkness, Mallrats, and many others. And what is great they are film prints, not projected DVD's which is what normally happens.
I'm going back to my city where I hang my hat. I have some big projects and term papers
coming up pretty soon. I have a new screenplay in the works so I will post it when its finished. Its very different than my previous script.
The last nine days have been a well deserved vacation if i do say so myself. It was great seeing everyone. And I'll be back faster than you can say OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE! Ok maybe not that fast.
Friday, November 9, 2007
My Rainy Fridayhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Ok I'll admit it. My posts as of late have been quite lame. So this one will hopefully make up for it. There will great music to download and hilarious videos to watch. Which is what I'm all about!
This week has been a good week. Not that my other weeks have been bad persay. I usually just feel really drained from errands, class, etc. I guess just lately it has more to do with the fact that I had alot of impending projects and tests that I was more or less dreading. And now that they are done and I feel that I did a good job on them. Thats what I'm mainly concerned with. Grades matter, but for the most part, if I'm creating something I'd rather enjoy doing it and be content to put my name on something than to have it liked by someone. That was a main problem I had with 90% of my projects that I did for my art classes last year, for the most I hated them. They weren't the medium that I wanted to be working in but there are a few pieces that I kept.
Anyways I have posted all of my projects down below in case you haven't seen them yet. The other videos from my class were good. I didn't even think to shoot in widescreen. {Slaps forehead!}. You can see them here! The choices were to make one about sex, death, or food. There was another option but I cant remember it, cause no one did it. Beware, some of them are pretty much softcore porn. Just a heads up.
I turned in my script yesterday, and as usual with everything else I've turned in it divided people. Half liked it, half thought it was horrible. My dialogue was called trite and cheesy. Which I don't really agree with it. I mean its not the BEST dialogue in the entire world but I feel that it was pretty antiquate. I guess that was the thing that I took most offense to. Because I really am not one of those people who can't take constructive criticism, but it kinda ticked me off when they said that people don't talk how I write. And the thing is whether it is a script, an essay, or a term paper, I ALWAYS write how I talk. I guess that maybe the fact that mine was about 20 pages didn't help, when the average script length is around 3 pages. I don't know. We are going to discuss it more next week.
I bought the Stanley Kubrick collection the other week and man is it awesome! Elias and I watched The Shining the other night, and I forgot how creepy that movie is. I think before that I had only seen it once when I was really young.
At work on Wednesday we were trying to figure out what to get from the grocery store. And someone mentioned pudding. We then had a whole conversation about the different types of pudding. It all culminated in the finding of this video which is just soooooo funny. Its from the sketch comedy show from the 90's and it almost made me pee my pants.
Anyways the movies are finally starting to pick up after about two months of blahness. This weekend I have No Country for Old Men. Then next Wednesday there is my most anticipated film Southland Tales! I seriously have waited over two years for that movie! Then there is Beowulf! And then it just keeps going after that.
Next week is going to be a crazy. Not so much school work but more in the sense of travel. I'm going to California next Friday. My flight is at 645 in the morning! Then my returning flight is on Sunday night at 12 or so and i will get in 8ish east coast time on Monday morning. Insane! Then I have to go to class just to drop something off. Then I'm traveling to Virginia Beach in the afternoon for Thanksgiving break. But it will be nice because I get something like a 9 day vacation. My plan is to do nothing and have a good time doing it.
I went to see one of my favorite bands in concert last night. They're called Athlete and they are really really good. Kinda like Snow Patrol but not really. They are just amazing. I was really worried when I first got there because there was no one waiting in line. But as it got closer to show time more and more people started to show up. I've noticed that about seeing shows in New York, everyone shows up late. I guess I just take concert going really seriously and like to show up early. And if you aren't up front its almost not worth going to the show.
I take alot of trivial things very seriously. Movies especially. Music, concerts, comic books, and TV shows are up there too. I don't really know anyone else who is as into those things as I am. We were talking about Japanese culture in my comic criticism class and there apparently is a term that more or less encapsulates all of my quirks. The term is called otaku. Its basically an elevated term for comic book nerd in Japan. But the term isn't limited to comics it also extends to such things as sushi. Which made me laugh. I just wish people would get more excited about things coming out. So I'm not left feeling like a dork so often :-)
So the new Angels and Airwaves CD is amazing! I really like their first one. Whenever I listen to it I am immediately transported back to a very specific time period in my life. This new one is truly a great CD. Download it NOW! I'm leaving the link here for you to do what you will.
Angels and Airwaves- I-Empire
Anyways not much planned for the weekend except watching some movies. Tonight I'm seeing Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, and tomorrow I'm probably going to see Control and No Country For Old Men. So I shall keep you updated on my boring weekend.
This week has been a good week. Not that my other weeks have been bad persay. I usually just feel really drained from errands, class, etc. I guess just lately it has more to do with the fact that I had alot of impending projects and tests that I was more or less dreading. And now that they are done and I feel that I did a good job on them. Thats what I'm mainly concerned with. Grades matter, but for the most part, if I'm creating something I'd rather enjoy doing it and be content to put my name on something than to have it liked by someone. That was a main problem I had with 90% of my projects that I did for my art classes last year, for the most I hated them. They weren't the medium that I wanted to be working in but there are a few pieces that I kept.
Anyways I have posted all of my projects down below in case you haven't seen them yet. The other videos from my class were good. I didn't even think to shoot in widescreen. {Slaps forehead!}. You can see them here! The choices were to make one about sex, death, or food. There was another option but I cant remember it, cause no one did it. Beware, some of them are pretty much softcore porn. Just a heads up.
I turned in my script yesterday, and as usual with everything else I've turned in it divided people. Half liked it, half thought it was horrible. My dialogue was called trite and cheesy. Which I don't really agree with it. I mean its not the BEST dialogue in the entire world but I feel that it was pretty antiquate. I guess that was the thing that I took most offense to. Because I really am not one of those people who can't take constructive criticism, but it kinda ticked me off when they said that people don't talk how I write. And the thing is whether it is a script, an essay, or a term paper, I ALWAYS write how I talk. I guess that maybe the fact that mine was about 20 pages didn't help, when the average script length is around 3 pages. I don't know. We are going to discuss it more next week.
I bought the Stanley Kubrick collection the other week and man is it awesome! Elias and I watched The Shining the other night, and I forgot how creepy that movie is. I think before that I had only seen it once when I was really young.
At work on Wednesday we were trying to figure out what to get from the grocery store. And someone mentioned pudding. We then had a whole conversation about the different types of pudding. It all culminated in the finding of this video which is just soooooo funny. Its from the sketch comedy show from the 90's and it almost made me pee my pants.
Anyways the movies are finally starting to pick up after about two months of blahness. This weekend I have No Country for Old Men. Then next Wednesday there is my most anticipated film Southland Tales! I seriously have waited over two years for that movie! Then there is Beowulf! And then it just keeps going after that.
Next week is going to be a crazy. Not so much school work but more in the sense of travel. I'm going to California next Friday. My flight is at 645 in the morning! Then my returning flight is on Sunday night at 12 or so and i will get in 8ish east coast time on Monday morning. Insane! Then I have to go to class just to drop something off. Then I'm traveling to Virginia Beach in the afternoon for Thanksgiving break. But it will be nice because I get something like a 9 day vacation. My plan is to do nothing and have a good time doing it.
I went to see one of my favorite bands in concert last night. They're called Athlete and they are really really good. Kinda like Snow Patrol but not really. They are just amazing. I was really worried when I first got there because there was no one waiting in line. But as it got closer to show time more and more people started to show up. I've noticed that about seeing shows in New York, everyone shows up late. I guess I just take concert going really seriously and like to show up early. And if you aren't up front its almost not worth going to the show.
I take alot of trivial things very seriously. Movies especially. Music, concerts, comic books, and TV shows are up there too. I don't really know anyone else who is as into those things as I am. We were talking about Japanese culture in my comic criticism class and there apparently is a term that more or less encapsulates all of my quirks. The term is called otaku. Its basically an elevated term for comic book nerd in Japan. But the term isn't limited to comics it also extends to such things as sushi. Which made me laugh. I just wish people would get more excited about things coming out. So I'm not left feeling like a dork so often :-)
So the new Angels and Airwaves CD is amazing! I really like their first one. Whenever I listen to it I am immediately transported back to a very specific time period in my life. This new one is truly a great CD. Download it NOW! I'm leaving the link here for you to do what you will.
Angels and Airwaves- I-Empire
Anyways not much planned for the weekend except watching some movies. Tonight I'm seeing Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, and tomorrow I'm probably going to see Control and No Country For Old Men. So I shall keep you updated on my boring weekend.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
My Real Girl
Saw Lars and the Real Girl and it was really great. I'm done with all of my homework and stuff before midnight. Its really weird! I shorten my script alot. Almost in half. But I was still able to keep alot of the stuff in it. So it wasn't too bad.
So here is the new video post. Enjoy.
So here is the new video post. Enjoy.
My Work
I always find time to blog when I'm at work. I love it here but there is alot of down time. This week hasn't been as busy as previous weeks. I got done with my midterms and they weren't too bad. I got a perfect score on my film history one.
My group and I finished our project. We had to do a one minute montage on death. Its edited and uploaded to youtube. But it isn't the final product yet. We may change the music.
I will post the final product later.
I cant wait to see No Country For Old Men this weekend. it looks oh so good!
My group and I finished our project. We had to do a one minute montage on death. Its edited and uploaded to youtube. But it isn't the final product yet. We may change the music.
I will post the final product later.
I cant wait to see No Country For Old Men this weekend. it looks oh so good!
Monday, November 5, 2007
My Insomnia (I seriously think that I have it)
So again I couldn't sleep last night. And today was kinda long. I dont feel like blogging. But I have the new show. So enjoy! I'm going to curl up and read before passing out!
http://rapidshare.com/files/67753374/My_Mixed_Tape_11_5_2007.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/67753374/My_Mixed_Tape_11_5_2007.mp3
Friday, November 2, 2007
My Friday!
So I was going to go to the Decemberists concert last night with Annie who is in town for the weekend, but the show got cancelled. Which sucked. So we went to grab some food at Bar Pitti and macked on some cupcakes!
I took my script into class and the teacher said we couldn't accept it because it was too long and I have to make it shorter. I like alot the way it is. I feel that making it shorter would make the story feel rushed. I dont know. It was kinda deflating. I worked on it for about 3 weeks and I can't even turn in.
I had two midterms this week which both went really well. I have my editing mid term on monday which won't be challenging at all.
I need to see like 4 movies this weekend. Slipstream, American Gangster, Darfur Now, Dan in Real Life, Lars and the Real Girls, and I still need to see Eastern Promises. So really like six.
Shooting this weekend with my group hopefully it goes well. I will post it when it is done.
I took my script into class and the teacher said we couldn't accept it because it was too long and I have to make it shorter. I like alot the way it is. I feel that making it shorter would make the story feel rushed. I dont know. It was kinda deflating. I worked on it for about 3 weeks and I can't even turn in.
I had two midterms this week which both went really well. I have my editing mid term on monday which won't be challenging at all.
I need to see like 4 movies this weekend. Slipstream, American Gangster, Darfur Now, Dan in Real Life, Lars and the Real Girls, and I still need to see Eastern Promises. So really like six.
Shooting this weekend with my group hopefully it goes well. I will post it when it is done.
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