My Big Update

So yes i havent updated in over a month. But I do better than some other blogs I read. I want to try and keep this updated as much as possible.

Ok so I am in virginia beach right now. about to head back to New York in a few days. I am going to leave on Saturday. Kind of counting down the days. I want to leave but i want to stay.

The break overall has been good. Hung out with alot of people that I sorely missed. Phil and I went to the gym alot durring the break. I think it is benefiting me somewhat. Hopefully I will continue to do that in NY. Got to monopolize Shelby a bit. I didnt see ALOT of movies. but I saw quite a few really great movies. Atonement was really amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if it won best picture. But besides the many movies hanging out with my friends was amazing. I miss them so. Hopefully in a few years i can get more people to come live here because of how amazing it is.

I cant believe that next week I'll be back in classes. I essentially I have to switch around most of my scheduel just cause of various reasons. My grades last semester were quite good. One B and the rest A's which is SWEET!! I have to take a Literature class next semester which I'm mildly looking forward to. Hopefully we will read some really great books. But that rarely happens i've noticed. Been reading alot of books over break. Read The Subtle Knife, No Country for Old Men, a few scripts, Apollo's Song, and some comics. Right now I'm reading Peter Pan and its interesting so far.

My future reading list is full to the brim. I got a few gift cards and bout almost 6 books. Alot of titles that im VERY excited to read. I hope that I can adapt some of my favorite books into films. Thats what Stanly Kubrick did, he adapted nearly all of his films from books. My dream project is Claire Marvel and its a quite simple drama but the themes in it are something I have an intense personal connections with.

But alas the year is over and I saw around 230 nEW movies this year. Thats .63 movies a day!!! Not a bad average.

So yeah, I will do my best to update as frequently as I can. Now below is an unused post that I began to write before I left NY for break.










Another day another adventure. I went to work on Friday, and was sent on a massive errand. I went to take location photos of stages for a commercial shoot that we are doing. They gave me a list of places and a camera and put me in a car. For the next few hours I was running around all the boroughs to various stages taking pictures. It was really funny, I was sent to this one studio where they were shooting Gossip Girl, 30 Rock, and the Sex and the City movie all in the same building! I wasn't able to grab lunch in all of the running around.

I got back to the office at about 4pm. All that was left for me to do was to take the pictures off the camera and give them to the producers. But of course, being life, it wasn't that easy. Being that the camera was a Sony, and that the fact that all the pictures were located on the camera's internal memory, not on a memory card, we had no way of getting the pictures off of the camera. I had to run around in the snow for about 2 hours. And hadn't eaten all day. It was not fun. I even went to the sony store, they were sold out! They tried to sell me the wrong chord. I had prove their computer system wrong. So I went to this other store and had to put a $70 dollar deposit down so that I could borrow the cable for a weekend essentially. Anyways, I took the cable back and then I was done with work for the day. I went to this great resturant called Soho Park, had an amazing steak sandwich and fries, then caught a screening of Margot at the Wedding, which was not an enjoyable movie at all. I just hated all of the characters by the end.

Anyways so Saturday I lounged around and did home work before going to catch a late showing of The Golden Compass with my Uncle. But before we left I visited with my cousin who is almost two. And she is the most entertaining person I know. And I can entertain her very easily. Its great. She spent most of the night enthralled with my wallet.

The Golden Compass was throughly entertaining. Its a really great holiday movie. I love fantasy films. And I felt they did a good job with it. But it didn't do too well in the box office so it may not get to complete its story. Lame.

So I got back to the dorm around 1 and stayed up watching some movies. Then Elias and his two friends that are staying over came in at about 4am. It didnt really wake me up. I had just layed my head down. Elias needed to wake up at 530am to go work on a shoot. So we decided to be evil and keep him up till about 520am.

But The weeks ended and I was done with classes. My first year as a film student is done and I feel great. Can't wait to come back in a month.