My First Week Back.

Been back for over a week. I truly missed the city and I am glad to be back. I took my dad to a screening of There Will Be Blood at Union Square, on a Saturday night at 7. So needless to say the place was packed with people. My dad was amazed of how busy the place was. He commented that he had never seen a movie theater that crowded. All I could do was shrug and say thats New York for ya.

I got reacquainted the things that i missed. I have had chipotle about 4 times since i've been back. I'm now using the subway without really having to look at the maps. I did get to involved in the book I was reading and missed my stop at my dorm. Stopped by my comic shop and haunted the soho Mac store for a few hours.

My first week back in class was ok. I like most of my classes. Most of them are the same teachers and times. But my new classes are Acting for Film and Literature. And the literature class consists of only pre modern works such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Sophocles. I have this mental block against literature that was written more than a hundred years ago. I'm more into the post modern lit novels. The oldest book I've read and enjoyed is Walden.

My acting teacher is the quintessential acting teacher. She's this chill hippie teacher who forbids criticism and judgment. "We are all on the same level.Equals" she says. It will be an interesting way to start my Thursdays.

Through a finagling of my own my schedule my last class is on Thursday and then my next class isn't until Tuesdays at noon. So every weekend I have a four day weekend to get all my stuff done. I have still have my internship on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Friday was cool. I ran a bunch of errands and saw Youth Without Youth, which is this bizzare movie about a scientist who gets struck by lightning when he is 80 and begins to age backwards. Then Nazis get involved somehow. Its really crazy but pretty interesting. After that I went back to the dorm where Elias ,his friend Dan , and I had a mac and cheese party and played some guitar hero.

Saturday was a strange little day. Stacy and I took Ellery to see the Veggie Tales movie. It was about vegetables who are pirates (??). Ellery being two got bored with it and we left. I decided to hang back and watch the last half of There Will Be Blood. Went back to the dorm for a little while before meeting Leah to go see Cloverfield. And I must say that it totally delivered some great scares. It completely met my expectations which were pretty high. Alot of people there were pissed about the movie that it didn't explain alot of stuff. It was a very well crafted monster movie and a great film in general. I guess from a film making stand point it really spoke to me because it was played as if it was a digital camcorder with all the overlapping footage and jump cuts. The handheld camera was a little trying at some points, I sat too close to the screen and got a headache. Right after that Leah felt we needed to detox from Cloverfield, by seeing 27 Dresses. I felt like I was the only guy in the theater. They had a decent soundtrack, but other than that it was a complete paint-by-numbers chick flick.

It was cool though because I finally saw the commercial that I worked on in October. They were playing it during the adverts at the movie theater and during the football game on Sunday. Its really an indescribable gratification.

My radioshow is now on Thursdays so I should upload it Thursday night/Friday morning.