| dude |
[monday
april 10, 2006
at 11:16pm] |
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i just gave a boy my phone number.
i feel very odd.
like my stomach was suddenly inflated with helium and is now pushing out against my other organs.
funny.
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| movin' on up |
[thursday
march 30, 2006
at 12:38pm] |
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My short film entitled Why are You Here? was accepted into the Newport Beach Film Festival. Over the last few days I've been getting e-mails about screenings, tickets, passes, and shindigs. It's really weird... like I'm an actual film maker or something.
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[wednesday
march 29, 2006
at 3:06pm] |
on the way to the grocery store i decided to end my All Strokes, All the Time streak by listening instead to the distillers. as i walked from my car to the store a car drove by, a familiar guitar riff streaming out of it's windows.
The Hunger - The Distillers
small world.
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| My First. Real. Concert. |
[sunday
march 26, 2006
at 2:25am] |
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mood |
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Eeeeeeeeee! |
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music |
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you only live once - the STROKES |
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IJUSTSAWTHESTROKESINCONCERT
ANDI'MTOTALLYFREAKINGOUTWITHJOY
THEYWERETOTALLYAWESOME
OHMYGOSH
ITWASSOCOOLANDUNBELIEVABLE
IWASLIKEWOAH
ISCREAMEDMYLUNGSOUT
ITWASAWESOME
ahem.
I just returned from seeing the Strokes in concert. Eeeeeeeeee!
They started out with "You Only Live Once" off the new album which is like my favorite song, I've listened to it over fifty times (as recorded by iTunes). It's also the first song off the album so I thought, okay, they're gonna play it all in order. But then the next song was off of their second album and all thoughout they were just playing everything. The concert ran from like 9:40 till 11:30, that is to say, that's how long the Strokes were on stage. The concert actually started at 8 with the warm up band.
I was worried they weren't going to play my song, the reason for my love of the Strokes, the song that made me into the crazy-go-nuts person I am today, "Reptillia," and it seemed to be winding down tragically. But then, suddenly THEY PLAYED IT. and I went CRAZY. and it was awesome. and it was like the last song in there set. So it was like, they started with my new favorite, and ended with my original favorite. It was very fitting.
But when they went of stage we just kept cheering forever, so they came back and played like four more songs. And on the last song Julian picked up the mic stand and started trashing the speakers that lined the front of the stage, smashing them with the heavy end of the stand. And then he climbed over them so he was standing on like the last inch of stage, teetering over the audience. It was freaking awesome.
I bought a t-shirt. :)
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| my own personal reunion |
[monday
february 13, 2006
at 9:48pm] |
lets not talk about something that's going to depress me so quickly i'll have to commit ritual suicide
let's talk about something good
( read on young Jedi )
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| another day in paradise |
[thursday
february 09, 2006
at 4:20pm] |
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mood |
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eff off |
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music |
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electricity scape -- the strokes |
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I've been kind of... bad about posting/reading lately... i've pretty much been dead to the world on all fronts. appologies my friends. <3
( what the heck do we know? )
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| i'm a leaf on the wind |
[thursday
december 29, 2005
at 5:18pm] |
At long last, the entier series of Firefly, including DVD extras, have finished downloading to my second hard drive (installed especially for them). After four days of downloading which probably could've taken two, I have them. The heavens open. Choirs of angels sing.
And...
I cannot watch them.
They're not the right format.
ah well... time for more downloading... followed by converting... followed by uploading... followed by BLISS!
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| eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! |
[thursday
december 15, 2005
at 2:14pm] |
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the above succession of the letter "e" multiple times in a row was a direct result of the new livejournal policy of giving free accounts SIX ICONS!!!
i'm freaking out! OMGsh yay! Icooooooooooooons!
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| "...and I'm starting to feel pukey." |
[saturday
december 03, 2005
at 11:49pm] |
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h'okay. life is INSANE. i would not have believed how crazy a schedual could be until this week. i also would not have believed the moronic ways to procrastinate i STILL find, despite my rediculous spread-too-thinedness.
PS: Pat, did you find that severed arm you told me you'd look for?
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| Day Shoot |
[saturday
november 12, 2005
at 8:43pm] |
So.... I had a really kind of incredible day today!
I met with Kyle at the SM parking lot at 8AM, and we drove all the way up to Arrowhead, stopping to pick up Jasmine on the way. We met with Karyn and three of Kyle's friends up at a high school called "The Rim of the World," drove a little ways further down the road, then pulled over and hiked out into the woods.
We shot the whole thing in less than two hours and then just spent the day hanging out with real people. It was great. We got to meet all of Kyle's old friends, and listen to snipets of inside jokes... normally this would suck... lol. but it was somehow cool to see mountain boys reminising. :) and it's weird! I think I expected mountain boys to be a lot more... gruff. Sure... they all had beards, but they seemed to be more or less totally ordinary people. WEIRD. :)
Dunno why, but it was a fun day. I think I just get happy about people going back to the things they love. :)
Anyways... pointless entry.... sue me.
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| Go! |
[wednesday
november 09, 2005
at 9:00am] |
I went to a screening of The Chumscrubber yesterday. I'd seen the trailer, and it looked cool but I wasn't sure. I went anyways, because the director and producer were going to be there for Q and A afterwards, and like... what idiot would say no to that?
So I went, and the movie was... wonderful. It was twisted and hilarious and brilliant and visually beautiful, and on top of it it had these incredible actors. I'm totally fangirling over it. lol.
So.... yeah! It's your duty to go to it this weekend (it comes out friday) if you can. It's a limited release, so I'm talking to you LA people. :) GO! Okay... It's rated R. So.... if you have a problem with cursing, violence and A LOT of drug use... maybe don't go...
I'm only saying it because if it does well in the limited release it MIGHT get a full release, and that would be awesome. So go! Take a friend! Spread the word! :)
look! ^ I even have a visual! And it's a link to the website!
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| Weekend of DOOOM (the extra "O" makes it special) |
[wednesday
november 02, 2005
at 6:54pm] |
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NOTHING |
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So.... I've been holding off writing anything because I wanted to write up a whole bit blog of informational goodness on my miserable/wonderful weekend. But I never wanted to do it, because I knew it would take flippin'... forever, so I waited until I now don't care enough to actually tell you everything that happened. So here are the highlights, so that we can move on and live our lives:
1. Mari came down Friday.
2. We went to dad's and watched Finding Neverland.
3. My allergies kicked in.
4. We went to bed at 10 and I didn't sleep at all because I was freaking out about the next day when I would have to...
5. ...wake up at 6:45 in the morning and go out for an all day shoot on my first student film.
6. I worked all day running on empty, and basically took a backseat on the production, even though I was supposed to be director, and ended up mostly just watching Kyle do everything. That's not Kyle's fault, it's mine because I should've been more assertive instead of letting him just direct.
7. I got home with Mari at 6:30.
8. Mari left.
9. I fell into bed and didn't move for an hour at which point I realized I was going to have ANOTHER sleepless night because I couldn't stop fretting about the film.
10. I took a sleeping pill and passed out for 12 hours.
The following morning I had a terrible cold, which has been haunting me ever since. I'm just now getting over it.
Now, having given you the background story, here's the conclusion of my miserable weekend.
We turned in the project today. Ours was screened first of the class, for which I think the others were rather pissed. We got the highest grade. Yay us. So... I'm conflicted because I feel like I failed. I didn't step up and do my job as a director. I feel like hanging my head in shame, and possibly running my own sword through my chest in an attempt at an honorable death, samurai style. Okay... I'm not going to do that. But I'm still rather disappointed. I felt like there was all this pressure on me, and then I got there... and there was none, and I just kind of... went with it, and that's not okay. I feel like I don't deserve the grade, and it's eating me alive.
I SHOULD be happy. Why? I'll tell you why. He started by telling us the thing that he "thought" he liked about it. He said that the strong point of the film was that it avoided the very easy cliché it could've fallen into, and revealed an original and very honest truth about society and romance between young people. He said that it had "superior screenwriting." Which, basically... HECK YES! I wrote that little son of a squid. That was my baby. So while... it could've been better. It was really good, and the best thing was something I did. I should be very proud of this.
I'm not going to lie and act like I don't like hearing people praise my screenwriting. I LOVE IT! Who wouldn't? But I've been hearing so much of it the last few weeks... I'm starting to believe it. Which isn't a bad thing, it's just... hearing it... doesn't mean as much anymore. Now what I really want is praise for my directing, but I DIDN'T EVEN DIRECT IT, and I'm not going to get another chance until next semester because we have to take turns directing within the group.
Okay. I got it off my chest. For the third time. I think I can finally let this rest. I just need to... refocus, get my head in the game, learn everything I can watching and helping the others, and then just... do it. Prove myself as soon as another chance presents itself.
....yeah.
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| Mourning |
[sunday
october 16, 2005
at 11:40pm] |
Today I mourn the ones I've lost. Earlier today I meant to post an entry exclaiming "Sirius lives!" in big bold letters. And while the joy from earlier is still quite wonderful, I am no longer gleeful enough to proclaim it.
So, here's a good-bye. A time to let go.
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| I don't get it |
[friday
october 14, 2005
at 2:41pm] |
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mood |
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 confused |
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So, I felt like I'd become the stereotypical "easy voter." I've been voting yes to like.. everyone on m_life, and everyone else seems to be very picky.
I vote one person down because I honestly don't feel like he fits the character (and yes, I was PMS and so more likely to speak my mind), and suddenly people who don't even know me, who aren't on the site are using MY critical voting as reason not to join???
What?
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[thursday
october 06, 2005
at 1:49pm] |
I got me own tea set today!
*does jig*
It's all tarnished and brass and wonderfully "Beauty and the Beast."
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| Adventures in Babysitting |
[saturday
october 01, 2005
at 3:33pm] |
Travis just asked me where i got "those," and pointed at my shirt pocket. I was confused since I wasn't wearing a necklace or anything of the sort to draw the eye. When I asked him what he meant he pointed to his chest in two very specific locations. "Where did you get those. On your chest."
"You mean my boobs, Travis?"
"Yeah."
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[thursday
september 29, 2005
at 11:34am] |
Man. Yesterday was a really good day! (Aside from the bunny thing...)
Sister and I are going to go see a play with my Disney Channel lover in it, and the Strokes just came out with a new single. Okay.... that happened last week... but I just found out about it last night, so, I'm pretty stoked!
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| true story |
[wednesday
september 28, 2005
at 11:01pm] |
I saw a dead bunny on the same road I saved a bunny at earlier today.
DOES THE WORLD HATE ME? IS THERE NO POINT IN DOING ANYTHING? BECAUSE IT ALL ENDS UP FUTILE IN THE END?
*storms off and broods*
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