Synecdoche

A great little comic about how each of the people we meet on the street are connected to us even across great distances of time and space.

Simple Life

I think the Amish have quite a few things right.

More and more I find moving out to my grandparents' farm and eeking out a life there more appealing. I know that I wouldn't be satisfied though. Someday I'd like to be able to spend several months a year up there...

So cool

I want one of these that says Mercator, She Wrote. It'll be so cool. Only the coolest of the cool will get it.

:)

Forward Ho!

Something happened, I don't know how, but sometime around June I went into full retreat mode. I haven't done that since leaving the Academy and I don't know why I did this time. I was on a roll. 4 scripty jobs in a row then nothing. A couple of bites, but that's all. I had hoped that going home would shake me out of it, I came back ready, or so I thought, and fell into the same pattern. I haven't been completely idle. I've nearly finished Mercator (1 chapter to rewrite), and I have been looking for a job, I just haven't been as tenacious as I need to be. It isn't like me to remain idle for so long, and now its a deep rut. That brings an image from The Berenstain Bears of Papa pushing a wheelbarrow down the front path in a rut and demonstrating to the kids how difficult it was to get the wheelbarrow out. It was a lesson on bad habits and how hard it is to break them. I've been trying to get out of the rut but I'm not exactly sure how, but I'm not giving up. I don't give up, not without giving it all I've got. It's a time for reflection, seeking, changing habits, and pursuing writing. There is a purpose to this long doldrum and I don't want to waste it. Time is something I've wasted too much of already in my 20's. Hopefully I'll emerge from this time a better person with something to show for all this time...

Gymnopédie No.1

Fall

Its Tuesday and it's windy. I guess they call 'em the Santa Ana winds or something like that.

It feels very much like fall. The wind has knocked leaves off of the trees, the air was cool, and many houses have their Halloween decorations out.

Earlier I was listening to Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie and the wind while drinking Constant Comment Tea. It was awesome. I felt like I should be in a Leonard Cohen song.

Good day, I must say.

The next step

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Wish

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Brown... like that stuff that isn't dirt and smells

Dan Brown.

The single most...er...

The absolute pentacle of...um...

Dan Brown has a way with words. It takes a certain something to make me want to throw a book across the room every paragraph and he certainly has that something in abundance.

The final straw...

To whoever is paid to care,

Several others and I just received a ticket for parking legally. The citation says that I have parked in a no parking zone for street cleaning. Except today Tuesday and is street cleaning on the opposite side of the street as clearly indicated by the signs on both sides of the street. What is strange to me is that all the cars on the street are parked legally, meaning that there are no cars parked on the side of the street that it would actually be illegal to park. I have included pictures taken at 9:30am of both sides of the street and their respective signs. This does not give me confidence in the employee who ticketed at least 4 cars in a row and failed to notice that there were no cars on the opposite side of the street and wonder why so many people failed to note the proper no parking sign. I would very much appreciate the fine being lifted, for I will not be paying it. You might also consider lifting all the other fines issued by Officer --- on Tuesday October 20, 2009 between 8-10am on ----. I sincerely hope that Officer ---- will be informed of his mistake and that they will be more careful in the future so that this will not happen again to myself or others.

Thanks for trying yet again to steal my money.

Go eff yourself,
Me

Mine

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Opportunity

There is a Showbiz Expo today down at the LA Convention Center. The guy I learned Script Supervising has a booth and is encouraging all his recent students to come down and hang out at the booth for a while. He gets people hanging around his booth creating more interest and we get the chance to meet industry people. Hopefully. Supposedly people come by the booth looking for Script Supervisors not training so there's an off chance that I may score an interview or two or none today. It's worth the effort to go down there at least.

:)

Legend of the Seeker

When I saw the billboards for the series last year I thought for sure that it was going to be terrible, unwatchable, and completely hoaky to the nth degree. I've read part of the book series that the TV series is based off of and I was afraid that it wouldn't adapt well. I'm not a hard core fan so I'm not all that disturbed by the differences between the two. I've never had much of a problem with the changes made from book to film, I come at it from the understanding that it is necessary to adapt stories between the two. I know the hardcore fans cannot stomach the changes and cannot see the merits. Granted, sometimes the adaptations are done poorly and lose completely core concepts of the original and the loathing of these adaptations is completely merited. But sometimes the changes reinvigorate the original instead of rotely copying it.

As adaptations go I am thoroughly enjoying Legend of the Seeker. Its great to see a high fantasy done well on film. Its hard for me to believe a major network took such a risk.

My favorite part is the portrayal of strong women. Kahlan the leading female is equally as powerful as the leading man. She fights with two daggers, or whatever she can get from the enemy and she fights just as well as the guy with the magic sword without the aid of magic. It's pretty awesome.

Freak Out Week

In six days I turn, ugh, twenty-seven. I thought twenty-five was bad. This is most definitely worse. Only because of the 27 year curse that took Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, etc. I can't believe that the last 9 years have happened so fast, especially the last four. They're a blur. I just keep thinking that my life is passing me by and I'm not living it, but I know that's not entirely true. Most of my life is still ahead of me, the most productive years, and probably the most fun and fulfilling years. I should be excited, and I am, I really am. I'm also nervous. There is a lot to do and the time for slacking is behind me. I guess the thing that bothers me most is the total absence of a certain side of my life that most people have down by now. The whole love and relationships thing. It's something that once upon a time I gave quite a bit of thought to but never really pursued, I just keep hoping that someday it will fall into place, I'm not impatient and I'm comfortable with where I am. But like Sally said, "...and I'm going to be 40!" Harry,"Not for another (13 years)." Sally,"I know, but its OUT there!" Le sigh. Screw it, let it unfold as God intends, no use pining or moping. Besides next Monday I get to go to Disneyland for FREE!

Anachronism

I love it.

Watching A Knights Tale remembering why I came out here in the first place and why I love the SCA.

I have recently discovered that my taste in movies tends to lend itself more toward pure entertainment than any sort of "message." If a film can deliver both like Slumdog Millionaire then we've reached perfection.

Love that Film thing

Lately I've been rather lackluster about just about everything. I think that perhaps I have discovered the root of this sad state of affairs to be two things...

1. job hunting, not doing so hot
2. not enough movies. MOVIES, not documentaries.


Cure?
1. I need to watch more movies (old faves) and remember why I'm out here in the first place. A little celluloid encouragement.
2. Rearrange my room somehow. Best thing to do when slumps strike.

But first?

WAR!!!!!

I need to get the crap beaten out of me for several days. :)

Red Cliff

Paranoid

Me? Paranoid?

Uh...yes.

The Knightly Queen

Winter comes to Caid
dark storms froth her seas
warriors raise your horns of mead
in tribute to our fair Knightly Queen

No golden rose shall bloom as bright
No lady of chivalry display her might
No white sea bird soar to such height
as she who sups in Valhalla this night

A cheer to our lost Knightly Queen
Warriors raise your horns of mead
Hail! Hail! Odin's newest Valkyrie
Winter has come to Caid

New Layout

I was tiered of being all dirty rock. Thought I'd go Steampunk in honor of the great month of October just like Tor.