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february 5th, 2011 — 'stagnation' re 'productivity' re 'dead midgets' seems 'incredible' in an almost impossible way based on the amount of time/energy i feel that i've put into the movie. everything has 'come to a standstill', seemingly. feels awful. i have moved to baltimore, have completed the final[ish] draft of the script and am working on reinvigorating general interests among the cast, who, since classes began, have steadily decided that being in a movie is too time-intensive, though it will ultimately require something like 10-15 hours over the course of four months. i don't know. i feel angry
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
november
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november 12, 2010 — production seems stagnant. attempts to advertise seem bleak. waiting for shooting to start in january. hoping a 'sudden resurgence' of interest will develop. going to attempt to 'mindlessly' work on 'dive pack' for ~2 months
november 15, 2010 — launched the dude chill campaign. likelihood of success seems 'tragically low', hehe
Friday, November 5, 2010
october
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october 5, 2010 — almost finished with the soundtrack for the film. took a month-long vacation from working on 'dive pack', but will probably pick that back up once the music demo's finished or work on more visual stuff. applied for a job at a retail outlet. feeling good/focused/progress-oriented. pretty stoked
october 11, 2010 — decided to add a new song to the end of the soundtrack via the recent suicides related to gay-hating. seems weird to be doing something 'for a cause'; don't plan on making a habit of it. weather got warmish all of a sudden. immune system's taking a beating. came to the conclusion recently that there is no way to create a respected persona without first deciding not to hold any other person's persona/work in very high regard, because if one constantly refers back to another's work, it will be difficult to establish a clear voice that isn't permanently associated with the work it is based on/around. seems ironic that i am returning to this theorem after years of copycatting
october 5, 2010 — almost finished with the soundtrack for the film. took a month-long vacation from working on 'dive pack', but will probably pick that back up once the music demo's finished or work on more visual stuff. applied for a job at a retail outlet. feeling good/focused/progress-oriented. pretty stoked
october 11, 2010 — decided to add a new song to the end of the soundtrack via the recent suicides related to gay-hating. seems weird to be doing something 'for a cause'; don't plan on making a habit of it. weather got warmish all of a sudden. immune system's taking a beating. came to the conclusion recently that there is no way to create a respected persona without first deciding not to hold any other person's persona/work in very high regard, because if one constantly refers back to another's work, it will be difficult to establish a clear voice that isn't permanently associated with the work it is based on/around. seems ironic that i am returning to this theorem after years of copycatting
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
september
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september 3, 2010 — beach trips, goodbye parties, guido-like hot tubbing sessions, and insane, unkeepable promises made. i've had a crazy three weeks. production on a new 't.v. series' called 'dive pack' has begun, i.e., voices recorded, backgrounds drawn, rough animation done. just trying to get back into the swing of applying consistent work ethic and not being over-anxious about the completion of the entire project. not sure what i'm doing for the weekend, but it will probably be an even split between working and playing, for balance's sake.
september 3, 2010 — beach trips, goodbye parties, guido-like hot tubbing sessions, and insane, unkeepable promises made. i've had a crazy three weeks. production on a new 't.v. series' called 'dive pack' has begun, i.e., voices recorded, backgrounds drawn, rough animation done. just trying to get back into the swing of applying consistent work ethic and not being over-anxious about the completion of the entire project. not sure what i'm doing for the weekend, but it will probably be an even split between working and playing, for balance's sake.
Monday, August 30, 2010
august
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august 1, 2010 — there was this party i heard about in baltimore. went to it. turns out it's at the house i want to live at next semester. some members of the cast were there (trying to sound pretentious). i asked a few musician friends if they would record for it. hopefully pans out. got annihilated and tried to recall a story about having had sex for eight hours. came off as impressive and not extremely painful, seemed bad. on the verge of blacking out at present. miss my girlfriend a lot.
august 5, 2010 — plans for the day: start working on 'dive pack', follow up on applying to work at american apparel (lol), figure out some color scheme correlation (via script re-writes/scene descriptions), send my girlfriend a hand-written letter via snail mail.
august 8, 2010 — super stressful day, yet managed not to do any work at all. it's my parent's anniversary and they went on vacay w/o us kids. since we've all been away at college or some other sort of activity for the past year, seems unfair that we get no vacay. n e way, some progress on 'dive pack' has been made. character designs drawn, outline for the first episode complete. now going to have a little friendly competition between me and myself. the challenge: eat three bowls of carbohydrate-rich raisin bran granola crunch and finish the storyboards before i a) fall asleep, b) have to shit, or c) get distracted by the internet/handle of alcohol sitting beside me. may the best _____ win!
august 11, 2010 — holy shit. it's 5a.m. and i just finished doing character designs for episode one of 'the dive pack'. received the first draft of the script from james at around 3a.m.. feeling pretty stoked or tired or something. tomorrow is storyboarding day, also, somehow came into possession of a rare film which i plan to lull myself to sleep to. finished watching carl sagan's 'cosmos' as well as his film, 'contact' on hulu and netflicks (respectively) today. my girlfriend put on a play of disney's 'aladdin' at her camp today also. seemed extremely productive in a 'totally sweet' way. should i post the dive pack designs in the gallery? can't decide if they are enough of a derivative of 'dead midgets' to include here. hmmm.
august 13, 2010 — very little actual progress on any work. feel like if i mention anything i'll be re-hashing old blog posts for a third or fourth time. i always forget how much work i've signed up for when i say 'i will do [something]'. it's always way more work than expected and only seems to need to get done at the least convenient times (while watching a movie/eating delicious food/conversing with friends). not that i've lost any passion whatsoever, but it's getting harder. can't wait for that crunch-time adrenaline rush -- that is how i like to work, pressed for fucking time.
august 1, 2010 — there was this party i heard about in baltimore. went to it. turns out it's at the house i want to live at next semester. some members of the cast were there (trying to sound pretentious). i asked a few musician friends if they would record for it. hopefully pans out. got annihilated and tried to recall a story about having had sex for eight hours. came off as impressive and not extremely painful, seemed bad. on the verge of blacking out at present. miss my girlfriend a lot.
august 5, 2010 — plans for the day: start working on 'dive pack', follow up on applying to work at american apparel (lol), figure out some color scheme correlation (via script re-writes/scene descriptions), send my girlfriend a hand-written letter via snail mail.
august 8, 2010 — super stressful day, yet managed not to do any work at all. it's my parent's anniversary and they went on vacay w/o us kids. since we've all been away at college or some other sort of activity for the past year, seems unfair that we get no vacay. n e way, some progress on 'dive pack' has been made. character designs drawn, outline for the first episode complete. now going to have a little friendly competition between me and myself. the challenge: eat three bowls of carbohydrate-rich raisin bran granola crunch and finish the storyboards before i a) fall asleep, b) have to shit, or c) get distracted by the internet/handle of alcohol sitting beside me. may the best _____ win!
august 11, 2010 — holy shit. it's 5a.m. and i just finished doing character designs for episode one of 'the dive pack'. received the first draft of the script from james at around 3a.m.. feeling pretty stoked or tired or something. tomorrow is storyboarding day, also, somehow came into possession of a rare film which i plan to lull myself to sleep to. finished watching carl sagan's 'cosmos' as well as his film, 'contact' on hulu and netflicks (respectively) today. my girlfriend put on a play of disney's 'aladdin' at her camp today also. seemed extremely productive in a 'totally sweet' way. should i post the dive pack designs in the gallery? can't decide if they are enough of a derivative of 'dead midgets' to include here. hmmm.
august 13, 2010 — very little actual progress on any work. feel like if i mention anything i'll be re-hashing old blog posts for a third or fourth time. i always forget how much work i've signed up for when i say 'i will do [something]'. it's always way more work than expected and only seems to need to get done at the least convenient times (while watching a movie/eating delicious food/conversing with friends). not that i've lost any passion whatsoever, but it's getting harder. can't wait for that crunch-time adrenaline rush -- that is how i like to work, pressed for fucking time.
Monday, August 2, 2010
july
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july 21, 2010 — spent the night/morning with my girlfriend, then shipped her back off to camp (where she's a counselor). watched 'greenberg,' then got 'distracted'. went to a party later and ran into my friend's 'ex-girfriend'. almost got into some fights. she got thrown out of the party. got a free pack of cigarettes from the proprietor of seven eleven. pretty chill day.
july 22, 2010 — pretty hung over for the bulk of the day. went to the doctor's for a check up (it's not every day that the opportunity to get felt up by a balding indian bro arises, so one must oblige, i feel). bought alcohol for my little brother then beat him in a mario vs. pikachu s.s.b. bout, which turned out to be practice for a night of joose, 40ozs, boxed wine and a hardcore smash bros. tourney against a bunch of game-savvy girls. got my ass kicked a couple of times.
july 23, 2010 — lame night. was supposed to go to my friend's farm and get trashed, ended up pool dipping, watching this video and then getting drunk with james at the crashpad. might go to the bars still, but, like, last resort.
july 29, 2010 — finished the demo for the opening song 'cobrona' and am working on script edits. 'jersey shore' season 2 premiers tonight. debating how trendy i want to be today.
july 21, 2010 — spent the night/morning with my girlfriend, then shipped her back off to camp (where she's a counselor). watched 'greenberg,' then got 'distracted'. went to a party later and ran into my friend's 'ex-girfriend'. almost got into some fights. she got thrown out of the party. got a free pack of cigarettes from the proprietor of seven eleven. pretty chill day.
july 22, 2010 — pretty hung over for the bulk of the day. went to the doctor's for a check up (it's not every day that the opportunity to get felt up by a balding indian bro arises, so one must oblige, i feel). bought alcohol for my little brother then beat him in a mario vs. pikachu s.s.b. bout, which turned out to be practice for a night of joose, 40ozs, boxed wine and a hardcore smash bros. tourney against a bunch of game-savvy girls. got my ass kicked a couple of times.
july 23, 2010 — lame night. was supposed to go to my friend's farm and get trashed, ended up pool dipping, watching this video and then getting drunk with james at the crashpad. might go to the bars still, but, like, last resort.
july 29, 2010 — finished the demo for the opening song 'cobrona' and am working on script edits. 'jersey shore' season 2 premiers tonight. debating how trendy i want to be today.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
sitting at a deli contemplating boredom and the verb 'to blog' sarcastically
feeling unsure what the 'primary function' of a blog is. am i 'a blogger' now? should i write a narrative? should i write commentary about something in real life that 'piques my interest?' seems like nothing 'piques my interest.' should i write poems in this space? does writing solely about myself cause this blog to be 'more boring' or 'less boring.'
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