How many bulbs to lighten the fuck up?
I hate people.
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I thought Jennifer Lopez was in that movie? Where's Vince Vaughn?
Music: None
Mood: Exhausted

I woke up early this morning from the phone ringing. I thought it would be Sarah but it turned out to be Stu - at which pointed I realized I'd mentioned to him I'd be free on Thursdays so we should hang out when he's in the city for class. Today being Thursday. So although I missed out on about 3 hours sleep, which I could have used, I got to hang with Stu and David this evening and have good times.



Cool pic huh? It's from the film series, "The Cremaster Cycle" by Matthew Barney...

All I can do is point you in the direction of the website - http://cremaster.net/

Frankly, I think that these films look pretty goddamn incredible. The strong visual flare is amazing and I cannot wait to see them. Only problem is that seeing them is, apparently, rather difficult to accmplish. Outside of exhibitions at film festivals and art museums, it's virutally impossible to view them. Apparently they're headed to DVD in 2004 - but, honestly, these films are so visual that I feel as though I'd need to see them on big screen in order to fully appreciate them.

Oh, and apparently I missed their presence in Chicago by 3 months.

Fuck.
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Almost empty
Music: None
Mood: None


Emulsion - Teaser - now streaming


Like I said in the previous entry, it's more of a "light test" that became a teaser trailer simply out of my boredome and desire to work on "something". Like the Malaise trailer, it's vague and doesn't explain much. The website text is actually more informative than the teaser, but.. hey.. I like the trailers that don't explain any of the story. Always have. So that's what I intend on doing.

Hope you don't find it a waste of time ^_^;
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In the grand scheme of things
Music: Grandadoy - AM180 (28 Days Later soundtrack)
Mood: Satisfied

Well, in loo of the displeasure over the orange colors for Digital Iris - that I was told was not reflective of me - I switched over to a new color swatch. Personally, I think these blues work a lot better and make the place seems a bit spifier. More.. calm. Subdued. Cool.

I spent most of this evening downloading Halo vids from The Junkyard. Still, what I really found compelling were the hacked vids. That is, an altered version of Halo on the Xbox that features such things as the shotgun-sniperrife and the automatic machinegun.. that fires plasma grenades. Or, perhaps the stranges, an altered shotgun that fires... Master Chief clones.

Watch the video here.

It's truly entertaining. At least to geeks.

Speaking of geeks, I was pleased to see on the AnimeonDVD.com forums - where I still occasionally lurk - that someone else started a thread entitled "Bored with Anime?" And moreover, Sam mentioned on AIM a few nights back that she had begun to find it difficult to find anime to watch. It seems as though everyone I know is gradually slipping from the anime scene. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that.

The past few days I've been testing lighting arrangements for Emulsion. I cut the test footage into a trailer of sorts (a trailer for a short film... bear with me). It's about 2 mins long - which is probably about 1/3 of the length the final movie will be. Anyhow, I think I'll post it online tomorrow. It's nothing extraordinary. Like I said, it was supposed to just be a test of how the lighting would work out and if I could get enough ligjt with the bulbs I wanted to use... Which remains to be determined.

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Music: Roe (& Gary) WLS 890AM
Mood: Full

At 3am last night I opted to go work out at the gym in the building. This was a combination of boredom, guilt, and that I hate working out in front of other people, thus by hitting the gym in the wee hours of the morning, I'm able to bypass them. However, as I was watching an infomerical for penis enlargement pills on the TV down there, I began to feel very nauseated. I suspect it was a combination of it being 3am, the penis commerical, and the shrimp and vegetable pasta I'd had hours before.

*sigh*

So I crawled up to my apt and prayed I wouldn't die.

Anyhow - lately I've been downloading the type of mp3 the RIAA couldn't care less about... Guided Meditation tapes. Stop laughing. In highschool we had a day of learning about new things and one of them was guided meditation - which ended with the instructor urging us to buy meditation CDs at Borders and such. Well for one reason or another I downloaded a few and burned them to CD.

A few nights ago I was laying down for the night listening to one of them - after the initial introductor remarks, the next thing I remember is the voice saying "you're coming back from your journey - you feel relaxed and..." etc. I believe I was secretly programmed to kill diplomats by this mp3 since I'm missing about 20 minutes of my life between the beginning and end of that "journey".
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Music: WLS890 AM
Mood: Tired

Save Roe and Gary

(Read why here)

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Groggy lens
Music: Tupac - Wonder Why They Call You
Mood: Content



Ever since I saw it, I wanted to be in Men Before 10 am. I don't know why, but I always thought it was a really cool book, for whatever reason, and I've followed the series though "Women Before 10am" and "Men Before 10am Too". It's ironic, since I'm not a morning person at all. In fact, I'm the exact opposite of a morning person.

Anyhow, thanks to Sarah, I guess that photo above is my contribution. Bad thing about keeping long hair, is that in the morning you invariably have to deal with bad bed-head..


After almost 3 weeks, I'm back to school for second semester. Columbia's schedule is strange and my christmas break is divided into two by two weeks of class. I had 2 weeks off, then 2 weeks of class, then 3 more weeks off. I was home for most of those 3 weeks, and while it was nice to be there, I have to say I'm glad to be back "home" - to this home. To the city. I missed it, probably more than I expected to. Classes resume tomorrow, but I think I'm going to take one more day off to tie up loose ends and things I negelected over my vacation "proper". Probably not the best way to kick off the semester, but my theory is that this week of classes will be useless anyway.

Good news this time around is I don't have class on Thursdays. Bad news, I have class till 5pm on Fridays. Fuck.

On the 21st, Stu, Pat, David and I are shooting EMULSION. Hopefully it'll be online a week later... hopefully.
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