Second Cup of Coffee

Yeah, I'm on my second cup.  I didn't realize that I had stopped drinking as much coffee after I became addicted to tea.  Now I am on my second cup of the day.  I'm jittery.

Here is where I bitch about not having any ideas:
I don't have any ideas.  I can't come up with anything.  I try writing but nothing interesting happens.  I try drawing but nothing new comes out.  I am just... ugh.

Okay, back to other things.

Jake, you can stay with me any time.  A week is fine.  I should have a couch by then, so you won't have to sleep on the floor!  If you want to stay for a month though, I want $150.  That's five dollars a night with internet and utilities.  You can't beat that!

Now to other news that aren't really news: Life is good.

Today marks my fourth month anniversary here in Chicago.  Yay!  Let's see, in four months, I...
Moved to a new city where I didn't know anyone or anything.
I went to school.
I got a job.
I found my own apartment.
I moved out of the student housing facility.
I met lots of new people.
And more stuff that I cannot think of right now.

I am doing pretty good too.  Despite me not being able to come up with any ideas and not having any furniture, I am still happy!

So yeah.  Now let me talk about what a terrible person I am:

I may or may not care more for people who have aspirations in the film industry.  It's like every time I meet someone, I always pay more attention to whoever likes movies the most.  Not that much really, but it's still dickish of me.

So a few friends and I are going to start making our own little independent stuff.  Yay! This is all really exciting!

I want to get a second job, because the current one is not paying the rent.  It did this month, but maybe next won't be so good.

Okay, have a good day y'all!

Ps:  I'm really excited for Katherine and Sarah's visit.  WOHOOO!

It's late...

So I just watched Enter the Void, The Babysitters, and The Hangover, all in a row.   That's the order of .. how good they were I guess.  I felt like Enter the Void was like Requiem for a Dream meets Trainspotting.  I liked it.
The Babysitters is like.. I don't know.  I liked the ending.
The Hangover... Meh.  No bad cinematography, but I guess it's not my kind of humor.

I also saw a documentary the other day, Dear Zachary.
Ohmygod.  The story is soo good.  So sad, but so good.  It would make for a great movie, except it's already a documentary.  Technically it is not that great, but seriously, the story is awesome.  Check it out.

So yeah.

Netflix is the best film school in the world.

President's Day

So my damn school is not giving us tomorrow off.  Damn.  They 'observe' president's day on Friday, when no one has classes.  I do though, so yay for me.  I got so much free stuff today.  I got a teapot!  I KNOW!  It's like everything on my list is coming to me!   The teapot has a broken ear thing, but a little super glue should fix that.  I also got a pound of some good tea because the manager made a small mistake while filling the giant tins, so there went 93 ounces of the second most expensive in the store.  So I got at least 300 dollies worth of tea.  O'yea!  We distributed it amongst all employees that was at least $1000 worth of tea.
Enough with the tea now.

I hate school.

How's everybody doing?  I'm doing fine, thanks.
Been writing a little bit.  I like writing.  And reading.  You know that one girl?  The one with the dragon tattoo?  Yeah.  Her book is pretty good.  I have been trying to watch more movies too.  I really need to get back on that.
I rearranged my room.  Now I sleep with my head facing North.  Hopefully I will start dreaming more, because the orientation of your body while you sleep has a lot to do with that, I'm sure.
Okay, I'm gonna go sleep now.  Bye.

I Am Sitting on a Chair!

I don't know if I capitalized correctly in the title.  Whatever.  If I make a grammatical mistake I'll just blame it on my foreignness, just like my grandma used to blame her public farts on her age and her weak stomach.

I got a wingback chair!!  I am so happy, and I am sitting on it right now.  I would post a picture of it on here, but I am too lazy to go through the troubles.  . .. Oh wait.

Hey!  Aren't you glad Steve Jobs invented Photo Booth?  So yeah, that's the chair.  That shiny green thing next to it is "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," which is really good btw.  And that thing that appears to be below it is a cup of tea.

Anyway, that's my chair.  Now I have no excuse to leave the apartment.  Just gonna come home, sit, read, write, etc.

I saw Shutter Island today.  It was good.  Too much back light though.  I don't know.. Still trying to think if I liked it or not.  I didn't really pay attention to the story;  I was focusing more on the technical side.

Jake, I agree with your views on Tim Burton.  Read the comment I posted.. if you read this.

So I got my chair.  Hopefully I'll start growing gray hair next.

I am kinda pissed that Sam P. dropped out of school before me.  Damn it!  I was supposed to go first.  Oh well.  Does he still think that a producer doesn't do anything?  You see, Sam and I have this friendly rivalry relationship thing.  He told me that I had no talent and that he was better than me, to which I said "that's your opinion,"  but it still made me think, 'what if he's right?'  I really like Sam though.  I think he's a genius.  He thinks I'm an idiot, but I value our friendship.  At least I think we're friends.

I've been working on a story.  And let me rant here:

There is this kid, I don't want to say his real name, so let's call him Douche.  Ouche for short.  So Ouche thinks he is better than everyone else, and he is a total nerd who kisses the teacher's ass all over, and who works in the cage (which is what they call the place where the school keeps all the cameras and their fancy, expensive equipment.)  Anyway, Ouche makes like ten dollars an hour, and he doesn't pay rent (yet)  so compared to me, he is a fucking billionaire.  Ouche is in my intro to film class, and our third assignment was to make a video blah blah blah.   . .   Ouche went out and rented a car.  HE RENTED A FUCKING CAR for his project, and apparently he ripped some of his scenes off of Pineapple Express, which I have not seen, but someone told me.  The point is, nobody likes Ouche, because he tries too hard, and his movie wasn't even that good.  I don't hate Ouche, but I was checking equipment in today, and he was like, "what's your name again?"  And my heart just dropped with my balls.  How dare him not know my name!  I am like, friggin' me!  And he sits next to me in class!  And I don't mean to brag, but I am one of the best ones in that intro class.  So I may not hate Ouche, but HOW DARE HIM!

Just needed to get that out.

Okay.

Sleep well, kids.

Dreams

No, not like life dreams, SLEEP DREAMS!
Last night I dreamt with pregnancy again.  There's more...
On Tuesday night I dreamt that Kate Feldmann was pregnant with Daniel English's baby.  Daniel was in jail for some reason though.   That's pregnancy dream number one.

Last night I dreamt that I was standing next to a pregnant lady.  Somehow I knew that her baby was a demon child, so I had to stab her belly with a screw driver.  I felt like a dick!  (haha, can't have a baby without a dick- can't stab a baby without a dick... It would be funny if... if it were.)

Anyway, I haven't been up to much.
Boss said that if I meet all my goals for a week, I get a free teapot!

That one!

It's missing some cups or some shayt, but I don't care!
So now I have to work extra hard.

Not much going on.  My life is still super lame and uneventful.  .  .
Okay I'm gonna go now.  The Sears tower says hi.

Jump!

Jump! And bounce.  I have that song stuck in my nogging.  They use it in The Devil Wears Prada, and I don't care what anyone says, I really like that movie.  It has a lot of important lessons, and I think it is more about success and career sacrifices than about fashion.  And Meryl Streep, come on!

Did I mention that I am doing a 29 day challenge with a bunch of friends?  Yeah!  We e each give something up for 29 days, and we have a victory party in the end.  If you fail to go a day without it though, you are banned from the party.  I gave up Facebook, so no Facebook for me.  Two people gave up chocolate.  I would not be able to do that.  Someone gave up wine, someone wings (wtf?!)  and someone ice cream... and more things that I can't remember. Yeah.

I really really want a wingback chair, so friggin' bad.  Fuck. I also want to get out of school, but life has no meaning without something to sit on, am I right?

Okay, not much to say.  Katherine visited in my dream.  She cried a lot.  STOP CRYING!

Sarah is visiting at some point too. Yay!  gotta start coming up with things to do.  We could go chair shopping!  Okay.  I just want to retire already.   agjdklanoaeid.

I'm gonna go now.  I need to tap into my creative unconscious.

Your Desires Are Perfectly Normal!

Here is a list of things that I really really want and desire with all my heart at the moment.  You know what they say:  If you blog about it, it comes true.

1:  A wingback chair.
    I really need something to sit on while I read my books and listen to James Figurine. One with a cool design, like the one in the picture!  I really really want one.

2:  Motivation.
    This one seems to come up every single time I write one of these lists.  Yeah.  I really need some.

3:  A teapot.
    I want a teapot.  A fancy. Ass. Teapot.  Something that looks like your grandma pulled it out of her grandma's ass.

4:  Gray hair.
    I have never desired that more in my life.  Maybe if I think about it a lot it will start growing out!

5:  Not having school.
    I really hate it.  Words cannot describe my hatred for school, but it's not my school.  It's just the idea of school.  Hard to explain.

6:  More movies.
    This is just common sense to me, so I almost forgot about it.

7:  More friends.
    I've made plenty of new friends since I moved, but plenty isn't enough.  I need more.

8:  The cure for writer's block.
    How am I supposed to come up with ideas when.. I can't come up with ideas?!  It really frustrates me.

9:  Unlimited soup.
    I love soup.  I wish I could cook soup every day.  I don't like foods that are hard to chew because I'm like an old man inside, and soup is the ultimate food that you don't really have to chew!  I don't even have to wear my dentures to eat it!

10:  Wine and caviar.
    I want to piechart my diet.  That is the next blog.

Thanks for reading.  Tell me, what are the ten things that you want the most?  Post a comment, or write a blog!  It would make me super happy!

Jake, stop harassing Katherine.  Katherine, stop crying.  Sarah, . . . hi.

I'm Weak

My biggest weakness is not being able to do shit by myself.
I would have gone to that movie premiere out in the blizzard, but not by myself.
Crap.

Bagels and Tea

So I have been eating a lot lately.  Yea.  No "unhealthy" food though.
I went to an absinthe party at James' (the girl) house.  It was fun.  Other people were there.  This girl I know, Ashley, and her roommate Cody.  They got high in the hookah room (James has a hookah room)  and then we had the fancy absinthe ritual.  First they pour a shot in the glass and dunk two sugar cubes in it.  Then they take the absinthe spoon and place the sugar cubes on it.  Then they light the sugar cubes on fire, and it looks really cool.  They let the sugar burn for a couple seconds, and finally they pour water over it.  It was interesting.  I had one with tea instead of water.  In the end I had five shots, and a shot of infused vodka.  The funny thing is that I didn't really feel anything, like, I wasn't drunk.  I was expecting the absinthe to gimme ideas, but nothing happened, and so I thought:  What if I have a strong resistance to alcohol? Meh. I forgot to mention that the absinthe was 75 proof too.  I ended up going home at about 3 am, and I wasn't feeling anything, except for my tiredness.  My friend Mitch was with me.  There were more nice people at the party.  It was all fun.

I got two free tickets to the premiere of "cherry"  at the Mid West Film Festival!  That's tonight, and I hope that nothing gets cancelled because of the 'snow storm'

There is nothing else to say, except that I look forward to getting visits from people.
I am trying to get more involved in the "art scene" whatever that is.

Also, I got into an argument with Michael (my roommate) about teachers and stuff.  I was telling him that I didn't like the way our film teacher taught Final Cut, and he freaked out on me.  He said that "wow, I mean, you certainly know more than a professor who works in the industry."  And in my head I was like, "bitch please, if our professors had succeeded in the so called 'industry'  they wouldn't be professors right now."  But I didn't say that out loud.  I don't remember what I said.  My point was that it didn't matter how I learned to use Final Cut differently, because in the end I am still getting the job done.

There is nothing much going on.  Trying to meet people and go places.
Yeah.  Make plans to visit Chicago Today!