April 11th, 2009

It's about 12:30 there. Which means it's about 3:30 here.

I've been pretty sick this past week. I could complain that it seems unfair that I managed to get sick during spring break, but honestly, I'd rather be sick during a break than during school. It's awful being sick in the dorms. It doesn't get much worse than that, come to think of it.

So, I've just kind of been bed-ridden in Virginia. Which means...MOVIES. Yes, I've been catching up on my film history. I watched Dr. Strangelove, finally. This is Spinal Tap. The Animatrix (sucks.) The Incredibles. The Squid and the Whale. Yeah.

So, now I'm ripping some music from my sister's collection. Havesting one might say. Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Yo-Yo Ma.

Some of you may have noticed I have a Picture a Day on facebook. Some of you also may have noticed that I post those pictures in advance here. So. That's kind of cheating. I don't know. I'm too tired to think about it.

So here's the one for today, which I will post on facebook after I finish this blog.



And the one for tomorrow, since I'm going to be on a plane all day anyways.



SUPER proud of that last one. I think I'm starting to overdo the portraits on white backgrounds with people that look pensive.

Maybe I'm just overdoing pensive in general.

NEWSFLASH:

Apparently Demetri Martin is in D.C. today, and he's doing a show.
So we're trying to get tickets.
Of course this does bring in the question of whether my parents and I have a mature enough relationship to enjoy sex jokes.


This next movie I'm doing is a beast. And the bad kind of beast.
It's a "pursuit" although apparently it isn't supposed to be a "physical"pursuit.

So I'm given the task of making a two minute film with a partner that's three thousand miles away demonstrating a "emotional" pursuit. Awesome. At least I'm assuming it's an emotional pursuit. Whatever that means. Maybe a..mental pursuit!
No.
I don't know.
A..sensual pursuit. Oh my, that sounds juicy.

This is kind of a cool factual experience.

I've always liked this comic. I think it can speak to all of us.

This one brings up an interesting debate.

This one is appropriate for the time of the year. Happy Easter (tomorrow)


Okay, enough of that.

Whenever someone asks me if I play an instrument, I always say no. But that's really more of a half-truth. The fact it that I plays many instruments, poorly. Maybe I'm being to hard on myself. I can putter around on guitar/piano/drums a bit. Well, not so much drums. I took lessons though! For two months. I haven't retained a bit.

Actually that brings me to my point: I have retained a bit! Like today I played piano. It was rough at first, but eventually I got it to sound decent. At least to the point of skill I was at when I was taking lessons.

So whatever that means. I'm just bored out of my skull and I don't want to end this blog because then I'll have nothing to do.