So like I’ve clearly stated before it isn’t my nature to be dedicated enough to keep blogging consistently. It’s been a while.

A few exciting things have happened here and there - went to a country bar with brad, thanksgiving out at hood canal, a couple more parties. In retrospect, this quarter (there’s naught but 1 week of real school left) has been pretty mellow, bordering on straight-up lameness. Partly due to the nature of me, partly due to our location, partly due to my extended gloominess regarding certain peoples escaping the country without me. I look forward to taking break to regroup and try to once again get my shit together.

I haven’t been terribly active in searching for a job, but I did get a small gig for this week. Near the end of October, Ben told me about a friend of a friend who was looking for people to help spread the word about an upcoming film release in Seattle. Getting invovled sounded interesting at the time, but I didn’t end up calling the guy until this weekend - not realizing that the film opens this friday. Turns out that they still would like all the help they can get. Also turns out that I’ll be the ONLY person in Seattle helping spread the word on a grass-roots level. They’re paying me for my time, which involves going to shows/events to pass out flyers. They’re also giving me a copy of the film, the filmmakers first film, and maybe some more swag. Alex (a friend of the filmmaker and part of the distrubution team) also mentioned the possibility of having coffee with the filmmaker - his name is Andrew Bujalski if you’ve heard of him, which I doubt.

If anyone is interested in checking out the film, you can find a trailer at mutualappreciation.com.  It’s a very low budget indie film, but it’s feature length, and  filmed on 16mm (if anyone knows  anything about filmmaking, working with film instead of digital is much more costly and resource hungry). I’d be interested myself in using actual film instead of digital, but the costs are very hard to overcome.

I have to run and go finish some work and then check out a chemistry seminar. I may not get back to writing in this thing until break, since I tend to space out anyway, and I’ll probably be busy studying for ochem and putting together my english portfolio. Most of break will be spent in Tacoma, but we’re going skiing with the family for a few days down in oregon, and i might come back to seattle once or twice.

That is all for now.

Film is finished. I always think about editing it some more, maybe changing a few things, but to me this feels done whether I like it or not. It was all fun anyway. Learning Final Cut Pro on the fly was kind of irritating. Such a powerful program that sometimes the little things are hard to find, or can do much more.

You can’t really see my hair in the thumbnail, but that was the whole reason I posted it. The planets must have been aligned correctly because I really like it.

Although I guess I like the way my hair looks all the time now.

Despite my apparently non-chalant attitude towards my hair, I really do like having hair that just looks good. I’m just not really willing to put time into it.

Speaking of hair, Larken came up here for the weekend. He’s got a flashy new moustache that really terrified me. The best analogy that I can come up with is Ron Jeremy as a used car salesman but combined with Larken. Ok, well it was funky, but I guess Larken can do what he pleases and just be Larken. I had to document it though, and shot a polaroid. Perhaps one of these days I’ll scan it.

I’ve been getting into Philip Glass lately. His composing feels so deliberate and genuine. It fits the films very well.

ok, goodnight.

My mime antics for halloween prompted me to come up with a plot and the mise en scene for a short film that will be entered in the UW Film Club silent film festival. Hopefully I’ll be able to complete all the filming next weekend - if I can get my hands on a camera. Entries are due the 13th, so I should have plenty of time to get things worked out. The film is based on my belief that mimes are tragic characters because they’re never accepted and they also aren’t terribly good at expressing themselves. Much like myself. I’ve seen plenty of mime acts that are very very good. Their physical acting can express probably most of the general human emotions, and definitely evokes a response and empathy but I can’t imagine a mime being able to work out a relationship very well.

Oh, and I dyed my hair black.

Nothing too crazy. Just a few shades darker. Originally it was for my mime costume, but I didn’t have time to do it on halloween, so I just did it yesterday. I rather like it, and I’ve gotten a few compliments - which seemed genuine.

Well, of to writing paper, and reading chemistry some more. Ciao.

“i’ll have you know that 3 long islands and a black russian are not conducive to sensical blog postings in paris. especially when french guys hit on you and you’re too drunk to realize it.”

That’s resurrected from a blog post over a year old.

And I’m procrastinating.. shit, shit, fire ze missiles.

Our toaster has a Pop-Tarts setting. This is awesome.

Had a good chat with a friend from Greece this afternoon. Had to run, but afterwards I couldn’t stop chuckling in my mind about how the last time we chatted must have been in a hot tub on top of a hotel in Athens. Naked. Drunk.

Greece was good times.

The acropolis at night
And also I had terrifying dreams last night. It happened twice. I thought I was awake when it happened. I looked up, and there was a face in my window, looking in. Dark, evil eyes peering at me. A finger beckoned. I think I must have woken to find that I had been sleeping. It’s all a blur and still seems like I wasn’t sleeping when it happened.