do the math

I'm sitting in the studio right now burning discs for two of the shorts I had to do for the trabajo..

I need to burn 15 dvds..

This computer is suprisingly fast, but it takes about 7 minutes to burn one disc. and in between it takes about a minute to load another disc and get ready to burn, so lets say 8 minutes. times 15 discs equals 120 minutes. 2 HOURS!!!!!! and currently I'm burning my 3rd disc.. lame..

I'm talking to Vic on the internet right now. Yeah its via facebook, but I just say internet...

I guess I'm gonna go watch a cinema 10 presentation to kill some time.

if only for the sake of the weather

im right about to head to school to burn discs.. ohhh god kill me now.

I make music at night. I made this song which has to be the most singlehandedly devious song I've ever made. Its so cheesy its good.... those I told sad it was sad also, which I agree.

I had this conversation with my friend Kristine about being happy. I claimed that I dont think I really know what being happy is. There are things in the world that truly make me feel alive, like film, music, art and friends. But happy? How the fuck would I know? Haha.

but anyways 4 more days till surgery.

Look to Science

Sometimes, (like now for instance) I hate being in the office. I sit in here trying to work on things, but I end up just bulshitting the day away. Im end up scouring the internet for signs of a hopeful outlook on my current inquisitiveness.

"and all we have are our regrets/look to science, when god quits".

song lyrics, titles, and sample dialog always rush through my head and speeds that would make a cheetah look like a winded fat kids running after the ice cream man. I think I forget half of them by the time I write them down. The above phrase about god is a lyric that I eventually want to put into a song somewhere. Im not a very religious person but for some odd reason god is ever present in my songs. I'm not praising the shit out of the guy, in fact its quite the opposite. Maybe its all the As Cities Burn that I've been listening to.

Final cuts and finishing touches

Last day of class is on Wednesday. I have one more short to edit this weekend and then its off to burning discs. I think for a person that works with cameras a lot, I have ben pretty elusive cause i rarely appear on camera. I was editing and I saw myself walk into frame and for some reason I didn't recognize myself at first. I laughed.

i spent this morning trying to sleep but all I could think about was this coming week. I have so much to do, on top of that I have my right eye operation. 5 days left. I promised not to panic. I tell myself that its routine. I got this.

I feel like I keep making the same mistakes when it comes to that one thing.

wedding gift

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cFbUL4uy8

I'd rather just post the link cause for some reason the embed cuts off with this blogspot format..

so this all started when I was just so bored that I had to film something. I've wanted to have a tv smashed for so long and I just never got around to doing it. It was pretty fun.Jamiel had to hit it twice cause the first time the crobar just bounced off and made a huge clank sound. haha.

Call me up sometime, lets chat awhile.

This blog window has been open since yesterday. I've been trying to think of something to write about.

So later today is the last day for my tv class. I'll admit, I will miss it. It was one day out of the week where I got to see people that I actually wanted to see. haha. I'll bring a fruitbasket, or something of the sorts.

I started watching Californication. David Duchovny is a fucking beast. If you liked him as Fox Mulder in the X Files then one must check out this show. I think he has sex in almost every episode. Of course thats not all what this show is about.

Anyways...

I wanna start posting more of my thoughts on film and working in it. Working with actors is one of the things that I'm always on the fence about. At my job I work with a lot of people just breaking into the acting game. Its sometime deterring to work with them cause I feel that half of them don't really want to be there.

but anyways, I always get off track.

Working in depth with actors to prepare for complex roles is a necessary thing. I'm all for letting an actor work with a role and become the role. I have complete respect for the craft and the process. But they still need a starting point. I'll tell them what to think, and how to think it. Suggestions are always welcome and dialogue is very flexible. Without going cheesy on the subject but I'm gonna use that old actor=canvas and I'm holding the brush analogy.

Jokingly I told my friend Cecilia that the secret to directing is to watch the rehearsal of a scene, then tell the actors to either do it again exactly the same, or tell them to do it differently. In a sense thats really all there is to it.