Hello me! Meet the REAL me!
R.I.P. Mr. Brightside
Out with the old! In with the new!
So, at least for the time being, I have control of my life. School starts Tuesday. I work 25 hours a week. I run two miles a day and hit weights three times a week. I even went out to see a movie, for cryin' out loud! I haven't seen a movie in theaters yet this year! I saw The Brothers Grimm, and it was pretty decent. I've seen a lot of old movies this past week. Taxi Driver was one that was really good. City of God was excellent, as well. Raging Bull dissappointed me, considering it is in a lot of people's top five or something like that.
Speaking of movies, I also work behind the scenes cutting scripts and coaching for the Forensics team from one of the B'ham middle schools. For anyone who doesn't know what this is, Forensics is competitive acting which is divided into categories of competition. I cut movies into pieces for DI (dramatic inerpretation), Duo (two competitors), and Multiple (between 5-8 competitors). Right now, I'm working on Ferris Bueller's Day Off for DI, and An American Werewolf in London for Duo. Ferris is going real smooth right now, and it looks like it's going to fit the kid who wants to perform it. Werewolf is an interesting animal, no pun intended, because I don't know how well that's going to go over with the judges at a middle school level. I might toss that one over to high school. I haven't really worked on it yet, so I don't know how it's going to pan out. For Multiple, I'm trying to do A Nightmare Before Christmas, but that one is a bitch. It's on the backburner until I get the first two done. If anyone knows Forensics and thinks they know a movie that would make a good cutting, I am all ears. I like hearing new ideas, as I am very stuck in my ways as far as what I think makes a good script.
So quitting Magic has been pretty good to me. I realized how few people I actually liked from Pandemonium, and I've done my best from that point onward to keep only a few in my life, for example, The Cap'n, Major Matt, and a couple others. Anyone else, I don't much give a shit about. I guess I'm trying to cull the people who suck from my life as well as bring back in the people who don't suck.
Example, I saw Julie last night. She was the one I caught the movie with. I haven't seen Julie in months, much less talked to her. She's one of those people that I forget why I stopped hanging out with. She is, in fact, nothing short of awesome.
I also am trying to keep in touch with my U of M guys much better now. A couple of these guys (you know who you are), have been too good of friends to me to just up and forget about while they are away at school. So guys, you rock. Here's to 'movie night' returning next summer. Cocaina!
It's weird, but I feel a sense of control that I didn't feel before. I'm back... Well, mostly. There's a couple things that still need to be resolved in me, but it mostly involves other people that I care about. For all intents and purposes, Johnny's back, bitches!
When your not yourself for so long (for anyone who doesn't know, last winter, I had a severe depression diagnosis that led to me withdrawing from second semester and getting out of touch with a lot of things that I held dear to me), it's a little scary when you finally feel like yourself again.
Hello, me. It's ME again.
That is all for now.
Out with the old! In with the new!
So, at least for the time being, I have control of my life. School starts Tuesday. I work 25 hours a week. I run two miles a day and hit weights three times a week. I even went out to see a movie, for cryin' out loud! I haven't seen a movie in theaters yet this year! I saw The Brothers Grimm, and it was pretty decent. I've seen a lot of old movies this past week. Taxi Driver was one that was really good. City of God was excellent, as well. Raging Bull dissappointed me, considering it is in a lot of people's top five or something like that.
Speaking of movies, I also work behind the scenes cutting scripts and coaching for the Forensics team from one of the B'ham middle schools. For anyone who doesn't know what this is, Forensics is competitive acting which is divided into categories of competition. I cut movies into pieces for DI (dramatic inerpretation), Duo (two competitors), and Multiple (between 5-8 competitors). Right now, I'm working on Ferris Bueller's Day Off for DI, and An American Werewolf in London for Duo. Ferris is going real smooth right now, and it looks like it's going to fit the kid who wants to perform it. Werewolf is an interesting animal, no pun intended, because I don't know how well that's going to go over with the judges at a middle school level. I might toss that one over to high school. I haven't really worked on it yet, so I don't know how it's going to pan out. For Multiple, I'm trying to do A Nightmare Before Christmas, but that one is a bitch. It's on the backburner until I get the first two done. If anyone knows Forensics and thinks they know a movie that would make a good cutting, I am all ears. I like hearing new ideas, as I am very stuck in my ways as far as what I think makes a good script.
So quitting Magic has been pretty good to me. I realized how few people I actually liked from Pandemonium, and I've done my best from that point onward to keep only a few in my life, for example, The Cap'n, Major Matt, and a couple others. Anyone else, I don't much give a shit about. I guess I'm trying to cull the people who suck from my life as well as bring back in the people who don't suck.
Example, I saw Julie last night. She was the one I caught the movie with. I haven't seen Julie in months, much less talked to her. She's one of those people that I forget why I stopped hanging out with. She is, in fact, nothing short of awesome.
I also am trying to keep in touch with my U of M guys much better now. A couple of these guys (you know who you are), have been too good of friends to me to just up and forget about while they are away at school. So guys, you rock. Here's to 'movie night' returning next summer. Cocaina!
It's weird, but I feel a sense of control that I didn't feel before. I'm back... Well, mostly. There's a couple things that still need to be resolved in me, but it mostly involves other people that I care about. For all intents and purposes, Johnny's back, bitches!
When your not yourself for so long (for anyone who doesn't know, last winter, I had a severe depression diagnosis that led to me withdrawing from second semester and getting out of touch with a lot of things that I held dear to me), it's a little scary when you finally feel like yourself again.
Hello, me. It's ME again.
That is all for now.