My So-Called Life (Is Not Worth It)
You wouldn't believe this case of insomnia I have. Fuck.
(-) The house I live in has a partition that turns it into two separate living units. Someone on this piece of property is having sex.
(-) Being that I live here, I can safely say that whoever it is, they're fucking ugly and not quiet.
(-) I have such a busy day tomorrow (today, really). I have no clue how I'm going to get through it with practically no sleep. Not limited to, but including: two classes, scan more pictures for the album (including pics from this past weekend, including the Kaputnik party, drinking with Brandon at 2pm on Saturday, and some pics from The Cube on Saturday night), go to a section (where I'm hoping, against chance, that this cute indie-ish-looking-esque-girl that's in my Comparative Post-Communist class is in), etc. I've accepted the fact that I won't be able to make Keith's show at Mr. Toot's tomorrow-- very irksome.
(-) There's this crazy love triangle fiasco going on in my house. Let's just say that 4 people (including myself) live in my house. 3 have had sex. I am not one of them. As of now, only 3 people live in my house. Whatever, so far their guilt means more food in the house to eat.
(-) Hopefully sometime this weekend I can catch Jason at an ideal time to get these interviews scanned. I won't even try to do them all at once, but the first five will hopefully be something like An Albatross, At The Drive-In, Cursive, The Locust, and blah.
Christ I'm so fucking tired.
I'm contemplating starting this magazine. No clue what it would be called, but the concept would be to pick 10-20 people each issue. 10-20 random people-- well, not really, more like "cool people that are chosen arbitrarily based on my mood at the time".
They'll be interviewed like celebrities, including their favorite whatever. Not like a profile such as Friendster or a Live Journal, because I actually want to focus on anecdotes. Thus the focus of the reading content would be reading funny, sad, embarrassing (not in retrospect), crazy memories and experiences.
There would obviously be a photo shoot, manual cameras (not cheap looking pictures like what's pretty much in my "see what johnny c sees" album), in which it would be published on resolution-friendly parchment.
Just to be blunt and cut to the chase, the people will be hot/good looking people, being that they will be the main focus of 90% of the imagery in the magazine. Eye candy, plain and simple.
Actually, let me just blurt out the superficial truth: They'll be scene-ish kids with few exceptions.
Who I'm going to need (at least):
-A photographer
-An assistant editor
-An advertising exec.
-A publisher
-We would all work on page layouts
Costs:
-This totally depends on the print run. My dream (as if this crackpot idea isn't one already) would be a 500 copy run. The first one is obviously going to be something around 50 in which if people buy it, like it, respond to it (via a LJ or Friendster community), then the next issue will be a run of 20 or so more.
-Parchment
-Printing
-Publishing
-Film
-Advertising
-Time
-Time
-Dedication
-Time
Obviously the selling price is based off the cost of the magazine.
NOTE: The objective will not be profit (at least not at first, and never going past anything other than "minimal profit"). Selling price will be aimed to simply break even at the expenses that would be used to get the publication out. In fact, I expect (as would anyone else who would help me with this) to actually lose money on this for a while, a long while.
Basically, I just need people who would be interested in working on a project like this, who want to document an urban/music/fashion culture from the point of view of the kids who actually live it, and who wouldn't mind putting the time, money, and dedication into it.
I'm going to start actively gathering people around mid-May, and hopefully start working on it in June.
Any comments on this are welcome, especially negative ones that say I'll never be able to do it. That way I'll either be convinced not to take on this endeavor, or to simply have more drive to actually do it.
EDIT: AW FUCK!! I forgot to watch The Price Is Right yesterday. That was the day when they were gonna show the episode where Leia and Aimee are in the front row being totally stupid and funny. Super fucking bummer.
Random Link: United States of Electronica - Check out these Seattle-based kids-- I personally think they sound awful, but judge for yourself. Note: If you're not into vocoders, the "new disco" genre, the "party/pop scene", keyboards, etc. then this is definitely not your cup of tea. Although one of the music videos on their site is footage from a ton of live shows, which is sort of cool.
(-) The house I live in has a partition that turns it into two separate living units. Someone on this piece of property is having sex.
(-) Being that I live here, I can safely say that whoever it is, they're fucking ugly and not quiet.
(-) I have such a busy day tomorrow (today, really). I have no clue how I'm going to get through it with practically no sleep. Not limited to, but including: two classes, scan more pictures for the album (including pics from this past weekend, including the Kaputnik party, drinking with Brandon at 2pm on Saturday, and some pics from The Cube on Saturday night), go to a section (where I'm hoping, against chance, that this cute indie-ish-looking-esque-girl that's in my Comparative Post-Communist class is in), etc. I've accepted the fact that I won't be able to make Keith's show at Mr. Toot's tomorrow-- very irksome.
(-) There's this crazy love triangle fiasco going on in my house. Let's just say that 4 people (including myself) live in my house. 3 have had sex. I am not one of them. As of now, only 3 people live in my house. Whatever, so far their guilt means more food in the house to eat.
(-) Hopefully sometime this weekend I can catch Jason at an ideal time to get these interviews scanned. I won't even try to do them all at once, but the first five will hopefully be something like An Albatross, At The Drive-In, Cursive, The Locust, and blah.
Christ I'm so fucking tired.
I'm contemplating starting this magazine. No clue what it would be called, but the concept would be to pick 10-20 people each issue. 10-20 random people-- well, not really, more like "cool people that are chosen arbitrarily based on my mood at the time".
They'll be interviewed like celebrities, including their favorite whatever. Not like a profile such as Friendster or a Live Journal, because I actually want to focus on anecdotes. Thus the focus of the reading content would be reading funny, sad, embarrassing (not in retrospect), crazy memories and experiences.
There would obviously be a photo shoot, manual cameras (not cheap looking pictures like what's pretty much in my "see what johnny c sees" album), in which it would be published on resolution-friendly parchment.
Just to be blunt and cut to the chase, the people will be hot/good looking people, being that they will be the main focus of 90% of the imagery in the magazine. Eye candy, plain and simple.
Actually, let me just blurt out the superficial truth: They'll be scene-ish kids with few exceptions.
Who I'm going to need (at least):
-A photographer
-An assistant editor
-An advertising exec.
-A publisher
-We would all work on page layouts
Costs:
-This totally depends on the print run. My dream (as if this crackpot idea isn't one already) would be a 500 copy run. The first one is obviously going to be something around 50 in which if people buy it, like it, respond to it (via a LJ or Friendster community), then the next issue will be a run of 20 or so more.
-Parchment
-Printing
-Publishing
-Film
-Advertising
-Time
-Time
-Dedication
-Time
Obviously the selling price is based off the cost of the magazine.
NOTE: The objective will not be profit (at least not at first, and never going past anything other than "minimal profit"). Selling price will be aimed to simply break even at the expenses that would be used to get the publication out. In fact, I expect (as would anyone else who would help me with this) to actually lose money on this for a while, a long while.
Basically, I just need people who would be interested in working on a project like this, who want to document an urban/music/fashion culture from the point of view of the kids who actually live it, and who wouldn't mind putting the time, money, and dedication into it.
I'm going to start actively gathering people around mid-May, and hopefully start working on it in June.
Any comments on this are welcome, especially negative ones that say I'll never be able to do it. That way I'll either be convinced not to take on this endeavor, or to simply have more drive to actually do it.
EDIT: AW FUCK!! I forgot to watch The Price Is Right yesterday. That was the day when they were gonna show the episode where Leia and Aimee are in the front row being totally stupid and funny. Super fucking bummer.
Random Link: United States of Electronica - Check out these Seattle-based kids-- I personally think they sound awful, but judge for yourself. Note: If you're not into vocoders, the "new disco" genre, the "party/pop scene", keyboards, etc. then this is definitely not your cup of tea. Although one of the music videos on their site is footage from a ton of live shows, which is sort of cool.