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So now that that post is finally out of the way I can post current events. Life is going pretty good right now. In mid June I visited SCAD and I am definitely looking forward to going there. They critiqued my photos from Key West and a couple screenplays and told me to keep up the variety and caliber of the work that I showed them and I will get a rather large scholarship.
If you've read Adam's LJ then you know that I’ve been working on a movie. This movie got me quite frustrated at first but I then turned all of that negative energy into positive focus. Let me explain in abbreviated detail. A lot of shit happened during preproduction and filming. I started out as one of the head guys of the project and eventually became a tour guide. I helped write the main foundations of a movie that I eventually had no artistic influence or say in. Anyways, once this came to my full attention I decided that I needed to do some things completely by myself other than just screenplays for my portfolio. I’ve started some animated shorts and musical pieces in addition to some other movie ideas.
When I wasn’t helping with Jay and David’s movie, I was attending summer school. It started the week after I got back from SCAD. I’m taking 2-D design which is awesome. I’m learning how to draw and create in addition to my feeling that the class is helping to inspire creativity. I’m also taking public speaking which is another cool class. Our prof has us do exercises to become more effective speakers that are lots of fun and very helpful. The last class is Art history 1400-present. I think I would like it more if the prof wasn’t such a jerk. But I at least enjoy the material. We are almost to the midpoint of the semester and so far it is going very well.
Anyways, that’s what is going on in the physical world. In Andrew’s head however everything is confused. I’ve really been thinking lately about the current situation as a whole (politics, economics, attitudes as a whole) in our nation. For the most part I agree with Adam’s pre 4th post.
I like America. I love the idealistic foundations freedoms that our nation stands for. This country is great, but it is slowly and continually rotting. The rich get richer, the poor stay the same. When I look at this country I see people who care only for themselves, I see ignorance without bliss, cynicism without compassion, greed without care. Capitalism feeds on the ignorant and we buy and view without shame. I am greatly disheartened by the current attitudes within the nation.
When I think of our nation, two Five Iron Frenzy songs immediately come to mind.
Beautiful America Lyrics
The man on the television said I need to drink this,
And sleep with that in order to be cool.
And you know that I would do almost anything,
To be like that guy on TV.
I know if I had just the right outfit
And hairstyle that could be me.
Don't you know you can't be cool if you dress dumb,
I need to have that 'cause everybody's got one.
I think I'll start smoking that will make me intellectual,
That's what I've always wanted to be.
I need to lift weights, that would make me more sexual,
And that would be so good for me.
In America it's wonderful, all you have to do is fake it.
Own anything you want, all you have to do it take it.
Live for today, don't think about tomorrow,
Have a good time in America-Gomorrah.
What are you looking at, you better not make me mad.
I'll drive by your house and shoot your dog, and mom, and dad.
I don't you or the Bible or anything to tell me what is the law.
With a good enough lawyer I can do anything in Beautiful America.
In America it's wonderful, all you have to do is fake it.
Own anything you want, all you have to do it take it.
Live for today, don't think about tomorrow,
Have a good time in America-Gomorrah.
Fahrenheit
Flash Gordon soundtrack,
I was in second grade.
My first real record, yeah,
worn down it played and played.
Young and blind,
my double mind.
When the world was black and white,
watch me turn my back tonight,
on Freddie Mercury,
Mr. Fahrenheit.
I was in eighth grade,
I said he was a queer,
I thought he had it coming,
he died of Aids that year.
My liberty,
like Christ's death meant nothing to me.
When my veins choked thick with spite,
blind man's bluff burns in hindsight,
for Freddie Mercury,
Mr. Fahrenheit.
Predisposed to bigotry,
the regular run-of-the-mill American story.
The stench of greasepaint on our faces,
pass the mask to our next of kin,
instead of wiser idioms,
like love the sinner, hate the sin.
I feel our nation is being so polarized by different views that no one is willing to come together and find common ground (I don’t know if this is because of an unwillingness to compromise or because there is no common ground shared by a majority of the nation) forcing whoever is in control to drag one half of the nation kicking and screaming four years at a time. I love America and I hope a solution can be obtained before our nation pulls itself apart to an irreparable point.
If you've read Adam's LJ then you know that I’ve been working on a movie. This movie got me quite frustrated at first but I then turned all of that negative energy into positive focus. Let me explain in abbreviated detail. A lot of shit happened during preproduction and filming. I started out as one of the head guys of the project and eventually became a tour guide. I helped write the main foundations of a movie that I eventually had no artistic influence or say in. Anyways, once this came to my full attention I decided that I needed to do some things completely by myself other than just screenplays for my portfolio. I’ve started some animated shorts and musical pieces in addition to some other movie ideas.
When I wasn’t helping with Jay and David’s movie, I was attending summer school. It started the week after I got back from SCAD. I’m taking 2-D design which is awesome. I’m learning how to draw and create in addition to my feeling that the class is helping to inspire creativity. I’m also taking public speaking which is another cool class. Our prof has us do exercises to become more effective speakers that are lots of fun and very helpful. The last class is Art history 1400-present. I think I would like it more if the prof wasn’t such a jerk. But I at least enjoy the material. We are almost to the midpoint of the semester and so far it is going very well.
Anyways, that’s what is going on in the physical world. In Andrew’s head however everything is confused. I’ve really been thinking lately about the current situation as a whole (politics, economics, attitudes as a whole) in our nation. For the most part I agree with Adam’s pre 4th post.
I like America. I love the idealistic foundations freedoms that our nation stands for. This country is great, but it is slowly and continually rotting. The rich get richer, the poor stay the same. When I look at this country I see people who care only for themselves, I see ignorance without bliss, cynicism without compassion, greed without care. Capitalism feeds on the ignorant and we buy and view without shame. I am greatly disheartened by the current attitudes within the nation.
When I think of our nation, two Five Iron Frenzy songs immediately come to mind.
Beautiful America Lyrics
The man on the television said I need to drink this,
And sleep with that in order to be cool.
And you know that I would do almost anything,
To be like that guy on TV.
I know if I had just the right outfit
And hairstyle that could be me.
Don't you know you can't be cool if you dress dumb,
I need to have that 'cause everybody's got one.
I think I'll start smoking that will make me intellectual,
That's what I've always wanted to be.
I need to lift weights, that would make me more sexual,
And that would be so good for me.
In America it's wonderful, all you have to do is fake it.
Own anything you want, all you have to do it take it.
Live for today, don't think about tomorrow,
Have a good time in America-Gomorrah.
What are you looking at, you better not make me mad.
I'll drive by your house and shoot your dog, and mom, and dad.
I don't you or the Bible or anything to tell me what is the law.
With a good enough lawyer I can do anything in Beautiful America.
In America it's wonderful, all you have to do is fake it.
Own anything you want, all you have to do it take it.
Live for today, don't think about tomorrow,
Have a good time in America-Gomorrah.
Fahrenheit
Flash Gordon soundtrack,
I was in second grade.
My first real record, yeah,
worn down it played and played.
Young and blind,
my double mind.
When the world was black and white,
watch me turn my back tonight,
on Freddie Mercury,
Mr. Fahrenheit.
I was in eighth grade,
I said he was a queer,
I thought he had it coming,
he died of Aids that year.
My liberty,
like Christ's death meant nothing to me.
When my veins choked thick with spite,
blind man's bluff burns in hindsight,
for Freddie Mercury,
Mr. Fahrenheit.
Predisposed to bigotry,
the regular run-of-the-mill American story.
The stench of greasepaint on our faces,
pass the mask to our next of kin,
instead of wiser idioms,
like love the sinner, hate the sin.
I feel our nation is being so polarized by different views that no one is willing to come together and find common ground (I don’t know if this is because of an unwillingness to compromise or because there is no common ground shared by a majority of the nation) forcing whoever is in control to drag one half of the nation kicking and screaming four years at a time. I love America and I hope a solution can be obtained before our nation pulls itself apart to an irreparable point.