The debutante ball
For all those that just couldn't wait for "The Exultation of Avogadro Menendez" to come to a screen near you, here's a sneak-peek:
Braden: "I wouldn't get too attached--I'm suicidal."
Jezebel: "What, are you afraid that it's going to rub off?"
Braden: "Not particularly... just fair-warning."
I added seven more pages to the script today. It doesn't really count for many more minutes onto the movie so far--maybe another 10 minutes--but it effectively lays out the skeleton of the first act, which was tricky for me to lay out of paper.
In like five years time I will be at important dinner parties schmoozing with the likes of Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson... don't worry, I won't forget about you.
Kristen Katerakis and I have something to say to you, world:
Our names are around, we go places and see faces and forge our own paths. Some day I will be the entertainment industry, and Kristen will be her own business empire. We will be giants among ants, charging through the status quo and redefining the ways people live, giving them new stories to tell there children and new idols to admire. It will not be the pop stars of today, but we will become well-respected idols with strong work ethics, and at the same time we will keep in touch with humanity through our liberalism. We will use our massive wealth and considerable influence to do right in this world. We will bring charities to the forefront of all profits made, and we will be beloved by those that gaze upon our success, and manuals will be made that convey the secrets to our success and people will stand in lines that stretch for blocks in the rain to get hold of them.
Kristen, of course, will not only become a significant woman, but she will become one whom all will admire--not recognized just because she is a woman of high stature. I will transform the mess that is Hollywood by giving its movies something more significant: no more cheap thrills, no more sex for the sake of sex, nor violence for the sake of violence (unless it is satirical), but real, motivated art that works with character development and plot to create a substantial story of intrigue that can shape young ones' lives. We will be elegant and sophisticated, humble and down-to earth, serious but with good humor--we will walk among kings but not lose the common touch; be approachable by high society, and the poor, and loved by both for the common good that we do--by advancing the human species in ways that could only be dreamed of in the late-60's.
We will help people dream again. We will inspire people to dream bigger and bigger, and we will show them through our own lives how they must achieve their dreams. Showing people how to dream--me through the arts, and Kristen through everything else. I will take one side of the brain while she takes hold the other, and we will massage it until it is ripe with the creativity of a species evolved over millions of years, with experiences from every corner of the globe, and we will reach out to the stars and bring them closer to us.
And there will be much rejoicing and merriment had by all. And then we will return to our bed chambers, and count our $100 bills... and give them to stressed and overworked waitresses at Perkins.
I'm already making a check-list for this weekend. It includes:
1) crack juice, motherfucker
2) shopping for pants and shoes
3) reach page 30 of the script
4) studying for my poli sci mid-term with Alec
5) disc three of the first season of the OC
My dad today shared with me some interesting facts about birds, which I will leave you with.
-Birds have been known to hide food in up to 3,000 different places, the whole time remembering each location.
-Crows have been known to push road-kill further on to the road so that it can be further crushed, exposing the organs and making that which the crow eats more readily available for consumption.
-Crows speak to each other in dialects that differ from region to region.
-In lab experiments, it has been noted that pigeons lie to each other in the case that a food shortage is being experienced. They will hit a button with their beaks, turning a light on over a closed box, effectively telling a partner pigeon that food is in that box even while it is in another.
While Darwin was constructing his theory of evolution, he couldn't quite figure where to place birds in the pyramid of intelligence, so they were placed just under mammals, leading to the assumption that birds are less intellectually evolved as some animals such as wombats and mice. This inevitably lead to the phrase "bird-brained." It simply is not true, and now that you know, share the wealth of your knowledge.
Braden: "I wouldn't get too attached--I'm suicidal."
Jezebel: "What, are you afraid that it's going to rub off?"
Braden: "Not particularly... just fair-warning."
I added seven more pages to the script today. It doesn't really count for many more minutes onto the movie so far--maybe another 10 minutes--but it effectively lays out the skeleton of the first act, which was tricky for me to lay out of paper.
In like five years time I will be at important dinner parties schmoozing with the likes of Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson... don't worry, I won't forget about you.
Kristen Katerakis and I have something to say to you, world:
Our names are around, we go places and see faces and forge our own paths. Some day I will be the entertainment industry, and Kristen will be her own business empire. We will be giants among ants, charging through the status quo and redefining the ways people live, giving them new stories to tell there children and new idols to admire. It will not be the pop stars of today, but we will become well-respected idols with strong work ethics, and at the same time we will keep in touch with humanity through our liberalism. We will use our massive wealth and considerable influence to do right in this world. We will bring charities to the forefront of all profits made, and we will be beloved by those that gaze upon our success, and manuals will be made that convey the secrets to our success and people will stand in lines that stretch for blocks in the rain to get hold of them.
Kristen, of course, will not only become a significant woman, but she will become one whom all will admire--not recognized just because she is a woman of high stature. I will transform the mess that is Hollywood by giving its movies something more significant: no more cheap thrills, no more sex for the sake of sex, nor violence for the sake of violence (unless it is satirical), but real, motivated art that works with character development and plot to create a substantial story of intrigue that can shape young ones' lives. We will be elegant and sophisticated, humble and down-to earth, serious but with good humor--we will walk among kings but not lose the common touch; be approachable by high society, and the poor, and loved by both for the common good that we do--by advancing the human species in ways that could only be dreamed of in the late-60's.
We will help people dream again. We will inspire people to dream bigger and bigger, and we will show them through our own lives how they must achieve their dreams. Showing people how to dream--me through the arts, and Kristen through everything else. I will take one side of the brain while she takes hold the other, and we will massage it until it is ripe with the creativity of a species evolved over millions of years, with experiences from every corner of the globe, and we will reach out to the stars and bring them closer to us.
And there will be much rejoicing and merriment had by all. And then we will return to our bed chambers, and count our $100 bills... and give them to stressed and overworked waitresses at Perkins.
I'm already making a check-list for this weekend. It includes:
1) crack juice, motherfucker
2) shopping for pants and shoes
3) reach page 30 of the script
4) studying for my poli sci mid-term with Alec
5) disc three of the first season of the OC
My dad today shared with me some interesting facts about birds, which I will leave you with.
-Birds have been known to hide food in up to 3,000 different places, the whole time remembering each location.
-Crows have been known to push road-kill further on to the road so that it can be further crushed, exposing the organs and making that which the crow eats more readily available for consumption.
-Crows speak to each other in dialects that differ from region to region.
-In lab experiments, it has been noted that pigeons lie to each other in the case that a food shortage is being experienced. They will hit a button with their beaks, turning a light on over a closed box, effectively telling a partner pigeon that food is in that box even while it is in another.
While Darwin was constructing his theory of evolution, he couldn't quite figure where to place birds in the pyramid of intelligence, so they were placed just under mammals, leading to the assumption that birds are less intellectually evolved as some animals such as wombats and mice. This inevitably lead to the phrase "bird-brained." It simply is not true, and now that you know, share the wealth of your knowledge.