"All his life has he looked away to the future, the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmmph!"
I'm not going to tell you what that quote is from, or why it's been a part of me for the last twenty-seven years or so. It's probably obvious. But I will say this: I live my entire life like everything's a transitory state ( Read more... )

Last night with Liz:"I'm a little worried Open is going to turn out kind of sexy-mopey."
"Well, isn't that you're oeuvre?"
Heh. Busted.

Also: as soon as my money is my own again, and I am living somewhere and I am working semi-regularly and I am editing Open and no longer as uptight about spending time and money on things other than this film, I ( Read more... )

We wrapped. It's 1:30pm. I woke up twenty-eight or so hours ago. I can't tell you how fucking superstar my crew was, or how classy and amazing my cast was. I don't deserve it.

I'll tell you more (probably) about my nervous energy, maybe the (relatively tame) dramas/tensions, or the long steady descent into madness brilliant success that was ( Read more... )

melissa: http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/now_thats_what_i_call_movie_vol__0
Sent at 4:30 PM on Thursday
me: that sounds gross and awful. why did you send me that?
Sent at 4:34 PM on Thursday
me: they are spoofing movies not even out yet. what a fucking system. they don't wait to see what becomes big enough to be "pop culture," because it ( Read more... )

Some of the best writing advice I've taken, as it turns out, comes from an essay by Orson Scott Card (whom I've never read a novel by... not even Ender's Game), reprinted in one of several "How To Write Science Fiction" anthologies I pored over in 1997. I didn't realize at the time just how much of an impact this tidbit was going to have on how I ( Read more... )

Old news, but I love it.

LEXICON OF GRUNGE: BREAKING THE CODE
All subcultures speak in code; grunge is no exception. Megan Jasper, a 25-year-old sales representative at Caroline Records in Seattle, provided this lexicon of grunge speak, coming soon to a high school or mall near you:WACK SLACKS: Old ripped jeans ( Read more... )

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I'm at work right now and have no way to get my hands on a copy of this until later tonight, and then I'm not actually sure if I'll really dig it or not, but Talk Talk's 1988 album Spirit of Eden (cited by Rob Dickinson as his favorite album ever) is reviewed thusly:Spirit of Eden's moody, experimental nature made it a challenge to promote; one ( Read more... )

Travis E: well, i'll see you guys next saturday right?
Liz B: yep. it's in my calendar: travis & booze
Hope you all have the same thing in your calendars. 505 NE Graham, Saturday 15th, nighttime. I'm selling "giving away with a suggested donation" the rest of the booze from our fundraiser. Come hang out and give me the money you'd otherwise spend ( Read more... )

So I had to log into my spam account to get the link to download the free version of Stuffit so I could expand the keygen so I could run the keygen so I could crack Final Draft so I could save my file so I could swallow the spider to eat the fly. I don't know why I swallowed the fly.

54 minutes later, ready to start.

And then my phone rings.