| Summer is Fucking Nigh |
[Apr. 29th, 2009|11:44 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | APT | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  getting there | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Stooges - "We Will Fall" | ] |
Hey, been awhile since I posted. Plus I like this setup because barely no one is using it with the exception of a few ladies and gentleman that are more literate than the "Twitter" people.
What the fuck is up with that anyway? Pssh--don't really care to find out.
My folks might be moving to London. It looks more realistic than all the other job transfers the old man applied for back in the day (i.e. Saudi Arabia). Five more months until I can call myself virtually free, and three more months until I am done with the daily doldrums of my roommate. Don't get me wrong. He's a bud and all, but I can't stand the shit he has pulled over the few months. Then again, I'm not one to talk.
I had feelings for a girl that have fizzled pretty damn fast. It's sorta hindering there, on the fence. But I'm being realistic at this point and just keeping my guard up.
Been doing the Public in Space thing a little more. It's been doing well and I just finished editing. All I have to do now is muster the balls to post it on the internet.
On a lighter note, I feel like a fucking king by fixing my record player. Of course I had to buy a new one (used) before I figured it out. So I gutted the one I bought and kept the speakers. Now I got awesome speakers, a replacement belt and needle (needle's kinda worn, though), and an adapter for playing 45s. Speaking of which, what the fuck did I do with those?!
The new job has been pretty interesting so far as well. After a mere six months of working there, the "powers that be" are already coining the idea that I should be manager. I don't know how, but according to the inside scoop, I'm the only one busting my ass there which is evident enough that I can keep the momentum going.
On the other hand, I like my boss too much to pitch a knife in his back. Dog-eat-dog world out there I guess.
I'm ready to make a change. What? I don't know. Maybe try giving love another chance. I haven't really been trying to look for it. I've been single for over a year. It's nice not to have to answer to somebody, but at the same time, the comfort thing is really the only issue. Sharing a bed with someone you love is a luxury that I have missed. Not the case with anyone I ever have slept with.
And on that note, I'm gonna go bug Ash.
Iggy Pop freaks me out.
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| Alrighty Then! |
[Oct. 26th, 2008|11:53 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Prison | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  teh | ] |
| [ | music |
| | I hear Motorhead playing | ] |
Wow... I wanted to post something but I don't know what to say.
Hmm...
¡Viva la da casa!
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| Back to the Ol' Drawing Board |
[Apr. 6th, 2008|05:41 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Back in C-Town | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | discombobulated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Minus the Bear's Planet of Ice Album | ] |
I find myself back to LJ again in order to contemplate the hardships over the past week. Two years and once again, I get my heart broken. But I'm not angry or anything. As weird as it may sound, I'm glad I got out of it before it got worse (and mind you it was getting pretty bad already). I moved back in my folks' place. I don't know how long it will take to get readjusted and I don't know if I even want to stay here.
And I'm not going back to where I was. I've done that shit before in the past and that just got even worse. So I think maybe living the single life might be the best thing for me right now.
I am thankful to have my friends open their arms to me. To pat me on the back and say, "Everything is going to be okay." I regret not being able to be that guy for them in the past but I got your backs now yo.
My family, my co-workers, and my friends are the only things keeping me from doing something stupid.
I've been worried about my dad lately... I don't know what's going on with him but he's really sick and he's really stresse through the bullshit and goings-on at his job. So if anybody wants to hang or something, just holler. I'm seven digits away and unlike before, you will be answered.
Peace & chicken grease. |
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| Observing Autism |
[Mar. 10th, 2006|10:47 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  i want to learn! | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sparta - "Vacant Skies" | ] |
Today I'm at work and I have NOTHING to work on. Thus I decided to make myself useful and start reading about Autism, to expand my knowledge on the disorder that my brother, Ian, is diagnosed with.
First in order for me to begin, I must explain about my brother. Ian is 23 years old (going to be 24 in May) and is considered by the eyes of the medical field as a severe case. He was diagonsed sometime when he was about three and even had some tendencies that would indicate he would have it. You see Autism is a disorder that occurs in the development of the brain in childhood years. Symptoms include insomnia, incapablility of verbal communication, unable to adopt any form of independent lifestyles, and etc. Eventually in his teen years, he would develop epilipsy which is common in some cases of Autism. But as I was reading about it on the websites, I found somethings that I find to be debatable.
First off, I DO talk to my brother. What my family and I do is administer facilitated communication in which we use a keyboard (or something similar) as Ian's left hand is supported by someone talks to him. He has been using this method since 1991 and was one of the first cases to start using this technique. According to the website, it's not an approved method and apparently does more damage than good. I don't quite agree with that considering some of the things my brother has said to me.
example:
(Scenario: I went to my brother's school and had lunch with him after a blood drive during the Fall of 2005. This is how I remember it)
Me: So Ian did you have a good time?
Ian: No.
Me: Why not?
Ian: Because of all the fucking retards.
(Scenario #2: During the Summer of 1994, my family and I went to Houston, Texas for a bit and had a jolly ol' time. Something happened to where someone called Ian "stupid" and hours later, Ian revealed this information to my mother, in which she had no idea that it took place except for my brother, my father, and I.)
Another thing, I think that the studies in Autism are unclear. As I kept reading, people with Autism are incapable of human emotion or any form of expression and lacks eye contact. If those idiots with white coats are trying to tell me my brother can't love, they got another thing coming. I don't think it's been studied enough.
To sum it all up, the medical field makes Autism seem like another name for a "living vegetable". That REALLY irks me.
Now, after reading everything in the span of three hours about Autism, I think I'm going to start studying it and figuring out.
That's right, I wanna change my major. Fuck acting or whatever for now. I want to know how I can help my brother more than I am right now.
Things I've read about as far as treatments go...
To be continued (adding more later)
CONTINUED
Things that I think work for my brother...
Facilitated communication (he types with his left finger at over 50 WPM), medications (i.e. seizures, depression, etc.), music (anything instrumental or audio oriented), and above all, love.
Things I want to work on and delve into:
Expanding awareness for facilitated communication (not approved in MI), research whether or not Vitamin B-6 is beneficial in the treatment for Autism, read more on secretin (which is used for the digestive system, in some cases it showed results), but above all, just Autism in adults rather than children, spinal treatment (this is still a little sketchy, but consult a cairopracter), etc.
I don't know, I'm just full of piss and vinegar & I'm tired of watching from the sidelines.
Okay, I gotta close, peace. |
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| What You Missed in November |
[Feb. 21st, 2006|02:07 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | pooped | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Samiam - "She Found You" | ] |
Yeah, that was before the part where I lost my legs.
Can't wait until next month... |
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| Reformatting an Old Dog |
[Feb. 7th, 2006|07:09 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | working | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sunny Day Real Estate - "In Circles" | ] |
I. Problematic
For most of the production, there should be an obvious moment of hopelessness, a decay that seems to symbolize the macabre of this "comedy". Although the opening scene (according to the script) takes place in a Detroit area, the name of the town should be Normandy (hint, hint) which also helps drive the mood.
II. Budweiser Commercial Super Bowl XL - "The Wave"
http://www.budweiser.com/commercials_06/
Thoughts: Not bad.
III. Public in Space
Finished filming a few things, a couple of skits and the backstory on the Crawley's "Casey & Jones" project. It's looking rather good. One of the benefits of having an Avid Cinema film editor and a DV Cam.
IV. Time Out For Ginger - Play
I'm not too sure how I should feel about this. I got a part but there is a complication... I don't KNOW my part. You see, two gentlemen and I are up for either three roles. The dad, the dad's boss, or the Ed Norton-ish character (next door neighbor, Honeymooners... you get the idea). All are leads. Everyone else casted is set, it's just down to us three. I guess we'll find out at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow.
V. Ann Arbor
Ever since going there, it's been alot better. :-)
VI. The False Prophets
E.S. Ternullo has put a hold on this but for those who like comics, you might wanna check this out once it's out.
VII. Mike Hartman
He's working on a new movie... don't know much with what's going on with that.
VIII. Jeff (Ian's Social Worker)
Let me put it this way, some one is gonna get lynched and that man is a lame version of John Waters, except I still gonna kick his ass.
IX. Work
Garbage...
X. College
David Andrews makes an excellent classmate. Need I say more?
Conclusion: None. |
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| Unconquered Inner Demons |
[Jan. 23rd, 2006|02:36 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | fine & you? | ] |
| [ | music |
| | a pluck here & a pluck there | ] |
I've been swimming
In some haunting melody
I've been drinking
To make images stop coming to me
But its a fuel for the fire
Catching onto other things
Spreading the burning desire
To hold on to the lost
No matter whats the cost
Things that were acknowledged
But its my delusional resentment
Purging all that is trouble
Running low on funds to pay the rent
In this mundane reality
Its obvious that this actuality
Of what I see is what I get
But that was the chance I was willing to bet
I've been in this dream
For far too long
Of some distrating theme
That somehow gives me some hope
Of one too many seconds gone
Without what it was
It still feels more alone
Holding on to the lost
No matter whats the cost
And in this charade
I'm hoping to stop making four right turns
And someday this parade
Will take the opposing direction
And this'll go back to the way
Of how it once use to be
Of what I see is what I get
But I'm still willing to make that bet |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 23rd, 2005|01:58 am] |
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Great dippin' dog shit! |
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| Fucking Stupid |
[Nov. 10th, 2005|01:01 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  better | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Fall Out Boy (sadly) - "Sugar We're Goin' Down" | ] |
I guess things are changing once again, much like they always do this time of the year. Things are getting better in some areas and worse in others. For example:
Play's done... more free time. Hung out with my best boy, Mr. Andrews, my favorite raven-dark haired lass, Ms. Harvey, and THE MITCH. The bass goat even made a cameo.
Things that are getting worse...
Realizing that as much as I want something to go back the way it was, it won't happen. I don't really want to give all the details but I need to let some nugget out. I guess, to put it roughly, I suck at this field in my life and I'm still fixated at this one juncture of my life where I was the most most happy. Now after a couple of years, I've fucked it up and vice versa. Now things got better as soon as the semester went up and then I thought something would rekindle, but alas, I know the truth of it now and I have once again been slapping myself in the face for it since. But what am I suppose to do, find something better? I feel like I'm doomed rather than salvaged. To sum it all up, it is affectionately pretty fucking stupid. Not much I can do about it now, just let it waste itself away to what it has become...
But even though I should give up, I can't... I guess that's where my self-classifaction plays a role in this entry.
Also over the past summer I have been back to old habits. It helps ease me, but I don't really retain much from it. I also get promoted at my job and a raise, and still, it's not enough for me.
Then my career in the performing arts has jump started with being in a Super Bowl commercial, the release of Detroit Blood City, and investing with Talent One which is going to give me a modeling portfolio.
And yet I am STILL unhappy because of that one fucking thing that I want the most.
Fuck it... I'm tired of it.
At least I feel a tad more peaceful today because I left my cell phone at home. Now I'm really thinking and I'm really bored. Usually when this happens, I start thinking of shit like this that somehow compels me to write an entire thesis on my so-called "suffering". But hey, I'm just applying the Buddhist approach. I'm making something out of it and now that I got it all out of my system, I feel at tad more fulfilled.
By the way, R.J., gimme a call on that Clutch business... I'm game. When is it?
Until then, Warren, Ohio here we come! |
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| It's Done |
[Nov. 6th, 2005|09:36 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | catchin' Zs | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Pink Floyd - "Money" | ] |
For those who came, thank you. It means alot to me.
I sleep now. |
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| Happy Halloween |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|06:50 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  awake | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Death Cab For Cutie - "Marching Bands of Manhattan" | ] |
Stolen from the Mike:
Big Boo-tay!
Which B-Movie Badass Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
Shameless Self-Promotion:
"A Piece of My Heart"
a Vietnam play about the Nurses who served...
@ Macomb Performing Arts Center located at Hall Rd. & Garfield
Tickets are like... uh, shit, $10?
Days are Friday & Saturday 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
I'm spent. |
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| F. Gary Gary |
[Sep. 23rd, 2005|11:53 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  bored | ] |
| [ | music |
| | They turned it off! | ] |
I am at work.
W-O-R-K
I am bored.
B-O-R-E-D
Amy is working on documents.
D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-S
I placed orders.
O-R-D-E-R-S
It's fun to have a promotion. :-D |
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| Another Day |
[Sep. 11th, 2005|03:41 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Modest Mouse - "Blame It on the Tetons" | ] |
According to the entire world, I've been dead.
Figured I'd confirm my existence with this LJ.
Yeah, I'm bringing it back... :-\
My heart is heavy to hold as well. |
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| Good-Bye LiveJournal |
[Jun. 8th, 2005|12:28 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | okay | ] |
| [ | music |
| | flush | ] |
I've decided not to use this anymore. I've grown out of it and hardly ever use the computer anymore. MySpace I might keep around, but that's it. I have no use for this anymore.
So, it's been fun commenting on you guys and my writings and post from the beginning when I talked about Alison 24:7 to the current "Hey, I'm doing this play, movie, etc" thing, but I honestly give up on this. It's not fun anymore, it just creates more drama, and our personal thoughts and adventures should not be vented or justified to the public.
The truth hurts.
At any rate, thanks for all the LJ communities, LJ fights, LJ blah-blah-blah...
And I cannot go an leave the person who got me into this unacknowledged, thank you Elisabeth for giving me an account number so long ago.
Well, I guess I have nothing more to say.
Godspeed everyone. |
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| More Good News... I Needed That |
[May. 24th, 2005|08:17 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | been better | ] |
| [ | music |
| | phone going off | ] |
May 11th 2005
Inland Empire - New Lynch Film Announced
Today it was announced that David Lynch's next film would be entitled "Inland Empire". Justin Theroux, Jeremy Irons, Laura Dern, and Harry Dean Stanton are some among the cast members announced on Variety.com.
From Variety:
Titled "INLAND EMPIRE" (in capitals, though Lynch doesn't explain why), it stars Laura Dern, along with Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons and a host of others Lynch won't specify.
In fact, there's still very little the enigmatic Lynch is comfortable to reveal about the movie.
"It's about a woman in trouble, and it's a mystery, and that's about all I want to say about it," he comments diffidently.
Thank you, Mr. Lynch. |
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| Midnight Movies at Main Art Theatre |
[May. 18th, 2005|03:32 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Smiths - "Unhappy Birthday" | ] |
Be giddy, it's back, friends. More movies for us to go at midnight... here's as follows.
The director's cut! Donnie Darko • May 27 & 28 (maybe)
Get Hed! Hedwig and the Angry Inch • Jun 3 & 4 (eh)
Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove • Jun 10 & 11 (damn skippy)
Jeff Bridges gets computerized in Tron • Jun 17 & 18 (you bet your sweet ass)
A romantic comedy. With zombies. Shaun of the Dead • Jun 24 & 25 (HELLO!)
20th anniversary of the cult hit The Goonies • Jul 1 & 2 (smile)
New 35mm print of the uncut European version! Brazil • Jul 8 & 9 (creamed pants)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban • Jul 15 & 16 (eh)
Also Land of the Dead on June 24th. Who's with me?!
Okay, back to bed. |
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