Hi everyone.

Been gone a long time.

Didn't even check the site for months.

Think I'm back again.

We'll see.

Hey.

Seems like it's been ages since I posted anything on here, so here's a quick journal update.

We've finished editing the movie, and are currently finalizing it.

This is a two part deal.

First is electronic color correction, an insane process where you scan all your negative to a Hi-Definition digital format, then proceed to make visual adjustments to taste, by doing the equivalent of what is essentially photoshopping it frame by frame. The end result is printed onto 35mm film, so it can be projected normally at any theater.
Of course, a lot of hardcore software and advanced equipment are involved, or else it would take forever. It's still gonna take over 2 months.

The second part is gonna entail adding the music and the score, which I'm gonna be working on along with an incredible Brazilian composer. That part hasn't started yet, but I'm really looking forward to it.

Needless to say, this is all keeping me way too busy to write anything, even though I sorely miss it. My dreams have become restless and my sleep unsatisfying from all the pent up words and images floating through my head.

I'm just hoping it will all be worth it when I'm able to say "my film is playing at a theater near you".

Hahaha... with a lot of luck, maybe that day will come.

Until then, I want you all to know that I've been reading/looking at all your work, even though I've barely commented on anything. I promise to make it up when I return..

In the meantime, much love to everyone!

Keep putting out all of your amazing work.

Hello one and all.

This is just a quick update for anyone who cares.
Some of you may have noticed that I haven't submitted anything in quite a while, or made many comments on your recent work.
Worry not, I'm not drifting away into a DA-less land.
As you may or may not know, in "real life" I work with independent film. I recently (in Feb.) finished shooting my first feature length, which I co-wrote, co-produced, co-directed, and even had a little cameo in just for kicks..

Needless to say, the whole process has been A TON of work, and to my surprise, continues to keep me busy to this day. I've come to realize that once you're done with principal photography, you're only about a third of the way through making your movie... Post production is still incredibly demanding and time consuming, although equally rewarding in its own sinister way.

Aside from that, I've also been writing sporadically quite a bit, but I just haven't had time to really sit down and organize everything into something worth posting...

I'm in the middle of a text project which has, from the moment I first started it, quadrupled in scope from my original idea. While this is an excellent development, making me stretch my boundaries as a writer,
it is also forcing me to devote time that I don't really have right at this moment.
Maybe it'll be my masterpiece, or maybe I'll get frustrated with it and stab it repeatedly with a sharpie.

Whatever the outcome, it's been fun.
(Cryptic clue: involves an alembic.)

I hope everything's going real well with everyone, and I just wanna let you know that I've been looking at all your work, if not commenting on it. I'll be back to bombarding you with my drivel before you know it.




PS- Anyone in LA seeing The Mars Volta on the 12th or the 13th?? I'm going to both nights!

PSS- Go see this! [link]

"I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less.
Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this, allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything. It's fun!"

Everthing you never wanted to know about me, but were too bored to ask.

Have you ever come home after a month to a house empty aside from two cats, and upon your arrival, found them indifferent to you? Violently indifferent?

:Sigh:

If you want a warm welcome, get a dog.


But I'm here. And they're warming up to me.
Ash is laying on my lap as I type this, purring, while Morcheeba stares off into the distance as if pondering a strategic coup d'etat.

It's good to be back.

Mostly. Feeling quite a bit of culture shock still. A month in Brazil is enough for my mind to revert back to thinking and dreaming in Portuguese, and to grow accustomed to the warm, genuine smiles you get from almost everyone on the street. Having to translate thoughts quickly into English for a scowling cab driver who barely speaks it himself was... disconcerting, at best.

And then there's the matter of my friends. There seems to be an utter lack of enthusiasm washing over the whole group. Seventy-five percent of everything said is a reference to or direct quote from some kind of prepackaged entertainment. Cartoons, movies, tv... It all feels really.. Stale.

I don't know if it's something that happened while I was away, or if I was participating in it all along and am only noticing it now because I was removed from it for so long. The latter option seems to be the more likely one, and that holds some worrisome implications.

I came back from Brazil feeling relaxed, recharged, with more energy and determination to pursue my goals. If I'm not mindful, I'm apt to lose all that as I get sucked into this cloud that's hanging over everyone. It's hard, I love all my friends so much, they're such great people. Seeing them like this really gets to me, even if I know it shouldn't.

I wanna be able to provide emotional support without getting so involved that the issues start affecting me as well. Eh, I guess they already are.

Compassion's a bitch.




True Dreams of Wichita
-Soul Coughing

Signal got lost to the satellite
Got lost in the
Rideup to the
Plungedown;
Man sends the ray of the electric light
Sends the impulse
Through the air
Down to home

And you can stand
On the arms
Of the Williamsburg Bridge
Crying
Hey man, well this is Babylon
And you can fire out on a bus
To the outside world
Down to Louisiana
You can take her with you

I've seen the
Rains of the real world
Come forward on the plain
I've seen the Kansas of your sweet little myth
You've never seen it, no,
I'm half sick on the drinks you mixed
Through your
True dreams
Of Wichita

Brooklyn like a sea in the asphalt stalks
Push out dead air from a parking garage
Where you stand with the keys and your cool hat of silence
Where you grip her love like a driver's liscense
I've seen you
Fire up the gas in the engine valves
I've seen your hand turn saintly on the radio dial
I've seen the airwaves
Pull your eyes towards heaven
Outside Topeka in the phone lines
Her good teeth smile was winding down

Engine sputters ghosts out of gasoline fumes
They say You had it, but you sold it
You didn't want it, no
I'm half drunk on static you transmit
Through your
True dreams
Of Wichita


Punch it
I got, uh, fed
I got, uh, too much things on bounce, uh, my head
I got to burn 'em up
I got to burn 'em up now
I got to go uptown, uptown
I got a thing
I got a little bit pushed
got to stand on the corner and bellow for mush
I got a bomb
I got a baby bomb bomb
got to stand on the corner and bellow for my friend Tom
I got a thing, I got to thing it
I got to thing--team
I got to run my side

true dreams