UPDATE:

I updated my iPhone to the new firmware (it told me too!) and now my notes dont save.
So taking notes isnt as easy as it used to be- i actually have to have a notebook AND a pen- and I've been a little lazy about it.
And since i usually just sent those notes straight here, the process is a much more lengthier one. Also, I've been staying busy writing a script for a mystery mini-series, writing letters to important people and coloring characters for a movie website, so my time is being absorbed by those things.
But, dont worry, the strange habit of taking notes at random is still a habit. You just dont get to see em. The No iPhone thing just really throws things off. (i lerned im actulie a teribel speler!!?)
Not to worry though, nothing to exciting has been happening.
I'll be sure to let you Know when something comes up though.

hang in there all you readers. (Mom and Tiff.)
I'll see you soon.

7/4/10

"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."
~Steven Wright

5:47pm-
By the time I got up and made coffee i got a text from Courtney to come watch fireworks with them.

7:48pm-
On someones roof eating burgers with Courtney and Kat.

8:56pm-
We all walk down the street to someone elses house. The 'tallest roof in Brooklyn' to watch fireworks. All 25-30 of us.

9:20pm-
I talked to a girl from Wisconsin-
She was a foot taller than me.
I made fun of her accent.
I told her (joking!) that I'm from Texas so I'm not afraid to hit women.
She sat suspiciously close on the roof during the fireworks. Courtney and Kat said she was interested.
I blamed my dad.

7/3/10

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

4:01pm-
Heading to Austins house in Brooklyn to talk about a web/mini series we want to make.

5:50pm-
Sitting on the fire escape overlooking the city talking about characters and sub plots.
This could be good.

8:04pm-
The four of us (a room mate and a friend) walk through Bedford looking for a place to eat.

10:32pm-
One of the roommates knows a guy in a band thats playing in the city. So were Heading to the lower east side for a show.

UPDATE:
Not so much a band, as a guy with a guitar.

2:47am-
Home. Noticed that my notes app is having problems saving notes..?!!!
I lost from 10:30 to now... If I can't count on this, THEN what..???

its ok. nothing that interesting happened.

7/2/10

No road is long with good company.
~ Proverb

11:11am-
Raggedy old man in subway starts singing amazing grace for money.
He was pretty good. Sounded like michael Jackson.

2:01pm-
At a calendar photo shoot. Naked model covered in 'cotton candy'. Standing in the back of the room talking to Austin about a web series project we want to start.

3:51pm-
Neil said walked into a room talking to someone and said 'ok, that's perfect'.
And instantly, with out even knowing what was going on, Joe turned around and said 'what do YOU know about perfection!!?'

5:04pm-
Just realized that what I'm doing for school right now is walking around with no shoes on, eating pizza, waiting for a model to get made up.

6:56pm-
All the interns (four of us today) are heading to the roof to smoke.
Half of us don't smoke.
And now I remember why.

8:53pm-
In line with Kristen, about to go on a roof for a screening of some short films.
Rooftopfilms.com

12:01am-
Free drinks after the screenings...?
Coke and rum..?
ok.

UPDATE:
By 12:30 our conversation that had started at siblings and sesame street had somehow come to heaven, dying and now our parents sex lives.

Almost 2am-
We decided to get food.
At union square looking for Mexican.

UPDATE:
decided that that wouldn't happen (especially at this hour) and walked to a diner in time square.

3:41am-
Kristen found out Ive never hailed a cab and made me get her one.
Did it.

7/1/10

"Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship."
~Dorothy Parker

4:49pm-
Lucas invited me to go with him and Nolen and other people to eat at some family style restaurant.

7:07pm-
Met shay in front of the place.

8:02pm-
Nolen: "I had a dream....!"
Shay: "oh! You were in an orange car... And your boyfriend was dressed like a banana... And I came up.........."

8:04pm-
"And you said- 'orange car you glad your boyfriend isn't dressed like a banana...?!'"

10:38pm-
A big Italian dinner split between 10 people. Fun and funny things.

11:01pm-
Shay and I are on the wrong side of the subway stop.
'that's our bus!'
We run up the steps and across to the other side just in time to catch the train.

6/30/10

"TALK THINGS OUT"

It's Collin, Courtney and kristens birthday today.

1:10pm-
I planned to get up at 7, but I accidentally stayed up until after 5 am editing a video. Only to turn out I don't like it.
It LOOKS good though. And it works. The sound could use a little more attention, but I don't like the idea of it.
I shot it, cut it, colored it and added enough sound to make it complete in one morning and one night.
Getting there.
Anyway- I'm getting up now.
Gotta go shopping for something for Kristen. It's her party tonight.

4:39pm-
Got her a broken necklace that I'm pulling apart and making into a better necklace.
And she doesn't own scissors. And we kept needing scissors when we were over there. I found a pair of childrens scissors that look like the firs pair that I ever remember using- little ones with orange handles.
Happy birthday.

9:06pm-
At the park- It's so crowded! But I fiiinaally found where they were. A few spread out blankets and a lot of food and people. There were probly close to 20-25 people that came cause it was her birthday...!?
But now its dark and were running down to the water cause the Fireworks are starting!! and the trees are in the way.

10:49pm-
Funny guy. Don't remember his name. But I know he was ACTUALLY funny cause I couldn't stop for real laughing.

11:55pm-
A girl (woman, Cause i think she's older) asked for my number..
She's a part of the party...!?

12:00am-
Apparently it is officially Canada day.
Funny Guy started singing the Canadian anthem. Stood up and get singing. Started marching and singing louder.
Finally singing loud to the people and asking people to join him.
No one did.
But it was really funny how enthusiastic he was.

12:49am-
I said I'd come in for a minute.

3:01am-
I think I should start an audio journal like Louis Armstrong did. My phone can record and it'd be good when I have a long walk and need to talk things out.

I like being the real me with people. I like when they do the same.

6/29/10

"GOOD JUST GOT BETTER"

11:36pm-
Got up. Finally.

3:42pm-
Drank an energy coffee drink and made a video with my camera- adjusting all the functions to make it how I wanted it MANUELY...
I'll (hopefully) put it together tonight.

5:46pm-
About to meet shay, Nolen and Lucas at a park to listen to a Passion Pit concert. From outside the fence.. Still excited!!

7:58pm-
Sitting in th grass, shoes off, cool breeze... And the weather is actually pretty nice and cool.
I feel like if I had some beer and/or drugs I could invite the 80's version of my parents.

UPDATE:
just heard a familiar song-
TOKYO POLICE CLUB IS PLAYING!?!
Everything good just got better.
This DIET drink Nolen brought me doesn't even bother me that much.

8:46pm-
Just saw a firefly.....
How weeiird that they're real things..?!
Seems like some fairytale creature..

6/28/10

"LEARNED"


8:16am-
So weird to be up so early....

9:21am-
Starbucks interview.
Seemed like it went well.

11am-5pm
No A/C.
So hot at the studio.
One of the calendars we're making is half naked girls in candy.
Today I pushed lines claiming i 'couldnt be fired' and told Anastasia, the boss, SHE should be a month.
She said she HAD fired an intern before.
I asked anyway what kind of candy she would want to be buried in..

Gummy bears.


I also had my camera with me so I pushed all the buttons and asked the DP what does what and how to change it. Learned.

3:02am-
Hopefully gonna be getting up early again. No until friday. Just errands and playing with my camera. I feel prepared for tomorrow.

6/27/10

"THINGS ABOUT DENMARK"


Between noon and four-
Finally got up.
Drank some orange juice and then ate an apple in the shower.
(No one ever taught me NOT to..!?!)

Heading to meet Kristen at the east side service.

8:29pm-
Talked about dreams for 10 blocks.
Apparently I'm still old fashioned in the way of walking people to their destination.

Bus across town to meet up with Nolen and Lucas.
The bus reminds me of being at summer camp... Really cold and the feel and smell... Hmm.

12:36am-
Home.
Lucas and I got along really well. Apparently he doesn't really talk to people at all- he was around Nolens roommate for a week last time he was here and barely said two words- but he's been talking to me and explaining things about Denmark all night.
Nolen was surprised.
I'm just glad to know a straight guy in the city to hang out with.


Bed early.
I've got and interview at nine and using my camera at the studio again right after that.
And Sylvie wants to start getting up at 5...?! I told her I'd get up early with her. tomorrow is supposedly gonna be 7am...
We'll see.

6/26/10

"JOLLY OLD MAN"


12:17pm-
Kristen told me she has a 'key to the city'. It let's you in secret places through out the city..
so today were going adventuring.

3:50pm-
Were are now at the Louis Armstrong museum. Where he used to LIVE!!
Im even more a fan..
EVERY picture of him he has a giant grin or is laughing... you could tell he was a jolly old man.

4:47pm-
Sitting in the grass In Louis Armstrong's backyard...!

5:00pm-
The fire hydrant is open and the whole neighborhood is playing in the street.
I wanna plaay...!

7:01pm-
We went down into the depths of a Mexican restaurant where they made they're own tortillas, made on ourselves and ate it. Not bad, Us.
On a bus to an old fashioned soda shoppe.
Let's see what this is all about..!

7:38pm-
Strawberry vanilla malt from an actual soda shoppe.
Yum!

9:13pm-
At kristens house I found 1,000,000 years B. C.
So we got some wine and looks like were gonna watch that old movie.

1:17am-
Nope.
Also- I still don't like wine.

6/25/10

"LYSANDER"


10:18am-
Starbucks called.
I may have to start working now... Buuhh...

12:14pm-
Pumping the morning music and instead of coffee (to hot) I'm starting off with a redbull mimosa.
*redbull and orange juice.

1:43pm-
Looks like I'm forming a habit of running my feet under cold water every day before I get dressed, just to cool off.

3:25pm-
Stopped at a radio shack-
With an upgrade and then a trade in, I can get an iPhone 4 for about $118. Instead of $400. Deal....?

4:16pm-
Sitting in the shade in the park-
A group of little kids, probly five or six years old, running around with little spray bottles squirting each other.

-It settled down for moment, a girl said to the other girls around her, 'let's get the boys....!'

-a girl says, you're to far off...!'
The boy, 'but we can go where ever we want!!'
Other boy, 'to the rocks!!'
And the boys run off.

-Two other boys and a girl are standing around a tree squirting they're bottles and pretending to pee on the tree. 'weeerrre using the baaathrooomm...!' they sing.
The girl says to the boys, 'you know, I actually pee from my penis, too.'

12:16am-
Went nolens where shay was cutting several peoples hair. Met Lucas (Nolens Danish friend) and watched 10 Things I Hate About You.
I love Shakespeare and need to learn more of his work.

1:12am-
I just made Sylvia text me the entire summary of Mid-summer nights dream.

Just so I don't forget:
I'm naming my son Lysander.
Someone remind me when he gets here.

6/24/10

"IT'S DONE"

4:12pm-
After almost 30 minutes on the phone (with what may have been one of the guys on the streets who yells at you to buy sunglasses) I finally got my flight plans figured out.
"Ok. New York. And what is the state?"
"New York."
"Oh, ok. What was the city...?"
"Its New York."
"Wait, so the state AND the city are New York..????"
"Yes."

At least it's done.

5:23pm-
Planned on just sitting on the edge of the tub with my feet in the cold water to cool off... But, my mother never taught me any rules about not getting in the tub with your clothes on.. So I did.
I miss lakes.

7:41pm-
Went into a starbucks. Decided I might as well ask if they want to hire me..
The girl at the register said to write my name and number on this piece of paper for the manager. I wrote a long note instead.
We'll see.

12:17am-
Cleaned the living room. It was a MESS and took the garbage out. 6 paper grocery bags filled to the top....
Glad I got it out before my mom saw that....

12:49am-
Walked a few blocks to Dominos to pick up a large pizza for $6...!
Weekend special. Theyre normally like $15. deal.

6/23/10

"THE INFORMATION WE REQUIRE"

11:37am-
On the bus headed downtown. Some guy starts to tell the driver about some story in the news.
"and he lost control, hit a nun, and crashed into a wall..!?

2:24pm-
Cupcake shop.
Time square.
Apple store.
F. A. O. Shwartz.

12:50am-
Going to bed pretty early tonight.
Walking around all day and then all the way out to the airport and then getting back is tiring. Think I fell asleep in the train.
Also- they charge $5 just to LEAVE the airport...?! I was NOT happy about that.

1:38am-
'Double check your flight information. But don't take to long, because by the time you finish filling out all the information we require your session will have expired and you'll have to start all over from the beginning.'
Is what it SHOULD say...

6/22/10

"OUT IN THE OPEN"

11:42am-
Caught every train right as it was arriving.

11:54am-
Watching a little baby in a stroller in the subway rub her toes across her teeth.

2:02am-
Christie called to tell me I misspelled her name on a facebook comment seconds after I posted it.
"I just... I thought we were better friends, ya know...? I feel like I shouldn't have to tell you these things.. But, I didn't want to hold a grudge for years, I just wanted to get it out in the open and deal with this..."
I miss them.

6/21/10

"QUITE A JOURNEY."

9:51am-
Up and heading to the studio.
Were using my camera for a photoshoot today.
Its strange being up and out so early...

1:11pm-
Doing a photoshoot with models and candy.....

2:20pm-
Got sent to home depot for something that wasn't there last time and still isn't there this time.

3:48pm-
Today at the studio were doing a photoshoot with a naked model buried in candy corn. Ordered pizza and everyones being really funny.
Bad day to have to leave early.

4:32pm-
Me and a guy with an accent search for a 2,3 train and split when his card didn't work.
Heading to letterman to see Jay-Z and Emenim.....!

7:42pm-
Got VIP tickets. Front row in the balcony! Then went up and took pictures sitting at daves desk.
All thanks to my friend Kristen.

Events leading up to:
2:03am-
-We decided on pie.
We invited Kristen to join us and went to Juniors for cheescake.
Very good.
-Emily and shay apparently bought a rotisserie chicken that was waiting us at home.
So we all went that way.
-Shay and Emily split off to run an errand and would meet us at the house later.
-While Kristen and I were at the house, someone shay knew came by.
"helloo...?? Hi. I'm shays friend. He's gonna cut my hair. Also, I've been.. I'm a little bit... I'm wasted."
Funny stuff.
-After the haircut, a little eating and speed scrabble, Kristen had to go.
I told her earlier I'd 'walk' her home. Cause it's late and she doesn't know where she's going.
-She lives in queens.
-Two train rides and a long walk later-done. I can head home.

2:31am-
It's gonna be quite a journey back home.

6/20/10

"TWO OMELETS, SIX PANCAKES AND COFFEE ALL AROUND."

1:48pm-
Shay and Emily said they were planning on sleeping in this morning..
Maybe I'll get up and make some coffee...

4:28pm-
At ihop.
The waitress brought our food- two omelets, six pancakes and coffee all around.
Came back about 12 minutes later and it was reduced to stacked plates, sugar wrappers and a syrup spill.
"Are y'all doing ok- wow... Y'all did good."

6:16pm-
At the west side service to meet up with Kristen and Christy from the film project.

8:19pm-
Going to see toy story 3.....! In 3D! With Kristen and christy and another of their friends.
Shay and Emily want to go tomorrow so Nolen is coming.

2:50am-
At nolens watching her clean her room. It's so hot. Everywhere.

6/19/10

"ITS GREAT, BUT.."

9:54pm-
The plan was for us to be up and out by 9. We both slept in instead.
NOW were heading out. To the park to take pictures.

11:42am-
Stopped for coffee and found a good spot in the grass in the shade in the park.
So good to walk around barefoot in the grass..... I almost forgot what it was like.

1:29pm-
Got on a bus with a bus driver who must be in love.
He's funny and friendly with the passengers...
"ok, everyone..." hes talking to the passengers through the speaker, "What's ten body parts that are spelled with three letters..."
Passengers start yelling out answers:
"leg!"
"arm...!"
"eye!"
"Hip!"
"Ooh! Good one!"
"Neck..."
"Who said that...?? You're getting off at the next stop."


3:14pm-
At a walgreens.
I noticed that Condoms were in the 'family planning' section.
Emily: "More like the 'anti-family planning' section....!"

10:36pm-
Heading to Nolen's place of work.
(wanted to head that way around 7 or 8 but we fell asleep at home..!)
Passed a place called
"Wizard of Eyes optometrist."
Good luck getting people to trust you with their eyes after THAT name...!

10:44pm-
Makes me want to love on the ghetto when I walk past a corner with a good 20 people just hanging out on the sidewalk, playing cards and dominoes, grilling food, having a good time.....

12:10am-
Emily has had a few 'girly' drinks and apparently that's enough.
Her talking to Nolen:
"Oh...! Also- I bought a pair of Uni Qlo jeans!"
"oh! That's awesome!"
"Yeah! It's great! But I wish I could feel my lips.."

6/18/10

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
~John Dewey

1:14pm-
Emily and I on our way to SoHo for some more shopping.....
Looking for some good boots.

1:47pm-
I think I just got a job at a starbucks way downtown...
Yay.
And also buuh.

3:28pm-
Decided I didn't like the shoes I was wearing with the shirt I was wearing.
So i bought some new ones.
(I'd actually been wanting these shoes for a while..)

5:48pm-
At a real Chinese food place.
Hope it's good....

UPDATE:
It was.

11:12pm-
Heading to people central (time square).
Just to really take in the New York experience..? I guess....?

11:36pm-
"Hey....? Do you know if Bryant park is somewhere..?"
"Yes. Bryant park IS somewhere. I'm sure of it...."

12:40am-
Walking around times square with emilys model friend, alex.
She's nice but slightly vain. But for being a 21 year old model who looks like a 16 year old, it's understandable.

1:29am-
Big, black, funny lady in the train. Talking about every one who came in.
There's no description.
Just know it was funny.

1:36am-
Changing trains, another guy who was in that same train-
"Man, that lady was a mess....!"
"Shes the reason I take the subway."

6/17/10

"BRING TACOS"


12:38pm-
The plan was to be up and out to do laundry by 10.
Were just getting up and making coffee..

4:53pm-
Returned my camera bag for a bigger one. It was cheaper so I made $30.

6:29pm-
I tried on the suits that looked cool. I looked like I should be serving icecream to children.

Finally found a jacket that was a little more my style.


10:06pm-
Heading to someones birthday celebration..

12:48am-
Left the party and going to jakes dillema. Shay and Emily already left and went to a taco bell waay down town.
I told em to meet me at jakes. And bring tacos.

Later-
they did.

6/16/10

"LIQUID CHEESE SAUCE"


11:42am-
Wow... I'm the best at resetting alarms while half asleep.
And also pretty good at convincing myself that i can get home and then to the studio in 30 minutes.

3:21pm-
Joe and I went out looking for a coffee maker with Neil.
Neil said to split up, so Joe and I went to wendys for lunch.

3:41pm-
About how good liquid cheese sauce is:
"it's good on EVERYTHING.....! meat, bread, vegetables... You could probly even put that on regular cheese and it'd be good!!"
-Joe

3:56pm-
Neil, the dp, smart with cameras and equipment and is teaching me how to edit, failed to use a filter in the new regular ol' coffee pot.
"You didn't use a filter..!"
"What..???? I didn't know!?"

7:17pm-
My cousin Emily is here!
Her and shay went shopping, got separated on the train and now are finally back and I get to see her!

8:20pm-
Our window was messed up... Me on the fire escape and shay on the inside holding the AC, we stomped it until it went back into place.

10:48pm-
After we ate the dinner Emily cooked, spaghetti and salad, we made coffee and played speed scrabble.

More-
then Nolen showed up and we watched 500 Days Of Summer.

6/15/10

"A LITTLE TOO LOGICAL"


10:50am-
Alarm went off.
I could get up now and eat and have time to get ready and be at the studio at noon.
*snooze*

11:10am-
Ok.....
Better get up..

11:40am-
Ah!?
What happened!??
Looks like I might be a little late.

12:36pm-
On the way to stop for coffee I ran into Matt and Neil. They said they were making coffee at the studio.

1:28pm-
Had to stir my coffee with a pen.
This is the life i lead.
Wouldnt trade it.

2:00pm-
Learning about multiclip editing.
Pretty cool.

7:37pm-
Just left the studio.
All day hung out with Tim. Very smart. A little too logical though.
-Knows all about computers.
-Thinks meat will kill him.
-Doesn't believe in the old testament.
-Thinks he's good at impersonations.

11:48pm-
Little kid at the bus stop can't stop laughing...! Calling his daddy a hotdog! Ha!

12:36am-
Brenden is here and shay shows up.
Slumber party at nolens tonight.

6/14/10

"BED"


1:03pm-
Nolen came in to see if I was awake.
"Stay asleep. I'll come back later."

1:45pm-
"ok. I'm bored. Let's go to ihop!"

2:38pm-
Eating breakfast and noticing awkward couples, cute babies and a group of funny English kids.

4:21pm-
Home.
Decided I was gonna skip today and just sleep. So that's where I'm headed. Bed.

2:46am-
Ding!
The four Hitchcock movies I've been downloading for the last week are finally cooked.

6/13/10

"YOU (THE READER)"


11:09am-
Aahh...?!
Who didn't wake me up!?
5 hours to be finished...?!

BRAIN UPDATE:
Scrambled. Open in a frying pan.
Mustard.

6:38pm-
Done.
It has to be turned in by 7, so I rendered it, uploaded it to an external hard drive and Kristen caught a cab and got it to the guy just in time!

Editing was hours and hours. Non stop.
And it still came our TERRIBLE.
you (the reader of this) will definitely never see this project.

The product wasn't good AT. ALL.
But I learned a LOT.
Failing upwards. Is what i call it.

8:22pm-
Finally leaving headquarters.
Get to go home and take a real shower....

9:51pm-
Took my shoes off for the first time in daays...

Some Australians stayed at my house over the weekend. I never met them, but the more I walk around, the more I like these mystery guests...
A ton of beer cans (but all put in a garbage bag); chips; cool clothes; a cell phone....?
They're either still living here, left in a hurry, or are just really irresponsible.


Later-
Nolan came over.
I finally
Took a real shower.
We went to her house.
The end.

6/12/10

"SINK BATH"


12:37pm-
Apparently we have a little time until our talent is available.
I guess I'm getting up now...?
Empty house. Don't know where everyone went..
Eh.. They'll come and get me when I need to be gotten.

1:14pm-
Heading to SoHo to shoot an office seen. It's great out today!

3:58pm-
In the subway.
Asked a cop about his gun.
Just wanted to see if he'd think that's suspicious.
He didn't.

8:24pm-
Took my second 'tour shower'. (in the sink.)

8:32pm-
We're ahead of schedule.
Going to dinner.
Panera bread again.

11:42pm-
We got ahead.
We got behind.
Now weve got 15 minutes left and one shot to go....
Whew.....

12:25am-
Just took my third sink bath.
I've bathed more here in the sink in one day than I have at home in the last week.....

12:39am-
Popped open some champaign to celebrate the end of shooting!!!



OTHER NOTES:
I need to not start trouble just cause I can.
Its gonna get me..

6/11/10

"HERE WE GO..."


10:34am-
Went and jumped on nolens bed (or, shays bed) to wake her up.
"This is something my mom would do."

11:07am-
Made it downtown on time.
Secured the boom mic.
Now going back home to go back to sleep.

11:51am-
A guy realized this was his stop and jumped off the train just as the doors closed!
He turned around to see that his girlfriend didn't make.

5:50pm-
Packed and heading to 'headquarters' for the weekend.
Here we go.

7:03pm-
Got the email telling us what the guide lines-

"Theme: Redemption
Must include a character wearing a suit and the word 'indubitably'.
You have from now until 7pm Sunday June 13th."

Ok...... Here we go.

8:23pm-
Lunch break.
The story is looking......
Not as good as I want it to.
At least I'll get to use my camera.

12:27am-
Script done.
Eric (a writer) left.
The three of us are going to celebrate by going out and finding an open store to get some rockstars and redbulls.

1:35am-
Sitting down with a coffee drink and a computer and notebook to read over and storyboard a script that I'm not necessarily pumped about.
Well, we'll see what we can do...

3:44am-
Kristen goes to bed while Stephen finishes breaking down the script.

4:23am-
Headphone fell out of my ear and almost swung into my stream of pee.
Instead I just peed on my shoe.

4:51am-
Stephens turn to sleep and Kristen is organizing the schedule.
I give her a sip of a 5hour energy.
She agrees that it tastes like summer and running through a sprinkler.

6something am-
Storyboard made.
Schedule set.
Script locked.
Emails sent to actors.
Were on schedule.

7:22am-
Kristen went to starbucks and got us breakfast while Stephen and I fixed the sound issue.
Or, the no sound issue.

7:35pm-
I maybe just fell asleep on the floor...

7:50am-
Apparently we have about an hour or so (maybe more) to sleep.

I like having a producer and assistant director around.
I can go to sleep when I want and know THEY are in charge of waking me up and telling me when we need to be somewhere.
And they love making schedules (and keeping people on them) and making sure everything we need is available.
So much I DONT have to do...!

9:59am-
I don't know if dinfjjngv

(^ fell asleep while writing this.)
Don't know if I dreamed if I need get up or not.....



CON'T NEXT DAY . . .

6/10/10

12:36pm-
Nolen said her metro card might not work, and she's trying to get to the bank to deposit money...
Im just planning on sitting around here until my camera gets here, so I let her take mine. Now I CANT go anywhere.

2:01pm-
It's here!!
My camera is finally here!!
I almost bolted out the door without my keys!

3:11pm-
Ok.... Now I just gotta learn everything about how to use this- focus, iris settings, aperture settings, record video, record audio, save in the right format and how to transfer data to a computer (and what software I'll need for that)- by 7 tomorrow night.
Better start reading and pushing buttons..

4:41pm-
Rude lady (who's always rude to customers) at BK-
"Its like I'm an asset here but aint nobody appreciate me."

9:36pm-
Learning how to use this camera...
Break for a nap.

-
Nolen is on her way to watch GG.
I just realized the water stopped working again.

-
Water is on!!
But it's MUD!

-
I guess she is considered more of a roommate now...?

4:24am-
Gotta meet someone at the Letterman show at 10:30 in the morning.
Guess I better go to bed..

6/9/10

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: but it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg."
-C. S. Lewis

12:38pm-
Heading to work.
I feel like the term 'late' means you couldn't make it on time... Like it was an accident...
What's the term for when you just... don't GO on time...?

12:46pm-
Standing on the stairs sending an email before I go down and lose reception...
A crowd just started coming up. And down. A big black man who is probly nice says "get your ass outta the way, man."
"thanks, pop."

1:09pm-
Just held the door open on the subway for a guy with a rat perched on each shoulder. One pink, one blue.
Oh, new york.

1:12pm-
People are asking him about them.
He stuffed the blue on half in his mouth and swung it around... To... Look... Cool.....?

1:39pm-
Joe, another intern got 'in trouble' for searching for the other interns dancing video... Ha!!
"I wasn't doing anything!! Just watching a video of another intern..!?"

4:56pm-
Shelly is having her picture taken in prop clothes so they can know what all they have.
Right before I left they asked me to wear a few things for em.
Pic

5:58pm-
It's raining.
I bought an umbrella.
At Grey Dogs Coffee for a meeting with the crew.

7:44pm-
Had to move to Starb cause there wasn't any room at greys.
Just got a izze sparkling Clementine soda and got them to add some vanilla to it.
Pretty goood idea, me.

9:43pm-
"Ok. 9:43. Break!"
"You have to say 'meeting adjourned'"
"Oh, ok. Meeting adjourned!"

10:26pm-
...And we talked to 59th street.

12:31am-
Nolen is dying from lady problem pain.
We looked up endometriosis. Cause it's in her family and makes cramps really terrible.
(I'm not going into detail about it.... But just believe me it's gross and makes things a lot worse.)

2:01am-
Watching Gossip Girl with Nolen.
Totally have girl time right now.

6/8/10

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
-Aristotle

11:37am-
Wave and say hi to the neighbors we met a couple times the other day.
It's good to know people who live around here.
But, they're French and will be going back to France in a few weeks.

1:18pm-
Stacy 'graded' my work.
(since grading it doesn't really matter anyway.)
I maaaybe missed a question- or, just didn't put the full answer down so she gave me an A-.
"oh, look Zane, Erica got an A+."
"Yeah....? I can draw lines. Get me a red pen. I'll have an A+ too."

4:41pm-
Erica just turned 20 yesterday. And she apparently used to be a stripper.
She told us to find her YouTube pole dancing video....
Wow. We barely know her.

5:58am-
After dinner, a nap, a shower, practice a song and finally bed.

6/7/10

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
-John Burroughs

12:08pm-
Heading home before I go equipment shopping.

Called butterflyphoto cause I noticed they JUST charged me for what I ordered over a week ago. Told em I ordered it in time to have it by a certain date and if I don't have it by then then it doesn't do me any good.
Free express shipping.
Should be here at least by Thursday.


(I'm making a steadicam and bought all the pieces the other day but im stuck because I don't have a drill...)
1:58pm-
Found a gas station/auto inspection place and asked of they would drill some holes in some end caps that I have.
After the guy drilled the holes he went back to the car he was working on.
I didn't know if I was supposed to pay or anything... So I just said thanks to everyone and left.

2:14pm-
Some girls in the subway asked where I got my sunglasses.... (I said they were my brothers.)
But, I don't think they really cared about the glasses..

2:16pm-
Phone already almost dead.

3:39pm-
Just bought a bag and tripod and it was relatively painless.
A good bag and a reeaally cheap tripod.
Aannd..... Just remembered I forgot an XLR > 1/8" cable.
Going back...

6:31pm-
Using iMovie to edit shays audition.
I really hate iMovie.

9:20pm-
Went to use the microwave and found a plate of old, hard pizza rolls in there....
......No telling when that happened..

10:04pm-
Sitting on the couch with stale oreos and a beer....
I think i'm getting the hang of this 'bachelor' thing.

11:21pm-
Making a steadicam.

3:41am-
Nolen and I just finished off season 1 of Gossip Girl.
She cried.

6/6/10

“The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am”
-Laura Schlessinger


7:34am-
I wake up for a second and see where/how we all fell asleep-
Shay on the couch, Nolen on the floor next to the couch, me on the floor half under a chair.

12:46pm-
Nolen is making us get up.
Now Shays in my bed, Nolen is on the couch and I'm on the floor wrapped up in blankets.

1:02pm-
Apparently we don't have water today....

UPDATE:
4 blocks don't have water.

4:35pm-
While recording shays audition we decided that we were gonna start making Disney video clip remakes every Sunday. Hopefully we start doing that soon. And with my new camera!

RIGHT when Nolen and I leave it starts pouring.

6:48pm-
A blocked number just called my phone. Someone who knew my name talked in a really high pitched, Mickey mouse voice, we had a short conversation, and then I told them I was mugging someone and asked th to call back later.
They hung up.

7:22pm-
Went back outside and it's actually coldish...??? And super windy.
I just watched a styrofoam cooler fly down the street. We just had to hide behind a tree cause the sand was stinging our legs and faces..

9:06pm-
Just went to French Roast and had DUCK!? with pear + almond and tried MUSSELS!?!
I need to make sure I always bring Nolen to classy places like this so she can tell me how to pronounce things.

10:43pm-
Shay and Nolen are learning a dance to Brittany Spears in the living room.




3:40am-
Our water still doesn't work.
So we went to Nolen's to drink water and take showers.
Wheeew... refreshing in this kind of weather.....

6/5/10

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"
-Rose Kennedy


1:54pm-
Already running late...!
The train said it be here in 12 minutes.... And then.. it just flew right past us!!!?!?!??
After the train past and everyone just stared:
"Well. That was a terrible joke."

2:02pm-
Saw an old guy with a McAlisters cup of sweet tea...!?
I went up and asked of there wa McAlisters around here....
No. Central park was having a mississippi thing and McAs was there giving out sweet tea.
And I missed out!!

3:14pm-
At a meeting for the 48hr film thing. Trying to secure locations and equipment and actors and test the writers to see if they will be able to write a 5 page story in 4 hours.
30 minutes to write one page. Go.

3:44pm-
Time up.
We didnt get a page of a script, but an entire story in one page.
And I liked it.

6:16pm-
Nolen calls-
"hello...?"
"I NEED TO WATCH GOSSIP GIRL....!!"
I've created monsters.

10:10pm-
At the end of the 4th episode of Gossip Girl we watched, they had a ton of hot dogs and Nolen and I instantly craved a ton of hot dogs.

We ran down the street and found an actual grocery store with everything we needed.

10:20pm-
Nolens very best friend called and surprised her and is in the city....!!!?!
She's freaking out.
Were going down town to meet up with them.
After hot dogs.

12:04am-
Heading out to meet Scott and friends.
In the subway one kid was guarding while the other was pissing on the wall. ha....

Train is gonna take 15 minutes.
Were walking.

12:09am-
Saw a cat walking across the street. It had a mouse in it's mouth!!

1:20am-
Met up with Nolens friends and now were at some place that someone they know works at.
That means free drinks....

3:01am-
"I couldn't do it though... Apparently I'm still in love with another girl."

"Shes stupid. I met her once.."

"Yeah.....
She's a b*tch.
But she's got me wrapped around her finger.
Don't tell her that though...."

"The guy shes in love with is an a**hole though. And treats her like sh*t. So its more protecting herself than b*tchyness.
You're secret is safe with me."


"The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."
~Robert Graves

4/4/10

She's opened up just like she really knows me.
I hate her face, but enjoy the company.
I take her home, back to Oklahoma.
She's not so nice, but sex is so cheap.
-Kings of Leon



11:49pm-
Nolen came back from work to go back to sleep but decided to watch Gossip Girl instead.
What have we started.......

1:32pm-
After we finished a pot of coffee shay went out to get some cans of sweet tea and some salsa.
Such a southwestern morning were having.

2:48pm-
It's a weird shock seeing girl stuff in MY shower.......

4:03pm-
at the post office.
Looong line....

4:25pm-
A group of 17 year old girls came up and said they 'liked my outfit' and asked of I had a facebook. Ha...!

5:06pm-
Walked into the hardware store and read off my list.

5:36pm-
Looks like I'm gonna have to walk 20 blocks to find a 2.5 lb weight...

7:06pm-
Check the mail on my way inside- got my memory cards!
It's like a Christmas eve present.
Just enough to get you excited for the big day!!

7:38pm-
Emails back and forth.
Meeting up with the crew tomorrow at a coffee place. 2pm.

8:04pm-
"I did it. A little later than I wanted to.. But I did it."

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
I don't agree.

2:25am-
Stop at a deli to get something to eat on the way home from a going away party up town (where we stayed for 20 minutes and then got outta there).

3:32am-
Got home.
Cool shower.
Sitting on the couch eating sherbert.

6/3/10

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.
~Robert Brault

4:31pm-
Shay:
"Blog about me. Write- four thirty one, shays says 'blog about me.'"

5:42pm-
I only remember that I have clothes that I need to pick up from the tailors when I run out of all my clean clothes.

6:07pm-
I can tell when I'm leaning towards the nerd side of things when someone casually asks me if there's wifi here at starbucks and I spend 15 minutes explaining how the signal works while fixing her computer to make it pick up the signal.

9:14pm-
Reading about how to make a steadicam. I'm getting up in the MORNING and gonna go buy the pieces and try to make one!!

12:25am-
Go out to get some tortilla chips and sweet tea.
It's hot and muggy with a cool breeze. It somehow reminds me of being on tour.

1:36am-
Nolen asked for some wash clothes or something so she could take a shower and not have to dry off with our one dirty towel that we keep forgetting to wash.

2:49am-
"Whats that...?"
"Im sending a package to my friend Anthony. He's 14."
"Haah...! Aaawww.... 'my friend Anthony. He's 14...' That's an 8 year difference....!"

4:34pm-
Another late bedtime because of Gossip Girl.

6/2/10

"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
~Norman Cousins

After 12pm-
I like that I can be running 'late' and still stop for coffee and get here before anyone who would notice is here.

1:37pm-
Started talking with Neil, the DP, about a mic system for my camera and we ended up on Hitchcock films.

2:51pm-
I'm researching audio equipment I (eventually) want and talking to Neil about correct script formats.

3:06pm-
Taking some stuf to the post office.
It's so nice out!

5:13pm-
Searching for addresses again.
But I got Pandora going this time. (Internet radio that let's you put ok a band you like and it geniuses it.)
Right now I'm listening to some ska.

6:12pm-
Walking up to Stacy to ask a question and she asks what size pants I wear... Ha..

9:46pm-
At Olive Garden with shay and Nolen cause shay has a $67 gift card.

10:37pm-
Aaaaand.... I'll take care of the $31 left.

1:35
Gossip Girl and now bed early cause shay and nolen have to be up early.
"why cant you guys just quit your jobs and do whatever you want all the time.. like me....."

6/1/10

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
~Leo Aikman

11:35am-
On the train on my way to the studio.
I think I'm sitting across from a model.
Tall and thin and plastic looking..

PROCESSING ERROR:::::
1:07pm-
Apparently to get something shipped to where I live now, i have to call my credit card company and add it to the billing address. I guess that's a good thing. But it woulda been good to know before I ordered a ton of stuff...!

4:24pm-
After I answered all the questions on on my homework that I already knew the answer to, like: "what is roomtone" and 'what are nat sounds" I made up my own question- "draw a picture of a scary monster about to attack and eat a child."
So I answered it.


(and Neil, who checks my answers commented: 'sharp teeth would also work well'. Ha..!)

5:17pm-
Stacy just told me that the zombie movie Matt wrote got funding!!
So hopefully by the end of the summer we'll be shooting a zombie movie!!

7:55pm-
Just listened to a voice over professional read off some radio commercials.
Those guys you think are really nice people in tuxedos and have sparkling white teeth telling you about a vacation in Hawaii are actually big, drunk, sweaty, fat jerks who think they're awesome and cuss like a sailor with a bad attitude.
It was cool to watch the sound guy, Allen, mix everything and cut out all the words that shouldn't be said on public radio and make the commercial sound good.

2:14am-
Sherri texted me her new tattoo.

And she said she'd love to draw one for me. Can't wait to see what she does withy idea...!

3:39am-
Just saw a bunch of bags of trash fly past my window and heard em crash from 5 or 6 stories up.

5/31/10

"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice."
~Steven D. Woodhull

8:41am-
Im up, perfectly awake.
Not tired at all.
And I feel sick.
Sweaty but cold. Stomachache. My shoulder has been hurting for days now and making my head hurt. And Im always catching myself clenching my teeth.

3:05pm-
My timing has slipped again.
The middle of the day and I'm just getting up.

3:51pm-
Ok. Now for real getting up.

5:38pm-
Aparently it's house care day.
I'm cleaning the kitchen while Shay supposedly organizes the living room..

10:43pm-
Hungry and looking for food-
We've got dip, but no chips. Peanut butter, but no bread. Cereal, but no milk. Creamer and sugar, but no coffee....
Who's doing the shopping around here..?!

2:32am-
On the way back from kates house it took shay and I three stops to find regular tortilla chips. And in were SPANISH HARLEM!?!

5/30/10

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
-Mark Twain


10:52am-
I tried to get up at nine to help Nolen pack, but that didn't happen.
Now, finally her and Morgan are gone. Heading for a bus to upstate NY.
And I'm going back to sleep.

2:03pm-
Just now getting up..
Still sleepy.

3:32pm-
Everyone is gone.
I'm finally going.

4:31pm-
In the train I had to stop and think about life.
I thought:
I need to stop thinking about life and what's happening and what it all is and just LIVE it...?
Take things for what they are and not try to push them into something else..

5:44pm-
At chris' with his friend Sean from Texas.
We've been trying to decide who's going to Brooklyn to get buffalo wings.
Chris does NOT want to leave his house. Laaaazzy....

6:08pm-
Buffalo Wild Wings doesnt deliver.
Chris made me call to see if they would half deliver and meet us halfway.
718 943 9453

They wouldn't.

We ordered some buckets to go.

6:10pm-
Chris:
"Dammit. No we have to go to Brooklyn."

8:50pm-
Chris: "...I thought that was just called a 'flock'.
Me: "No...! A 'gaggle' is a flock of GEESE...! it really IS a word!"
Chris: "I'll have to google gaggle and see what we get."

11:20pm-
Shays here. Were watching (trying to watch) Saturday Night Fever. Shay just went down the store to get another apple pie.

2:10am-
Home.
It feels... weird.. here.
It's so quiet with out 'loud girl' around.

5/29/10

"Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."
~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859


1:04pm-
I was up earlier, but this time I'll stay awake. Hopefully even get up..

1:21pm-
Shay and I are the only ones at Nolen's house right now.
Weird.

1:58pm-
Mom: "Go get the bag."
Little boy: "but she didn't put it down...!" (he obviously thought this was some kind of terrible injustice.)
"Gooo get. The. Bag."
"But its not mine! She wouldn't put it down...!!"
"Go get the bag before I punch you."
"Buuut...!!?!"
A little girl brings the bag.
Mom to little girl.: "Thank you, honey."
Mom to boy: "Youre in trouble."

3:39pm-
Walking down the street with chris. I've got an apple pie in one hand and a tomato in the other. I just realized how weird this probly looks.

5:27pm-
Chris and I keep ending up on dates. This time we walked through the farmers market, went by a photo store, and then went to a grocery store and got some more supplies for Mexican burgers. Cause instead of going somewhere for lunch we decided to make burgers.

Still cooking, we made:
Burgers- ground beef (and a little left over turkey), taco seasoning, black beans, orange bell peppers and ground pepper.
Then on the 'grill'.

Chipotle sour cream mix dip-
Sour cream, taco seasoning, verde sauce, ground chipotle stuff and taco sauce.

Topped with Mexican shredded cheese that we had (cause we thought the 'sharp cheddar' we got tastes like cheap American cheese) and sliced tomatoes.

Served with funyuns and later an apple pie and and icecream.

5:53pm-
We decided to name these particular southwestern burgers
"Boy Howdy Burgers".

6:19pm-
The chipotle sour cream was the biggest hit.
Soooo gooood.
Better as a dip than a topping.
Chris said he wants to put it on everything he ever eats.
I said i wanna carry a jar around with me every where I go.
Chris said he wants to wash his hair with it.

7:50pm-
In honor of Dennis Hopper on the day of his death, we decided to watch Easy Rider.

11:34pm-
Shay cut my hair.

1:33am-
The bus wouldn't show up, so we walked. Now just another 16 blocks to Nolens.

2:45am-
Nolen is trying to pack for a week and has to be up and on the bus by 11.

3:21am-
I'm cutting pineapple for the first time in my life. Ever.

3:28am-
Me: "Man, how small is Sponge bob if he lives IN one if these things..??"
Shay: "about this big". *makes his fingers about two inches apart*
"Tiny, huh.."
Me: "......yeah.."

5/28/10

12:16pm-
They said they had to get up early and leave. I guess they meant get up early and press snooze over and over.

3:07pm-
Just spent another $300 on 3 years of 'anything goes' insurance and an extra battery.
If I'm gonna do it Im gonna do it right.

3something-
Talked to mom for a while...
Still think I need to call Tiffany.

4:57pm-
Heading downtown to a '48 hour film project' interest meeting that the church I go do is having...
We'll see....

9:18pm-
Just got assigned as the DP of the team I'm in. Cause I'm the one who just bought a legit camera.
And the director, too. Cause no one else knows how to talk to people...?
And maybe the editor (but hopefully not!) cause I know how and have the software.

10:51pm-
Some guy just made everyone in the subway a group of jolly friends by yelling "BALLS AND WEINERS!! BALLS AND WEINERS!!" as soon as the door opened.
I laughed too.

12:25am-
I heard a rumble coming up behind me as I was walking across the street and looked back at a lady barreling across the street pushing a stroller. Then the stroller hit a whole or something and she flipped over it and went sprawling!?
I turned around to help (obviously), and grabbed her things off the ground on my way. We set the stroller up right and uncovered the baby..
I held my breath as she pat the baby on the cheek to wake her up..
.......pat harder and said her name...
............slapping her and yelling.....
FINALLY the little girl started to move around and wake up...
Wheew...!? I noticeably sighed with relief.
I almost had a heart attack!!?!

I looked up to see my bus across the street leaving.

5/27/10

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
-Albert Einstein

9:50am-
Woke up for a minute....
Everyone else is still asleep.
Going back to sleep i guess..

12:46pm-
Looking over my notes from yesterday I see I wrote 'first time for everything'. And that's all...!?

But, whew. it was cause they said you lick the salt off your hand, drink, and then the lime. I thought that was weird.
Also- apparently i watch to many movies. A worm in tequila is only a real southern, REAL tequila thing... So... That makes it a little less cool..

1:30pm-
Sitting around Nolens living room with shay and Morgan and Morgans brother collin, drinking coffee.

Update:
And Morgans cooking breakfast....?!

2:41pm-
Bussing home.
Somehow shay and I dressed similar today.


4:58pm-
Just put thousands of dollars in my account. Whhoooooo.....
Ok.... Gonna do it.

8:27pm-
At chris'.
Making dumplins again.

10:16pm-
Just spent about $3,200.
Can't wait for 7-10 business days...!

11:58pm-
Watching Gossip Girl with shay and Nolen from the beginning.
Season 1.

Night-
"It was exactly like a scene from a movie. A bad scene. a scene you'd watch and think, 'aww.. maan... that would suck.....'"

5/26/10 SAGES BIRTHDAY!

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss


12:53pm-
I took an iPhone picture of Serena at the shoot, edited it, and put it in my iPhonetography album. And she just made it her facebook profile picture.
Cool job iTelephone.


3:21pm-
Stacy- "do you remember sno-cones always being this small...?"
Neil- "hmmm... Noo... But i was a lot smaller then.."
Me- "I'm from Texas."
Neil- "hah! That's what they put ON TOP of the sno-cones in Texas...!"

4:15pm-
Stacy- "maan.... I rememered when stamps were 21 cents..."
Neil- "I remember when they went up from 15."
Me (towards Neil)- "you remember when the guy came buy on his HORSE to get your mail...! And then sat down for some homecooking!"
Neil- "Momma does make some mighty fine grits."

5:23pm-
Everyone came out if their offices to participate in the heated discussion that started when they found out Zane was my MIDDLE name.

8:12pm-
"sh sh... Quiet, baby."
"Why she's crying, mom, is cause when she flipped over that fence she got caught and went like 'whoooghsh'..-"
"maahh baacckk......"

10:37pm-
At some bar with Nolen and a lot of other people from Steps.

12:29am-
Don't know who's apple cider drink this is... But were drinking it.

2:43am-
First time for everything.

4am or around there-
Collin, Morgan's brother (Morgan = Nolen's roommate) is on the couch. Where iiii usually sleep...!

4/25/1-

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

11:11am-
Chris texted:
'soo... Noon right?"
"yeah. That's the plan."
"just double checking. Cause it's in 49 minutes."

Uuhhh... Don't want to get up...

11:53am-
Feeling nauseas....
All those little mini burgers....

12:13pm-
Nolen and I buy fruit from the 24 hour fruit stand on the corner.

1:20pm-
And make smoothies at chris' house.

2:23pm-
The model shows up.
her name is Serena.
It's so good to be able to dress someone in cool things that they'll actually wear. And look good in.

3:09pm-
Test shots on the roof.


4:41pm-
Shooting in the park.
Serena is wearing a Spanish-y looking jacket we found and has a 'don't tread on me' flag. And MY feather necklace!


6:38pm-
A few more roof shots.

And... Shoot officially over.

2:45am-
By the time I got home. Fell asleep, woke up, took a shower and made an 'iPhonetography' photo album on FB, it turned out to be the middle of the night.

Today was a good day of the kind of productivity I like being a part of.
Hopefully this can become a normal thing.

Camera ordering on.... Thursday...?!
Goodbye $3,500. Hello guy who teaches himself how to be something awesome.

5/24/10

“Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got”
-Unknown

11:26am-
Really had to make myself get up this morning to go to the studio.. Still gonna be 'late'.. But I don't think anyone will be able to tell how sleepy I am.

1:22pm-
My job right now is to watch a movie.

9:54pm-
Yes. I found half a bowl of chilli in my fridge and yes, I ate it.

10:25pm-
I think Nolen and I are gonna try to hang out without shay.....
We'll see how this goes.

12:51am-
After walking all over 'the city that never sleeps' with no one around, we headed to the west side where nolie knows her way around.

3:01am-
Fiiinally home. Tonight was not a good night to travel.

3:34am-
Aahh....
Haven't slept in my own bed in daays... 2 or 3 at least...
Its so nice to be back.

5/23/10

“I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.”
-Edgar Guest

11:23am-
Feels so nice outside this morning.
I guess it always does, Im just never up and out so early...

12:14pm-
Wow. This bus stops right at my doorstep!

2:00pm-
I meant to take 20 minutes at home. Took about 2 hours.
Heading to chrisss'.

3:54pm-
"sometimes when I see someone with only one arm I think 'why'd they do that...??'"
-shay

4:28pm-
Definitely shopping for girl clothes for a model right now.

5:24am-
The normal seems to be church and then Nolen stays at our house.
This time we met chris and ate somewhere. Then shay cut her hair.
Im finally getting to bed.

5/22/10

Things are only impossible until they're not.
~Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation


12ish-
Nolen texted good morning and to meet her somewhere for shays dance thing tonight.
That's the plans for today.

3:03pm-
I've (almost) decided I AM going to spend money on a hope and a dream and get that camera.

I've been looking at photography that's so good it makes me wanna vomit.
I wanna do it......
I know pretty people who like having their pictures taken..
Now If I can just settle on an idea of what I want from life and make it happen...

-Also:
Gonna start a new 'blog' eventually with just pictures.

4:41pm-
Sitting at the bar Nolen works at with Shay-
"drink that! I want to communicate on the same level...
I know I'm below you... Drink your way down!!"
He's been here for a while already.

7:50pm-
At shays dance thing with Nolen who went daring and wore something really cool.


11:12pm-
Decided on a place to eat called 'Dallas BBQ'. We'll see.

12:33am-
Phone died. Guess I don't know how to get home from here.

5:22am-
At nolens. We got here at one and have been talking about different stuff since then.
It's hard to find people like her here.

Going to bed.

5/21/10

Failure is success if we learn from it.
-Malcolm Forbes

7:30am-
Woke up not tired at all and thought it was 7:30 pm. Once I realized it was AM I decided I was tired again and went back to sleep.

1:25pm-
I got up and got dressed and made my bed, and then my first thing to do today was take a nap.

5:09pm-
RSVPed to a '48 hour film challenge' with Redeemer to see what that's all about...

7:29pm-
Girl while waiting on the 6 train:
"I like these six trains... They run like warter."
Never heard that expression.

9:02pm-
At Chris' talking about all different stuff. I knew we were a lot a like, but, geeeze....

11:06pm-
Turned on some Shane and Shame worship music and we automatically did our 'lady-in-church-hands-in-the-air-side-to-side-step-praise' dances.

12:30am-
Went over ideas for the photoshoot he wants to do. Were gonna go clothes shopping for model clothes and then return em all the next day.

5/20/10

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
~Paula Poundstone

1:32pm-
Just got ricochet sprayed with some perfume in the street.
i smell real pretty now.

2:04pm-
At the SS Department.
I can understand their impatience-
The government gave every living human being a number, and the people who work here are the ones responsible or keeping them all in order.
Bad career choice, guys.

7:40pm-
After doing color correction for an hour or two, I took my eyes away from the computer and went into a different room....
All the colors were different!? It was like being in wonderland...?! Everything had a strange new color....!!?

8:01pm-
According to this second large iced coffee from Dunk n Donuts today, i'm addicted..
Coconut this time.

5/19/10

* I accidentally deleted all my days notes when i meant to email them to myself.
So im gonna have to make this up the best i can remember.




LATE MORNING-

finally made myself get up to go to the studio.

stopped for coffee at the dunk n donuts near the studio.
they recognized me and knew just what i wanted.

i did some color correcting on the studios Final Cut Pro.
i think i own most of this color program.


AFTERNOON-

the duprees and the d'eramos texted me (seperately) telling me they were going to mexican food places.
made me really want some mexican food.
i laid on my bed and swore i could smell chips and salsa coming in from the window..

i have eggs.
decided that i'd make an egg sandwich.
if the eggs were still good.


EVENING-

i rearranged my living room while planning on making an egg sandwich.
i asked a lot of people how you can tell when an egg goes bad....?

shay and nolen came home for just long enough for me to get a jacket and we went to El Paso.
the restaurant.
it was really expensive and not as good as texas.

NIGHT-
i took off my pants and a handful of sugar poured out of my pocket. it was from dunk n donuts...

i learned that you can tell if an egg is bad by putting it in water and seeing if it floats.
sinks and sits vertical - fresh.
sinks with the bottom up - getting old.
floats - bad.

5/18/10

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he would do even if he did not need the money. ~William Lyon Phelps


12:34pm-
Met shay at h&m. (We've got to buy black shirts for a catering job tonight.)
Found a jacket that says $24 (and all the rest say $69..!). Buying it.
For $24.

1:32pm-
Just bought an entire suit of dressy clothes. Shirt, pants, jacket and shoes.

4:25pm-
Made it just in time and im sooaked.

4:40pm-
Tonight were walking around a giant Banana Republic with trays of tiny cupcakes.
We go on the floor at 5.

5:14pm-
Already bored out of my mind.

5:35pm-
Already feel sick from eating to many cupcakes.

12:12am-
Making my bed up for the FIRST TIME in it's EXISTENCE!

1:37am-
Since when did I decided that 1:37 was too early to go to bed...?

5/17/10

Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.
~Owen Laughlin

11:43am-
Learning about script breakdown.
So many details...

12:54pm-
Apparently the printer shakes when it's printing.
Matt- "now that the printer is on the other printer, it kinda look like they're going at it."

2:15pm-
It may make me a nerd, but I love b&h.

6:38pm-
Guy standing on the corner asking for money:
"come one everybody... Just trying to get some weed.."
His cardboard sign:
"need money for weed."

9:08pm-
Christie and collin called to see if I wanted to hang out....

5/16/10

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann

3:21pm-
Finally leaving the house.
It's good to know I can still laugh with the neighborhood kids.

3:48pm-
Still in the subway.
No express trains means EVERYONE wants on THIS one...
So packed!

3:55pm-
Just had a friendly conversation with the cashier at Starb, earning me a free drink.
My pleasant smile and friendly attitude was worth about $4.
Deal.

1:05am-
Nolan came to stay the night. And again, forgot her pillow.
She brought pasta, and then we ate icecream, and now chicken nuggets.
I need to start doing a sit up or two every day or I'm gonna start getting fat.

3:51am-
Finally got shay and Nolen to tear down the fort.
They're playing the part of an ocean storm for a video.
These are some pictures from afterward.






5:20am-
Sleeping in my own bed without a collapsing fort around me.

5/15/10

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
~Albert Einstein

1:14pm-
On my way to a catering job interview I stop for coffee and fill out a survey for a different job.
3 job opportunities are in front of me. All I have to do is pick.

4:12pm-
At nolans restaraunt.
Got a funny girl (or woman, rather) on one side and shay talking to an Australian on the other.

5:54pm-
Shay left for dance but Nolan couldn't make it so i'm just hanging out until she's done.
Australian guy:
"anyone with good looks, if i could get another drink over here..."

6:25pm-
The governor of NY is here in this little Harlem restaurant.

-
With Nolen at her house.
Apparently there's a game night happening at someones house.
So that's where were going.

12:12am-
On the roof of someones place.
You can see the whole city from here.

2:04am-
Leaving where ever I am.
Heading home.

2:25am-
At a Wendys in the middle of the night. Why...?
Cause they saw it.

3:30am-
Walked Nolan home, and Kim who was with her, and now I've got a whole train myself.

5/14/10

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
-William James


4:29pm-
For some reason the smell of a bus really comforts me. Feels like camp, or tour.


4:08am-
Just ate a ton of icecream, a hot pocket and then more icecream while watching bladerunner. Well, watched half, stopped to read some movie news and watch trailers, and now watching the rest.
AND I plan on getting up early tomorrow. Hah...!

5/13/10

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby

1:12pm-
Heading to meet Nolan at a local store that I heard was giving away free ice cream.
I aaaalmost left the house iny
Heelys. But decided not this time.

1:28pm-
Such a nice Sunny and cool day.

2:02pm-
I've got 8 little cartons of icecream for $8. Normally $5 a piece..!!
Wish I had a spoon on me...

3:30pm-
Finally found the theatre. Now standing in a looong line hopefully about to see the mystery movie.

3:46pm-
Talking to a guy next to me about what we think is going on here.
Told him I thought maybe we were gonna get led underground and eaten by vampires. (twilight reference. Don't know if he got it.) He said he's been to about 4 in the past week. Robin Hood, McGrubin, Get Him to the Greek and something else..

UPDATE:
It was Prince of Persia.
And it looked really cool, like a real life Aladdin. But the story was choppy and drawn out..
(But i dont think Im supposed to say anything about it.)
I need to see more movies for free so i can judge them more freely.

6:37pm-
If I have to work, working at urban wouldn't be that bad.
So I'm here.

1:42am-
Shay and I are eating hot pockets and icecream and watching sesame street.
Like old times.
Probly.

5/12/10

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
-Samuel Lover

9:58am-
Woke up in time to keep my alarm from going off.
...And cause this couch is, somehow, so uncomfortable.
Met Nolans roommate Morgan and walked down to the store to get some milk with her on my way out.
She had made coffee and offered some. I should have stayed and taken her up on that. Since when has work been the most important thing to me...?

12:40pm-
At the studio.
Yeah.... I may have taken a little nap that may have looked like I was reading something....

11:42pm-
On the bus to Nolans.
Like ten cops just filed in.

3:17am-
Been sitting on the couch watching episodes of some show.
So far we've eaten pasta, brownies, chips and salsa, apples and peanut butter, more brownies and cheese puffs.
(And NOT cause of drugs!)

3:52am-
Just saw a giant raccoon while walking home. I said hi and it just looked at me for a second and then went under a car.

5/11/10

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
~Andrew Carnegie

1:36pm-
UPS!!
it's like Christmas!!

Feeling really bummed today.
Like the only thing I can do good is win solitaire.
I'm going to sit in starbucks and read.

5:50pm-
I see a manager from the urban outfitters I used to work at.
I don't usually talk to people just cause I know em. But... I'm trying to get out of that.
"hey, dude..! You used to work at urban...?"
"yeah.... You used to work at urban for me, right? How ya been? Where do you work now?"
"nowhere. Just got here."
"come work for me!"

5:53pm-
Guy saying "free movie screening" on the street.
Against my nature I go ask about it.
Got a pass to see 'Get him to the Greek' and another secret summer blockbuster.

8:32pm-
If I could write 3 scenes a day, it'd only take me a month to write a whole movie.

11:14pm-
Head out to meet shay and Nolan at a bar across town. Free drinks for an hour...?

2:25am-
At Nolan's house. I guess cause it's closer...?
Good thing I just put on fresh clothes and can go straight to the studio.

5/10/10

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
~H. Jackson Browne

12:25pm-
Sitting around at the studio listening to the people talk about remakes and their disapproval.

12:48pm-
Sitting with Neil (the DP who's editing a commercial) and the director of the commercial while Neil edit and color corrects it.

3:05pm-
I heard once that one way to be successful is to never eat alone.
Mostly meaning that you should use your time, ALL your time, 'doing business'. Even if that business is just visiting and making friends and connections. And what better time to do that than at a lunch or dinner.
Went out for lunch with Neil and the Director/producer who here.

4:11 - 5:50pm-
Neil explained all the tools (that he knew about) on Final Cut Pro and showed me how they work and what they're good for.
Finally some real learning.

6:17pm-
In the train.
Liquid on the floor.
They think it's not water.

7:43pm-
I'm at home with a beer and a can of vienna sausages... Is this what it feels like to be a 'bachelor'...??
It feels weird.

6:08am-
Woke up ok the couch with a book on my face.
Guess I'll go to bed.

5/9/10

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
-W. C. Fields

4:14pm-
Just heading out to get some coffee and work my way around to the other side of town towards church.

5:02pm-
Got some coffee and finally found a sunny place to sit and read. It's cold today..!?

10:11pm-
After church (and walking around a b&n for a while) shay and Nolan got on a bus and I missed it.
So I said I'll take the train and race em.
Felt like Ferris Bueller. Except i didnt have to jump any fences or run though anyones backyard..
And now.. I'm home, and they're not..

11:02pm-
They went out to get some milk to go with the bagels we got.
They came back with beer instead.

5/8/10

“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10:31pm-
Just realized I haven't noted anything today.
The only thing noteworthy is that earlier I made an egg sandwich. Potatoe bread, mayo, fried egg and salt and pepper. Turned out pretty good.

Shay and Nolan are planning on comming over.

12:07am-
A tac from my terrible fake bulletin board fell off and just as I was going to tell everyone to watch out for it I stepped on it.

5/7/10

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
~Henry Ford

10:58am-
Barely made the train!!
Had to dive my foot in the door before it closed!

11:51am-
Last night i decided I was going to be more.... Noticable.. at work/school. Talk more, be a part of what's happening and not just sit around until they ask me if I wanna do something.
It didn't take much more than being open to people and Anistasia told me about a whole project that's happening and what I could do to see if I could find a way to raise funding.

4:22pm-
I think I'm sleeping on the job...
Reading about grants is tiring...!

4:23pm-
I still haven't seen tootsie.

6:01pm-
Ended up at b&n. There are some elemtary kids reading some poetry they wrote. Some of it is pretty good!
Then a kid got up there, with a poem about Michael Jackson being the best. He stuttered and could barely read it. But, when he finished the music came on and he put a hat on and danced to "just beat it".
Even the people who couldn't hear his poem, they knew what he was talking about.

Last night I made a list of things to do. Apply for jobs was on it. Here and starbucks. I didn't feel like doing that. But, it's on the list. So I did.

7:02pm-
Walked into starbucks, found the Shift Leader-
"Hi! Want to higher me...?"

7:17
They do.

Around midnight-
Fell asleep on the couch. Decided to stay there.

5/6/10

11:48pm-
Finally got up before noon and started getting things done!
(Been up since 10)

3:17pm-
Home from doing laundry.
Man, I love the idea of having a washing machine IN your HOUSE..!?!

5:44pm-
There's a family, mother father and some children, awkwardly singing in the subway station. And singing christmas songs...??
(and I'm not even sure if they're really singing that much... Sounds like mostly a tape player with childrens voices that they're singing over...)

8$/?-@-
Laid on the couch. Finished the chapter I was reading. Passed out.

10:07pm-
I took several 20 minute naps until I finally got up to take a shower and go to bed.

1:28am-
Of course I'm not sleepy now.
Got to reading all about cameras and how to work em.
Would it be foolish to buy an expensive piece of equipment that I didn't know how to use assuming that I would figure it out....?
Cause i want to.

5+5=10

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
~Catherine O'Hara


10:53am-
Someone is playing some slow smooth jazz from a saxophone somewhere down here in the subway...
I feel like a character in a black and white 40's movie. I need a long trench coat, a hat and a cigar.

12:20pm-
The studio is still locked.
And no one is answering the phones. (nobody is there.)
So I'm going home and calling in sick.

12:51pm-
I couldn't help but notice a big black man dressed really well.* I was looking at the tiny intricate design on the cuff link and he said 'you like that.' in a deep Barry white voice. He was referring to his big silver watch with gold trim and white, blue and grey diamond looking things on the face of it. 'I was looking at these cuff links. Very nice.' He laughed a little.
My stop came and as I walked past him to leave he said 'have a good day, man', in his slow, radio voice at the same time I said 'have a good one' with whatever Texas drawl I may have.
It's good to see someone who's friendly AND dressed well every now and then.

*He was wearing a blue paid shirt; matching green tie and pocket handkerchief with blue designs; a light grey vest and a dark gray vest (which sounds dumb but it looked cool); and blue cuff links with that same design but green.

Midday-
Someone was giving out little boxes of cereal and gave shay as many as would fit in his bag...!
Now we need to find someone who's giving away milk...



11:21pm-
On my way to meet Courtney and Katherine-
Some guy I walked past:
"ya need some weed?"
"ha..! No thanks, buddy."
"it's goood...?!"

11:41pm-
At a Japanese place.
I'm definitely about to order squid legs.

4:43am-
Did good at being productive after 1 am.

-Made a hot air balloon model to hang in the kitchen.


-Looked up stuff about the camera I want to buy.. (Canon 5d mark II.)


-Made a bulletin board out of cardboard.


And recorded 4 tracks to a song. In my underwear!!
(one of the reasons i love having my own house!)


I can go to bed feeling like I did something today.




Famous people I (maybe) saw today:
Anne Hathaway.
Bob Barker...?

5/4/10

May the 4th.

Apparently today is Star Wars day.
"May the 4th be with you."


12ishpm-
Mom called.
I realized I didn't set my alarms.

2somethingpm-
I get up for real.

3:51pm-
Picked up my pants from being hemmed and at chris' experimenting with sloe gin now. Tastes like kool-aid.

7:38pm-
Cooking burgers now.
Apparently me and chris decided to eat some burgers on the roof. So were making em to take em up there.
This is a test run.
Next weekend were gonna have a real cook out on my roof with more people and make a cookout out of it.

8:32pm-
Shay shows up to eat some burgers.

11:34pm-
We sit and around and did nothing.
And now I'm leaving cause chris is getting real annoying.
I can only take so much.

To be fair, apparently I annoy him quite a bit as well.

3:53am-
To figure out what i owe, I just mathed out a recipt of the food we bought.
Even figuring up the sales tax to be 8.840701% of the non-food item that I DIDNT buy.

..........At least I can go to bed knowing no one could swindle me on bogus expenses..