Why not?
The Score (2001)
Flix is playing the shit out of this movie and I don't care. I could watch it all day.
Let me say again: I love the music, all of it, but especially the song at the very end which is probably called "I'll Make It Up As I Go Along" and sung by Diana Krall (who is probably Mrs. Costello, unless he's moved on again); I love the actual film score too- exciting and old fashioned; and I really love the De Niro's apartment. I'd love to live in a place like that: well furnished but dark and shadowy no matter the weather. I'll say it: this movie is worth seeing for the apartment alone.
So I'm having my last cigarette of the day (I mean it) and my second Swiss Miss and last of the day, then I'm going to bed. On the loveseat? Maybe.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Carrie
Carrie (1976)
I'm watching Carrie now and Tommy and Carrie have just been elected Prom King and Queen. The scenes that come before this make me think about the sequel Carrie 2: The Rage. The scenes where Tommy and Carrie dance and Tommy and Carrie sit at the table and talk are so sad and heartbreaking. Did the makers of the sequel watch the original? Didn't they feel anything, and if they did why wouldn't they want to create a movie that would make viewers feel something?
I'm not crazy about Carrie. It's just too sad. But it's good. For a movie aimed at teenagers it's very good.
I'm watching Carrie now and Tommy and Carrie have just been elected Prom King and Queen. The scenes that come before this make me think about the sequel Carrie 2: The Rage. The scenes where Tommy and Carrie dance and Tommy and Carrie sit at the table and talk are so sad and heartbreaking. Did the makers of the sequel watch the original? Didn't they feel anything, and if they did why wouldn't they want to create a movie that would make viewers feel something?
I'm not crazy about Carrie. It's just too sad. But it's good. For a movie aimed at teenagers it's very good.
I wish I was Catholic or Jewish
I am catholic, technically. Both my parents were raised Catholic. As kids, though, my brothers and I weren't raised with any religion. In my life I've been inside a church about ten times. As kids we said abreviated prayers, "Now I lay me down to sleep. God bless everyone I love". That's it.
A quality I see in large Catholic families- my father's is one, my mother's, though not as large, is another- is activity. Keeping busy. Little idle time.
My brothers and I had chores and schoolwork and play, but there was a shitload of idle time and lots of TV. Honestly, it made me kind of dull. Or maybe I was dull anyway. Chicken or egg.
And Jews seem to be very ambitious. They look at the world a certain way. They see opportunities.
You know I'm obsessed with Patti Stanger and her show The Millionaire Matchmaker. She's so smart and she's always thinking. She's always observing people and you can tell watching the show, she always has. She's got everybody pinned down, in a box, in a catagory. She asks a question but she knows the answer. She says something and already knows what the responce will be because she knows people.
The flipside that makes me uneasy is that it's a little too calculated. It's all a game. Manipulating people, telling people exactly what you know they want to hear. Sell, sell, sell. And I'm not anti-business. It's just "networking" that bothers me- looking at social situations and trying to turn it into business. But oh well. It doesn't bother me much. It just isn't me.
What I've been thinking lately is, though, I've got to become a lot more disciplined. Of course that always happens after I read a Madonna interview (I just read one from a 1989 issue of Interview and the 1994 Norman Mailer piece from Esquire.
If I kept busier and had more self-control I'd be much better off.
A quality I see in large Catholic families- my father's is one, my mother's, though not as large, is another- is activity. Keeping busy. Little idle time.
My brothers and I had chores and schoolwork and play, but there was a shitload of idle time and lots of TV. Honestly, it made me kind of dull. Or maybe I was dull anyway. Chicken or egg.
And Jews seem to be very ambitious. They look at the world a certain way. They see opportunities.
You know I'm obsessed with Patti Stanger and her show The Millionaire Matchmaker. She's so smart and she's always thinking. She's always observing people and you can tell watching the show, she always has. She's got everybody pinned down, in a box, in a catagory. She asks a question but she knows the answer. She says something and already knows what the responce will be because she knows people.
The flipside that makes me uneasy is that it's a little too calculated. It's all a game. Manipulating people, telling people exactly what you know they want to hear. Sell, sell, sell. And I'm not anti-business. It's just "networking" that bothers me- looking at social situations and trying to turn it into business. But oh well. It doesn't bother me much. It just isn't me.
What I've been thinking lately is, though, I've got to become a lot more disciplined. Of course that always happens after I read a Madonna interview (I just read one from a 1989 issue of Interview and the 1994 Norman Mailer piece from Esquire.
If I kept busier and had more self-control I'd be much better off.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Can not get moving
I was sick yesterday and slept almost the entire day, except in the morning when I walked to the post office to mail a couple letters.
And that's fine; I had the day off and I broke up the sleep between my loveseat and my bed. The only problem is if you sleep too long your dreams start to get too memorable- not exactly nightmares, not even unpleasant, just un-fun. I think it's your body's way of saying "get up". This morning I layed in bed and kept on changing positions because my back was killing me. When I couldn't stand it another second I dragged myself into an upright position and started the day.
Today I walked into town for food because I was starving so I got some chips and gummi bears.
There's been a Roseanne reunion on for hours. What am I gonna do?
And that's fine; I had the day off and I broke up the sleep between my loveseat and my bed. The only problem is if you sleep too long your dreams start to get too memorable- not exactly nightmares, not even unpleasant, just un-fun. I think it's your body's way of saying "get up". This morning I layed in bed and kept on changing positions because my back was killing me. When I couldn't stand it another second I dragged myself into an upright position and started the day.
Today I walked into town for food because I was starving so I got some chips and gummi bears.
There's been a Roseanne reunion on for hours. What am I gonna do?
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Hey
Hey, you guys, writing dialogue is hard. You know that I'm trying to write a scary movie that I can sell to either Sci-Fi or Lifetime. The story is coming along fine but I can't think of anything for the characters to say. I wish silent movies were still in style. I could make a killing.
Writing dialogue feels weird. Maybe because I've alwasy thought of myself as a drawer and I've always been shy. Words, especially spoken words, don't seem too important to me. If you're drawing a picture you don't have to think about what the person is saying. In case you're wondering, no I don't think that white line is supposed to run down it.
Maybe the movie will be about deaf-mutes. I think that's my only hope.
Above is a painting that I came across last night- it has nothing to do with this post. There's just something about the water that I like. It's by Herbert Draper and called Halcyone (1915). The mythological Halcyone Days are 7 storm-free days in winter.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Drawing
I'm having the worst time drawing. Here's the thing: if you draw, you have to do it every single day. Otherwise, you get rusty. Then when you go to draw again it looks like shit. So you don't draw, until months later, and it sucks again, so you don't draw. And so on, and so on.
I've been drawing every day since December 23. I've done some good pictures, but most have been shitty and I've had to shred them. Slowly it's coming back to me.
I wish I had a scanner. I wanna show you the good pictures and the bad pictures.
So I'm off tomorrow and the next day. I'm going to try to draw as much as I can. I'm even going to break out the watercolors.
I'm hoping that by the time I go back to work I'll have a couple good pictures that are worth saving.
Wish me luck.
I've been drawing every day since December 23. I've done some good pictures, but most have been shitty and I've had to shred them. Slowly it's coming back to me.
I wish I had a scanner. I wanna show you the good pictures and the bad pictures.
So I'm off tomorrow and the next day. I'm going to try to draw as much as I can. I'm even going to break out the watercolors.
I'm hoping that by the time I go back to work I'll have a couple good pictures that are worth saving.
Wish me luck.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
1-1-2011
It's 2011 but it feels a lot like 2010.
While I'm close to my goal of 5 cigarettes a day, I broke down and got McDonalds today- but no more!! I'm going to be strong.
Last week I cleaned out a pickle jar and tonight a slapped on a label that said "Money for Car" and I put in two $1 bills. It's a start. I want to buy a car in June.
Last September I read a book called Your Money or Your Life which belongs to my best friend's wife. Actually I only had a chance to read the first 100 pages but I got the idea. The point of the book is that if you handle your money right you can retire much earlier than you think. The writers, a husband & wife team, point out that a lot of people are working just so they can afford to work. When you compare their income to the money they spend on cars, car repairs, take-out food, work-related medical bills, work clothes, ect, some people are actually losing money by working.
Their core belief is that your life and your life-energy are the most important things you possess. And you need to be careful with the way that you spend your time and the product of your life-energy, money.
That means that you have to stop and calculate exactly how much money you bring in, and how much money you send out. Everything, right down to the penny. Once you do that you can clearly see what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong. If it costs you, say, $30 a week for a manicure, you've got to calculate how much of your life and life-energy you're trading away to pay for that and decide if it's worth it.
Anyway, I look around and I see a lot of areas where I'm spending money wrong, buying things I shouldn't. Whenever I buy something now I think, "If I had to sell this, how much, if anything, would I get for it? Is it really worth spending money on?
I stopped buying CDs a long time ago and I never had a lot of DVDs, but I look at people that are so proud of their huge DVD collections and you know that 90% of those DVDs have probably only been watched once and will never be watched again. Some have never been watched and never will be. It's a huge waste and if they went to sell them they'd only get a small fraction of the money back.
I'm very serious about my new attitude towards money. In fact, I'm saving for that car, but once the time comes, my situation may have changed so that I won't really need it as badly and I won't even buy it. I'll just save the money.
We'll see.
Anyway, Happy New Year, and I hope to see you often in 2011.
While I'm close to my goal of 5 cigarettes a day, I broke down and got McDonalds today- but no more!! I'm going to be strong.
Last week I cleaned out a pickle jar and tonight a slapped on a label that said "Money for Car" and I put in two $1 bills. It's a start. I want to buy a car in June.
Last September I read a book called Your Money or Your Life which belongs to my best friend's wife. Actually I only had a chance to read the first 100 pages but I got the idea. The point of the book is that if you handle your money right you can retire much earlier than you think. The writers, a husband & wife team, point out that a lot of people are working just so they can afford to work. When you compare their income to the money they spend on cars, car repairs, take-out food, work-related medical bills, work clothes, ect, some people are actually losing money by working.
Their core belief is that your life and your life-energy are the most important things you possess. And you need to be careful with the way that you spend your time and the product of your life-energy, money.
That means that you have to stop and calculate exactly how much money you bring in, and how much money you send out. Everything, right down to the penny. Once you do that you can clearly see what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong. If it costs you, say, $30 a week for a manicure, you've got to calculate how much of your life and life-energy you're trading away to pay for that and decide if it's worth it.
Anyway, I look around and I see a lot of areas where I'm spending money wrong, buying things I shouldn't. Whenever I buy something now I think, "If I had to sell this, how much, if anything, would I get for it? Is it really worth spending money on?
I stopped buying CDs a long time ago and I never had a lot of DVDs, but I look at people that are so proud of their huge DVD collections and you know that 90% of those DVDs have probably only been watched once and will never be watched again. Some have never been watched and never will be. It's a huge waste and if they went to sell them they'd only get a small fraction of the money back.
I'm very serious about my new attitude towards money. In fact, I'm saving for that car, but once the time comes, my situation may have changed so that I won't really need it as badly and I won't even buy it. I'll just save the money.
We'll see.
Anyway, Happy New Year, and I hope to see you often in 2011.
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