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Where do you go from here?

Where do you go when you have been everywhere? I have traveled the world, seen all the sights there is to be seen. The big attractions to the small rural wonders that no one pays no mind to. Where do you go? What is next?

What do you do when you have nothing in your heart? That feeling that have been boiling there for the past couple of years just suddenly stop boiling; it just evaporated into the air around you. What do you do?

I don’t know. I move on and find some place new to go. Space, the core, the ocean, anywhere but here. I move on from the feelings that I’ve felt in this lifetime and find new feelings to experience from my next lifetime.

These walls are getting claustrophobic and familiar. Every single pore have been studied and picked on one too many times. The paint peels it’s wretched sanitized color to reveal another layer of sanitized coloring.

Except the freaks who can never love anyone. Who are they to me? Why are they so familiar and why does that sound like me? Am I incapable of love because of my freakish ways.

What are my freakish ways? Sitting here alone in the oh so darkness of space’s empty void listening to 1’s and 0’s coming from my computer. Looking but not seeing the things around me. Realizing that there exist a world that I know nothing about but which I live in every day.

Do I think that all is lost? No. Nothing is ever lost. They are only misplaced only to be found again by time and space or the hobos down the street digging through the trash or the coroner and crime scene investigators that come to pick up your body.

Yellow. Yellow is the color of my eyes and the sun that drives my existence. Yellow is the light that guides my life and shines down on me and brings me out of the darkness that I encase myself in day in and day out.

Hemititude is a way of life that no one understands but everyone takes part in. Separating themselves from the world to just get some quality time to themselves to just think things over. Reflecting on life and the people that they come in contact with.

Subterranean Homesick Aliens that get lost in space for they do not have the maps of the stars to guide their ways. Soaring aimlessly through a dark void, hoping to make that much needed right turn to the place where they belong.

Life is just a right turn a way. One turn can just change your life. It will make you uproot the whole existence you have been living for the past quarter century and make you want to make a left turn instead.

Left eye bleeding the saltine liquid of the sea. It clouds the vision. Can’t see straight, can’t see what’s real and what is fake. Hard to make anything out when you are blinded in the eye that counts the most.

What is fake when everything around you is fake? Is fakeness real or is being real fakeness? I try to be real once but then I felt so naked so I covered myself up with my plastic skin and showed myself for all to see.

All night long I dream of the day that I will never have to have these feelings again. Thinking about you will no longer cause me pain. Thinking about time when all will be right with the world, which means that all will be chaotic.

The Angry Inch frightens me to be who I should never be. I am not who I am or who I proclaim to be. I am not a hermit but nothingness that surrounds the particles in the air.

I stay up late to ramble on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

I gave a piece to the rockstar that I’ve always dreamed to be. Feeling the world with the pretentiousness that I deemed as art, but it is nothing but empty words whispered to the tunes of the wind.

I’d walk a thousand miles through thick and thin to get to the places I’ve always been, seeing the emptiness that fills the distance lands of fantastic imagery that lies in the mind of a sick alien from beyond.

Walking quickly ahead with no turns insight, head lowered, barreling through the streets pushing people away so they don’t get hurt from my idleness and indecision as to who I am.

If I could hold you tonight, I wouldn’t know what to say. I don’t know what to say, cause I don’t know how I feel about you. Should I push you away or should I hold you close and never let you go.

I’m a little bit angry at the cards that life have dealt with me. If it was 5 card draw I bid all I had and get 4 new cards to push my luck. When in doubt, risk everything.

Matchboxes are the little gifts of life. They bring forth the greatest gift ever awarded to the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. It took them generations to find the little secret of the fire of life and now it comes in a box.

Sitting on a beach with the sands between my toes squishing with the salty sea soothing my foot with the moisture of something cold and cool quenching the thirst that spawns through my throat that breathes for life and death.

I’m a creep creeping my way down the street to where you live, spying you, stalking you. Drawing in everything you did, smelling the scent that you emit from that little bottle that you cherish.

Every breath you take I take with you for you are one with me. Our souls are connected like the world is connected with the ocean. We are one with each other and one with all and with the world around us. Your pain is my pain.

What the hell are we doing here? That is a good question to ask whenever you have a chance to answer it. Do you have an answer to this life long question?

Why do you ask yourself questions that you know you can’t answer? It is just a waste of time and valuable brain cells, especially when you have only two, and one is fizzling out.

I don’t belong here or so they say. But I ask you, who does belong here? You, him, her, he, she, me? We are all just pawns in this little game called life.

Life is in transition. Always changing with the beat of the drum. Bam bam bam bam bam, goes the drum and so does our life. Changing with the beat, changing with each song, moving along with each pulse that drives our existence.

Hallelujah fills the air as we bring ourselves to realize that life is just life and is nothing more. There is nothing behind or ahead of us. There is nothing but this life that we have, so make the best of it.

Buckley died but his music goes on and on. With a breath of Hallelujah he survives in us all. Drake drowned in his tears, but he leaves his tear stained mark with the words that brings us hope, joy, sadness, and love.

Love is just a figment of our imagination. A scientific gesture explained by a series of synapses firing and missing and firing and missing and firing and missing causing us to be hot and confused with the person in front of us.

With wavy dark brown hair, you woo me with your smile and your little charms. I will succumb to them no more, for these games has gone on too long for me to handle. Just leave me with whatever dignity I have remaining.

The game of love is a deadly game that no one should play. We are never fit to fall in love, cause we are not made to deal with the pain of what love leaves us. Nothing.

Nothing in me, nothing surrounds me. Nothing clouds my mind as all my thoughts leave me brain, travels through my arms to my tap dancing fingers which put my thoughts into words for all to read.

A Ghost Is Born every time the sun goes down the horizon and the glorious moon hovers ever so lightly in the sky above. It casts an eerie glow on us all, lighting us from within.

Forever Tonight I will think of you because after tonight you are gone from my mind and my life. You no longer exist to play with my whims and my desires. You are nothing to me.

The fire has burned out in my heart and in my loins. I no longer feel for anything. All the warmth is gone, replaced only with the ice cool thrills that once filled the world with ice.

Those were the simpler times. Times of extinction. Nothing existed but the natural elements. On the brink of life, with all the potential that everything can bring, we came, we saw, we conquered.

With us, the world is going to end. With us, the world will die before our bright ball of fire will get a chance to take us out on its own. The ever expanding bulb will no longer expand to feel the warmth of life.

Life Aquatic is how life should be. Ever flowing so fluidly and so smoothly. It is just a dream to swim through life like a fish never getting lured in by the artificiality and the rotting squiggliness of worms and tackle.

Details are the things that matter in life. You can go on telling a story with the major plot points and it will never be remembered. But if you give us all the details, no matter how small and minutes, the story breathes to life and is forever burned into our memories.

No stanza will be more than two lines long as I write this little rambling of consciousness to show that I am alive and well and kicking with the wicked dreams to be Almost Famous.

I’m Not Sorry for all the things I’ve done in my life. There shouldn’t be anything I should be sorry for. Nothing. It is my life, I live and die by my decisions and you shouldn’t be sorry for living a life compiled of your decisions.

Morris, borris, chorus, goes the song and the bong with the smoke is a joke to choke on the cream of the dream in the team of chess is like breasts on a chick with a bic who writes the tune to the balloon that floats in the sky like the cry of tears for fears.

Incomprehensible psycho babble that rhymes with the times and the tune in the June fever that burns wildly through the population of chickens that are slaughtered for the holy sake of chicken noodle soup.

I’m getting tired of your broken promises that you make to me to heal my heart. It just breaks my heart more and more, and I’ve smarten up to not take them to heart no more.

I can’t take it no more goes the song by those 3 little women who are no longer together for they are in the rift of life that everyone goes through once they think they finally know who they are.

Both sides now is how we should see things so we can get a better view of things to understand. It’ll help us with the judgments and the prejudgments that we pass on to each other and us above all.

yeah yeah yeah is the anthem that we sing whenever we are lectured on the things that we know to be true. no no no is the anthem that we sing when we are told what to do.

Wait, they don’t love you like I love you so why do you even bother spending time with them. All they do is make fun of you and play with you heart, melting the glue that once held your poor heart together.

Wait, they don;t love you like I love you so why do I even bother loving you when it isn’t me that you love? It is the ultimate answer that I would like to find, but it just gotten to the point where I really don’t care.

The silent treatment will help me with my cause to rid me of these pathetic feelings of loyalty and lust and horniness to be touched and held and yearnings to just feel at all.

Numb. Dumb. Bum on the streets fighting for the treats that everyone greets with the mediocrity of trash that brings for the life and our livelihood that we just throw everywhere, leaving our marks and our existence for the world to see.

If that’s love, I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it goes the song that plays on my radio. It is oh so true that love is something that I want but it is something I can’t stand, especially when one is dreading what is to come with the craziness of love.

Summer is the season of warmth and heat. It melts all the coldness that is within me and lets me feel for once. Feelings of strength, confidence, and apathy for all things and everyone in life.

Boo hoo goes the message that I write in this late night journal, crying for that audience that escapes my grasp every other night. Looking for a sympathetic ear, looking for someone to understand.

What if the world were a little more perfect? Will it be a better place for me? What is perfection when everyone has such a skewed perspective of what life is?

There is no perfection and that is perfect. Everyone is different. Everything is different. The differences add to the spice of life like paprika adds a dash of something to the chicken before me.

Approaching three in the AM and I am not tired nor am I blinking to rest these tired eyes that just glow dim and dim with each minute, drying with the air, leaving it with no moisture or tears.

Tears are nature’s way of telling us that we need to wash our eyes. To get a new perspective on thing and on life, tears will bring that to us. Through joy and sadness, tears let us see clearer.

Dead leaves and the dirty ground is what I walk on during these long lonely journeys to find myself and to clear my head and rid myself of negative thoughts and reflections in my airs.

With my music blasting and my constant typing, I keep the neighbors above me awake. They wonder what am I doing, what am I typing that cannot wait till the break of day.

Six Feet Under is therapy that everyone needs and go through once during their life. If they are lucky, they will go through it more then once. It will bring tears and again, it will change our perspective.

 

Living a dream

O to dream a fantastic dream
Flying through clouds unattached
Seeing all the colors of white light

O to sleep the magnificent sleep
Silently breathing with the rhythm of my heart
Hearing the beats of my soul

O to love a passionate love
Devouring the thick sweet nectar of affection
Feeling the prickly thorns of a rose

O to live like I never lived
Experiencing all that life has to give
Searching for others that are not apparent

O to sing like the birds sing
Belting sweet harmonious melodies
Seeing the notes before my eyes

O to wake from this dream and have it all be true
It’ll be like experiencing everything like new
Life is something that doesn’t make me blue

Psycho Obsession

I have a sickness that is in me. It eats at me every second of the day. I go through each day dying from this terminal sickness. There is no cure, no vaccine. Slowly my body will rot away leaving just a hollow shell of a man. This sickness eats my heart and my soul, leaving me with nothing left.

Obsession. That is my sickness. That is what drives me insane with bouts of depression and fits of fancy. It is obsession that engulfs my life leaving me with nothing but heartache and pain.

I am a psycho. This sickness is making me not right in the head. I have a few loose screws that need to be tightened, but the screws will never be tightened because there is no way to open my head to tighten the screws.

I sit here reflecting and obsessing over my obsession. It is unhealthy. It is hurtful. It is not fair to her or to me. It makes me do crazy things. I write letters of impulse stating my frustrations and my fears and my feelings. My feelings are warped from the unhealthy mind that I have been using to go about my day. This needs to stop.

Recognizing the problem is a big step. Realizing that I need to change is another.

I realize my sickness and I attempt to do the impossible. I attempt to find a cure for this terminal cancer. I must. This obsession has been eating away at me for so long. There is almost nothing left to gnaw on, almost nothing left to salvage. Soon I’ll be just another lost cause in an ocean of lost causes.

I have to save myself and my soul. I need to get out of this infatuation, I need to get out of this relationship. I need to save my soul.

Beginning of the end, or is it the end of the beginning

There you are, sitting a few chairs down from me, taking in the conversation around you. You pick up your glass with those perfect fragile dainty hands. I wish I were that glass, so I could be held by you, kissed by you as you bring it to your lips. I spill my warmth through your mouth, shooting you with warmth that makes you tingle inside.

I sit stealing glances from time to time weaving in and out of the boring conversation that I

Mindless Rambling

Well, it hasn’t been long since the last time I wrote. It was the other night actually. Why am I writing so soon? i don’t know. I guess I just have to clear my mind on some things. Will I disclose it to you all? No. I think I’ll just write and write and see where things take me.

I find it funny when growing up that my parents taugh me to be nice. If you are nice, good things will happen to you. Help out your friends, be nice to your friends, to the old people, to everyone around you. Share if you have an abundance of something…you know the typical morals that are instilled by parents when growing up. I lived that life. I am a very nice person, with good morals and ethics. I should be living a decent life right now, a damn good life without any problems or should I say that my “niceness” shouldn’t be getting me into trouble.

Well, I don’t know if it has, but I have this lingering feeling that it did. What good is it to be a nice good and decent person if you get shit on all the time. What good is there? If the “good” that comes from being a decent human being that is being shat on all the time is a nice straight trip to Heaven and their lovely bells ringing when I arrive a la Breaking the Waves by Lars Von Trier, then no thanks. God, Heaven, and their Cherub Angels can keep those bells. I don’t need them for I don’t believe in Heaven, Hell, or anywhere else. I don’t know what I believe, but I do know that there shouldn’t be a distinction like that. I think Von Trier knows something more about being shat upon than I do. He made three movies about it. Where the heroine are nice helpful decent human beings, and they are shat upon. Emily Watson in the before mentioned Breaking the Waves, Nicole Kidman in Dogville, and finally Bjork in The Dancer in the Dark. Great heroines that were treated badly; two ended up dead.

I think that with Dogville Von Trier finally fights back, allowing justice to be served 10 fold for all of the injustice that happened. I wish I can do that. Sometimes I believe if I am pushed hard enough, I will fight back with a vengence. But knowing me, it is all talk. Boy oh boy, I need to change things up.

I’m trying to live a peaceful life
Void of any conflict or drama
But they always seem to find me
Biting me on the ass

I think about the life I had before this one
What did I do to deserve this Karma?
It must have been something bad
I think I choked on gas

How long was the rest I had
Must not been long enough to forget what I had
Here I am dreading what is to come
My soul is making up for that life long ago

Soon the universe will collect my debt
I just hope it takes it all in this life
So I am free to start new in the one to come
Living a peaceful life I’ve always dreamt of

Okay, that was bad. it was the first poem that I’ve written in months. But I think it got the gist of what I’m trying to say or what I’m trying to get off my chest. What brought this thought upon me? Well, saw a movie today. Running on Karma. Directed by Johnny To, starring the lovely Cecilia Cheung and Andy Lau. The message of the film is that we have to forget and let go of the grudge that we hold from all the things that have wronged us. Let go and be peaceful. If not, the “karma” will be a poisonous cycle, killing and killing you over and over again in each subsequent life. If we just let go, and “cultivate wholesome deeds” then the world will be a better place. Sure it sounds cheesey, but you know, it is true. All in the all, the movie was all right, but the message is the biggest thing of the movie.

“Life is unfair”. That’s a mantra that I live by. It just isn’t. Good people get shat upon and bad people get to bask in glory and riches. That’s how the way the world work. Sure, some good people get that lucky break and the unfortunate few bad people get their come uppance, but it just seems that there aren’t too many of each. Maybe when good people die, they get to be bad people in their next life. A balance of sorts, a reward for all the “good” they’ve done in the past life and for all of the shit that they had to put up with. In the next life, they can get away with murder. Beat their wives unconscious. Rape the girl down the block. Rob a bank. Mug old grannies. They can do all of these things with very few or no consequences. Maybe in my next life, I can bask in glory and riches. That is a thought right there.

Not much to say.

Well, I really don’t have much to say. Honestly, laying here in my bed, iming my cousin, nothing comes to mind to write about. This that you’re reading right now, just mindless rambling.

It’s the end of the week. Hallelujah. This fucking wretched week is over. I’m not stepping in anymore. No more. I absolutely refused, cause it always seems that I get fucked.

So, it’s been a long while since I’ve written anything in here. What has happened?

Not much. Went to Yosemite on the 3rd of July. Just walked and hiked for most of the day. It’s pretty up there. I took tons of pictures. Maybe I’ll post them up some day. I think I may go back again on Veterans Day weekend. Who knows?

What else have been happening in my boring little life? I got a new laptop. Why? Because I find it very difficult to write at home. Too many distractions. The bed, the tv, my lovely dvd’s, the internet (even though I have a wifi card). So I go out and write. I’m just trying to get into a habit of going out and writing.

I finally finished my short that I’m going to shoot, but it needs to be rewritten. It has it’s flaws, and I agree with Scott, there’s just something missing. So, I got to think about it and rewrite it. I may even have to scrap it and write something else. Man is it going to suck.

The photography class is going well. Been printing many of the black and white photos that I have. I still have a couple of rolls of black and white film that I haven’t developed yet. I’ve been too lazy to do it. I’ve been thinking of skipping class tomorrow, especially after this past week. I just want to stay home and just chill, relax. Maybe I’ll do that.

I’m skipping class next week for sure. Lisa is coming down to visit for the weekend. We haven’t planned much. At the moment here is what we have planned. We are going to watch: Garden State, Before Sunset, Harold and Kumar Goes to White Castle, Napoleon Dynamite, and The Village. Those are definite plans, I think. Other than that, I think we are going to wing it. I am thinking of taking her to the Getty for a couple of hours. We both like culture, and it’s just been a while since I’ve gone there.

I’m not sure what else there is to do. Maybe explore this city that I live in. Actually go to places I’ve never been with her. I don’t know. It’s in a week, and I’m just waiting patiently for it.

It has been a while since I’ve seen her. Christmas, I think. I had the opportunity to see her when I was there, but she went to lunch when I visited her at work. That’s right. I drove all the way up to Washington, and she dissed me. Some friend. Well, at least she’s making it up by visiting.

Anywho, I’m tired, and sweaty from the humidity and heat from my apartment. Until next time.

Back in the Habit

No, not the sequel to Sister Act, but just “Back in the Habit”.

Well, it’s been a long ass time since I’ve updated this thing. Since April 11th. Well over 2 months. What the hell have I been doing in the past two months? Answer, not much really.

I never thought I was gonna update this thing, cause honestly, I really don’t know what to say. What is there left to say? I never really wanted this journal to fall into the kind of teenage diary that recounts the daily happenings in my life, cause honestly, my days are quite boring. Work, home, and sleep. Wow, that is something that will fill pages, and garner lots and lots of revenue right there.

I’ve always imagined that this journal will be a place for me to share my thoughts about the happenings in my life, how I’m feeling, what I think about certain situations in my life. An outlet for my frustration and anger. But since it’s been a while since I’ve been really really angry or frustrated, I see no point in updating this thing.

As you can tell, I’m just rambling on and on here. Just taking up valuable time, time I can use to do something more productive. That’s what I’m doing. I’m procrastinating.

All right, what has really happened in the past couple of months.

The big thing was that I went back home for my dad’s memorial at the end of May. It was nice. It was nice to go back to see family again. Unlike last year, this was more of a celebration. Again, my family had the ceremony. Me, feeling that it was just pointless, I just go through the motions to please my mom. But I was really relieved when it was over. I don’t have to dread going back to tie up the loose ends, cause it’s already done.

I thought I would have gotten more emotional than I did. I didn’t. I was very dried eyed, but there were a couple moments that just sort of make me choke up.

The first was right after the fire jumping (long story that the outsiders wouldn’t understand and I don’t want to explain). My cousin, Phinney, gave me a hug and whispered in my ear. He said that he still thinks about my “old man” sometimes. You see, my dad loved children, little kids. I guess I get that from him. Always so playful with them. I wonder does he see them as wonders too. Anywho, back to the story. So my cousin said he still thinks about my dad sometimes. My dad has been bugging him about when he’s going to have a kid. Now that he did (Emerson, born April 9th, day before my b-day), my dad isn’t here to see him. To hold him. My dad’s just not here. I didn’t say much to my cousin about that, cause honestly I was really caught off guard by his comment and my emotions at that time. But upon reflection, I think I would have said that my dad would have loved Emerson, cause he’s so adorable. My dad would most definitely bug him about the “whiteness” of Emerson and most definitely about his name.

It just made me think about the day when or if I have children. My dad’s not there to bug me and my wife about children. That was a time when I got choked up.

The other was after the memorial dinner. Before the dinner, my mom told my brother and I to go around and thank all my uncles, aunts, and other elders who came so far to help my family through this ceremony. Everything went fine, it went well, then it got to my 14th uncle (no, I don’t actually have 14 uncles, but that’s where he ranked between all of the children between my grandfather and his brother and the others in his my grandfather’s generation). He basically just told me and my brother that there is no reason to thank him. He’s family. It’s his job to help us out. As long as he’s alive, he’ll be there for me and my family to help me out. There is no need to thank him. I don’t know, it just sort of made me break. I was doing my best to hold in my tears and I looked up at my brother and it seems he was doing the same, and that just made it worse.

I guess for me its just the concept of family. I know I have a large family network. They are my friends and for most of my life, my social life. They were all I needed, but then again, I left them. Again, I’ve always felt alone growing up, even in this large family, and never really felt a part of it. But hearing that, it just made me feel that I was a part of something. Something that really cares for me, something that is there to look out for me and my family. It was just too much.

Those were the two moments that really got me. Those were the two moments that really brought me home, that brought me there to realize what I’m up there for. To pay respect to my father and respect to my family.

I was only up in Washington for a total of three whole days. I drove up to Washington. If I didn’t have to drive, I would have flown and would have stayed much longer, but it didn’t happen that way. I’m a little bummed that I didn’t get to spend as much time as I wanted up in Washington, but there wasn’t anything I could do. Meh. Let’s move on.

Like I said in my last couple of postings, I’ve been writing more. I’ve finished a new screenplay. The first draft is completed. It is entitled Tall Tales and Flying Pigs. As many of you are aware, I usually send it out to others to read, so I can get feedback and rework what others don’t like. I didn’t do it this time, cause honestly, I’m just so embarrassed at how bad it is, I’m keeping this to myself and Scott (a writing partner, sort of) until I get a chance to think it over and rewrite it. Make it better. Yeah, it’ll be a long while before anyone will ever lay eyes on that script. Honestly, I do have to give myself some credit though. There were some great ideas and concepts behind it, but overall, my writing and the ending just didn’t work. It was just bad folks, worse than 10.5 bad.

I am starting another script. This one is a short, and this is the short that I will actually be shooting. I told Scott (who will help me produce) that I would get it to him two weeks ago, and then by this past Friday. It didn’t happen. I will get it to him by this Friday, and that should be a definitely date. I have outlined it. I know what is happening. All I need is to punch out a first draft and then rewrite/polish it, and then we go on from there. I have it pictured so clearly in my mind, sometimes I feel that I’m constrained to the images in my mind, even though I haven’t written the darn thing yet. What’s holding me back, my laziness, and the fact that there is so much pressure here. This is something that I’m actually going to shoot. This is something that I will actually shoot. My first directing gig, from something that I’ve written, financed with my money. This is the real deal folks.

Again, I got every shot planned out in my head. I know how it will look. I know how long it will be. I know what the pace is. I know what the tone is. It is just a matter of me putting that and displaying that in words on paper. That is the tough part.

Also, my friend, Ella Spink no more, and I have decided to start a book. I forgot how the idea came to be, but I basically helped push her into doing the project with me. We are going to be two strangers who write letters to each other. That’s it. That’s the plan. That is our story. That is our book. I’ve already started the letter. I’m just waiting for her response, then I will respond to her response. It goes and goes. We haven’t decided on how the story is going to work, just that we are two strangers corresponding through mail and falling in and out of love through it. We do not discuss what the other party is going to write. Just respond to the other’s letter and bring in new twists and quirks that builds character and builds story. It’s spontaneous. It’s an interesing idea that I’m sure has been done before, but you know what, I don’t care. It keeps me writing, and it could potentially be something someday.

You see, I’m writing this long thing that just takes up valuable time that I could be using to finish my short script. I’m such a big procrastinator. Now you would think I would stop and go on and start working on my script, but no, I’m not. Ha, see how defiant of myself I am. I will continue this mindless rambling (I guess if I just keep writing and making this entry longer, I don’t have to write for a couple more weeks or months).

I am taking another photography class starting next week. It is a Black & White photography printing class. I will be printing my own pictures. I think it is naturally the next step to my fascination of photography. I got all the necessary supplies, and I have already developed some film with some success and failure (I’ve developed my first role and it came out great. The second role came out bad, slightly underdeveloped). I am to develop four rolls of my friend’s, Chris (who will be the camera man, DP of my short, maybe) film. I just hope I don’t fuck up.

After the class, who knows, I may just make my own darkroom. I don’t have the space, but I’ll work something out.

Now many of my family know that I just bought a new digital SLR camera. It was a spendy acquistion on my part. Again, I’m a compulsive shopper, especially when it comes to toys. It’s a great toy. I have taken hundreds of pictures with it already. It is great. Very liberating cause you don’t have to worry about wasting film, but it doesn’t look as good as film. Don’t think anything digital will look as good as film, but it sure is very close. I think I will still work with film and digital.

I am going hiking again. Starting to go hiking again. Now, with the television season coming to an end, I have a lot of free time on my hand, well more than usual. I think I will go hiking on the weekends. Mostly Sundays, cause I have classes on Saturdays for the next 8 weeks. My first hiking trip will be on July 3rd (I know, it is a Saturday, but I have no classes this week). I’m going to Yosemite National Park. Never been there before. I’m just going for a day hike. Taking my camera(s) with me and hopefully get a couple of great shots. Hopefully, and hopefully not destroy any of my cameras.

Now to the bad news. I think there is something wrong with me, physically. I’m not going to the doctor, cause, I’m a big hypochondriac and a drama queen, so it might be nothing, and besides, I should be seeing a shrink first. But I’ve been fatigued for the past couple of months. Many say it is mono, but I’m not sure. I’m getting a little bit better, but there are still times when my body just want to give out on me. I don’t know what it is, but if it gets worse, I will then have to go to the doctor to see what it is. Maybe it is all psychological. Who knows. I think this “fatigue” is just something that has to do with me being 25. My metabolism is slowing down (getting an unsightly belly). I have very little energy. It may have to do with me ruining my basketball schedule. I stopped playing for a while, or not going out on a regular basis. It may have blown my body’s clock/rhythm out of sync and it is just making up for it. I’m going more regularly now (once a week as scheduled) but whenever I get back from playing, I just crash. I’ll go to bed at 9:30 and not wake up until 8:30 in the morning (thankfully we are playing on Fridays now, so I can sleep in). Never happened before, but I guess it’s just my body adjusting to the sudden exertion of energy on my part.

Now, back to the beginning again. I think now that there is some closure with my father’s passing (the memorial being finished) I think I am going to start to change. Make a conscious effort to go out or be more social. Will it happen, I highly doubt it, but it’s the thought that counts right? I will cut back on my drinking (not that I was drinking much anyway) and will start to go running to get in shape. I will start “researching” again to move on, and to basically work toward what I came down here for. Honestly, I think I have finally found a support group, Scott and Chris, that can actually help me do this. Me actually deciding to write this script and actually saying that I WILL shoot this is a huge step for me. I think I’m a little more confident in myself. Thinking about actually shooting something that I write this summer is getting me really excited (not in that way, that comes naturally, no pun intended). I actually can’t wait. Hopefully it doesn’t suck.

As for the script it self, it is quite embarrassing. I don’t want to go into specifics, but it is very embarrassing. Very autobiographical, well for the most part. Once I’m finished with the film, not the script, I will send it out to all I know and hopefully, I will get some honest feedback on what they liked, and more importantly, what I did wrong, so I know what to do on my second film, if it happens.

All right, I think I have written enough today, tonight. I will write again, hopefully sooner rather than later. Who knows.

I’ll keep you all posted on the production of the short.

Till then.

p.s. I’m married (only fictionally).

A Quarter of a Century, Another Year

Another year older, another year wiser.

My birthday was this weekend, Saturday as a matter of fact. I’m 25. A quarter of a century. How am I taking it? Like any other day. I really didn’t do much to celebrate, besides ordering out for dinner, but other than that, it was a typical Saturday. Woke up, watched some tv, went to my Great Uncle’s and then went to watch a movie. It was nothing special, for it wasn’t anything special. It was just another day.

As many of my friends know that I’m not a fan of celebrating my birthday and knowing the type of person I am, many of them wrote something funny on my birthday card. They told me not to sleep through my birthday. I find that funny. So I didn’t sleep through my birthday. I slept through the day after my birthday. It was nice. I don’t think I left the house today but to do laundry. Staying at home and sleeping through a bright and beautiful LA day. Nothing like it.

I’m 25. I’m 25. I’m 25. As much as I keep saying it over and over and over again, there’s really nothing significant about it. It’s just a number. Just means, that I made it through another year.

This past year was not an easy one. A lot has changed in my life. A loss, growing up, and just getting better emotionally. I’ve come to terms with my self. Becoming more comfortable with my little quirks and my bouts of PMS (which I don’t have anymore, I’ve gone through The Change) and just accepting myself as a guy who doesn’t like to do much or go out much. It just comes to a point where I do what I want to do, and try not to let my friends and peers dictate what I am doing. Peer pressure, it’s a bitch. I’m not in high school anymore. No social hierarchy to climb, and no face to save. This is me.

But thinking about being 25, I do feel a little dissatisfied with where I am in my life. Looking at where my life is now, I am a bit disappointed to see where I am. It isn’t the place where I thought I would be. When I was younger, I’ve always thought that I would be married, with a kid or two, and in a regular 9-5 that I don’t mind, or maybe being a doctor. Boy, how real life doesn’t live up to dreams and fantasies of a imaginative teen.

I’ve never felt that I’ve accomplished anything that was worthwhile in my 25 years of existence. Others have accomplished more than I can ever imagine. Backpacking through Europe, seeing the world, writing something pertinent and important, performing, doing what they’ve dreamed to do.

Lisa said that I have accomplished something that many other people are afraid to do. Which is picking up and leaving the life that I had and making it in a distance city. She’s right, I’ve done that. But at the same time, I do feel that there are many who are capable of that. I don’t know. I just feel that I am not tapping that potential that I’m overflowing with.

Kate said to me in a letter that I will be good at anything that I will set my mind on doing. I believe her. I know I will be good at anything I do. I’ve always had. Then what is the problem? The problem is that I am afraid to try or to start. I am not doing it. I am starting again. That’s all I can say. I am starting; writing another script. The farthest that I’ve gone since years ago. It is a start. A fresh start to get me back on track to what I want to do. It just seems that I’m finally getting my life back on track. Finally. I’ve met some people and gotten comfortable with myself to take the next step. I found myself already. I’ve done something that I’ve set out to do. Now it is for the next step.

A funny thing. When I first moved down here, I went to a palm reader. A couple of months later, I went to another one. They both said pretty much the same thing. I won’t be settled and make something of myself until after my mid twenties. Between 25 and 28 is when I start to grow and become more successful career wise. Now, whether I believe it, I’m not sure. For the longest time, I did believe in a thing such as fate and destiny. But now, I’m not sure what I believe anymore. I just know what I am doing now, and what I need to do in the near future. Everything else, just let it happen, and I’ll deal with it when it comes.

Now, I’ve gotten to a better time in my life. More comfortable and more confident. I guess it just comes with age. Growing up, getting older, seeing and experience more. Understanding what life is and understanding who you are. Finding oneself. It took me 25 years to do it, and I’m not done either. There’s still a bit of growing up in me left to do. But like Lisa told me, I have only gotten better with age. I think that is true with everything, from wine, to cheese, beer, and even people. Time brings out the finer things. It strips away the superfluous, leaving only the essentials. Leaving yourself.

Let’s all give a hand to time and another quarter century.

Meh

Well, it has been a long while since I’ve updated this thing. A very very long while. Don’t know what have gotten into me. Actually I do. I am just lazy, and I don’t really have anything to add.

Now, what have been happening this past two months? Honestly, not much.

I think I have started to write again. Started a new screenplay. Got about 10 pages done, and I started it like 6 weeks ago. Very impressive. Nah, not really. Been really tired. I had a couple glasses of wine tonight with dinner and it is putting me to sleep, so I’m not writing tonight. I was supposed to write this weekend, but after my trip, I felt tired, and just didn’t. Been thinking about updating my journal for a while now, but I really don’t have anything to say, so I am just going to write.

I went to Vegas this past week for a conference for work. Was it fun? No. Was it bad? Well, I don’t know. It was for the Academy of Criminal Justice convention. My company wanted me to go to see how the company is seen in the publishing field. It was all paid for, so I went. Overall, the convention wasn’t too bad. I enjoyed meeting the professors and the authors/editors that I contact on a regular basis. It is nice to finally put a face to an email. Got to know them better, asked what else are they working on, so on and so forth. It was nice.

Now, to the bad side. I had to stand practically everyday, in dress shoes no less. So after about 2 hours of standing per day, my feet hurt up to my knees. It wasn’t fun. I had difficulty walking back to the hotel afterwards. That wasn’t much fun at all. Had difficulty standing and walking, but I got to do what I got to do. I think this whole pain thing started on Tuesday night, the day I got there. After I finished setting up the booth, I checked into my hotel, unpacked and everything. I had to go pick up my Lance Burton tickets at the Monte Carlo (I was going to watch the show on Wednesday). So I went to go pick them up. I was staying at the Stardust. It was on the old part of the Strip, and Monte Carlo was at the other end. I didn’t have much cash on me and I didn’t want to wait in line for a cab, so the genious that I am, I decided to walk. It was a nice 45-60 minute walk. Biggest mistake of my life. My legs were about to give out by the time I got to the Monte Carlo. I picked up the ticket, and decided to watch the show that night, instead of waiting for tomorrow and walking the Strip again. Glad I decided to do that, cause honestly, after that walk, I thought fuck it. I’ll just eat the ticket, and not come back tomorrow.

Many know that I’m not a big fan of Vegas. Not much to do there but gamble, and we all know that I’m not a good gambler. Everytime I go to Vegas I lose, and this time was no different. I was pretty much broke on Wednesday night, and I just got there on Tuesday. Looking back, all I can do was laugh. Why do I even bother? I’m not a very lucky person.

Now, the flight home was even worse. My flight was supposed to depart at 6:30, and I had to get to the airport 3 hours early. so I left at 3:30 and arrived at the airport at 4:30. So I got about a hour and a half till boarding. Boarding time came….the plane never showed up. Looked at the departure board. Delayed till 8:30. I thought, okay, fine. Went to have dinner, came back. Delayed till10:00pm. Apparently, the plane from Chicago to San Francisco, it hit a bird. I guess it had to land somewhere and get fixed. I thought I was going to have to stay there for the long haul, but I got put on standby on another flight and got on it. Flew out at 8:15. Much better than a 10:00 flight, I could tell you that.

Anywho, I am home now. Didn’t do much this weekend but slept. Rested my tired body from this wretched vacation/work thing. It’s going to be a long long long time before I head back to Vegas again.

Well, I actually did see a couple of shows at Vegas while I was there. I saw Lance Burton perform his little magic/illusion act. It was good. i was quite impressed. For the life of me, I still can’t figure out how he did any of the things that he did. Bravo. I also saw an “Exotic Hypnotist” show. Basically, they just the hypnotist just hypnotize the volunteers and make them do some raunchy things. It was quite entertaining. Not as funny as I thought it would be, but it wasn’t bad at all. It was family friendly entertainment.

Again, not much happening in my life at the moment. Nothing unusual or different from any other day. I’ll try to update this more often, but I’m not sure if I will. Meh. We’ll see.