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No Focus Writing

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything in my journal. Over a month I believe. I thought about what I was going to write before I started writing tonight’s entry. I thought about my excitement about getting a new job and getting out of my current job. I thought about just listing the general fundamental problems that plague the current company that I’m working at right now, which is one particular employee and mismanagement by upper management. I was going to go into detail about it, but I think I will not discuss it.

There’s no point. It is a part of my past. It is time for me to move on. I think right now, I feel that I have moved on. Look ahead, look forward. Don’t let the constant soul sucking of this company plague the thoughts of my mind. It’s not worth it. It’s really really not worth it at all.

So what am I going to write about? I don’t know. I just feel the need to write cause I haven’t written anything in a month, whether it is in my journal or if it is my writing projects on the side.

I guess for the past month, I just had some things on my mind. My short film which I’m preparing to shoot in the next couple of weeks and also with the whole finding a new job thing. I think that getting this new job and being out of the current situation will liberate me in doing more things, instead of going home exhausted and soaked in dread for being at work all day and just wanting to get a drink to numb the experience, to numb the mindlessness of work, to numb the bureaucracy, to numb the drama, to numb the politics, to numb the company.

No more of that. I will start new at this company. Just start new. Do my work, and leave. Don’t get involved in anything that I don’t need to get involved in. Been doing that lately, especially at this current job and even when I don’t intend to. It just finds me.

No, I just need to write, to have an outlet for any feelings or angst or pent up creativity or need to dispense any wisdom or venting out in the internet superhighway void that this little post will go to. Just need to write.

There’s been a lot of things that haunts my thoughts since I’ve resigned my position, but the one that hangs in my mind the most has to do with this one beautiful girl. I just can’t think of what to do, and that is driving me crazy. I think the thing that bothers me the most is that I don’t know what is going to happen, I don’t know how she’s going to react. But I do know that when I do what I must do, it is it. It is final. Then I will finally know and it is not until then that I can move on from what it is that is happening now. I must move on and I feel that I might be able to if things doesn’t work out as I want them too.

Then it is back to where a place that I’m seldomly at; a place without obsession and infatuation.

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One thing that I have noticed in the past couple of months, especially after my father’s memorial, my life has just gotten much better. I feel much better about myself. I’m not the pessimistic souless fool that I once was. I do have to say that last year was a tough year for me, trying to get better and deal with my father’s passing. I do have to say that things has gotten better for me, especially this year.

Things just seem to be coming together. Slowly but surely, I’m finding myself. I’m finding my place in this insignificant little third rock from the sun. Maybe I’m 25 and things are supposed to come together at 25, but things are getting better. Been writing more. Feel much more giddy and much happier than I’ve ever have. Confident. More comfortable in my own skin. I think that is the most important thing, being comfortable in my own skin and being comfortable with the hermit lifestyle that I live, doing whatever it is I want to do without any pressures from my peers. I’m getting my act together.

I’m shooting something soon. That is something that I’d set out to do, that is the basis of my whole moving down here. I am doing it. I am preparing it. I never thought that I would make it here. I never thought that my time has come since I’ve always felt flustered all my life about what my life is about and being comfortable and being able to see a point in my life. The fog is lifting. There is light. Hope this continues. Hope this continues.

Sure, my life isn’t perfect, but my life will never be perfect. My social life isn’t where I would like it to be, but I’m comfortable with what I have now. I’ve been in the trenches and I’ve survived. Things can only get better and I’m confident that things will get better.

I’m sure many of you who are reading this and who knows me well are quite surprised by the optimism of this posting. I have to say that I’m quite surprised myself. Where did this come from? Where did it come from? Maybe it was my trip up to San Francisco, meeting an ex-roommate of mine that I haven’t seen for three years. Maybe it is that I’ve been able to pick up where we left off, the same type of relationship, never skipping a beat, or maybe it is the fact that I went and became social and never felt uncomfortable while I was doing it.

Oh, I was always afraid of being social, and for the most part I still am, but these past couple of months have shown that there is nothing to be afraid about in socializing. I do it well. Just make the best out of it.

Things are a changing. Changing indeed. Moving on, marching on.

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The irony of my posting compared to the music I’m listening too. The Fall of the World’s Optimist. Is that me? Is this song about me? I highly doubt it, but I’m knocking on wood. Just to be safe.

Coming to terms…..

Relax. Take a deep breath. Breathe. In. Out. In. Out. Calm yourself. Quell any feelings you may have. It’s been a long and arduous road you’ve been wandering my friend. Filled with hope and despair. Joys and pains. Lives and deaths.

Life. It’s a bitch. But you can’t tell yourself that you aren’t happy to have lived it. This is what life is, a roller coaster ride.

It’s tough and unfair you mght say. Where or when will things get better, you might ask. I can’t answer that. You just have to go on living and find out yourself.

You told me that you aren’t afraid of anything. Where have that confidence gone or were you kidding yourself?

Just let it be. As corny as it sounds, if life throws you lemons, make lemonade, or better yet, margaritas. Make the best of what you got.

Sure you don’t go out, sure you don’t like to socialize, but you know you do all of these things well. You are just particular. Trying to wrap your mind around your ultimate ambivalance, no wait, disappointment in your life.

You don’t have a girlfriend, why? Because she doesn’t like you, you say. No, it’s because you don’t make an effort to woo her or you don’t make an effort to find someone else.

You don’t like to go out. I don’t blame you, but you do go out, only when you want to , and only when you like what you are going to be doing.

You don’t like to socialize, you are antisocial, as you would state to everyone. Well, you are not. Yes, it does take work. Yes, it does get uncomfortable, but you know, you do really well. As long as you have some input on what is being talked about or what you will be doing, as long as you have a choice, be involved; you do wonderfully fine, well, fantabulous.

Oh, such a strange one you are. Building little white lies or quirks about yourself to explain your odd temperaments. So weird. So strange, yet so typical and normal of everyone else.

How emotionally detached you say you are. Nope, you are all emotions. These pages, other books, your tears, your anger, your frustrations. All emotions. You are one of the most emotional person I know. You let your emotions run wild and that makes you impulsive. Acting on emotions. Such a shame, such a mistake. Take a step back. Open your eyes and see. Think things through. Don’t rush into things.

I know you say you like spontaneity, but you also like this structure. You lived your life structured and the spontaneous events are the ones that stick in your head, memories. If you lived you life spontaneous like the way you dreamed it to be, you would find it boring and typical like your days now. You will only be thinking about the boring, mundane structured life.

Oh so tired, so tired, you scream as you stretch your body. Oh how I know. We are all tired. We are all walking zombies or comatose patients. where have all your energies gone when you exerted so little?……

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).