Thursday, February 26, 2009
The bitchy model that could...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Fantastic coincidences
So i've been enlightened, or should I say re-enlightened by a good friend of mine about fantastic coincidences. But I can't seem to wrap my whole head around it...because I think if anyone actually could they would be god, as a co-worker put it today.
It seems that no matter where you are there are these crazy coincidences with who you run into, signs if you will about life and progress. Tests of some sort to see if you turn out stronger. the universes way of being like, here's a curveball, or here's a hint, what do you have to say about that?
SO many weird coincidences have happened to me in the past few days, I just dont know how to feel about it. Whether being contacted by person or an opportunity, or signs or patterns. Its so crazy! I totally believe in karma and that you put out what you take in. and the other way around.
but i still just dont know how i personally feel about all of these signs. these things. it's a small world. hmmm...oh to ponder...thoughts?
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Monday, February 23, 2009
AHHHH!!!
is pretty much how I feel.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Got to Be Real
Wow, so much stuff is going on with my life so quickly, it's hard to keep up with my own brain. What's even more annoying is I keep getting good idea for blog posts then I forget them soon after.
I had this one thought when I was biking home from work a few weeks ago, my life as a video game. I think the terrain would be hollywood and I would have multiple things to get through, a read bike and then when you have enough points a moped. You'd have to bike around, dodging women with their strollers on the sidewalk, stupid pedestrians who never look where they're going and even stupider drivers who never look for pedestrians.
Whoops dodge an abandoned cat. Detour to get cat food from store, plus five morale booster points. When morale is high enough get in car to go to hollywood club, talk your way in with the bouncer, deflect sleazy hollywood guys who hit on you, find friends inside the club, plus 10 points, dance up a storm, plus 30. Whoops to much to drink minus 4 points, get some water to rejuvenate. the ultimate goal of the game is to get discovered by big hollywood exec who funds film.
It might be a good game, sort of the sims meets that car game meets donkey kong. I think there'd be dream levels, and my sidekick would be my cat
Went to pismo beach this weekend, was very very fun! Plus True Perfection is almost done and we're about to get started with the OTV feature!! wooO!!!!!!
mmmm success tastes like friend chicken cheese minus the chicken. Matt and Katie get it.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Bus Stop
A lot has been going with me in the past few days. It's remarkable how much one can change because of interactions.
I started taking classes part time at LACC. I need to defer my student loans because there's no way I can afford them right now. SO the solution is to go back to school part time.
It's really weird going to a community college, because it makes me appreciate Chapman to some extent. Although I did have many issues with the school, it was lightyears better than this place. In terms of campus, teachers, food, parking, everything.
But what bothers me about that statement, is why is a decent college, not even a great college 40,000$ a year?! Shouldn't a decent education be a given. Should we all be entitled to learn, be treated with respect in a building that we feel safe and comfortable in???
The education system of this country disgusts me. They wonder why we are in economic depression, it's because nobody knows anything.
After attending one of the top ten high schools in the country and then hearing about other peoples high school experience, I am shocked at the conditions the rest of the country subjugates their young people too. They treat them like cattle, like upstarts, like they are being forced to be there and need to be disciplined with a strict hand.
At my school people loved to be there. People loved the school, the teachers, they threw there back packs down in the hallway instead of lockers, they called their teachers by their first names, they were treated by equals. What the hell is wrong with America that this is a "special" school??
Maybe I'm especially bitter because I'm tired as hell. Matt's dog ran away last night and he was really upset about it. I was upset too and I barely knew him. His parents think he was eaten by coyotes which is really really sad because he was a sweet nice dog.
he's the dog on the left :(
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Monday, February 9, 2009
What would Zach Braff do?
The first official podcast. Wow this was fun to make and who knew what crazy stuff would happen from when we started shooting it until the end.
But it kills...KILLS me to watch this podcast. Why? Because of the freaking fish eye lens on Dillon's camera. Because of this podcast I learned exactly how NOT to do an interview. And the worst part is, this is where I'm giving the meat of the story, how it all happened! The stuff about my friends, about John, about everything and its so not interesting because I'm slouching, un-enthusiastic, Dillon who shot it got a terrible angle on me and I look 40 pounds heavier. No joke. Wes and I thought about pretending like I got so stressed out I lost a lot of weight due to the film in the next podcast. ha!
Aside from my own vain thoughts on my interview. It really serves as a testimony to the friendship I had with Mallory, Niels, Nathan, Colin, Trevor, Dillon. Because that summer where we hashed out the script was so much fun! All of us would stay up till 4 am playing guitar hero, watching movies, drinking, biking, running around, going to the beach and occasionally working on Happy Holidays. And I think a lot of that spirit made it through into the script. It's sad, many may wonder what happened to the friendship. I wonder sometimes too. People change, and I know I did. But if you can learn to appreciate the times you have with people and truly cherish them...well they're just awesome. And I can never thank these people enough for giving me the strength to do this film.
But maybe the best part of this podcast is the auditions! And of course our drunken filming the night before talking about the auditions. What's great about the auditions, is I barely knew the 5 actors I would get to know and love so dearly. Here you and I get to watch meeting them for the first time!
As we list off the names, it's always funny looking at Brigitte (the blonde) as I say Michael Sasso, because they of course would go out and are still together 3 years later. See Robert actually take a swing at Russell in the auditions which is when I knew he was perfect for the part. And of course to top it all off, we also realized that I shouldn't act out traumatic things that happen. Ever.
But if you can gather anything from this podcast, is that we were learning as we were going. Testing out stuff, and because of this podcast we learned a lot about what to do, what not to do. It was as shakey as we felt, but we were just a bunch of kids with a big idea about doing a movie. Somewhat committed, but mostly just thought it was fun. It wasn't until the next podcast that we realized just how much we wanted to make this, and how much we'd have to sacrifice to do it.
Finding the Story - Podcast #1
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
1979
so this is day 4 of me being sick which is a pain in the ass. It's weird because I haven't actually had a cold of sorts in a really long time. In fact I can't remember the last time I had a cold....it must have been quite some time ago, at least over a year and a half...
I took two days off of work, which is a big deal for me. I never take off work...I guess except if I have a cold. When I first got my job my contact lense scratched my cornia and I couldn't see. It was terrible, but I went into work anyway and got eventually it fixed itself after going to the doctor and such.
I'd like to say that being home brought me more insight into who I am since I got to spend some time with myself. And I guess it did. But it more made me appreciate where I'm going. I have all these goals for myself and I'm not going to let anything get in their way...especially me. Man my cats cute...
haha
it's raining really hard outside right now. A good day to be sick and in doors.
I give myself hope by just looking back on the goals I set for myself and how I achieve them
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Have I the right
Have I the Right
Current mood: amused
That's one of the names of my favorite songs from the 60s.
So it's funny what life deals you when you're not looking. But a really good opportunity just came my way! But it's in the pre stages so it may not be anything.
Needless to say the next cut of True Perfection is going so so so SO well. I cannot wait for the finished product. It's going to rock everything so hard, you don't even know! I cannot wait to make this movie. I'm jumping out of my skin just dreaming about making it. The clothes, the sets, the actors, the script. Oh man!!! It's going to keep people laughing the whole time!!
oh the possibilities...why does Beck have to be a scientologist?/
On another note, I'm sick. BLEH. I have a cold and it really sucks. My head is imploding. But if I think I can, I will get better soon!!!
True Perfection is keeping me alive!
S.Mohen - Filmmaker
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Double Pump
So I was going to write a really frustrated post, but somehow I got unfrustrated in the past 45 minutes while I ended up doing other things online.
I totally woke up on the wrong side of the bed today which is annoying because I cannot shake off this annoying feeling of being tired and pissy and rar!!!!
January wasn't the best of months really, I feel like I don't have a lot to show for it. It gets really hard dragging huge boulders up a mountain filled with projects and people and lack of money, which somehow makes everything heavier, you'd think it would be the opposite. Its like I always have to have this positive GO TEAM! face. Not to say I don't believe in everything that I plan on happening, because I do. It's just I'm so frustrated with being STUCK
I'm just trying to get True Perfection forward, and OTV, not to mention my career as a whole, getting a new apartment, somehow find some more money, getting a moped. I work really hard and I think I deserve something to be easy!
Sometimes it feels like the fact that I made a feature doesn't matter because 1) I'm not rich 2) I wasn't handed a bunch of connections 3) I'm not a man.
If I were any of those things this would all be easier. But instead I have to pull double the fucking amount of rocks.
I got this picture today. It's pretty cool.
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