The conversation

So I went over to Dave's tonight to watch a Coppola movie, "The Conversation." It was brilliant. Gene Hackman was amazing. The plot was simple but expansive. I highly recommend it. Even though it is slow in the beginning, the pay off at the end is amazing.

This was a strange occurrence that happens to me sometimes. I will learn about something new and then, usually, I see the same thing come up mere hours later. So last night I was talking to this lady online (don't judge) and she told me she was in a band called Swing Gitane. Now I had no idea what gitane meant so I asked her and she said it was French cigarette. Later, I decided to finish the novel I was reading. It's about a boy going through boarding school in the sixties. It was very good, called "Old School" written by Tobias Wolff. Anyway, he's waiting at a train station and someone offers him a gitane! Without previous knowledge I would have inferred that it was a cigarette. But this was just incredible to the point of suspicion. This might be me projecting because the movie I just watched had to do with a wiretapper. I thought you all might like to hear something like that. Now have a good night, get some exercise and smile, people are watching you. Maybe? probably not, but they could be now couldn't they. Oh, who is they? Former presidents. All of them. Didn't you know that when you serve at least one year you become immortal? Kennedy is sharing his teeth whitening tips with Washington.

movies and books

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To start off, up there is my video on youtube. This way you don't have to sign up through facebook.

I have been a reading a and movie watching maniac this past month. I have seen 18 movies, two of them in the theaters, yet the month isn't over and that number will probably increase. Also I have read four books, that's about one a week. And they have been good. I am going to shoot for around forty books this year. That will coincide with me watching at least two hundred movies. I am on course so far but I just hope I can keep this motivation up for the whole year. Not to mention the tv shows I regularly watch and the movies that will be made, the drawings done and the stories written. So I welcome you to do the same thing. Try to expose yourself to as much art or entertainment, however you see it, as possible. For some year 2010 is magical. And can you believe we are already a twelfth of the way through it? Wow-we-wo-wa!

Dustin

Tonight was a good night.

Even though I lost money playing poker, it was good. I didn't lose as much as others. I probably wouldn't play anymore if I hadn't won the first time, that has been keeping my hope alive, but maybe not for much longer. The long week I was experiencing is finally over, now there are no games tomorrow, so I won't feel bad sleeping in until 3:00. I have found that is relatively easy for me.

I hope you guys checked out the movie we made. I think I would like to do more of this. There might be a video camera in my future, and having my W-2 helps this. I have received a lot of kudos for what we did and I am in the rare position where I know that I could have people see what I have done. Don't worry though, I'm not going to become all moody and anal, looking for inspiration in a piece of trash floating in the wind. It's a good thing I'm not in New York, or spent my college years there because I would probably be that guy; just another failed auteur. I think that I can safely say that I am a creative person, and this just fuels the fire. What that fire will burn, I don't know yet, but hopefully its bright and rare.

Dustin

Our Movie

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So here is the movie we made in less than a week. Like I said there are obvious similarities to the office. I actually had a lot of fun making this with Dave and Molly. Who knows maybe a future in film? I think at this point I'm exhausting all of my creative options and just trying to find a fit. This is just a test to see if writing is what I should be doing. ( I know that it is but there is no harm in trying.) So now I am tired. I have worked a lot in the past few days. I'm not complaining, but it does take its toll. And the fact that I was out until 12:30 with my students, first at a karaoke bar and then standing in line at a club I knew I wasn't going to get in doesn't help. I had a great night. We had over a hundred people watch our little film and I sang with some students and generally made an ass out of myself, which I think is somewhere in my job description. I hope you all enjoy our little project.

Dustin

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Sorry

So I know I have been away and unfortunately I won't write much today. I have been very busy, subbing classes and working on a film. Now the good news is, you all will get to see it. It's nothing amazing, but I think it came together pretty well after working on it for only two days. You may notice a similarity or two to The Office but that was intentional. Hopefully I will put it up by Friday. You will have it by the weekend at the latest. I have to sleep now, I have another class to sub. Bye.

To be honest

I feel tired. I had a long day, well longer than usual. But that's not it. It's in my bones. I think a midday yawn is the sign of a weak mind. I had my share of them today. And yesterday as well, come to think of it. Is this what adults do, I mean all the time? I can't believe it. How has this gone on for so long? There will be jobs but this is not human. Are we all made to suffer? Maybe Buddha wasn't so far off. Tediousness is suicide, but only to those who recognize it. I think it's time for me to make my life as a writer. All of the novels about writers sound so appealing don't they? They drink, write, fight, fuck, see things that no one else has, yet so many people have looked at. Enough of this back pain, waking up on someone else's schedule, and having to be places to do things. I think it's time for me to have a mini revolution. And by that I mean me. I will rise up, go somewhere and do something, can you tell I have thought this out? You are welcome to come with me, but do not hesitate. Make a decision and live with the consequences. If you have a brain you will have few regrets, and if you have adventure you will have no regrets.

I feel that

sometimes I could be living a different life. Yeah, like a superhero. I don't know my name yet, or even my super powers, if I have any. I could be like Batman, although I'm not rich, handsome, or trained in martial arts. So I guess I have some goals. First I would have to be super rich. Then I can get the Batman look through plastic surgery. Then I could pay some supreme master to teach me martial arts. I would have to learn them all. I thought I could be a super villain, but I'm too nice of a guy, not motivated by money, power or the need to be right. Super villains have it easier. If I never made enough money, then I would have to roll around in a puddle of radioactive material. But there is a good chance that I would just get cancer, lose my sight or just gain an extra pinkie nail. I know what you're thinking, why does this guy talk so much about super heroes? Well, I'm a nerd. I like to live in the fiction of the world. This is why I read fiction. I don't remember the last time I read a book of non-fiction. Well, I do read philosophy, but that just makes you think. Anyway, I am unapologetic about the choices of entertainment I have made. I think it's more fun. I know there are great non-fiction writers out there, but I'm not into it. So there you have it.