Recently, I had a friend buy me Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, which is on the PSP. While I don't own a PSP, I have a friend who does and he let me borrow it since he never uses it. That's a reason why I haven't been on here, because since Thursday I've been playing it when I'm not hanging out with people.
I'm trying to think of the best order to go in here, and I'm probably just going to jump around with anything that I have to say, because I don't exactly have an overarching thing I want to talk about.
I'm not exactly the sportsy type, so this next bit may seem a bit strange, but I joined my friend Gerardo's Intramural Soccer team. It was mainly because he needed people, and I didn't think it would be a bad idea to be a bit physical for once in my life. It's actually turned out to be a lot of fun, and we even decided that after this league is over we should continue practicing just for the fun/exercise. I went out and bought myself some green Puma cleats, shorts, and shirts to play in. So far, I've met a ton of cool people through the soccer team, and lost two games, one of which we actually scored in. It's been a ton of fun, and even with all the soreness that comes with working out, I'm loving every moment of it.
Today I actually went out and attended GDC Online. It was like a career fair for video game companies, which was super awesome and I got to talk to a lot of people in the industry, and heard a lot about what will help with the future. First step, learn C++. Second step, work with friends to make any sort of video game prototype. Tons of lots of fun! I ended up getting a ton of free stuff, like a LucasArts shirt, and a poster for Knights of the Old Republic (which will be given away at some point), and a ton of free pins and such. At one point, while we were wandering, I noticed a guy approaching us who was about to take a picture, and I smiled for the camera. I told Ricky, Ann, and Corey that I wanted that picture, and then we went back to gathering free things. Before lunch I bought a messenger bag, and then we went to eat at a crepe restaurant. It was super duper delicious, and we split up meal crepes and desert crepes, and it was super amazing! When we got back to the center, we went to grab our free water bottles, which allowed for us to reach into a grab bag that had several prizes in it. Ricky, Ann, and Corey got posters, and I got a free pass to one of the sessions. I'm planning on attending a 2-hour session on developing characters. Also, I found the picture the guy took of us, and already saved it. =D
The last few weeks have also been full of the whole super awesome frustration of work, and dealing with people, and struggling to keep stuff from falling apart. The things that messed with people the most aren't even things that... I'm being mean, and I don't like it. I just think if people would sit down and look at themselves for a moment before flying off the handle at someone else things would work out a whole lot better. I could do this better too, trust me, I just think some people could just put some sort of effort into it. I'm also horrible, because there's something inside of me that constantly judges the character of people. Generally, when I meet someone, I can tell whether they're the type of person I'd want to hang out with, or if they're someone I would rather only see every once in a while. This leads me to build connections with people without any effort on their part, because through this strange judging thing I latch on to the people whose character seems the purest, not in the sense of never done anything bad pure, but the sense of this person's character is true, and I know without a shadow of a doubt that they will never let me down. I probably expect a lot of people as is, but I sort of expect more from these people, and awesomely enough they've never let me down. I can think of only a few people who I have managed to build up this way, which might give a sense as to why they mean so much to me.
Umm... That was kind of welling inside me for a while, and it felt good to write it all out.
Lastly, on a good note, because I need that too right now, next week I get to go with Chelsea to the Panic at the Disco concert here in Austin. I'm pretty excited about that, but the super duper great news...
Which I don't think I've shared yet on here, is that I'm going to be an Uncle!! Woot! It's super exciting, and the idea of a little kid running around that belongs to my Brother that I'll be able to spoil and take care of and watch grow is super exciting! Ahh! =D
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Friendship is Magic
This has always been one of those truths that I've lived my life by.
There are times when it rings louder than others, and this is one of those times. I was going to say it rang louder now than ever before, but that isn't true, although it's true that it rings louder now than it has for a while. I spend a lot of time on here talking about people, and how grateful I am to have them in my life, but it really is true.
As of this moment, I am super duper at home. Here's the layout of the current room in counterclockwise order. To my right you've got Ann, working on homework, or just browsing the interwebs. Ricky is laying in the bed next to her in a constant state of half sleep. Cathy is full blown passed out on the other bed. Eric is sitting at the other end of that bed. To my left is Corey finishing up his program and running the music. Gerardo just walked in, throwing all of this off, not that I mind in the least.
On occasion, after a long day, I might start to feel like I want some time alone, but when it all comes down to it I can't imagine spending time away from these guys. They're my life, and everyday they mean more and more.
We're headed to eat now, and I won't be back for a long period of time. Love ya guys!
There are times when it rings louder than others, and this is one of those times. I was going to say it rang louder now than ever before, but that isn't true, although it's true that it rings louder now than it has for a while. I spend a lot of time on here talking about people, and how grateful I am to have them in my life, but it really is true.
As of this moment, I am super duper at home. Here's the layout of the current room in counterclockwise order. To my right you've got Ann, working on homework, or just browsing the interwebs. Ricky is laying in the bed next to her in a constant state of half sleep. Cathy is full blown passed out on the other bed. Eric is sitting at the other end of that bed. To my left is Corey finishing up his program and running the music. Gerardo just walked in, throwing all of this off, not that I mind in the least.
On occasion, after a long day, I might start to feel like I want some time alone, but when it all comes down to it I can't imagine spending time away from these guys. They're my life, and everyday they mean more and more.
We're headed to eat now, and I won't be back for a long period of time. Love ya guys!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Hispanic Pony Newspaper
Weirdest stand alone title ever, haha.
So, my friends and I do some pretty crazy things. We've recently taken to doing this thing where if we miss something we say, "Rewind." and everyone pretends to go back and repeat whatever just happened. It was first used to see who said something first, which turned us all into mind readers because we started answering questions before they were answered.
We've also started watching My Little Pony a lot. When I say "a lot" I really mean we've watched the first two episodes and fallen in love with the show. It's definitely my type of show, and we're all awesome enough to obsess over it, in a good way. After watching the first two episodes we started claiming which ponies were us. It came out to:
Cathy - Twilight Sparkle
Eric - Applejack
William - Pinkie Pie
Corey - Rarity
Ricky - Rainbow Dash
Ann - Fluttershy
Gerardo - Spike
Later, Ricky was applying for a position at the newspaper. We decided that if he didn't get it we would start our own newspaper. Everyone has their own section as follows:
Gerardo is in charge of Soccer, and it will only be written in Spanish.
Sara is in charge of Music and Arts, basically all things Indie.
Eric is in charge of Nintendo.
Ricky runs the Opinion section.
Eric W. writes about whatever sports news tickles his fancy, minus the soccer bits.
Daniel does an Ask Daniel column.
Corey is in charge of the Social Matters.
Cathy does Literature.
William is writing the Foreign news part.
Jacob has a Minecraft/Technology section.
Ann does the crafts section.
Lynn draws the comics.
I write about video games, mainly RPGs.
And finally, we've sort of recieved/given Hispanic names to everyone.
I'm Eduardo.
Gerardo is Antonio.
Ricky is Enrique.
Corey is Maria.
Jacob is Alejandro.
Enrique is Jose.
Pedro is Pablo.
Cathy is Catalina, I think.
Eric is Roberto.
Ann is Guadalupe.
There's really no point to any of this, I've just been trying to find the time to post it for a while now. Boo college being super duper busy!
Really though, it's pretty great, college that is. My classes are interesting, with the most interesting definitely being Python. I'm also getting to spend a lot more time with people this year than I did in previous semesters, which is making all of this a lot nicer.
I have found though, again, that I find myself attached to people super easily. This is a problem when I feel my super attachedness might be a bit overbearing for some people, that or they might get tired of it after a while.
I dunno, I would talk more, but I really want to sleep since I can, and post this thing, finally.
Till next time,
=D
Ricky runs the Opinion section.
Eric W. writes about whatever sports news tickles his fancy, minus the soccer bits.
Daniel does an Ask Daniel column.
Corey is in charge of the Social Matters.
Cathy does Literature.
William is writing the Foreign news part.
Jacob has a Minecraft/Technology section.
Ann does the crafts section.
Lynn draws the comics.
I write about video games, mainly RPGs.
And finally, we've sort of recieved/given Hispanic names to everyone.
I'm Eduardo.
Gerardo is Antonio.
Ricky is Enrique.
Corey is Maria.
Jacob is Alejandro.
Enrique is Jose.
Pedro is Pablo.
Cathy is Catalina, I think.
Eric is Roberto.
Ann is Guadalupe.
There's really no point to any of this, I've just been trying to find the time to post it for a while now. Boo college being super duper busy!
Really though, it's pretty great, college that is. My classes are interesting, with the most interesting definitely being Python. I'm also getting to spend a lot more time with people this year than I did in previous semesters, which is making all of this a lot nicer.
I have found though, again, that I find myself attached to people super easily. This is a problem when I feel my super attachedness might be a bit overbearing for some people, that or they might get tired of it after a while.
I dunno, I would talk more, but I really want to sleep since I can, and post this thing, finally.
Till next time,
=D
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Difference
So, I always mention my friends, and always try to specify which friends I'm talking about. I've always wondered why I felt it so important to specify which friends I'm talking about, and I've recently discovered it's more for myself.
Each set of friends is different, but each set of friends has been made at a separate point in my life. Since I've formed the bases for each relationship at different points, I don't feel the same about any two groups.
You've got the group I've known the shortest. The UT crowd. I met them after a semester of college, and have only known them for 9 months or so. I honestly don't feel like I've got that super close friendship, where I can talk whenever I need to, but it's growing. It took very little time to get comfortable around them, enough so that I was willing to drive 5 ish hours to Dallas to meet up with them for a midnight release of Harry Potter. I drove back the next day. Totally worth it, and it wasn't awkward sleeping in the living room with Eric and Cathy, which if you know me make since because I've always found it awkward to even think about sleeping in the same room as someone with the opposite gender, but I'm weird like that. I've grown a lot with these people, and in such a super short period of time I've gotten to know them quite well and couldn't ask for better. I basically met them after a semester of needing someone to hang out with, that social interaction, and their arrival in my life was more than I though possible.
Then there's the Google group, err groups. There's the whole group I met in California, and then all the people I met in New York who get added to the category. Mainly, for this post though I want to talk about the people I met in California, because those are the ones I got closest to. I'm so lucky I got to go California with Google in the first place, and after meeting everyone there I realized just how lucky I really was. Meeting these people was a whole new experience for me since I usually meet people through people. Here it was a blank start, a clean slate where no one had anything to go on except a picture that we submitted and the knowledge that this was a Google CS camp thing. Since there was the added magic of Google I was way more lenient on judging people than I usually am (My judging is more so a pre-screening of people and knowng fast whether they're the type of person I would hang out with). I don't always feel comfortable with them, but when I do it's the type of comfortable where I could literally just fall asleep lying on their shoulder and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that. The type of comfortable where staying the night in a hotel room with 2 guys and 3 girls wasn't weird at all, it just felt like another normal thing. It may be the extraordinary circumstances surrounding our meeting, but I feel like I met them with a more open mind than I met most my friends, and because of that there's that whole new layer of emotions that I feel around them.
Then there's the last group. The Amarillo group. I met these guys when I was most sheltered, most awkward, least sure of who I was. They've been there through every one of my stupidest moments, and for some reason found something worth waiting for. These are the guys I know I can talk to things about, and yet the ones I have an irrational fear of pushing away somehow. There's years worth of eggshells lying around, and I'm scared one of these days I'll stumble onto the right one that pulls everything apart somehow. It doesn't make any sense when I talk about it, but it's how I feel. There's so much that gets left unsaid on my part because it sounds too whiny, or mushy, which shouldn't bother me after all this time, yet I feel it gets bothersome after a while. I've gotten more comfortable around them over the years though, and now sleeping in a mixed gender room doesn't bother me, but it never would have happened more than a year ago. Since I've known these guys the longest they've also gotten accustomed to me. This includes them telling me when I shouldn't listen in a song, or knowing that their cursing doesn't bother me like it did. I'm now privy to less, and at the same time more, than I would have liked, but I've grown to accept it. This group is responsible for my applying to UT and the Google program. This is the group that breaks my heart every single time I have to drive away, knowing I won't see them for a while. They're responsible for my turning out the way I did, with pushes here and there in a better direction. They're my life, and even though sometimes I feel like I don't belong or that I'd rather be somewhere else, I wouldn't trade a single one for anything on this planet. They're all greater than I could ever explain if given all the time in the world, and they will never be anything less to me.
This blog started three or four days ago, and as such has gone through several different sittings. I feel like I continued with how I had planned on doing this, but overall I feel like that should give you a good picture of what I mean when I specify my different friends. None of them is worse, or better. They all mean something to me, and I wouldn't be the same without them. They're just different.
Each set of friends is different, but each set of friends has been made at a separate point in my life. Since I've formed the bases for each relationship at different points, I don't feel the same about any two groups.
You've got the group I've known the shortest. The UT crowd. I met them after a semester of college, and have only known them for 9 months or so. I honestly don't feel like I've got that super close friendship, where I can talk whenever I need to, but it's growing. It took very little time to get comfortable around them, enough so that I was willing to drive 5 ish hours to Dallas to meet up with them for a midnight release of Harry Potter. I drove back the next day. Totally worth it, and it wasn't awkward sleeping in the living room with Eric and Cathy, which if you know me make since because I've always found it awkward to even think about sleeping in the same room as someone with the opposite gender, but I'm weird like that. I've grown a lot with these people, and in such a super short period of time I've gotten to know them quite well and couldn't ask for better. I basically met them after a semester of needing someone to hang out with, that social interaction, and their arrival in my life was more than I though possible.
Then there's the Google group, err groups. There's the whole group I met in California, and then all the people I met in New York who get added to the category. Mainly, for this post though I want to talk about the people I met in California, because those are the ones I got closest to. I'm so lucky I got to go California with Google in the first place, and after meeting everyone there I realized just how lucky I really was. Meeting these people was a whole new experience for me since I usually meet people through people. Here it was a blank start, a clean slate where no one had anything to go on except a picture that we submitted and the knowledge that this was a Google CS camp thing. Since there was the added magic of Google I was way more lenient on judging people than I usually am (My judging is more so a pre-screening of people and knowng fast whether they're the type of person I would hang out with). I don't always feel comfortable with them, but when I do it's the type of comfortable where I could literally just fall asleep lying on their shoulder and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that. The type of comfortable where staying the night in a hotel room with 2 guys and 3 girls wasn't weird at all, it just felt like another normal thing. It may be the extraordinary circumstances surrounding our meeting, but I feel like I met them with a more open mind than I met most my friends, and because of that there's that whole new layer of emotions that I feel around them.
Then there's the last group. The Amarillo group. I met these guys when I was most sheltered, most awkward, least sure of who I was. They've been there through every one of my stupidest moments, and for some reason found something worth waiting for. These are the guys I know I can talk to things about, and yet the ones I have an irrational fear of pushing away somehow. There's years worth of eggshells lying around, and I'm scared one of these days I'll stumble onto the right one that pulls everything apart somehow. It doesn't make any sense when I talk about it, but it's how I feel. There's so much that gets left unsaid on my part because it sounds too whiny, or mushy, which shouldn't bother me after all this time, yet I feel it gets bothersome after a while. I've gotten more comfortable around them over the years though, and now sleeping in a mixed gender room doesn't bother me, but it never would have happened more than a year ago. Since I've known these guys the longest they've also gotten accustomed to me. This includes them telling me when I shouldn't listen in a song, or knowing that their cursing doesn't bother me like it did. I'm now privy to less, and at the same time more, than I would have liked, but I've grown to accept it. This group is responsible for my applying to UT and the Google program. This is the group that breaks my heart every single time I have to drive away, knowing I won't see them for a while. They're responsible for my turning out the way I did, with pushes here and there in a better direction. They're my life, and even though sometimes I feel like I don't belong or that I'd rather be somewhere else, I wouldn't trade a single one for anything on this planet. They're all greater than I could ever explain if given all the time in the world, and they will never be anything less to me.
This blog started three or four days ago, and as such has gone through several different sittings. I feel like I continued with how I had planned on doing this, but overall I feel like that should give you a good picture of what I mean when I specify my different friends. None of them is worse, or better. They all mean something to me, and I wouldn't be the same without them. They're just different.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Flashback to Charles
Ok, so this isn't going to be a super long post, I just want to get a few things in real quick before I hit the hay.
As far as what I ended the last post on, it's still up in the air. I'm super fickle sometimes.
Anyway, classes started today, yesterday. They're going to be fun. Linear Algebra should be somewhat easy, Physics will get hard, and Python will be time consuming.
I'm irked that in Physics we have to pay money to be able to do the homework. That's super silly.
Python is going to be a blast though. The professor, Julian, seems super awesome, and if you were at CSSI, or know Charles he reminded Sara and I of him. It's going to be worth the effort.
Tuesday Eric started playing Kingdom Hearts for the first time. I'm loving seeing it all again. Absolute favorite game of all time ever right there.
I have more to say, but Jacob is sleeping, and I feel super bad for still being awake blogging.
I'll post more later! =D
Oh and be jealous, because I got to Hangout with Emily today! Boo-yah world! =D
Love you guys, and night.
As far as what I ended the last post on, it's still up in the air. I'm super fickle sometimes.
Anyway, classes started today, yesterday. They're going to be fun. Linear Algebra should be somewhat easy, Physics will get hard, and Python will be time consuming.
I'm irked that in Physics we have to pay money to be able to do the homework. That's super silly.
Python is going to be a blast though. The professor, Julian, seems super awesome, and if you were at CSSI, or know Charles he reminded Sara and I of him. It's going to be worth the effort.
Tuesday Eric started playing Kingdom Hearts for the first time. I'm loving seeing it all again. Absolute favorite game of all time ever right there.
I have more to say, but Jacob is sleeping, and I feel super bad for still being awake blogging.
I'll post more later! =D
Oh and be jealous, because I got to Hangout with Emily today! Boo-yah world! =D
Love you guys, and night.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Telepictionary
So I'm back, in Austin, at UT, living in Jester, same room. I don't know if you felt the excitement that was pouring out of me as I typed that, but believe me there was a lot of it.
I've been telling myself to blog for about... Two (?) days now. I'm not too sure exactly on the time, I've had so much happen in the past few days that it's been a whirlwind of awesomeness.
I got help from Ann, Cathy, Lynn and Emily moving in on Thursday. I'm super grateful they were willing to help, it made the whole process go so much smoother. We went and ate at Pluckers, and then returned to hang out and just talk in my room while I put a few more of my things up. I then drove them home, and made the awesome (dreadful) walk from my parking spot to my dorm.
Friday I woke up to help Gerardo move in, but he assured me he didn't need help, and sent me back to bed. I then got up to meet Lynn and Ann, before heading to move Cathy in. Her parents are super nice, and it was cool getting to meet them. We helped Cathy organize her room, and I alphabetized her books on her bookshelf. Side note: She had 3 boxes of books, and she lives on the two and a half floor and there are no elevators. Those things are heavy! Haha.
After we got Cathy all moved in we decided to go eat, and Cathy, being super awful, paid for our food since we helped her move in. =P Gerardo crept up on us, on accident, which was super funny. We then went back to my room to play some Little Big Planet. Cathy got super addicted and was beating the rest of us. Whilst we were playing, Jacob arrived, so we felt bad playing and tried to help him move in, but there wasn't much he needed help with.
Following that, Jacob and his family invited me to dinner, which took place at Curras. It was a pretty great Enchilada, and I ate more of it than I thought I could.We returned, and went to Cathy's room, where we played Telepictionary a few times. We got some pretty great sequences out of that. We then returned to my room where we played more Little Big Planet. It was as enjoyable as it was before, and Cathy was continuing to be one of the better players consistently, which is super duper awesome. When we finished up our gaming, we walked Katherine to her dorm, then I walked Cathy to her dorm, because I didn't want her to get attacked in the middle of the night by some strange night attacker person.
Saturday, the Erics moved in, and I got to help the second Eric move in when he got here. We were able to get everything up in 2 trips, and then the move in help left so he could unpack and we wouldn't be in the way. We ended up playing more Little Big Planet, with Eric joining us once he was free.
I just got super distracted, and lost all trains of thought, and it's 2:30...
We saw One Day yesterday, and it was one of the greatest movies ever. I recommend it to all of you. I spent the whole movie going back and forth between thinking, "I want to be that guy!" and, "Well, I don't want to act that way." Honestly though, he had some super awesome redeeming qualities, even though he was a jerk and I thought he didn't deserve her.
Realistically though, I feel like I'm a lot like that. I'm stupid at times, and I hate myself for the way I act, or treat people. I'll say something that completely destroys someone, not with the intention of destroying them, just because it sounds right in my head. In a moment I can send a conversation in the opposite direction and not even know I did. I like to think though, that at the end of the day I've done more good things than jerkish things.
I know I can't erase my jerk moments by being doubly good. I wish it worked that way, but it doesn't and never will. When I watch romantic shows I'm reminded more and more that I'm not as good as I can be. We have these shows where the guy is always the jerk, and the girl is way more deserving than he or she realizes, and in the end he changes and they're happy with each other. I feel like that is so me, granted I'm sure it's a ton of people.
I'm the best friend, who doesn't always realize the blessings he's being given, and when he does he's too... Slow to act on it. If I were to be super honest right now, I'd tell you that I've given thought to the whole liking someone situation. Lots, and on several occasions felt as though I may have found someone who makes me happier than anyone else. I can't be sure, because I have to spend way too much time over thinking things, because I'm retarded.
Wow, umm... I think I'm off for the night, because I may have just talked myself into something I've been trying to do for a while now. I'll keep you posted.
Goodnight, and I hope everyone is enjoying the start of a new school year. =D
I've been telling myself to blog for about... Two (?) days now. I'm not too sure exactly on the time, I've had so much happen in the past few days that it's been a whirlwind of awesomeness.
I got help from Ann, Cathy, Lynn and Emily moving in on Thursday. I'm super grateful they were willing to help, it made the whole process go so much smoother. We went and ate at Pluckers, and then returned to hang out and just talk in my room while I put a few more of my things up. I then drove them home, and made the awesome (dreadful) walk from my parking spot to my dorm.
Friday I woke up to help Gerardo move in, but he assured me he didn't need help, and sent me back to bed. I then got up to meet Lynn and Ann, before heading to move Cathy in. Her parents are super nice, and it was cool getting to meet them. We helped Cathy organize her room, and I alphabetized her books on her bookshelf. Side note: She had 3 boxes of books, and she lives on the two and a half floor and there are no elevators. Those things are heavy! Haha.
After we got Cathy all moved in we decided to go eat, and Cathy, being super awful, paid for our food since we helped her move in. =P Gerardo crept up on us, on accident, which was super funny. We then went back to my room to play some Little Big Planet. Cathy got super addicted and was beating the rest of us. Whilst we were playing, Jacob arrived, so we felt bad playing and tried to help him move in, but there wasn't much he needed help with.
Following that, Jacob and his family invited me to dinner, which took place at Curras. It was a pretty great Enchilada, and I ate more of it than I thought I could.We returned, and went to Cathy's room, where we played Telepictionary a few times. We got some pretty great sequences out of that. We then returned to my room where we played more Little Big Planet. It was as enjoyable as it was before, and Cathy was continuing to be one of the better players consistently, which is super duper awesome. When we finished up our gaming, we walked Katherine to her dorm, then I walked Cathy to her dorm, because I didn't want her to get attacked in the middle of the night by some strange night attacker person.
Saturday, the Erics moved in, and I got to help the second Eric move in when he got here. We were able to get everything up in 2 trips, and then the move in help left so he could unpack and we wouldn't be in the way. We ended up playing more Little Big Planet, with Eric joining us once he was free.
I just got super distracted, and lost all trains of thought, and it's 2:30...
We saw One Day yesterday, and it was one of the greatest movies ever. I recommend it to all of you. I spent the whole movie going back and forth between thinking, "I want to be that guy!" and, "Well, I don't want to act that way." Honestly though, he had some super awesome redeeming qualities, even though he was a jerk and I thought he didn't deserve her.
Realistically though, I feel like I'm a lot like that. I'm stupid at times, and I hate myself for the way I act, or treat people. I'll say something that completely destroys someone, not with the intention of destroying them, just because it sounds right in my head. In a moment I can send a conversation in the opposite direction and not even know I did. I like to think though, that at the end of the day I've done more good things than jerkish things.
I know I can't erase my jerk moments by being doubly good. I wish it worked that way, but it doesn't and never will. When I watch romantic shows I'm reminded more and more that I'm not as good as I can be. We have these shows where the guy is always the jerk, and the girl is way more deserving than he or she realizes, and in the end he changes and they're happy with each other. I feel like that is so me, granted I'm sure it's a ton of people.
I'm the best friend, who doesn't always realize the blessings he's being given, and when he does he's too... Slow to act on it. If I were to be super honest right now, I'd tell you that I've given thought to the whole liking someone situation. Lots, and on several occasions felt as though I may have found someone who makes me happier than anyone else. I can't be sure, because I have to spend way too much time over thinking things, because I'm retarded.
Wow, umm... I think I'm off for the night, because I may have just talked myself into something I've been trying to do for a while now. I'll keep you posted.
Goodnight, and I hope everyone is enjoying the start of a new school year. =D
Friday, August 12, 2011
No Such Thing as Monsters
I get super caught up in Google, and College, and life sometimes that I forget to stop and look at where it all started.
My whole Tuesday was devoted to my friend Brian's movie premiere. It was awesome, and I wish I could have more days like that one!
I'm going to take us back a bit, to when we were still in high school. I don't remember how it all began, but somewhere along the way Brian and I became super awesome friends. Not even lying, I would pretty much do anything for him. We've done several projects together over the years, starting with our cake project freshman year. I don't think we did a project Sophomore year, which kind of breaks the pattern I was going for. Haha. Junior year is where the magic happened.
Our English teacher assigned us a video project. We had to make a parody video about two of the books we had read. Brian and I had no trouble deciding to work together. Chris, Ryan, Nate and Cong were also in our group and Stickley and Autry came from a different English class to help us with some of the scenes. (Julie also showed up to help, however she is Chris's super awesome mom and not a student.)
It was the most genius video I'd ever made, which doesn't say much because it was the first, but it was awesome. Brian planned everything out, and we pretty much hit the ground running. We decided pretty unanimously on Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby. Nate took the role of Ahab and the Owl Eyed Guy (Sorta), Cong was Queequeg, Chris took the roles of Gatsby and Detective Grissom, Ryan was a reporter, I was Moby and Ishmael, Brian was George, and everyone else were the extras that were at Gatsbys/part of Ahab's crew.
We started off with a Cribs-like intro, which was all about Gatsby, and eventually he got shot. This lead to the reporter and Detective Grissom, who segwayed the video into an awesome chase scene with Ahab and his crew chasing Moby, me. Brian, Chris and I spent several hours editing it, using Windows Movie Maker. We stayed up until 1 or 2 in the morning, the night before we were going to turn it in. The rest was history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILXgwKasH2g
Shameless plug for a high school video. Yeah, haha. I went that far.
When Brian was looking into college he decided to make a video to send to USC. The video was How To Ride A Bike- Learning to Fall Down. It was a more inspirational type video than Brian had made. Here's that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf30CumJTI8
Senior year, in our Government class we had to do a John Locke project. Brian, Brison and I teamed up and decided we were going to make a video. Somehow we ended up on the idea to take songs and rewrite them. We decided on two songs, Tik Tok and Birthday Sex. I have no idea how those two made the cut, but they did, and it doesn't make much sense.
I didn't appear in the video, and Brison did Tik Tok while Brian did Birthday Sex. It was an interesting video, and we meant it to be super funny with very little of the video that was scripted, with most of it being thought up on the spot. The hardest part was getting all the video and everything on my computer which wasn't able to connect to the camera anymore because we got a new computer. We actually didn't get the video working in time for us to present, so we made a backup slideshow that was thrown together in a few minutes.
I remember it was snowing a lot, because we had to drive over to Camron's to get the video on a flash drive, and then back to my house, and then to take everyone home and there was snow and ice and what not all around. We got the video together, with music and vocals which took some work, and then presented it the next day even though we had already done our slideshow.
Our class thought it was funny, and so here is that project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989s7rkTDhs
Also our senior year, Brian had a few projects of his own for us to work on. One of them was a fun one called Wanted: New Roommate. This was all in our free time, over Spring Break senior year, and we had a ton of fun making it. It was serious, and funny all at the same time which made it rather good. This is the first of the films that I actually appeared in, if you don't count me carrying a whale/showing up in the credits for Death in The Water.
It was a lot of fun to shoot, and was the last video of Brian's design I edited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgjPS7Si4uM
We did one more video where I edited, but it was more my set up, with Brian helping out with the filming and lining things up. It was a video for our choir banquet, that was supposed to be fun and cool for everyone to watch. I wanted it to be something we could watch and think, "Yeah, that was our choir!"
We interviewed a few people and put what they said in the video, along with some epic music and one of our concerts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JN-NcLshnc&feature=grec_index
The next thing Brian went on to tackle was a video he titled Cured. This video took place earlier this year, I think around Spring Break time. It's about a society that has figured up a way to keep people from aging and thus dying of old age. Basically, since there's more people you have to have permission to have kids basically. It's a strange society, and makes you question what you would do in order to protect the family you have.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iadQuTBmQp4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh9oit0Cz_0
Finally, Brian has recently made No Such Thing As Monsters. I've seen it twice, and the only reason I haven't watched it more, is because I've been busy since he put it up online. It is an amazing story, and watching it the second time it was a whole lot more powerful. The movie isn't perfect, but the budget was literally nothing for it, and so he made due with what he had and created an amazing show.
My favorite part of it is the characterization, and how real the actors make it feel. Keep in mind that everyone who appears in it did it because they wanted to, they had no obligation, no payment, just a love for acting. The same goes for the whole crew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YjR3uE7iA
That's the movie we had the premiere for, and it's crazy thinking about how far we've come, how far Brian specifically has come.
There you have it, a whole novel post about Brian, and his films. I love that guy, and anything you could say that would make things better would be appreciated.
http://www.blackelephantfilms.com/
There's his website, and ways to contact him, cast or crew.
Alrighty, adios guys! Love ya!
My whole Tuesday was devoted to my friend Brian's movie premiere. It was awesome, and I wish I could have more days like that one!
I'm going to take us back a bit, to when we were still in high school. I don't remember how it all began, but somewhere along the way Brian and I became super awesome friends. Not even lying, I would pretty much do anything for him. We've done several projects together over the years, starting with our cake project freshman year. I don't think we did a project Sophomore year, which kind of breaks the pattern I was going for. Haha. Junior year is where the magic happened.
Our English teacher assigned us a video project. We had to make a parody video about two of the books we had read. Brian and I had no trouble deciding to work together. Chris, Ryan, Nate and Cong were also in our group and Stickley and Autry came from a different English class to help us with some of the scenes. (Julie also showed up to help, however she is Chris's super awesome mom and not a student.)
It was the most genius video I'd ever made, which doesn't say much because it was the first, but it was awesome. Brian planned everything out, and we pretty much hit the ground running. We decided pretty unanimously on Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby. Nate took the role of Ahab and the Owl Eyed Guy (Sorta), Cong was Queequeg, Chris took the roles of Gatsby and Detective Grissom, Ryan was a reporter, I was Moby and Ishmael, Brian was George, and everyone else were the extras that were at Gatsbys/part of Ahab's crew.
We started off with a Cribs-like intro, which was all about Gatsby, and eventually he got shot. This lead to the reporter and Detective Grissom, who segwayed the video into an awesome chase scene with Ahab and his crew chasing Moby, me. Brian, Chris and I spent several hours editing it, using Windows Movie Maker. We stayed up until 1 or 2 in the morning, the night before we were going to turn it in. The rest was history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILXgwKasH2g
Shameless plug for a high school video. Yeah, haha. I went that far.
When Brian was looking into college he decided to make a video to send to USC. The video was How To Ride A Bike- Learning to Fall Down. It was a more inspirational type video than Brian had made. Here's that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf30CumJTI8
Senior year, in our Government class we had to do a John Locke project. Brian, Brison and I teamed up and decided we were going to make a video. Somehow we ended up on the idea to take songs and rewrite them. We decided on two songs, Tik Tok and Birthday Sex. I have no idea how those two made the cut, but they did, and it doesn't make much sense.
I didn't appear in the video, and Brison did Tik Tok while Brian did Birthday Sex. It was an interesting video, and we meant it to be super funny with very little of the video that was scripted, with most of it being thought up on the spot. The hardest part was getting all the video and everything on my computer which wasn't able to connect to the camera anymore because we got a new computer. We actually didn't get the video working in time for us to present, so we made a backup slideshow that was thrown together in a few minutes.
I remember it was snowing a lot, because we had to drive over to Camron's to get the video on a flash drive, and then back to my house, and then to take everyone home and there was snow and ice and what not all around. We got the video together, with music and vocals which took some work, and then presented it the next day even though we had already done our slideshow.
Our class thought it was funny, and so here is that project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989s7rkTDhs
Also our senior year, Brian had a few projects of his own for us to work on. One of them was a fun one called Wanted: New Roommate. This was all in our free time, over Spring Break senior year, and we had a ton of fun making it. It was serious, and funny all at the same time which made it rather good. This is the first of the films that I actually appeared in, if you don't count me carrying a whale/showing up in the credits for Death in The Water.
It was a lot of fun to shoot, and was the last video of Brian's design I edited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgjPS7Si4uM
We did one more video where I edited, but it was more my set up, with Brian helping out with the filming and lining things up. It was a video for our choir banquet, that was supposed to be fun and cool for everyone to watch. I wanted it to be something we could watch and think, "Yeah, that was our choir!"
We interviewed a few people and put what they said in the video, along with some epic music and one of our concerts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JN-NcLshnc&feature=grec_index
The next thing Brian went on to tackle was a video he titled Cured. This video took place earlier this year, I think around Spring Break time. It's about a society that has figured up a way to keep people from aging and thus dying of old age. Basically, since there's more people you have to have permission to have kids basically. It's a strange society, and makes you question what you would do in order to protect the family you have.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iadQuTBmQp4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh9oit0Cz_0
Finally, Brian has recently made No Such Thing As Monsters. I've seen it twice, and the only reason I haven't watched it more, is because I've been busy since he put it up online. It is an amazing story, and watching it the second time it was a whole lot more powerful. The movie isn't perfect, but the budget was literally nothing for it, and so he made due with what he had and created an amazing show.
My favorite part of it is the characterization, and how real the actors make it feel. Keep in mind that everyone who appears in it did it because they wanted to, they had no obligation, no payment, just a love for acting. The same goes for the whole crew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YjR3uE7iA
That's the movie we had the premiere for, and it's crazy thinking about how far we've come, how far Brian specifically has come.
There you have it, a whole novel post about Brian, and his films. I love that guy, and anything you could say that would make things better would be appreciated.
http://www.blackelephantfilms.com/
There's his website, and ways to contact him, cast or crew.
Alrighty, adios guys! Love ya!
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