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[22 Aug 2009|08:12am] |
Hello.
Anybody out there?
I moved to Japan.
Blogging.
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| a good thing |
[13 Apr 2008|09:15pm] |
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Today I ate Ethiopian food in Osaka.
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| shameless self promotion |
[16 May 2007|06:44pm] |
Hey you! Doing anything Friday? Come see my movie! I finished an animation and named it "Summary and Analysis" because I'm not very good at naming things and people must actually sorta like it because it was voted into the SFSU Film Finals show. It's the first time anything I've done has had a big screen public screening so I'm a tad excited and you should come!
Maybe someday I'll make a real update. Until then, GOTOFILMFINALS.
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| Come on baby, do the locomotion with me |
[19 Feb 2007|01:53pm] |
I can tell Inland Empire will be the best movie I see this year even though it’s only February. Inland Empire has the following:
A lumberjack
A monkey
An all whore dance number
Multiple “BRUTALFUCKINGMURDERS” committed with screwdrivers.
I predict that this year you will be hard pressed to find other movies with any of these elements, let alone a combination of them.
Also, is it bad that in a movie in which a substantial number of scenes consist of rabbit-people saying unfunny things that trigger a sitcom style laugh track, the only thing I found out of place was the use of a Beck song?
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| True Story |
[27 Jul 2006|08:31pm] |
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Yesterday Katherine Latham got a tattoo because she lost a game of air hockey.
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| "i will thrash you in a lonely place" |
[09 Jul 2006|06:01pm] |
noooooo!!!!!!!!!! San Francisco has torn down the sweetest playground ever. Yes, this one: http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2003/teagarden/ . The one where Lat-ham nearly killed herself on the giant slides. It's torn down. The bastards. I was even thinking of organizing a back to school picnic there. But no. A moment of silence, please
Nothing much else to report. I watched the Bollywood Fight Club.
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[14 Jun 2006|09:21pm] |
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So I’m back from New York. It’s still definitely not a place I’d want to live. There’s nothing quite like 8 million mostly mean people to make you feel insignificant. Still, it was a fun trip. A small sampling of things that happened:
*Ate at a Brooklyn vegan fast food place with terribly greasy, unhealthy food called Foodswings. It is also known as HEAVEN.
*Had two random celebrity encounters. James Woods is a cheap bastard (he was at free night at the MOMA) and Al Gore has a giant red tomato head.
*I can’t believe I never went to the museum of natural history before because it’s pretty darn awesome. If I could do my New York year over again I would get a membership and go there everyday with a nice pair of noise canceling headphones to block out the children and stare at the life size blue whale for hours and feel content.
( Here’s a few natural history/Coney Island pics. )
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| i'm pulverized by this latest thing |
[24 May 2006|05:30pm] |
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Summer break. Woooot. So I spent my first work and school free day at Scrap, which is this re-use center you go to if for some reason you need 5000 test tubes for an art project. I spent an hour digging through a giant barrel of old family vacation slides and picked up a bunch of them for a penny apiece. I'm sure by the end of summer I will have been through all 10,000 of them. Should come in handy for my optical printing class next semester. You might be asking why I'd want to take a class that teaches you how to spend hours doing something you could do on a computer in about ten minutes. Mostly I'm taking the class because it teaches hand processing and I have a strange desire to develop movies in my bathtub. And the professor's the nicest lady ever. I only need 19 units to graduate so it's going to be an easy senior year. In addition to optical printing I'm taking cinematography (woot) and Film History 1895-1950 (ugh) and I'm wait listed for sound recording. I might look for an internship or independent study type deal because only taking three classes makes me feel like a bit too much of a slacker.
This will be my first year since high school where I haven't switched my state of residence.
Drew Barrymore is going to play Little Edie Beale in a narrative version of Grey Gardens. This might be the most disgusting, atrocious thing to ever happen in America.
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| Long and boring update in which I worship food and Greg to an annoying degree. |
[17 Apr 2006|10:28pm] |
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Well, life is good.
Spring break went by much faster than it should have. It doesn’t seem like it even happened due to the excessive amounts of homework I had. It started with a little slumber party at Lat-ham’s. Monica was there, which was nice because I hadn’t seen her in a while. I love Monica because you’ll be having a normal conversation and all of a sudden she’ll say something like “what would your vagina wear if it wore things? Mine would wear elegant ethnic jewelry.” Next up was Velvet Teen/Xiu Xiu concert. Greg and I originally planned to ditch out early during Xiu Xiu’s set, but I found myself strangely fascinated. I’ve now acquired all their albums yet I still can’t exactly say I’m a fan. It’s weird. Then Wednesday was free day at the Exploratorium with the Greg and the Lat-ham. We only had to drop kick a few children. On Friday Sheera and I knitted and gossiped. We must do it again sometime (in addition to pot lucks and much needed cooking lessons). Saturday Greg and I provided Erik and ourselves with homemade vegan mac and cheese followed by a movie. Then on Sunday we made chocolate chip cookies. I heart food. Then, alas, school. On Thursday Greg and I discovered that Bernal Heights is a big kiddy playland before 6:00. Note to yuppie parents of the world: your four year old doesn’t know how to use chopsticks. Stop taking it to sushi places. Maggie Mudd, I worship thee. I think I’m still full because of the vegan sundae I had there. It was surprisingly better than any dairy sundae I’ve had. The name of my journal should be “I’m a little piggy”. Then on Friday I followed the boy to band practice so I could get a few minutes in on the drum set before the other guys in the band showed up. Turns out if you barely touch a drum set for three years you start to suck at it. I felt kind of awkward being the girl sitting in the corner who had no real reason to be there, but nobody seemed to mind. It’d be nice to get back into drumming more. My living situation in the fall will hopefully allow for that. I ended up starting to feel like absolute shit by the end of the night, though. The crappiness continued throughout the weekend, causing me to miss a few events I wanted to go to (life size version of the mousetrap board game and the adult big wheel race down Lombard). The boy was super duper nice to me despite how bad of a mood being sick put me in. He’s teh awesome.
Summer needs to be here now, ok? I’m probably gonna work a day or two a week at the same place I’m at now, and I’m hoping to do a few film crew jobs too. My 16mm camera is up and running and I’ll have full access to the school’s equipment so maybe I’ll make a short film. I’ve got some exciting trips to go on, too, and some writing to do. I’ve been a lot better about sitting down and writing, and I’ve managed to squeak out a very rough draft of a screenplay. I think I owe a lot to the Greg. (I have to at least make an effort to keep up with the prolific boy).
Happy happy.
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| Opinions? |
[24 Mar 2006|11:48am] |
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Is it a really bad idea that in the essay I’m writing for one of my cinema studies classes I refer to the articles we’re supposed to analyze as “little more than academic masturbation”?
I really hate this class.
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| "Crash is an inferior, wannabe Magnolia." "But Magnolia's an inferior, wannabe Short Cuts." |
[10 Mar 2006|01:01pm] |
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This is and will continue to be a very back and forth week. Monday was free Appleseed Cast concert at Berkeley, where it was found out that at Berkeley free=a shitload of people who have never even heard of the bands will show up. Last night was another Berkeley event, a q and a with Paul Thomas Anderson. Highlights included finding out how 82 year old Robert Altman spent the night after he won his honorary Oscar (awake until 4 am, stoned and eating an eight inch roast beef sandwich) and a random five minute anti-parrot rant. As per usual with this sort of event, there was a bunch of annoying people (Waaaaah, what’s with the frogs in Magnolia? I’m a stupid whore, waaaah!). Tonight I’ll be at Sheera’s shindig (don’t expect any booty-shaking from me) and then tomorrow I have dinner in the city for Rachael and then we’re going back to the East Bay yet again for Rocky Horror Greg de-virginizing.
At work I was helping clean out a closet and my boss decided to let me have this old Beaulieu 16mm camera. The only thing wrong with it is that the battery is dead. Some people on message boards claim you can make a new battery out of parts from Radioshack for ten bucks, but fail to include instructions. Alas, I’m lacking in the battery making department. If you know anybody who’s good at that sort of thing, let me know.
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| it's peanut butter jelly time |
[16 Feb 2006|10:02pm] |
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I really hate Cinema Studies classes. This semester I have three. My forced Citizen Kane viewing tally is up to seven. I’ve been getting more and more into the technical side of filmmaking but still have no fucking clue what I’m going to do with my life. I wonder a lot if it will even end up being film related. Somehow that kind of stuff worries me less than it used to, though. I think it’s because I’m happy.
The past few days I’ve had a strong desire to be in a car in the Pacific Northwest. It’s weird. I feel like I should be traveling more in general but money and work and school don’t really allow for that.
I’m seeing Philip Glass do Powaqqatsi at Davies on Saturday.
I met some jellyfish.
I heart this song.
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| Tom Petty has a dirty fish tank. |
[17 Jan 2006|05:41pm] |
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Wellllll I feel like posting in here so I guess I will.
I like my job. It's one of the better ones I've had. I've learned a whole lot of technical stuff and my boss is nice. I get to listen to my new toy at work. You might know about my staunch anti-ipod ideals, but I also desired the convenience of an mp3 player. Thus, I splurged my Christmas money on a Pez mp3 player. I do not look like an ipod loser. I look like an idiot who shoved a headphone jack in the back of a Pez dispenser.
This month has been filled with many fun times. Lat-ham nearly killed herself by riding a wagon down one of those giant concrete slides at Golden Gate Park. That playground is one awesome death trap. No, I don’t know why she had a wagon in her trunk. Rachael, Lat-ham, Greg, and I spent Friday the 13th at the Columbarium (a little mausoleum 1/64 the size of the Portland Memorial). Then we did a little cemetery hopping and hit up the midnight Winchester Mystery House flashlight tour. Some bitch was annoying.
Gregory makes me laugh. This happened at cheapo bowling night in Pacifica:
“I hope they don’t stick us in a lane next to those hipster losers.”
::five minutes later::
“I just realized some of those hipster losers are members of NOFX.”
Fat Mike lives in one of the mansions on Monterey. He’s, like, sooooo punk rock.
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[07 Nov 2005|05:18pm] |
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| 45 god damn seconds |
[04 Oct 2005|10:55pm] |
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I've been neglecting livejournal, so I figure it's time for a semi-substantial yet still rather pointless entry.
I'm working at the film equipment cage at school. It's a pretty sweet job but I'm not getting enough hours. I picked up an extra shift this week because somebody has the flu. If you are sick, please go to the cinema cage when I'm not there so that you can infect people and I will make more money.
Sigur Ros concert this weekend was alternately gorgeous and hilariously pretentious. Because the concert was on the same day as the "Journey Rocks Novato" NUSD fundraiser, I, quite unfortunately, missed the event. I will pay top dollar to anyone with video footage of any of my former teachers dancing to "Don't Stop Believing".
( Random pics from the last couple of months )
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[22 Sep 2005|08:55pm] |
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Tonight I was trying to get home and the bus was very late and it was cold and raining and I was miserable but then I saw the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile drive by and all was right with the world.
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| donuts is the new buttsex |
[17 Aug 2005|03:07pm] |
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You’d think that with my lack of employment and school I’d be updating constantly, but, strangely enough, I’ve been keeping myself busy.
The job hunt just got a little happier because I found out that Le Video is hiring. It’s northern California’s largest video rental place. Sort of SF’s Scarecrow equivalent, for those of you down with Seattle…which would be….one…of you. Hi Greg! It’d be super sweet to work there, but, alas, ‘tis highly unlikely as during the five minutes I was there turning in my application I saw two other people turn in applications as well.
Speaking of the Greg, go see him!
Livejournal is so often a place where I go to bitch and whine that I think it’s only fair to throw in a gloating entry. I’m really fucking happy. This summer has been so unbelievably great.
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