It's been over a month! Time to Update!

Second semester of Uni has gone by so fast, and my head is in a constant traffic jam. Since my last update I have:

1) Randomly hooked up with a fantastic circus man - and as a result made a fantastic lifelong friend

2) Learned how to use a professional video camera

3) Been offered a job using said video camera

4) become completely frustrated with slide film

5) watched my beloved grandmother die slowly from cancer treatment

6) grown completely dissilusioned with the medical profession

7) developed a taste for beer

8) developed a taste for older goth men - as long as they're nice

9) discovered Hoyt's awesome two-person beanbags

10) spent too much money... as always

11) made a ton of friends

12) discovered awesome music through these friends

13) discovered that the longer I play flute at one time the worse I get.



My brain is like a traffic jam. So much so that i feel the urge to write down conversations after I have them, simply so as I can remember the tiny details and use them when I write. Someone once commented that all female fiction was merely dressed up diary entries - in some cases maybe they had a point. I had a fantastic day hanging out with this really cool girl from uni, who shall be refered to as Lola (she has bright red hair, like the title character in 'Run Lola Run'). She has a thing for a guy, but doesn't recon he would go for her, which i think is just bullshit because she is a unmittigated babe and one very cool lady. In fact, I mentioned to her that my girl friends are lucky I'm straight. I have some very awesome friends. Anyway, I wish I had a hidden dictophone which I could just surriptitiously hit record with when I sense an interesting conversation arising, just to keep the dialogue to use elements of at a later date. Would have made writing my Radio Play for Writing class a lot easier, too.

I like surropticiously listening to other peoples conversations too. Today I used a boom mic for the first time in my film class, and the most amazing thing occured - I found I could hear everything happening in the courtyard (where we were shooting). So, what I need is to set up a hidden dictophone on my person with a very powerful dynamic mic and invade peoples privacy for the sake of my art!
I don't want you to get me wrong, I'm not some kind of weird perve, but I find people to be fascenating, and the relationships people have with each other (in all shapes and forms) are fantasticly interesting to me. The more you pay attention to the intricate details, the more realistic your writing (especially dialogue) is and the more amazing ideas you get.

Another one is looking at websites such as FML and MDT... those stories are fantastic!