Nearly four months later… A post.

After renewing the website, assuring myself that I do indeed want to spend the money on space I KNOW I’ll use, dust has found a new home. With that said, I’m in the process, however long that process, of creating a new look and layout. Why? Why not!

I’ve gotten fairly comfortable where I’m at right now. It’s a problem that I hope to change immediately.

Also, WordPress update has totally effed my layout.

Due to being out of school, I have nothing to push me creatively anymore. As a way to resolve that, and due to the fact that I can’t trust myself daily, I want to spend some time actively writing again. As a result, I want to have a weekly concept script that will help me stay creative and keep writing. By concept script, I mean a portion of a script that might not have all the details fleshed out, an idea that is a start to an end, maybe the first of which will give a better understanding. I just need to get to get the formatting down so it doesn’t stretch the page so much as it does.

THE INSIGNIFICANT

FADE IN:
INT. BEDROOM – MORNING

ALAN, mid 30s, wakes to the sound of DRIPPING WATER coming
from his bathroom. He lies in his bed staring at the ceiling,
looking exhausted as if he had been up all night. Bags under
his eyes, hair a mess.

He looks at his alarm clock, one minute until 6AM. He looks
at it, afraid of the sound that will come shrieking out of
the clock once the time strikes. Then-

The clock strikes 6PM, the alarm lets out a SCREAM of a
woman. He panics, shuts his eyes. When he opens them again,
the alarm returns to a normal ALARM sound. Alan shuts it off
then drags himself out of bed.

INT. BATHROOM

Alan turns on the water, standing naked inside the shower. He
lets the hot water splash across his face.

INT. BEDROOM

An unknown man, covered in shadow, enters the room.

INT. BATHROOM

Alan begins to cry. The water running down his face resembles
a stream of tears.

INT. BEDROOM

The unknown man steps closer to the slightly closed bathroom
door, sound of the running shower muffling its way into the
room.

INT. BATHROOM

Alan slams his fists against the wall.

ALAN
I’m sorry! Do you hear me?! I’m
sorry!

INT. BEDROOM

The man opens the bathroom door, revealing the gun he’s
holding.

INT. BATHROOM

Alan turns towards the door, a shower curtain separating him
from the exit. The shadowy figure of the unknown man starts
to fill up his view.

ALAN
(whispering)
I said I was sorry.

Through the curtains, a bullet comes tearing through. Blood
fills the shower as it’s sent down the drain. The curtains
are pulled to the side, revealing the unknown man’s face,
looking exactly like Alan.

Alan lies motionless as his doppelganger leaves the gun in
the hands of Alan. One last look and the doppelganger leaves.
The sound of the SHOWER is replaced by the sound of RAIN.

FADE TO BLACK.

World of Warcraft is back in my life, that’s what I’ve been doing in my spare time. Not that it really took over my life when I first played it, but the game is much more enjoyable when not only am I earning 3x the experience (due to a refer-a-friend link), but I have someone to level with to the top.

My character is a hunter on the Kilrogg server and boy am I having a good time with that class. Ranged isn’t something I normally enjoy playing, but here, ranged is the only way I’ll play. Unfortunately, the downfall of the class is that it prods my OCD too many times and I feel compelled to tame all these rare creatures. It’s like Pokémon for adults. Gotta catch them all!

Of course, before the 4.03 patch, I could only hold 5 pets total, with each stable costing money. Now I can hold an overwhelming 25 pets at a time, but with so many new rares and unique beasts, I’m down to 3 spots open. Two of those slots are for the rare beasts Sambas and the new spirit beast Karoma. Luck has been good to me and I’ve been able to tame the rarest of rares ever since the release of Cataclysm. Caught four spirit beasts and then some within the past month, whereas I’ve spent the last four prior to Cataclysm trying to just get one.

But now that I’m 85 with as many rares as I have, I’m stuck. I don’t know what I want to do anymore. I think I’ve reached my limit with WoW as I don’t want to run heroics as the pickup groups rarely end in satisfaction. Often times, the dungeon runs end in defeat. Blizzard has said that heroics aren’t that hard, and maybe the difficulty is only there because we’re all still new to the experience, but I stopped enjoying those runs a long time ago so I don’t find any reason to push through it. It’s like crawling through a tunnel of glass most of the time.

That’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed the Cataclysm experience. Aside from the first few days of fighting the hundreds of other players trying to level at the same time, I’ve enjoyed the trip to 85. The game is much more cinematic and I felt more immersed in the story than ever before. I’m a player that doesn’t really read the quests for the story. Let’s face it, the few seconds spent reading are better spent leveling. Though now that I’m 85 and tired of heroics (until my guild can run through them with ease), I might try for the Loremaster achievement and learn the lore by doing low-level quests.

And now that I think of it, the time I spend writing this is just time wasted not getting that Loremaster achievement. What am I sitting around for?!

I finally got around to seeing my two most anticipated movies of the summer, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Inception. And I saw them on the same day! Talk about being a good film student (ignoring for a second that it’s been weeks since I’ve watched any movies). So needless to say, neither disappointed.

Inception was the film that I was all hyped for ever since seeing that teaser so long ago. At its roots, it is essentially a heist-like movie. Gather a group, get a job done. That’s the simple way of describing it. Throw in a unique and complex dream world, and suddenly the movie is literally filled with layers and mindboggling effects that it becomes so much more. While it starts off a bit slow to set up the story, when things get crazy, they get crazy. The last quarter of the movie gets so intense that it’s crazy to think, in the reality of their world, all of it takes place in such a short span, as most dreams truly do. It’s amazing to think that from such a simple idea, the feeling of a dream lasting longer than the actual dream, a man like Nolan can come up with something so creative. I will admit however, that right after watching the movie, I didn’t leave the theater thinking it was all that great. The hype, expectations, they got the better of me. Upon thinking about it now though, all that hype and expectations were all justified and met. But I think a big part of it was that I wasn’t all that eager to see Inception, because what I wanted to really see was the movie that released last weekend.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World was exactly what I was in the mood for that day. Inception was great, but ever since I’ve read the Scott Pilgrim comics, I was dying to see it come to life on screen. I will admit that when I first saw the trailer to Scott Pilgrim, I had my doubts. Another Michael Cera movie? I didn’t think of it like that by the time I found out Edgar Wright was directing it. Being one of my favorite directors ever, I had to see the movie now just because of Edgar Wright. Being his first movie without Nick Frost or Simon Pegg, it could’ve gone in any direction, but I was glad to see that it was as awesome as all expectations. I decided to read the graphic novels when I heard that I would appreciate the movie more if I had, and a part of me did appreciate it more. Wright stuck to the material like no other, even throwing animated parts of the actual comic into the film. Of course, I was a bit bummed because they couldn’t fit ALL the story into the film, let alone Wright not having access to the final comic at the time. The conclusion of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel wasn’t even finished when the movie got started. What ending we did get in the film was good for what Wright had to work with and at a certain point of understanding, I had to let some things go.

So both movies? A+

Next movie I’m excited for? Tron Legacy. But that’s a ways away unfortunately.

Haven’t spoken much about my Hawaii trip (if people even knew I was on one). First time I’ve been this far away from home. I had an awesome time, though a bike accident (out of my own stupidity) hindered the latter half. I’m still healing, but I’ll be good soon.

Gotta say, I’d would live there if I could. I mean, everyone says that about paradise, but seriously, I loved that atmosphere.  Living in a hotel with just the necessities (and a couple of luxuries) let me just enjoy the things around me. The view, the weather. I loved that everything was in walking distance from my hotel and that I could get a good cheap meal with a five minute walk down the street. Granted, a lot of it is from the perspective of a hotel tourist, so life may not be as fun as imagined, but if I could find a city as close to this experience, even without the view or weather, I’d be a happy man.

I didn’t do as much swimming as I would’ve liked, but I did stick to my goal of eating a new food every day. Ended the trip with some deliciously overpriced sushi. It was a $31 lunch that day for one person… I would rather not talk about how poor Hawaii has made me.

Went on the Lost/Movie tour which was one of my highlights. I got to visit the locations where they filmed a lot of Lost and a lot of horrible movies (which the exception of Jurassic Park). I hated that I went when the show was over, but visiting the beautiful locations was more than enough for me. Most all of the sets were taken down, of course, but a partial Jughead holder and a few docks still remained. I’m bummed that we didn’t get to go to the site of the plane crash but I think the five-hour tour was more than enough. I would’ve had to take the 8-10 hour tour if I wanted to see those locations.

Some pictures of the trip:

Currently listening to latest The Roots album, How I Got Over. Amazing. I’m really glad that Jimmy Fallon hasn’t leashed them. They still got it. Particularly, their song Walk Alone is flat out awesome. People who insult rap or hip-hop have never listened to these guys.

Transformers: War for Cybertron is equally amazing. Rather short, but maybe it’s just so good that I’m not realizing how often I’m playing it. I didn’t beat it yet so I’m jumping the ship a bit here, but I already beat the Decepticon levels, am half-way through the game, and I’ve only had it for two-three days with a couple hours each day. I guess that’s six hours though… In any case, well worth the $$. It certainly washes out the taste of the Michael Bay atrocities.