So here I sit at 4:00 in the morning, at one of those times where you feel like you want to sleep but can’t get to sleep. At the moment, I’m watching “Aliens” on Encore Action. I had forgotten what made this film so good, but then again, I liked the original Ridley Scott film just as much as James Cameron’s. Speaking of Cameron, I still don’t have an urge to watch the (in my opinion) most watered down film of all time, “The Great Sinking CGI Ship of 1997”, at least that’s my title for it.

I often wonder what life after college will be like. Of course, the obvious question is what kind of job will I have. I initally thought a PA job at a local station would be the way I would start out. But, there are a couple of other possibilities to consider. One is to see if I can get on at Charter, where I have been helping out with football and basketball games. Another is radio. One of my teachers has said that I need to update my demo tape and get my resume together for just such a thing. After all this time, I feel I am finally comfortable with considering myself a viable radio personality in the making. We shall see how this turns out as we progress farther towards December. Let me just say this: I hope to have a job lined out as soon as I graduate, I don’t have time wait around nor do I want to wait around to get life started.

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BTW, Klauss, you summarized the $2 million idiot from Price the other day with sheer perfection. In case anyone doesn’t know what I’m talking about, just take a look at this and prepare to laugh out loud.

TTFN.

OK, so California’s supreme court has thrown out Prop. 22… a great happening indeed for gay marriage. But, those damn conservatives are trying to get a referendum on the ballot to define marriage just like the hated Prop. 1 in Tennessee back in 2006… to define marriage as one man and one woman. I hate this goddamn limited thinking moronic society that we live in. It’s pure discrimination. You know that proposition will pass, the church always manages to get the vote out when they need it.

Why is it that the only state that allows marriages is one of the most expensive to live in, at least I think it is.

Maybe Greg and I should just move to Canada.

Sigh.

You know, I have been kind of tolerant of my college and the inept way they do things… but this latest escapade by the powers that be, mainly the administration and/or the Student Government Association just makes you want to disassociate yourself with this college.

Read this story and prepare to just laugh out loud…

My thoughts?

How dumb can dumb get! That’s about the only way I can sum it all up.

I’d love to hear your thoughts…

I tell you, the last weeks of a jam packed semester can be grueling. But, now that I’ve had time to recover and reflect, here’s how everything went…

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There were three additional days of shooting on “The Door”, which wrapped filming on March 21st. Postproduction was done over the course of three Saturdays. You may ask why I chose Saturday to work? Easy… because I usually have nothing to do on Saturday. 😛 Editing the film was one of the greatest joys of my life. To finally see something that you labored to shoot come together piece by piece, I know now why I love the postproduction process so much. For the score, I decided against using existing recordings and writing my own score… using a Yamaha YPT-210 keyboard purchased from Best Buy. The actual instrument used was just a warm pad synth, and it just fit the film like a glove. I thought I loved my film without music, but let me tell you, when you add music to picture and watch it unfold for the first time… wow. That’s the best I can describe it. Wow.

The film was shown on April 8th in class. Tom Headley, the associate professor and the head of the broadcasting department had the following to say…

“In almost 40 years, I would put this film in the top 5% of all the films I’ve seen.”

Again… wow. And this coming from the harshest critic of anyone’s work on the whole ETSU campus.

If you would like to view the film, you can via a crappy upload here at Vimeo… I’m going to try to get an HD version up there later this week. I’d appreciate if you guys didn’t spread the film around too much, I might enter it in some competitions later on, mmkay?

Fast forward to April 25th… the Department of Communication awards banquet. Greg and I have been nominated for the Murvin H. Perry Creative Achievement Award for “Clue Me In”. Along the way during the ceremony, I am announced as the winner of the first ever Spirit Award, awarded to someone who always helps others, loves what they do, and exhibits the true spirit of a broadcaster. The perk for this, $100 towards my tuition in the fall. Cha-ching! And the deal was sweetened later when we find out that we won the Creative Achievement award. This award we beat out students not only in broadcasting, but in advertising, PR, speech and journalism for. Wow again. I was fighting back tears when going up to get the award. I never knew I could be so affected by winning awards. If I had to give a speech, I might have been the proverbial Halle Berry at the Oscars. Imagine that…

I passed all my classes, I’m glad I never have to speak a word of French again in a classroom setting… now we can look forward to a summer filled with trying to get past the last two nemeses of my college career, Prob. and Stats (which I failed last summer) and History 2010 (everything through 1877.)

Also, after we got back from vacation, Greg and I discovered that we were in a bit of a fiscal crisis, so to speak. But, we’ve plugged along and I think we’ll be OK until June 2nd, when I get a balance of aid check back.

Well, that’s about all for now, I’ll go dust the cobwebs off of this blog… I’ll have some stuff to pass along later…

First day of shooting in the books, and it went very well. Just mainly a sequence of two, just one line of dialog in the sequence for the closing of the film. Day Two, Sunday, is the challenging day. Long dialog sequences means that the shoot will take time to get through… but that’s the fun of it all, and I’m looking forward to it.