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Author: Teel
Author, artist, romantic, insomniac, exorcist, creative visionary, lover, and all-around-crazy-person.
What I shouldn’t be doing
Back home. Around 100 miles further from most of my friends, but 100 miles closer to the one I want most to say hello to. She’s still around 1600 miles away by car. I have not driven 1600 miles total in my life, but I seem to have driven her away faster than I could have ended up by her side. I want to try again, to start again after this false stop, not to start over, but not to stand still. I want to talk to her. Something’s gone wrong, my mind clouded with her, and through the fog of my own thoughts and emotions I can’t even see the face of the cliff I was sure I was falling from, or the point where I stepped off. “That’s What I Get” by Nine Inch Nails just started playing not-exactly-randomly on my computer and the lyrics hit home, and I almost started copying them into an email to Canada. Man. Where am I?
I probably shouldn’t even be saying this much. I probably shouldn’t upload that volley. None of this means as much as you think it means, if you think it means much. Ask.
My Big Fat Greek Disappointment
Several months too late I saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding and it was a big fat disappointment. There were some funny bits but mostly it was cheap ethnic humor, sort of like Jewish jokes told by Jews, ie it’s ok when people make fun of their own. The storyline was weak, and made quantum leaps from point to point without explaining why things happened. The characterizations were weak, with Greek caricatures being juxtaposed with WASP-ish “white” caricatures. Chicago becomes a small town with a community college, and a school teacher’s salary somehow becomes more than enough to afford some primo housing, the sudden, yet strangely unnoticed, transformation of the main character, all of these things just don’t add up. Maybe it’s bad editing, maybe it’s bad writing, but all in all I give it two stars – for effort.
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I don’t know if I have anything to say, but here I am again, posting. Still in Phoenix. I can’t get ahold of the person who commissioned that painting, so I don’t know that I’ll be able to deliver it while I’m here. I may need to just leave it here and work something else out later. I’d told the buyer I would deliver it in person, so I’d like to do that if possible. Anyway, I saw Final Flight of the Osiris last night, and it was excellent. They threw in some adaptation of a Stephen King novel too, and that was okay, but the Animatrix movie was amazing. I definitely recommend seeing it on the big screen if you can. Square has definitely upgraded their skin and clothing design since the Final Fantasy movie, and it makes things a bit more interesting.
Anyway, I’m going to try to see some more movies today. I don’t know how much I can afford to do, though. I took Heath to go see The Wall on the big screen last night. That was pretty cool. It makes more sense every time I watch it, too. Clearly, it’s about organic hammer farms and attack flowers. Yep.
All the reviews I’ve seen of Boat Trip seem to have given it about one star, implying that it couldn’t have been worse, so I want to go see it more, if just to be able to write an informed review praising it for original use of an academy-award-winning actor. Cuba said he did Snow Dogs for his kids. That was his excuse, that he was doing it for his kids. Boat Trip is NOT a kids’ movie. What’s his excuse this time? I don’t know. I thought I’d like it.
Actually, there’s a few people I can’t seem to get ahold of via phone this weekend that I’d like to. Since I spend most of my time 100 miles away, when I’m in town I like to try to see the people I’ve been missing. Oh well, I suppose I got to spend time with a couple of friends last night. That was fun. It did end up going pretty late though, due to a miscommunication. So I’m a little tired right now.
Dani doesn’t seem to hate me, so that’s good, and I’m working on a new (old) philosophy for handling the whole internal situation better so as not to cause the same problems again. Something about time. Something else about trust. Perhaps something about silence.
I’m going now. I’m distracted.
Out of town: Out of touch?
Well, I’m in Phoenix again. Strangely, I’m in Phoenix for the weekend. Got in last night and watched Willard (a visually stunning movie with powerful and visceral acting by the great Crispin Glover) with Angela. I’m here today, tomorrow, and will be leaving Sunday morning… sortof. Anyway, if you email me at teel@modernevil.com, I’ll get your email … on Sunday night, probably. I WILL be checking my hotmail account, though, so if you need to send me a message you could send it there. OR just call me. My phone works better than usual when I’m in Phoenix, since I’m actually on AT&T’s network instead of Verizon’s. If you need to contact me and have neither my hotmail address nor my phone number, try commenting here with a way for me to contact you back, OR kill yourself. Your choice.
Anyway, I’ve just updated my Virtual Webcam shot with a shot of my empty room… well, because I’m not there. So that’s probably what it looks like right now. (Maybe a smidge cleaner…) I’ve been working pretty furiously all week on a painting I’m selling to someone in Phoenix this weekend (I’d say who, but I don’t know if the buyer wants everyone to know they’re the buyer or not), and I may upload photos of it in process. Since I have ready access to a digital camera now, I’m thinking of photographing much of my work in stages… make a record of my process… and upload it in the Art section of Modern Evil. Regardless, images of this sold painting will appear there at some point. I just have to take the time to write the code and upload the images.
Ooh. Here’s a preview of that painting:
Just a little portion of the whole thing, of course.
Anway, I’m gonna go ignore the war for a little while longer. Maybe take a shower or something good like that. Then later, I’ll go watch the Animatrix short film … I hear they’ve attached some adaptation of a Stephen King novel to it, so you know … a little extra for my money. (Gha. The Matrix has me. I saw the original in theatres at least twice, I bought the DVD, I’m going to see each of the other two movies at least twice in the theatres, plus buy their DVDs, plus I’m going to buy Enter the Matrix (if I can get my hands on a copy) when it’s released on the same day as The Matrix Reloaded, and today I’m going to pay $6 to watch a 9-minute short from The Animatrix, which I will also be buying on DVD in June (or July, I don’t recall when it comes out). The Matrix has my wallet, anyway. For all I know, there’ll be another $50 game tied into The Matrix Revolutions. Gha. Still, I doubt I’ll feel I’ve wasted my money…)
Okay, really, I’m going now.