April 2008
68 posts
“what i need is to be needed. what i need is to be indispensable to somebody. who...”
– chuck palahniuk “choke”
March 2008
69 posts
the science of numbers...
2,079 (times i’ve played snood since i downloaded it in college)
1,035 (days since i last set foot in paris)
230 (movies in my netflix queue)
215 (play count for fiona apple’s “criminal” in my itunes)
43 (people i follow on tumblr)
23 (years old)
20 (days until i move to la)
16 (notebooks scattered around my desk)
10 (screenplays i’ve written)
1 (live concert...
“if you have the guts to be yourself…other people’ll pay your price.”
– john updike “run rabbit run”
“how vain it is to sit down to write when you haven’t stood up to live.”
– henry david thoreau
“begin doing what you want to do now. we are not living in eternity. we have only...”
– sir francis bacon
starts with m, ends with oving...
found a cute little studio in hollywood. mid-april move in date. 1950’s building. bookshelves built into the walls and such. old in the good way. i’m excited…but oddly unsettled. this will be my first time living alone…
pearls before breakfast →
great article about a world class violenist (his violen is from the 17th century and cost 3.5 million dollars!?! he gets upwards of $1000 per minute of playing!!!) playing in the dc metro to no fanfare. really makes you think. love the idea of “art without a frame.”
found via bunnynico
this dude writes the best battlestar & gossip girl... →
you can find links to them in his sidebar. the stuff is genius. the fact that he can be so on point about battlestar & gossip girl equally, is enough proof of his superior knowlege. and i’m usually not a television recap type of gal at all…..
“they cannot scare me with their empty spaces, between stars — on stars...”
– robert frost “desert places”
a lie told often enough...
a long time ago, an exec at one of the production companies i interned for, asked me what my script was about. i said desert heat, fast cars, and broken girls. he asked me if it was based on my life. a true story. i told him no. he told me it would be better if it was…
flash forward to now, when someone asks me if i ever lived in a rundown-middle-of-nowhere desert town in new mexico,...
where's the benadryl...
so, as evidence of my now swollen lips, i’m allergic to to bananas. i had the same allergic reaction a couple of weeks ago, and thought nothing of my random decision to have a banana for breakfast, and didn’t make the connection. i don’t usually eat bananas and i’ve always hated banana flavored anything…even more than black licorice, which is like, the worse flavored...
“it is frequently at the edges of things that we learn most about the middle: ice...”
– walter murch
how angry...
…and/or depressed do i get to be if my plans to move to lalaland fall through again this month? first it was december, then january, then feburary, then march…is it now going to be april, then may, then god knows when? i’ll be moving back to nyc before i find an apartment in la. blah.
charlotte gainsbourg “jamais”
...
“the worst part about writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a...”
– chuck palahniuk “stranger than fiction”
a twilight moment →
i have a guest blog over at methods of mediocrity. it’s part of the “kiss” series.
to everyone reading this on your dashboard.
hydeordie:
is an interesting thing…i unfollowed someone, then felt bad and re-followed. i probably have weird issues w/ guilt.
a couple people have unfollowed me, and i would blame it on my lackluster site (i really need to do something about that) but i realize they are probably only reading it on their dashboard.
you know what would be great right now? mint chocolate chip ice cream!
...
“these violent delights have violent ends.”
– shakespeare
i did it...
58 pages. 1st draft of a friday night lights spec written in 6 days. nothing like setting up goals and knocking them down….and yes i say that with no sense of sarcasm. go me.
“the girl is infectious human waste, and she’s afraid to commit to the...”
– chuck palahniuk “fight club”
retail therapy...
me : : i'm over the mid 20's
me : : everyone's in crisis
mj : : are you too?
mj : : in crisis i mean
me : : have you not been listening to me at all in our convos!?!
me : : haha...yes!
mj : : but misha
mj : : you are always in a crisis
mj : : so i never know when its a crisis crisis
mj : : or you just need to buy something pretty
“only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– t.s. elliot
give or take 40 pages...
…i might actually finish this friday night lights spec in six days at this rate. it’s probably all crap, but still….
things i learned in girl scouts...{part two}
{part one}
this song:
“grandma’s in the cellar,
oh boy, can’t you smell her,
cooking biscuits on that burnt and dirty stove,
in her eye there is some matter,
that keeps dripping in the batter,
and she whistles while the *sniff* runs down her nose”
genius. especially to a 10 year old. that is all.
“what was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer or key? it was just...”
– janet finch “white oleander”
how it usually happens...
i was supposed to write 10 pages last night and ended up with 1 1/2. le sigh…
dothetest →
crazy. that might have just blown my mind.