So how about a real post?

So I figured after a few posts of my artwork I'd write something. Life has been pretty swell, I really can't complain. I dont have anything planned monday-wednesday and thats a nice feeling and then thursday i leave for theatrefest, so really I am just plain old relaxing.

I am highly anticipating the winter retreat which should be a grand time. I suppose I haven't posted much due to there being nothing to post so I'm gonna go ahead and throw a few movie pitches at you.

Film 1: Under the Glass

Set in a northeastern suburb, our story takes place between two families as each member of the family learns to come to terms with the fact that life is made of a glass box that encompasses us and allows others to peer in at us. They must come to terms with the fact that sometimes these boxes shatter and all that is left is what was under the glass; all that is left is our pain, our hopes, our joy, our tears, lies, yelling, instability, death, and life. The film would act as an ensemble piece with the focus being on a boy from one of the families, he would act as the main sympathizer, the victim of everything.

Film 2: The Street Light

This film would be a coming of age tale, a story about 4 friends who spent their summers playing baseball under the street light. The story would be told only through their summers together, and would follow them through college. It would tell each boys story seperately following them through life as they meet girls, play baseball, stay up late, watch the stars, prepare for high school and then college, and then eventually get married. It would try to encompass the feeling of summer, where days stretch for eternity and the only memories are the smells of cut grass, chlorine in the swimming pool, and PB&J sandwiches for lunch.

Film 3: Color Me Bonnie

A modern day Bonnie and Clyde tale about two artists who meet in their senior year of college and begin a destructive relationship. The story would follow them as they meet and fall passionately in love and then the man introduces the woman to drugs and they begin dealing and using until a deal goes bad and they wind up as fugitives which leads to fatal end for the two lovers.

Film 4: The Hunter

This film would play out as neo-noir superhero tale about an underworld assassin who was sent to hunt a demon but fell in love, had a child and was recalled to the underworld only to be thrust back to the human world years later to hunt another demon. The Hunter was told his wife and child died, but he later finds out differently and is now conflicted because he has the chance to be with his wife and child, but if he kills the demon he will be sent back to the underworld, if he doesn't this demon could cause the end of the world including his wife and child. The demons are not the typical demons youd think, they come shown as gang members, business men, seductive women, and even mean children, it is the hunters job to navigate this dark world of otherworldly informants to find a demon he may not even want to kill. For those of you superhero nuts he does have abilities, he wields a sword that becomes strengthened by demonic blood and a cane with which he can summon creatures out of the shadows of our world to do his bidding, he can also become darkness, and becomes quite proficient with a gun.

New Project Progress Day 1

Sunrise on Flowers(finished)

progress is progressive

Guess What I Got

Though no one probably cares...I made out like a bandit this year.

well lets start with the extended family gifts:
1 Pin-stripe black and white button up
1 Pin-stripe black and white long sleeve shirt
1 Black sleeveless hoodie
1 Pair of jeans
1 Pair of brown courdoroy
1 Green flannel button up
1 yellow-ish t-shirt
all from H&M which i picked out
and a $25 gift card to H&M

and on to stockings:
1 hat from H&M
Giftcards to best buy, caribou, borders, H&M, EB Games, Jamba Juice, and Virgin Record Megastore
2 Pairs of PJ pants
1 pair of boxers
Watercolor paper
Watercolor pencils
Canvas
Acryllic paints
paint brushes
Turpenoid
Little Miss Sunshine DVD
The Breakfast Club DVD
3 ps2 games: Metal Gear Solid 2, 3, and Devil May Cry

and then under the tree:
another pair of PJ pants
a small video camera/digital camera/mp3 player
and a Nintendo DS

MUSICAL MANIA!

So being the theatre nerd that I am I'm getting all up in a tizzy for the musicals coming out, im glad to see the genre was revived by, dare i say it, moulin rouge. Let us take a retrospective look at movie musicals.

The year is 2001, the director is Baz Luhrmann, creator of the reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Strictly Ballroom. The film is Moulin Rouge. This is crazy, fun, fresh look at the movie musical through reviving popular songs and making them broadway-esque. Moulin Rouge was so successful that it garnered 8 academy award nominations including Best Picture. To understand why we celebrate Moulin Rouge as the revival of movie musicals we must look to the last few movie musicals. Before Moulin Rouge was Evita and Everyone Says I Love You in 1996, both were only mildly well received and neither garnered tremendous Oscar or critical attention, before them we have to look as far back as 80s movies such as Annie, A Chorus Line, Flashdance, and Footloose. While some of these movies were received warmly they were few and far between. Lets come back to Moulin Rouge. Suddenly people were realizing that there was a market for the movie musical, skip to 2002 and we see the release of Chicago. Chicago was nominated for a thrilling 13 oscars, winning 6 of them including Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Zeta-Jones' performance of Velma Kelly. 2003 was a little empty with only a TV remake of The Music Man to hold us over until 2004 with the releases of De-Lovely a quiet musical about Cole Porter, and the warmly welcomed envisioning of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Phantom of the Opera which was nominated for 3 oscars. The following year we got 4 musicals with only one of them receiving any kind of acclaim, the four were Southland Tales, a weird, ridiculous futuristic musical from Richard Kelly, the creator of Donnie Darko, Rent, The Producers, and Reefer Madness: The Musical which has earned a cult following. This brings us to this year where we saw the release of the runaway TV hit High School Musical(gag me), the hip-hop musical Idlewild, and what is being buzzed as this year best picture contender, Dreamgirls.

And now this all brings me to the thrilling announcements of the film versions of Sweeney Todd, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, and Hairspray(in musical form this time around) starring John Travolta, Amanda Bynes, and Christopher Walken. While it is a hit-or-miss genre it has been reawakened. Let us celebrate.




And now a plug: come see Grease at Bolingbrook High School this spring, dates and times coming soon!!!

MORE ART!

I know the eyes are messed up a bit, fixed em after taking the picture.
















The picture above is a visual to the following poem which i posted awhile ago:
The dreamers look to the sky
And gasp;
In the twilight that glazed their eyes,
They saw forever
And took a breath.
Where are we?
The stars cascade across a
Darkened canvas.
Watercolors spread themselves
In intricacy
As two in love lean in
To bind eternity in a glimpse.
We are infinite in design,
But destructive in our
Fragile falling shards
Of fantasy that
Break our hearts to bleed
Into each other.

Our Hearts Turn with the Seasons

Next week is Christmas.

Today I went to church for the first time in a good while and it felt like seeing my family for the first time in ages, it felt familiar and beautiful even if I can still find problems with my church I have lost the cynicism in my heart that kept me from embracing the good that is there.

Tonight we took communion and tonight I spoke to the Lord my Father truly and laid my burdens on him...my heart felt less heavy. I then understood later that the Lord lifted my burden so that I could take on a bit of someone else's, someone's burden I had known about but had not made my own until tonight.

I think I will make the most perfect mix CD ever.

EDIT:

my new mix CD is this:
Today I Became a Realist-Wax On Radio
You Will Disappear-New London Fire
Blackout- Muse
Little Walls-Monarch
Sympathy for the Martyr-Straylight Run
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd
Run-Snow Patrol
Staralfur-Sigur Ros
Hallelujah-Rufus Wainwright
The Quiet Screaming- The Legion of Doom
Dark Blue-Jack's Mannequin
How it Ends-DeVotchka
Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis-Brand New
Dawn Architechts-Wax On Radio
Somewhere in Between-New London Fire

Hold Your Grandmother's Bible to Your Breast

So, I forgot to mention that yesterday I got a christmas card....from Judson! I think it's so cool that they are totally into making people feel loved and cared for. I can't wait to be there.

In other news if you can guess what song my post title is from then...well... I guess you're pretty cool.

I really have nothing new to report...I'm just still excited about that christmas card...o, and the postcard from the girl who gave me a tour of campus, and a letter from the president, and constant interaction on aim with my admissions counselor....yeah stuff like that makes me excited about next year.

If the world were made of cotton candy.

Today I got the chance to sit down with Roberto, what a great opportunity this was. It was nice to see him and talk and just unload, it was nice to catch up. Most importantly it was just another nudge by God.

This week has already been full of "I've been an idiot lately" moments, and I'm coming to terms with this and so now it's time to turn back.

"You are not the only one who feels like the only one."

My Artwork

Dawn Approaches

Settle down young ones, it is time we look to the sky. A velvet structure of violet streches in an all encompassing fashion as we gaze into the Sun. It is the young who must rise and become the architects of dawn to construct a new life out of the darkness.

What becomes of our souls when they die to become new? Do they linger in our bodies causing the stench of rotting death to envelope our new souls? I often wonder when this heart of mine will be able to find solace from the destruction that my darkness brings upon it. Hope has been seen. I have seen light in a friendship that constantly heals me though the recovery is often within. I welcome this newness, this rising sun, this dawn. A great and perfect Light has embraced me, and now I must shed the frightening decay within me to rise into His favor. It is time to become young in the faith again, and allow the age of the world pass from me, this is our new beginning together, let us craft an invulnerable tower to break us from the earth.

"We look up, and were squinting at the sun, we lay back into the grass to feel relief."
-"Dawn Architects" by Wax on Radio