May Musings
Published Tuesday, May 06, 2008 by Jonathan | E-mail this post
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1. Iron Man. Ever since I heard Robert Downey Jr. was playing Tony Stark, I was on board. With great reviews (it's at an unbelievable 95% on Rotten Tomatoes) and the 10th best US opening weekend ever ($100 million domestic, $200 worldwide), I'm nothing but happy for both RDJ and Jon Favreau, both whom I've been a longtime fan. If you haven't yet, go see this. It's just two hours of pure fun and it may help you understand my man-crush on RDJ, perhaps the coolest man in Hollywood (check out this long interview with him at GQ.
2. Spoon's latest single "Don't You Evah" debuted at number one on the Billboard Singles Sales. Cool.
3. I found out Chris Cornell is touring this summer and he is coming to both Pittsburgh and Cleveland... but he's doing it with something called Projekt Revolution. It's raising money for some good cause, I guess, but that means he is sharing stage time with Linkin Park, The Bravery, and Ashes Divide. And Linkin Park is headlining, not Chris Cornell. LAME. NOT GOING. SORRY.
4. Not too much longer for Indiana Jones. Huh.
5. In a year and a small handful of months, I will be in charge of a high school classroom. This is both awesome, because I will be in the real world, and disheartening, because I will be in the real world.
6. Bills are a frustrating reality that I learn more and more about each month.
7. I've written 26-pages of the script for No Passing Zone so far (shooting for 45-pages), the movie we're going to make this summer with some loaned, very expensive HD cameras, our finely matured minds, and a copy of Adobe Premiere. Whereas I often look back at what I write and dislike or even hate it after reflection, I'm really, genuinely happy with what I've written so far. I think this is going to turn out well.
8. I've decided I'm going to have a novel published by the time I am twenty-five and that this is a realistic goal.
9. I cannot, for the life of me, get this catchy song out of my head.
10. I am out of control.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
-The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
If you're going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill
2. Spoon's latest single "Don't You Evah" debuted at number one on the Billboard Singles Sales. Cool.
3. I found out Chris Cornell is touring this summer and he is coming to both Pittsburgh and Cleveland... but he's doing it with something called Projekt Revolution. It's raising money for some good cause, I guess, but that means he is sharing stage time with Linkin Park, The Bravery, and Ashes Divide. And Linkin Park is headlining, not Chris Cornell. LAME. NOT GOING. SORRY.
4. Not too much longer for Indiana Jones. Huh.
5. In a year and a small handful of months, I will be in charge of a high school classroom. This is both awesome, because I will be in the real world, and disheartening, because I will be in the real world.
6. Bills are a frustrating reality that I learn more and more about each month.
7. I've written 26-pages of the script for No Passing Zone so far (shooting for 45-pages), the movie we're going to make this summer with some loaned, very expensive HD cameras, our finely matured minds, and a copy of Adobe Premiere. Whereas I often look back at what I write and dislike or even hate it after reflection, I'm really, genuinely happy with what I've written so far. I think this is going to turn out well.
8. I've decided I'm going to have a novel published by the time I am twenty-five and that this is a realistic goal.
9. I cannot, for the life of me, get this catchy song out of my head.
10. I am out of control.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
-The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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I love you -- and no, it's not unrealistic to think you can have a novel written by 25...nor is it unrealistic to say that I wrote a novel in 3rd grade called "Barry Bond's homerun"
Apparently it caught on (I just left out the steroids part), it was illustrated too. I wonder if I could find that again...
I'm gonna see if I can hit up New Haven this week, I'll let you know if I have any success.
I think Matt would like your novel if it was titled "Who Put the Teacher's Toupe in the Fishtank?" or something similar to that.
How did you manage to get HD cameras?
Ahh, the perks of having a friend in the Marines who uses that sort of equipment (and who is co-directing/writing the movie). Now the only problem is getting a large enough hard drive to store all that HD goodness.
Also, jonny b, I totally have to read "Barry Bond's homerun" someday. For inspiration, perhaps. And have fun in Connecticut, dude. Hope you make it to New Haven, you've heard me gush over it enough!