MOVING UPDATE: V.2

Well, it's now almost 2a.m. I was starting to feel better earlier after my post. But I quickly got that nasty feeling again.

As such I passed out for a time. I figured I could sleep a while and wake up early to get a fresh start on packing.

Believe me, it was not my intention to wake up at 2. That's tooooo early. I was really thinking more along the lines of "as the sun came up". Not this "as the vampires roamed" thing.

Anyway... thought I'd share... and I thought this might make me want to sleep some more.

I was right. G'night.

MOVING UPDATE

So my plan to pack today has not come to fruition yet. It's currently 9:15p.m. I spent the morning getting the car repaired. So no packing happened in the a.m. hours.

I got home around noon... and proceeded to feel like so much crap that by the time 7p.m. rolled around I'd already watched my breakfast revisit me, twice.

Of course... I have been feeling better since the second visit. So maybe, just maybe I'll get to packing tonight.

Here's hoping.

So I am trying to motivate myself to pack up my apartment for my impending move on Saturday.

I hate moving. HATE

But at least I'm only moving a little ways down the road. So it could be worse.

But regardless... the idea of having to go through my stuff and categorize and compress it all down to tiny boxes and then pull it all back out again... it just sucks.

Oh well.

The new apartment should be nice though. I walked into it a few weeks back, they were repainting the walls... their was paint all over the carpet, so I'm assuming they recarpeted it. The stove was pulled out of the kitchen, so we are probably getting a new stove. That would be nice.

I hope the dishwasher is new. Or at least better than the tired piece of crap we have now.

The apartment overlooks the complex's second pool and jacuzzi area. Which is right next to the laundromat and the mailboxes. Everything's just outside our door and down the stairs. So that's nice. The unit is also located next to many, many parking spaces, so I don't think we'll have the same parking problems that we've had in this unit. (I've recieved parking tickets twice this year.)

Anyway, some of my family and friends are coming out to help. I thank them all in advance!

I'll post again, after the move is complete.

Ciao!

Dave

WAY TO GO BUCANEERS!

Not that I'm a Tampa Bay fan... or a football fan...

No, I'm just a sports fan... and I really dislike the general bad attitude of the Raider Nation.

It's nice to see those loud-mouthed, riot inducing fools go home with their tails between their legs.

Especially after that absolutely embarrasing showing at today's Super Bowl!

I mean come on... at least when the Charger's lost bad we all expected it. But all week we heard how the Raiders were gonna win big. It was really nice to see them lose big!

Go home Raiders! Go home Raiders!

Ok... that's enough of that.

Boy it feels good.

What are you supposed to do when you've been single for so long, you've forgotten how to date? When you've been single for so long, you're too frightened to get into a relationship because you've become so accustomed to being alone?

That's where I find myself at this point in my life. I'll be 28 in May. For many this is still a very young and active age.

Sure, I'm busy. Active professionally. Constantly working on one project or another. But socially... well... I'm about as socially active as a carrot. Like a carrot, I'm often found in a bunch, but there's not a whole lot of real social interaction going on.

I've got a circle of friends. About 50/50 in terms of guys to girls. The group is kind of diverse and spread out. They all don't interact much in other words.

I like it that way. It helps to keep my occasional nights out different from one night to the next based on who I'm with.

Now, obviously I'm not going to date the guys I hang out with... and the girls I know aren't interested. (At least that's the vibe I get.)

My friend Sheryl mentioned she has a friend I might like. But I'm not sure how I feel about getting "set-up" on a date. Especially a blind-date. Blech!

But maybe I'm just being picky and should suck it up and give it a try.

Or maybe I shouldn't rock the boat. After all... I'm mostly happy with the way I am now... Mostly.

My poor little sister.

I called her at work today and they told me she was home sick.

"Aww," I thought, "that's so sad."

So I called her at home. No answer. So I call her cel phone.

A very hard to hear voice picks up and in a very hushed manner says, "Hello?"

"Teesa! Are you sick?" I ask.

Again the response is very difficult to hear as she strains out a feable, "I have laryngitis."

"Oh!" I say. "Well, I'll let you go then, since you can't talk."

My poor little sister. She was like a poor little girl again, unable to speak and miserable.

So after I finished up my duties for the day I bought her some food from Taco Bell and hurried over to her house where I spent the rest of the night getting her water and soda and keeping her company in her silence. We watched movies and American Idol together, as she rested and let her voice come back to her.

I hope my presence made her feel a little better. It simply breaks my heart when I know my sisters are ill.

Well, Chicago won a number of awards last night at the Golden Globes. What do you think? I'm betting the Movie Musical is now "back" and we are going to see a lot more of them popping up in the next few years. All thanks to the courage of Baz Luhrman and his masterpiece, "Moulin Rouge".

It was nice to see Nicole win the globe again this year as well, wasn't it?

Here's my suggestion for your listening pleasure.

Visit The Delgado Brothers website and check out when and where they are playing next, and then get your ass to the show!

The Brothers have just completed their third album, "A Brothers Dream" and it is amazing! For those of you who haven't heard them, there is no better investment you can make than to put a few bones into purchasing their last album, "Let's Get Back" from Amazon.com.

Currently, the new album is in limited release, available mainly at their live shows, but I'm sure it will be available in wide release in the coming month. And this album is definitely worth your hard earned spending cash!

Well, it's 3a.m. and I'm pooped. I just got back from watching The Delgado Brothers play up in Anaheim.

G'night!

So I'm wondering what to write for my next film.

I think it's important that my next movie be more of a drama... more along the lines of being character and story driven, rather than visually driven (as most of my stuff so far has been.) In this, I differ from Kevin Smith who seems to have started by directing actors and figuring out the rest of the directing stuff later. Those who've watched his career know what I'm talking about.

Yes, most of my critics have said that I don't direct the actors enough. Personally I think that is a bunch of hooey. Actors, I feel, should be given free reign to find the character. They shouldn't require me feeding them the how's and why's to every single line of dialogue in a script.

You see, I choose actors to play their parts because, I've either written the role for them or something about them sparked familiarity in me and I think they would be great in the role.

As such, I've already given my trust to the actor to be who I've asked them to play. That means I already see the character in them. Now, if an actor feels lost, they should definitely ask me for my opinions. But if the work is good, and I'm happy with it... well, what's to direct?

At least, that's where I'm coming from. Now a couple of actors I've worked with have said that I don't do enough of the hand holding, and that they felt lost during our shoots. I didn't see it. They didn't convey it to me. And I was happy with what they were delivering. But apparently they weren't.

So I'm going to try and direct actors in the next film. Now... if I can just come up with a story. Maybe there's something in my own life I can write about? Let's see....

So I sit and wait. I wait for sleep to take hold.

I know I need it. I know I want it.

And yet, for the third hour in a row, I can't seem to attain it.

Sleep for me is like hunting. I stalk my prey for hours on end, usually very quietly, and generally stalking under cover. In this case literally, under covers!

Now, generally speaking, I don't require more than a few hours of sleep a night. 3-4 usually will suffice. But I'm really drained right now. In the last few days I've driven to San Francisco and back, Fallbrook twice, Irvine and back once and tomorrow I'm driving to Glendora and back. I'm pooped!

I really need to sleep!

But alas, no sleep comes. I am left here, exhausted and my dreams of rest are just that, dreams.

I'm tired.

Dog tired.

Tired like a... never mind.

So as some of you know, I've been working on starting my new business with my friend Erik Bradshaw. Digital-Workshop is almost a reality... so much so that we already have clients and are already filling orders.

That's great, but also complicated. You see, we haven't even opened doors yet. We don't even have our hardware to do the jobs yet. So, to fill orders we are farming out the work to the vendor who is selling us all our hardware.

Now, we have this tremendous rush job for the Delgado Brothers. Close friends of ours. And a very important client in our eyes. They need copies of their new disk by tomorrow night so that they'll have them for the NAM show on Wednesday.

So after a weekend that had me driving to San Francisco and back in a day as well as driving out to Fallbrook twice, I found myself driving to Irvine today. And I will have to again tomorrow. You see, I played the role of FEDEX today. Since I'm faster than FEDEX.

I hope Joey likes the work he gets. I know I'm really working for him to get it.

And for those of you who've not heard the boys, make sure you check them out! Click Here to visit their website!

1/12/03

Ok, so I'm trying a new Blog page. This should work out nicely.

So I went to Macworld SF 2003 on Friday. What a blast that was! I actually got to get my grubby little hands onto the new Powerbook 17 and 12. Those machines are "dead sexy!"

Loads of convention fun was to be had, and I'm definitely going to Macworld NY 2003 in July.

Saturday was spent visiting "Grand Tradition". What an amazing place. Laura and Adam fell in love with it immediately. They've now booked the location for their wedding and set the date: May 14, 2004.

They are both so excited, it's really cute.

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