Overworked.

A friend of mine at SMU just sent me this in an email:

Overworked

Not worth posting on the LJ.

Singapore.

Friend me if you want more posts. I think I might send the link to the fam as well.

Oh, and update: I saw 2046 in L.A. Suckas!

And there you have it.

I left Pittsburgh and it was weird. I realize I am coming back soon compared to some (Atom, for example). But it is still weird to think that I won't be there for a fall semester at CMU. I was driving home from a delicious home-cooked Indian dinner and thinking about how worried I was that I wouldn't make friends at school. It seems silly now, but at the time it didn't. I only had a handful of good friends in high school and really I didn't have any really good friends (i.e. people I could talk to about anything sort of deal) until my junior year. And now, I almost didn't go to Singapore because I didn't want to have to leave this place and these people for a whole 4 months. For 1/8 of my college career.

But I am very glad I am going. In the shower yesterday, I thought, "Man I really just need to get away from the world for a while. Maybe go live with monks for a week or something." Then I thought, "I could just go to another country that is far away and will give me a lot to concentrate on without worrying about the rest of my life back home. Like Singapore!" Everyone that has been there tells me I will enjoy it.

Wow, this post has quickly deteriorated into stories about thoughts of mine. Ok, let's move to bullets:

• Pgh was, and always seems to be, amazing. Thanks again Scoot, Katie, Tarnizzle, Julie, Zach for providing food, shelter, or lending me things. And thanks everyone I saw for seeing me!


• Between Dan Tasse's halfway to Singapore CD and Zach's "open for the taking" iTunes, I now have 346 new songs.


• I am so freaking excited to spend 3 days in L.A. with the two best ladies who have never been to CMU.


• Yesterday my mom and I dropped her car off at the dealer and I was leaving and there was a line of perfectly shiny SUVs right in front of my 4-ton death machine of a car. Oh, the wandering mind.


• I just made a birthday card. It took me a number of hours and 3 photoshop files.


• Nina, without realizing it, pointed out that yesterday was an anniversary of mine. I guess my uncle was only half right.

I made up a thing!

I think this is silly. My iTunes tells me I have:

1. cake - 4.2 hours
2. ben folds - 3.6 hours
3. sufjan - 3.4 hours
4. beatles - 3.3 hours
5. jon stewart - 3 hours
6. ted leo - 2.8 hours

i only included 6 because i really don't count America the Book -- The Audiobook.

Moral: i need to get more beatles.

2046.

It looks like this may be a summer of crazy futuristic foreign movies for me.

2046

This comes out tomorrow. Maybe I can see it in Pittsburgh?

Dear M. Truffaut

You never cease to amaze me. I have now seen two of your films, and I consider them both in at least my top 50 films of all time, maybe even top 25. To think that at 25, your first feature would win Best Director at Cannes, receive an Oscar nomination for writing, and be renowned as one of the cornerstones of the French New Wave. I only have 7 years left before I reach that age, and I see no such critical success in my future. Your portrayal of adolescence through the careful observation of youth is amazingly accurate. It made me desire the carefree life of mischief that I now assume all young French boys had.

I won't even begin to touch upon my introduction to your work, Day for Night, your largest critical success by far and a film near and dear to my heart as someone who has worked on a production (albeit theatre instead of film). Your talent inspires awe.

I have recently learned we existed on this Earth together for 7 months, which cast doubt upon my hopeful theory that perhaps you had been reincorporated as me. I hope your enjoying yourself where ever you are, and stealing all the typewriters you desire.

Sincerely,
Brian Gray

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

The next time I hear someone tell a dead baby joke, I am going to remind them of this article and ask them kindly to stop. This is horrifying. I can't believe this actually happens in the world and in the ways it seems to be happening. I don't know why I am even posting this. I just can't believe it's true. Don't read if you are weak of stomach. Especially the last part.

oh my god