Beauty...

Drink up, baby doll,
Are you in or are you out?
Leave your things behind,
'Cause it's all going off without you..
Excuse me,
Too busy,
Writing your tragedy,
These mishaps, you bubble-wrap,
When you have no idea what you're like...

Ok, so I heard those last lyrics as

"When you know I do want your love..."

So, today. I spent the last...fourteen hours wandering Silver Spring, trying desperately to write this play. So far, no good.


I spent a little while discovering Safeway is useless as a drugstore, and that Quarry House isn't open in the afternoons. I spent a few more hours talking to Jerry at McGinty's, and then Mark...then back over to Quarry, after ditching the laptop and spending an hour in Borders buying the world's simplest notebook. Then back over to McGinty's for what started as a bust (no open mic!) but ended as a beautiful night spent with my best friend...time we don't often spend anymore.


Words written? Zero.


Time well spent towards project? All of it.


Things still left unsaid? One.


The ending will write itself.


So let go (let go),
Jump in,
Oh well, what you waiting for?
It's all right,
'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown...
-Frou Frou

Note to self: add 'black

Note to self: add 'black sheep' to netflix que.

Garden State

I love that moment when you remember that you're in control of the volume of your car stereo, and turn your music up loud enough so that you're actually listening to it, rather than simply hearing it in the background.

A few hours' worth of "House" episodes -- mingled with some fresh, home-made roommate-made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies -- later, I'm calling it a night.

Tomorrow, let's see if I can't actually start writing a play.

Fruit Loops, the Beer

This tastes like Fruit Loops.

Post-moblog edit: Sending these things from my cell phone, I don't feel like writing up full entries using ITap..so I'll edit them when I get home.

This is Leinenklugel's Sunset Wheat, from Wisconsin. "Doc," one of our regulars at Adega, always special orders this for his poker nights. We were discussing the beer today when he came into pick up his latest shipment, and when he discovered I hadn't had it, he popped open the case and left a bottle behind for me. It's customers like him that make working where I do worth waking up for in the mornings.

The beer wasn't bad, either. Fruit loopy! I want to acquire some, and use it with actual Fruit Loops, just to check it out. Also, I must give credit to Megan, a co-worker of mine, for naming the taste for me. The Fruit Loop correlation is entirely hers. I just happen to agree with it. She is also the person responsible for removing most of the label.

Fishy.

http://thankgodforevolution.com/

I'm adding this book to the list of things to read in the scope of my project..not that I'm not already an evolutionist...is that a word?...but rather to see the spin that he puts on it.

This is interesting. Of special note is that I've found my idea of having the Darwin fish and the Icthus kissing on the back of my car has already been done. Ah well, there went that million.

In other news, is anyone actually reading this?

Monday

So, the last few hours.

Last night, I spent catching up with Clint, an old friend from CUA who's now playing in a band called The Miles.

I suggest you check them out. Now.

Also, happy birthday, Kelsey! I hope it was wonderful.

Today was twelve hours of work, followed by DoaM, where I was lucky enough to meet up and get to catch up with Mr. Andrew Sonntag, whom I will now be referring to as "Helen Hayes Nominated Actor, Andrew Sonntag." Probably much to his eternal embarrassment.

Well, that's what you get for going out and being awesome.

I apologize, Tom, if I woke you up. I figured the news was worth it.

I spent the last half-hour in my running car, outside of my house, listening to Iron & Wine's cover of "Such Great Heights" and Frou Frou's "Let Go" on loop.

G'night.

Note to Self

Someone remind me to check out the Arctic Mmonkeys. 'Flourescent Adolescent' is the song title.

I....uh.

Found attached to out metro car. Anyone have any ideas?

Day 2

Holy crap, so far I'm posting on this TWO DAYS IN A ROW.

A new record for me + blogs.

Not much of importance today. Work. Not really any time for projecttime.

Had a discussion regarding methods of forcing one's self to write when one doesn't particularly feel like it. She suggested determination and willpower. I think I'm sticking with beer.

Schedule looks like Tuesday and Thursday might be set aside for things of a writing nature. At least one of them. I need to get something down on paper, or I'll lose my mind.

I also need to write up my project objectives..probably sooner than later. Don't let me forget, ok?

Day 1

Today, I woke up; I spent a few hours writing and busying myself with theatre. I went to see "Be Kind, Rewind" -- which is much better than it should be. I went to La Tasca, then RFD.
I came home.

For today, if only for today, life was nearly perfect.

Saku Very Much

Estonian helles lager. It is not good.

Urgh.

Also, Jimmy Eat World, "The World You Love" : Possible opening song for the show.

I promise I won't post eight times a day about music.

Addendum

Already found one I'd forgotten.

Added to playlist: Death Cab for Cutie, The New Year : It's being used in the show.

The Soundtrack

I'm addicted to music, I admit it, and no, I don't want help.

Every time I write, I tend to center on one or two songs to provide a background for my writing. They serve to put me into a similar state of mind when I write, keeping me focused; as well as provide an atmosphere of creativity that is, yet, familiar, and doesn't distract the mind. It's a very similar concept to drinking a beer slowly while writing; never enough to destroy the capacity for artistic expression, but just enough to enable it truly.

So, as we begin, here's the playlist I'm using..it's bigger than the usual one or two songs, because the scope of this play is so much bigger. Also, since the play as I envision it now will have an embedded soundtrack, this will help me write to the music that I will eventually perform along side of, as well as 'audition' tracks for inclusion.

As with any music lover, suggestions are always welcome. This list is subject to change, perhaps often.

Yellowcard, "Only One," and "One Year, Six Months" : Songs selected to provide a certain slide on which I can move freely between now and the past, where this project really begins.

dc Talk, "What If I Stumble?", "Free at Last" and "Jesus Freak" : I figure it's good to have at least two songs with Jesus as the subject....Stumble is selected to remind of the grace I'm trying to write, and Freak is up there as a possible closer to the show. Free is in as a possible inclusion in the show, as well as a backdrop to the MLK scene. "Consume Me" may eventually end up on the list as well, because it'd be a nice bridge between the first and third layer. In fact, it is, as of now.

See? List already changing.

Boyz II Men, "End of the Road" and "Still of the Night" : Overall, great songs to write a love story to. The fact that they serve a double meaning here is just a benefit.

Gary Jules, "Mad World (Alt Remix)" : I've been using this as a backdrop for plays since the disastrous "Boxcar" fiasco for playwriting class senior year of college. Only foreseeable downside: Can't listen to without seeing the Kaiser in my head. No, not that Kaiser.

O.A.R., "Love and Memories" : A holdover from writing "Luther, Reformed." Also mentioned in the play (at least, I think it will be), so maybe then used in the soundtrack.

NP: Consume Me, to celebrate it's addition to the list.

Peace!

We begin!

Project started as of 1pm this afternoon, officially, although the giant box of scraps of ideas has been building for two months or so by now.

I have no idea where to go from here.

Film at eleven.