Home For The Holidays

I'm very fortunate to be home so soon. Some kids are gonna be on their way home by plane or whatever in the middle of the night before Thanksgiving. Sucks.

Leg Death

My leg died the other day. I was sitting on the ground playing Borderlands when I suddenly had the urge to check my Email. As I started to stand up, I realized that my leg was dead. It wouldn't move and it was anchoring down my body like concrete block. As I swung it around against the ground in an effort to wake it and get up, it started to throb with terrible pain. Every movement I made meant more pins and needles, but every second I didn't move, my leg became more asleep. I fought the pain for almost twenty minutes, dragging myself along the floor, pulling myself up onto my bed and usually falling back down. It was like giving birth, but through my leg. And then it finally started to come around and I was able to get up. I was all alone for this time, crying and laughing and yelling at myself. It was the most shameful moment of my life. The End.

Clam Chowder

Just cooked soup in my dorm for the first time. Didn't go so well. It was a Campbell's Chunky Clam Chowder in one of those ready-to-nuke plastic things and it has one of those metal pop-n-peel lids (like on the top of a soda can or a normal soup can) and when I peeled it off it splattered clam chowder ever where. Terrible. Luckily Yoseph was not in the room so I cleaned up the evidence only to confess to it here on this blog. Anyways I put it in for the minute it tells me too (which is normally four in the original cans -- so I'm a little concerned). And what-do-you-know, nothing, it comes out nice and hot and I enjoyed my first dorm room soup. It was good and I almost spilled it again cause the stupid container squeezes.

That's pretty much it. Back to Borderlands.

Left Gay Tony In The Borderlands 4 Dead 2

Okay so me and Yoseph were up till about three thirty (five and a half hours ago) playing Borderlands, the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, and The Ballad of Gay Tony. All of them are great.

Borderlands is my new addiction and I'm concerned about Gay Tony, cause it may interfere since it's really good as well. L4D2 is just gonna be great. The demo was very limited in all aspects, not just time, but it will be out soon and Yoseph's got ten bucks down on it. Can't wait.

Everyone was playing Call of Duty downstairs in the basement last in night in prep for the next one. Since I don't have live anymore at the moment, I'm not gonna try to get it. Also my funds are very limited. It would make a good Christmas present however.

Tangerine On iTunes

Project 3.1's Tangerine has finally hit iTunes. Click here to find it.

Helpless Squirrel Surrounded By A Dozen Dick-Heads With Camera Phones

I'm walking with Sam through Temple Campus today (on our way to the "Ten O'Clock" shoot -- last day!!!) when we stumble upon a large group of people all smoking and holding their arms out in full extension with camera phones snapping pictures and recording a hawk cradling a poor, innocent squirrel on the sidewalk. The hawk was repeatedly biting at the squirrel, who was now long gone, and looking up at its spectators.

If I was there minutes earlier, I would have saved that squirrel. And all those stupid fuckers on the sidewalk... they've got the nerve. They should have jumped in there and saved him themselves. That's all.

Ten O'Clock

Working on our (Nick Kohut, Samantha Park, Andrew Clark, & Yoseph Abdelsalam) entry for the Five Day Film Festival. Last day of shooting is tomorrow, so hopefully we can wrap this thing up. The first two days I learned that even at one of the top ten film schools in the country, you're still not allowed to film inside most of the buildings. I haven't asked yet, but I'm wondering where, if anywhere, I can shoot outside on campus. Big pain. But we got a permit and were able to film a good 3 minutes of the required 4 to 6. Now we just have one more scene and some simple shots in between.

Ten O'Clock will be re-edited after the festival for YouTube. FiveDayFilm usually posts all entries anyway, but we like to expand our entry later to relieve any "rushed" feelings.