we. real. cool.

to my brother



We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

i was supposed to start homework two hours ago?!

what a cutie

i'm very happy that it's already mid-semester. seven more weeks to go!

i feel like there are a lot of things i want to do right now:

i want to meet the new french exchange student from ENSBA as well as this semester's french tutor, so that i may try to speak and keep up.

the film dept sent out an email saying that columbia has a few pairs of tickets for thursday night's opening gala for the CIFF! it's for the brothers bloom and rachel weisz and the director will be there! tickets just to see the film are $35 each! it's first come, first serve at the receptionist desk at some film building on adams. it just so happens that it starts at 2pm tomorrow, right when i get off work. i hope i get them!

today i finally see that some leaves have fallen over our sidewalk. i want to shoot some photos in evanston when the trees are red, orange, and yellow cause it's really beautiful. almost there.

i also would like to sleep more. five-six hours a night is not cuttin it for me, who likes to sleep-a-lot.

chicago int'l film fest!

iiiiii have to wake up in six hours, but that's ok. i just shot my first film for production 2. ummmmm it was alright, i know i didn't put in all my efforts, but i'm hopin it comes out alright and that my final will be slammin.

so, i just wrote this to my friend vicky, and i decided to blog it too. here is a list of films that i circled from the CIFF schedule, signifying that i really want to see them.

Everlasting Moments
(sounds like a cool story involving photography!)

Happy-Go-Lucky
(sounds cute) (although barbara says it will definitely be available after the fest/released on dvd)

Must Read After My Death
(sounds very interesting!)

Of Parents and Children
(only cus it's based in prague! and i want to go there; and i hear it's very very beautiful)

The Pleasure of Being Robbed
(sounds interesting; was at cannes)

Shorts 1: Illinoisemakers
( a columbia student's production 1 film, eyelids, is in there! *_* )

Slumdog Millionaire
(sounds like an interesting story with lots of twists, plots)

Tokyo!
(cus michel gondry is one of the 3 directors!! although this should be released after the fest as well)

Waltz in Starlight
(another film about photography)

The Wave
(sounds like a nice, cute story)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
(really wanna see this but it's a gala film so the price is bumped up to $16 -_- )


i hope i get to see a good number of them!

so,

i've four names and that's a $600 problem to fix.

another note:

i dunno how i feel about having an audience now, though.
because of it, i change around things i may have otherwise said differently, and in this vast world wide web, it's strange to let strangers see pics i may post. but alas, i'll figure that some things will make it to the private blog while more general things can go here! ahhh success.

startin over so fresh fresh

I'm not sure how well I'll do managing two blogs, but I feel it necessary because I want to keep writing, building from my days in high school language and literature classes. And so here I am.

Sometimes I feel that I'm slowly growing stupid at Columbia.
Not to knock it or say that I hate it, but just to say that I came from a very diligent school ethic in high school. I did lots of intense, difficult assignments daily, and turned in everything required with my best efforts. And now I've become lethargic; I am extremely lazy when it comes to doing homework. I've become accustomed to having little or no homework half of the time, so when I do have some, I put it off until I really need to get down to it. I'll push assignments to the side for a good while, but in the back of my mind, I have a sharp awareness of how urgently I need to attend to things and so I am able to get an idea of how much time an assignment will take me. I've been working like this since I've started college two years ago and it has not necessarily had bad effects - I've still excelled every semester. It doesn't always work, though - this I know. Ask me how it was to try and complete a ten-page final screenplay in the computer lab at 12:40pm when the class started at 12:30.
In the end, most of the time, I somehow pull it off. And it might not be fair, but I do. I've lamented about this before: moving through school like this. Lucky mf, yes, and as we all know, change is hard.

That's all I've got.