"Why am I in a basket and where are we going?"
Totally New Topic
Phil and I have decided that we are going to focus our attention on experience, confidence, resume and contact building short films until summer. We need to learn how to work together so that there aren't large quality shifts in the film as we get more comfortable with the process.
"We can crank out short films like trailer park baby machines if we try!"
I am terribly excited about the first one, which I have tentatively named Evening Tea. It will be no budget, and quite quick to produce. I should be able to edit it in under 3 hours, top to bottom. (That's not bad, really. 5-10 minutes an hour is pretty average for polish Avid.)
It's going to be interesting to sew together, because we are each writing one side of a "conversation," which will be 2 people talking more to themselves than each other, and partly for the sake of cathartic performance.
"Commiserate"
Sounds Italian, huh? Might be, fuck if I know. Looks pretty good. Kevin Smith admits that most of the "chapter names" in Clerks mean nothing except, "yeah... thesaurus!"
"Kapha, Pitta, Vata"
I know these mean something in Indian like Warming, Cooling and Calming or something, but I love Vata tea. I should go to an herb shop or natural foods store tomorrow while I'm in Cincinnati searching for a new enlarger bulb. I cannot bear the student darkroom another moment!
"With God as my witness..."
I shall never discuss religion at work again. Someone asked me, the Human Thesaurus what the difference between atheists and agnostics was. I put it very simply and said, "atheists don't believe in god, agnostics don't believe in religion." This could be wrong or oversimplified, but it sounded good at the time. The Catholic in the next cube wants to butt in, and asks me if I'm agnostic, and I shrugged, replying that I was a "spiritual buffet" person, sampling the best of each system. Then he wanted to discuss the relevance of the Bible. I told him I thought it was jam-packed with good ideas, but not to be taken too literally, considering that every dirty-fingered power-hungry king or Pope in the last 2,000 years has "revised" or "translated" it according their personal agendas.
"You think the Good Book is just... Literature?"
{incredulous inflection, shocked expression}
They always seem so astonished...