the music sings to me.
Today I’m meandering a bit. I had bizarre dreams last night involving people I haven’t talked to in AGES, including my sister. I had bizarre dreams last night, too…I woke up SWEARING that I dreamed my way through an entire horror movie I had already seen, but when I tried to find it online I found that I may have dreamed up an entire horror movie all on my own.
I’m not even a horror movie FAN. Except this one had a reason. I hate gory movies that are gory for the sake of blood and guts. But I enjoyed the hell out of movies like Silent Hill – where there was kind of a reason it happened, and the resolution was unexpected. I also enjoyed The Exorcism of Emily Rose for the same reason. This one, though, I had to write down because maybe I’ll base a script on it at some point in time.
Today I’m hoping to go to Dublin, but the odds are rather low. If not, I think my co-writer and I are 98% done with the screenplay and we’re hoping that tomorrow night it’ll be done. If I don’t get called for a craptastic domestic trip.
I’m currently addicted to certain songs, and reliving some good moments I had when I first started listening to them. “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” by Jack Johnson was a good one – it reminded me of going to my first climbing convention in May of 2005. Driving four and a half hours from Charlotte, NC to New River Gorge in West Virginia was awesome, and I listened to Jack almost the entire way. Beautiful driving, and I missed it intensely this morning.
I’m also madly in love with Kings of Leon “Sex on Fire”. There’s just…something…about that song that makes me need to dance “like an epileptic at a strobe light convention”. I love it. I’m planning to go on another road trip to a climbing convention again this may, so that’ll be on my cd playlist. Any one have any good road trip music suggestions? Post it below, yo.
Filed under daily | Comments OffThings I need to do
- Finish editing screenplay. Deadline: 2 weeks.
- Write tv pilot script as requested. Deadline: 2 months (probably less).
- MASSIVELY edit my first screenplay. Deadline: 6 months.
- Join a gym or yoga studio. Deadline: as soon as it warms up enough to get motivated to GET there.
- Get over my anxiety. Deadline: Immediately, if not fucking sooner. I’m tired of this shit already.
I am doing pretty well. I’ve spent a lot of time working on this project which is going extremely well. I’ve accomplished some goals and I’m setting new ones for myself. I’m proud of how hard I’ve worked.
Physically: I’m tired most of the time, but it’s because I can’t seem to turn off my mind to sleep as much as I ought to. Tylenol PM is great, but I shouldn’t have to rely on it so much.
Mentally: Exhausted. I’m using my brain so much these days, which is awesome, because I have a totally mindless job MOST of the time. I’m also distracting myself as often as possible with episodes of 30 Rock and The Office on Netflix Instant.
Emotionally: Rollercoastering. I’m back on birth control. Yaz is SUPPOSED to help with the physical and emotional issues surrounding the menstrual cycle. But being on it for a week and a half has had me – in turns – anxious, tearful, stressed out, sad, happy and many things in between. Which, when I was on another kind of birth control a few years ago, was normal. But really, I’ve been pretty good without it for years. I don’t enjoy the prospect of possibility of pregnancy, but I think you have to have sex for that. So, I’m going to give it a few months on this pill and may quit it altogether and just deal with the massive-super-killer cramps and issues.
Other than that, things are going pretty well. I’ll be back in touch with friends soon – I’m sorry I’ve been ignoring everyone. I miss ya’ll.
Filed under daily | Comments OffBBC Book meme
BBC Book meme: mark which of these 100 books you’ve read. BBC expects only 6 from most people… (the list is kinda bs, but hey.)
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘X’ after those you have read.
2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
5) Tag the friends you want to fill this out (including the person who tagged you.)
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1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger *
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald X+
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (does it count if I skipped the war parts?)
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams X+
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame X
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis X
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan *
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert *
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley X +
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon X+
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold X
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas X
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce X
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath *
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray X
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White X+
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery X++++++
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas X
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X+
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo X
Read: 43
Loved: 6
Want to Read:5
