terminals

I’ve been undertaking an analysis of new media such as the internet and tracing it’s connection to methods of social discourse, primarily the ideology of the public sphere, and have come to the conclusion that the internet, blogs,  forums and the rise of the amateur is effectively destroying our culture, yet at the same time rebuilding it in the image of it’s creators, which with most media is youth and business. Your culture is becoming distorted by idiotic Gen-Y’ers or out of touch capitalist media barons. Just thought I’d share, prove me wrong.

I’ve written some other posts before but I’ve had problems upping them here, wordpress doesn’t like my laptop. Oh the ironing of wordpress’ spell checker not recognizing the word wordpress. Try saying that fast. Either way, I’ve migrated to twitter for everyday musings, and leaving my wordpress for more in depth thoughts. I guess if you can’t say what you want to in 140 characters or less, you don’t have much worth saying anyways so that statement is somewhat contradictory. I’ll be posting some of my uni films, scripts and essays up here too as I got some pretty sweet feedback on the Romero bit a few months ago.

Woops, almost forgot, catch me on twitter at www.twitter.com/terminals_ .

Goodnight and good luck.

i’ve been avoiding sickness this past week, it finally caught up with me ugh.
spent all day reading scripts and books about scriptwriting, i kind of like it, but i have forgotten most of the ideas i had.

FUCK im meant to be making dinner. hahahaha.

later.

i wrote this for one of my uni classes late last year and i really like it. this is the style of analytical research and personal profiling that i would love to do in magazines, and was probably the most fun and involvement i’ve felt writing. i actually tried on this one, and i’m kind of proud of it.

i’m going to put the essay after the jump, its a historical analysis of exploitation film tied in with a case study on George A. Romero’s first film, Night of the Living Dead, probably my favourite film ever.

hit more to read the essay.

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my tire exploded whilst i was doing 100 in the middle lane of a freeway.

legitimately like exploded right in front of my face with the window open.

rubber flying everywhere.

three times in an opening weekend. it’s a first for me.
odd think is, i still can’t tell if i love it or not.

i’ve been looking forward to this for a while, the comic is probably my favourite, you feel so invested in the characters, while i’ve been excited about the movie, you can’t help but feel it would suck. having synder doing it made me feel okay despite all the hate, i actually enjoy the dudes films and the visual style he plays with, and he’s pretty much the only guy in hollywood who would have ever been able to make a faithful adaptation. and that’s what it is, but it lacks the spark that made moore’s writing so perfect, so heartbreaking, so masterful. i’m hoping the blu ray directors cut fills up the gaps, makes the film play less jarring and lets it breathe a little bit. i’m the only person in existence who thinks not having the squid was a good idea.. to ask a mainstream audience to suspend their belief for a blue superhuman in all his wang glory, and then again for an interdimensional squid being… it serves as the biggest, what the fuck, moment i’ve ever had reading a comic.. it rules in the comic, but on screen it would look stupid.

last night i went to the casino and won 50 bucks on slots. was okay, bitch next to me was devo, looks like she’d been planted at the machine for ages and i hit jackpot on like my fifth spin.

i’m writing a script for uni right now, i’m probably going to write four or five proposals and then choose my favourite, i’ve got one pretty much lined up that would work well with what we need to and make a pretty cool film to watch. im totally out of my depth in the class, but so is everyone else, and its a second year subject and im on third year so i like to think i have an advantage.. we’ll see. i’ll put it up here when the synopses are done and then the script when its written, maybe get feedback.

i dont have a day off tomorrow because uni sucks at public holidays so im hittin some z’s.

this past week has been an interesting week, and i’ve changed quite a bit.

first off, the most obvious, i cut my hair and got real cute. i was on the verge of a panic attack when the hairdresser did it but it turned out so much better than i thought it would, so siked on short hair, feels so good, feels like my heads on a cloud.. i keep getting asked why i cut it. well firstly my hair got so long that the only thing i could be bothering doing with it was tying it up, which resulted in a lot of pull from the front, and that started thinning my hair out and making me look like i’m going bald or something, it was weird. secondly, i’ve wanted to cut my hair since before dad went, but i was scared if i cut it he wouldn’t recognise me and i guessed it wouldnt hurt to hold out a bit. thirdly, i look terrible with long hair man. fourth, i actually cut it a month ago, just lopped the entire front off in some desperate attempt to make my hair look better and it completely fucked it up, so whatever. there you gooo. i’ll upload a photo, it looks good.

i’ve gone back to uni.. i never really understood why i stopped enjoying uni after my first semester, but i do now. with everything that was happening at home, my heart and my mind was never here. i always wanted to be home or at work, wherever his presence was. it ended up with a b average, but i wouldn’t trade all that time for the world.for the first time in a while i’m doing only what i’ve loved and devoting all of my time to it. i dont know how long it will last but right now it feels right. to be able to have control hasn’t been a part of my life in a while and i have more than enough money to be able to ride out two years without work.

next year i’m going to spain with my family and then travelling across scandinavia by myself. sweden, norway, iceland, greenland, denmark… it’s something i’ve wanted to do since i was young and discovered the countries through music and the feelings never gone away so i’m taking the plunge. also want to hit las vegas during the us summer. hire a car in la, drive out to the desert, have my own hunter experience haha.

i gotta head out to class and drop some shit off for the lady downstairs.
thanks for reading? i think everyone stopped, but i like writing so fuck it.