so what have i been up to recently? lots. what have i talked about? little.
i'ts not a concious decision, i just haven't felt like writing when i've been able to. i'll solve it now though, biggish post coming up! i'll go from what i wrote in the post before last to begin with. i went to see adaptation last wednesday, which i enjoyed a lot. i related to kaufman's inner monologue totally, i'm constantly thinking about what kind of a mess i'm in, or worrying about how things are going to turn out. i know i shouldn't, but i tend to be more and more pessimistic as the days go by now. it's easy to say that i need something big to shift me back onto track and feel better again, but it's harder to make it happen. things just don't seem to work that way for me. it's also helped with my trying to write, as i'm now co-writer of a screenplay-to-be with louise from the flat downstairs. we've been brainstorming a little and trying things out, and hopefully i'll be able to flex my creative muscles. it'd be nice if i could have a hand in making something like that, because i have enough problems with thinking i'm talentless as it is :)
lots of stuff is happening, i feel like i am being pushed out from my group of friends, i don't know whether it's because other friends of mine are becoming a bigger part of the group or if it's because i'm feeling low and not my usually energetic self. we'll see in time whether it's anything or just me being paranoid i guess. maybe i'm just doing things wrong.
i've had my last radio show, and aside from a few mistakes2 it's been fine. i had a good time doing it, so i'll definitely apply again next year, though i'll have to build up my music collection. i have just bought midnite vultures by beck today though3, so at least i'm starting :) it was part of a trip into manchester that was to serve as a photoshoot for my new site design, but i decided against it. i'll take photos when my camera's got newer batteries, and when i'm with people who wouldn't laugh at me if i tried to get them to take photos of me. the latter being less likely to actually happen, unfortunately.
i've also been to see tenacious d in concert! i went last night and it rocked totally. i'm so glad i got to see jack black in person, and to top it all off i have in my possession these guitar picks from the show which were thrown into the crowd, so that was a bonus. also: every time i see jack black, i'll know i was not only in the same room as him, but only a few feet away. i love that. i think he might be the first movie star that i've seen in real life, and it being jack black5 makes it all the sweeter. i still have no real claim to fame, but at least i'm only two degrees from kevin bacon.
someone from the flat downstairs told me a few things i didn't want to hear very bluntly earlier, and then a few minutes later wondered why i looked down. way to get drunk!
this is becoming more and more like my train of thought over a long period of time.
i worked hard at getting a group project finished off, thoguh admittedly not as hard as one of the group members who worked through the day designing screens for it, and i had a test on friday, and i have another assignment due in on thursday, more tests and more and more work. you know that feeling when you think things are going to overwhelm you? well it's here. bah.
this thing is long enough now, i'll post it before i say any more.
1 which they did. very muchly so.
2 mainly caused by a constant influx of people into the studio during records
3 agie isn't going to like it, but this is basically going to be another paragraph of my post put into a footnote4. this album is amazing, i'm so glad i actually got around to buying it. i've been a fan of beck, to the extent someone who didn't own any of his releases can be, for a long time now, and so far 4 of the songs i've loved by him have been on the album. fantastic. it's so good to listen to. every track so far has been great. i want to buy more albums, but i don't know which, so i guess i'll get recommendations. but yes, so happy that i bought this now. i wish i was beck.
4 justified as follows. during the middle of this post i decided to put on midnite vultures, after i remembered i'd bought it. i therefore wasn't going to go back and add it in, but it needed saying.
5 i seem to be saying jack black a lot. jack black jack black jack black.
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