Yeahhhh, so I've been a bad boy staying away for such a large amount of time. Let's see if I can manage to catch a reader up in one short paragraph. The play went very well, despite various actors who were not properly giving their all. I include myself. In all the performances I have given, every time I leave a stage thinking that I could have done better. I think that's good, because it shows that I can take that and apply it as motivation to continue what it is that I enjoy doing. Daniel Day Lewis seems like the actor who truly doesn't feel like he gives it his all. I don't know this for sure, but I can call him later and confirm it as a source if necessary. It just seems to me that he's been given this talent and cannot help but do a great job every time. Although on the other hand, he works hard. Hard work truly shows. Because, you see this with a lot of actors, where they show off talent and basically live off of that one performance for the rest of their life. Richard Dryfuss for example is a brilliant actor (also is not afraid to arrogantly admit it), but lately he has not given his all. Or at least for me, his role is Poseidon wasn't critically accepted as remarkable. I could go on talking about acting for a while. The Oscars were last night, so that's probably why I feel the need to blog.

I have not written about There Will Be Blood yet. I don't know why. Maybe because it literally is something you cannot describe, but experience. Amy and I have seen it multiple times, and it just seems to get better and better each time, and yet never loses anything. It's truly cinema at some of its finest, and in my opinion, passes No Country For Old Men by a long shot. As much as I liked NCFOM, there just seems to be an over hype about it. Yes, it's a good film, but I didn't leave the theater in amazement like "everyone else." I thought the story was quite interesting, but not worth of winning everything. I really love the Coen brothers and am happy they received an award, but I really felt that P.T. Anderson truly deserved it more. There Will Be Blood was a vision in the mind of Anderson's mind, and he brought it to the screen like nothing he'd ever done before. The Coen brothers, although brought something unique, didn't blow my mind. I found myself stunned and glued to the screen with a gigantic smile on myself several times during There Will Be Blood. And I honestly found myself a little bored during NCFOM. I've really been puzzled on how much a director contributes to a project. Of course it is obvious that the situation depends on the director, but in general it's an interesting question to contemplate over. I remember in Theatre Appreciation, Dan talked about film and said, "The director really doesn't do anything. The actors act, the cameraman shoots it, the director calls action, and that's about it." I thought about this for a while and came up with the sheer fact, that not only is it highly false, but if he wants to go on those speculations, isn't theatre the same thing? "The actors act, the audience watches, and the director says scene, and that's about it." I hate when theatre people talk down about film, and I hate when film people talk down about theatre.

I was happy that Diablo Cody won best original screenplay, but I kept hearing the phrasing "shockingly cavalier" ringing in my mind. It's great that she won, and doesn't fall in with the Hollywood crowd, although how alternative do you have to look in order to not make a statement about making a statement regarding not being labeled as making a statement about the way you look. Haha, I just jumbled that up to make fun of the people who are criticizing her about the way she looks. I think it's cool that she has a tattoo and won an Oscar. She also said, "Thanks to my family for loving me the way I am." And cried, which really was nice to hear. I've read a lot of "intellectual" writers bash Juno for trying to be too clever. I perceived a little of this, but not enough to bash the film. Jesus, some people just look for things to bitch about. I loved the movie, I thought it was cute, and although it won every award given at the IFC Spirit Awards, I still love it. And I watched an interview with Ellen Page before the Oscars, and I really have more admiration for her as an actress and as a person.

Let's see, what else can I talk about before going to class... I have a little over fifteen minutes before my Brit Lit class. I don't have to go to the class on Wednesday, because the individuals not presenting the lecture are taking the regular midterm. I'm really excited about going to class and being able to go home right after. We don't work on Mondays, which makes me excited to go home and do whatever I want.

I finished helping Justin shoot a short in Barnesville yesterday. It was a lot of fun acting in a short and helping out. I was blown away by the quality of the camera and image that presented from only using two lights and about ten minutes of set up time. It seems to me with this mentality, that Kaleidoscope can be shot easily, but like Bret Wood says, I'm not discussing it until plans are set, because I don't was to jinx us. I do have major hopes that this Summer it can be done. Oh, there it goes.

Here are some pictures that I took around Atlanta and other things:

Looking at these pictures reminds me of New York. Speaking of New York, my excellent girlfriend painted me a collage of our tript to New York, and it's like the greatest thing anyone has ever given me. I really want to take her back to New York sometime. It was great. That's another post though.