a 1 act play about death and mortality and dreams

I was pleased to present this as my final project for Intro to Playwriting, and it was met with high acclaim in the class.

There are still things I'd want to fix - maybe I will, maybe I won't. But take this as draft 2.

After you finish reading, tell me about how it made you feel or think. Thanks.

How to wake up on the right side of the bed. Always.

So since the daylight savings switchup, I've been trying to start my days early - get a head start on the day.


It all started with that first day of daylight savings. I woke up from a strange dream at 6:30 and felt completely rejuvenated, although I had gone to bed around 1 AM. That first day was a great day through and through. Nothing special really happened to me that day, but my spirits were up - I just felt great all day.


I continued this ritual of waking up early and began to wonder if waking up on the right side of the bed was not just some chance of luck, but the result or outcome of certain other forces, which I will name the ingredients.


Although I don't necessarily believe this is a foolproof way to waking up on the right side of the bed, here are some ingredients that couldn't hurt:


- Don't get too much sleep, which is to say: Don't oversleep, which is to say: Wake up early. ABSOLUTELY NEVER use the snooze button. This is your downfall. If you do not embrace the day with a positive attitude at your first chance, well, you've already missed your first shot. And it if you can get it first time around, it's always easier. Get up and be happy - you can give that a try, right?


- Drink coffee. As much as I would like to exclude drugs like caffeine, it can really help if you are just starting to get used to this. I feel that waking up on the right side of the bed should be a natural thing, that you shouldn't need stimulants, but coffee can act as an aid to the above ingredient. Think of it as your training wheels.


- Have a goal for waking up. Even if it is as simple as that morning shower, shave, or cup of coffee. This CANNOT include homework, checking your e-mail, or anything of the sort. Which leads me to my next ingredient:


- It doesn't have to be all business. Enjoy the fact that it's morning. It's day - the sun has risen. Take some time to soak it in. In short, relax. Bask in the early morning. Take at least 30 minutes to just do what you want to do, without doing what you have to do.


- Try something new. Refrain from monotony, from any sort of rigid schedule. Always open up to a change of plans or a brief escape from your daily routine. And - well, I think this quote from Twin Peaks fits -  take the URL, it's only a minute.

"Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair or two cups of good hot black coffee."


I'm sure there's more to add, but I'm still working on it. In the end, it's not about aligning all the ingredients - it's really just a frame of mind.


Stay positive.
Change your diet.

Happy Veterans Day to all Bankers

• Charles Lin: 

  The point of Veteran's day was for you bankers to live and work.
  Charles Lin: fuck these bankers
• Charles Lin: [soldiers] died so you could work. And you don't even take advantage of that. Hahahaha

New Sunday Best

Sunday Best Pictures presents
HUNTING SQUATCH

the story of an ex-banker who takes up his slacker roommate's suggestion to hunt big foot for a new source of income, and finds his lost childhood in the process (SPOILER!!)

but i'd prefer you watched it on youtube in 720p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU85D0KD4uI&feature=feedf

Fortune Cookies and their meanings

Today I read a friend's fortune cookie at lunch and laughed at its probable interpretation.
Not the kind of laugh where you tack on "in bed" at the end of each fortune (although that's worth some good laughs, too).

Here was her fortune:
"All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly."

Instantly, I though about death. Don't know why, but you can't call me morbid. That's funny, right?
It even has the words "PASS AWAY" in the fortune.

That's gotta be a bad omen.

Ingmar Bergman

I've been recently researching the films of Ingmar Bergman for a paper that I have to turn in to my Development of Cinema class.

The topic is roughly -- write about a foreign director who has influenced American cinema.
I'll have more to say when I finish the paper.

All I know right now is that Bergman is really awesome
and I want to write my Bergman paper on Woody Allen
hahaha, I'm afraid I will get off topic for much of the paper

That gum you like is going to come back in style.

Twin Peaks, the acclaimed murder mystery TV drama of the early 90s, brought to you by co-creator David Lynch.

I guess I'm too lazy to write my own little synopsis.
Courtesy of Wikipedia:


As with much of Lynch's other work (notably Blue Velvet), Twin Peaks explores the gulf between the veneer of small-town respectability and the seedier layers of life lurking beneath it. Each character from the town leads a double life that is slowly uncovered as the series progresses, as it attempts to expose the dark side of seemingly innocent lives. The show further resembles Lynch's previous and subsequent work, in that it is difficult to place in a defined genre: stylistically, the program borrows the unsettling tone and supernatural premises of horror films, and simultaneously offers a bizarrely comical parody of American soap operas with a campy, melodramatic presentation of the morally dubious activities of its quirky characters. Finally, like the rest of Lynch's oeuvre, the show represents an earnest moral inquiry distinguished by both weird humor and a deep vein of surrealism.

Give it a try.

I'd rather you start from episode one. But if you're reluctant, watch this clip.