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Name: Brandon
Country: United States
State: Kansas
Metro: Lawrence
Birthday: 9/17/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: watching movies, writing songs, studying Hitchcock, watching movies, writing movies and plays, spending time with friends (especially B White and the Variation of Five), AND DRAMA!! Did I mention watch movies?
Expertise: I have been considered a good screenwriter/playwright/director.
I know movies like the back of my hand. (Ooh what's that?)
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message me
AIM:  greatbman
Member Since:
9/25/2003
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| It's been ages since I've posted. Isn't it strange how the older you get, the shorter the summer is? This has been a very good summer on the whole. There have been several large rough patches, mainly in the distance that has grown between my old friends and I. I never look back (though I'm nostalgic as hell). I always am looking to move forward. Back when I was little, we moved around a lot. It seems whenever I'd get situated, I'd have to move. And me being a procrastinator I wait till the last possible second to make friends and build relationships that I lose.
I didn't go to the ocean this summer. Originally I wanted to go purely because I had never seen a real one (New York doesn't count because it was raining and no one swims around the Statue of Liberty except dead bodies). However, increasingly this summer I realized especially as I hung out with my KU friends that the only reason I wanted to go to the ocean was so that I could experience something new. But this summer i learned there are so many new things that I have yet to discover within myself that don't require a shitload of gasoline and the smell of salt water. Did I get a tryst this summer? Yes. Did I experience new things and see new sights this summer? Yes. Sometimes the most exciting things are right in front of you and you don't need an ocean to discover them.
The saddest moment is the loss of a dear friend. There are some bridges too long to cross and the further you go the more you see things you don't want to see. Maybe I'm too judgemental. Maybe I just suck as a human being. I believe that fundamentally people don't change. You can change a habit because you aren't born with habits. But there are certain core beliefs and values that are always present. Some are better at hiding them than others. People you thought you knew can shock you to the core. Sometimes you don't like what you see.
In any event I've learned a lot this summer. I've learned that drunken hookups are still not a good idea and that I'm either too much of a prude or gentleman to take advantage of an "advantageous situation". I've learned that too much weed and too much booze makes you keenly aware that the earth is, in fact, moving, and that holding onto it will not make it stop. I've learned you can't make someone like you. Girls, you can't make a guy like you. And suggesting "friends with benefits" will only benefit the guy. And guess what, he still just isn't that into you. Lesley Gill, you are my best friend. True blue. There to the end. I would never jump out of a moving car.
I have moved into the best house in all of Lawrence. I guess that's my summer recap. In college, every year has top the one that preceded it. So by definition, this has to be the best year of my college life. Fingers crossed.
Fizzle....OUT! | | |
| To reflect my new mood....
Currently officially geeking out about the imminent arrival of Superman Returns (though I'm still more of a Batman man myself).
Lawrence relatively dead till next week but things are good.
Yeah, not much else to say. I'm not depressed so that's good.
Fizzle...OUT! (experimenting with a new exiting line....thoughts?) | | |
| School's out!! saw X3...all I can say is absolutely amazing!!! A lot of die-hard x-men fans will be livid, but I don't care, Bryan singer can kiss Brett ratner's ass because that was exactly how I envisioned an x-men movie to be!
In other news, LAwrence when there's no school...pretty boring. Luckily I still have a few peeps in town and I've got the summer show and work so it's all good.
The night before ben left I played in the rrain for the first time in my life. Facebook quote of that night "White people is crazy! Why the hell are you playin in the damn rain?" Then it looked like fun so I tried it. It wasn't fun it was wet. ANd then it didn't help that the girls started playing let's depants the boys. Luckily for me i had on a belt. I will say this for white people (and I reiterate whitte people because in my life I have never known a black person to willingly play in the rain): it takes a certain reckless abandon to play in the rain and so I have new respect for people who do that. It's a lot harder than it looks. I still think it's stupid but I respect it at least.
Movie's truckin along!!
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| There are moments in life that define exactly who you are. Today, I had one of those. It scares me. It freaks me out. It exhilarates me. It's my choice. There is one thing in this world that I love and today I got to do it over and over. No, I didn't lose the v-card. I directed.
I shot 7 scenes for a feature length film in seven hours. I am tired as hell. But I could not be more happy right now. I have brilliant actors. I have brilliant assistants. Monica, you have a future directing and THANK YOU for catching all that shit. Chel, buffed out Chel. AMAZING! I have Jeremy whom it seems God has placed on this earth for the sole purpose of making my life SOOO much easier. There was not a missed note all day. Everything was just aces. Jon was fantastic. Brady was brilliant. Lawrence was brilliant. Cali and Hilary knocked it out of the park (Cali in TWO TAKES!!!!!!) Matt: a pleasure as always. Just excellent. Erin and Jordy: hot and awesome (each of you can choose one or both)!. Justin: I am not worthy! Truly not worthy. Spectacular. And Ben...what can I say? That was the last scene in the movie and you almost brought me to tears (good tears!) and I don't cry. CHILLS were had by all. You got it sir!
And we're SOOOOOOO far from being done. But today was a fantastic day. It should never be this hard again!
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| Stop Kiss is over. Good run. I got very positive reviews. Jack even talked to me at length and usually he just says good job and leaves it at that.
Interesting note...the consensus from my friends (especially those that are girls) is that I was "manly" (aside from my performance being very good). I guess I did act. What concerns me is that I finally realized why girls have never been attracted to me. I give off a very non-sexual vibe. This is to compensate for the fact that I have no game and that I'm also looking for a much deeper connection with the girl I ultimately choose. But I have noticed a lot more second glances over the past few days from girls since Stop Kiss.
Perhaps one should try to channel George and take some of his qualities. Sad however that girls loved the character George and George is a self-centered jerk. George is a scrub. The man went to and graduated from NYU (a school I did NOT get into but was wait listed to HARVARD) and is a 30 year old bartender. Obviously he can pick up women. This proved once again that girls around my age seem to be incapable of recognizing a "good" guy.
When I saw the 40 year old Virgin, something hit me. It might have been lack of options or that he wasn't looking hard enough, but I think part of it was that so many of the women he was around were so busy looking for the superficial or some other thing that they didn't see the real person inside. There are guys I know who have the physical stuff down: look good, say all the right lines, and at the end of the day know how to work it out in bed and in the sexual arena, yet they consistently do not treat women right yet consistently get women. For all the good guys out there, I have this message for girls: LOOK UP!!! We're here. And I bet with a bit of coaching we could easily be your perrfect man AND you already know we'll treat you right.
Enough venting. Stop Kiss was my swan song. Done with the acting. I however will come out of retirement to audition for Guys and Dolls in the spring of next year, ut I'm moving out of the acting. | | |
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