Aug. 29 Sayings: You know how I said in Fighting that none of the dialogue was memorable? What's interesting is that I watched the deleted scenes, and there was one good line. It's where one of the opposing managers Martinez talks to Shawn.
M: You sell peanuts, you only make peanuts.
That should inspire me to get an office job.
In Screenwriting for Dummies, there is this line on page 262: "Everything worth anything in life involves risk, fear, and struggle. This is where persistence comes in. Keep writing: success can strike at any time."
Hoarders: There is this new TV show on A&E called Hoarders. It's kind of like Intervention where people have problems, and then they have to be helped. I saw a bit of Hoarders where people collect a bunch of stuff, and never throw anything out. It kind of reminded me of a Dr Phil ep. It was back when I was trying to quit, and that ep was one of the few that didn't get me angry.
However, I probably won't watch this show anymore because I'm trying to cut down on TV. A good thing is that I read that Big Brother in the UK is getting cancelled because of low ratings. Maybe they'll cancel the American one and I can then for sure quit. Well I didn't really watch any this season except some of the first ep, so good for me.
But damn, I saw the commercials for it and I felt like I missed something. One girl got expelled from the house because she broke the rules. She covered the cameras and did something else. Then one girl started arguments with people and got evicted.
Luke Macfarlane: I saw him on Iron Road, and that's it. He is handsome, and he's Canadian (Ontario). I did learn that he's gay and he's dating Wentworth Miller. I didn't know that WM was gay, but I can believe it.
Check out LM's pic:
http://www.gaynity.com/wiki/images/5/53/Luke_Macfarlane.jpg
Funny: Iron Road did have some unintentionally funny moments. Well Tiger (Sun Li) was a woman pretending to be a man, and then she hits on James by telling him that she has feelings for him. J thinks that T is a guy and is hitting on him so he is irked by it. Then T tells J that she's a woman. I thought that it was funny now that I know that LM is gay.
Another funny thing was when T and J are hugging each other goodbye. I noticed that LM was bending his knees a bit. SL was on her tip toes so she could get her head over his shoulder in the hug.
Aug. 30 Danijel Mandic: I saw an ep of Flashpoint and it was a really good ep. In the pilot, it had Hugh Dillon's character Ed Lane shoot a man who was holding his wife hostage. Then in the season 2, ep 4, they did a follow up on it. They profiled the man's son who wants to kill Ed Lane for revenge. The son's name is Petar, played by Danijel Mandic. He is Eastern European.
It was a crazy ep because Petar comes from a war torn country and knows how to shoot like a sniper does. Here's a pic of DM in the centre, posed with the 2 actors from the show.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm807045120/nm2973214
Today I was watching Degrassi Goes to Hollywood, and DM actually makes an appearance as a soldier. Ellie was at the airport, and DM was in his army clothes and is reunited with his family.
Jason Mewes: Also from watching Degrassi, Jason Mewes was in the movie as himself. I have never heard of his name before. It turns out he's Silent Bob in Jay and Silent Bob with Kevin Smith. Well in the movies, he's always wearing a wig, a toque and grunge clothes, so I never really noticed him.
But you take the wig, and the grunge clothes off, and he's hot. There was a scene where he was wearing a muscle shirt and it showed all his tattoos. Check out a pic of him:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm807045120/nm2973214
Degrassi: When I saw the trailer for the TV movie, I had to watch it. It's good. Dan Levy from MTV Canada plays a producer. Vivica A. Fox and Perez Hilton makes appearances as themselves. The movie is mainly where Paige (Lauren Collins) becomes the star of a movie. However, she learns that if she becomes a diva, things can be taken away from her.
Don't read any further if you don't want to be spoiled: Manny does her audition poorly. Then she goes and auditions again. This time she has to go all the way over to LA to audition. She, Mia, Jay, Peter, Sav, and Danny drive a school bus to get there. Manny gains some confidence on her way there. She actually gets the part at the end.
What was funny, was that they made a shout out to Shenae Grimes. SG played Darcy on the show, and then left to do 90210. One of the characters mention her name in passing. lol.
Ellie bumps into an old flame Craig. They kind of get together at the end of the movie. Overall it was really good.
The Number 23: I saw this movie The Number 23 last night, and I was really impressed by it. Jim Carrey can play serious roles. It's like suspense and thriller. J plays Walter Sparrow and he finds a book that is called The Number 23. He becomes obsessed with the number and the book. The book was so eerily similar to his life.
Sparrow then has to solve the mystery of who wrote the book, because the book was about a killer. S tries to find the author to find the killer. It's a really good mystery. S does a lot of investigating with help from his wife and pre- teen kid. There was good misdirection on who really wrote the book.
The ending was amazing. S even says in a voice over: "This is not a happy ending. But a right ending." That's true. I really liked it, I recommend you all watch it. I liked the ending because it's about righting wrongs, and correcting mistakes. It's something that I would do. And maybe a lot of people would do it too if they were in that situation.
Aug. 31 National Treasure: I saw this movie last night starring Nicholas Cage. It's pretty good. It's 3 hours long. It's a fun adventure movie. There's good comedy in it. There is a lot of conflict in it and it's a wild ride to watch it.
NC plays a treasure hunter named Ben Gates. He has to find the biggest national treasure that is supposedly hidden somewhere in the world. With a series of clues, he follows the trail to find it. The first conflict is that he has to steal the Declaration of Independence to be able to find the treasure. He doesn't want to steal it, but he has to steal it or the bad guys will get it.
Ben has his funny sidekick Riley played by Justin Bartha. It turns out JB was in the bad movie Gigli and he was playing the retarded man who was taken as a hostage. I have never seen him before besides watching the movie trailer. He's 31, and he's dating Ashley Olsen, says imdb.com.
Then we have Diane Kruger who plays the love interest Abigail. A works at the museum that holds the Declaration of Independence. Jon Voight plays Ben's dad who did look for the treasure, and then quit. This movie came out in 2004. This is a smart movie. I recommend you watch it, and maybe I'll check out the second one called National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007).
Music: I borrowed the Pussycat Dolls cd called "Doll Domination." I like songs like "When Grow Up", "Elevator", "Whatchamacallit", "Love the Way You Love Me", "Take Over the World."
Job: It was crazy busy today. The summer is ending, and it always gets busier in the fall. Two people didn't show up for work, but at least one person was able to come and help out.
Quote: I was also thinking about Fighting again and there is a line that's good: "Be ready for business, be business ready."
Food: I tried out some Ukranian food last week. I went to Shumka at Kingsway. I had a perogie there. The last time I had perogies was way back in 1999 for the student council meeting. How I remember that? Well I remember a lot of things. The Shumka perogies were good. The chicken was good. The saukarat was not good. It was like a vegetable.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Ben Curtis/ The Listener/ Fighting
Aug. 27 Ben Curtis: I mentioned that the Kyle Gallner lookalike Mark told me that he looked like the Dell Guy. Today Mark actually stopped by today.
Mark: Hey.
Me: Hey. You know that Dell Guy? Well he actually has a name you know. It's Ben Curtis.
Ma: I cut my hair so I won't get any more comparisons to him.
Me: Really?
Ma: No, I'm just joking. I used to work at Blockbuster and wore a blue shirt, and people always tell me I look like him because he (BC) wears a blue shirt too in the commercials.
Here's an interview with BC. He studied acting in university in NY. He talked about the Dell auditions and how they were looking for a guy from 12- 17 years old. He was like 20, and he was the only one in the waiting room who didn't have his mom there with him. He's a nice, average, fun guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOFEGkUWcA
The Listener: The above was a highlight of my day. The other was watching The Listener season finale. It was really good. Toby has a telepathic ability and only his mentor Ray knew. Then in 3rd episode, T tells his friend Oz. Oz is happy and asks T if a girl likes him since he can read minds. Then in the middle of the season, T tells his cop friend Charlie about it. She and T then are able to solve cases together with his ability. Now in the season finale. T tells his girlfriend Olivia about it. Now everybody knows about it.
Well there is still mystery. In the middle of the ep, C ends up getting shot when she was trying to protect T and his friend Frank. The Bad Guy then runs. Later, Bad Guy comes at T and F again, this time F shoots BG, and he dies. T, Oz, and Olivia figure out that T's mom is in a car accident. T finds a car covered in snow. T starts digging the snow out with his hands to find his mom that he hasn't seen in years, and thought she was dead. T opens the door and it's empty. I was expecting either for her to be alive or dead. I really like Craig Olejnik's acting. T then leans on the car. Then he falls over in the snow.
Writing: This reminds me of those shows about family. T still has to find his mother, and his little brother. In the show Dark Angel, when Max ran away from the evil company Manticore, she has to find her 11 other "siblings" whom she grew up with there. She manages to find some of them in the first season.
On the show Flash Gordon, Flash travels to the planet Mongo. Of course it's cool to travel to another planet, but there has to be a deeper reason to go there. Flash mainly goes there to try to find his missing father.
Aug. 28: I was thinking about that woman dressing up like a man thing again, and I am reminded of the movie Boys Don't Cry.
I was also thinking about characters as partners. There is Scully and Mulder in X- Files and Castle and Beckett in Castle. Then there are the cop movies where you partner 2 cops who are totally different from each other and they have to solve a case together.
I don't like to write drama for teens because the characters cause drama between each other. In shows like The Listener, there's drama, but they don't start it with each other. A situation arises, and Toby has to help this person. There's drama in that there's a problem like T has to save a life. Or T has to figure out who committed the crime.
As for shows like 90210 it's mainly teen pregnancy and dating drama. Sure, there was a girl who overdosed and dealt with drug addiction, but there wasn't a lot of that.
Fighting: So I finally saw the movie Fighting and got to compare it to my movie. I would give this movie 2 stars out of 5. It was mediocre. I like Never Back Down better and give that movie 3 stars out of 5.
What's wrong with Fighting? Well I like the actor Channing Tatum since I first saw him in the movie Step Up back in 2006. I read reviews that he mainly mumbles his lines in this movie. Yeah well the other reviews didn't mention that so does Terrence Howard's character. The dialogue wasn't really that good. I say that because after watching it, I didn't really have anything to quote from it. If it's good, I would go and quote from it and tell people about it.
It's about Shawn (CT) who is a guy from Alabama who moves to NY. He is selling counterfeit Harry Potter books, and then gets in a fight there. Harvey (TH) sees him. Zulay (Zulay Henao) buys a book from him. Then later, S and H meet again. S gets his money that was stolen from him during the fight, and H tells he should be a fighter to make thousands of dollars.
I actually liked the little guy Z played by Peter Anthony Tambakis. He is H's lackey and part of H and S's entourage. I did some research on him and he's actually 25. He looks like he could be in high school. An interesting fact is that PAT worked a movie with CT before in 2006 called A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. PAT kind of reminds me of when I watched The Matrix and I liked the little guy Mouse played by Matt Doran. MD was 23 and he looked like he could be in high school too.
I did find it realistic how S talked besides the mumbling. He did stutter and stumble through his words. I guess what I don't like about it was that the fights weren't really controlled. I mean that as in a crowd of people watch the fight, and there weren't any boundaries like don't cross this line. In Never Back Down, there were these mats, and they had to stay within the mats. The fight scenes were alright. I wasn't really impressed with it. I like the atmosphere. All the fights are held in different places and they are all very different from each other. The courtship between S and Zulay is average.
This is fist fighting, not mix martial arts like NBD. Due to reading screenwriting books, I thought the antagonists were weak. S's rival is another fighter that was from his hometown in Alabama. Then there are 2 other guys who are the ones who set up the fights. Overall, I don't really find even the protagonists to be well- rounded characters either. The only surprise I liked was between Harvey and Zulay after Zulay spends some alone time with Shawn.
There was a unrated version and the theatrical version on the dvd. I watched the latter and saw the deleted scenes in the bonus features.
News: I read in the Metro that the manager Kevin Walker, of the Thunderbird Motel in Hope had charged camera crews money to tour the room where the body of a alleged killer Ryan Jenkins was found hung himself. KW used some of the money to help clients who lived at the hotel who were on social assistance and have addictions. It's good that he's helping people.
Job search: Today I kind of looked for a job. After I saw Fighting which was 108 min. in the morning, I went and returned it in the afternoon. The Rogers video was right by the Capital Health hospital so I went to the human resources department. There weren't any non- nursing jobs for me. I didn't feel I was qualified for it because they said they needed a few years experience. I didn't put obstacles in front of myself because the applications for these positions have ended on Aug. 25.
Then I went downstairs and ate some fish and chips in the cafeteria. It was good and filling. Then I helped push a guy in a wheel chair to the cafe, and then into an elevator. That's my good deed for the day.
Rant: I don't know, I put too high of an expectation on the movie Fighting and am disappointed.
Here's another rant, I was watching Tosh. O and Daniel was listing stuff that women can't do like math, and lift stuff. I was kind of annoyed and offended by that. Then I felt like watching Maury because that show is so anti- male. All the guys are dead beat dads (paternity tests eps), or cheaters and liars (lie detector eps) or abusive partners (domestic violence eps). I can't really remember the last time I had an urge to watch the show.
Well this is my 100th blog post this year.
Mark: Hey.
Me: Hey. You know that Dell Guy? Well he actually has a name you know. It's Ben Curtis.
Ma: I cut my hair so I won't get any more comparisons to him.
Me: Really?
Ma: No, I'm just joking. I used to work at Blockbuster and wore a blue shirt, and people always tell me I look like him because he (BC) wears a blue shirt too in the commercials.
Here's an interview with BC. He studied acting in university in NY. He talked about the Dell auditions and how they were looking for a guy from 12- 17 years old. He was like 20, and he was the only one in the waiting room who didn't have his mom there with him. He's a nice, average, fun guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMOFEGkUWcA
The Listener: The above was a highlight of my day. The other was watching The Listener season finale. It was really good. Toby has a telepathic ability and only his mentor Ray knew. Then in 3rd episode, T tells his friend Oz. Oz is happy and asks T if a girl likes him since he can read minds. Then in the middle of the season, T tells his cop friend Charlie about it. She and T then are able to solve cases together with his ability. Now in the season finale. T tells his girlfriend Olivia about it. Now everybody knows about it.
Well there is still mystery. In the middle of the ep, C ends up getting shot when she was trying to protect T and his friend Frank. The Bad Guy then runs. Later, Bad Guy comes at T and F again, this time F shoots BG, and he dies. T, Oz, and Olivia figure out that T's mom is in a car accident. T finds a car covered in snow. T starts digging the snow out with his hands to find his mom that he hasn't seen in years, and thought she was dead. T opens the door and it's empty. I was expecting either for her to be alive or dead. I really like Craig Olejnik's acting. T then leans on the car. Then he falls over in the snow.
Writing: This reminds me of those shows about family. T still has to find his mother, and his little brother. In the show Dark Angel, when Max ran away from the evil company Manticore, she has to find her 11 other "siblings" whom she grew up with there. She manages to find some of them in the first season.
On the show Flash Gordon, Flash travels to the planet Mongo. Of course it's cool to travel to another planet, but there has to be a deeper reason to go there. Flash mainly goes there to try to find his missing father.
Aug. 28: I was thinking about that woman dressing up like a man thing again, and I am reminded of the movie Boys Don't Cry.
I was also thinking about characters as partners. There is Scully and Mulder in X- Files and Castle and Beckett in Castle. Then there are the cop movies where you partner 2 cops who are totally different from each other and they have to solve a case together.
I don't like to write drama for teens because the characters cause drama between each other. In shows like The Listener, there's drama, but they don't start it with each other. A situation arises, and Toby has to help this person. There's drama in that there's a problem like T has to save a life. Or T has to figure out who committed the crime.
As for shows like 90210 it's mainly teen pregnancy and dating drama. Sure, there was a girl who overdosed and dealt with drug addiction, but there wasn't a lot of that.
Fighting: So I finally saw the movie Fighting and got to compare it to my movie. I would give this movie 2 stars out of 5. It was mediocre. I like Never Back Down better and give that movie 3 stars out of 5.
What's wrong with Fighting? Well I like the actor Channing Tatum since I first saw him in the movie Step Up back in 2006. I read reviews that he mainly mumbles his lines in this movie. Yeah well the other reviews didn't mention that so does Terrence Howard's character. The dialogue wasn't really that good. I say that because after watching it, I didn't really have anything to quote from it. If it's good, I would go and quote from it and tell people about it.
It's about Shawn (CT) who is a guy from Alabama who moves to NY. He is selling counterfeit Harry Potter books, and then gets in a fight there. Harvey (TH) sees him. Zulay (Zulay Henao) buys a book from him. Then later, S and H meet again. S gets his money that was stolen from him during the fight, and H tells he should be a fighter to make thousands of dollars.
I actually liked the little guy Z played by Peter Anthony Tambakis. He is H's lackey and part of H and S's entourage. I did some research on him and he's actually 25. He looks like he could be in high school. An interesting fact is that PAT worked a movie with CT before in 2006 called A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. PAT kind of reminds me of when I watched The Matrix and I liked the little guy Mouse played by Matt Doran. MD was 23 and he looked like he could be in high school too.
I did find it realistic how S talked besides the mumbling. He did stutter and stumble through his words. I guess what I don't like about it was that the fights weren't really controlled. I mean that as in a crowd of people watch the fight, and there weren't any boundaries like don't cross this line. In Never Back Down, there were these mats, and they had to stay within the mats. The fight scenes were alright. I wasn't really impressed with it. I like the atmosphere. All the fights are held in different places and they are all very different from each other. The courtship between S and Zulay is average.
This is fist fighting, not mix martial arts like NBD. Due to reading screenwriting books, I thought the antagonists were weak. S's rival is another fighter that was from his hometown in Alabama. Then there are 2 other guys who are the ones who set up the fights. Overall, I don't really find even the protagonists to be well- rounded characters either. The only surprise I liked was between Harvey and Zulay after Zulay spends some alone time with Shawn.
There was a unrated version and the theatrical version on the dvd. I watched the latter and saw the deleted scenes in the bonus features.
News: I read in the Metro that the manager Kevin Walker, of the Thunderbird Motel in Hope had charged camera crews money to tour the room where the body of a alleged killer Ryan Jenkins was found hung himself. KW used some of the money to help clients who lived at the hotel who were on social assistance and have addictions. It's good that he's helping people.
Job search: Today I kind of looked for a job. After I saw Fighting which was 108 min. in the morning, I went and returned it in the afternoon. The Rogers video was right by the Capital Health hospital so I went to the human resources department. There weren't any non- nursing jobs for me. I didn't feel I was qualified for it because they said they needed a few years experience. I didn't put obstacles in front of myself because the applications for these positions have ended on Aug. 25.
Then I went downstairs and ate some fish and chips in the cafeteria. It was good and filling. Then I helped push a guy in a wheel chair to the cafe, and then into an elevator. That's my good deed for the day.
Rant: I don't know, I put too high of an expectation on the movie Fighting and am disappointed.
Here's another rant, I was watching Tosh. O and Daniel was listing stuff that women can't do like math, and lift stuff. I was kind of annoyed and offended by that. Then I felt like watching Maury because that show is so anti- male. All the guys are dead beat dads (paternity tests eps), or cheaters and liars (lie detector eps) or abusive partners (domestic violence eps). I can't really remember the last time I had an urge to watch the show.
Well this is my 100th blog post this year.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
writing/ The Waiting Game/ Juwanna Mann
Aug. 22 Writing: I was talking to my friend Ray about Iron Road, and she says that story has so been done. A woman who dresses up like a man, and then falls in love with a guy has been done in She's the Man, and Mulan.
The Waiting Game: You know that ep on The Simpsons where Homer is Mr. Plow? He puts a commercial on TV, and then:
Homer: Now it's time to play the waiting game.
Pause.
H: This is boring, let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Right now I'm playing the waiting game. I have to wait until the beginning of next month before I contact the producer John to see if he read the script. Then I also have to wait till next month before I contact the actor Giles Panton if he read the script either. I sent it to him, and then one week later on Aug. 12 I emailed him. He didn't reply. Then on Aug. 16, I emailed him again, and he still hasn't replied.
I also have to wait until Sept. before Conni Massing can come and talk to me about my new script. I sent her the first script and she gave me good feedback. Then I sent her the second script which is really similar to the first. Now in my third script, it's different. No fighting, no MMA. I want to prove to her that I'm not a one- trick pony.
Job search: I also have to wait until Sept. before I can start looking for a job again. Well I did check the Classifieds to try to find a good job.
Aug. 23 Juwanna Mann: I saw this movie, and I surprisingly liked it and didn't like Sorority Boys. In SB, there are 3 guys who are in a fraternity. They are then kicked out of the house, and they dress up like women so they could join a sorority. They then learn what it's like to be a woman. That was a comedy, and I only laughed once at it.
In Juwanna Mann, this movie came out as the same year as SB in 2002. This movie is about a stuck- up professional basketball player named Jamal Jeffries. He is so full of himself that he is kicked off his team. He loses his fortune like his mansion, and then moves back in with his aunt. J then sees a girl play basketball with a group of guys, and then he decides to dress up like a woman and play on the WNBA.
Jamal is played by Miguel A. Nunez Jr. I've never seen him before. When he dresses up like a woman, he does look like one. Maybe it's because I've never seen him before, maybe because he's African- American, I don't know. He looks more like a woman than the 3 guys in SB. Maybe those 3 guys don't like like women as easily because I've seen them before, because they're white, I don't know.
He talks to his agent Lorne, played by Kevin Pollack. KP then manages a tryout for the Charlotte Banshees. J then becomes Juwanna Mann and manages to get into the team. J is a ball- hog and doesn't get along with Vivica A. Fox's character Michelle. Later, J learns to become a team player. J also falls in love with Michelle.
Those screenwriting books have an effect on me. J has an arc in the story and character development. What's interesting is that the singer Ginuwine is in it playing Michelle's boyfriend. G is an R&B singer, and he plays one here too. Analyze: I was jotting out ideas to write a story. A man in a woman's world has been done like in the above movies I mentioned. They are usually comedies.
I read in Writing Movies book it talked about Tootsie, a guy dressed up like a woman to get acting jobs. A woman in a man's world has already been done like what I mentioned in Iron Road and Mulan. They are usually dramas. Throw in comedy like She's the Man and a Futurama ep where Leela dresses up like a man to keep an eye on Fry and Bender when they join the army.
Another idea was a "fish out of water" like The OC. A poor kid from the ghetto (Ryan) moves into a rich neighborhood. Well it's interesting to put someone into a totally new situation and see how they handle it.
The other idea was that a character thinks he's so good at something, and then he goes somewhere and realizes that he isn't that good. It's kind of like in Post Grad. A girl who gets great grades in school, and then she doesn't get a good career. The idea came to me when I was auditioning for So You Think Can Dance Canada. I got that feeling.
When I took Creative Writing in high school, there was like 15 other kids there and they seemed to be really good writers. When I was in the Professional Writing program, there were really good writers too. However, I didn't feel intimidated. I knew that I was there because I was good. I took the test and sent in 3 portfolio pieces of my writing and I got accepted.
Dream: Last night I had that dream again where I was auditioning for So You Think You Can Dance Canada. This time I auditioned for one producer, and she let me in go to the second round. I was happy that I got one step further this year than the last time I auditioned. The other dreams were I auditioned again for Blake McGrath, this time contemporary. He wouldn't let me audition. The other dream I danced to four other songs for the American version and for the judge Nigel.
Dialogue: I was thinking about how Secret Life of the American Teenager and how they repeat the same words all the time. I remember in the comedy Less than Kind, there was one scene where the family is eating dinner, and they kept repeating the word potatoes.
Dad: Can we please stop talking about potatoes?
I remember in this one convo where I was telling Hyacinthe who he looked like. I used the word brother 3 times.
Me: Matthew Lawrence is Joey Lawrence's little brother.
H: Who's Joey Lawrence?
Me: He plays Blossom's big brother.
Then:
Me: Matthew Lawrence was on Boy Meets World where he played Rider Strong's big brother. I repeated this convo to my friend Silvia and she was like: "I thought you said he looked like a Jonas Brother."
Aug. 24 Horoscope: In my Aug. 20 horoscope from the Globe and Mail, it said this: "Everything will fall into place over the next few days, so stop worrying about whether or not you are doing the right thing. You've had the courage to make changes in recent weeks and soon you will be getting the rewards you deserve."
Aug. 25: Well it's been a few days, and I don't think it has truly manifested. I don't know. I took the courage and gave the Kyle Gallner lookalike Mark my email address. He hasn't emailed me. I haven't seen him in 2 weeks, except today. He walked by the restaurant. I waved at him when he was on the way down the escalator, and he wave back. So that's good.
Shopping: I watched the Doc Zone show about malls. They even profiled West Edmonton Mall and www.deadmalls.com. Did you know that Push Mobile is opening in City Centre? It's where Sunglasses Hut used to be.I was shopping at Urban Behaviour at City Centre and this sales girl comes up to me asking me if I had an SPC card (Student Price Card).
Me: Well I'm not really a student.
Girl: Well it's okay, we don't really check anyone's ID. If they want to buy something, we'll let them buy it.
Flash Gordon: I looked for the Flash Gordon (2007) TV series dvd at HMV. You look at it, and none of the actors are on the cover. Then I look at the back, and none of actors are even mentioned in the back. I then had to go to the guy at the front and ask him to research if this is the one with Eric Johnson in it. It is and it's only $29.99 for all 22 episodes.
I then went on Youtube to see if I can watch full- length episodes, but there weren't any so I went and watched interviews with EJ instead.
Aug. 26 The Listener: The Listener season finale is tomorrow and I want all of you to watch it on CTV. Also go to this website and sign it. This petition will help get a second season. Thank you for doing that.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/the-listener-season-2-on-ctv
The Waiting Game: You know that ep on The Simpsons where Homer is Mr. Plow? He puts a commercial on TV, and then:
Homer: Now it's time to play the waiting game.
Pause.
H: This is boring, let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Right now I'm playing the waiting game. I have to wait until the beginning of next month before I contact the producer John to see if he read the script. Then I also have to wait till next month before I contact the actor Giles Panton if he read the script either. I sent it to him, and then one week later on Aug. 12 I emailed him. He didn't reply. Then on Aug. 16, I emailed him again, and he still hasn't replied.
I also have to wait until Sept. before Conni Massing can come and talk to me about my new script. I sent her the first script and she gave me good feedback. Then I sent her the second script which is really similar to the first. Now in my third script, it's different. No fighting, no MMA. I want to prove to her that I'm not a one- trick pony.
Job search: I also have to wait until Sept. before I can start looking for a job again. Well I did check the Classifieds to try to find a good job.
Aug. 23 Juwanna Mann: I saw this movie, and I surprisingly liked it and didn't like Sorority Boys. In SB, there are 3 guys who are in a fraternity. They are then kicked out of the house, and they dress up like women so they could join a sorority. They then learn what it's like to be a woman. That was a comedy, and I only laughed once at it.
In Juwanna Mann, this movie came out as the same year as SB in 2002. This movie is about a stuck- up professional basketball player named Jamal Jeffries. He is so full of himself that he is kicked off his team. He loses his fortune like his mansion, and then moves back in with his aunt. J then sees a girl play basketball with a group of guys, and then he decides to dress up like a woman and play on the WNBA.
Jamal is played by Miguel A. Nunez Jr. I've never seen him before. When he dresses up like a woman, he does look like one. Maybe it's because I've never seen him before, maybe because he's African- American, I don't know. He looks more like a woman than the 3 guys in SB. Maybe those 3 guys don't like like women as easily because I've seen them before, because they're white, I don't know.
He talks to his agent Lorne, played by Kevin Pollack. KP then manages a tryout for the Charlotte Banshees. J then becomes Juwanna Mann and manages to get into the team. J is a ball- hog and doesn't get along with Vivica A. Fox's character Michelle. Later, J learns to become a team player. J also falls in love with Michelle.
Those screenwriting books have an effect on me. J has an arc in the story and character development. What's interesting is that the singer Ginuwine is in it playing Michelle's boyfriend. G is an R&B singer, and he plays one here too. Analyze: I was jotting out ideas to write a story. A man in a woman's world has been done like in the above movies I mentioned. They are usually comedies.
I read in Writing Movies book it talked about Tootsie, a guy dressed up like a woman to get acting jobs. A woman in a man's world has already been done like what I mentioned in Iron Road and Mulan. They are usually dramas. Throw in comedy like She's the Man and a Futurama ep where Leela dresses up like a man to keep an eye on Fry and Bender when they join the army.
Another idea was a "fish out of water" like The OC. A poor kid from the ghetto (Ryan) moves into a rich neighborhood. Well it's interesting to put someone into a totally new situation and see how they handle it.
The other idea was that a character thinks he's so good at something, and then he goes somewhere and realizes that he isn't that good. It's kind of like in Post Grad. A girl who gets great grades in school, and then she doesn't get a good career. The idea came to me when I was auditioning for So You Think Can Dance Canada. I got that feeling.
When I took Creative Writing in high school, there was like 15 other kids there and they seemed to be really good writers. When I was in the Professional Writing program, there were really good writers too. However, I didn't feel intimidated. I knew that I was there because I was good. I took the test and sent in 3 portfolio pieces of my writing and I got accepted.
Dream: Last night I had that dream again where I was auditioning for So You Think You Can Dance Canada. This time I auditioned for one producer, and she let me in go to the second round. I was happy that I got one step further this year than the last time I auditioned. The other dreams were I auditioned again for Blake McGrath, this time contemporary. He wouldn't let me audition. The other dream I danced to four other songs for the American version and for the judge Nigel.
Dialogue: I was thinking about how Secret Life of the American Teenager and how they repeat the same words all the time. I remember in the comedy Less than Kind, there was one scene where the family is eating dinner, and they kept repeating the word potatoes.
Dad: Can we please stop talking about potatoes?
I remember in this one convo where I was telling Hyacinthe who he looked like. I used the word brother 3 times.
Me: Matthew Lawrence is Joey Lawrence's little brother.
H: Who's Joey Lawrence?
Me: He plays Blossom's big brother.
Then:
Me: Matthew Lawrence was on Boy Meets World where he played Rider Strong's big brother. I repeated this convo to my friend Silvia and she was like: "I thought you said he looked like a Jonas Brother."
Aug. 24 Horoscope: In my Aug. 20 horoscope from the Globe and Mail, it said this: "Everything will fall into place over the next few days, so stop worrying about whether or not you are doing the right thing. You've had the courage to make changes in recent weeks and soon you will be getting the rewards you deserve."
Aug. 25: Well it's been a few days, and I don't think it has truly manifested. I don't know. I took the courage and gave the Kyle Gallner lookalike Mark my email address. He hasn't emailed me. I haven't seen him in 2 weeks, except today. He walked by the restaurant. I waved at him when he was on the way down the escalator, and he wave back. So that's good.
Shopping: I watched the Doc Zone show about malls. They even profiled West Edmonton Mall and www.deadmalls.com. Did you know that Push Mobile is opening in City Centre? It's where Sunglasses Hut used to be.I was shopping at Urban Behaviour at City Centre and this sales girl comes up to me asking me if I had an SPC card (Student Price Card).
Me: Well I'm not really a student.
Girl: Well it's okay, we don't really check anyone's ID. If they want to buy something, we'll let them buy it.
Flash Gordon: I looked for the Flash Gordon (2007) TV series dvd at HMV. You look at it, and none of the actors are on the cover. Then I look at the back, and none of actors are even mentioned in the back. I then had to go to the guy at the front and ask him to research if this is the one with Eric Johnson in it. It is and it's only $29.99 for all 22 episodes.
I then went on Youtube to see if I can watch full- length episodes, but there weren't any so I went and watched interviews with EJ instead.
Aug. 26 The Listener: The Listener season finale is tomorrow and I want all of you to watch it on CTV. Also go to this website and sign it. This petition will help get a second season. Thank you for doing that.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/the-listener-season-2-on-ctv
Saturday, August 22, 2009
motivation/ charity/ The Devil's Diary
Aug. 19 Motivation: It's hard for me to motivate myself to get a job. I read this in my horoscope today in 24: "Everything you need to implement change are at your finger tips. All you need is the desire to move forward."
Aug. 20 Tosh. O: The summer is ending, and the summer shows are ending. In Plain Sight is over, and so is Tosh. O. Well this show got renewed so yay! Here's a joke that was on awhile.
Viewer: Do you like waffle?
Daniel: No, I like pancake.
lol.
Last night's ep had the cutest and funniest thing ever. The last clip they showed was Daniel and a dog sitting at a table. The dog looked like my friend Leslie's dog Mickey. Dan and the dog both moved their heads in unison from left to right, right to left, up and down, down and up. It was so cute.
Joke: I saw Conan O' Brien the other night, and it was a rerun, but I never saw it. Conan was at a science fair with all these smart university students displaying their projects. On the back of the shirts it said: "Go for the Au." Get it? Au in the chemistry table stands for gold. That reminds me of gr. 10 science class where a sub calls my name and then says: "Golden Girl." Then he explained to me that my last name stood for gold.
A guy was talking to a group of people. Conan is standing from a distance.
C: And he is talking about how to get to first base.
Music: I borrowed the Michael Jackson cd "The Essential" which holds most of his hits. It's 2 discs. I do like "You Rock my World" and "PYT Pretty Young Thing." I read that Natalli from So You Think You Can Dance Canada was supposed to be in his comeback tour as a backup dancer, but of course that plan fell short.
Then I borrowed Emimen's new album "Relapse." His album is offensive and scary. Yeah, I hear his music and see his videos on TV and the radio. Well since I don't like it, after one whole listen of the album, I returned it the next day.
I then got Demi Lavato's 2nd album "Here We go Again." That's more my cup of tea. I borrowed her first cd from the library and like the song "In the Middle." In the first album most songs are co- written with the Jonas Brothers. In this new album I like the song "Catch Me" which is a song soley written by DL. It's a love song.
I do like the fast rock song "Got Dynamite" about you have to break down the walls around me to get to know me. "World of Chances is co- writtten between DL and John Mayer. I like "Stop the World", co- written by DL, Nick Jonas, and PJ Bianco. I like the rock song "Everytime You Lie." In fact, today is DL's 17th bday.
Fun: I bumped into my old Professional Writing classmate Meghan again on the bus. She was with her boyfriend Landon, and he was in the program too. Landon and I kind of recognized each other.
Teen Pregnancy: Yes, I'm back on my favorite topic again. I was thinking about this time years ago when I saw on Maury, about teen girls who want to get pregnant. One girl got pregnant, and she was acting all smug about it. The other girls all shook hands with her. Her mom was crying and acting upset.
I think the girl was acting smug because she knows that her mom is going to take care of her and the baby. In this case, I would probably kick her out of the house. Teach her a lesson that I won't take care of her and the baby, and she is going to take responsibility of it. If not, she could come to the decision to give the baby up for adoption.
True Life: I do watch the MTV show True Life. Well it did profile MMA fighter Kit Cope in the ep "I'm a Mix Martial Arts Fighter." Now I watch it for all these other things like "I'm in Debt." It did inspire me to clean my room of papers.
Well it profiled 3 young women who are in credit card debt and one had to file for bankruptcy at 21. Mainly things were going good, and then they lost their jobs like they got laid off, and they were forced to live on credit cards. They had to move in with their family, buy cheap food, and cash their checks at Western Union which isn't really a bank.
Job: I've been working at the soup place for a year and 2 months. On Sunday, it was so quiet, I read a lot of my screenwriting book. It's quiet from 4pm- 6pm, so I always read the Metro and 24 during that time. Here's some motivation, look for a more exciting job.
Aug. 21: I told my co- worker Jen about my job search. 99 resumes, in 8 months, 1 interview. She says that there are lots of people going to school in the fall and will be quitting their jobs. Try looking for a job then. Good point.
I was reading twop.com about "TV moments that angry up the blood" about how Chelsea Lately and her comedians all made fun of this woman who is suing her college. The reason is that she can't get a job with her education. The twoper said: "Doesn't mean you paid for college, means that you are entitled to a job. What annoys me is that CL and her comedians aren't funny. Not everybody can be good looking and mediocore comediennes. She wouldn't even have this TV show if her boyfriend wasn't the president of E! Network."
Charity: Today I donated some old school supplies that I don't use to Staples. There is a bin there to donate to children who can't afford school supplies. I donated stuff like binders, and geometry sets I haven't used since jr. high. If you have any old school supplies you don't use, donate to Staples.
Aug. 22 Post Grad: I read reviews of this movie starring Alexis Bleidel. I get three newspapers, and one gave it 1 star, one gave it 2 stars, one gave it 2 and a half stars. They mainly dissed it saying the movie doesn't even deal with the angst and the consequences of being young and jobless. It's about a girl who gets straight As in school, and then doesn't get a great job at this publishing company. Then she moves back in with her family.
Well I'm sure a lot of people can relate to it, especially now in the recession. Like the above, someone from twop.com said that only 18% of college graduates got jobs.
The Devil's Diary: Right now I'm watching this 2006 TV movie. It stars Alexz Johnson (Jude from the TV show Instant Star.) She plays this girl Dominque and her friend Ursula (Magda Apanowicz from Renegade Press). They find this book which is the Devil's diary. Ursula has this urge to write in it, and she writes about how she hates these people in her school. She wishes bad things to happen to them, and it happens.
It also stars other Canadian actors like Miriam McDonald (Emma from Degrassi: The Next Generation). On Degrassi, MM plays a good girl. On this it shows more range like a mean girl. Deanna Casaluce (Alex from Degrassi). She plays a outcast/ bad girl on the show, but in the movie she plays MM's mean girl friend. First Ursula wishes something bad to happen to MM, and she lands in the hospital.
Then later MM's friends manage to steal the book away from U, and then they write in the book that U dies. U then dies, as her friends try to save her. Then DC takes the book, she writes that she wants MM to die. MM does. She wishes all the boys to want her. Later one of the mean girls played by Laura Konechny teams up with Dominque and her friends to stop DC.
DC manipulates the two boys to go and kill Dominique when she manages to get the book. D starts ripping the book's pages. DC starts hurting. D then throws the book against the wall and it falls hard on the ground. DC is then thrown against the wall, and falls downs hard on the ground, and is killed.
D is shocked. She didn't mean to kill her. She was trying to get the boys away from her. That totally reminded me of what the producer John said to me. He mentioned how my lead character loses the audience's sympathy even though it was in self- defense. I then had to raise the stakes and make the lead character be forced to do what he had to do to save himself.
Then the next scene, D is once again forced to save herself again without losing the audience's sympathy. Her stepdad was pretty skeevy to begin with. He then takes the book out of her hands, and he attempts to assault her. She fights back, and locks the door. He is trying to break in, and she is forced to write in the book wishing that he would die. He uses a pair of scissors to break in, and he then stabs himself in the neck with it.
Cut to D all shocked that it occured. D was in talks with the Priest the entire time. Priest then gets Priest 2 to come to get the book. Priest 2 is actually evil. D then manages to kill P2 by stabbing the book. P2 is set on fire by supernatural forces. Cut to 6 weeks later, and D is a mental hospital.
D then feels that the book is discovered in the graveyard by 2 boys. One of them takes it and she knows everything is going to start all over again. In horror movies, I don't like it when the lead character fights, and fights, and then loses. I do like when they win. Or in horror movies, throw in one last scare like in Final Destination, and Final Destination 2.
Aug. 20 Tosh. O: The summer is ending, and the summer shows are ending. In Plain Sight is over, and so is Tosh. O. Well this show got renewed so yay! Here's a joke that was on awhile.
Viewer: Do you like waffle?
Daniel: No, I like pancake.
lol.
Last night's ep had the cutest and funniest thing ever. The last clip they showed was Daniel and a dog sitting at a table. The dog looked like my friend Leslie's dog Mickey. Dan and the dog both moved their heads in unison from left to right, right to left, up and down, down and up. It was so cute.
Joke: I saw Conan O' Brien the other night, and it was a rerun, but I never saw it. Conan was at a science fair with all these smart university students displaying their projects. On the back of the shirts it said: "Go for the Au." Get it? Au in the chemistry table stands for gold. That reminds me of gr. 10 science class where a sub calls my name and then says: "Golden Girl." Then he explained to me that my last name stood for gold.
A guy was talking to a group of people. Conan is standing from a distance.
C: And he is talking about how to get to first base.
Music: I borrowed the Michael Jackson cd "The Essential" which holds most of his hits. It's 2 discs. I do like "You Rock my World" and "PYT Pretty Young Thing." I read that Natalli from So You Think You Can Dance Canada was supposed to be in his comeback tour as a backup dancer, but of course that plan fell short.
Then I borrowed Emimen's new album "Relapse." His album is offensive and scary. Yeah, I hear his music and see his videos on TV and the radio. Well since I don't like it, after one whole listen of the album, I returned it the next day.
I then got Demi Lavato's 2nd album "Here We go Again." That's more my cup of tea. I borrowed her first cd from the library and like the song "In the Middle." In the first album most songs are co- written with the Jonas Brothers. In this new album I like the song "Catch Me" which is a song soley written by DL. It's a love song.
I do like the fast rock song "Got Dynamite" about you have to break down the walls around me to get to know me. "World of Chances is co- writtten between DL and John Mayer. I like "Stop the World", co- written by DL, Nick Jonas, and PJ Bianco. I like the rock song "Everytime You Lie." In fact, today is DL's 17th bday.
Fun: I bumped into my old Professional Writing classmate Meghan again on the bus. She was with her boyfriend Landon, and he was in the program too. Landon and I kind of recognized each other.
Teen Pregnancy: Yes, I'm back on my favorite topic again. I was thinking about this time years ago when I saw on Maury, about teen girls who want to get pregnant. One girl got pregnant, and she was acting all smug about it. The other girls all shook hands with her. Her mom was crying and acting upset.
I think the girl was acting smug because she knows that her mom is going to take care of her and the baby. In this case, I would probably kick her out of the house. Teach her a lesson that I won't take care of her and the baby, and she is going to take responsibility of it. If not, she could come to the decision to give the baby up for adoption.
True Life: I do watch the MTV show True Life. Well it did profile MMA fighter Kit Cope in the ep "I'm a Mix Martial Arts Fighter." Now I watch it for all these other things like "I'm in Debt." It did inspire me to clean my room of papers.
Well it profiled 3 young women who are in credit card debt and one had to file for bankruptcy at 21. Mainly things were going good, and then they lost their jobs like they got laid off, and they were forced to live on credit cards. They had to move in with their family, buy cheap food, and cash their checks at Western Union which isn't really a bank.
Job: I've been working at the soup place for a year and 2 months. On Sunday, it was so quiet, I read a lot of my screenwriting book. It's quiet from 4pm- 6pm, so I always read the Metro and 24 during that time. Here's some motivation, look for a more exciting job.
Aug. 21: I told my co- worker Jen about my job search. 99 resumes, in 8 months, 1 interview. She says that there are lots of people going to school in the fall and will be quitting their jobs. Try looking for a job then. Good point.
I was reading twop.com about "TV moments that angry up the blood" about how Chelsea Lately and her comedians all made fun of this woman who is suing her college. The reason is that she can't get a job with her education. The twoper said: "Doesn't mean you paid for college, means that you are entitled to a job. What annoys me is that CL and her comedians aren't funny. Not everybody can be good looking and mediocore comediennes. She wouldn't even have this TV show if her boyfriend wasn't the president of E! Network."
Charity: Today I donated some old school supplies that I don't use to Staples. There is a bin there to donate to children who can't afford school supplies. I donated stuff like binders, and geometry sets I haven't used since jr. high. If you have any old school supplies you don't use, donate to Staples.
Aug. 22 Post Grad: I read reviews of this movie starring Alexis Bleidel. I get three newspapers, and one gave it 1 star, one gave it 2 stars, one gave it 2 and a half stars. They mainly dissed it saying the movie doesn't even deal with the angst and the consequences of being young and jobless. It's about a girl who gets straight As in school, and then doesn't get a great job at this publishing company. Then she moves back in with her family.
Well I'm sure a lot of people can relate to it, especially now in the recession. Like the above, someone from twop.com said that only 18% of college graduates got jobs.
The Devil's Diary: Right now I'm watching this 2006 TV movie. It stars Alexz Johnson (Jude from the TV show Instant Star.) She plays this girl Dominque and her friend Ursula (Magda Apanowicz from Renegade Press). They find this book which is the Devil's diary. Ursula has this urge to write in it, and she writes about how she hates these people in her school. She wishes bad things to happen to them, and it happens.
It also stars other Canadian actors like Miriam McDonald (Emma from Degrassi: The Next Generation). On Degrassi, MM plays a good girl. On this it shows more range like a mean girl. Deanna Casaluce (Alex from Degrassi). She plays a outcast/ bad girl on the show, but in the movie she plays MM's mean girl friend. First Ursula wishes something bad to happen to MM, and she lands in the hospital.
Then later MM's friends manage to steal the book away from U, and then they write in the book that U dies. U then dies, as her friends try to save her. Then DC takes the book, she writes that she wants MM to die. MM does. She wishes all the boys to want her. Later one of the mean girls played by Laura Konechny teams up with Dominque and her friends to stop DC.
DC manipulates the two boys to go and kill Dominique when she manages to get the book. D starts ripping the book's pages. DC starts hurting. D then throws the book against the wall and it falls hard on the ground. DC is then thrown against the wall, and falls downs hard on the ground, and is killed.
D is shocked. She didn't mean to kill her. She was trying to get the boys away from her. That totally reminded me of what the producer John said to me. He mentioned how my lead character loses the audience's sympathy even though it was in self- defense. I then had to raise the stakes and make the lead character be forced to do what he had to do to save himself.
Then the next scene, D is once again forced to save herself again without losing the audience's sympathy. Her stepdad was pretty skeevy to begin with. He then takes the book out of her hands, and he attempts to assault her. She fights back, and locks the door. He is trying to break in, and she is forced to write in the book wishing that he would die. He uses a pair of scissors to break in, and he then stabs himself in the neck with it.
Cut to D all shocked that it occured. D was in talks with the Priest the entire time. Priest then gets Priest 2 to come to get the book. Priest 2 is actually evil. D then manages to kill P2 by stabbing the book. P2 is set on fire by supernatural forces. Cut to 6 weeks later, and D is a mental hospital.
D then feels that the book is discovered in the graveyard by 2 boys. One of them takes it and she knows everything is going to start all over again. In horror movies, I don't like it when the lead character fights, and fights, and then loses. I do like when they win. Or in horror movies, throw in one last scare like in Final Destination, and Final Destination 2.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Iron Road/ funny and stupid/ dance
Aug. 16 Iron Road: This is a great TV movie. It's about Chinese men working on the railroad in the 1800s. What's interesting is that Sun Li plays Little Tiger. She is a woman pretending to be a man so she could work. She is also looking for her father, after her mother died a long time ago. She also later falls in love with the boss's son James who is played by Luke MacFarlane. LM is handsome.
The first 2 hours is how Tiger wants to go to Canada to build a railroad. Each person will get paid $1 a day which is a lot back then. James's dad tells him to get 200 China men over to Canada to build it. James goes to China to talk to this old white guy to get the men. The old guy's assistant is Tiger. Tiger is also good with making fireworks.
Tiger gets into a fight with this mob boss. Later, mob boss comes and kills the old guy. James says Tiger will probably get killed if she stays there, so he lets her come with him to Canada. Tiger is a tea boy the entire time. They need to make explosives to blow up the rock so they could build the railroad.
T makes the explosives. Then at the end of Part 1 (2 hours), T reveals to J that she is really a woman. Cut to Part 2. J feels like she shouldn't be there because she's a woman. J keeps T's secret that she's a woman. Then 30 min. into Part 2, they hook up.
Then J's girlfriend Melanie shows up, so there's some tension there. J isn't interested in M anymore. They broke it off.
In the last 20 min., there is this huge revelation that totally suprised me. There is this Chinese Bookman who is the liason between the China men, and the white men. His story is that he lost his wife and daughter when his village was attacked. He has a scar on his face from it.
A white guy overhears T and J talking, and he learns that T is really a woman. T tells J, that her real name is Li Jun. White guy goes and tells Bookman, and shows him the family pic that T has. Then Bookman and I realize at the same time, that Li Jun is really his daughter. I was like: "Oh my God!" Then Bookman punches White guy in the face, Bookman runs over to the dynamite place.
Turns out one of the White men had cut up the rope, so it would give way and get one of the China men killed. T is sitting on that swing with the cut rope. Bookman is yelling out T's real name. He saves T's life, but he also gets hurt. B then tells T that he is her father. The White guy gets arrested.
Then T and J hug goodbye. Well T has to go home and bury her father's ashes. She will then come back to Canada to be with J, and keep making explosives.
At the end, it said due to historical facts, it's like 3 Chinese men died for every mile of the Canadian railroad. The Canadian govt. had made all these Chinese Canadians pay head taxes so they could come into the country. They got $23 million for it, way more than the railroad even cost to make. In 2006, the government apologized for it.
Aug. 17 16 and Pregnant: So today I watched the first half of an ep I missed where they profiled the girl Ebony. She and her boyfriend come from military families, and they both want to join the airforce. Then she got pregnant, and now only her bf can join the airforce, and he will pay to take care of the baby.
I then got this memory triggered from me. Her bf Josh had 228 unexcused abscences. He then pushed through and graduated out of high school. That totally reminded me of that time in gr. 12 and I was in Tiger Group. It was kind of like a homeroom where all three grades of 30 people met up once a week.
Miss D: Let's combine all our lates and absences together and we'll see if we can lessen it all together the next time we meet up. There is this guy Steve, who I was in gr. 8 homeroom with. He was kind of class clown. Miss D comes up to him.
Miss D: How many lates do you have?
Steve: 19.
Miss D was shocked.
S: Yeah well I still got a 92% in Math 31.
Funny and stupid: I was reading the Metro today and it talked about the strangest complaints that they got from employees. 2, 600 hiring managers did a survey for CareerBuilder.
Stuff that may conflict with the dresscode:
-Employee is too suntanned, has big hair, only wears slippers or socks at work.
-Employee breathes too loudly. (Yes, that can be annoying, but I think I'll have to be the judge of that. I'll have to hear how loudly they breathe.)
-Employee wants to check co- worker for ticks. (Sounds like someone is paranoid about getting ticks.)
-Employee spends too much time caring for stray cats around the building. (And what? Not enough time working?)
-Employee smells like road ramps. (How do they smell? If it's bad, then go tell them that.)
-Employee's aura is wrong. (This person complaining sounds like someone who's into New Age.)
-Co- worker reminded the employee too much of Bambi. (Don't like Bambi or the co- worker).
-Employee is so polite, it's infuriating. (Is that person Ned Flanders? lol.)
-Employee eats all the good cookies. (That sounds like what Homer Simpson would complain about, and so with the above line).
-Employee suspected co- worker is a pimp. (Well he is breaking the law if he is a pimp. I don't know what the evidence is.)
-Employee is trying to poison me. (That can be a serious offense if that person was trying to poison someone. Maybe put a camera up and get evidence.)
-Employee's body is magnetic and keeps de- activating my access card. (I think you need to study some science to see how access cards work).
-Employee is personally responsible for a federally mandated tax increase. (Well what's his job? They must work in government or something.)
Bank: In other news, in the Metro it said this: "Colonial Bank of Montgomery Ala., was shuttered Friday and its assets sold to BB&T Corp, marking the largest bank failure this year." This is the 74th bank closure this year.
Aug. 18 Dance: I saw So You Think You Can Dance Canada auditions in Edmonton. That girl Anna I was talking to there, she actually ended up getting to do Blake Bootcamp where Blake McGrath teaches the dancers choreography. Then at the end there was this big group of dancers who got into the finals, but I don't know if I saw her there. When I saw her there in the bootcamp, I was like: "Well it looks like she got further than I did." lol.
The guy who I see on the show, and he aslo takes my bus. He did get into the finals. Jamie the Ukranian dancer I saw, he did choreography and got rejected. There was this guy, Eric? Well he did Native dancing with hoops, did choreography, and got rejected.
This Asian girl wearing a purple shirt who did contemporary, got into the finals. I think I remember her because she was maybe the only Asian girl there besides me. She was also sitting on the row behind me and she was talking with one of the crew women.
Crew woman: Did you audition last year?
Girl: Yes.
Another thing that was memorable was this girl who did contemporary. Then she got into the finals and she was crying. She says: "This is so embarassing (crying)." Her dad hugs her, and he wipes a tear from his eye. Then her mom hugs her.Jokes: This reminds me of an old Friends episode years ago. It's where Joey lies and says that he's got years of dance experience in him so he can land an acting job. He teaches dance to all these dancers, and it's really bad. When the person in charge saw the dancing, he tells Joey to go and show them his moves.
Cut to Joey who looks like he's prepping himself to dance.
He then bolts out of the dance studio as fast as he can.
lol.
The other joke is that the other day, I was drinking some Vitamin Water. My sister saw me and said: "What are you? Gossip Girl?"
She's referring to the blatant product placement of Vitamin Water on that TV show. It's like Dr. Pepper being advertised on 90210.
I remember this old joke from the TV show War at Home. It's where the dad played by Michael Rappaport catches his teen daughter sneaking back in.
MR: I thought you were dead. Or worse.
Daughter: What's worse than death?
Cut to the Daughter pregnant.
lol. I thought so.
The first 2 hours is how Tiger wants to go to Canada to build a railroad. Each person will get paid $1 a day which is a lot back then. James's dad tells him to get 200 China men over to Canada to build it. James goes to China to talk to this old white guy to get the men. The old guy's assistant is Tiger. Tiger is also good with making fireworks.
Tiger gets into a fight with this mob boss. Later, mob boss comes and kills the old guy. James says Tiger will probably get killed if she stays there, so he lets her come with him to Canada. Tiger is a tea boy the entire time. They need to make explosives to blow up the rock so they could build the railroad.
T makes the explosives. Then at the end of Part 1 (2 hours), T reveals to J that she is really a woman. Cut to Part 2. J feels like she shouldn't be there because she's a woman. J keeps T's secret that she's a woman. Then 30 min. into Part 2, they hook up.
Then J's girlfriend Melanie shows up, so there's some tension there. J isn't interested in M anymore. They broke it off.
In the last 20 min., there is this huge revelation that totally suprised me. There is this Chinese Bookman who is the liason between the China men, and the white men. His story is that he lost his wife and daughter when his village was attacked. He has a scar on his face from it.
A white guy overhears T and J talking, and he learns that T is really a woman. T tells J, that her real name is Li Jun. White guy goes and tells Bookman, and shows him the family pic that T has. Then Bookman and I realize at the same time, that Li Jun is really his daughter. I was like: "Oh my God!" Then Bookman punches White guy in the face, Bookman runs over to the dynamite place.
Turns out one of the White men had cut up the rope, so it would give way and get one of the China men killed. T is sitting on that swing with the cut rope. Bookman is yelling out T's real name. He saves T's life, but he also gets hurt. B then tells T that he is her father. The White guy gets arrested.
Then T and J hug goodbye. Well T has to go home and bury her father's ashes. She will then come back to Canada to be with J, and keep making explosives.
At the end, it said due to historical facts, it's like 3 Chinese men died for every mile of the Canadian railroad. The Canadian govt. had made all these Chinese Canadians pay head taxes so they could come into the country. They got $23 million for it, way more than the railroad even cost to make. In 2006, the government apologized for it.
Aug. 17 16 and Pregnant: So today I watched the first half of an ep I missed where they profiled the girl Ebony. She and her boyfriend come from military families, and they both want to join the airforce. Then she got pregnant, and now only her bf can join the airforce, and he will pay to take care of the baby.
I then got this memory triggered from me. Her bf Josh had 228 unexcused abscences. He then pushed through and graduated out of high school. That totally reminded me of that time in gr. 12 and I was in Tiger Group. It was kind of like a homeroom where all three grades of 30 people met up once a week.
Miss D: Let's combine all our lates and absences together and we'll see if we can lessen it all together the next time we meet up. There is this guy Steve, who I was in gr. 8 homeroom with. He was kind of class clown. Miss D comes up to him.
Miss D: How many lates do you have?
Steve: 19.
Miss D was shocked.
S: Yeah well I still got a 92% in Math 31.
Funny and stupid: I was reading the Metro today and it talked about the strangest complaints that they got from employees. 2, 600 hiring managers did a survey for CareerBuilder.
Stuff that may conflict with the dresscode:
-Employee is too suntanned, has big hair, only wears slippers or socks at work.
-Employee breathes too loudly. (Yes, that can be annoying, but I think I'll have to be the judge of that. I'll have to hear how loudly they breathe.)
-Employee wants to check co- worker for ticks. (Sounds like someone is paranoid about getting ticks.)
-Employee spends too much time caring for stray cats around the building. (And what? Not enough time working?)
-Employee smells like road ramps. (How do they smell? If it's bad, then go tell them that.)
-Employee's aura is wrong. (This person complaining sounds like someone who's into New Age.)
-Co- worker reminded the employee too much of Bambi. (Don't like Bambi or the co- worker).
-Employee is so polite, it's infuriating. (Is that person Ned Flanders? lol.)
-Employee eats all the good cookies. (That sounds like what Homer Simpson would complain about, and so with the above line).
-Employee suspected co- worker is a pimp. (Well he is breaking the law if he is a pimp. I don't know what the evidence is.)
-Employee is trying to poison me. (That can be a serious offense if that person was trying to poison someone. Maybe put a camera up and get evidence.)
-Employee's body is magnetic and keeps de- activating my access card. (I think you need to study some science to see how access cards work).
-Employee is personally responsible for a federally mandated tax increase. (Well what's his job? They must work in government or something.)
Bank: In other news, in the Metro it said this: "Colonial Bank of Montgomery Ala., was shuttered Friday and its assets sold to BB&T Corp, marking the largest bank failure this year." This is the 74th bank closure this year.
Aug. 18 Dance: I saw So You Think You Can Dance Canada auditions in Edmonton. That girl Anna I was talking to there, she actually ended up getting to do Blake Bootcamp where Blake McGrath teaches the dancers choreography. Then at the end there was this big group of dancers who got into the finals, but I don't know if I saw her there. When I saw her there in the bootcamp, I was like: "Well it looks like she got further than I did." lol.
The guy who I see on the show, and he aslo takes my bus. He did get into the finals. Jamie the Ukranian dancer I saw, he did choreography and got rejected. There was this guy, Eric? Well he did Native dancing with hoops, did choreography, and got rejected.
This Asian girl wearing a purple shirt who did contemporary, got into the finals. I think I remember her because she was maybe the only Asian girl there besides me. She was also sitting on the row behind me and she was talking with one of the crew women.
Crew woman: Did you audition last year?
Girl: Yes.
Another thing that was memorable was this girl who did contemporary. Then she got into the finals and she was crying. She says: "This is so embarassing (crying)." Her dad hugs her, and he wipes a tear from his eye. Then her mom hugs her.Jokes: This reminds me of an old Friends episode years ago. It's where Joey lies and says that he's got years of dance experience in him so he can land an acting job. He teaches dance to all these dancers, and it's really bad. When the person in charge saw the dancing, he tells Joey to go and show them his moves.
Cut to Joey who looks like he's prepping himself to dance.
He then bolts out of the dance studio as fast as he can.
lol.
The other joke is that the other day, I was drinking some Vitamin Water. My sister saw me and said: "What are you? Gossip Girl?"
She's referring to the blatant product placement of Vitamin Water on that TV show. It's like Dr. Pepper being advertised on 90210.
I remember this old joke from the TV show War at Home. It's where the dad played by Michael Rappaport catches his teen daughter sneaking back in.
MR: I thought you were dead. Or worse.
Daughter: What's worse than death?
Cut to the Daughter pregnant.
lol. I thought so.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
article/ psychic/ funny
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2009
article/ psychic/ funny
Aug. 14 Article: I wrote this down last summer: "Write article for Job Classified." But what do I write? Let's take a trip down memory lane. I mainly worked in retail, restaurants, call centres, a teacher's assistant, and a stint at a big company.
I read articles for jobs in 24. The last article I read was this guy being sarcastic. Telling people to fire employees without any notice or reason. Make them guess why they're firing you. Make vague remarks about someone being laid off before you do it.
I remember one article on Yahoo, it was a couple of years ago. This woman wrote about it being good to be a job hopper. If you work at a place for 18 months, it's totally okay to quit and then you can go on a vacation. Then come back for another job. A lot of comments were: "I don't know if you're being sarcastic." "That is bad to be a job hopper."
I was going through the past jobs I had. How I was hired at a cafe, and then it turns out they didn't even need me. When I worked there for 3 days, I was the outcast. The three workers there were in the late 20s, and Arabs. I was the Asian girl in my early 20s. There were 3 people, and they could totally manage on their own. So they fired me.
Summer 2007 was the worst summer. If I only had taken that Call Centre #4 job. It paid $10.50/hr. I then went with Call Centre #3 which paid $10.92/hr. They gave me one day of training. Then next week I called to get my schedule. They said they didn't really hire me, because they found someone who doesn't need as much training as I did. Does that even count as a job if I had one day of training? Well at least I got paid for it.
When I called Call Centre #4 back because Call Centre #3 didn't work out, they said they already hired somebody else. Maybe even if I went to #4, it still wouldn't work out. I'll never know.
I did learn a lot that summer. I took that Big Department job, though I knew it would mean I would have to wake up at 6am to get there. I was desperate for a job. Then I did quit. The lesson is if there is a major thing you don't like about it, like waking up early, you shouldn't take the job. I took it because I thought I could wake up early, and I did.
If you have any ideas for an article about jobs, email me. Everything above was brainstorming. I am looking at www.jobclassified.ca and I could email my article to info@mediaclassified.ca.
How to Save Money: I'm watching Tyra right now, and it's about saving money. The tip is that you can get free memberships for gyms. You can try out a gym for free for a week. Friends may have buddy passes, and you can go and work out there. Enter sweepstakes. I remember watching Doc Zone about it. Tyra talked to a woman who won a $25, 000 trip to France.
I entered into 10 different sweepstakes to win a free cd. I finally won one, and that was the Mandy Moore "I Wanna Be With You."
Movies: It was a month or so ago, but I was talking to my friend Angela about movies. I then went and analyzed how much fight movies take to make, and how much profit they made:
Fighting (2009)
Gross Revenue: $11, 024, 370
Never Back Down (2008)
Budget $20 million
Gross revenue $41,624,669
Gladiator (1992)
Gross revenue $9,223,441 (USA)
Lionheart (1990)
Budget $6,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue $24,078,196
Shopping: Sunglasses Hut closed down, but now there's a kiosk called Style in Shades in City Centre. Art of Style closed down, but then I see a sign that McBain Cameras is coming soon. Is that a sign that the recession is ending?
Aug. 15 Psychic: I bumped into my friend Sarah on the bus today and we talked about psychics again. I told her about how I gave psychic Nadia a hard time by saying: "You're psychic, aren't you supposed to know that about me (whether I'm in school, and what my job is)."
Sarah: That's cold reading. A psychic can pretty much ask anyone: "Do you know a Bob?" Because everybody knows a Bob or Robert. Then they go with it. When she asked if you were in school, she knows that you're in your early 20s. Anyone in their 20s or 30s are either in school or just graduated. A lot of people start school, but they don't finish. Or they get their degree, and then later they want to get another degree in something else. That question can apply to anyone.
I then told her about that time I met this guy Parker when I worked at the big company:
Me: So are you in school?
P: Yeah.
Me: Let me guess, the U of A?
P: Yeah.
Me: Your major is business right?
P: Yeah.
Me: And you're going into you're 4th year this fall?
P: Yeah. Wow, you're good.
Well I thought people who worked at a bank have to be really smart, so that's why I thought of university. I figured people must be in business to work there too. By the look of the guy, he seemed to be at the age of the year he was going into. Though I do remember in 2004, this girl Amy in my Graphic Communications class and Jonathan who took science, both worked at a bank together. They were in NAIT with me. There's no business background in them.
That also reminds me of Steve Shirripa. He is on the crappy TV show Secret Life of the American Teenager. SS goes on Jay Leno and he plays "The Judgemental Bastard" where he looks at someone, and he makes these guesses about people. He is often right. There is one time he was completely wrong about about one guy.
Aug. 16 Funny: Last night and today I saw American Teenager. I then went on twop.com and they dissed it as usual. People actually count how many times they repeat the same words. They said "hooker" 18 times, "vasectomy" 18 times, and "sex", 24 times. The watchers always talk about drinking games. Drink every time someone says that word.
Another thing was that Patrick found this on Youtube. Lauren Conrad from The Hills was on Who Wants to be a Millionare? LC was on to do one question that was worth $50, 000 and it goes to a charity for domestic violence. The question is: "What is the name of Prince William's girlfriend?"
Me: Do you know the answer?
P: Kate Middleton.
lol. I know he would know the answer because he does follow the royal family.
LC asks the audience for help, and they pick "Kate." That was the right answer, and the charity got $50, 000.
I read articles for jobs in 24. The last article I read was this guy being sarcastic. Telling people to fire employees without any notice or reason. Make them guess why they're firing you. Make vague remarks about someone being laid off before you do it.
I remember one article on Yahoo, it was a couple of years ago. This woman wrote about it being good to be a job hopper. If you work at a place for 18 months, it's totally okay to quit and then you can go on a vacation. Then come back for another job. A lot of comments were: "I don't know if you're being sarcastic." "That is bad to be a job hopper."
I was going through the past jobs I had. How I was hired at a cafe, and then it turns out they didn't even need me. When I worked there for 3 days, I was the outcast. The three workers there were in the late 20s, and Arabs. I was the Asian girl in my early 20s. There were 3 people, and they could totally manage on their own. So they fired me.
Summer 2007 was the worst summer. If I only had taken that Call Centre #4 job. It paid $10.50/hr. I then went with Call Centre #3 which paid $10.92/hr. They gave me one day of training. Then next week I called to get my schedule. They said they didn't really hire me, because they found someone who doesn't need as much training as I did. Does that even count as a job if I had one day of training? Well at least I got paid for it.
When I called Call Centre #4 back because Call Centre #3 didn't work out, they said they already hired somebody else. Maybe even if I went to #4, it still wouldn't work out. I'll never know.
I did learn a lot that summer. I took that Big Department job, though I knew it would mean I would have to wake up at 6am to get there. I was desperate for a job. Then I did quit. The lesson is if there is a major thing you don't like about it, like waking up early, you shouldn't take the job. I took it because I thought I could wake up early, and I did.
If you have any ideas for an article about jobs, email me. Everything above was brainstorming. I am looking at www.jobclassified.ca and I could email my article to info@mediaclassified.ca.
How to Save Money: I'm watching Tyra right now, and it's about saving money. The tip is that you can get free memberships for gyms. You can try out a gym for free for a week. Friends may have buddy passes, and you can go and work out there. Enter sweepstakes. I remember watching Doc Zone about it. Tyra talked to a woman who won a $25, 000 trip to France.
I entered into 10 different sweepstakes to win a free cd. I finally won one, and that was the Mandy Moore "I Wanna Be With You."
Movies: It was a month or so ago, but I was talking to my friend Angela about movies. I then went and analyzed how much fight movies take to make, and how much profit they made:
Fighting (2009)
Gross Revenue: $11, 024, 370
Never Back Down (2008)
Budget $20 million
Gross revenue $41,624,669
Gladiator (1992)
Gross revenue $9,223,441 (USA)
Lionheart (1990)
Budget $6,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue $24,078,196
Shopping: Sunglasses Hut closed down, but now there's a kiosk called Style in Shades in City Centre. Art of Style closed down, but then I see a sign that McBain Cameras is coming soon. Is that a sign that the recession is ending?
Aug. 15 Psychic: I bumped into my friend Sarah on the bus today and we talked about psychics again. I told her about how I gave psychic Nadia a hard time by saying: "You're psychic, aren't you supposed to know that about me (whether I'm in school, and what my job is)."
Sarah: That's cold reading. A psychic can pretty much ask anyone: "Do you know a Bob?" Because everybody knows a Bob or Robert. Then they go with it. When she asked if you were in school, she knows that you're in your early 20s. Anyone in their 20s or 30s are either in school or just graduated. A lot of people start school, but they don't finish. Or they get their degree, and then later they want to get another degree in something else. That question can apply to anyone.
I then told her about that time I met this guy Parker when I worked at the big company:
Me: So are you in school?
P: Yeah.
Me: Let me guess, the U of A?
P: Yeah.
Me: Your major is business right?
P: Yeah.
Me: And you're going into you're 4th year this fall?
P: Yeah. Wow, you're good.
Well I thought people who worked at a bank have to be really smart, so that's why I thought of university. I figured people must be in business to work there too. By the look of the guy, he seemed to be at the age of the year he was going into. Though I do remember in 2004, this girl Amy in my Graphic Communications class and Jonathan who took science, both worked at a bank together. They were in NAIT with me. There's no business background in them.
That also reminds me of Steve Shirripa. He is on the crappy TV show Secret Life of the American Teenager. SS goes on Jay Leno and he plays "The Judgemental Bastard" where he looks at someone, and he makes these guesses about people. He is often right. There is one time he was completely wrong about about one guy.
Aug. 16 Funny: Last night and today I saw American Teenager. I then went on twop.com and they dissed it as usual. People actually count how many times they repeat the same words. They said "hooker" 18 times, "vasectomy" 18 times, and "sex", 24 times. The watchers always talk about drinking games. Drink every time someone says that word.
Another thing was that Patrick found this on Youtube. Lauren Conrad from The Hills was on Who Wants to be a Millionare? LC was on to do one question that was worth $50, 000 and it goes to a charity for domestic violence. The question is: "What is the name of Prince William's girlfriend?"
Me: Do you know the answer?
P: Kate Middleton.
lol. I know he would know the answer because he does follow the royal family.
LC asks the audience for help, and they pick "Kate." That was the right answer, and the charity got $50, 000.
Friday, August 14, 2009
job search/ birthday/ motivation
Aug. 10 Job search: I was talking to my dad, and he said that I shouldn't apply to that restaurant job where I get paid as a full- time cook. It's at Dallas Pizza in Capilano. The pay is $12.90/hr. He says, though you can make $3 more an hour than I do now, there still is no pension or benefits there. There's no point. So stick with that job you already have.
He also said that if I wanted to stick with restaurants, I should go to NAIT and take the culinary program there. No, I already spent thousands of dollars and got a college diploma in my true love, writing. I'm not going to spend money on something I don't love.
Am I putting obstacles in front of myself by not passing my resume to the restaurant? I have to focus on that office job. I did apply to the Edmonton Journal and Avenue magazine.
Aug. 11 Birthday: Well today is my birthday. Through the power of Facebook, my friends knew my bday. Daniel Luu, Angela, my co- worker Jennifer all wished me a happy bday on Facebook. Jen also told me that at work. My manager Stella remembered. She actually looks through our job applications and knows our bdays.
A pleasant surprise was when my friend/ old co- worker Silvia showed up at work.
S: I have a friend who has the same bday as you, so I bought some stuff for her. Then I saw it's your bday on Facebook, so I got you this cupcake.
So I thanked her, and ate it. lol.
Stella gave me a jar of Lays chips. Then I went home and ate the Toonie Tuesdays from KFC. Then we went to Dairy Queen and I picked out a cake with a tiger on it. What was interesting was that the sales girl gave me a free sundae: "Do you want a free sundae? This is a mistake, so you can have it if you want." What good luck. lol.
Dance: Today I saw the season 2 premiere of So You Think You Can Dance Canada. It was fun. You know what? It's different from the American version. I watched like the whole 2 hours of it, and they didn't show any really bad auditions. They did a fast forward of some bad ones. A little montage. I'm looking forward to the Edmonton auditions.
I saw the commercials for it, and they showed that Ukranian dancer, when I was at the auditions. They also showed that contemporary dancer guy who I also saw at the auditions. I've seen this guy take my bus on my way to work. Then I saw him at the auditions. However, we didn't talk. But he is the guy who has his mouth drop open like he got a yes or something in the commercial.
So maybe I shouldn't be annoyed about seeing all these bad dancers get to dance in front of all 4 judges. That only occurs in the American version. Maybe I should see the Edmonton audition ep before I judge. When I auditioned, I only got to dance in front of one judge Blake McGrath.
Talent: Interesting timing when I'm watching this show, because I'm reading my screenwriting book, and it talked about characters and what their talents are. It could be athletic, academic, technological, etc. Well in the script I'm trying to get produced, the lead character's talent is athletic.
In the book, there is the question: "Are writers born or made?" Well I find that people are good at something. With lots of training, hard work, and desire, you can become great at it. You have to have an interest in something first. I'm interested in reading, and watching TV. That lead me to writing for TV.
In Screenwriting for Dummies, it talked about showing Harry Potter learn magic in school and how he trains. It's like the audience is experiencing and learning with him. Same goes with The Karate Kid and Star Wars. They have the mentor teach lessons to the protagonist. This also reminded me of reading the Edmonton Journal covering the Mayerthorpe undercover cop story. It's where they lure the murder suspect Dennis Cheeseman into this fake criminal gang.
The thing is, he wasn't talented. He just unloaded cigarettes and stuff out of trucks. The RCMP officers who play criminals then praise him about his loyalty. He gets lots of money for doing something easy. In my script, my lead Shawn has this athletic talent. Then he actually goes and trains and works hard, and he becomes great at it. He then gets paid lots of money for this skill. I don't know. Maybe I want to say that TV has to make things more interesting than real life. Who wants to see a guy unload dvds from a truck and get complimented for it?
Well it would be interesting to see how undercover police work, but if you get rid of the police aspect of it, it wouldn't be that interesting. I even remember Tru Calling. Tru's little brother Harrison did that, however they never showed it. They just kind of mentioned it in passing.
Aug. 12: I remember when Tru was talking with her big sister Meredith about Harrison.
M: Maybe it was a girl. Or a truckload of dvds. Or maybe a girl with a truckload of dvds.
Writing: I remember talking to the producer John.
Me: So do you think the script is funny or anything?
John: Well nothing really jumped out at me.
Well that's fine. This is an action, drama, crime. There is a little comedy in it, but that's not the main genre. What would be bad is that I write a comedy, and John said it wasn't funny at all.
So the other day, I got rejected from another production company. What's interesting is that I sent that version of the script to 3 companies because they asked for it. 2 of them rejected it. Only one production company Crowsnest said somewhat of a yes. John Kerr said that: "There is potential."
Now I'm watching So You Think You Can Dance Canada. I'm thinking about writing a character and his talent. I'm not going to write about dance, because there are already a bunch of dance movies out there.
Joke: They showed Blake McGrath teaching dance choreography to the contestants.
Cut to the dancers strutting forward.
B: Wait, stop. You are not auditioning for a cruise ship.
lol.
What's interesting, is that I watched 2 hours of this ep where everybody auditioned. They only showed one bad audition.
Charity: Somaly Mam is this woman was a sex slave, and then she started her charity called the Somaly Mam Foundation in preventing human trafficking of girls and young people for sexual purposes. The other partner is Beyond Borders, the Canadian link in the international group End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (EPCAT).
Aug. 13 The Listener: I was watching it, and I realized that Craig Olejnik has a tattoo on his right wrist. He was passing papers to this woman, and I saw it. I don't know what it is. It's a quick glimpse. It could be a Chinese character meaning "centre."
Agim Kaba: After The Listener, I went on the net and had CSI: NY in the background. I see this guy Agim Kaba. He was really hot. lol. He's from the soap opera As The World Turns. Check out his pic:
http://tvmegasite.net/images/daytime/atwt/autos/auto-agimkaba.jpg
What was interesting was that the first scene in this ep reminded me of something I wrote back in 2003. In CSI, there are 4 guys playing poker. One of them is dealing it differently in order to cheat. The other three guys get in a fight with him, and the guy is thrown out. Then there is a knock on the door. One guy slides open the peephole, and he gets shot.
In my script, a poker game goes wrong my protagonist wins the game fair and square. Then the bad guys go and points a gun at him so he won't take his winnings.
Aug. 14 Motivation: Today I finally sent my resume to See Magazine. Yesterday I read in 24, my horoscope was: "Your quest for employment requires a new approach. Increased motivation and schmooze- fest will work." It's hard to get motivation.
Well I thought I found some motivation when my co- worker Maygen came back to her job and she said she needed more hours. I thought I should go get another job, so Maygen can take my hours. Now my motivation is gone, because she will be going back to school and won't be working here.
He also said that if I wanted to stick with restaurants, I should go to NAIT and take the culinary program there. No, I already spent thousands of dollars and got a college diploma in my true love, writing. I'm not going to spend money on something I don't love.
Am I putting obstacles in front of myself by not passing my resume to the restaurant? I have to focus on that office job. I did apply to the Edmonton Journal and Avenue magazine.
Aug. 11 Birthday: Well today is my birthday. Through the power of Facebook, my friends knew my bday. Daniel Luu, Angela, my co- worker Jennifer all wished me a happy bday on Facebook. Jen also told me that at work. My manager Stella remembered. She actually looks through our job applications and knows our bdays.
A pleasant surprise was when my friend/ old co- worker Silvia showed up at work.
S: I have a friend who has the same bday as you, so I bought some stuff for her. Then I saw it's your bday on Facebook, so I got you this cupcake.
So I thanked her, and ate it. lol.
Stella gave me a jar of Lays chips. Then I went home and ate the Toonie Tuesdays from KFC. Then we went to Dairy Queen and I picked out a cake with a tiger on it. What was interesting was that the sales girl gave me a free sundae: "Do you want a free sundae? This is a mistake, so you can have it if you want." What good luck. lol.
Dance: Today I saw the season 2 premiere of So You Think You Can Dance Canada. It was fun. You know what? It's different from the American version. I watched like the whole 2 hours of it, and they didn't show any really bad auditions. They did a fast forward of some bad ones. A little montage. I'm looking forward to the Edmonton auditions.
I saw the commercials for it, and they showed that Ukranian dancer, when I was at the auditions. They also showed that contemporary dancer guy who I also saw at the auditions. I've seen this guy take my bus on my way to work. Then I saw him at the auditions. However, we didn't talk. But he is the guy who has his mouth drop open like he got a yes or something in the commercial.
So maybe I shouldn't be annoyed about seeing all these bad dancers get to dance in front of all 4 judges. That only occurs in the American version. Maybe I should see the Edmonton audition ep before I judge. When I auditioned, I only got to dance in front of one judge Blake McGrath.
Talent: Interesting timing when I'm watching this show, because I'm reading my screenwriting book, and it talked about characters and what their talents are. It could be athletic, academic, technological, etc. Well in the script I'm trying to get produced, the lead character's talent is athletic.
In the book, there is the question: "Are writers born or made?" Well I find that people are good at something. With lots of training, hard work, and desire, you can become great at it. You have to have an interest in something first. I'm interested in reading, and watching TV. That lead me to writing for TV.
In Screenwriting for Dummies, it talked about showing Harry Potter learn magic in school and how he trains. It's like the audience is experiencing and learning with him. Same goes with The Karate Kid and Star Wars. They have the mentor teach lessons to the protagonist. This also reminded me of reading the Edmonton Journal covering the Mayerthorpe undercover cop story. It's where they lure the murder suspect Dennis Cheeseman into this fake criminal gang.
The thing is, he wasn't talented. He just unloaded cigarettes and stuff out of trucks. The RCMP officers who play criminals then praise him about his loyalty. He gets lots of money for doing something easy. In my script, my lead Shawn has this athletic talent. Then he actually goes and trains and works hard, and he becomes great at it. He then gets paid lots of money for this skill. I don't know. Maybe I want to say that TV has to make things more interesting than real life. Who wants to see a guy unload dvds from a truck and get complimented for it?
Well it would be interesting to see how undercover police work, but if you get rid of the police aspect of it, it wouldn't be that interesting. I even remember Tru Calling. Tru's little brother Harrison did that, however they never showed it. They just kind of mentioned it in passing.
Aug. 12: I remember when Tru was talking with her big sister Meredith about Harrison.
M: Maybe it was a girl. Or a truckload of dvds. Or maybe a girl with a truckload of dvds.
Writing: I remember talking to the producer John.
Me: So do you think the script is funny or anything?
John: Well nothing really jumped out at me.
Well that's fine. This is an action, drama, crime. There is a little comedy in it, but that's not the main genre. What would be bad is that I write a comedy, and John said it wasn't funny at all.
So the other day, I got rejected from another production company. What's interesting is that I sent that version of the script to 3 companies because they asked for it. 2 of them rejected it. Only one production company Crowsnest said somewhat of a yes. John Kerr said that: "There is potential."
Now I'm watching So You Think You Can Dance Canada. I'm thinking about writing a character and his talent. I'm not going to write about dance, because there are already a bunch of dance movies out there.
Joke: They showed Blake McGrath teaching dance choreography to the contestants.
Cut to the dancers strutting forward.
B: Wait, stop. You are not auditioning for a cruise ship.
lol.
What's interesting, is that I watched 2 hours of this ep where everybody auditioned. They only showed one bad audition.
Charity: Somaly Mam is this woman was a sex slave, and then she started her charity called the Somaly Mam Foundation in preventing human trafficking of girls and young people for sexual purposes. The other partner is Beyond Borders, the Canadian link in the international group End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (EPCAT).
Aug. 13 The Listener: I was watching it, and I realized that Craig Olejnik has a tattoo on his right wrist. He was passing papers to this woman, and I saw it. I don't know what it is. It's a quick glimpse. It could be a Chinese character meaning "centre."
Agim Kaba: After The Listener, I went on the net and had CSI: NY in the background. I see this guy Agim Kaba. He was really hot. lol. He's from the soap opera As The World Turns. Check out his pic:
http://tvmegasite.net/images/daytime/atwt/autos/auto-agimkaba.jpg
What was interesting was that the first scene in this ep reminded me of something I wrote back in 2003. In CSI, there are 4 guys playing poker. One of them is dealing it differently in order to cheat. The other three guys get in a fight with him, and the guy is thrown out. Then there is a knock on the door. One guy slides open the peephole, and he gets shot.
In my script, a poker game goes wrong my protagonist wins the game fair and square. Then the bad guys go and points a gun at him so he won't take his winnings.
Aug. 14 Motivation: Today I finally sent my resume to See Magazine. Yesterday I read in 24, my horoscope was: "Your quest for employment requires a new approach. Increased motivation and schmooze- fest will work." It's hard to get motivation.
Well I thought I found some motivation when my co- worker Maygen came back to her job and she said she needed more hours. I thought I should go get another job, so Maygen can take my hours. Now my motivation is gone, because she will be going back to school and won't be working here.
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