So, I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of app on Facebook. I'm not against them, I just don't see the point, or don't have the time. I'm slightly intrigued about the latest one that's taking over, Farmville, but not really enough to actually check it out. This "friend quiz" one.. I look at, because it's always like "this person answered a question about you, find out who it is!" so I got sucked in. But it used to just tell me who was answering questions, but wouldn't tell me what questions they were answering. And once I signed up, it tells me the questions and answers, but no who. SCAM. (I also feel like all Facebook apps are a scam of sort sort.. like.. what's this whole sending birthday gifts to people but you need 10 credits?!) Anyhoo... this is the latest results of my friend quiz. Despite that the same question appears twice - all these results are positive right? I could say that people are just being polite, or that I just really am that awesome. But it is slightly useless because I have no idea who thinks I'm cute, who thinks I'm fun to be around or WHO WANTS TO MARRY ME? (come find me... now.) Obviously, the answer is everyone - but seriously - this does me NO good. I could find out who is answering these questions for FIFTY COINS PER QUESTION. I only have 5. I think you get coins by answering questions, but it's like 7 coins per 25 questions you answer - or something ridiculous like that and honestly... who has the time or patience for that? Not me. Plus I'm not quite that desperate (yet). And I think you know.. it could be like "yes, Jean would make a great spouse" not for me. Haha.. aww. (I've apparently been watching too much good wife/bad wife on More to Love.) But seriously, these are just questions on the internet. I sometimes feel like I want someone who makes an actual effort, and with Dorina's "half-men" theory, I'm just gonna be a spinster - so I might have to work on my plan... but for now, I'm not going to spend a ton of time answering silly questions about other people just to find that the people answering these questions are like my sister, my roommates and my girl friends - cuz that's how it would turn out I bet. Or I could just pretend like my secret crushes are the people who answered those. Either way it's a nice small way to warm up my ego today.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Well... that's nice
So, I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of app on Facebook. I'm not against them, I just don't see the point, or don't have the time. I'm slightly intrigued about the latest one that's taking over, Farmville, but not really enough to actually check it out. This "friend quiz" one.. I look at, because it's always like "this person answered a question about you, find out who it is!" so I got sucked in. But it used to just tell me who was answering questions, but wouldn't tell me what questions they were answering. And once I signed up, it tells me the questions and answers, but no who. SCAM. (I also feel like all Facebook apps are a scam of sort sort.. like.. what's this whole sending birthday gifts to people but you need 10 credits?!) Anyhoo... this is the latest results of my friend quiz. Despite that the same question appears twice - all these results are positive right? I could say that people are just being polite, or that I just really am that awesome. But it is slightly useless because I have no idea who thinks I'm cute, who thinks I'm fun to be around or WHO WANTS TO MARRY ME? (come find me... now.) Obviously, the answer is everyone - but seriously - this does me NO good. I could find out who is answering these questions for FIFTY COINS PER QUESTION. I only have 5. I think you get coins by answering questions, but it's like 7 coins per 25 questions you answer - or something ridiculous like that and honestly... who has the time or patience for that? Not me. Plus I'm not quite that desperate (yet). And I think you know.. it could be like "yes, Jean would make a great spouse" not for me. Haha.. aww. (I've apparently been watching too much good wife/bad wife on More to Love.) But seriously, these are just questions on the internet. I sometimes feel like I want someone who makes an actual effort, and with Dorina's "half-men" theory, I'm just gonna be a spinster - so I might have to work on my plan... but for now, I'm not going to spend a ton of time answering silly questions about other people just to find that the people answering these questions are like my sister, my roommates and my girl friends - cuz that's how it would turn out I bet. Or I could just pretend like my secret crushes are the people who answered those. Either way it's a nice small way to warm up my ego today.
Friday, August 28, 2009
I get to tag along on Andrea's food truck mission to try all of the LA food trucks, so expect a full write up with better pictures from her. I took a few pictures with Snowball II, so I decided to post them too. On Wednesday night we got two in one hit as the Nom Nom Truck and Fishlips Sushi trucks were both at the new basecamp for trucks - The Brig in Venice. I've always loved food off trucks, and even more bacon wrapped hot dogs off carts (or sausages with sticky rice bun in Taiwan!). After the huge sensation of Kogi - the food truck business is SKYROCKETING. I read today that the restaurant Border Grill has a truck now too? And you can have a truck for everything - it's not just for mexican food anymore. Nom Nom is Vietnamese tacos and sandwiches, and Fishlips Sushi is.. well you guessed it, Sushi. Sushi off a truck? Seems kind of terrifying right?
When I first heard about it, I kind of thought so too. I asked my sister if she wanted to try it, but she was turned off by the name alone (but she has a slight(MAJOR) phobia of fish). Some pictures looked okay, and I think I read that it was good - but didn't get to really try it until today. It's actually pretty good. Nothing super fancy like Asakuma or as involved as California Roll Factory, but the sushi was definitely up there, better than grocery store sushi, and not badly priced. And the Temari balls are so cute! We had their spicy tuna rolls and shrimp tempura rolls with assorted balls of sushi with ebi, yellowtail, salmon, unagi and tuna. Their menu features a ton more options, I didn't actually go up to the truck itself, so I'm not sure exactly how it works, if all the options are there each night. I might have to go back to try them all!Nom Nom Truck was really good, and smelled SO fantastic. The food is good, but they take kind of forever to get you the food, and they ran out of Spring Rolls and Coffee VERY early on. They forgot a set of our tacos, but were really nice when we went back to get them. We did go on their opening night and they already blogged about trying to work out all the kinks. Food service is tough! Even tougher when it's mobile! But I'd definitely go back! I had the Grilled Pork Bahn Mi (Sandwich) and Lemongrass Chicken Tacos - both excellent. I am kind of sad that apparently Sam Trammell (plays Sam Merlotte) from True Blood (our most recent show obsession) was there and I didn't see him. I'm really bad at seeing celebrities, and you would think it would be so easy for me!
You should definitely try both of these if they're in your area. I wish I worked so that I could be excited when they were nearby and I have a real excuse to eat out. I just have to do it anyways. Next I want to try the Indian Food truck! And the Mos Burger likeness Marked 5!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Reboot.
jamiguel: i didnt know you had a blog
me: haha, yea.. i kind of don't keep up with it anymore. but sometimes i whine.. which is terrible
jamiguel: hhahahaha
me: it's become an emo blog as of late
jamiguel: kinda oposite of what i would do, but to each their own
after some consideration and hanging out with andrea and her blog friends, i think i'm going to make a little change. it'll probably be healthy for me. i'm gonna TRY to be a little less whiney, be a little less feeling-y and blog more about stuff. stuff that happens, stuff that i do, stuff that i want (without the emo-ness coming in). it's a sort of what i used to do, without all the this is what i had for lunch today, but more in the general way more interesting sense. kind of. i dunno. blogs in general are kind of personal, and kind of do what you want with them. but i'd kind of like to get it back to a blog that you really want to read kind of blog (was it ever one?!) i also debated switching sites and closing this one and re-opening another, but i kind of like that there is so much history here. i've had this thing since freaking 2001! my blog turned EIGHT YEARS OLD last month. oh my gosh it's like a small child. it's got a big part of me, and yes some of the links or pictures may not work anymore, but it really was me and how i was feeling or doing (or eating) at that particular moment. who and what was important to me then and i didn't just want to sever it behind and leave it forgotten and unknown. this decision may come to haunt me in the future, but hey.. that was me right? crazy and all.
so anyways.. that's that. i have a few blog ideas in the works.. i just have to convert them from "that would make a good blog entry" to "that was a good blog entry"
for now... i'll leave you with this.
i volunteered for this film festival in LA for the last week and a half. it was okay, i learned things from it, met a few people and hopefully somethings can pan out from it. i got to semi-produce/edit daily pieces of festival coverage. as much as i tried, i couldn't quite control what or how things were being taped, but i think i did an okay job on a few pieces, which hopefully shows my strength as an editor. i find myself wondering if my previous yearning of editing full time is still 100%, but the situation wasn't ideal, so it may not have been the best test for it. regardless, here are some of my favorite ones that i worked on.
this one is my was my favorite because i felt like it was the most well put together.. but then someone tinkered with it after i finished and i don't love what they did, but i think it's okay overall, i'm just not 110% about it. :/ like the guys say at the jungle cruise, if you like it, that's what i did, if you don't, it's the other guy's fault!
i worry about this one being cohesive, but i like this one because i translated the entire interview and then edited and added subtitles for all the pieces that are in spanish. yup, i'm a bad ass.
this is one of the earlier ones we did, so most noticeably the titles aren't as fancy. i didn't have the best b-roll either which contributes to some lacking of cutting to the right shots, but i didn't want the interviews to drag on either. but i like what they are saying and mostly i like it because of jordi laforge & luke wilson :P
there you go! the earlier one we turned around that night mostly.. so edited in a few hours. the later ones we took a little more time on because we would get the footage so late at night it was impossible to turn it around that night, plus we realized we didn't have to, so we allowed ourselves to wrap it up the next day.
(shameless plug: we edited these on a mobile editing bay CONFIDENCE BAY - a RV gutted and outfitted to be used as editing stations! pretty neat actually. any filmmakers/commercial producers out there should consider it for your needs! confidencebay.com)
tell me what you think!
me: haha, yea.. i kind of don't keep up with it anymore. but sometimes i whine.. which is terrible
jamiguel: hhahahaha
me: it's become an emo blog as of late
jamiguel: kinda oposite of what i would do, but to each their own
after some consideration and hanging out with andrea and her blog friends, i think i'm going to make a little change. it'll probably be healthy for me. i'm gonna TRY to be a little less whiney, be a little less feeling-y and blog more about stuff. stuff that happens, stuff that i do, stuff that i want (without the emo-ness coming in). it's a sort of what i used to do, without all the this is what i had for lunch today, but more in the general way more interesting sense. kind of. i dunno. blogs in general are kind of personal, and kind of do what you want with them. but i'd kind of like to get it back to a blog that you really want to read kind of blog (was it ever one?!) i also debated switching sites and closing this one and re-opening another, but i kind of like that there is so much history here. i've had this thing since freaking 2001! my blog turned EIGHT YEARS OLD last month. oh my gosh it's like a small child. it's got a big part of me, and yes some of the links or pictures may not work anymore, but it really was me and how i was feeling or doing (or eating) at that particular moment. who and what was important to me then and i didn't just want to sever it behind and leave it forgotten and unknown. this decision may come to haunt me in the future, but hey.. that was me right? crazy and all.
so anyways.. that's that. i have a few blog ideas in the works.. i just have to convert them from "that would make a good blog entry" to "that was a good blog entry"
for now... i'll leave you with this.
i volunteered for this film festival in LA for the last week and a half. it was okay, i learned things from it, met a few people and hopefully somethings can pan out from it. i got to semi-produce/edit daily pieces of festival coverage. as much as i tried, i couldn't quite control what or how things were being taped, but i think i did an okay job on a few pieces, which hopefully shows my strength as an editor. i find myself wondering if my previous yearning of editing full time is still 100%, but the situation wasn't ideal, so it may not have been the best test for it. regardless, here are some of my favorite ones that i worked on.
this one is my was my favorite because i felt like it was the most well put together.. but then someone tinkered with it after i finished and i don't love what they did, but i think it's okay overall, i'm just not 110% about it. :/ like the guys say at the jungle cruise, if you like it, that's what i did, if you don't, it's the other guy's fault!
i worry about this one being cohesive, but i like this one because i translated the entire interview and then edited and added subtitles for all the pieces that are in spanish. yup, i'm a bad ass.
this is one of the earlier ones we did, so most noticeably the titles aren't as fancy. i didn't have the best b-roll either which contributes to some lacking of cutting to the right shots, but i didn't want the interviews to drag on either. but i like what they are saying and mostly i like it because of jordi laforge & luke wilson :P
there you go! the earlier one we turned around that night mostly.. so edited in a few hours. the later ones we took a little more time on because we would get the footage so late at night it was impossible to turn it around that night, plus we realized we didn't have to, so we allowed ourselves to wrap it up the next day.
(shameless plug: we edited these on a mobile editing bay CONFIDENCE BAY - a RV gutted and outfitted to be used as editing stations! pretty neat actually. any filmmakers/commercial producers out there should consider it for your needs! confidencebay.com)
tell me what you think!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
being up this late at night has it's certain advantages. i have no one to talk to, so this automatic word vomit reaction i have, can't just come spewing out over the internets immediately. i have to write it out. write out my angry ranting emails, write out my confessions of love, write out anything i want to say outside my head. and then a lot of times, i decide not to click send. not necessarily because i don't feel it anymore. probably because what i'm saying is a rash reaction, and i don't want to sound idiotic, so it's my electronic version of counting to 10. if i'm still feeling this way in the morning, then maybe i can just tell someone face to face. and also because maybe i just don't want to put "it" out there. there's a whole lot of nonsense out there, and it doesn't necessarily need to be pushed along by a few words i candidly wrote at 3:52am.
for example. there was a whole blog that i just wrote that i'm deciding not to post because... i don't trust it to be out there.
for example. there was a whole blog that i just wrote that i'm deciding not to post because... i don't trust it to be out there.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
sorry. i'm going to whine for just a second.
i'm feeling.. really... lost. sometimes i feel like everything i've done in the past 5 years is a little bit all for nothing. or that i'm trying to chuck it all down the window to go down another path, except, i can't go down this path because i'm "too experienced" OR i'm not really experienced enough in the things that i want to do now, but really.. i don't even know where to start.
i found a job that i feel like i really could do.. except i probably won't be considered for it because i don't have a few of the requirements. things i could easily (hopefully) learn, but haven't yet. do i spend $1500-$3000 trying to learn avid? or do i just give up on that dream and try to enhance my FCP skills? because once i was told that you either are an avid editor, or FCP.. but they're so similar... why not both? because it costs a boat load of money to try and learn them now.
which also makes me kick myself for not trying to learn it earlier. when i was interning at fox rox, working at dd, or even on bedtime. the interning one is the most depressing - because i didn't really have much else to do. i should have utilized the most of it. oh wait, i was busy with circle k. how dumb does that seem now? while working, i could have been that person that stayed extra late to try and learn these systems - but i didn't. i was too wrapped up in the 10-18 hour days i was already putting in... which.. doesn't sound like it was a big mistake... but i could have pushed myself.
dorina tells me i'm too hard on myself, to which i reply "well that's how i was brought up".. except i really should work on not being hard on myself when i don't do things, and being harder on myself to accomplish them in the first place. that's probably the hardest part.
i probably just mostly really need a job. badly. but unfortunately i don't want to just take any job. is that retarded? but i don't know what i want. (that's retarded). but i miss being busy. i miss having something to do (even though i have so much i could be doing... SEE.. I'M TERRIBLE.) not working gives me so much time to dwell on things i shouldn't be dwelling on. i know i'm being silly and that i should just pick myself up from this wallowing puddle i'm in and get a move on. and then there's that side of me that watched entourage where E was told to not take what you have for granted and enjoy the freedom you have, and then i'm like hmm.. is that what i should be doing?
either way, i really want to find a way, find some answers... and for right now, i'm kind of okay if they're temporary. that's how sad and desperate i am. i've given up on the forever and would settle for right now... but i still want to feel like it's "right".
next post, i promise i'll try to be more upbeat. i'll apply to this job, cross my fingers and try to get some shizz done.
oh, by the way, did i tell you i'm trying to give up drinking until november? (with the exception of 1 or 2 momentous occasions)... i'll let you know how it goes.. it's been about 5 days so far... i think it'll get easier with time.. i hope!
i'm feeling.. really... lost. sometimes i feel like everything i've done in the past 5 years is a little bit all for nothing. or that i'm trying to chuck it all down the window to go down another path, except, i can't go down this path because i'm "too experienced" OR i'm not really experienced enough in the things that i want to do now, but really.. i don't even know where to start.
i found a job that i feel like i really could do.. except i probably won't be considered for it because i don't have a few of the requirements. things i could easily (hopefully) learn, but haven't yet. do i spend $1500-$3000 trying to learn avid? or do i just give up on that dream and try to enhance my FCP skills? because once i was told that you either are an avid editor, or FCP.. but they're so similar... why not both? because it costs a boat load of money to try and learn them now.
which also makes me kick myself for not trying to learn it earlier. when i was interning at fox rox, working at dd, or even on bedtime. the interning one is the most depressing - because i didn't really have much else to do. i should have utilized the most of it. oh wait, i was busy with circle k. how dumb does that seem now? while working, i could have been that person that stayed extra late to try and learn these systems - but i didn't. i was too wrapped up in the 10-18 hour days i was already putting in... which.. doesn't sound like it was a big mistake... but i could have pushed myself.
dorina tells me i'm too hard on myself, to which i reply "well that's how i was brought up".. except i really should work on not being hard on myself when i don't do things, and being harder on myself to accomplish them in the first place. that's probably the hardest part.
i probably just mostly really need a job. badly. but unfortunately i don't want to just take any job. is that retarded? but i don't know what i want. (that's retarded). but i miss being busy. i miss having something to do (even though i have so much i could be doing... SEE.. I'M TERRIBLE.) not working gives me so much time to dwell on things i shouldn't be dwelling on. i know i'm being silly and that i should just pick myself up from this wallowing puddle i'm in and get a move on. and then there's that side of me that watched entourage where E was told to not take what you have for granted and enjoy the freedom you have, and then i'm like hmm.. is that what i should be doing?
either way, i really want to find a way, find some answers... and for right now, i'm kind of okay if they're temporary. that's how sad and desperate i am. i've given up on the forever and would settle for right now... but i still want to feel like it's "right".
next post, i promise i'll try to be more upbeat. i'll apply to this job, cross my fingers and try to get some shizz done.
oh, by the way, did i tell you i'm trying to give up drinking until november? (with the exception of 1 or 2 momentous occasions)... i'll let you know how it goes.. it's been about 5 days so far... i think it'll get easier with time.. i hope!
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