fort

build destroy rebuild

title tonight reflects, well i guess life and society but i wasn't attempting to be deep. it more is in regard to my picture of the day. whether it is clear or not that is 4 separate posters from the living room, hallway, and bedroom - all of which have fallen in the past few days. aside from one of the posters - these others are frequent fliers as in they frequently fly, or i guess fall off the walls. there isnt anything different about these posters in their size or weight to cause them to fall more often than the others but no matter how much sticky blue stuff i put on them they just come tumbling back down - sort of like the boulder that greek god got stuck trying to push up the hill (if i was smarter i might know his name).

so if you read this blog semi-often you may have caught a post i made a little over a week ago - it was the picture of my clinical psych text book. i posted this after taking my first test/exam of the semester which was in that class. that class, i thought, had kicked my ass and caught me off guard. i considered the benefits of making it pass fail which ultimately was nixed because of the time constraint with the deadline being the day after i considered this option and i was going home first thing in the morning that day. well a few days later (aka today) we get back our tests but before we do the teacher decides to 'brief us on the subject because he's learned otherwise it induces panic' - not a good start. turns out he curves the test and i didnt do badly at all. sure it still kicked my ass and without the curve id be questioning my decision to not make it pass fail - but the surprise bell curve changed my dread into anticipation - especially since after his curve breakdown - the lowest grade a person would get was a C.

so - thanks to my lack of awareness of fordham's deadlines and my frequent travels home i was able to walk out of class today feeling quite happy that this class will effect my GPA (at least for now).

october means...

...well lots of things. from candy corn and jelly beans, to costumed witches and pirate thieves. colder weather, fallen leaves, lets not forget some of these...


sure its corny and childish, but thats what halloween is about. you could smother it with a billion horror movies that have nothing to do with the holiday other than being scary and it will still, at heart, be about being a kid - the excitement of finally getting to wear that costume, and walk door to door seeing all the spooky people and places. and well, the candy. can't forget the candy.

this is a holiday that is almost entirely meant kids (now, atleast)- sure college students are able to have themed parties and w/e but halloween is associated with candy and trick 'r treating. and in a way its an excuse for adults to still harness the kid in them - when else is acceptable for adults to dress up in costumes? (okay okay - in public).

i almost made a fort today in my apt. maybe tomorrow.

fordham is popular

well at least to hollywood. or maybe not even so. for those who don't know - oliver stone's Wall Street 2 starting Shia and Michael Douglas is wrapping its filming on Fordham's campus tomorrow and has been here all weekend.

At first I thought to myself - wasn't it just 6 months ago that another movie was filming on Fordham's campus for a few days? Is this just a great place to shoot 'esteemed lecture' scenes? But wait, wasn't Michael Douglas in the one shot here last year?

Maybe he really liked something about Keating Hall and passed along some set photos to Oliver and co. and that's the real reason they are here. Not sure, still cool though.

Also - walked past a bunch of the crew and some extras when coming back to the Bronx tonight over by Ohare. Realized that if I were Warren I would have bumped into someone important, either in the crew or one of the main actors, totally by accident, and something would have come out of it that would result in no less than a 30 minute story about such an encounter (one you'd assume to be exaggerated if you didn't know Warren better). But alas all i got was this picture to verify this filming taking place here.

sometimes dreams can be cruel

ever have those dreams that are too real until, well, you wake up - and they're not? more importantly ever have them and they're overwhelming positive - you are living some dream - rich, on tour, or even just have gotten something cool - any way out - in the dream there is just this surreal positive emotion existing?

how cruel is it to wake up and have that all taken away? how many times have you caught yourself trying to fall back to sleep into the same dream? or have you ever sat there and as quickly as the reality of the day sets in - the details of the memory fade - the general idea might be there but the events, names, - they're all fading?

had one of those today - i was legitimately disappointed.

the cardinals have been eliminated and the phillies playoff game was cancelled due to weather. no it wasn't raining - it was 20 degrees and ended up snowing later that day. are we sure it's still baseball season?

(image today is of the sun setting behind the hill of Pete's Produce Farm - yes 'that' farm that i work(ed) at)

do you think it's weird...

..as an actor or actress to be in a death scene? Maybe for the actor or actress it isnt as weird because they performed it and with the context of all that goes into that scene - it blurs any significance away but maybe, then, for people close to them - parents, children, close friend - to watch someone you know dying on screen? Just something that came to mind today...

Weloveyouso.com is running a contest right now for a customized Xbox360. To win said contest you submit a photo of a self made fort. You know the kind you used to make in your house using blankets, and sheets, pillows, etc - and how the carpet and bedding surrounding you could become something vast and indescribable - a secret world within your own home. Of all the contests out there as marketing efforts for movies, albums, shows, etc I really like this one - and sure I am biased by who is behind it - but the idea of getting people my age or older, presumably, to build a child-like fort just seems like a great prompt - what's to lose? at the end of it, for the 99% of those who enter - they spent a day building and being in a fort - something they probably wouldnt be doing on their own the rest of their lives (doing it with your kids only half counts because it is probably their idea and you are just helping).

ice cream is not a meal

lesson learned - chocolate fudge brownie for dinner = too much for my digestive system to handle. hoping this passes soon. ouch.

in other news im going home...again...
i do love going home and i dont like to say that previous statement with the apprehension i seem to be saying it with because i like home its just that this is the third time i will be going home and its becoming routine and in my senior year thats not something you want to be doing.

i am in the process of buying my midnight release ticket for WTWTA - if you know me then you are not surprised at all and maybe even just rolled your eyes. no worries - for you - the movie is out in one week and maybe then ill stop obsessing...maybe.

not going to apologize for it, though - i love this story and im not alone in it or in the excitement for this movie although the excitement that has been bubbling for the past 18 months with a picture here, a set update there and then finally the trailer last spring has the down side of ending with the release and while i am thrilled it is finally here, i have enjoyed the ride so much that i'll admit it is a shame to be losing out on that. i hope that weloveyouso.com still continues as its a site i have come to check daily for the 3 or 4 posts they have - usually infrequently regarding the film specifically. through them i have found a few bands, other blog sites, a few artists, and some foundations - and i hope that it continues for all of those aspects.

do yourself a favor and go ask tom murphy (or pat) for a copy of their cd. they are giving them away and its very good.

peace!