Music Babe

I love music. I play it, I sing it, write it. I usually get inspired to write and play by buying and discovering new music. I live on a pretty tight budget these days, so discovering new music is super hard because listening to the 00:30 clips on iTunes isn't really enough. It's enough for me to think, "Oh man, that's so cool I want to hear..." That's when the clip ends. I sometimes look up stuff on YouTube but YouTube has terrible sound quality and I'm super picky about sound quality. For example, when I buy new headphones I need at least $100 in my pocket for some Bose or JBL. Someday I will get the really cool ones. You have to get a mold of your ear made and they custom make them to fit only you, and they are crazy noise reduction style.

Someday...

So, I'm perusing iTunes at this current moment and just fell in love with an album. It's only $7.99, so I'm think I should get it but at the same time I should also pay my mortgage. So there's a trade-off.

Buy the album in my honor until I make up my mind, please:


Sondre Lerche and The Faces Down Quartet, Duper Sessions.

I'm just gonna buy it. I have to, right? I have to because if I don't, Sondre Lerche and some other songwriters won't get paid, and they need to get paid right? They have bills too. I'm only contributing to their well-being, which is helping someone else. Treat others how you want to be treated and all. He's from Norway. Support Norway. They've never hurt anyone, right?

Okay.

I bought it.

So much for that. Of course, $7.99 isn't a lot for a splurge, right?

Justify, justify, justify.

Uh-oh.

I own this bikini.

Gretchen and I have the same taste in swimwear. What does that mean? What does it all mean now? We definitely don't have the same taste in men. Although, as of last season of RHofOC Gretchen was my favorite. But that's not saying much since I really think all those womens is crazy.

Click the pick for a website that I kind of hate that I found.

Old Movies: The Suspense of It

I love old movies. I love them. I can watch TCM all day, never leave the couch, and be completely content. Sometimes I'm that guy who says, "They don't make movies like they used to..." Not ashamed. I REALLY love all old movies, but especially in the genres of suspense, thriller, and drama.

Here are a few of my favs:




It's wonderful. I've eaten at the restaurant from the opening scene. Also, this is a great nap movie.

Blind Audrey Hepburn? Go it. Creepy Alan Alda? Got it. Drug smuggling? Got it. Creepy scene where everything is in the dark and someone is chasing Audrey Hepburn but can't see her because it's dark until she opens the fridge and the fridge light reveals where she is but she doesn't know that because (as mentioned earlier) she's blind so she still thinks she safe but she's not? Got it.

I mean, what's not awesome about a child star who grows up to loathe her sister who becomes famous as an adult for actually being talented and not just cute? I mean, so many things can happen when themes like jealousy and family are involved.

Of course not pictured are Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (gotta love those Bette Davis eyes). Both good as well.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh movies. They are so much fun times.

ADORABLE.

I also think that the people laughing may have been what actually scared the baby, not his own sneeze. If that's the case, those people are evil for scaring a poor infant ellie the elephant. Regardless, I now want a baby elephant.

Making Winter Count

Last year was the first year winter actually almost killed me.

I was miserable.

I hadn't had a problem with it before. I embraced it. I dealt with it. Last year was almost the death of me. My mother actually said to me, after the winter had past, that she thought she was going to have to come up here and do something about my attitude.

I am not going to let that happen this year.

I was riding the train the other day and a scene for a script popped into my head. Usually when I write a script I see the scene visually in my head: The setting, the weather, the props, the people. I see them doing an action. Then I figure out why their doing it and write the scene down. It's also very important for me to feel what the temperature of the room or place is and what the room or place might smell like. Yeah, I'm a little nutzo.

Another important thing is music. I usually make a playlist. I don't necessarily write while listening to the music. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, it's more just to have. I secretly want to be a music supervisor. Make millions acting and writing and then retire to be a music supervisor for film. So grand.

This song is the first official song on The Winter Screenplay playlist.

Click on the handy little box, listen to the sample, buy the song and enjoy.

The Texas State Fair...

...is one of my favorite things in life.

I love it.

I love Big Tex...

I love the Texas Star...


I love the new fried food that comes out every year, this year it's butter...


I love the petting zoo, the midway, the car show, the exhibits about JFK and The Battle Of San Jacinto, and I love the heat.

My parents are there as I type this. I hope they enjoy it. I hope they try the fried butter. I hope they sit in all the new cars. I hope they feed the llamas. I hope they learn about Texas History.

I miss you State Fair of Texas. I miss you Fair Park. One of these Octobers I'll make it back to Texas and, you should know, you will be the reason.

That and I'll have a job where it doesn't matter if I leave town at any time because I'm rich and taking days off doesn't mean I don't get paid, it means I have a day off.

**Update** The parents did try the fried butter. It apparently tastes like a dinner roll with butter. So there ya go.

New Obsession

This coffee place blew my mind a little bit:

I had past the shop a few times but assumed that they only took cash and I never carry cash. I pretty much assume any place that looks "emo" and "hippy" only takes cash. I was wrong. They take Visa and Mastercard. But that's beside the point.

The coffee is pretty decent especially seeing as how they roast it themselves. There is a coffee roaster right next to the bar where they guy brews the coffee. It's incredible! Not only that but they don't just keep a pot full of coffee waiting for you. No no. When you order a cup of coffee (regular old coffee) he grinds the beans right then for your cup and your cup only. THEN he brews it in a cup!! It's crazy!!! No machines needed. It is done in something similar to this contraption:

Only replace the red and black mugs with pretty classic white, the steel box with a plank of wood and the styrofoam cups with pretty white mugs. It was amazing. I felt like my cup of coffee was something special made only for me. Because it was kind of.

It was a little pricey and the pastries were not tasty (at least the brownie sample I had was not tasty) BUT the coffee was pretty cool. I am impressed.

I've had coffee roasts I like better than the one I was given but, regardless, the process to make it made it the best cup of coffee ever. Yeppers indeedy.