What Are You Doing RIGHT NOW?

[Seedy Edgewick]

I'm studiously avoiding doing any real work at my job. Because I hate it.

[Rory L. Aronsky]

Well, it's 11:21 a.m. Pacific time here and I got up at about 10:53. I spent a few minutes reading part of "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" because I'm nearly done with it and I figured it would probably be best to get it back to the library when I also return Twenty Bucks (1993), a movie I had waited many years to see, which was worth it.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do right now. Maybe find something to watch, but I've also got much work from school to handle, so I guess I'll just play it by instinct and do what I feel like.

[El Duderino Diablo]

It's 12:07 pm and while I'd like to say that at any moment I will make the earnest decision to do some quality drawing, get back to my writing, exercise my poor, horribly abused body or watch Damon Packard's Reflections of Evil the sad fact remains that I am still in my underwear and sitting in front of this damned computer surfing the FilmThreat forums.
:(

[AmaiStina]

im trying to convince myself that i really dont have a headache. that there really isnt a pulsing in my brain.


we humans are so good at Not doing what we're supposed to be doing. why is that? do other animals ever just kinda "dont feel like it" so they dont catch prey, groom, or defend their territory?

i imagine that domesticated or captive animals (in zoos or somewheres) might actually experience stretches of time where they dont do anything constructive with their time.

so they just sit there & stare at their trainers or the sky or go to sleep.

[El Duderino Diablo]

Originally posted by AmaiStina
we humans are so good at Not doing what we're supposed to be doing. why is that?

Probably because we force too much upon ourselves to do. Work so that we can afford to shop for groceries, groom ourselves in order to be presentable for work and our modern hunting and gathering sessions, paying bills, doing laundry, cleaning house, etc. etc. I'm growing wearing just compiling this list.

Speaking for myself I was able to get up and out long enough to purchase an extra ticket to Miike Takashi's Gozu for the upcoming VIFF, rent two docs. on disc, JeffTowne and Hell House and grab a couple slices of spicy pizza.
Now I'm home and back down to my underwear in front of the computer again.
So, what are the chances I'll be doing anything really productive tonight?
:(

[Eric Campos]

Well, you're only in your underwear, so you have a good start...

[Dotsey]

And I'm sitting here in my boxers and a t-shirt, listening to my finacee coughing and being overjoyed with myself for finally finding a thread I can jump in on without having to try to recall my false pretension from my film school days.

You know, back in 1996 when I started college, I remember all the guys in my film classes were trying to do everything like Quentin Tarantino. Yeah, Reservior Dogs and Pulp Fiction were great, but did everyone have to write something about men in suits throwing out off-handed and overly hip one-liners while coldly killing someone?

I've always associated guys that age, just getting out of high school and into college, discovering how cool indy film can be, as pretensiously hip. So what if you go out and buy all of Twin Peaks and become a David Lynch devotee.

You know what? I just realized that I'm tired and I don't know where the hell I'm going with any of this. I think I was trying to vocalize my feelings towards so many people who are associated with film. There are people who love it and take it to heart and they can talk about people like Lynch and Kurosowa and Trantino because they truly love the things they did, but there are so many more people who do it just because it's cool, and those people have always bugged me just a little bit.

The fact that I never truly fit into either group and yet I was still a film major always made me wonder if why I was there. I love doing the work, but I always felt a little insecure about it. I suppose that's why what I'm doing now has nothing to do with film, and yet I keep wanting to get back to it.

What the hell was this thread about? Oh yeah, what I'm doing now. That would be going to bed. By the way, anyone in the RTP area need any help on some projects? I'm sort of a jack of all trades.

'Night.