The State of Things This Thursday

I started a new screenplay last night.  No, not the one I was writing for Script Frenzy.  I definitely lost my passion for that one.  This was a new idea that came to me.  I wish I could say more, but I can’t.  Or I could, but I won’t.  I don’t normally like to talk about what I’m writing anyway, but this is unique, even in that regard.  It’s deeply personal, and since I don’t mind getting pretty personal here most of the time, you can imagine what it must entail. 

Or maybe you can’t.  I really have no idea. 

Of course, this means it will probably never go anywhere except on the hard drive of my computer.  But I still felt it had to be written in that form, and no other.  I see the pictures in my mind.  I think it’ll make an awesome screenplay and would make a great movie.  Pity no one will ever see it because it’ll never get made.  No one will ever even read it but me.  There are some secrets, some thoughts, some feelings, some emotions that are too deep, too dark, too painful, and too real to be shared with others.  Right now, I just have to get them out in the only way I know how.

I really know how to lighten the mood around here, don’t I?

I think I’ve settled on the color scheme I’ve got now.  I might tweak a little with variations on the theme, but other than that, I think I like it.  Thoughts?  I really like the text and sidebar and link colors a lot, so I probably won’t change those at all.  I’m not sure about the header, though.  Suggestions? 

I haven’t seen my favorite little beat up car this week.  I wanted you guys to have good information, though, so I did a little recon work.  I did determine that it is, in fact, a Prius.  There are at least two of them that the company employs in their fleet.  One is the beat up one that I see that guy driving to and from work everyday.  The other one seems to stay in the parking lot, so is probably just driven during the work day for business purposes.  Or else the person who drives it works on a different, and longer, schedule than the other drivers. 

I can’t get over the fact that the Prius seems an odd choice for a company car, especially considering these guys also have a fleet of SUVs.  Guess they’re trying to balance the environmental impact out a bit.

I’ve been enamored of late by Aimee Mann’s The Forgotten Arm.  It’s such a beautifully sad and melancholy album.  It’s really suited my mood recently.  It’s wonderfully lyrical, and as a bonus, it actually tells a story of love and addiction, not to mention boxing.  It’s sort of like Rocky meets Days of Wine and Roses - but, you know, in song instead of on film.  So, more profound and lyrical rather than linear and narrative driven.  One of the tracks skips, but what can you do?