I feel as though I should post something meaningful in my blog today. A segment of tonight’s Platforum was on blogs. (aside: okay, I know y’all don’t watch Platforum. It’s on TrojanVision, which nobody watches, but I direct on Fridays so I’m forced to watch the show. Actually, come to think of it, I could direct them without actually looking at the shots….) Anyway, one of the guests felt that she would never put her personal feelings on the internet for all the world to read. But the way I figure is it lets off steam, it acts as a journal of mental health for some of us, it lets us rant without forcing people to listen to us, and it’s fun, ‘cause hey, not too many people read this crap anyway. If I had interesting things to say on a particular subject then my readership might improve, but I’m not doing it for them, I’m doing it for me. This blog is purely masturbatory.

Advanced Sound class went to visit Chris Jenkins at the Alfred Hitchcock theater at Universal last night. They’re just finishing printmastering for The Interpreter. We got to watch (and listen to) the first reel. Too bad I can’t say anything about the movie. Not that I don’t want to, but I’ll have to wait until April 22nd to give my thoughts on the film. (Or April 13 in Europe—weird, huh?) What I can say is that the Harrison digital console they’re using at Universal looks like it’s going to shape up to be pretty awesome. It’s basically a prototype—it has some issues still to work out as they’ve only mixed two movies on it so far. It has waveform scrolling, 10-second cache looping (sans ProTools), plugins, and all sorts of Jenkinsised features. Anyway, it might be fun to work at Universal some day, starting possibly as a mix tech and hanging around their Blue Wave studios, where they do transferring, QC, remastering & digitizing, trailers, you name it. Chris says some folks who get a good start have musical backgrounds. I cerainly qualify for that. 🙂

Always do your best work—you never know when or if you will work on it again.

Hard at work, attentive, focused, disciplined, and committed. Heh. Yeah, right.

From left to right: J, M, R, M, M, Z, B, and A.

Do people love being in love or are people just in love with the idea of being in love? Do you remember being in love? Do you remember falling out of love? Do you remember that stasis between the two? Which do you prefer?

What does intimacy mean? Why have I not found someone? Have I been looking? Have I missed her? Is she right under my nose? Is that my upper lip?

Why does sex sell? What’s wrong with the media? What’s right with the media? Why so many questions?

I consider this argument particularly pertinent. Read it and tell me what you think. Humorous, intelligent, and fatalistic.

http://www.nothingisreal.com/girlfriend/

Daily Trojan updates Gustavo’s story.

http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/2005/02/18/News/Remembering.Gustavo-869559.shtml (dead link)