June 2009
13 posts
a correction to a previous tale
So, if you’re friends with me at Emerson, you probably know how I almost died as a child on a theme park’s “lazy river” water ride.
While originally telling the story, I cited that it occured at Water Slide World, in Lake George, NY.
After stressing the reality of the story with Christina Manzo on June 29th, I began to research this, and I realized that I was wrong. It...
“The rivers they run
They run until they get too tired
Until they run behind...”
– ryan adams & the cardinals - mockingbird
semester one
In what was just only four months, I can say more has happened to me in those four months than in the past four years.
At first, I was seperated from everything that made me who I was. My family, my hometown, and all of the people here. I was seperated from normalcy, and as much as I had grown to strongly dislike that normalcy, that was a hard plug to pull. A hour felt like a year in those first...
the evolution of a story
Since Lakewood was never really made, it has simmered in my mind since senior year ended.
Naturally, the dialogue was hard to get right, and I look back on the script and feel like it lacked an overall general direction. Over time, in my mind, I would add more to the characters to help better define them. I would give them each their own specific objects that would convey a deeper meaning, and...
I am writing something
Well, right now, I am working on a post (that’ll probably be fairly lengthy) about the whole semester at Emerson.
I’ll finish it soon.
In the mean time, I’ll post more random things.
