Friday is a Writing Day

I’m not sure a writer can enjoy a day more than when it consists of a coffee at Starbucks around 2PM that keeps you awake past 1 AM the next day writing to your heart’s content. I honestly can now say that one of the best things for writing is coffee, and I’m obviously not the first person to discover this because you seem to always imagine the stereotypical writer with at least a pen in one hand and a coffee in the other (or in some cases, a bottle of hard liquor). I can also honestly say the worst thing for someone with bouts of insomnia and exhaustion is coffee, because it allows me to stay awake into the wee hours of the next morning writing away page after page with no desire to stop and all my internal alarms drowned out from that one coffee I had earlier.

With only one cup producing this type of reaction, you can tell I’m definitely a newbie at coffee. I found myself wanting another cup earlier today but luckily for my mental and physical well-being, the Starbucks is across campus and I wasn’t about to go all the way there for it (though my cravings did just about get the best of me) . Since things have been going so well I got busy and thus my Friday post is actually now Saturday, even though I haven’t gone to bed yet so it still counts as Friday for me.

I’m working on a new video. And a new song. And perhaps a video with the new song in it.

I saw Pan’s Labyrinth a few days ago a second time and loved it just as much as the first . But I realized that I should have made a note in my review that the violence does get particularly harsh. I remember my DVD player kept skipping back when I had it, and it obviously skipped over those parts… I can handle almost anything a film can throw except for torture- it is just something that seems so unnecessary and I just can’t bring myself to watch it. I always end up skipping it out of a reflex because I just don’t want to see it, though the violence elsewhere doesn’t seem to hurt. It could be that in the gruesome battles in films at least the violence has some merit, but torture has no merit and thus sets off a defensive reaction in me to end it in any way possible, and in this case skip the scene. Pan’s Labyrinth, unfortunately, had this twice, and as much as I loved the movie I just couldn’t watch them.

For lighter fare, I also watched Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and realized that Burton is a true genius when it comes to film making. He can convert a story into a masterpiece of film with every detail made perfectly- and with Danny Elfman running the soundtrack, you can’t possibly go wrong. If you look closely, Charlie is the same as the boy in The Spiderwick Chronicles (which I have not seen yet).