Starting Again

So...I just erased a few posts I had. Not like anyone read them. But, whatever. It had been over a year. I think the last time I wrote I was in california recording an ep with the braille tapes. geez.

Since then, a lot has changed. I'm still writing poetry, and actually plan on heading out east, away from Bellingham, into an MFA program. I'm heading out there with Emily. Thank God she's going, I don't think I could survive on my own. I'm pretty helpless. Since my last post, the braille tapes have toured once more, and plan on recording a full length called "robot meat is murder" which is going to be a sort of box set (cd, dvd, comic, short story, poem, pictures, etc, etc), before we take enter into an extended hibernation. there's talk of them going on without me, but chad's doing his thing and wendelin's doing his thing, and caleb is doing his thing, so I think that's just a lot of hot air. but whatever. I'm stoked to record this thing and move on with our creative lives and real lives and so on.

and since my last post I got a job at a soap supply co. I used to love the smell. now I hate it.

and since my last post I got into grad. school at western. Studied film/fiction/poetry. Thought my thesis would be a screenplay/film, then freaked out over the summer and realized I wanted to write a book of poems. So, I switched and wrote one called "to the chapel of light." I feel better now about everything. God. I was stressed this summer. Ask my friends. Ask Emily.

and since my last post we (lines and blood) have released a collection of writings from local writers called "Fragments of Youth," I have finished a novel called "How we started Bumping" (and I gonna start shopping it...i think), caleb and I wrote and directed a film called "Afraid to Merge" which was official selection at True West Cinema Festival in Boise. Plus two other films (Short End and Gunfights) which are great movies in themselves, plus for the most part we had fun making them.

But a lot has happened. People have grown up, moved on. Some, including me, want different things. Some of us are done with the whole filmmaking thing. Some have accepted it as just a hobby. Some are going to film school or starting to make films as a job. Some have thrown in the cards and settled down for now. Some are waiting for the next project. In the process of all this, I lost some friends. Got some back. Realized that some I thought I lost, I didn't. and that I shouldn't've assumed I had. But things are pretty good, and I'm happy at where I am for more than just my pursuits and creative endeavors...I have one main reason...and right now she's saying that she's surprised I haven't been keeping up on my blog cause I love to talk about myself. God, when I write these things I do feel that I'm just pontificating about myself, yadayada.

But anyway. I'm hoping this will be a regular thing, or semi-regular. We'll see. I hope this is enough to chew on for now. Come back, but give me a good week...Schools on break to so internet time is slow...

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Lately I can't get enough of David Bazan and The Counting Crows. What is it about these bands/songwriters. I cannot get enough ever. People at work get sick of the same records over and over. I don't. I get stoked.

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Oh, and Em and I have watched the Dark Knight like four times since I bought it. So, good. "OS-Cars" all over the screen. But wait. What's with the lack of commentary on the special features. That's fucking bullshit. Seriously. Come on, Nolan. I want to hear what you and your brother were thinking about with the Joker, with Bruce Wayne, where you want to take it? I want my fucking commentary! But enough of that. the flick is so good it really doesn't matter, but I swear if they release a newer one in a month or two with commetary I'm gonna blow a cow!

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bye for now.

ps. the new lines and blood website: http://www.linesandbloodproductions.com

love,
joshua