Quickies

OK, so a quick update (so you don’t all think I fell off the face of the earth).

No internet at the new place for a few weeks while we wait for Covad to ship us the DSL modem. I’m intrigued to see how easy this “self-install” DSL is (my last experience with DSL was with Ameritech almost three years ago; after about three months of “installation”, it still never worked well, so I called AT&T and got a cable modem installed the next day that worked flawlessly. From a technical/networking perspective, I want to like DSL, but hopefully it’s easier to get up and running now. Shit, when I got ISDN installed in the mid-90’s it wasn’t as freakin’ complicated as that DSL bullshit was.)
Working on this consulting gig at JLA. Looks to be pretty easy work. Waiting for a demo of WinInstall to download so I can start trying it out as an imaging tool here.
Saw M____ on Sunday night (she had been in DC to see some friends). It’s odd. I like her. I really do. But it’s so freakin’ hard for me to be available right now – my car is less than reliable, and I’m so poor! (I’m not used to that) I drove out to her place on Sunday night, which made me nervous, because I had very little gas in my car, and my spare is still flat, so highway driving isn’t high on my list of Things That Are Fun. But I did it anyway. Plus, she lives with her parents, which, I will freely admit, freaks me out a little. We were in the basement watching TV and fooling around a little, and it reminded me of messing around with girlfriends in high school. I’m 27 years old. I haven’t lived at home in almost ten years. So it makes it difficult for me to deal.
Hippie Chick came over for dinner on Friday night. I made tuna. There was some fooling around as well. I really need to figure out what the hell I’m doing here.
Punches and I have been working on Windyhop 2.0. And by that, I mean, “Jay has been coming over and showing me all the cool shit he’s been doing, but it’s still not ready for me to work on yet.”
I edited together two “Switch” spoofs on Sunday. One is with Dallas, and talks about how he “switched” from Lindy Hop to West Coast Swing, and the other is with me talking about how we “switched” from improv to script at GTF. I’ll put the dialogue (as I remember it) in a cut tag below. Once I get DSL installed I’ll upload the videos.

WCS SWITCHER

Dallas Trinkle: “So I went to my first swing dance. And you know what that means, swing, right? Uh-uh. There’s all these horns going ‘beep beep beep!’ And they’re all taking about ‘frame’ and ‘pushing’ and spinning ’em around. I’ve seen people do this move called a ‘mess-around’. That’s okay, but I want a whole dance that’s nothing but a mess-around. And I find that in West Coast Swing. You want Christina Aguiliera? You want Britney Spears? Sexy bitches! Like a bowl of vanilla pudding. That’s what I want out of dancing. A big bowl of vanilla pudding. I’m Dallas Trinkle, and I’m a manwhore.”

GTF SWITCH

Matt Stratton: “So we shot this movie, Dancing With Gaia, and it’s a mock-doc, so we decided to be all Christopher Guest and improvise most of it. It’s like cinema verite, but…not. So we had this scene we wrote, and it just didn’t hit. It was a really good scene. So for our new movie, Inventing: Music, it’s like, no more improv, we are straight scripted. I can block the scenes, and everything is tight. It just works. Film should just work. I’m Matt Stratton, and I’m a director.”