Blog:Danimatian

I didn't get to go to Phil Lesh and Allman Brothers tonight. I still don't have a car until Monday. Didn't get to spend the weekend with Rosanna in Auburn Hills either. The girl is only in town for like 2 weeks...This sucks. There is some beautiful music going on there tonight and I'm missing out on it. I cleaned up the basement a LITTLE, I walked home from Bill Knapps just to get away from the family for a bit. I'm getting antisocial and a little crabby.

get over it....

found a text file on my computer...
11 am - 6/23

more rock star style partying.

i woke up on the floor again when asked what I was doing and if i was okay.

reminds me of fear & loathing in las vegas...

"took too much... took too much!!!"

I am so sad. I just smashed my light table by leaning on it from above. What a dumb ass. You know you always see those signs in the stores not to lean on the glass and then you get a glass drawing table and you think you're a bad ass dancing to techno and you stop and lean from above and then you're looking @ a pile of broken glass that was once involved in the creation of art you loved.

I love Phish.

Thank you boys. Thank you. John, Mike, Trey, Page, Stuart Sutcliffe... you guys really make everything in life a notch better on the emotional clarity and musical appreciation scale.

Dangers of Rock Star style partying - Part 2 ( Cirque Du Soleil Detroit partying)

Again, I awoke on the floor, bleeding. I can only assume my body was dragging against a surface.

Adventures In Language: Part One
(Phone convo with Rosanna)

"I was playing the balls with all the boys."
Means:
"We played volleyball."

"I will go to physio tomorrow."
Means:
"I wlll see the doctor manana"

I slept at work last night. I went to Rosanna's straight after I was done working @ 6pm and we hung out until like 3am. We chilled at the apartment complex they've rented for three weeks.

I was hoping to see the Russians drink vodka and do some backflips in the courtyard but we took off before they were tanked enough. We went downtown, right by Tiger Stadium and checked out Works. Kevin Saunderson was spinning and we danced for hours. Doc was nice enough to take them back home so I could go straight home instead driving them back to Auburn Hills.

I passed my work off of Northwestern and remembered I had all my out of town bags still in the car from the weekend in Lansing. So I just slept on a couch at work and changed my clothes, etc in the morning.

Now I'm groggy as hell but I got to have a good time with a girl I love hanging out with. I wish I could follow them onto Boston, she's trying to make me come visit.. I love Boston.. I wanted to go there for July 4th but Pat pretty much made that impossible by getting married on the 5th.

I was just about to really focus on my life and creative aspirations and here comes Rosanna making me party it up for three weeks instead of doing what I got to do. But she'll be but a memory soon... I hope I don't go another five years before seeing her again.

Now I am tour guide to a slew of international carnies. They are travelling around the world and Detroit is on the schedule for three weeks. They want to see all the cool techno clubs and damnit If I have to pretend like after hours clubs are my normal hang out. I think I can pull it off, we'll have to wait and see.

OK, so Rosanna is hanging out with the Circus. I finally hook up with her tonight and her boyfriend is a technician on Cirque Du Soleil

So now we're going to the preview on Thursday.. how cool is that? I'm partying with the Circus-folk! (Do they have folk in France?)

OWWW. Rosanna called me. I'm off to Auburn Hills to see her right now!

Something is going on with me lately in that I am getting more and more anti social and I don't even want to have friends at times. I am looking into my relationships and I am seeing how different I am from the people I know and I am pushing myself further and further away from the people that care for me.

The only thing that cuts through my psyche and makes me smile today is the Grateful Dead music playing through the speakers. Wow, ripping MP3s from the boxed set was the most incredible thing I took from my 3 week relationship with Sharon last year, LOL.

I'm happy in life...I have a great job and a lot of things on the horizon that I've been waiting for, but just like every other time in my life when things SHOULD be at the best they could be I feel something lurking within my soul that is crying for something else. I would almost even just take up and leave everything and everyone behind and find myself travelling throughout the nation... if I didn't work for the best company and be a part of something so incredible... creating is really a beautiful thing. Men in general just destroy. Usually it's the women that get the honor of creating something, but when it comes to graphics and moving images, creating still gives you a little warm fuzzy feeling that nothing could ever take away or compare to.

Dan Four20 (12:11:23 AM): dude. you missed the orgy
D0Cdet3 (12:11:32 AM): orgy eh?
D0Cdet3 (12:11:45 AM): damn that sux
Dan Four20 (12:13:30 AM): you could have spooged on her face man
D0Cdet3 (12:13:51 AM): whos face?
Dan Four20 (12:14:01 AM): man. they are fighting over it
D0Cdet3 (12:14:38 AM): are you having an orgy right now?
Dan Four20 (12:14:47 AM): BRB
D0Cdet3 (12:14:49 AM): what are you doing im'ing me
D0Cdet3 (12:15:02 AM): yeah good go, enjoy the orgy
D0Cdet3 (12:15:09 AM): lol

Rosanna never called. I hope she calls soon. I GOTTA see that girl. I love her so very much. Four years is too long for good friends to be apart.

i find myself writing new things to put in Ones and Zeroes over editing The Next Breath. Part of me is wondering if I'm ready for a production this big and the other part of me is just saying "WRITE WRITE WHATEVER." You can always not use something later, but you can never re-create the moment of inspiration that leads to the cosmic event that is me writing something. Once the idea flows it either keeps going or stops for another idea at another time.

Ones and Zeroes is all about computers and people and I can't see any location for it being anything outside of my current daily life. Except that it's set in the late 80s in an office building and becomes something entirely different by the end. The focus isn't even really on the characters that were in the Sequel Two Chez (shot in 97-99)

I just realized that The Next Breath has a dialogue reference to Ones and Zeroes. I just realized it because I just see it in Ones and Zeroes. I never quite understood the humor behind the line in The Next Breath until I noticed it was the same kind of thing that would be said to Chez when he first encounters people chasing him.

Am I weird? Does anybody else quote themself without realizing it?

Here's the dialogue in question from The Next Breath. I wrote this like 3 years ago. I haven't actually written the dialogue in Ones and Zeroes yet that this is "referencing" but it will be similar, I can see that for sure!

OFFICER RAY
Search him.

Officer Thom approaches Dan. He wrestles around with him for a bit as Dan squirms, trying not to drop the trash bag of weed. He finds a case in Dan's pocket.

OFFICER THOM
I've got something.

He drops Dan on the ground and turns to Officer Ray.

OFFICER RAY
What is it?

OFFICER THOM
It looks like a disk protected by a case.

OFFICER RAY
He has data?

Officer Thom hands over the case.

OFFICER THOM
Data?

OFFICER RAY
What is he doing with the data?

Officer Thom approaches Dan

OFFICER THOM (TO DAN)
WHAT IS YOUR INTENTION, BOY?

DAN
What is wrong with you people?

A message comes over the radio for the officers to respond to an breaking and entering at a warehouse.

POLICE RADIO
Break in at the Bargain Basement Warehouse, all units close by, please respond.

They both look at each other.

OFFICER RAY
Look's like we've got bigger fish to fry.

OFFICER THOM
You two are getting off easy tonight. I've shot at men for much less.

waiting to see my rosanna on Monday. She'll be here from Spain. I haven't seen her since GVSU in 1997 where she went for a semester. I guess she's travelling with a circus or something.. haha..

For the second time in two days when I've answered the phone the person stays quiet and when I say "can I help you?" they say "Oh, I thought you were a recording."

Sick of the club scene. The music is so annoying. Ming and I have decided we shall go to a random bar and just go somewhere were we can talk and drink some alcohol.

I just can't get on the dance floor when they play WHOOMP THERE IT IS.

It's hard to be a hippie in a club. I just imagine how Phish's Michael Gordon would play the baseline in whatever crap they play at the club. It gives me something to dance to. But sometimes you just can't imagine that hard.

Pontiac was good. We hit multiple clubs for half the price of the one in Hamtramck last night. Coyote was UGLY. Any other place on that block would have have some of Detroits best electornic music being creatded nightly and i get stuck with PopEuroSuckDJ spinning for me