i dont really know how but i poured out a draft of the entire first act of the thing yesterday. a new draft. there's a fair amount of emotion in it... PLEASE CRY AT MY MOVIE. no but i'm staring at it now dissecting what's wrong with it, and hoping that today i suddenly get the idea to polish off the accompanying acts, or at least get to the third..

i just bought the by brakhage criterion and am practically quivering with excitement. please tell me you've heard of him before. a beautiful, artsy mind.. i think every picture of his is a drug. the first one i'd ever seen was a shitty 480p youtube video of stellar, and i remember both falling in love with it and realizing that i need to see this film in hi-def. if you've not heard of him before, maybe go watch dog star man. to do this satisfactorily i think you have to temporarily forget a lot about what you know about movies. trust me!

~tom