Category: life
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play at your own risk…
“I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you’re not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.”-Quentin Tarantino that…
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a book i picked up….
called “the Film-maker says” has been of enjoyment to me as of late. it’s little snippets and quotes from movie directors. i’ve used a few of them here as i write. they make great conversation starters, and i’ll use them in my classes as the year winds down. i love a good quote. and…
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on writing…
Give me a good script, and I’ll be a hundred times better as a director. George Cukor I read somewhere that David Mamet said there are no good actors, only good scripts. fitting coming from a playwright. i believe there are good actors. great interpreters, but i also believe they have to have great words…
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got into a twitter conversation…
Originally posted on Musings from Evans: with a person who tends to bully other people with the bible. i was accused of being biblically ignorant. my original intent with engaging this person was to ask them to stop being so judgmental of “seeker” churches and their choices with how they attempt to reach people. pretty…
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i had a friend ask me the other day….
Originally posted on Musings from Evans: “What is God teaching you through all of this?” i guess at the time i was still pretty hurt and angry. those feelings subside and then they come right back, but i guess i do know what God is teaching me…. 1. nothing suprises Him- He wasn’t like, “How…
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a dream of sorts
i have a few dreams for the creative things in my life. i want to make a record of songs written or co-written by me, and i want to make documentaries. i’ll be 43 this summer and sometimes i feel like the window is closing to do those things. there are a lot of songs, but i don’t know how…
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one of my favorite songwriters…
happens to live right here in Austin, TX, so i have the opportunity to see him quite often as he is gracious enough to share his music with the hometown crowd. the first time i ever saw David Ramirez at a sold-out Stubbs show, he held the crowd with just his voice and a…
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Film thoughts…
It’s always a question of high aims, grandiose dreams, great bravado and confidence, and great courage at the typewriter; and then, when I’m in the midst of finishing a picture and everything’s gone horribly wrong and I’ve reedited it and reshot it and tried to fix it, then it’s merely a struggle for survival. You’re…
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recovering a post
i wrote about my top 5 bands last year, and the post got lost, so i thought i would recover it today and add a band making it my top 6. so here they are: 6. The Black Keys if lo-fi is your aim then Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have you covered. lyrically they…
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countdown to spring break…
i teach school. today is the friday before spring break. kids are typically going stir crazy. spring break is their last week of freedom before we enter what is called “the testing season” or as i like to call it, “the way the legislature wastes money and time”. today they seem a little quieter…
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