"The future is not set."

"There is no 'fate' but what we make for ourselves."

-various Dystopian movies about killer cyborgs from the future

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I enjoy movies for their own sake. Ever since I was a little boy, movies have been a way for me to escape from the realities of life when I've been troubled, or needing to find a bit of inspiration for ( Read more... )

Most of the time, I'm a pretty happy guy. I know I have certain things going for me, and for the most part, I'm pretty comfortable in my own skin. God knows I still consider myself having a ways to go lol, and I'm the type who will probably always be interested in bettering myself in some way or another.

Now having said that: At the moment, I'm... ( Read more... )

Birthdays tend to become less important to us as we get older, and I think I've figured out why.

When we're five years old, each of those years counts for 20% of our total life to that point. That's huge. But when we hit 20, each of those years only counts for 5% of our total life to that point. Not so important. By the time we hit 50, each year is ( Read more... )

I went to my (16!) year old daughter's dance/musical production at Red Bluff High last night, they called it "Higher Ground" this year. Wow!! Everyone was just great (can I get away with calling a bunch of high school girls "sexy"? lol), there were some touching moments as well - I was so happy to go!
Was thinking last night about having had kids as ( Read more... )

I wish I was better organized. My brain is constantly trying to keep up with the flood of information I give it to deal with every day-I picture it like a huge fridge, with a metric butt tonne of Post-It™ Notes stuck to the door. Things get missed that way; I've just never really been very good with a non-memorized system, even though the memorized ( Read more... )

I'm at a big band jazz concert at Shasta College tonight! One of my castmates from RHPS (hi Ms.  Mayhem!) is performing on trombone, and doing three vocal sets as well.

In the audience as I write this (iPhone ftw), 5 min to go. Can't wait!

For some reason, I had an urge to catch up on some science fiction today. I spent a good chunk of my surfing time at Wikipedia, reading up on such light topics as nuclear physics, quantum theory, relativity, faster-than-light travel, time travel, paradoxes, alternate realities, and so on. I also re-read Isaac Asimov's The Last Question, always a ( Read more... )

I had an absolute blast at the Rocky Horror Picture Show last night! Jess's Magenta received raves, my Crim received some too, everyone else kicked ass and the director and I punk'd the entire audience (and most of the rest of the cast) with a fake intro to the show that I worked up in iMovie (used the theme song to the "Rocky" movies, scrolling ( Read more... )

Fear is natural - healthy even, at the right times. It's part of our animal instincts of self-preservation.

Sometimes though, fear gets the better of us. When that happens, we can fixate on it so strongly that it stops us from actually living, or loving, in the first place. Fear can protect us from harm, but it can also harm our spirits and deny us ( Read more... )

So for the past few months, I've been part of the Rocky Horror Picture Show cast in Redding, California. They put on a show once a month in Red Bluff, about half an hour south of Redding on Interstate 5. It's always a big show, usually get around 100-150 people at each one and it's always a great time. For those that don't already know, I met the ( Read more... )