Oh, how I've slacked!

Nine, no, ten days since my last post. Get it together, Shawn...

Anyway. Had today and have tomorrow off from work. Today, I installed an Air conditioner in my room. Now the temperatures outside will surely drop thirty degrees...

Saturday night, I made this:



I had written a goofy sci-fi script a few months ago, sort of in the vein of Starship Troopers, just in terms of melodrama and stupidity, and I'd planned to animate it using these Alien/Astronaut figurines that Chad & Deanna gave me last Christmas. I think I may still try to make this movie, but I'd need a better still camera...

Attempting (for the second time) to read Albert Camus' The Plague. I've gotten further this time, and I'm liking what I'm reading (for the most part...I don't know if it's a bad translation or what, but for a lot of Part 1, the character introductions were so slapdash and not fleshed out at all, and it seems at times to be operating on plot alone...but the more ponderous and "philisophical" points of the book really stand out...typical, I guess) but overall it isn't grabbing me the way The Stranger or to a lesser extent The Fall did. The cynic in me does love the idea of a modern outbreak of the Black Death, however.

Watched Capote again tonight. I would have sold this to Plan 9 a few days ago, when I was scrambling for rent money, but they passed on it. I'm kind of glad. This movie does a fantastic job of presenting you with a character so driven by his own desire for renown that he'll say and do anything to get it, and you don't necessarily end up rooting for him. You can see through all his bullshit so well that you almost feel sorry for the convicted murderers being taken advantage of, and the law enforcement trying to bring closure to this horrible case. In other words, you really come to understand Capote, even though you sympathize with everyone else he comes into contact with. The movie made me want to write more and read In Cold Blood again.

Shana moved out today. I don't know how I feel about that. Weird is my first reaction. Didn't know she was moving out, is all...