Geoff remarked one year that the approaching summer would be “the summer of Geoff,” borrowing from the episode of Seinfeld (which we were both rather addicted to) called “The Summer of George,” wherein George plans on taking the summer off and enjoying his life to the max.
This never really happened for Geoff, and allegedly not even for George.
I have been rather useless for the last few years, but I can safely say that this summer will be the summer of Dan. I have enough projects and business ventures to get me through the next millenium. I’ve got some cool vacations planned (“cool” for me, admittedly, is probably boring for most of you) and overall just a lot of good stuff happening.
More importantly, I am fully aware of my negligence in my responsibilities as a friend, son, and grandson. I know I have been one of the hardest people to reach lately, and I promise you, this will all change.
So here’s to me keeping my word and to some truly awesome living. The summer of Dan begins next week.
I am currently in Santa Cruz for what will be the last time for several months. (Or years, if I had my way, but it is likely I will have to come back for something.)
And I wish it were permanent. It’s been far too long. Santa Cruz, you’re a nice place, but I despise being around you. You’re beautiful, but you have nothing good to offer me that I can’t get somewhere else.
I feel stupid for even making these visits to Santa Cruz for as long as I have been. I was supposed to be the one who left and never came back.
Never have I considered Santa Cruz to be my “home” and, in fact, I get offended when certain friends (who have lived in Santa Cruz all their lives) try to tell me that Santa Cruz will always be my home, and that other places are “just temporary stops.” Bullshit. I lived in like 8 places before I turned 18. Home to me is wherever I currently reside and feel comfortable.
That about covers it. I’ll be here for a week, and will be going back home as soon as I possibly can.
My liver tests came back. I am just fine.
My doctor doesn’t know why they were out of whack to begin with, and I’ll be going in occasionally to keep an eye on them, but as of this moment, I have a clean bill of health. Time to stop being a hypochondriac.
This past month has been one of the most stressful of my life. I’ve learned a few things from it, though. I’m going to put this whole thing to rest, and hope to not revisit this chapter of my life for a long time.
Sorry about the lack of posting. It’s been an interesting few days.
I do not have a new job yet. I interviewed yesterday at Sony Pictures Imageworks, and it seemed to go really well. More details will follow.
Prior to going into my interview, I went to the doctor and got my liver tested. I went in about six weeks ago and had some liver anomalies, and I’ve been fearing the worst ever since. My doctor’s policy with blood work is this: If there’s a big problem, they’ll call you. If there’s not a big problem, they’ll mail you the results.
It’s been a day and I’ve gotten no phone call. If another day goes by without one, I’ll start to calm down. I’ve been ignoring my phone the whole day out of fear. Let’s hope I can just put this whole thing behind me soon.
Sorry about the delay in posts, I was too busy failing miserably at the film festival. It most definitely did not do as well as anyone had hoped.
But hey, was a film festival in the little town of Scotts Valley being organized by some crazy 21-year-old who lives 400 miles away really going to be a big success?
Anyways, time to get back to real life, and all the wonderful exciting things that it brings me. If that wasn’t sarcasm, I don’t know what is.
Anyone who knows me knows that Video Productions has been my baby for a few years now. We’ve had lots of press over the years, hundreds of thousands of views, but never has there actually been a local festival dedicated to the class. Now there is, and it’s happening tomorrow.
I’ve been freaking out for the past couple weeks about it, since we totally procrastinated, and since I’m not even flying up until tomorrow morning. And yeah, I’m running the event. Whoops. But regardless, everything is coming together and it looks like it’s going to be a good event. I’m excited.
So about three days ago, I launched a new blog called New Music Economist. It’s just another microblog on Tumblr (just like this one) but I hope to expand it to much more as time goes by.
In this blog I will be posting anything that relates to the merging of the music industry with technology, such as free downloads from bands, music store news, and various other things. So it’ll be nerdy, but still informative and fun.
Oh, and if you’re wondering why it is named the way it is, or just want to know more about it, go read this. Enjoy.
In a brilliant move by EMI, Coldplay’s new single is being given away for free as a 192kbit MP3. Not bad, not bad at all. You can get it here. Their new album seems to be much darker and quite different than what most Coldplay fans might expect, but I enjoy it nonetheless.
In the UK, they’re even giving away a 7” vinyl single in the next issue of NME Magazine. EMI thus far has been on the cutting edge of this stuff, and I hope they continue down that path and inspire the other labels to do the same.
… is extremely gross. I don’t care what anyone says about it, who lives there, or what history it has. The San Fernando Valley is horribly ugly, disgusting, and is always about ten degrees hotter than other parts of Los Angeles. (Definitely not a good thing this time of year.) It has no redeeming qualities and I am ashamed to admit that it is part of Los Angeles.
I’ve been hard at work today on some sort of barebones layout for my film blog. It’s only been, what, a year and a half since I launched it and took it down? Totally ridiculous. I could’ve had thousands of readers by now. Regardless, I’m trying to put together just a super simple design so I can at least start writing in it while I figure out a more permanent solution. Don’t worry, once it’s done, this will be the first place I post about it.