Who do you carry that torch for my young man? Do you believe in anything?

                       Do you carry it around just to burn things down?

                       Meet me tonight on the turnpike my darling, because we believe in everything.

                                                                                                                                 Brand New.

       The title of this blog is a song by Albert Hammond Jr. The quitarist for the Strokes, it's his first solo album and it's really good. I saw him live at SXSW, and he put on a good show. So yeah i can't remember the last blog i think it was around midnight on monday. But anyway i've been busy so i'll try and feel you all in on what's been going on.

         So on tuesday i turned in my film project that i've been working on for the past two months. We were assigned a topic and given a two month deadline to shoot it. And i hada lot of fun doing it. I haven't filmed anything in awhile so i loved every second of it. And i got a lot more done because i own all of my own equipment and it's better than the stuff we use in the course So i worked on it at odd times but it all got done. I even had myfriend Brian makes some origional composistions for the film, my own scores if you will. But it came together really nicely. I'ts getting closer and closer to finals and the end of the year, and i for one am glad. I'm doing briallantly in all of my courses and i have my schedyule for my final collegiate year set, so i'm good. I'm just ready to get back to Santa Barbara, i'm having surfing/sailing withdrawal. Oh the thing i was working on with that girl Eliza i don't know if you all remember me talking about her, she was really shy and studious and she had a rather sizaeable crush on me. Anyway she turned out to be pretty cool once we bypassed all of that other stuff. The project were doing is over the Civil War. And i am a huge history buff, i love it i love researching past events that shaped the state of our world now. But anyway Ken Burns did this documentary on it about a few years ago, and it's brilliant. So we watched it and used a lot of ither aides and we finished it up. It's great it was meticulously researched, which i always do i can't stand to fail at things, i'm froma really competitive family who dosen't really do losing.

          So  after school i met up with Kerri for a run which was fun, they allways are. I can't see how people can't be fans of exercise. But i'm really into fitness, it's something i've always done being active. No matter how busy i am i find time. After that i wen't to visit my grandmother. I was there a few hours, but i love talking to her. I've talked to her more than i ever did my mother. I don't know why, i suppose she's easier to talk to. But she was telling me about different events in her life and i just find it fasicnating, she did so much. Which is why i'm big on having adventures and stuff to tell the next generation. And she's Native American so i love hearing about all of the history. I've been to reservations before and i love the way some aspects of the life are preserved. I stayed around for awhile after she fell asleep and looked over some photographs from a long time ago, some decades old. But i left around 8ish. When i got back to my part Emma came over and we did takeout and watched a moive called Smokin Aces and another one called America's Sweetheart. With John Cusack, Catherine Zeta Jones/Julia Roberts. I liked it, as a i do most Cusack films.

       Emma stayed over and that's why tuesday was pretty lax, we had a pretty full day on Wednesday. I got up pretty early around 6:45 and i starting work on a couple of stories and i wen't out for an early morning run, it was still kind of drizzling out. Which i love, running in that tyoe of weather is so liberating. I got back and we went over te stuff we were supposed to do. Emma went home to run a quick errand and get ready. The first stop was the Dallas Museum of Modern Art. We went to see this really cool new exhibit, we ran into some people we know socially and chatted for a few minutes. We left and wen't by the Cheesecake Factory. Which i love because i love Cheesecake, my mothe rmakes a really fantastic one. She makes her own crust so t's completely from scratch. I remember the first time i went i was shocked to find out that they made more than Cheesecake, i find it highly unlikely that i would ever get anything else from them besides there namesake. But it takes a lot for me to break out of food ruts and try new stuff. But we wen't tjhere and stopped by a bookstore to kill time until this theater performance friedns of ours were putting on started. I bought a couple of books while i was there. Emma an i saw these cookbooks and were really intrigued by them. I'm not a big cooker at all, well actually more like not at all. And Emma is good but not great she barely does it. I eat out all the time or something to that nature. But i bought a couple of cook books and we decided that tonight and the next few nights we would try our hand  at making random dishes we had never tried before. So ui payed for the books and we headed to the theatre to see the show.

       The performance was an updated retelling of the Cruciable, which of course is the brilliant Arthur Miller play. I love Miller's stuff but my favorite playright of all time is David Mamet. I love his stuff he's a fantastic writer of dialogue. I've seen Gelngary Glenross  on broadwy, it was brilliant. But the play was very good better than i expected when i heard the premise. But a lot of people we know were in the play, so i like to support the people i care about so i would've said i liked it even if i didn't. But it just so happened to be really good.

      After the play we invited some friends to come over and test out our first night of culinary feats. So if it turned out bad we wanted to share in it, same if it turned out good. So we made two versions of this pasta dish, which i can't recall the name of to save my life right now. I tried to find the book but i seemed to have misplaced it, so if i find it i'll make an amended note. Anyway we made two versions to pacify the vegitarians and non-vegitarians in the group. And apparently if you follow directions and have someone in the kitchen who's at least attepmted to cook something before it can goo off with out any major glitches. So it tunred out pretty well. People hung out and we played music and random films in the background.  It's always fun to entertain, i grew up with big parties allways being thrown so i guess i sort of have a knack for event plannig.

          In other news. My grandfather finalized the divorce of his second trophy wife. It's hilarious really, but he said she turned thirty so it was time to call it quits. And there was a prenup signed so his estate is still protected. He always said a man shilud have a prenuo no matter how broke he is when he marries. He says you never know wehn your luck will change. But if you can look past some of his blatant chauvinism he's a really cool guy, he has this saying that's pretty much you can buy your way out of any problem in life, if not you didn't offer enough. But yeah the last time i was there we were drinking scotch his drink of choice. And we were out by the pool and we were just talking, openly which rarely happens with grandfather, but he's funny. He has a wicked sense of humor. I rememver laughing my ass off, i couldn't believe this was the same man who owns a room when he walks in and can be the most ruthless guy in the world if you cross him. So it was cool to see his whole life wasn't wrapped up in replacing wives, and controlling his family. But we always had a different dynamic, i suppose i was th eonly son of his only son and we look exactly alike he sort of sees it as another chance to get right what he didn't with my dad.

            So today i hadschool, and it was rather uneventful. Emma had work so i do this thing were twice a week i send her a really elaborate bouqet of flowers to her job. I never do it on the same day so it's always semi out of nowhere wehn i do it. But i'm big on sweeping romantic gestures, i always hvae been. It's something my father always did to my mothe . He said a woman should be reminded how great she is everyday. So i try to abide by that.

Songs you should download.

1. The Thermals: I Hold the Sound

2. Albert Hammond Jr.: Cartoon music for Superheroes.

3. Bright Eyes: Coat Check dream song.

4. Cat Power: The Greatest.

                        Until Next Time.