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We looked at the wrong camera

On account of posting three times yesterday and that it’s almost midnight on Sunday and I have a crazy day tomorrow, I’m going to do a real short post just to throw up a picture I found while looking around on Facebook today. I haven’t posted a single picture before now, which is sort of sad, and in the coming days I’ll post more. Ultimately, I want to get a really nice camera (I know, mom, you bought me one a couple years ago but it has a problem with the lens that might be more expensive than it’s worth to fix) and start teaching myself a bit more about being a good photographer. Then I’ll do a daily photo or something.

Anyway, this is a picture from a New Year’s Eve party a few years ago… maybe sophomore year of college? I guess it’s fitting to post this since I’m posting writing from around that time. It also happens to be a picture of me that I like, which is pretty hard to find. These are all people I went to high school with, most notably my friend David Linfield, who I later visited in Scotland and who remains a good friend. The best part is that there were two people taking pictures and we looked at the wrong camera, but I think it turned out better that way. I’m the guy on the right, for those who don’t know, wearing the black fleece with the Heineken in my hand.

One idea I’ve been kicking around lately is what I want to use this site for… not just the blog specifically, but I get unlimited data transfer and storage from Bluehost.com for a pretty low price. Aside from wanting this blog to be popular and rewarding for me, I think it would be great to foster a sort of community of friends, and friends of friends, from all parts of my life. I’d love to have my links section full of people I know, whose thoughts and ideas would be a click away. Part of it is because I’ve grown apart from a lot of my friends. To be honest, I’ve been disappointed with a lot of them and their lack of ability or interest to keep in touch and communicate. Maybe this could help old friends stay close.

Maybe this won’t go anywhere, but I’d like to invite anyone who wants to to host a blog, or website for whatever they want, here, and join in this sort of community I’m thinking about putting together. Who knows, it might take off. And if nothing else, it’ll give me more shit to read and procrastinate from getting any real work done. If you’re interested, drop me a line at drew@riverhed.com. It doesn’t matter if you barely know me; if you want to do it, let me know.

In other news, Ivona and I watched Rushmore tonight. We watched the Darjeeling Limited a couple weeks ago and Ivona decided she wanted to see more Wes Anderson films, and I was happy to oblige. So we’re working our way through them, or at least the ones I’ve seen (all but one; I think his first). I remember watching Rushmore for the first time and absolutely loving it, and the music still stands out to me as one of the great things about it. It’s encouraging to see how Anderson has maintained and developed his sense of style, even to the point that watching this again I just wasn’t as amused and entertained as I had been bef0re. It almost felt like a B-quality performance compared to his newer stuff. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great movie, but it just didn’t grip me the same way it did before. Maybe I’ve seen it too many times, or because it’s a naturally depressing kind of movie.

Anyone read any good books or seen any good movies lately? I’m craving non-academic culture to balance my 27-credit workload.

Well, what can I say. Yet another blog.

I’m a little uninspired right now, probably due to the fact that I’m between semesters at UMass and I’ve been sitting around doing absolutely nothing lately, except for looking at job listings for writers for a half hour at a time before becoming hopelessly depressed and writing death threats to the high school teacher who encouraged me to become a writer. At least the death threats will be well-written?

Anyway, I’m planning on forcing myself to write at least a little bit each day, preferably more than one post. One of the results of that plan will inevitably be that not all of the posts will be A+ material. I plan on writing about everything going on in my life and making this a sort of public journal, but I’m digging out some old notebooks with material I’ve put together over the years and I’m hoping to go back to some of my inspired notes and expanding on them and putting them up here. So there might be some short pieces of fiction, or vignettes, or little portraits of some random thought I had. A sentence I come across might send me off in a new direction or tangent, and I’m looking forward to tapping into my creative juices again. I always call myself a writer, but the reality is I just don’t write enough.

I’ll probably start tomorrow with a review of what’s been happening with Ivona and me lately to get any friends and family who are behind on the news caught up. Since I don’t expect this blog to be packed with people any time soon, welcome to those of you I’ve sent the link to to check it out. Thanks for stopping by.