Sweet Nothing

02:56 pm

 I have returned from the livejournal living dead! 

I am back from my excursion from Telluride and missing the films, the mountains, the freedom...(!!)

Anyways, and also trying to figure out the rest of my life.

07:54 am

I'm currently writing a term paper on Maya Deren- the "mother of independent cinema" -- due today at 1:30. Then only two giant papers till freedom!

06:30 pm - Back from the dead

Hello Everyone!

So a quick update: I got accepted into the 2007 Telluride Film Festival Production Apprentice Program! Which means I'm going to Telluride at the end of July to help set up everything (very hard work they told me- unloading semi-trucks, rigging, painting, lighting, construction, etc.), then I'll work in one of the theatres for the 4 or so day festival (I'll get a Production staff pass which means I can see practically anything I want if I get the time plus whatever is playing in the theatre I work), then I help take everything down and come home around Sept. 7th. Hopefully this also means that I can come back for future festivals as the Production manager Brandt Garber said that about 90% of the apprentices return to work at higher level positions.

Here is a link to the Production Apprentice and Volunteer page on the Telluride website:
www.telluridefilmfestival.org/volunteer.html

Also- I will finally be graduating this spring with two B.A.s- one in the Arts and one in Humanities. 

All I have left is one paper on Maya Deren (avant-garde filmmaker who worked in the 1940s), one paper on Su Friedrich (avant-garde filmmaker who has worked since the 70s) and one take home final. Still a ways to go.

RIP Lane's college career- Fall 2001- Spring 2007. 
Three Majors, two minors, two study abroads and no future plans! Perhaps a penniless poet...

10:51 am

Only 12 performances of Our Town left.... :/

02:20 pm

Hello again livejournal friends- I have not posted here in a very long time but I am back from the previous fall quarter O'Hell! I am currently in a Brontes class, a 20th century modern poetry class, my last math class and I will be on the costume crew for this quarter's production of "Our Town."

07:52 pm

Happy Birthday Bridget! Welcome to the 24 club!

11:58 am - GOB's segway is up on Ebay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ARRESTED-DEVELOPMENT-GOBS-SCREEN-USED-SEGWAY-W-COA_W0QQitemZ140041753417QQihZ004QQcategoryZ47351QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

01:24 pm - from imdb

Lost In Translation star Scarlett Johansson has signed a deal to make her first record, Scarlett Sings Tom Waits

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (!!) Stay away from his songs you hack actress! Scarlett JoCrapsson. That's like-- Halle Berry sings Billy Holiday! Or the Olson Twins sing The Blues Brother's Briefcase Full of Blues! It's bad enough that Woody Allen thinks she is the next Diane Keaton and that her mediocre acting will be in every other studio movie to come out in the next few years. Just think, now she will invade all of the music magazines with those ditsy comments she makes and those photo spreads that scream "I'm going to pump all the money and faux legitimacy I can get out of being an actress while I can."

As if this day weren't already gloomy enough

I will do a real update sometimes soonish--it is just so much easier to go on about irksome trivialities

06:40 pm

Hey everybody, Lane here reporting from Telluride! Yesterday I felt like hell adjusting to the altitude (around 10,000 ft!). These are my first real mountains! And boy, one is surrounded by them-- you can't look around without seeing one! This place is heaven. All anyone talks about is film. Today I took a gondola up to see the sites and went to a farmers market (got organically grown peach and Kalua and Milk Chocolate jar of fudge made here)-- later on our symposium will meet with Ken Burns, Laura Linney (yay! I actually say her yesterday while she was checking in at the film fest tent named Brigadoon, apparently when she was an acting honoree a couple of years ago she fell in love with her host and now lives here part of the year) and the guest director of this year's festival. Then we have the opening night feed (free food and intro to the festival) and then two back to back movies which we will have to run to in order to get seats! Anyways, premiering here are Volver (Penelope Cruz is this year's acting honoree), Little Children, Babel (which I saw last night and whose director we will meet in a couple of days), the U.S. vs. John Lennon, Jindabyne, The Last King of Scotland and many others that I won't get to see!

Love you all!

09:54 am - Off to the Telluride Film Festival (student symposium)

Holy crap, I leave for Telluride tomorrow morning at quarter to 4am!! I haven't packed yet! I can't believe that all of the sudden it's here... my first film festival (hopefully not the last!)!!!

A pre-festival look at what will be going on Thursday (too bad I won't be there for tonight's screening of "Return to Oz"!):

http://www.telluridegateway.com/articles/2006/08/30/news/news01.txt

And a quote I like: 
"Because it's a holiday weekend, and because it's virtually impossible to get to — it's easier to get to Cannes than it is to Telluride — the people who go to Telluride are truly die-hard movie fans," says Michael Barker, co-president of Sony's specialized film unit. "Everyone is there to see movies. There is no other agenda, there are no deals. It's a place to discover movies."

From this article (which also has predictions of what might premiere there):
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/cl-et-telluride30aug30,0,2837947.story?coll=la-home-entertainment

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