everyone else is doing it

*Opening Credits: “How Many More Times” by Led Zeppelin (starting it off with some class, some swing, and a really long ass set of credits:8:27)

*First Day At School: “Derelict” by Beck (I was tripping balls on my first day of school)

*Falling In Love: “Fascination Street” by The Cure (Dark/obsessive lyrics, heavy/raw music, sounds like my early love life)

*Breakin Up: “Break & Enter” by The Prodigy (longest break up ever: 8:23 – really happy when it was over, the relationship and the song)

*Prom: “Walk Away” by Franz Ferdinand (walk away?!, what a shitty title for a prom song)

*Sex scene: “4 Degrees” by Tool (guess since my prom date walked away, I hooked up with a goth chick and she was into some kinky stuff)

*Life's Ok: “God’s Away On Business” by Tom Waits (this is my life is okay song!?! This movie is not heading towards a happy ending)

*Mental Breakdown: “Devil’s Haircut” by Beck (hmm, during a mental breakdown I get a haircut…I think I saw this the first time in “Taxi Driver”)

*Driving: “Stop, Stop, Stop” by The Hollies (this song is actually about a stripper, not a car, but it does built a certain degree of intensity mid movie))

*Flashback: “I’m The Man Who Loves You” by Wilco (good title for a flashback song, though it is a pretty sedated song for this list)

*Getting Back Together: “Boy Named Sue” by Johnny Cash (apparently I had a falling out with my father that was simply alluded to, but never fully expressed until this moment in the movie)

*Birth of Child: “The New Romance” by Pretty Girls Make Graves (okay…kinda fits. Oh yeah, and I must have had a hell of a lot of sex before she got pregnant in the basement, rooftop, etc.)

*Wedding Scene: “Furious Angels” by Rob Dougan (wow, this is going to be a great marriage)

*Final Battle: “El Phantasmo And The Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama” by White Zombie (oh hell yes.)

*Death Scene: “The Private Psychedelic Reel” by The Chemical Brothers (a really interesting and pretty great death scene song, oh yeah, and its only 9:28. I didn’t go out without a long drawn out narrative recapping the movie)

*Funeral Scene: “Seed” by Paloalto (Straight out of the O.C. my loved ones come to mourn my passing…I got this album from Tim for my sister, I swear to god…)

*End Credits: “Sweat” by Tool (My movie ends the way my soundtrack scripted it: Raw, Heavy, Pissed)

pass this around (ryan, parsons, everyone)

i want to do a write around with this first line:

a new chapter in human history was written today, when the first man died in space.

May 22, 2007 — It sounds crazy, but as the universe expands faster and faster, it will eventually get to a point where the cosmos seen through a telescope will look a lot smaller than today, say physicists.

That's because in a few hundred billion, or perhaps a few trillion years, all but our local group of galaxies will have moved so far away they will be lost forever.

As a result, any cosmologist of that distant time who tries to figure out the history of the universe will have no clue to the Big Bang or the existence of the vast clusters of galaxies we can see today in every direction with powerful telescopes. Not even the microwave background radiation — the subtle and surest sign of the Big Bang — will remain within reach.

"They'll still be out there," said cosmologist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University. "But space will be expanding faster than the speed of light," and so the light from those galaxies will never reach us again.

This is possible despite the universal speed limit being that of light, Krauss said, because the galactic clusters won't actually be moving; it's the space between them that will be expanding at a rate faster than light can traverse it.

Krauss and Vanderbilt University physicist Robert Scherrer have written a paper on the matter, which will appear in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Relativity and Gravitation.

The cause of all this is the bizarre but critical component of the universe called dark energy.

Dark energy is the growing tendency of empty space to spontaneously create more empty space — thereby distancing anything in the universe that's not bound together with gravity. No one can fully explain dark energy, but without it the universe we see today makes no sense.

"We know it's allowed (by physics), but we have no idea what it is," said University of Michigan cosmologist Fred Adams, co-author of the book "The Five Ages of the Universe."

5.21.07

new theory about evolution, currently calling it "Theory of Cyclical Evolution".


as with all things we have observed, there is a common thread of cyclical behavior. whether it be something as simple as the revolution of planets due to gravity, or the constant energy stream that can never stop. i wonder that if enough time passes, and assuming we do not destroy our environment, we will once again become one with the world. our intellect, i assume, will be far exceeding our present one and we will realized the true potential of a natural system.

i do not know who said it, but "man's defining moment was when he rejected nature."

maybe the next evolutionary step (or maybe a hop, skip and a jump) will be when we accept nature. maybe we will no longer be humans at that point.

Le Robron

A quick conceptual sketch for Ryan and Ted's upcoming Cleveland Urban Design Proposal.

(Note: Sorry to Lebron James for portraying him more as a white robot than a black one and for also portraying the robot as a French model)

Tomorrow's Revelation

What if I awoke tomorrow and there, to my great surprise, turned out to be a fifth Beatle (and not Pete Best, the original drummer) and everyone knew about this 5th member and found it shocking and hilarious that I didn't know about him.

Which would be a greater discovery? Finding that we are alone in the universe, or that there is other life?

a man is getting laid off and his story is told through a series of flashbacks. the story flashes back to his first day, his first paycheck, his wedding that the job was able to afford him, the family he was able to raise because of his income. the pleasure he enjoyed at his job was directly linked to the joy he had at home, and as his career and marriage deteriorated because of a company cutting back jobs and moving abroad. there will be no real resolution, just ending at him leaving behind an empty desk.

post ryan's comments:

I think that his job would be something simple, just paper work or something that he got right out of high school and never left. The job isn't really that important, it is more the knowledge that he belonged, that he was part of something bigger than himself. And this thing that he had put so much time and effort into betrayed him without so much as a care. I also want to point out the fact that it is the corporations that are being blamed for the greed, and not the necessarily people.

As far as children, I think i want him to have an only son, because he himself was an only child and this sense of belonging may be stronger in only children (i guess you could tell me that).

Post-Materialism? Is anyone actually living in this idea? And if so, I doubt they would care about my short film!!

Thanks for the input.

post mid day shower:

i think that he will work for a company called "three brothers technology" or something related to family, and he would be the fourth or fifth employee of the company.

A Species' Decent Against Evolution

I wonder if there has ever been an instance where evolution has created a species where the male has become so large and dominating, that the sperm it produces has become too large to properly create a zygote.