James’ Blog

So I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 the other night… and I'm there, enjoying my movie, when out of the blue, there's this huge Sergio Leone moment, straight out of Once Upon a Time in the West. I mean, the pirates are walking on this sand bank in the middle of the sea, going to meet the English for a parlay, and suddenly, extreme face close-ups, slow motion walking, and the same music, almost. They only changed the instruments, a couple of notes, but 90% is the same, the tempo, the instrument changes, everything, and it was nice, I was blown away. I loved watching that… but the theater was quiet. To them, it was just another scene. There was no one to share the moment with.

 So I'm sharing it with yous.

Also known as On the Lot. The apprentice-like reality show where wanna-be directors pit their skills against each other until only one remains, the winner, of a Spielberg produced one million dollars movie deal with DreamWorks.
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And so it came to pass, that on the twelfth day of the sixth month of the seventh year of the third millenium of the current era, at around 9-ish local time, while stars exploded and planets were being made, while babies were born and women's hands were being asked in marriage, while people laughed and people cried, and people sang and people shouted, while some worked, some played, and some were gently dreaming their sweetest dreams, I was given the answer I was waiting for this entire year. I was admitted as a Film Production student at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. One of, if not the best film school in the US today.

So that's it. Now, all that is left, is everything.

The fun starts now….

I haven't posted here in a long time. I've been kind of unable to, kind of blocked, waiting for the outcome of my college applications.

And now, here I stand in mid-step, on the edge of tomorrow, waiting for the inevitable conclusion of the first part of this journey. By tomorrow I expect to find out where to land my other foot. By tomorrow I'll have Chapman's decision, and I wanted to record this moment, the moment before the knowledge of my fate.
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What happens when you take a small Jazz venue full of people, and you add an 80's Rock legend on stage? You get the makings of a very enjoyable evening.
Tonight's Paulo Ricardo's presentation, his last on this series began just like that.
 
For those who don't know him, Paulo Ricardo was the leader of one of Brazil's most influential rock bands of the 1980's, "Revolutions Per Minute", or as they are most widely known, simply "RPM".

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