Maybe I should start blogging again.

Wow. It's been over two years since my return to Savannah. About time I started writing again. But it will have to wait until later. I need to be up soon - which means I need to get some sleep ASAP.

Last Week In Boston

Exactly one week from now, I'll be somewhere on I-95 heading south (hopefully sneaking past NYC before traffic gets brutal) . Back to the city I left in 2005, after a year in NYC, and two and a half in Boston.

Three and a half years of doing things other than what I spent my undergrad preparing for.

I've enjoyed it to a point. My jobs have been rewarding. I've met amazing people. Reconnected with old friends. But there has always been that empty space that acting and music filled, and nothing seemed to be able to take its place.

It's hard to put into words how excited I am. I've been 85% packed since February. I slowly built up equipment for a little home studio for recording music, which I'll be completely putting together for the first time in Savannah. I'll be waving goodbye to an hour and a half commute that had me leaving for work at 7am and getting back at 7pm: in Savannah, I can walk everywhere I need to be in 15 minutes. I have great friends who are living there or planning on being there soon (plus a get together in May that will be a blast).

It's also a little saddening. I'll be saying goodbye to family and friends, who I really have had much time to hang out with these past couple of years. If I can, I'd like to meet up with people this week, but it's tough for folks to come to the city on a weekday, and tough for me to get out of it. Next weekend will be super busy with finishing my packing and family goodbyes. On the bright side - this is a chance for friends to visit Savannah if you didn't have the chance to during my undergrad!

Savannah would be better for you. You'll just get in trouble in Atlanta.
- Gone with the Wind (Mammy to Scarlett O'Hara)

Some Childhood Films Not As Good As I Once Thought

I've been renting some films lately that I haven't seen in a long time. While some of them are just as fantastic as I remember (Clash of the Titans), others aren't so much.


One such film was Krull. While I enjoyed the nostalgia, I realized that a major element was missing from a great deal of science fiction and fantasy films of the 70's and 80's: depth.

The film plays out like a video game - action point to action point, with large portions of the storyline left unexplained. Had this been based on a novel, I would be O.K. with it; a lot of film adaptations are written for fans of the book and leave out known back story to edit the film down to a respectable run time. But this was a film from the ground up, yet provided little information regarding the world, it's characters, or their relationship with one another.

Even the awful films of the 90's and today have some emotional growth of the main character (albeit cheesy and overdone). Which gives me hope in terms of writing; it seems the general public's attention span has grown to appreciate good storytelling.

Krull was still fun to watch (especially seeing Robbie Coltrane and Liam Neeson in their early years), and it's a friggin masterpiece compared to the 1984 film Dune. While that film was based on one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, it somehow managed to place itself if the category of worst science fiction film of all time.