El Fin De Semana

A Spanish video project I just finished editing.

Rebuttal Bitch

Have a character espouse a viewpoint on life with which you very much disagree, but have the character argue it well, citing examples from her life to buttress her stance. Resist the temptation to make her sound foolish or harsh. Write this in the third or first person, from the narrative.

Gays cannot be married. How am I supposed to explain to my children that a man and a man can be together when the bible tells us otherwise. If gay marriage were to be legalized, a straight man could marry a straight man just to reap the federal benefits from the marriage. It's just not the way God intended it. A penis fits perfectly into the vagina. It is meant for procreation and a child brought up in a straight heterosexual marriage will be more stable than one brought up in a homosexual marriage. Also, if we allow gays to raise children, what's stopping them from teaching their kids to be gay. Because it's obviously a choice. Right?

The DCOM Lab

11/20/2012
Describe the place where you are sitting now. Freewrite the details you observe -- and push yourself to observe many details. Describe the people you can see, the architecture and the furnishings. Use your senses. After you've written down what you see, close your eyes and focus on sounds and smells. Now open your eyes and pull the description into a few paragraphs.

The room is like next-gen white. Everything is clean and simple. The Mac in front of me is about two inches thick and the modems are quiet as shit. Katie is typing sporadically next to me. She's on twitter, though, so it shouldn't continue for much longer. She's wearing a blue skirt-sweater with stockings and boots. The unused Macs in front of me day dream about color squibs. The lights are florescent white. The tables are finished wood. It actually looks like the inside of a genius bar at a Mac store. Random clicking can be heard around the room as if we're helping the computers communicate to each other via Morse Code.

Recurring Dream

11/29/2012
Write about a dream you’ve had again and again. When did you first have the dream? When does it recur? What do you think it signifies?

I remember dreaming about these orphans on a train a few times when I was little. I run after the train, but no matter how fast I ran, I never caught it. The orphans would just continue to stare at me. They wouldn't even help.

my psych teacher says that the train is supposed to represent penises or something. I think it's more of a fear of failure. Or failing because no one wants to help me succeed.

Something's Wrong...I Can Feel It

11/27/2012
Think of a wild coincidence that has occurred in your life. Now write three-four paragraphs and develop the incident, giving us the necessary background information and specific details.

My best friend Connor and I had been living in a small one-bedroom apartment in Jersey City for the last two months. We were both working at the same restaurant in New York City and this happened to be one of the few nights we were able to come home at the same time and relax.

A long time ago, Connor and I had gone out to get some food while both of our girlfriends were left to sit in our apartment together. They had never made an effort to hang out together, but we still liked to consider them friends. Apparently, however, the two bonded over some gossip while were gone. Now I think everything would have been fine if Connor's girlfriend, Kristen, had not broken the ever sacred girl-code of not saying anything to anyone about what was said during gossip time.

At around 11:30 I called Lexi to say goodnight and Connor proceeded to make me some drinks. Connor waited until I was incredibly drunk (he was a bar-tender so he happened to be very good at doing that) to tell me that Lexi cheated on me at the very start of our relationship. I couldn't believe it until he told me that Kristen told him after she was gossiping with Lexi. I proceeded to get belligerently drunk to the point where I started throwing up in our bathroom. It was around 5 in the morning when I received a phone call from Lexi, who was half awake somehow. She was mad at me for not calling and saying goodnight to her. Through my drunken stupor I managed to tell her that I did and that she could even check her phone.

The only thing I was left to believe that night was that Lexi and I had forged such an incredible bond over the nine months that we were together, that I was able to wake her up in the middle of the night while I was distressed about our relationship. And that could only mean that I still loved her, regardless of what was true or not.

3 Idiots

I feel like a real work of art is meant to move you to your very core. Very few artists have been able to do this for me, but I can honestly say that it has happened more than once. That being said, there is no other film in the world that has moved me like 3 Idiots did. It's a Bollywood film that runs around 3 hours long. I came upon it randomly one night at a Redbox in New York City and decided to rent it on a whim. I saw the movie, cried around 6 times, and then immediatly ran down the hall and forced one of my friends to watch it with me. That was the first time I've ever felt compelled to watch a three hour long movie back to back. A year later I happily watched it again with my parents.

The film is so incredibly well written, unbelievably creative, and well acted. If that's a word. I can't begin to endorse this movie enough. You just need to watch it all the way through. Feel free to skip through all of the weird dance numbers though.



The official trailer of the most awaited movie - 3 Idiots

HD Quality Video

Starring: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, R. Madhavan and Boman Irani

Produced by: Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Directed by: Raju Hirani

Releasing on: 25th December, 2009

Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi

Pia

'Rancho' Shamaldas Chanchad, Farhan Qureshi, Raju Rastogi

Death at a Funeral

11/8/2012
Recall a funeral you've attended and write about it. Did anything unusual happen at the event? How did you feel? Describe the situation -- who, what, when, where, why and how -- in three to four paragraphs.

I've never been to a funeral before. Well I might have, but I was probably too young to remember. I have been to a viewing though. One of my closest friends in high school recently lost his dad to a freak accident while he was water skiing.

It was one of the most surreal moments of my life. The whole day was sunny and clear, but when the viewing was about to start, it began to pour outside like I've never seen before. Inside, I saw a few familiar faces except most of them were crying profusely. We came inside and saw what looked like an auction for a dead man. A man I once knew was lying in an open coffin with his face construed in an artificial smile while his family stood before him and accepted everyone's apologies. I hugged Mike for a full minute and the only question I could bring myself to ask him was if he was there when it happened. He said no. After an awkward moment of silence, we started catching up on old times; wondering how we've been, if we've played tennis recently, how long he's going to be around for. It was hard for me, especially because I had never held a casual conversation before while a dead guy rests behind me. Plus, it was the father of the kid I was talking to!

We left and saw a few of my old classmates come in. I said hi and walked out to the car with my parents. It was still raining. On the drive home, though, it stopped immediately.