Bears Victory Day!

The Bears tore UP the Lions today, a needed win going into the bye week.  That's all for sports, but awesome.

Sent in my first homework assignment for Screenwriting class today, officially doing Ushers, which is exciting.  However, I was reading a magazine at the gym tonight and had a GREAT idea for a story.  I'm not going to go into details, but it's a horror thing with a little SEVEN in it.  Which brings me to the point of the writing tonight.

I so want to get to a point where I have the skills and more importantly work ethic to take these stray thoughts and formally put them down.  Whether it's in a journal or a note here or there, I don't know what that will look like, but I've done stuff like this forever and they usually drift off into the ether.  On the machine, and my mind just fleshed out whole story beats and character motivations and what not, bursting out of my skull, but I always just feel crippled in being able to express them.  Not writing this for any self pity or anything, more just to get it out there and admit it to take the power from it.

Funnily enough, stuff like this I don't feel comfy putting in the blog, simply because it's public and the thoughts are too new and unformed to express publicly.  Funny that the writing I've commited to do doesn't include the writing I feel I HAVE to do.  Jason, have fun with that diagnosis.

Got a cell phone call from an area code today that could only have been from an ex.  Had about 10 seconds of "Wha?" then answered and realized it was for a confirmation on a gaming survey I'm doing tomorrow night.  Funny gotcha moment of the day.

MotD: The Last Detail
I feel like my movie waters run pretty deep.  Deeper than your average bear.  Prior to adding this to my Netflix queue at some point this year, I had never, EVER heard of this movie.  Nicholson and Randy Quaid in a Midnight Run kind of escort a prisoner movie.  Awesome movie, really enjoyable characterization and performances.  Nicholson is a trip, awesome as always.  So glad I watched it.  But the question remains why have I NEVER heard of this movie?  Recommended for all!