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That was a nice walk. I discovered to my surprise that Micro Center sells console systems and games. I didn't buy any of that, but I noted for the first time the relative prices of the different systems; surprised to see that the PS2 is fully twice the price of the Game Cube.

Last year I swore to myself I'd get a modern video game system because it is a fine thing to have video games. I will give myself a crash course on the systems' relative merits and make my choice soon, I suppose. Friends who know the sorts of games I like -- and the games I like too much -- are welcome to weigh in. My personal exposure to these systems is very slight, limited to playing with a local friend's GC a few times. Super Monkey Ball! (I have actually had the most exposure to the now-defunct Sega Dreamcast.)

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Speaking of crash courses, I forgot to note that seeing short films of varying quality made me want to make movies, because I'm so sure I can do better than that. Do I know the first thing about cinematography? Hey: I'm surprised I spelled it correctly, just now. Do you know anything about this? Any pointers you can offer me? Books? Seriously.

Add this to the collection of things I want to do, I will do, if only I get the creative spark for it. But the tinder lies cold, cold while I continue to sit in my room (or in my cube) and natter away to myself. Generally I need to smellllllll the godforsaken FLOWERS. I have been on a hectic rush-rush go-go since putting the book down in November and... this is not the way to happiness. Rush-rush begets more rush-rush, more than it solves things.

If you don't count my recent unemployed period (and I don't), I haven't had a vacation in... in... I don't think I have taken once since the time I visited leahleaf &c. in 1999. Maybe you can count summer 2000, when daerr and I went to the O'Reilly open source convention in CA (which unexpectedly served as the springboard into my move to Massachusetts), and spent several extra days nosing around the west coast, visited meeshdoublel and zyxwvut, and generally did nothing work-related. So, coming up on three years since my last real vacation. Uh-huh. I don't think this has been very good for me.

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[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

and it can't have been the best of vacations considering i slept through the movies you brought and had a school-related headache the whole time. ;p i am a terrible hostess. next time will be funner!

[poetgeek.livejournal.com]

Film thoughts
1) Soundmen types should be tall (I spent far too much time standing on far too many appleboxes while helping friends with some short films).

2) 16mm film is expensive, video is cheaper.

3) Dec
ide what you're looking to make - buying 16mm cameras (Arriflex) tends to be pricy - buying beer for aspiring camera ops who own their own camera and need resume/cv credit/filler is cheaper. Buy the beer first as it will be late when things wind down for the day, but supply the beer after the filming.

4) Much can be rented.

? - Are you looking at live action? animation? etc.?

This thought process is going to make me see the WoSAT again this evening and perhaps purchase a Mini-DV camera. Gah. And some hot lights. And gells.

How do you define vacation?

[poetgeek.livejournal.com]

I guess the question would be:
How do you define vacation?
Is it vacation = roadtrip = travel?

A film of a film of a roadtrip?