"I am from" Poem

I am from a place of annoyance
From stress and hurt
I am from a place where I don’t like where I am at this very moment
From a place where I can’t control myself
I am from a place where I am no longer talking
From a place where I can only scream in my head
I am from a place where I want to scream so badly at someone
From a place where someone is underneath my skin
I am from a place where I wish I was really happy
From a place where I am angry
I am from a place where I can’t do anything with quality
From a place where everything I produce is just crap
I am from a place where I think I need therapy
From a place where I slowly start feeling better
I am from a place where I am starting to talk again
From a place where I am smiling again
I am from a place where I am getting my day back
From a place where I am choosing the mood I am in
I am from a place where I am not letting the events in a day decide my mood that I am in

Mixed CD Poem

I have paid attention to many things in my life
I decided that I should go to rehab when I grow up
I have been chasing pavements forever
I felt like I was lost and real, and the spotlight was on full blast
I felt so damaged and like there was no angel watching over
I knew that the energy would come to me
When I started breaking dishes, I was becoming hot n’cold
I was begging for mercy to finally take a bow
I felt like I was in disturbia
All I wanted to say to myself was “Live your life”
Her name was Valerie, she was pretty much damaged
She happen to be in love with an American boy who decided to come back to LA
She wanted to meet a womanizer, but she was just hanging around a bunch of single ladies
She would say to her-self “I hate this part”
But she knew that she would find a pocket full of sunshine soon enough
Also she knew very well that she would be bleeding love
And if you take one step at a time life keeps getting’ better
And that’s when she knew that she would now say “Live your Life”

Attention (2008)

Attention is a playlist I started April of 2008. At the time I had a beautiful girlfriend, I was becoming a leader at my church, and I was in a very interesting film class. Now the true meanings of some of these songs may not relate to me in anyway. For example, the song “If I Never See Your Face Again” by Maroon 5 feat. Rihanna, did not apply to me in any way. Me and my girlfriend would change the lyrics to “If I never see your face again I will mind”. Most of these songs when I hear them now bring me back to a time in my life where I enjoyed life at the fullest. The song “Chasing Pavements” by Adele, reminds me mostly of my girlfriend because I listened to that song for the first time when I was with her. We had an event at my church called a Lock in. Its where the kids sleep over at the church (with adult super vision) and they could play video games, hang out, or stay up all night. I remember I was with my girlfriend Kristina and we were watching T.V. in one of the rooms of the church and on the T.V. was some morning show. The T.V. was kind of fuzzy, so you couldn’t see the picture completely. Anyways, Adele was performing on this morning show. I just remember sitting on the couch with my girlfriends legs laying across my knees and hearing this song. Then turning and looking into her beautiful dark brown eyes. And that’s one of the memories I get from this playlist. But the meaning has nothing to do with us; just the song reminds me of her. The song “Disturbia” by Rihanna brings me back to when I was taking a Pierce College class on the Granada campus. The class was cinema 107; we would watch films and analyze them and studied what made them interesting etc. My professor was Professor Costa, one of the best teachers of all time. He was so down to Earth, and explained things in depth to you if you didn’t understand. And he would make sure you would understand exactly what he was talking about. Also he would give us free time, because he had us for 4 hours a day, and during this free time I would listen to my ipod or read my bible. During the same time I was in that class I downloaded on iTunes a new song by Rihanna. But this song was not a single yet so I felt like I was discovering gold when I 1st listened to it. I remember sitting in the seat closest to the door in F7, with the door open, feeling the warm summer breeze. This another time I enjoyed. Now to go to a time that was not so great. This summer, my church moved from North Hollywood to Granada Hills. It was a big transition. We lost a lot of members of our church such as staff, leaders, and students because of distance issues. Now this was a sad time for me because I was saying bye to a lot of good friends that I would not be seeing that often anymore. But I discovered this song on YouTube. John Kappas is a YouTube artist who is slowly rising. Now listening to his music in a sad time helped me cope with a lot of things. But I don’t want to go into too much with that song because as I said that wasn’t a high point in my life. And if you notice the songs after that were mostly comforting songs for me. Later on around early October, I listened to songs like “Reebok Video” by Yelle, this was a high point of my life because I just got my 1st job, and a day after I got my license, and I could listen to this song in my car when driving. And I wouldn’t have to worry about my mom liking the music because I was driving. But when I hear the song I think of ending summer and driving to and from work (because that was the only place I drove to at that time) in my dad’s 95 green Chevy truck. I could hear the hard beat of the song cover the engine’s load growling sound.

"Handwritten" Mixed CD Playlist

I Could Tell Stories: Sojourns in The Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl Summary

Patricia starts off with describing things with out putting any feelings or emotions in to them. At 1st she is just talking about meaningless musical stuff. But later on she starts to describe the creating of music and what it takes to make music and all sorts of things. But later on I figured out that there was some true depth to this. Because she started to talk about the complexity of creating music.


Relating this to making a movie: this can be related to making a movie because music and film making are both artistic activities. Just how she was talking about how the draft of something is where you just let free and put anythingvand everything into it. But then later on you revise your draft taking out unnessisary things to make it a true work of art. That is what she is talking about when she talks about the complexity of creating music. Well it's the same with creating a movie it is a very complex prosses but the results are amazing at the end.

Talladega Nights Remake: Director's Cut

Talladega Nights Remake: Movie Poster

This is a poster for Talladega Nights Remake.

Talladega Nights Remake Video

Remake Video Behind the Scenes Video

Talladega Nights Remake: Video Stills

Ricky gives Girad a hug and congradulates him for loosing.

Ricky visits Girad at his house.

Susan gives Ricky a pep talk.

Ricky is attacked by a Cougar.

Reese Bobby convinces Ricky to drive again.

Cal and Carly are gettin married!

Ricky stabs himself in the leg.

Ricky and Girad get in a fight at the bar.

Ricky has his first race.

Lucy Bobby gives birth to ricky.

Talladega Nights Remake: Behind the Scenes video stills

These are stills from the behind the scenes from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby