by way of josh rothhaas, link this sweet video. animation to coltrane's "giant steps." check out the rest of michael levy's work after you watch the video. it's pretty awesome.


giant steps

so i switched over to the blogger beta... i don't think anything's really different... but i changed the look again.

steelers won- yeah baby

wow, i'm back... did you miss me?

i kind of forgot that i had this. but now i remember. and as i promise every year, i'll try to update it more often. i'm getting on this photography kick again, so maybe i'll just post pictures if i can't think of anything to write. but anyway... here's to the blog!

last post for a while...


address at camp! (send me mail)


greg falcione
camp aldersgate
3276 dyewood rd.
carrollton, oh 44615


have a good summer

going dark for a while. not that you'll really notice the difference. jsut shutting down while camp is in session (starting early). we have to be professional, and i don't want campers parents looking at what i write here. not that anything here is really bad. at all. because nothing happens in my life. that i write about anyway.

tonight is my last ra class. hopefully in a week i should find out if i'm getting a job offer or not. much money will be saved and college will be close to free if that happens. so here's hoping. don giovanni is in full force, we teched last night. i'm not going to lie, it was probably the easiest tech ever. we've practically been done with all the props for a week, so now it's just sitting back and waiting for them to break something.

i leave a week from friday. which mean i have to make up all of my homework for burnham, turn in all of my leave of absence stuff, pack and check out in the next twelve days. then i have a day to get all of my stuff into camp mode and i head to camp a week from sunday. oh, and i have to strike don giovanni. fun fun fun. well i'm off to class. for the last time. woo hoo.

jesus fucking christ. i thought i was over this.

how are you able to do this to a person in so little time, or is it just me being an idiot?

get out of my head, and wherever else you're lurking.

fuck.

two in the morning.



in the drafting studio.




staring at a drawing that i couldn't care less about.


dear summer,
come quickly.

love,
greg

here we go.

it is days like today that make me want to stop being a lighting major. i spend my life inside in the dark and cold. it is so nice outside. i cannot even begin to express how monumentally pumped i am to be going to camp in just over a month.

it's really amazing how each passing day chips away at my self-confidence.

doesn't that just figure...


the first time something seems to be really good in my life in a long time, it turns around to bite me in the ass.

i don't know what i did to piss of the irony gods so much, but you'd think i'd have made up for it by now.


whatever... i'll just do what i always do, sit back and take it and wait for the cycle to repeat itself. because it will.

sometimes i get the feeling
that i won't be on this planet
for very long
i really like it here
i'm quite attached to it
i hope i'm wrong.

all i really want to say
is you're the reason i want to stay
i loved you before i met you
and i met you just in time
'cause there was nothing left

i sat here on my suitcase
in our empty new apartment
until the sun went down.
then i walked back down the stairs
with all my bags and drove away
you must be freaking out

all i know is i've gotta be
where my heart says i oughta be
it often makes no sense
in fact, i never understand these things i feel

don't change your plans for me
i won't move to l.a.
the leaves are falling back east
that's where i'm gonna stay

you have make me smile again
in fact i might be sore from it
it's been a while
i know we've been together many times before
i'll see you on the other side

but don't change your plans for me
i won't move to l.a.
the leaves are falling back east
that's where i'm going to stay

all i really want to say
is you're the reason i want to stay
but destiny is calling and won't hold
and when my time is up i'm outta here.

all i know is i've gotta be
where my heart says ought to be
it often makes no sense, in fact
i never understand these things
i feel

don't change your plans- ben folds five

you sit...
and you find yourself waiting.
for nothing at all.
you sit...
and you wonder how things turned out so
wrong.
you sit...
and there's nothing to do
but wait, and wonder and
worry. so
you sit...
and you hope
that the
waiting
and wondering
and worrying...
were for no reason at all.

how does this always happen?

so i'm home. it feels good, not weird like winter break. i'm glad to be out of cincinnati for a while, but there's something that's kind of pulling me back. as much as this next quarter is going to suck, i'm really looking forward to the challenges that it's going to bring. i think i'm actually going to have to work on my show assignments and that's going to push me to be a better me than listen to my heart did. also, props is going to be an interesting expereince, on top of leaving three weeks early from school to go to camp. that's what i'm most looking forward to. i can't wait to be outside for a summer. anyway, i have very few set plans for this week, so give me a call and maybe we'll do something.

wow, and just like that, i'm smiling again.

wow... how about that drunken sense of honesty in people.

there has been far too much work in my life and not nearly enough love.

i don't know if i remember what being in a relationship is like...

i know this is depressing, but it's 3:10 on saturday night, i'm a little drunk and sick, so i'm over it.

shit

ugh, five-thirty in the morning. exactly twenty-four hours since the time i woke up. and there's still more to go. i cannot for the life of me get my lighting technology project to work. we have to run the whole show live on submasters and i can't get the submasters to do the same thing every time. i started working at ten-thiry and stopped about twenty minutes ago because otherwise i was going to throw something at the console. i'm sleeping in the workroom tonight (well, for an hour or so) and talking to kevin when he gets in. i don't understand what i'm doing wrong. after six and a half hours i have about a third of my song done. that's awful. and of course the light lab is signed out starting at ten this morning until we have class on wednesday. i don't know when i'm going to get this done. fuck.

not only have i been having fun programming, but i've had the pleasure of having a ton of shit on my mind that is making me stress out way more than i ever do. i found out that my props class meets at the same time as lighting tech next quarter, and it probably won't work out to move the class. and on top of that, because i want to leave early for camp... i won't be able to do the final project in lighting tech anyway. unless i go for supervisor training, figure out a way to get back to cincinnati so that i can program all of that next week. do the project that saturday, and then get back for the second week of staff training. ri-donkey-diculous.

well, i'm going to sleep in the chair in here for a while. good night.

i found this randomly today... and i thought i would share it with you.

resolutions....

one: stop fucking procrastinating. otherwise i'm going to be fail out of college, or go crazy, or kill myself or all of the above.

two: get healthy. after lifeguard review today i realized that i am an unhealthy individual. i need to work out and stop eating shit all the time.

three: get organized. see reasoning in resolution one.


that's all for now. i'm going to be working on those for a while.

IT'S PLAY-OFF TIME!

well, it's the second of january and i'm not going to be posting an angst ridden entry about how i've failed in the last year. this last year went pretty well. sure... some things could be better, but some things could be worse too.

this has been a fantastic break. i'm going to rank it right up there with the summer after eighth grade and summer after graduation. those were the two greatest breaks of all time, and this is right up there. i have spent more time with my friends than i thought was possible, and in general just relaxed which was much needed.

i am however looking forward to the stress that will come in the next week, only because i know that in two weeks i will be done with this damn show and i can get on with my life. i look forward to the month in which all i have to worry about is class work and passing my lifeguarding test. then i'll have a job that actually earns me some income.

well, the drive to cincinnati is a long one in the morning and i still have some packing to do before i retire. so happy new year and i'll see you soon.