
Looking for a friend
April 17, 2006I had bad luck with Craigslist so I decided to just expose myself in public and let like-minded people flock to me.
After watching the movie "Stay" I realized I really needed someone who shared my love of movies, as well as someone deep enough to be able to discuss them on a philosophical level. My husband was working late again and I had no friends, so I was bursting with ideas and had no way to get them out. Since moving to Los Angeles a few years ago I have made 0 friends. I didn't even really mind until I realized how much it sucks to have something to talk about and no one to talk to.
I'm looking for someone in the Los Angeles area who also shares a great love of movies. I watch a lot of movies, and I watch any movie at least once. It's always been my dream to become a director but unless I get on the show "On the Lot" and win, it's probably not going to drop into my lap and I really can't think of any other way to make it happen. I've started a few scripts but I don't think any got longer than 15 pages. My problem seems to be that my mind is like a giant library full of wonderful books with vivid pictures, wonderful stories and crazy new ideas. The only problem is I can only seem to check out a sentance or two at a time, and they don't even seem to be from the same page or the same book so I can't coherently get things out.
I'd like to claim that "Stay" was written and directed by me. I wrote a 3 page short script my senior year in college that never quite got done. But the script is missing and "Stay" comes out. It's the exact film that I would have made, had I ever made the film. What really bothers me though, is that the film was not well recieved. It has a 6.7 rating on IMDB, and the most of the reviewers said it was all style and no substance. But I think that was the whole point of the movie, that our lives have no culminating moment. When we die our brain cells are deprived of oxygen and in this panic we dream our last dream. In that split second we live our heaven or hell, and that is our afterlife, and beyond that is oblivion. But not just in our dying moment, but in every moment our world is so much in our minds that it's not what's real that is reality, but how we percieve it. Is this any less meaningful or exciting than finding out Bruce Willis was really a ghost?
Anyhow here are some more descriptions of myself so that you will be better able to decide if you would like to be my friend.
I am 26 years old, female and married. I have a very satisfying sex life with my husband and have no interest in having affairs, whether you be male or female, and I am just looking for a friend. I have a 9 month old baby boy, and he is very big and fat. I have a bachelor's degree in German and Anthropology but now I am just a housewife with a lot of time to watch movies. Some of my other favorite movies are Donnie Darko, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Carribean, The Last Unicorn, The 5th Element, 12 Monkeys, and Requiem for a Dream. I would also like to consider myself as an artist, although I haven't painted in some time. I hesitate to start large projects when I am taking care of the boy. I would love to make movies again but it would need to be small projects on the weekends. I think the ideal situation would be to have a group of friends that would get together on weekends, work on scripts, put together short films and show them at crappy festivals around the country. Maybe put some up on the internet for people to watch. I don't know if I care so much about making huge blockbusters as I want to get stuff out of my head for people to experience. Maybe spread the crazy around.
I also like cooking, snowboarding, music, video games, travelling, tanzanite, photography, nature and animal. I don't like the number 4, Abraham Lincoln, or electricity.