Creative Control

Miscellaneous Mental Musings of an Emerging Artist

Category Archives: Life

Five in front of seven.

I’m not sure what’s wrong with me. I keep forgetting about deadlines at work, and I’m unable to figure out why. I think I’ve hit the end of my empathy … Continue reading →

November 22, 2002 · Leave a comment

Appetite for destruction.

No callback, thereby not even a chance to vie for understudy role. Wish other candidates best of luck, but don’t know them, so at same time, wish all of them … Continue reading →

October 17, 2002 · Leave a comment

The quarter.

Sunday marked the closure of the twenty-fifth year of my life. I celebrated with a low-key evening at my girlfriend’s place, conversing with friends and watching Conan O’Brien do an … Continue reading →

September 24, 2002 · Leave a comment

Arrest this man, he talks in maths.

Remember, Constant Reader, just a week or so ago, when I made the mistake of leaving my car parked in a yellow zone, and I had to rush home to … Continue reading →

August 23, 2002 · Leave a comment

Things living, things dead.

One journal entry that I never got around to writing was an obituary for my car. A 1991 Honda Accord with over 178,000 miles on it; about two weeks ago … Continue reading →

August 14, 2002 · Leave a comment

Reunion Kingpin.

In a strange series of coincidences, I mentioned the name of a missed actor-friend of mine (see previous entry) and was promptly rewarded with not only an out-of-left-field comment from … Continue reading →

July 12, 2002 · Leave a comment

And the name of the band will be Man Bleeds Money.

Oh, what a week it has been. Last Tuesday was my official, not-as-part-of-class, debut as a performer on a Chicago stage. I and five others presented, at the Bailiwick Theater, … Continue reading →

June 25, 2002 · Leave a comment

Who was Murphy, and what yahoos granted him legislative power?

Strictly speaking, I’m not being assailed by Murphy’s Law today, which states that everything that can go wrong will [1], but I am nonetheless wearing a frown on my face … Continue reading →

June 13, 2002 · Leave a comment

How monsoon is now?

Sometimes it’s nice to think that supervillains exist, if only because the bastards at large in the world today are much less colorful but much more horrifying than Dr. Octopus … Continue reading →

June 4, 2002 · Leave a comment

Locked away in a padded sellout.

While perusing http://www.scriptseeker.com–a website I found quite by accident, but which I am glad I did, it’s become an excellent resource on a national, not just regional, level–I discovered that … Continue reading →

June 3, 2002 · Leave a comment