A Little Bit More....

I just thought I'd tell you a little bit more about me if you have never heard anything about me before. To begin with this is my second blog that I have started, so that probably already makes me coolest person ever. (For those of you who don't know me, that was sarcasm by the way.)

My first blog was started about two and a half years ago, it's a movie blog which probably goes to show just how important I hold movies in my life. For a shameless plug, I'm currently doing my list of the top 10 movies of the decade so be sure to check that out, plus you can also see my top ten list of the past decades going down to the 1930s, I was going to go to 20s but I figured I haven't seen enough from that period to make enough of a judgement.

With this blog I decided to keep it more as a journal, a public journal obviously, things I'm comfortable sharing with an audience who wants to hear what a seemingly insignificant clod thinks about life. (For those who don't know me, that was self-deprecation).

Let me tell a little story to explain why I started this blog in the first place. I think it started in the summer but it might've started before even then. I was writing a script for a movie, something I always try to do when I have the spare time (It often doesn't turn into much). The story was loosely based on a girl I did a three month show with, she was a jazz musician by trade, and I found her such a lively spirit, you could say I was inspired to write something about her. I wanted to focus the film on her character, it was sort of a day in the life type of thing. I wrote the first portion of the film alright, which took place in the morning where she has a conversation with her boyfriend. That was pretty much all I had written, I was pretty happy with it, but I felt there was too much dialogue for the film. I intended to go back to it and clean it up a bit before moving on to the next portion of the film.

A few days went by and my friend Matt who runs a theatre in town (That's live theatre) was holding a festival full of plays by emerging artists. Matt told me one of the people dropped out and asked me if I was interested in filling the slot. The space was for about 25 minutes of material, which was just about the time of my first scene in my film script. I was interested in the idea, after all the story seemed to fit better on stage at that point since there was mostly dialogue, so I decided to go for it.

I have to say the whole process of making my script into a play was very exciting, here I was 28 years old, a theatre graduate, and I couldn't believe I had never done this before, I was having so much fun.

The play opened as the first one of the festival people saw in its first week. I was incredibly nervous, this was the first time something that I wrote would be performed in front of a live audience (The exceptions to that were pieces I wrote that were performed by me), but I was excited at the same time. I have to backtrack a bit now, up to the point of doing that play, I had lost a lot of faith in myself wondering if it was truly worth it to continue doing "art" like this, but when I got the chance to do this little 25 minute play, something awoke in me that had been laid dormant for far too long. This feeling that awoke was like someone telling me "this is what you should be doing with your life, this is what you were born to do."

When the play ended, I was completely satisfied, audiences seemed to like it, I got nothing but good feedback, an old teacher came up to me saying it was the best thing he saw in the whole festival. I think the thing that got me the most though was having my brother see it, someone who had never seen a single performance I was in came to see it. Afterwards we sat down and had the longest conversation we ever had together. We discussed art, life, movies, and family, when it was over, the last thing my brother said to me was "you should keep writing."

So here I am today, writing, writing something, writing anything, I'm eager to write, I'm desperate to write. I put fingers to keyboard in an attempt to communicate something to you out there. It might be something good, it might be complete crap, I may have run on sentences, and I may misspell a word from time to time, but the ideas will always be there.

So that's a little bit about me, take it for what it is, you may choose to ignore this blog completely, I know there are probably more insightful and intriguing things on the Internet than little old me, there's also porn. But for anyone interested, I will be out there, musing about this and that both big and small, in my world anyway. See you soon.

New Blog: Jeremy and the movies: The Sequel

Hi I'm Jeremy, this is my second blog that I have started if you want to visit my other blog it's www.jeremyandthemovies.blogspot.com. In that blog I talk about movies and such, here I have given myself some more freedome. Here at Things By Jeremy, I will write about anything on my mind, that includes hard hitting subjects such as politics, and religion, but also about art, culture, love, life, and anything on my mind. Think of this as my public journal, so that's pretty much anything I'm comfortable talking about in the blogosphere so stay tuned.