For the Kite Flyers

I just went on iTunes and bought Korey Dane's album, "For the Kite Flyers" and in one word it's amazing. I just recently found out about this guy (within the last 48 hours) and the first song I heard hooked me in. He has turned his simple, soothing guitar style into something different than what's common these days, he looks like he's straight out of the 50s or 60s. His voice is great and his lyrics are equally as good. If you're ever looking for someone new and easy to like, download, listen to, or buy anything of his you can find. I won't go through a song by song review of the CD because I love them all. I'll throw some videos of his that I enjoy down below.

Bunnies lay eggs?

Today is Easter, a day I typically don't care about. I want to get to wherever I'm going for lunch or dinner, eat with my family and leave before the Indians game is over. This year is a little different, my girlfriend's family is joining my family and I'm slow to say I'm a bit excited. I have never had a girlfriend that I've brought to Easter or even any holiday related family gathering. I can't wait to load my plate with ham, turkey, potatoes made different ways, deviled eggs, Easter bread, salad, corn casserole. It's a holiday, fuck calorie counting. We have this banana cake from one sick bakery and I'm going to stuff my face with it. Cream cheese frosting that coats your mouth with a sugary glaze. I ate light the last two days, dropped an extra 1.5 pounds and I'm gaining it all back today and I'll deal with diet and exercise starting tomorrow. Eat on Easter. I remember once, I was in the 6-8 year old range, I ate a two pound chocolate bunny on Easter. My family was amazed, not because I ate the whole thing, but because I ate dinner, the whole bunny, and didn't throw up. Bring it on Easter, I've got your number.

Horror Screenplay Contest

After the Indians TERRIBLE loss, I started thinking about a project I've been working on. There's a "Horror Movie Screenplay Contest" that runs twice a year and myself and a friend have been working on a screenplay. I can't really give away details of the script and story, but we're both psyched on the idea and compared to winners of previous contests, we're confident that a superior writing job could definitely get us recognized as one of the top three scripts. If you win a spot you get a cash prize and your script gets sent to movie studios that specialize in horror movie making. I just started sketching out our main character and I'm impressed with what we came up with. It's got a classic "slasher" feel, but isn't simply a run and kill movie. The story and little twists within our idea create something elevated past a simple horror movie. There will be blood. There will be anxiousness. There will be loving characters and hating characters. The tough part is finishing out the next few weeks of school and having the whole scene summary, character analysis, and 100 page script typed and revised by July 30th. There is time, but script writing is tedious and the "correct" way of writing a script has a lot of rules. Spacing, line breaks, tabs, etc. It's tough. Luckily I have taken a script writing class and have already written one script. It's nice to have something you're excited about and want to finish and the fact that my friend is a horror movie maniac and has scene probably 90% of horror movies ever made really helps with developing ideas and deciding if we're going to add in something that's over done. It's 2011 pretty much everything has been attempted, but we do have a fresh idea and are just hoping to have a solid project. well written script. and sell the idea to whoever is judging ours. We'll find out in a few months.

Cleveland Indians & Baseball

I'm so psyched on being a Tribe fan right now. We haven't been off to this good of a start since the 90s and it is great. The only other team with our record is the Rockies leaving us in a tie for the best record in baseball. It's so fun to watch the Tribe play and I've been looking forward to every game, even ones we lose are good games. There's no complete shit baseball going on when the Indians have been on the field and I know it's early, but I can't wait to see how the Indians are doing in a couple months. I'm hoping they're still at top or near the top of their division.

The only negative about baseball lately is the fact that I miss playing like crazy. I played since I was 5 and stopped when I was 18. Played in tournaments all over from Columbus to Cooperstown, New York. After my sophmore year of High School I started gathering notice from colleges, but already had decided I wasn't going to continue playing in college... I wish I did. My sophmore year was the year that I threw my shoulder out and was forced to DH on junior varsity because I wasn't allowed to throw for a full season. The up side was that I hit like .600 and had at least on hit in every game except for one. I cooled off junior year and came back strong my senior year. I still remember my last game, I was one hit away from a cycle. Playing catch and hitting balls today is almost painful because I miss it that much. I went to watch my old team play a couple weeks back and I was regretting not chasing a longer baseball "career." What can you do though? There isn't much, but I have decided that I'm going to join a double A league next year and just get back out on the field and get some more out of me.