This week was my first week at the University of Texas, the school I've been going to ACC in order to get into for like two years or something.  Man, it seems like it's been less but I guess it's been two years.  Well, I'm about halfway through my sophomore year of college but I also have a great film production company going, so it evens out...more than evens out really.

OK, so a couple of things I was thinking about today - first of all I was learning in my intro to theater class that there are three main parts to theater - the script (or whatever is being performed) the performers, and the audience.  Apparently there was some famous guy back in the day (googling now...unable to find who it was), who would rehearse/produce his plays for a YEAR, and during that time he would accept letters from people explaining why they wanted to see his play, and when it finally was released, he would have maybe 10 people (at a time?  at all?  at the premiere?) see his play.  I'm a little sketchy on the det's as you can see, but I thought that was really interesting, like this guy was just as picky about his audience as he was about his actors.

I guess in a way that sort of shows a lack of confidence in your art?  I mean it seems like you're kind of destroying your art form if you are going to create art and then only invite people that you know for a fact are going to like it.  Yeah, on second thought that  is really lame.

OK, so another thing that happened today was that I was walking on the drag (to Urban Outfitters, to buy some sunglasses, but then I didn't buy any because they were $20 each, but then I didn't buy any at walgreens either because they all looked lame, but anyway), and I saw a guy totally get hit by a car while riding his bike. Wowzers to the jowzers.  It was a freshman riding a bike across the street, and a big white car with a huge hood bumped into him; by the time I turned around he was lying on the bed of a hood that this huge sedan offered, and some old foreign-looking lady was driving.  She looked kind of unconcerned about the whole situation.  The guy sitting on her hood proffered up some "WTF?!" hand gestures but eventually just kind of shakily walked his bike off to the side of the road.

First week of school and I already saw someone get hit by a car.  What's next?!  I remember the first show I came to at Stubb's when I got back from my mission I saw Mel Gibson, and that's definitely the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me at a show since, so maybe I'm just a first-time excitement-getter or whatever.

I also attempted to go to the top of the UT tower but found that the highest floor I could go to was the 26th, and the 27th is the highest one in the elevator but you need a keycard to get up there.  I walked out onto the 26th floor which was a cramped secretary's area, and the old lady looked at me as I peered out the window.  She told me to get the F outta there, so I did.

Anyway, I'm excited about this ish.  It seems like a new life.  I just wish I had like a LOT of MONEY to go along with this new life.  Maybe I'll find some buried treasure or something.  I asked my good buddy Nathan if he thought there was buried treasure out there and he said yes, of course.  Then I asked him if he thought I could find some and he said, "Well let me tell you what'll happen.  You'll make a documentary in which you set out to find some buried treasure, not find any, but then at the end the moral will be that you did find the buried treasure and it was inside your heart."  Yeah, that sounds about right.

Finishing up this blog post, check out the coolest thing I've ever seen, Tim and Eric's parody of an MTV show.  watch all the videos!  i did.  they're amazing.

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a2505951bc80ed4011c0a1d716a028a