Home Sweet Home...

Well, I'm back in Homer, Alaska and things are going swell! "The Contract" was successfully premiered and it was a huge success. I've been thinking about ways to continue making films here in Homer for the past few days now. The idea of a movie "built" by the small and unique city of Homer intrigues me. The unique art structure, the vast priceless beauty of the vicinity, and the amass of creative people that this city has produces makes me think that this idea is quite possible. If this plan could be executed anywhere, it would be Homer.

PRND321 --- do you recognize this? do your drive a stick, or automatic?

Books books everywhere and not a time to read. However I did find time and recently finished "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers. A fascinating read that I would highly recommend. I read another one of McCullers books this summer. I find she has a uniquely pure and real sense of the world that is refreshing. A sharp and dangerously honest knife she wields through her characters and their actions. What she shows is simply who they are.  I find that I like writing like this. I like movies like this. I like everything like this. Simplicity returns to us to the mystery of things. It hasn't been figure out for us, it's still raw. We have to do the cooking.

I find I like things this way. As simple as they can be. Furniture, architecture, design, stories, movies, art in general. This idea of simplicity even permeates my other partialities. Mathematics, sentence structure, fashion, diplomacy and politics, and coffee. Latté, no flavor, just plain. Better yet, maybe just the espresso.