The last what...month?

So I guess a fair amount of stuff has happened since my last post. I know I mentioned a while ago that I would be taking a photography class which I did and it was awesome. I didn't exactly learn anything new. Like I knew what the aperture was and about three point lighting and all of that, but it was nice to get some actual feedback from someone other than my mom. Here are some of my favorite pictures I took duing the class:

and these two I took about three years ago but I'm still really proud of them and my teacher picked them as some of his favorites:

Last sunday I went to this film indusrty expo thingy which was supposed to have a bunch of job opprotunities and all of that which would have been helpful because I did go to film school and with the tax incentive for the film industry in Michigan it seemed like an obvious thing to attend. It turned out to be a total waste of time they has all sorts of schools advertising there which seemed kinda dumb to me because if I wanted to go to school I would have gone to a college fair, then they had a bunch of radio stations advertising there which I really didn't understand at all. Finally they had a couple film related things there but when I went to talk to them they were more like "yeah here is what we do and what we can do for YOUR film no we have a full staff we're not hiring but if you want you can HIRE US." Again why were they there? I know people keep telling me that film is a good thing to be in in Michigan right now because of this whole tax incentive thing and that people think I'm lazy because I don't have a job yet but really NO ONE is hiring this thing didn't really create more jobs in Michigan it just made it so that the people who are already working in film don't have to get second jobs to support themselves. So I think I'm going to keep doing film as a hobby and hope that I can find a way to get in but try to find something that will actually pay me, it's disappointing because I was a huge supporter of if you love it find a way to do it no matter what but I just can't live that right now with the way things are going in my life.

On a happier note Jessica's birthday was on Sunday to for her birthday I got her tickets to see Green Day on Tuesday. That show was AWESOME!!!!! I love love love Green Day and have seen them every time they have come to Detroit since I was fifteen and they have never once been bad or even disappointing. There was one part a found a bit lame but it was more then made up for by the rest of the show. If anyone has ever seen Green Day perform they know that Billie Joe always pulls people from the crowd to play with them which he did a couple times the first time he did it was not cool instead of having the people play the instruments while he sings he had these people sing which just felt like a bad game of karaoke revolution the guy he pulled up first while his voice wasn't terrible his timing was atrocious, when he messed up bad enough Billie Joe kicked him off the stage and pulled up a girl who was litterally the worst singer ever in the history of the universe her timing was WAY off, she was almost definitely tone deaf, nad she was totally unsure of herself. She barely made it through the last couple phrases of the song (which was longview by the way) then finished by shouting Detroit? into the mic. The next guy Billie Joe pulled up onto the stage was much better He had this guy play guitar for Jesus of Suburbia and that guy rocked. The show was awesome Billie Joe talked a lot but not in the annoying way some performers do he got a lot of audience participation having the crowd sing most of Boulevard of Broken Dreams or just asking everyone to make sex noises which got more weird cheering then anything else but was still amusing nonetheless. After leaving the stage having done a full set usually Billie Joe will come back out a do a really simple version of Time of Your Life this time they did their whole set then came back out and did another full set then left again then Billie Joe came back out again and did Macy's Day Parade and Time of Your Life. This show was awesome and I'm so happy that Green Day is still Green Day and that their new stuff totally lives up to everything I would expect from them.

I have a lot I want to say about the Harry Potter movie but I think I've written a long enough post here so I'll post my comments on that soon.