Well, really really fucking big news for me.
I'm taking an Honors Creative Writing course this year, and our first project was to put together a 5 Act play based on ... well on nothing, it was completely "um... you come up with something" I really just kinda started writing about shit, and came up with a pretty cool plot that's very conceptual and idealistic, but also emotion-provoking (funny and sad) but at the same time like Garden State or The Matrix or any idealogical plot makes you go "well... actually that's an interesting way to look at something" and for the most part, i think it's pretty legitimate as far as ends meeting and stuff, no loose strings.
So I got a phone call today from the Dean of Performing Arts at one of the largest performing arts universities on the east coast... apparantly he's friends with my professor, and she sent him my play. He was apparently very impressed (he was even excited in his voice and shit) and wanted to know if it was something I really cared about or was a project, and to be honest, yeah it was going to be something I continued working on. He said that it's a goldmine and I need to have it copyrighted immediately. I told him I was going to enter it into a playwrite contest, and he was said they will fuck me out of a lot of money by contracts- he gave me the number of his guy who does his copyright work for him and told me to call him and have it done as soon as possible. He said he would be more than willing to offer guideance on editors, etc publishing agents, or whatever I might need. He said the concept is what is important, this is your first play and technically it's shit... it needs to be worked on by people who know what they're doing, but that's the easy part... he said get it copyrighted and you'll own gold.
Anyways, it's titled Bring Back the Sun... and the song actually fits some of the themes and concepts in it really well. I will post it as soon as I am advised I can. He said I can probably pick up directors within a few months if I focus on it as a playwrite-- it's something that would work really well as a live performance) but to be honest with you, i'd really like to see it in a movie (what i had in mind while writing) because of what film is capable of portraying... for instance I have a guy who burns himself alive... can't really do that on stage.
I really don't brag much, and I hope that's not what this looks like (most of you don't know me) I'm very modest, so I don't talk shit unless I really believe it, but this is one of the coolest things that's ever happened to me...
Bring Back the Sun (potential movie)
WOW!! That's so amazing and I can't wait to hear more about it. 
Good for you!
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that's AWESOME.
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
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Oh wow, congratulations, man! Make sure to thank the CM in your Oscar speech. 
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<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">
<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>
<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>
<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the <font color="#FFFFFF">world</font>...</font>
<font color="#B1DFDE">You may say I'm a <font color="#FFFFFF">dreamer</font>, but I'm not the only one, I hope
some day you'll join us, and the world will <font color="#FFFFFF">live</font> as one.</font></center></font>
Queen of the Harpies <img src="../phpBB2/files/queen_of_harpies.gif" align="texttop"></td><td><font color="orange">President of the Pookie Brigade</font>
"If you put those on the internet, I'll kill you guys!" - Jer</td></tr></table>
<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">
<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>
<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>
<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the <font color="#FFFFFF">world</font>...</font>
<font color="#B1DFDE">You may say I'm a <font color="#FFFFFF">dreamer</font>, but I'm not the only one, I hope
some day you'll join us, and the world will <font color="#FFFFFF">live</font> as one.</font></center></font>
Sweet man
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month