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once upon a time in pico Rivera I had cable. Now kids back in the day they had pay preview channels where you could preview movies. A channel just ran trailers of pay per view cinema. So I found "chasing Amy" that way and I was hooked. At the time I was about 17 and was just discovering myself and I suppose a movie with both geekness and lgbtq themes got to me. I recorded it and I fell in love.  Now when I entered college I took some playwriting classes (about a year) I had a passion for it but found that my cinema preferences often clashed with people who just went on and on about theater experiences they had. One day the professor announced we each had to write a one act and have it be judged my representatives from the Kennedy center. I wrote a piece about a guy confessing his love for a girl...last ditch "all or nothing" effort....then I saw mallrats (yes...mallrats inspired me)
now this came as a revelation to me. The idea that a story can be conveyed in my tone...your average friendly neighborhood geek. Our professor always blasted me for making references"the general audience" wouldn't get...for fucks sake he once told me I should omit a line as too vague, when all the guy said was he "didn't want to be another brick in the wall." All praise fell on a lady who wrote a one piece about a woman (claimed it was something that happened to her mother) who was being interviewed by a Nazi officer! It was completely paint by numbers.
so after a director was assigned
before casting or anything I chucked the script
the new story involved an asshole sabotaging his friend hooking up with a girl he lusted over..graduation night.
and it was chock full of geekness...hell the whole thing is set against a viewing of"Carrie"
no one liked it but my fellow geeks,
the Kennedy center hated it
the director didn't even bother to show up
Nazi story woman got praise
somewhere a dog barked
but I stood by my convictions. I wasn't making things for the general public I was making things in my own Spiderman man loving manchild voice and I wasn't apologizing for it. Due to lack of adult male figure in my household all my younger siblings latched onto my likes. First time I met Kevin smith my 7 year oldish sis got a comic signed by him ("I didn't know our fans were this young") Kevin told her.
I got second place in a short story contest...Kevin gave me a pep talk
I went to arclight with my boyfriend and talked to Kevin and his wife who were in attendance
I broke up with my boyfriend...Kevin hugged me...it seemed for a bit that Kevin smith cameoed in my late teens / early twenties all the time
07/23/2008
Kevin smith was at the secret stash (they had a west LA location once upon a time). So I went with my now age appropriate youngest sister to a signing of the DVD for the British show "spaced"(also met Simon pegg). So I ask Kevin to sign my arm
"who else do you have?" I tell him John waters and Gregg Araki."
he smiled and nodded a fuckin'a nod "Greg Araki"
fucking A