Oman the BawBawian

Won three out of eight awards at the prestigious annual Goodwill Awards

Winner: Orin Rainock as Best Director

Winner: Orin Rainock as Most Film involvement 

Winner: Oman The Bawbawian as Best Film

I'd like to thank the Academy.

 

Just a quick update: I’m in the library right now, and have found it a very effective place to get work done. I cant log on to Facebook most of the time, and I’m glad because I’m kind of an addict. This has been a great place to write for me and I feel like I’m getting a lot more accomplished than I ever did anywhere else [besides that time when I spent four days in the woods and filled four notebooks with material]. It’s really been great, my only distraction is the occasional hot girl that walks by or sits across from me in plain sight… they probably do it on purpose. They’re probably in love with me.

Anywho, the book is coming along splendidly and is experiencing changes that were not at first anticipated. It has become a sci-fi novel all of a sudden for one, but in a really cool way! Yesterday, I wrote about some really sad stuff… so it’s a good change, at least for a little bit. So, I’m excited to keep writing, if you don’t mind.

Exclamations, by gum!

I've been reading Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" recently and I've been very impressed by his writing technique. I like how he breaks up chapters first of all... He'll have a chapter with a title like "The Escape" and then he'll break that chapter down into several sections which are only about a page and a half long; and they're broken up by roman numerals. There are about ten sections per chapter... it makes it very readable and you can practically stop whenever you need to. I've adapted this to the book I've been writing which is going just fine!

Ha! That's another thing I've liked about Upton Sinclair's style. His use of exclamations are superb and frequent! Practically every section ends in a an exclamation! Even the title, by gum! It properly illustrates and works with the mind the way it should be read in your mind and the way it should be read out-loud. He also uses it a lot when you know he's being sarcastic or indirectly making a point. I really do admire it, and am trying to adapt it to how I write.

Early on in the book I felt inspired by Cormac McCarthy and adapted his minimal punctuation style. McCarthy uses periods and commas only; he uses his commas where normal writers would use their semicolons. He doesn't use quotation marks at all! I liked that because there were less restrictions, but I ran into problems when I tried to put emphasis on a word, or tried to be sarcastic. I solved the problem by making the word in all caps. This trick works with the mind! A lot of modern, prolific writers have their own style and don't follow the rules set out by English teachers. It works if the language is consistent throughout their work. The rules become more clear to the reader as he or she goes along; if they are smart enough they will be able to adapt and will be able to read the new style as clear as day!  It's clearly a way to make writing literature  and help literature remain an art. It works for me! I come from an art family, but I've always had shaky hands, it reflects in my art when it comes to drawing and painting. Writing literature in creative ways has helped me remain an artist and not the black sheep like they thought.

"David after dentist" remakes that are funny:          

Crazy Guy!

So I was driving around this morning and I happened upon a crazy sight to behold. I saw fire, smoke, and police cars outside of Disco Sports: Sports Bar. I got close with my car but the guy in front of me stopped completely, got out of his car, and started directing traffic; and for good reason; there was a CRAZY GUY close-by setting the sign out front of Disco Sports on fire. He looked like an employee of the establishment,  wore a red collared shirt, looked the "quiet type", danced around the fire, and continued to put more fuel into it. You could tell by his body language that he was disturbed and threatening anyone who got close to him and nobody did. 

I said dancing before but the man was really flailing his arms around dangerously; you could see the madness in his eyes from a hundred feet away. The good Samaritan who directed traffic for a minute guided me to safety to the parking lot of Regency Mall; that's where I took the picture above. It's really hard to capture the insanity that I witnessed with a low-grade camera phone like mine; especially since the static had died down when I was able to take the shot. Crazy guy McGee was nowhere to be seen. I thought I saw him run off.

That guy must have had a bad day, lost his job, and tried to express his discontent with "The establishment"  by setting it's sign on fire. Little did he know that his little stunt would put traffic light power out for several blocks. I'm sorry you lost your serving job at Disco Sports... I'd recommend you to some other establishments but I'm not entirely certain that they'll be set to hire you. Don't put it on your resume! I imagine his application looking something like this: Place of recent employment- Disco Sports.  What duties and tasks were preformed- Customer relations, serving, and counting the toothpicks before and after each shift. Reason for leaving- I set the sign out front on fire and went totally out of my right mind... I was having a bad day. I feel a lot better now! 

Here's a little something about another crazy guy: