Reading Microserfs.  Again.  I'm always soinspired when I read it, but at

the sametime frustrated, because I can never hopeto achieve something as

amazoning as that book.  There's just so much thought, feeling, action,

detail, everthing, crammed in there.  And it doesn't feel cluttered.  

I want to create something along the same lines as it.  I want to chase

the zeitgeist (I had to look itu p too), and present it to people in a way

that makes them think, that affects them in that powerful way that

familiarity can.  I want them to be moved by what I present to them

because it reveals things that are a part of them, and yet it reveals them

in a light they'd never seen before.  That's what I want my story

(screenplay?  it does seem like it would be more suited to such) to be.

Not just contain trite references to pop culture.  Rather, contain and

unearth the essence of our culture; perhaps shed some light on the state

of youth today, why it is the way it is, and where it may lead.  It's

going to be a lot of work.  Not a lot of"laving away endless hours" work,

but rather keeping an eye on my soul, and taking advantage of those rare

moments it comes out of hiding, granting me glimpses into my heart, and

thus, the heartbeat of a generation lost amidst a rapidly changing world.