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Dan Verner '99
May. 21st, 2008 02:06 amI went home this past weekend to turn 26. It's been just about three months since I moved to Chicago. I liked home, but not entirely, which is just about how I feel here. Long Island is a familiar place for me, and familiar places are comfortable. But if I wanted to live there, I'd be there right now.
Chicago is still, for the most part, unknown to me. So is living by myself and not having close friends close by. There's still a lot I have to get used to. I have to work on getting comfortable.
My new Best Buy is fun. It's smaller. I have friends at work, which is great. I got promoted last week, over people who have been at this store for years longer than I have. It's flattering, really. And as much as I hate missing what I might be missing, I've got this job in the mean time to give me money and health benefits and people to know. I'm here now.
Want to hear something cool? At my new Best Buy there are two new things: a place for customers to leave CDs and DVDs they've picked up but don't want to buy, and an endcap for employee picks. This morning I was going to add the album "Visiter" by The Dodos to my employee picks, but couldn't find it in the music section and so figured we don't carry it. Hours later, I happened to glance at the "Don't want it? Leave it here" rack, and there was "Visiter" all by itself. So I gave it a new home on my endcap, next to the movies There Will Be Blood and Idiocracy and The Friends EP by WEEN. It was such a coincidence, that CD being there. One that matters most to me and none to anyone else.
It was so long ago that I made this, about two and a half years, but I finally got it on youtube thanks to a handsome gentleman named Clay Byers who shall remain unnamed.
It's called Going Nowhere and becomes more and more flawed upon repeated watching, so just give it the once over.
I'm almost kind of sure that making movies is probably what I might want to do with my life, maybe. But who even knows. There's always Best Buy...
I'll try to get my other one up too. But after that, there's nothing else until I make something.
Chicago is still, for the most part, unknown to me. So is living by myself and not having close friends close by. There's still a lot I have to get used to. I have to work on getting comfortable.
My new Best Buy is fun. It's smaller. I have friends at work, which is great. I got promoted last week, over people who have been at this store for years longer than I have. It's flattering, really. And as much as I hate missing what I might be missing, I've got this job in the mean time to give me money and health benefits and people to know. I'm here now.
Want to hear something cool? At my new Best Buy there are two new things: a place for customers to leave CDs and DVDs they've picked up but don't want to buy, and an endcap for employee picks. This morning I was going to add the album "Visiter" by The Dodos to my employee picks, but couldn't find it in the music section and so figured we don't carry it. Hours later, I happened to glance at the "Don't want it? Leave it here" rack, and there was "Visiter" all by itself. So I gave it a new home on my endcap, next to the movies There Will Be Blood and Idiocracy and The Friends EP by WEEN. It was such a coincidence, that CD being there. One that matters most to me and none to anyone else.
It was so long ago that I made this, about two and a half years, but I finally got it on youtube thanks to a handsome gentleman named Clay Byers who shall remain unnamed.
It's called Going Nowhere and becomes more and more flawed upon repeated watching, so just give it the once over.
I'm almost kind of sure that making movies is probably what I might want to do with my life, maybe. But who even knows. There's always Best Buy...
I'll try to get my other one up too. But after that, there's nothing else until I make something.
