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   My computer was out of commission for a while so that explains the silent treatment you all have been getting from me (and by you all I mean the 2 people that might read this blog). Anyway I am still alive and doing well. I start as a TA at the New York Film Academy in a few days. I will be working with the High School students and helping them learn to make films.

   I also have been working a few days a week at a catholic news show as a freelance "predator" (producer/editor) shooting and editing news stories in Brooklyn. Yeah I go hard. I also have been working on a quite a few video projects for the church. So I have been able to keep busy.

With out a doubt I will be moving at the end of August. The rest is to be determined.

I need to buy new clothes. Almost everything is two sizes too big. A pretty good problem to have but still a problem.

I didn't want to do it but the roommates did. now they didn't want to share it but I will anyway

one minute I love new york and everything that is happening. the next hour I am ready to quit because I have nothing going for me. I know I'm lucky to be here and blessed to stay here but I just wish my head and heart would stop this roller coaster. I'll still going to end up a filmmaker somehow it just want it to be now and I wouldn't mind if it was easy.

LA does seem like a fun option though once falls comes around. It closes doors and I have to start from scratch again...

This having no plan and no roots set down is a catch-22. pretty awesome and a pain in the ass.  

David-hasselhoff

So that internship at MKTG with clients such as nike, pepsi, etc. I was set to start next week but I haven't been able to get the guy on the phone,  for that last week and a half.
So I finally call the front desk and not his  cell where I have only been getting voicemail. So I talk to him and he said he needed to do a second interview with me(i'm just saying call a me, I answer my phone). Anyway so he says come by and I was in the area so 15min later I show up. Walk in and the cute front desk girl remembers me and asks if I was finally going to be starting I could only reply "I know seriously, right? Not like there isn't work to be done for my salary of free." I make my way back and he is getting ready for his trip to Vegas(I didn't realize that memorial day was a big Las Vegas weekend for NYC d'bags) He runs out for a second and then comes back and says,
 "you are the one who worked with david hasselhoff right?"
 I said, "You mean Hugh Jackman? what does hasselhoff do haha."
"You worked with Hugh jackman? Really?"
"Yeah a good story actually, but I don't think I told you about it when we met last time. Anyway, what is going on with the internship because I feel like you don't have great news for me."
"Well two weeks ago when I was trying to get you to come in, the job got filled and now we are all booked on our interns"
"I don't quite understand becasue I was under the impression 3 weeks ago that I was starting then I showed up and the got told come back on the 27th and have been leaving you messages, maybe I don't have the correct number, did it change because I reached you one it once?"
"Sorry but we are full and hopefully this other person quits or something, so we can bring you in mid June or something, so give me a call around that time if your schedule allows"
"Well it allows now, because I have turned gigs down because I had this commitment I thought. I guess we will see in June. Good to have met you and sorry we didn't get to work together"

front desk girl says "bye I'll see you soon"
"doubtful, I got hasselhoff'd by a name dropper, bye"

So I walked across the island to union square to apply for a TA at New York Film Academy again(The squeky wheel gets oiled first)
 I let myself be mad and shout swear words on the walk over Put on some music, but by the time I got there I decided it was just another funny story I get to tell about my rise(mostly thanks to kanye west's "Last Call" coming on in a shuffle, which is basically Kayne talking for 12mins about getting evicted out of his apt that didn't have a phone trying to pay bills with beats and until his deal with roca-fella and meeint Jay-z)

for whatever reason I decided that I should further online presence in case I wasn't already everywhere I found more places to put my face. Why? well why not? It keeps me busy right now in this downtime and it makes me keep writing which only helps me.

http://nicjustice.blogspot.com/
here I'm planning on posting film making type things. film reviews and whatever else seems worth more than my pointless personal ramblings that I put up here.

http://zerodollarapps.blogspot.com/
This is where I will post short bare-bones reviews of free iphone applications. My sister will also be posting on here too. It could turn into something that actually gives me a few dollars or free apps but if not that is fine too.

http://nicblair.wordpress.com/ and http://nicjustice.wordpress.com/
I signed up here thinking about making it a site that is basically a resume but It didn't work with my vimeo account but I don't know what I'll do with it but I have it and i always forget the password. It seems like wordpress is the new hotness so I'll find something for it.

http://nicjustice.tumblr.com/
This one is basicly a home for all the cool stuff I find on the internet or quotes or a picture or a video or a quick thought

http://twitter.com/nicxjustice/
just random quick updates limited to 140 characters. links. funny obersvations and my general daily activities.

of course there are all the other sites
youtube.com/nicxjustice
http://www.vimeo.com/nicjustice
http://www.flickr.com/moreofavideoguy/
http://www.myspace.com/nicknows
facebook

and whatever else is out there with my email attached to it

HOW COME I CAN ONLY POST ONE LINK?

"It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic
failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and
would-haves."

-- M.H Meng

"A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not
that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like
to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be
extremely good at. It can be anything."

-- George Lucas

I got another internship. This one is with a small company that just started up which has a few cons and pros. Con being once again there is no money and pro being that it won't be very time consuming. Another pro is that it won't be doing bitch work. I'll be the go to video guy.

I have another interview tomorrow I don't know if it is paid(I'm applying to at least 20 job a day, it is hard to keep em straight) but it is to follow around a grammy nominated artist, Katia Cadet, while she finished her debut cd and it drops sometime this summer.

Also I made a new video, just shot around the neighborhood just to pass the time and ended up with this

I've been a fan of his surreal painting for awhile even have a few hanging in my room. Now I can add a good quote from him.

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant."

-- Salvador Dali

I feel like I have been busy the last few days, but not busy with anything important. C3 Manhattan held "Presence" a conference about experiencing the presence of God("so its not just a clever name"-Wanyes World). I was in attendance and I'm glad I was there. I think everyone is glad there are in the His presence, once they are there. Often there is whining before hand, "church on Saturday too, oh man."

  I had a false job interview as in "come on down, see you in an hour" 20mins later "Sorry, while I was talking to you some budget thing happened and now I can't even interview you." Needless to say that was a major bummer. I got all dress and was literally walking down my hallway on my way out of the apartment when the second call came in.

   I started a few new blogs, because I don't have enough I guess. one for reviewing iphone applications, but only the free ones. My sister is supposed to be doing it with me but not so much yet.  http://zerodollarapps.blogspot.com/ check it out if that is something for you.  My other one I am going to reserve exclusively for filmmaker related stuff, I'm not totally sure what that will shape up to be but so far just a few links to videos. If that sounds like your cup of tea then go here http://nicjustice.blogspot.com/ and get some tea.

   Reasoning behind all this blogging? Why not who knows maybe it will catch on or something. Some people making a living of their blog but currently I'm just entertaining my idle hands.

I have done a lot of walking around the city and people watching the last few days when I had gaps between my action packed days or just when I wasn't ready to face home yet. I'm not sure I've learned anything from it other than I would rather sit on the red stair case in times square (I wonder what the real name is?) for 2 hours than be at home some nights.
 
Also I almost got one of the 100 octopus hard drives Mark Hoppus[blink 182] and Pete Wentz[fall out boy] are hiding around the country.  I was about 45 seconds to late, but congrates to the winner now you have some rare goodie digital files from mark and pete but most of all you have a shiny new usb drive with an octopus one it. I'm jealous, my third place prize was a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup

GOAL OF THE WEEK
-edit new demo reel
-find a tailor my jeans
    -losing weight is cool until all your clothes don't really fit and you can't buy new ones.

I feel stuck

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

-- Jacob A. Riis