I'd like to meet:
The old you
Music:
True Music Anecdote: I was at the Vancouver Aquarium for a party. The crowd was all guys wearing sweatervests with no shirts under, so my friend and I escaped downstairs to the main tank. We sat by a window and a killer whale pulled up. In a totally captivating moment, it started mirroring our movement as we got up. I leaned carefully into the glass, and the whale gently bumped its nose against the pane inches from mine. We then realized that someone was uncomfortably looking over our shoulder - R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, his eyes bigger than the whale's.
Movies:
True Movie Anecdote: I co-wrote my 1st indy feature in a cafe. Only once did I leave my laptop to go to the bathroom. Since I was techno-paranoid, I asked a woman in the booth next to me with her friend (whose back was to me) to watch it for me. We eventually shot the movie (though, lucky for humanity, it was never released). However, one day on set I got to talking to one of the lead actresses and it turned out she was the friend whose back was to me when I was writing that very movie.
Television:
True Television Anecdote: I was on my high school's "Hi-Q" intelli-dork team that competed on local television. Except I missed a practice and was demoted to alternate. So I skipped the yearbook team picture to go to Tae Kwon Do...where I got a migraine
Books:
True Book Anecdote: My Mom gave me a Dr. Phil book on dating. Thing is my mom has her doctorate in psychology...and the book is for women.
Heroes:
True Hero Anecdote: My dad rode in an elevator with Martin Luther King Jr...ACTUALLY I mentioned this to my pops yesterday and he corrected me saying that he met with MLK for a few hours when he was studying at the University of Puerto Rico. AND my Dad also had an audience with the Pope at the Vatican when he was a medical researcher (my pops, not the Pope).