It is the end of an era and as far as eras go this one has not only been extremely easy to define in terms of beginning and end, but also extremely easy to define as the best era of my life so far. But as it is with all things it comes to a close in a few months and I feel (after 5 glasses of wine) that a look back is worthy of a blog post. So sit back, pop some corn and relax for I am about to take you through the last two years of my life and try and figure out what I have learned and how it has effected me. If you wish to stop reading now I understand (hehe).
I can remember the day I left home to the great unknown as if it was yesterday. The excitement of going to school in a big city I had never ever been before. Sure I had been to both Sydney and Byron Bay before on holiday, but that would not prepare enough for my time in Melbourne. With my first room-mate and very good friend by my side (Linn Therese) I was ready to tackle anything. I never did tell her how much she helped me in those early days and how easy she made it for me to establish a foothold down here once we landed. She was a familiar anker in a new world.
Once the apartment was secures, in the same building in which I reside today, things started to become more and more relaxed. I had a place to call home (something you don't really get from a hostel) things got allot easier to manage. Allocated halfway between my school (Deakin university) and Melbourne city it was easy to make one self familiar with the new city which just so happened to have the same amount of people as my entire home country.
Deakin University was pretty much as I expected, if not a tad smaller then I imagined. Not that I was complaining. it made it all the more easy to get familiarized with the surroundings that would be there for the reminder of my time here. It was exciting to attend a university in another country and I met some people I will never forget, some whom I still call my friends today be they from Germany, Turkey or otherwise. I never did try and get in contact with other Norwegians as that seemed a tad out of point in staying in a foreign country.
As I got to know people in my apartment building love reared its ugly head in the form of Charlotte. As me and my other friends tried to get to know other people in the same building I met her. Beautiful, quirky and artistic she was, at the time, everything I could imagine ever seeing in a girl. I don't really know how it happened, but somewhere along the line she and I became somewhat of an item and I thought I had found true happiness for the first time in....a long good while. Looking back at it and how it ended, which I will not get into here, I see that phase of my time here as a life experience that has made me a richer person and would make me wiser in some ways. For all the pain it might have caused, I am truly grateful for her influence on who I am today.
Being in Australia for two years now I see my self as a richer person and a person that has grown immensely since the time I left. There have been fun times and there have been times where everything seemed hopeless. I guess the most important aspect of my change in the last two years is in truly figuring out not only who I am, but also what I wish to do with my life from here on end. I always said I wanted to be a director, but in my time here I have discovered that writing is my passion and is pretty much the only thing I can ever see my self do for a living. For that alone I value my time here in Australia (that and my new found appreciation for red wine).
I truly know now who I am and what my place is in this world. The only thing that remains now is trying to make a living out of it, but I have faith.
Leaving Australia will probably be one of the most difficult things I've had to do so far in my life as I have totally fallen in love with not only Melbourne city, but the country as a whole. But as much as I love it here I have also discovered that if i ever want to make it as a screen writer then I have to move on and New York is too good of an opportunity to pass up.
There are of course people...one person especially...that I'll miss, but I am confident I'll meet the people I have met down here again. I might be gone for a while, but I can feel it deep inside...I will be in Melbourne again.
søndag 23. november 2008
fredag 17. oktober 2008
This is not the best day ever
3 bottles of wine. Yesterday I managed to polish off 3 bottles of wine in a online drinking seance or whatever with a friend. Now, I didn't go in with the intent of drinking 3 bottles mind you, but they somehow seemed to merge together at some point. I do not get a hangover from red wine. I got a massive fucking hangover from 3 bottles of red wine.
I woke up today with absolutely no idea of how I got there or when and I was nauseous to the brink of some red wine regurgitation if you catch my alcohol ridden drift. But I managed to keep it together and thought some breakfast might do the trick. This was the point were I quickly realized I had absolutely no food in the apartment (nothing edible anyway).
So off I went to the nearest shopping mall, conveniently located a mere 10 minutes by tram from my place. No biggie, right? BIGGIE! 10 minutes on a shaking tram that stops and starts with a jolt and does so at every tram-stop while being a bad thought away from public disclosure of yesterdays dinner is a bad fucking idea.
But I managed and found my way to the mall after a short walk in blistering heat (something that did not stop me from putting on pants and a jacket before leaving the house). So I come walking in to the cool, cool mall, all the while thanking Willis Haviland Carrier for his contribution to this planet, heading for the grocery store. At this stage I am overheated, have a pounding headache and limited motor functions, leaving me one hungry moan from being shot on sight by a overly nervous security guard who saw Dawn of the dead last night (this is a good time to tell you that this story and indeed blog post has no point to it...thought I'd give you the heads up).
For some reason people look at you a little funny when you are dressed for winter in blistering heat while roaming the store in search of painkillers and a bottle of water. Not to mention the look you get from the cash register lady (faaat) when those two items are the only thing being slapped down on the counter by me with what I can imagine must have been a pretty dull facial expression as the higher brain functions were on vacation until an already failing liver tries desperately to clean shit up.
I knock back a few (4) painkillers (which are actually pain-ticklers for the good it did me) and arfed down a foot long sub (meatball with mayo to be specific). Feeling slightly better I thought I'd go see a movie and settled on Max Payne seeing as it was the only thing playing that I haven't already seen. Besides, nothing like balls-to-the-wall action with no deep meaning does the trick when working on a f'ed up system.
WRONG! That movie was so bad I actually thought I'd been fooled into a Owe Boll film. Everything started bad and it went down hill from there. You'd think a movie like that would at least have some cool action sequences, but I guess not. It's rare that I actually contemplate walking out of a movie, but this one made me come pretty close.
After that monstrosity I walked home and here I am, not having the best day ever. Felt it was worthy of a blog post as days like these are rare indeed. At least now I have a pizza at my side and a bottle of Coke Zero, so things might just be looking up at last.
Hm...Coke's a bit flat.
I woke up today with absolutely no idea of how I got there or when and I was nauseous to the brink of some red wine regurgitation if you catch my alcohol ridden drift. But I managed to keep it together and thought some breakfast might do the trick. This was the point were I quickly realized I had absolutely no food in the apartment (nothing edible anyway).
So off I went to the nearest shopping mall, conveniently located a mere 10 minutes by tram from my place. No biggie, right? BIGGIE! 10 minutes on a shaking tram that stops and starts with a jolt and does so at every tram-stop while being a bad thought away from public disclosure of yesterdays dinner is a bad fucking idea.
But I managed and found my way to the mall after a short walk in blistering heat (something that did not stop me from putting on pants and a jacket before leaving the house). So I come walking in to the cool, cool mall, all the while thanking Willis Haviland Carrier for his contribution to this planet, heading for the grocery store. At this stage I am overheated, have a pounding headache and limited motor functions, leaving me one hungry moan from being shot on sight by a overly nervous security guard who saw Dawn of the dead last night (this is a good time to tell you that this story and indeed blog post has no point to it...thought I'd give you the heads up).
For some reason people look at you a little funny when you are dressed for winter in blistering heat while roaming the store in search of painkillers and a bottle of water. Not to mention the look you get from the cash register lady (faaat) when those two items are the only thing being slapped down on the counter by me with what I can imagine must have been a pretty dull facial expression as the higher brain functions were on vacation until an already failing liver tries desperately to clean shit up.
I knock back a few (4) painkillers (which are actually pain-ticklers for the good it did me) and arfed down a foot long sub (meatball with mayo to be specific). Feeling slightly better I thought I'd go see a movie and settled on Max Payne seeing as it was the only thing playing that I haven't already seen. Besides, nothing like balls-to-the-wall action with no deep meaning does the trick when working on a f'ed up system.
WRONG! That movie was so bad I actually thought I'd been fooled into a Owe Boll film. Everything started bad and it went down hill from there. You'd think a movie like that would at least have some cool action sequences, but I guess not. It's rare that I actually contemplate walking out of a movie, but this one made me come pretty close.
After that monstrosity I walked home and here I am, not having the best day ever. Felt it was worthy of a blog post as days like these are rare indeed. At least now I have a pizza at my side and a bottle of Coke Zero, so things might just be looking up at last.
Hm...Coke's a bit flat.
tirsdag 7. oktober 2008
Facebook madness
yeah yeah yeah, so I'm back on facebook after some time away. I did rebel against the new look of the damn thing and I still do. Point of the matter is however that since I'm leaving Australia (and may never return...or at least not in a while)there is people I want to be able to talk to once I'm gone. Grumble, grumble. I don't like it and I hate going back on my protest, but what are you going to do? Since so many users have liked the new look Facebook don't see a reason to change. So here I am, dropping my pants and letting Facebook nail me in the arze.
The thing I don't understand is why this new look was at all necessary? Was the old one really that inconvenient for users? Having everything on one page? I loved that concept and it's why I joined in the first place (that and because everyone else was doing it).
Facebook may have taken a step backwards in the name of progress which should be pretty much impossible to pull off, but they found a way. Just goes to show that the old saying is true: if it ain't broke....
Yet, I'm back, I don't like it and I blame it all on YOU!
The thing I don't understand is why this new look was at all necessary? Was the old one really that inconvenient for users? Having everything on one page? I loved that concept and it's why I joined in the first place (that and because everyone else was doing it).
Facebook may have taken a step backwards in the name of progress which should be pretty much impossible to pull off, but they found a way. Just goes to show that the old saying is true: if it ain't broke....
Yet, I'm back, I don't like it and I blame it all on YOU!
No one goes to Ravingholm anymore...
Wazzzzzzzxzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaap!!!1 (the x and 1 is on purpose)
As you may, or may not (whats wrong with you!?) have noticed by that uncharacteristic (it so totally is) and horrific shout-like text that opened this unprepared (which they all pretty much are) blog, I am in somewhat of a delighted mood. No, I'm not horney...yet (hi mom! Thanks for reading my blog. Guess you wish you hadn't now huh?), but rather I have just gotten word that I was accepted to the New York Film Academy for two years.
Yes, Kalma is going to the Big Apple to take nibble. Now, I don't really like apples all that much, lest they be ripe red ones...but not too ripe...But this isn't about my affection or lack there of, of apples. That I am saving for another blog post and man will it be sweet.
Moving on.
A shiny penny to whomever gets the headline for this blog.
Moving on even further.
Things are not all shiny and gay however as a certain Norwegian government body supporting Norwegian students that shall remain nameless (because I don't know what it would be in English) lending box....woah, that joke was funny for 2 people. Point is, the organization lending me money for my current education might not lend me the cash for the school in NY. I have asked them to look at the school and see if its OK enough to give me money...sweet, sweet green....
So fingers crossed y'all. Now if you will excuse me I have a paper on the Holocaust due...damn Jews*
*To send a complaint please go to hell.
As you may, or may not (whats wrong with you!?) have noticed by that uncharacteristic (it so totally is) and horrific shout-like text that opened this unprepared (which they all pretty much are) blog, I am in somewhat of a delighted mood. No, I'm not horney...yet (hi mom! Thanks for reading my blog. Guess you wish you hadn't now huh?), but rather I have just gotten word that I was accepted to the New York Film Academy for two years.
Yes, Kalma is going to the Big Apple to take nibble. Now, I don't really like apples all that much, lest they be ripe red ones...but not too ripe...But this isn't about my affection or lack there of, of apples. That I am saving for another blog post and man will it be sweet.
Moving on.
A shiny penny to whomever gets the headline for this blog.
Moving on even further.
Things are not all shiny and gay however as a certain Norwegian government body supporting Norwegian students that shall remain nameless (because I don't know what it would be in English) lending box....woah, that joke was funny for 2 people. Point is, the organization lending me money for my current education might not lend me the cash for the school in NY. I have asked them to look at the school and see if its OK enough to give me money...sweet, sweet green....
So fingers crossed y'all. Now if you will excuse me I have a paper on the Holocaust due...damn Jews*
*To send a complaint please go to hell.
torsdag 2. oktober 2008
The greatest blogpost in the world....tribute
Truth be told I live a rather rave free life right now as school and decisions for the future (which is rather pressing at the moment) have taken over. That and my new film and TV blog which is going just swell. But I shall not, nay, I WILL not forget my blog origins and so I come to you today with blog that sees a paradigm shift in the house of Kalma....well, maybe.
As you don't know I've been torn with what exactly to do with myself now that my time at Deakin University comes to a close, if I should actually pass all my courses...hehe...he. I tried getting a job that would allow me to stay in fair Australia, but no such luck. The decision to become a professional screenwriter didn't exactly open allot of doors either, but it is my passion and I can't imagine doing anything else to be honest (Directing still comes in at Nr. 2, but the gap is wide right now).
But the solution to everything was so ridiculously easy when I first thought of it. It was staring me in the facial region all along: The New York Film Academy. They have a one and second year screenwriting program that would see me writing intensely for a year or two, developing me as a writer in a way I could never hope to achieve on my own. The choice about what to do next in my life became crystal clear. Yes, it saddens me to leave Australia and the friends I've made over the past two years, but it was in the cards for a while.
So now I await a reply from the NYFA and hope to high heavens that I'm accepted. I can see it now, roaming the Big Apple while all the while writing my ass off trying to get it good enough to sell. And the fact that my chances of having my scripts seen by Hollywood big wigs gets upped by X% doesn't hurt either....still gonna be hard as nails though, but I have faith in my ability.
If I do get accepted I will be headed for the U.S of A. in August/November of 09. I will be returning to Norway in late February/early March and hopefully my stay will be brief.
Fingers crossed.
As you don't know I've been torn with what exactly to do with myself now that my time at Deakin University comes to a close, if I should actually pass all my courses...hehe...he. I tried getting a job that would allow me to stay in fair Australia, but no such luck. The decision to become a professional screenwriter didn't exactly open allot of doors either, but it is my passion and I can't imagine doing anything else to be honest (Directing still comes in at Nr. 2, but the gap is wide right now).
But the solution to everything was so ridiculously easy when I first thought of it. It was staring me in the facial region all along: The New York Film Academy. They have a one and second year screenwriting program that would see me writing intensely for a year or two, developing me as a writer in a way I could never hope to achieve on my own. The choice about what to do next in my life became crystal clear. Yes, it saddens me to leave Australia and the friends I've made over the past two years, but it was in the cards for a while.
So now I await a reply from the NYFA and hope to high heavens that I'm accepted. I can see it now, roaming the Big Apple while all the while writing my ass off trying to get it good enough to sell. And the fact that my chances of having my scripts seen by Hollywood big wigs gets upped by X% doesn't hurt either....still gonna be hard as nails though, but I have faith in my ability.
If I do get accepted I will be headed for the U.S of A. in August/November of 09. I will be returning to Norway in late February/early March and hopefully my stay will be brief.
Fingers crossed.
torsdag 11. september 2008
Up and /or running
Just letting you all know that my second blog, The Paper Penguin is up and running. Have a peek, gander or even just a glint and gief feebackz!
http://kalma-the-escapist.blogspot.com/
See you on the other site.
http://kalma-the-escapist.blogspot.com/
See you on the other site.
onsdag 10. september 2008
For yee who readeth yonder blog
Wassup yall?
As most of you know I am, in layman's terms, a film geek. I'll see anything good or bad and proud of it too. I love film and TV to the point where I gamble my future career on this highly unstable (yet possibly highly profitable) business. For me there is no other career so it's film industry or bust.
As you've seem I sometimes give my insane ramblings a break to write about films or things film related, which is why I have decided to create a new blog dedicated to just that.
Don't worry (like you would), this blog will still go on. A man needs a place to ramble after all. The new blog, which will be live soon, will focus on film and TV reviews, trailer first impressions and anticipations, DVD (new and old) recommendations and so on. Basically all things film and TV related, thus is my passion.
I hope to see you all there and I hope you'll find it interesting and even useful. It will (hopefully) more structured and informative then this rave fest, so 2 blogs will offer two types of writing.
If there is anything film or TV related (anything at all) you wish me to talk about then leave a comment either on this blog or on the new one when it goes live.
I will be posting the URL to the new site as soon as it's ready. Hope to see you there =)
As most of you know I am, in layman's terms, a film geek. I'll see anything good or bad and proud of it too. I love film and TV to the point where I gamble my future career on this highly unstable (yet possibly highly profitable) business. For me there is no other career so it's film industry or bust.
As you've seem I sometimes give my insane ramblings a break to write about films or things film related, which is why I have decided to create a new blog dedicated to just that.
Don't worry (like you would), this blog will still go on. A man needs a place to ramble after all. The new blog, which will be live soon, will focus on film and TV reviews, trailer first impressions and anticipations, DVD (new and old) recommendations and so on. Basically all things film and TV related, thus is my passion.
I hope to see you all there and I hope you'll find it interesting and even useful. It will (hopefully) more structured and informative then this rave fest, so 2 blogs will offer two types of writing.
If there is anything film or TV related (anything at all) you wish me to talk about then leave a comment either on this blog or on the new one when it goes live.
I will be posting the URL to the new site as soon as it's ready. Hope to see you there =)
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