well, i've felt pretty inspired for some time now to make a movie.  it promises to be
somewhat self-aware, hopefully also just enough oblvious that you will be able to see me
and my surroundings as they are naturally.
First of all before I even introduce myself I'd like to tell you what has motivated me to
make this movie.  I am an introspective person, always questioning my motives and trying
to get to the bottom of my frustrations and insecurities, and, i think that I've learned
to both embrace absurdity as well as to embrace sincerity.
I have found that people find it pretty endearing when I share my fears and upsets...
And so the friends I have tend to be very close and long-lasting.
But of course, like I say, absurdity is also necessary because in the end, this whole
joyride we call life is just too amazingly bizarre to take it too seriously.  I mean,
who ever would have thought that of all the lifeless vast empty vacuum of space, there
would be a little blue planet filled with people worried over whether to wear their jeans
or khakis.
I don't mean to trivialize the human experience by any means, but I do mean to poke some
fun at it.  Well with that said, I guess I'll stop being the typical anonymous narrator
and introduce myself.

My name is Eric. I am 20 at the time I'm filming this and I live in uptown minneapolis.
I play piano, or anyway, I'd like to think I do.  You'll see footage of that later on I'm
sure.  I live with 2 guys who are just as fascinating as the mating rituals on the
discovery channel.
First there's Nick.  Nick is a good friend of mine, who seems to keep on dating other
really good friends of mine.  First there was Farida, who's easily a seperate hour or so
long story.  And now Chelsea.  You'll get a chance to meet chelsea too.  Anyways, Nick
works at a little bistro a few blocks away, and draws a lot.  And he's also a heavy
thinker.  Sometimes we get stoned together and man is that a trip......
Then there's Brian, who's in many ways the opposite of Nick.  We'll get to him later...

as for my story, well, other than playing piano, I am deeply personally invested in
seeking out a worthwhile personal philosophy.  I am always concerned with the neuroses
I'm undergoing as well as being able to help out others with the neuroses they're
undergoing.  I don't want to expose you to too much at once so to avoid making you think
I'm just some pretentious bastard (which maybe you already think), I'll just tell you
that I don't really have a lot of personal wants.  I want to make creative things and to
be happy, but as far as goods and services go, I'm pretty well set.
Lately, I'm not really sure if I believe anyone deserves anything.  I mean I guess
obviously someone who kills someone else deserves to be punished, but I mean in the
smaller petty sense, I don't really identify with the notion.  That said, I could easily
fall in to the grips of nihilism and start being apathetic and indifferent towards my
own existence, but yet I'm not.
Because something compels me.  I think a lot of it is my horomones.  I am in my early 20s
and have grown up on grade A BGH milk and I have to contend with TV just like the rest of
the U.S.  So, I have my constantly renewing desire to mate, pitted against my constantly
renewing desire to be at peace.
I guess from an evolutionary standpoint, it means I'll be more likely to successfully
propagate the species.  But of course I have loads and loads of other forces acting on me
as well, causing me to contradict my desire to not desire.

Anyway, I'm not exactly sure that making this movie will accomplish what I hope but if
nothing else it might make a good sleeping aid.
Well anyway enough bullshitting, let's get on with it, eh?