Ali Bell

FSU Film School

Development

Film, Lit., Music, Drums, Photography, Basketball, Colts Football

Catch 22, Oh What A Paradise It Seems, Harry Potter, Midnight's Children, Naked, About A Boy, Yes Man by Danny Wallace, Little Children, A Home At The End of The World

Bottle Rocket, Little Miss Sunshine, Blue, Rushmore, In The Company of Men, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Safe, Dreams, Judo, Full Metal Jacket, Big Fish, All The Real Girls, Dancer in the Dark, Flirting With Disaster, Sex, Lies, & Videotape, The Piano, Elf

Yo La Tengo, The Pholyphonic Spree, Built to Spill, Pappas Fritas, The Shins, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands & Say Yeah, Ray LaMontagne, Okkerville River, The Sounds, The Decembrists

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, Deadwood, Lost, Arrested Development, Homestarrunner.com, Freaks & Geeks

Weird things I said at work today, "The PTSD is a red-herring, not the plot."
"Page 101 It's Indiana, there should be a basketball hoop in the driveway. "

Things that make me crazy - commas, I never know where to put them.

The first time I voted, my Dad took me to the polls in what
was one of the most violent rainstorms of my young adult
life. He woke me up early, made me a healthy breakfast...one
might have thought I was about to take the SATs...he was nervous
and excited. He watched me enter the booth, pull the handle
and disappear behind the curtain. Five minutes later,
I came out to find him in the exact same spot, raindrops still
rolling down his coat. He looked ill from the anxiety of
waiting for me, he said, "How did we do? I said, "Democratic
across the board. His face lit up and he pulled me into a
tight hug. When we left that old basement, that on the other
364 days of the year served as the den for the local Boy Scouts,
I took note that my dad was crying. This was the first and
last time my father was so proud of me he cried.