i am justin sabestinas. some call me gus. you can see my online scrapbook at manalive.tumblr.com.
3 days ago
“You’re constantly trying to get the audience into the state of feeling, and how things feel, rather than how things are.”
- Pixar’s Brad Bird
3 days ago
I suspect that Tumblr doesn’t allow this for one of two reasons: They just haven’t quite nailed it down technically, or they don’t want to turn it on because it too closely resembles “comments”, the lack of which is a unique selling-point of …
4 days ago


Today I’ve been trying out Ommwriter, and I really really like it. I’ve tried Writeroom for the Mac and Darkroom for PC. As it is (in beta), Ommwriter has put itself up there among the best distraction-free writing applications. With a couple little tweaks and …
Brick, Stranger than Fiction, Say Anything, The Illusionist, The Prestige, Collateral, Rear Window, Little Miss Sunshine, World's Fastest Indian, Goonies, Swing Kids, Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut, Amelie, Shane, All the King's Men (1949), 12 Angry Men, The Sting, Singin' in the Rain, North by Northwest, Walk the Line, Syriana, Lawrence of Arabia, Iron Giant
Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens, Travis, David Crowder, Sigur Ros, Josh Rouse, Switchfoot, Nick Drake, Athlete, Christopher O'Reilly, Coldplay, Death Cab, Delirious?, DeVotchKa, Mutemath, Sean Saugen
Studio 60, Lost, 24, Everybody Loves Raymond, Scrubs, I hate local news,
Manalive, Release of the Spirit, The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Observations, Watership Down, Life of Pi, The Man Who Was Thursday, Perelandra, Lord of the Rings, Orthodoxy, Screwtape Letters, Picnic Lightning, Questions about Angels, Clive Staples Lewis, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Billy Collins, Theodore Roethke, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Robert Frost, Ted Kooser, Carl Sandburg, Edward Estlin Cummings, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner,
Writing, Screenwriting, Poetry, Movies, Filmmaking, Fiction, Helicopter Seeds
kristina sabestinas, May 31, 2007:
i thought you would put something about your new typewriter here. at least a picture, eh?
ben delaney, May 11, 2007:
ha! no cursing necessary. You will enjoy it, methinks.
ben delaney, May 11, 2007:
MR. GUS! What's up? How's that baby doin'? I think Twitter is calling your name....Yes, yes I hear it calling now.
joonitree, Apr 7, 2007:
happy easter to the sabestinas fam.
Eddie Ramirez, Mar 28, 2007:
What's up Gus!?!?! How've you been? It's good to hear from you man.
Stay in touch.
ben delaney, Mar 27, 2007:
Ah! Good to know you're here! And a big CONGRATS!! I heard a mini-gus is on the way. Super cool.
Oh. And thank YOU. For having "I hate local news" on your TV list. Finally, someone else to share in my loathing. ;-)
ben delaney, Mar 27, 2007:
is this Gus? "manalive" sounds familiar....
Mandy, Mar 16, 2007:
"We see us a Gus," said the man on the bus, "because he is with us..."
To be continued...
joonitree, Mar 8, 2007:
DAD? omg. wow. no way.
that's the best news i've had today.