Thank You!
Looks like the public, professional looking blog is about to leave the dock here soon. Very exciting stuff. It’s coming at the perfect time to replace the old me.com family blog on film school life and all things north campus that hit a wall right after Showcase and Spring Quarter last year. Heck, I hit a wall back then. So many new and exciting things on the horizon as I build the bridge out of film school into a professional life with a few trusted collaborators. I’m excited to have any eyeballs – family, friends, and fellow wayfaring strangers travel through and share the thoughts, experiences and stories here. As a writer, I’ve always likened journaling (back in the days before the internets) and now blogging as a kind of calisthenics for the imagination. I hope to incorporate some measure of audio, visual, and words here as I engage more than just the film school life, but also other interests – unknown and known to me now. That may or may not include baseball, food, music, theater, television, movies, the civil war, sailing, california, and los angeles. We shall see.
Anyways, what I do want to say before I get rolling is THANK YOU! To Jason and his friend Joe (who work for Elany Arts)for all the awesome work in making Guided By Wire such a perfect place to work words. I owe you guys for all the wonderful work. The picture is of Francis Ford Coppola, who I have been likened to many times before(just last saturday at screenwriter Terry Rossio’s writing house by Terry (look him up here) for instance and who I’ve drawn some inspiration from at different times in my life. Pretty neat photo, huh? Once afain, THANK YOU! to the those that made this site come alive. It’s definitely something I couldn’t do.
All right. And some how it’s just perfect that Jessica left the first real live comment. Now, I know I have a blog. I still have to read Confederates in the Attic, Jess. I’m on it. I promise!
So what is Guided By Wire? Well, I’ll just start with this and get into why I like it/chose it at a later date. It’s a lyric from one of my most favorite singers, Chicago’s enigmatic noir chanteuse, Neko Case who, in a word, is dangerous and who’s voice is divine.
Here are the lyrics:
GUIDED BY WIRE (By Neko Case, from Furnance Room Lullaby)
Voices that did comfort me
Are furthest from my sanity
And come from places I have never seen
Even in my darkest recollection
There was singin’ my life back to meThe life you learn from someone else
That you can only trust yourself
Sometimes that is still too much to wantGravity won’t get you through the mazes
You can never travel by the way you’ve comeI could never choose the ones to love
And the ones who took the credit left me reelin’
But I owe much to the nameless and all those surrogates
Those who’re singin’ my life back to meLife is not a constant thing
It’s only made of short stories
I couldn’t even tell you where I’m from
Guided by the voices I’ve deflected
Guided by electric wires’ hum
I could never choose the ones to love
And the ones who took the credit left me reelin’
But I owe much to the nameless
Those who’re singin’ my life back to meI see you in the future, skippin’ time
While the eyes of all the faithful rest in peace
Yet tonight I see the highway
And someone singin’ my life back to me
So welcome to the place where I’ll collect my short stories and capture the voices of all those faithful singing my life back to me.