Friday Night Randoms, 7.23.10 (Back on Schedule!)
Been a long, long day. So, without further adieu, let’s get down to the task at hand:
-Viva El Birdos! The Cardinals had rallied quite well out of the game their, post all-star game. Then stumbled a bit recently. Still not sure what to think of this team. But, the bats appear to be waking up (for the most part), now if we could just get everyone healthy, we might be able to play some October baseball.
- Had breakfast with my friend, writer-director Lily, today. It’s always fun to see her and hear how she’s doing. We caught up on various news. She’s a kick-ass double threat and a good friend. You will probably see two features from her in the next year. She tends to make things happen, rather than wait. It’s a quality that I admire, because it’s tough to do that in life, let alone this town. She does it quite well.
-Also had lunch with a dashing young lady that I met at a party a while back. She’s a screenwriter as well, quite charming and funny. That’s all for now. Hopefully, we’ll hang out again.
- Jason and I put in more hard work today on CLIPPED. We’re about halfway through the bloated draft that we used to love. We’ve cut ten or twelve pages so far, simply by going line by line through the script together. It’s a long and involved process, but it’s producing big time results for us. I think we’re both amazed. In a way it’s a riff on an exercise we learned in our 431 class (not the writing group, per se.) Which was – you write a couple of scenes – say a brief sequence of five pages; now, without cutting anything major (like a whole scene) shrink that sequence down to 2-3 pages. It’s like acting like a trash compactor on your pages. Great exercise. We’re excited to see what we have when we get the script down to the proper sixty or so pages. It’ll be the same script, but much clearer and leaner. Can’t wait.
- Unfortunately though, due to the time commitment it takes to do this on a ninety-three page script, at about five -six hours per twelve or so pages; we’ve fallen a bit behind on other projects. Not what we wanted right now. C’est La Vie. I’m not completely surprised by that, but still, we’re not exactly thrilled we fell behind (I think we’re behind seven-ten days on delivering a few projects)We’re about forty-five pages in and genuinely concerned about whether we can finish by the Thursday meeting with our new TV Lit Agent. I think we’ll pull it off, but its gonna be close. Real close.
-I kind of have been having a hankering to play some Texas Hold’ Em lately; but am a) too broke, and b) don’t have the time. Kind of sad.
- The Swell Season’s new album is amazing. I can’t stop listening to it, Go out and get it right now.
-Need to start packing. I can’t wait to get in the next place. I will end up saving a ton of money monthly (a third of what I’m paying now, by myself!) This will help.
-Despite still being completely overwhelmed (in a good way) I’m going to have to keep my eyes peeled for work. There’s some longshot, advertising (writing copy) jobs that might be out there and we’re gonna see if those come through. Just wish we had a sense, of where we’re headed and what we could expect in the next few weeks.
-Going to see The Cheeseman’s tomorrow out in Anaheim at Disney Land. Looking so forward to seeing them.
I think that’s it for the night. Be good to yourself!