So, you're probably saying, "I thought he said his last post was going to be coming up. But didn't he say that like, two weeks AGO?" And you'd be right. But if you think I'm hanging on too long, you should see the woman I'm married to. After all, we are officially overdue. And she is officially tired of it.
But what can you do?
Us, we're playing tennis, going on long walks, planning ways to shoot more of a movie idea, kicking around a screenplay idea, seeing lots of movies (Rush Hour 3 - bad; Stardust - good; Once - excellent; Bourne - excellent; Harry Potter - whatever), watching TV shows (Damages - fucking fantastic; Mad Men - fucking fantastic; First Season of The Wire - REALLY FUCKING FANTASTIC!!!!) and, as the video embedded in this post shows, hitting the swimming pool late at night. (I apologize about the squashed look - I shot it in HD and must of captured it incorrectly because I can not get it to compress to the right format (16:9 letterbox) - though it's all part of the very steep learning curve.)
One good thing that has come about - BEYOND THE OWING will be getting a reading at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis next year as part of their Roundtable Reading Series. It's a million years away, but it's nice to have something. Always nice.
In the meantime, I'm closer than ever to being done with this thing.
I thought it would be worthwhile - or at least worth the self-indulgence - to link to "People I'm Meeting In LA" posts that I've had written through the year. There's only 10 of 'em. And if you're interested, well...
I like the agent piece in particular.
The Actor
The Agent
The Dream Factory
The Story Analyst
The Playwright
The Library
The Director
The Young Producers
The New Writer
The Executive
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Finally, weirdly, "WHY BLOGGING MATTERS" has for some reason disappeared. Anyone know why that might have happened, aside from the crack that maybe it doesn't matter?
3 comments:
Nicolle was a week late. Weird to see that date that's been etched into your mind just come and go like any other day, huh? Wishing you guys the best of luck.
Thanks, Mark.
After a while you feel like someone who's been waiting a too long for the catsup to come out of the bottle - you start lookin' for the mustard.
I've heard that first children are always a little late, but then what do I know? I was born second and I was something like two weeks late.
I think it's very cool that you've bought yourself a video camera and you're circumventing the system as best you can. I'm doing the same thing with my music project--well, more or less, I am using a recording studio.
Can wait to get the baby announcement!
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