So here I sit, on a borrowed computer in a house I probably shouldn't be in in the first place, let alone left to my own devices and all by my lonesome... I could find so much trouble to get into... if I were so inclined... but I'm not. I'll be good... I promise :) So I'm watching "Justice League" and this ep is too funny. Lex Luthor and The Flash have switched bodies. Poor Rosenbaum just can't get away from playing Luthor. Talk about type-casting... hehe... It was a weirder than normal week here in LA. I blame the rain and the Oscars. Traffic was a nightmare and the city's population I think doubled in size. Still, it wasn't all bad. I had dinner on Wednesday night with a producer/director who at the very least wants to read my script. I don't honestly expect him to option it, but at least it's getting read, right? Who knows, maybe he'll point me in the right direction for some financing options or something. The best part was that I got the meeting at all. I got this guy's phone # from a mutual friend, picked up the phone, and actually called him. What can I say, I was feeling ballsy that day... and for any of you that really know me, you know how fucking hard it was for me to do something like that. So woo hoo! A small victory for me on that front... Guerilla networking. It's going to be big... hehe... I'm in a weird mood today. I've got a friend in town that I haven't seen in awhile and he's going through some rough personal shit and so I've just been hanging out with him trying to be supportive and whatnot... He had to go out for a little while tonight so I'm just hanging out at his place watching TV. We did some running around this afternoon and I have decided that some people should not be allowed out to play with the general public. This guy is definitely one of them. We stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few things and in addition to getting milk and bread and other such staples, we also came away with a rubber chicken. Yes, you read that correctly. A rubber chicken. You would be right to ask, "Why?" I asked that question myself and was told, "How often do you find rubber chickens at the grocery store? How can we NOT buy it?" Ummm. Ok. Freak. Still, it wasn't really a point I could argue. He was right. How often do you actually find rubber chickens at the grocery store? I got some writing done the past few days so can I get a woo hoo! from the peanut gallery on that one? I would like to have done more, but I got kinda hung up and was spinning my literary wheels for awhile. I had planned to work on this "Samurai Champloo" meets "Kill Bill" meets "Memoirs of a Geisha" thing I've had running around in my head for the past few weeks. It's about this woman named Sukiko who becomes a samurai in an attempt to get her daughter back from these guys who kidnapped her, but it became startlingly clear to me that my knowledge of Japanese history and legend is woefully small so that one is now on hold until I have the time to do a little more research. So I worked on the Western (tentatively titled, "Black Canyon"). I'm about half-way through the outline. I also bounced some ideas off my friend for this sorta film-noir project called "Smoke." It's very much in the "Chinatown" or "L.A. Confidential" vein and I think it has potential. We also worked on tweaking my current script. (Originally called "F*cked" then called "Screwed," then called "Unraveled" and now I'm thinking of changing it yet again. This time to "The Widening Gyre." I know most of you haven't read it, but if you have, and you know the WB Yeats poem, "The Second Coming," then you know this new title soooo fits...) We didn't change much, but it needed a few little things done to it before I send it off to this producer/director on Monday. I also now have the perfect tag line for it. I can just see it on the poster. "Have you ever loved someone so much that you wanted to kill them?" I wish I could take credit for it, but that wasn't me. We were talking and he said it and I was like, "whoa. stop. let me write that down." He's like that. He just sometimes says things that you KNOW need to be in a script somewhere. It's part of the reason I like hanging out with him :) (He had another one that I'm soooo putting in a scene someday. We were talking about great sex and he said, "You know how sometimes you're with someone and everything just 'clicks?' That someone who makes you cum so hard that your eyes roll back into your head and you just know you could die happy?" Ok, so it probably won't be in a project for Disney or anything, but still, it's a great fucking line :) Ok, enough rambling for today. I didn't get in to the Vanity Fair party so I'll be watching the Oscars at home on TV like everyone else. That's ok. I'll try and post my picks tomorrow before the big event... Now I'm off to see if I can find a Chinese take-out menu. I'm soooo craving me some Chinese food tonight...
"Be careful with my head. That's where I keep all my one-liners." -- The Flash
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