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Saturday, June 01, 2002
I saw "Spirit" at the theatre today. It was really sweet, though several times I found my self thinking, "Gods! Bryan Adams, would you just shut up!" Could have been the massive head ache I had. Or.... maybe not. :) Evil Sarah Revisited Yes it is true Gentle Reader. At the heart of our dear, sweet, innocent Sarah lurks the heart of Evil. I've just finished reading the next installment in Elysium and GRRRRR!!!!!!! LOL! She is terribly brilliant! She puts her characters into wonderfully terrible predicaments, which is the true heart of great story telling. I yell and scream and moan at her but I'm so glad she writes the way she does. I am honored to be a part of the process. Friday, May 31, 2002
Thought I'd share with you one of my favorite bits of wisdom. :) All I Ever Really Needed to Know I learned in Kindergarten Robert Fulghum Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hand before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup – they all die. So do we. And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living. Think of what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true; no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together. On that note, I think I'll go have some cookies and milk. ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just relearned a verrrrrrryyyyyy important lesson. When working in graphics, keep saving your work!!!! I was working on a very detailed 3d scene which was about 3/4 rendered. Up to this point it had taken 2 hours just to render. (When working in 3d you actually work using wireframes of your design with a tiny thumbnail preview to guide you. The computer coulnd't handle your manipulating that amount of stuff in actual graphic form so you "Render" or create in picture form when your done. The time it takes depends on the detail, colour ect involved.) Just as I'm nearing the home stretch, BANG! The lights flickered,computer turned off and I lost everything. Now I can't save as the rendering is going alone but if I had been wise I would have saved the wireframe as soon as I was done then all I'd have to do is reopen it and hit "Render". * thunk! ( the sound of me hitting my head against my computer monitor) It's one of those things that you think will never happen to you. Guess again! So learn from my stupidity, SAVE SAVE SAVE!!!! Thursday, May 30, 2002
Shannons here and we're working on the script. Man we're rocking!!!! Life is good! Say hi Shannon: Hi people. (said quite shyly and hesitantly) Her creative juices are else where. We just totally rewrote the ending of the film and it is sure to scare the pants off people and send hearts a pounding! Can I hear an "alleluia" ?! The first script is done and emailed to J.J.!!!! :) Crap, now I have to do the other...... AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am taking a very well deserved break from the project at hand. I talked to J.J yesterday. She really wants me to give her a copy of the script I'm woking on. For those of you who have been following these events, J.J. is aiming at producing Jenny's script next go around. (In about 6-8 months.) This will give Jen time to work out things at a more leisurly pace. Sarah's stuff J.J can't stop talking about as well. Unfortunatly, her work is in the fantasy genre and would need a bigger budget so that would not be the optimum first project/bargin basement project. J.J doesn't want to skimp on Sarah's stories, she really wants them done right. Althought she (J.J) is batting around the idea of siging on with a cable network and doing a season of short stories into episodes. Think, "Outer Limits". She'd love to use a bunch of Sarahs stuff. (Oh Sarah btw: J.J said to remind you that you had said that when you are less busy you'd send her more stuff. She doesn't mean to be pushy she just wants you to know that she's serious about her love of your work.) Which brings me to my endeavours. I've got 2 stories on the go. One is a suspence. Cheer the good guy, boo the bad guy, funny oneliners ect... The second is a romantic drama. Oh, I guess I should have told you to sit down before I told you that hun? I know, that is sooooo not my usual genre of choice. For some reason the story has called to me and won't go away. I had been under the assumption that the scripts have to be compleated by the beginning of July. Well yes, the script in its polished form. Unfortuntaly the script in it's not so polished form, (All scenes, in order, broken down into what is established in each, bits of dialog, for the entire!!!! script) is due much sooner. Actually both are due much sooner. (J.J. wants to read both so she has something to choose from) Much sooner means today!!!! To understand the true magnitude of this request you must first know how much I had compleat until this point. 1. Suspence: The first scene with dialog. A rough idea as to where the story was going but no specifics. Three seperate story arcs that would lead the story in different directions. No concrete plans, 4 possible endings. 2. Drama: No dialog but the first few scenes roughed out with camera directions. 2 seperate ideas for the direction of the story. No idea for an ending. Well me, being me and always being one to bite off WAY more than I can chew said. "Sure. No problem I'll email the first one to you tomorrow and the second on Friday" After I hung up with J.J and finished pounding my head against the wall while chanting, "Stupid, stupid, stupid!!!" and praying to any muse that may be listening for some sort of guidance, I locked my self in my room, turned on my "Wolves" soundtrack (thanks again Sarah!!! :) ) and put pen to paper. I don't remember writing most of it, just a blur. Me talking to my self and my hand aching from writing. Well gentle reader, the long and short of it is, the Suspence script is DONE!!!!!!! ( Not all dialog) I'm so happy with the direction it ended up taking even though it was not any of the arcs I had intended!!! I'm currently typing it out. Tonight I will tackle the other. I may be brain dead by Saturday but Damn it, they will be done. I work best under pressure and once I've said I can do something I do it, or die trying. Stubborn? Who me? Well I guess I best get back to it. Sarah sent me the next chapter of Elysium so when I'm finished the other script I will reward my self with reading it. Pray for me. :) Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Yeah!!!!!! I've been trying to get my pic to show up at the top of the page for a while now. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. How different can pulling a picture be from one program to another. I thought that maybe blogger worked differently. Nope! I just have bad hand writing. When I wrote the width down I made the 9 look like an 8. Ack! All fixed now! It's been a productive day thus far. I got up at 5am and took the dogs for a 45 minute walk, dug up some of my back yard and planted a wild flower garden, did laundry, updated my website, rehersed a bunch of music and responded to a batch of email. It's only 2:41. Yea!!!! I got an email from a perspective client this morning. She wants a website for her business, cross your fingers for me!!! Gods I need the cash. The guys and I decided that playing at Sax virturally unplugged sounded so good and worked so well that we are going to go there Thursday night and play for free. It's not our regular gig week and we figured Carolyn could use the entertainment draw and we can use it as a rehersal. We had soooo much fun last week!!! Sunday, May 26, 2002
What a loooooonnnnnggggg, boring day! I'm at the Chamber of Commerce today filling in for Carmen. It's actually the Tourist Information office on the weekend but whatever. I realized today how spoiled I am in terms of internet access. At home I have cable internet, here it's dial up. I'm going insane!!!!!!!!!! It's sooooooooooooooooo slow. I get to go home in 25 minutes! Yea!!!! I have done some productive stuff. I've uploaded some writing into my writing blog. Lots of cheesy old stuff but also the first few pages of something fairly brand new. If you have the link, feel free to drop by for a read. WARNING: there is tons of stuff up now and not all of it copied and pasted well from Word. Some formatting issues but I just didn't feel like fighting with it. It's totally readable just not very pretty. :) What a weekend. (Hey when did this blog become a weekly thing? *blush* oops!) Saturday was Jenn's birthday so Jenn, Shannon and I went out for a 2 hour lunch. Good food and extreme juvenile behaviour - a great cure to what ails you. :) After lunch went to the dollar store. Doesn't sound that appealing to you? Well you've never been there with us. Picture this, 3 adults (30,29,25) playing around like children. Singing silly songs out loud, playing Frisbee in the aisle...... no we weren't obnoxious, but we did send countless old ladies in fits of hysterical giggles! Hehehehhehe! It was a blast. Around 4 we said goodbye and I went home and played dolls with my niece. Also fun. Then around 6:30 I got in touch with Nick, he's up for a few days for a job interview. He and Shannon and I went to Shan's and played pool and then went to see Spiderman. What a cool film!!!! Though I have to confess that the best part of the evening was the drive there. It's so nice to have people who will sing along to the music from the musical episode of Buffy. (Once More With Feeling) And it's tons of fun to have a guy to sing the guy parts! I was reading my Sarah's blog today and just about expelled Cranberry juice through my nose, here's why. Holy Balls of Fire, Batman! Being decidedly tight in the food department, I decided to potter downstairs and make myself a pizza pop and a salad for lunch (the salad makes the pizza pop healthy, doncha know?) So I stick the pizza pop in the microwave, set the timer, and wander off to make my salad, when I heard this decidedly comic book-y noise (kind of a zzz-zzot!). So I turn around, and what do I see but masses of orange light pouring from the side of the microwave, accompanied by a decidedly unpleasant smell. I leaped across the room and turned the microwave off, put the questionable pizza pop back in the freezer, and made myself a bagel. If I develop superpowers, I'll let you know. God I love her!!!! |
