So the good thing about taking an extra semester in school to get my portfolio together is that I have these few extra months to hunker down and write specs without a big production hanging over my head. The downside is that I think I work better in a frenzied, "5 minutes until the deadline" state. Hopefully I can break myself of that in the next ( Read more... )

Children of Men was great. Go see it, if for no other reason than to watch Michael Caine dance to screamo-techo music.

Happy Serial Killer Month!

Writing a Dexter spec. And one of the serial killer scripts I wrote starts shooting in two weeks. Very excited to see how this one turns out. It was going to be my thesis until I got "Burn" from the school (the one they paid for) so I handed the script over to another director. She's an extremely talented, fucked up ( Read more... )

Geez.....the entire rest of my life will be spent focusing on this, won't it? Every three years.....tri-annual menstrual cycle: my guilt cycle.

I guess I should be thankful. It's during these times of depression and extreme self-hate that I'm the most creative. Just like in Ender's Game.

....I'm watching a clip on YouTube of a kid doing a speedrun of Super Metroid in a little over 30 minutes. All skill. No emulators ( Read more... )

It was 110 degrees outside today!

We went location scouting in Santa Clarita today, searching for the same development communities that pepper such films as Pleasantville and Chumscrubber. Although I hope the film will far exceed Chumscrubber in every way possible. Dear God, let it be better than ChumscrubberI found a perfect community of one- ( Read more... )

Denis Leary for Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Jamie Pressly for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Colbert Report and The Daily Show for Variety Series. Colbert also got a performance nom. Please let him win, if only so we can hear his speech.

Gogol Bordello

Madagascar

Check it out.

Damn....I should've taken the time to enter the FX Comedy competition. I just checked out their site and all of the finalists are LAME!

Hopefully they'll make it a yearly thing.

Time is passing quickly. I must be dying. You know, quicker than I usually do ( Read more... )