Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a life update and some link spam
I want to sit down and have a beer with Jason Segel and I don't even drink!
There's a reason for my mad wish. I just got done watching "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and it's 2 in the morning. Instead of going to bed, I'm sitting here thinking about what a terrific piece of writing it was, and convincingly played by the principle actors. I'm not calling it the greatest film ever made or anything like that, but it resonated with me. I was impressed by so many things. You could tell me that the movie was autobiographical and a part of me would believe it.
What really amazes me is that Jason Segel wrote the script. I like him in "How I Met Your Mother," and in a few other places I've seen him, but it never occurred to me that inside of him lurked a screenwriter extraordinaire. His story had the blessing of being brought to the screen with a big budget and a lot of talented people, but really it's just a terrific project and watching it makes me think "Wow, I'd love to do something like that."
I probably won't, of course, but a part of me wants to try. It's the same part of me that has bought two books on screenwriting that I've not quite read. I should probably rectify that sooner rather than later if I want to write an unfathomably brilliant screenplay next week.
Oh, an update on my life... because who knows when I'll update this blog next?
I am working from home now, a freelancer, and I am working on my projects (namely, HonestGamers and now VideoCritics). I'm having tremendous fun with that and I believe I now have both sites set up just the way I want so that (blessedly) any work I do on them now can be of the "Make great content!" variety. That's exciting, but I also have a lot of work to do. I'm hopeful that--now that I have the sites both up and ready for action--I can be better about taking my incoming assignments and finishing them up quickly, efficiently and professionally. Then I hope to spend more time on creative pursuits.
Will it be my own screenplay? Maybe. Will it be a novel I've started? Maybe. Will I flake on both of those things? Probably. Yet there's a liberating freedom, a feeling that if I can just get my act together, I'm for the first time in my life now in a position to turn myself inside out on paper. I'm in a position to produce something creative and wonderful and no, it won't be "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" because someone already did that and it was great. But it'll be something, the optimistic part of me likes to believe, and I'll have fun and it will be great.
Okay, so time for a little bit of advertising. Here (in no particular order) are some links to things that have me excited in my day to day life. If you're into the sort of things they are, I hope you'll engage with them.
VideoCritics on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/VideoCritics/216577948379956
VideoCritics on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/go_videocritics
VideoCritics:
http://www.videocritics.net/
HonestGamers on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HonestGamers/493998130295
HonestGamers:
http://www.honestgamers.com/
Sorry for the link spam, but I have to do a bit of self promotion, right? It occurs to me that I'm a real entertainment consumer. I write reviews for my game and movie reviews sites all the time, I think about things that entertain me, I dream of producing some of those things myself. If there's anything in this world that you could call the most important thing to me--besides the obvious things--then that something would be entertainment.
This rare window into my soul was brought to you by the fact that I'm still up at 2 in the morning. I think I'll go to bed now. Soon. Maybe I'll review "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" first. Dang you, Jason Segel!
There's a reason for my mad wish. I just got done watching "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and it's 2 in the morning. Instead of going to bed, I'm sitting here thinking about what a terrific piece of writing it was, and convincingly played by the principle actors. I'm not calling it the greatest film ever made or anything like that, but it resonated with me. I was impressed by so many things. You could tell me that the movie was autobiographical and a part of me would believe it.
What really amazes me is that Jason Segel wrote the script. I like him in "How I Met Your Mother," and in a few other places I've seen him, but it never occurred to me that inside of him lurked a screenwriter extraordinaire. His story had the blessing of being brought to the screen with a big budget and a lot of talented people, but really it's just a terrific project and watching it makes me think "Wow, I'd love to do something like that."
I probably won't, of course, but a part of me wants to try. It's the same part of me that has bought two books on screenwriting that I've not quite read. I should probably rectify that sooner rather than later if I want to write an unfathomably brilliant screenplay next week.
Oh, an update on my life... because who knows when I'll update this blog next?
I am working from home now, a freelancer, and I am working on my projects (namely, HonestGamers and now VideoCritics). I'm having tremendous fun with that and I believe I now have both sites set up just the way I want so that (blessedly) any work I do on them now can be of the "Make great content!" variety. That's exciting, but I also have a lot of work to do. I'm hopeful that--now that I have the sites both up and ready for action--I can be better about taking my incoming assignments and finishing them up quickly, efficiently and professionally. Then I hope to spend more time on creative pursuits.
Will it be my own screenplay? Maybe. Will it be a novel I've started? Maybe. Will I flake on both of those things? Probably. Yet there's a liberating freedom, a feeling that if I can just get my act together, I'm for the first time in my life now in a position to turn myself inside out on paper. I'm in a position to produce something creative and wonderful and no, it won't be "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" because someone already did that and it was great. But it'll be something, the optimistic part of me likes to believe, and I'll have fun and it will be great.
Okay, so time for a little bit of advertising. Here (in no particular order) are some links to things that have me excited in my day to day life. If you're into the sort of things they are, I hope you'll engage with them.
VideoCritics on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/VideoCritics/216577948379956
VideoCritics on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/go_videocritics
VideoCritics:
http://www.videocritics.net/
HonestGamers on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HonestGamers/493998130295
HonestGamers:
http://www.honestgamers.com/
Sorry for the link spam, but I have to do a bit of self promotion, right? It occurs to me that I'm a real entertainment consumer. I write reviews for my game and movie reviews sites all the time, I think about things that entertain me, I dream of producing some of those things myself. If there's anything in this world that you could call the most important thing to me--besides the obvious things--then that something would be entertainment.
This rare window into my soul was brought to you by the fact that I'm still up at 2 in the morning. I think I'll go to bed now. Soon. Maybe I'll review "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" first. Dang you, Jason Segel!