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I hope everyone enjoyed a safe, exciting New Year. I certainly did. Went to this party in Plano and ended up randomly running into Johnny Apple, who, for those of who don't remember, is the guy who was on ELIMIDATE. He's a good friend of Wade, and I knew him in high school. We hit it off immediately, and he's the first person I've talked to about film scoring and audio engineering who's on my level and understands where I'm coming from. Granted, his uncle owns the Dallas Sound Lab, where I was considering getting a degree in audio engineering in order to mix films, so he knows quite a bit about audio production and engineering. We really got into it and scared away a lot of chicks by speaking in technical jargon. He is another alumni of their program who said to stay away, but he offered something more: he said he could teach me everything and more that they would at the Sound Lab. I told him I needed to shoot something while I was here that I could mix and score. So now I've expanded my artistic ambitions to writing, directing, acting, sound mix, and scoring. I'll have someone else edit it. I'm gonna murder myself with this monster, but I know it'll be executed so that it's technically acceptable.
Joe has come up with a working title for our documentary that has a nice, exciting ring to it: "13 Tones". I feel it's a pretty evocative and appropriate title. I don't wanna give away the subject of the documentary, but it's about EVP and the paranormal and will approach it from a scientific standpoint. Probably will wind up being the most informative documentary about EVP produced so far. Joe has set a deadline for October 31st. We'll see about that. We could use a little money, and I may not be able to take on the project until I'm debt free.
I am growing more excited about finishing the script. I went over on my Christmas day dealine, but I'm not too bent out of shape about it. I needed to take some time to unpack and get some stuff sorted here, which I still need to do, but I'm getting closer to that point. I'm also making recordings of myself singing melodies while driving around in my car so that I can figure out the chord progression and lyrics on the keys later on, and I won't be limited by my shortcomings as a keyboard player. I intend to record an album, as well. I want Saralynn to do the artwork, as she is an incredible artist, to my amazement. Not that I thought she would suck, but I had no idea she was unbelieveable.
And of course a job, and I'm wanting to do acting here, maybe in some shit plays, or more likely, in a local improv group. Way too much shit I wanna do. I'm not sure if I should be trying to consolidate it and taking it on all at once, or taking on one thing at a time. I thing doing it haphazardly is the only way to satisfy my drive. I'll figure it out, because it's time to make some shit happen.
Charlie is about to begin a 10-week treatment of chemotherapy. Thank you to all of those who expressed concern. Charlie is a very special dog, and while John treats him like complete shit, he seems very happy. The vet believes that the chemo will send the cancer into remission and that Charlie should be okay. According to my resources, most dogs don't grow ill from the therapy, but seeing as it's $2000, and that dogs can't speak, that may be erroneous information. In any event, it's unfortunate for poor Charles, and I hope he can pull through.
Today, in recovery from last night's festivities, I rented a disc of Curb. On it was an interview with the cast and crew. Larry David said he hated writing. Considering that he's one of the most successful people in show business, I found that encouraging. Inspiration isn't always pouring out of you, and when it is, sometimes putting it into a word processor feels restricting. Makes me feel better.
Joe has come up with a working title for our documentary that has a nice, exciting ring to it: "13 Tones". I feel it's a pretty evocative and appropriate title. I don't wanna give away the subject of the documentary, but it's about EVP and the paranormal and will approach it from a scientific standpoint. Probably will wind up being the most informative documentary about EVP produced so far. Joe has set a deadline for October 31st. We'll see about that. We could use a little money, and I may not be able to take on the project until I'm debt free.
I am growing more excited about finishing the script. I went over on my Christmas day dealine, but I'm not too bent out of shape about it. I needed to take some time to unpack and get some stuff sorted here, which I still need to do, but I'm getting closer to that point. I'm also making recordings of myself singing melodies while driving around in my car so that I can figure out the chord progression and lyrics on the keys later on, and I won't be limited by my shortcomings as a keyboard player. I intend to record an album, as well. I want Saralynn to do the artwork, as she is an incredible artist, to my amazement. Not that I thought she would suck, but I had no idea she was unbelieveable.
And of course a job, and I'm wanting to do acting here, maybe in some shit plays, or more likely, in a local improv group. Way too much shit I wanna do. I'm not sure if I should be trying to consolidate it and taking it on all at once, or taking on one thing at a time. I thing doing it haphazardly is the only way to satisfy my drive. I'll figure it out, because it's time to make some shit happen.
Charlie is about to begin a 10-week treatment of chemotherapy. Thank you to all of those who expressed concern. Charlie is a very special dog, and while John treats him like complete shit, he seems very happy. The vet believes that the chemo will send the cancer into remission and that Charlie should be okay. According to my resources, most dogs don't grow ill from the therapy, but seeing as it's $2000, and that dogs can't speak, that may be erroneous information. In any event, it's unfortunate for poor Charles, and I hope he can pull through.
Today, in recovery from last night's festivities, I rented a disc of Curb. On it was an interview with the cast and crew. Larry David said he hated writing. Considering that he's one of the most successful people in show business, I found that encouraging. Inspiration isn't always pouring out of you, and when it is, sometimes putting it into a word processor feels restricting. Makes me feel better.