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Minor personal silver lining
The other day I edited a video where a foreign exchange / macro guy said, "Everyone is overselling on fears of a hard Brexit, but they'll never let a hard Brexit happen." It struck me that that was the first time I had heard "They'll never let..." said sincerely and without a tinge of self-doubt or worry since 2016 ( Read more... ) -
A few more notes on writing
This last weekend we shot the short film I wrote called "In the Bowels of the Building", which is to be the first of an anthology of five horror shorts based in a single residential highrise. As the project has developed it may become more than just five, it could go towards a series, but for the meantime we have the five scripts and now one of the ( Read more... ) -
Task Writing
The other day I was at Union Square and had an inspiration for a poem, and I decided to commit myself to actually write it. I just finished the first draft, and it was painful because it was written at a different point with a different mindset that I was under than when I was feeling inspired at Union Square, and also because it was a more ( Read more... ) -
The Twilight / Transformers Dichotomy
A less talked about gender double-standard is what I like to call the Transformers / Twilight dichotomy ( Read more... ) -
Effortful
Back to the point where I need to be disciplined about the parts of my career that are determined by nothing more magical than effort.
Each day I need to apply for jobs, work a job, or push a project toward completion. Preferably two of those things.
No more down time.
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Finished 1st Draft
I finished the first rough draft of my feature film script yesterday. It will be workshopped next Thursday. In the interim week I intend to finish an edit on a quickie short film my girlfriend and I shot together a couple weekends ago. Then I need to write out a short script she and I outlined awhile back, and we'll be moving forward with all that ( Read more... ) -
(Reminder:) Writing is Work
I'm nearing completion of the first draft of a feature film. I need to have the first draft done by Thursday, after which it will be read and reviewed and then I have to do a second draft. When I do a second draft, I'm going to have to figure out some method of accountability and deadline ( Read more... ) -
Laying Down in the Coffin Being Nailed Shut by the Services You Use
During this whole net neutrality debacle, I found myself wondering what I was even using the Internet for anymore, if I could honestly argue that I was protecting it for the value it gives me or only what I remembered it used to give me. So I took some time to monitor my Internet usage and what it did for me ( Read more... ) -
Saved here until I determine whether to share it on FB
I'm seeing many of my left-of-center friends arguing that the 1st amendment shouldn't cover hate speech ( Read more... ) -
Vetoing Pax Americana
In summer of 2008, I traveled to Europe with my family. We were fortunate to have some friends to stay with in the suburbs of Paris, and when we arrived, my mother, sister, and I had dinner on Montmartre with the Parisian couple we were staying with. And since 2008 was an election year in the United States, with, at that point, Obama running ( Read more... )