So I think we've got a title for the new short film. I'll let it stew a day or so longer and if it sticks, I'll announce it. That way, if I wake up tomorrow and don't like it, I won't feel quite as stupid, eh ( Read more... )

It's amazing that one can feel this busy and have so little to show for it.

I mean, it's been almost three full weeks since we shot The Untitled Wyatt Film (a.k.a. #8), but I still have only gotten the first six and a half of eight scenes assembled, let alone a real cut going. Actually, I'm not sure... have I ever been this slow at getting a ( Read more... )

A month ago, give or take, Jeff Mills told me he was coming back to Portland for a wedding, and maybe he could stay a day or two longer and we could hang out. "I'll go you one better," I said: "let's make a film." Like more than half the films I've made, this is how things begin. Brie and I were talking about cowriting some time, something ( Read more... )

A brief update.

Vacation: The vacation remains ill-timed but not bad. Today was just spent hanging out everyone together in my second-cousin (Tanja)'s house, which actually afforded me the first chance to get to know all these cousins, sons-of-second-cousins, and... um, let me see here... three kids whose mother's mother's mother's father was, I ( Read more... )

In my email inbox, from the dating site I barely use:


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I submitted my Intent-To-Apply for RACC. That means I have to throw together a short script, outline, budget and publicity material for The World of Missing Persons, not to mention write several up-tempo go-get-'em paragraphs about the project, in the next two weeks. That is to say, I've announced my intent to apply, and now I must apply ( Read more... )

I haven't been writing pages in a while, but I have been "writing." A lot, kind of. I just thought I'd stop in and give a by-project update before going to bed, to remind myself how I really am productive, but I've got so many pots simmering without coming to full boil it sometimes doesn't feel like it. And so, to wit:

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