I Love Starting Projects- it's the finishing...

Ah... the obligation to blog. It can be such a pain sometimes. I’ve taken the opportunity afforded by god-awful temperatures and the two week absence of my wife and 8 year old to do very little of anything, including posting to this blog.

When I say I haven’t done anything I mean anything that others might consider worthwhile. I’m always doing something- it’s just that most of it, while fun, usually adds up to nothing.

I spent last Friday afternoon having a blast trippin around Little Five with Greg and Lucky. We’ve been working on an idiotic idea I have for turning an old Foto-Caption piece we did called Homeless Like Me into a short film using the old pictures augmented with movement (PBS ‘Civil War’ style) and recorded dialogue and ambient sound. The idiotic idea was then stymied by reality.

Greg and I both work at radio stations, but they compete and it’s a bit of a number to slip one or the other into the studio of their competition to record the dialogue properly. I finally got permission to make it happen from my program director- but then he turned around and quit before the recording date arrived. Since I don’t really know much about the folks above him in the management chain I’m not in the mood to ask again. So screw it- we’ll do something different.

After Greg went to work Lucky and I hashed out an idea that should be easy to shoot. It’s about a single guy dealing with three different types of women that he takes on dates at the same coffee shop. Greg’s dealing with that world right now- so good dialogue should be easy to bleed out of him. And I’m fascinated with the different types of women that can make the same man turn his head. I think it’s a good study that could make for an interesting seven or eight minutes of film- and I have a friend who owns an ice cream\coffee shop- so it should be easy to find a set.

I’ve also gotten this stupid book I’ve been thinking about or writing on and off for the last four years into some kind of linear shape. I finally have it type-set but there are still things I want to change every time I read it. It’s funny. It’s not very long and the more I work on it, the shorter it gets. For the most part I’m happy with where I have it but there’s still a little bit of ‘suck’ in there. So my wife is doing the illustrations while I try to remove the remaining amount of ‘suck’- and then I’ll figure out how to get it published. Maybe I’ll publish it myself. I’m good at wasting money like that.

I should write a book about wasting money. I could emerge as the all-time guru on that one.