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I missed a raft of deadlines a couple weeks ago for submitting the two plays I've now completed, and now there aren't really any other deadlines for months. I could do stuff like just ship them off to TSI or whatever, but perhaps starting in the part of the food chain most likely to annoy me isn't the way to go. I have two finished plays! One's about 10 minutes, the other is about 20, and I'm pretty pleased to have pulled it off. But now they're just sitting here... and I do hate that part.
I have to return to the film script now (my life would really, really be better with Final Draft. A short play script doesn't make me insane to do without a program, but film scripts really push my patience, which is why I keep stopping and starting this thing. Also I'm trying to do a short film version of one of the plays, and again, it's working my last nerve). I'm back to thinking it's a short film, just with a longer story arc. This pleases me. I want it to be a short film, although I can't say why. Feasability and keeping it under my own thumb, I suppose. It is very much a cross between Lost in Translation and My Own Private Idaho, but where those stories are about strangers in strange lands, this is about being a stranger at home. God, I _hate_ elevator pitches.
Speaking of My Own Private Idaho. Wow, when I first saw that, I was a virgin. They tell you it doesn't make stuff look different, but it does. Granted, one could argue a lot of things in the last 14 years (14 years!) makes that movie look very different now. If any of the young fannish slasher types on my friends list have not seen this film, you really should -- because you'd like it, and because while the film obviously wasn't this huge commercial thing here, it's I think nice to see the viability of gay stories from a standpoint other than the crap we make up to think about because George Lucas can't write. Also, in terms of the more specific realm of "stuff I've made people watch" this falls in very obviously with the things that obsess me despite being a much more subdued heightened reality. Just watch it. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladyjaida this means you).
Hey, I just got this totally fabulous/ugly pair of shoes, via being a BzztAgenent. I totally forgot they were coming. like $80 Filas and they were free free free. They're dreadful, but in a totally fabulous way. Comfy too. Not as much as my yoga shoes, but nice. We'll see how that goes. At least I stopped myself from getting the mint green ones. I'm trying to link you to a picture but their website no workie. Ah here: It's the Zen-Y, but in white on top and tan on the sides. http://www.fila.ca/feature.jhtml?contentId=78100009§ion=lifestyle They remind me of obnoxious!Sydney.
We've a pick-up rehearsal for the show tonight. We go so long between performances, this is a totally justifiable thing, but damn, I'm not in the mood, although that's mostly me being selfish and lazy. It's really hard to have fun rehearsing something when you're in the process of having fun performing it though.
I hate how humid it is in this city. God. Granted it was a cool summer in Sydney, but even on the brutally hot days I never remember it being humid, which is odd -- it should be.
Deadlines at work are really tight, so I'm going to go there, like now.
I have to return to the film script now (my life would really, really be better with Final Draft. A short play script doesn't make me insane to do without a program, but film scripts really push my patience, which is why I keep stopping and starting this thing. Also I'm trying to do a short film version of one of the plays, and again, it's working my last nerve). I'm back to thinking it's a short film, just with a longer story arc. This pleases me. I want it to be a short film, although I can't say why. Feasability and keeping it under my own thumb, I suppose. It is very much a cross between Lost in Translation and My Own Private Idaho, but where those stories are about strangers in strange lands, this is about being a stranger at home. God, I _hate_ elevator pitches.
Speaking of My Own Private Idaho. Wow, when I first saw that, I was a virgin. They tell you it doesn't make stuff look different, but it does. Granted, one could argue a lot of things in the last 14 years (14 years!) makes that movie look very different now. If any of the young fannish slasher types on my friends list have not seen this film, you really should -- because you'd like it, and because while the film obviously wasn't this huge commercial thing here, it's I think nice to see the viability of gay stories from a standpoint other than the crap we make up to think about because George Lucas can't write. Also, in terms of the more specific realm of "stuff I've made people watch" this falls in very obviously with the things that obsess me despite being a much more subdued heightened reality. Just watch it. (
ladyjaida this means you).Hey, I just got this totally fabulous/ugly pair of shoes, via being a BzztAgenent. I totally forgot they were coming. like $80 Filas and they were free free free. They're dreadful, but in a totally fabulous way. Comfy too. Not as much as my yoga shoes, but nice. We'll see how that goes. At least I stopped myself from getting the mint green ones. I'm trying to link you to a picture but their website no workie. Ah here: It's the Zen-Y, but in white on top and tan on the sides. http://www.fila.ca/feature.jhtml?contentId=78100009§ion=lifestyle They remind me of obnoxious!Sydney.
We've a pick-up rehearsal for the show tonight. We go so long between performances, this is a totally justifiable thing, but damn, I'm not in the mood, although that's mostly me being selfish and lazy. It's really hard to have fun rehearsing something when you're in the process of having fun performing it though.
I hate how humid it is in this city. God. Granted it was a cool summer in Sydney, but even on the brutally hot days I never remember it being humid, which is odd -- it should be.
Deadlines at work are really tight, so I'm going to go there, like now.
