Just wanted to say howdi and I’m still alive
Just wanted to say howdi and I’m still alive and twitching. I’ll get way the hell ahead with every goddamned thing this weekend swear to god cross my heart bra and all that three-fingered salute kind of stuff and get some stuff posted…
**posting from the Cube-Front**
I’m stuck on an incredibly boring conference call about the project that kept me here and awake in a Dawn-of-the-Dead kind of way until 3:00 a.m. this morning, but the upside is that everybody else on the call is so bored that they can’t hear me snoring. So bored they’ve gone deaf with boredom. Hoo ha! I’d even fart into the phone at them to demonstrate my utter boredom, but the guy in the next cubicle over is prone to high-pitched giggling fits, and it’s kinda like a dog whistle in one’s ear, if one were a dog (I’m imagining that dog whistles are highly annoying to dogs, not just because of the auditory irritation, but because it means that they are once again obligated to participate with forced enthusiasm in a round of fetch or sit-up-and-beg-good-boy. And we wonder why they attack our young.)
In the meanwhile, here’s a little spot of cynicism I grokked off of Salon.com:
*Spec script: Something you write on your own impetus that you hope someone will buy.
*High Concept: A story concept that you can describe in 10 words or less (since most studio execs have the attention span of a Halloween pumpkin but aren’t nearly as bright). Example: “I see dead people.”
*Producer: An entity (not necessarily human) who makes it possible for your spec script to be purchased by the studios.
*Studio Exec: Another entity (see Producer) who takes your script up the studio’s corporate ladder to the people who may ultimately make it into a movie. (If their mochachinos turn out just right every morning between the time they smell the script to the time film goes in the can.)
Ha. Now I know everything I need to know about how to get ahead in Hollywood.