Busy Doin’ Somethin’
I don’t have anything to say. Just explaining the mysterious, two-week absence by saying I’ve been busy. Believe it or not, podcasts tend to require more time to complete than just writing a post. In addition to the recording time, they require a lot of editing — which requires me listening to the entire thing, multiple times — because I do these extemporaneously, with no preparation other than a few thoughts in my head and, rarely, a beat sheet reminding me of what I wanted to talk about. As a result, I sometimes go off on tangents that stray too far from what I actually want to talk about, or they’re just boring and/or ill-conceived. I pause, gather my thoughts, and start over.
So it takes me about three hours to make a podcast, as opposed to 30-60 minutes for a regular blog post. It’d be different if I had more brief, minor rants like my grocery store-based rage, but I tend to gravitate more toward long-form… Well, rambling, basically.
I hopefully have some exciting things on the horizon, but I don’t want to talk too much about them just yet.
Posted by Stan on March 20, 2009 4:18 PM | Permalink | Print-Friendly | Random Musings | Digg It
“I don’t like it being read by people unless I trust their opinion or they’re in a position of authority and might pay me money.”
Check, check, and no check.
My suggestions for possible script titles:
“Hymie Meyer: Before the Bologna Had a First Name”
“Chords, Concupiscence, and Cocaine: The Brian WIlson Story”
“Are We There Yet?: The Donner Party and Little Timmy’s Sacrifice for the Greater Good”
“I Married A Reverse Gigolo”
“Tyranny or Tranny?”
“It Came From the Black Legume”
“Westward Hos”
“Chords, Concupiscence, and Cocaine 2: Still Brian Wilson”
“Hell Can Wait”
“True Grit 3: Jeeves and Rooster”
“Sleepless In Seattle 2: A Romantic Comedy of Tweaking Errors”
“Indignation: The Movie”
“You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato: Copycat Killing and You”
“Timber! The Trials and Tribulations of the World Famous Singing Lumberjacks of San Luis Obispo”
“The Damn Busters”
“Bloody Body or The Tragic Tale of the Boy Who Dunked A Communion Wafer”
“Boyz n the HMS Hood”
“JFK 2: JFK Lives! aka JFK and the Cruisers”
“Some Called It Rape”
“Con-Air 2: Con-Sea”
“The Greco-Roman Wrestling Phantom of the Opera”
“Peter Piper: Prince of Pickled Pepper Peck Pickers”
“The Life and Times of Judo McChops”
“Tickle Me Pink: Lesbian Pirates Throughout History”
“Pantsless Joe Versus the Volcano They Called Decorum”
“The Visible Man”
“Grindhouse Presents: Quentin Tarantino’s Sense and Sensibility”
“Abbott and Costello Meet the House Un-American Activities Committee”
“Riding the South Lake Union Trolley”
“Around the World in 80 Weeks: A Tale of Indifference”
“An Ugly Face in the Crowd”
“Rally ‘Round the Fag, Boys!”
“Fourteen Brides for Seven Brothers”
“They Came To Chortle, They Came To Die!”
“I Was A Teenage Godzilla”
“Zorro Versus the Dope Fiends of Haunted Mesa”
“Woman in Bondage: That’ll Teach Her!”
“The Treasure of the Gordo Madre”
“Woman Snatch!: Finders Keepers”
“Beach Blanket Chain Saw Massacre”
“Victim or Villain?: The Frank Q. Herpes Story”
“The Devil and Rip Taylor”
“Gunga Din and the Bikini Machine”
“I’ve Got One Ticket To Paradise: The Strange Death of Mrs. Eddie Money”
“Dracula’s Daughter and the Mini-Skirt”
“Glen or Glen: The Complete Lack of Sexual Confusion”
“King Solomon’s Mimes”
“The Road to Surfdom”
“Revolutionary Ordeal: Making Out With Patty Hearst”
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Good luck with whatever’s going on Stan.
BTW, have you ever considered putting up some of your work on a site like Triggerstreet?
SAM
Posted by SAM | March 22, 2009 9:46 PM | Reply
Years ago, I got on Zoetrope.com, Francis Ford Coppola’s site. At the time, there was no site like it, and every screenwriter I know got lured in by the rumors that Coppola himself, when bored, would download random scripts from the site, read them, and get out his checkbook.
The thing about Zoetrope was, they had a deal where you had to read five scripts in order to upload one, or something like that. So I thought, “Okay, I can read five scripts and give feedback — no problem.”
I read one, and it was such a messy disaster that I just gave up. Rather than thinking, “If everything on this site is as bad as this script, my stuff is bound to stand out,” I thought, “This shit is so horrible, there’s no way Coppola will read any of it, so what’s the point?” Here are the details.
At any rate, since then, I haven’t thought much about putting scripts online at all. To me, it’s a double-edged sword: if the scripts they make you read are that bad, doesn’t it follow that the feedback you’ll get is bad? But I don’t know. I leaped to that conclusion years ago and have never actually been on TriggerStreet or any other sites like it. I’m kind of guarded about my work. I don’t like it being read by people unless I trust their opinion or they’re in a position of authority and might pay me money.
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| March 29, 2009 9:03 AM | Reply