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ELBOW – Cast of Thousands These guys are really cool. It’s the closest thing to Catherine Wheel I’ve heard in a long time, without really being anything like them. I always categorized CW as Pink Floyd meets Radiohead. These guys are different, but Guy Garvey sounds so much like Rob Dickinson the comparison is inevitable. […]

Rocket Report

It’s raining like the devil here in Los Angeles. Made for a very slow night at the shop tonight. I worked with Sirry. She’d been watching Xanadu all day at her house, so we threw it on the screen. Afterwards, I insisted on putting on a Michael J. Fox movie (Secret of My Success) It […]

Screenplay change

I think I’ve decided to limit exactly what can be downloaded off this website. After thinking about it a little, I decided that there’s just no need to post my scripts in their entirety. Too much work has gone into the developing of those things. So I’m gonna limit them to their first thirty pages, […]

Brand spankin’

Just testing the new blog format

Field Notes

Back after a long shift at Rocket with Sara. Depressed as fuck. I�m gonna skip out on the writing I would have liked to do (something more down to earth and real) and just plow through more of Strange Angels. I’ve got a lot to do there. I’m listening to Tosca�s Suzuki right now. It�s […]

Genres of electronic music

Just stumbled upon this site today. It’s a bit sarcastic, but these days, with the endless subdivisions of electronic music, one can’t help but agree with his cynicism. w w w . i s h k u r . c o m

Mellow Rocket Thursday

Sirry called me at about one, while I banged my head against my keyboard with fruitless abandon. She’s sick and asked if I could come in early so she could go home. dragged myself in to Rocket at about three-thirty. I didn’t leave until after midnight. Jeff was happy to announce that Sarah Thompson had […]

Management MIA?

It’s almost been three weeks since I’ve heard from my new literary manager, this after two emails that specifically asked him to drop me a line. Three weeks ago I met with Mike Eitelman of Dark Trick Pictures. Everything seemed to be going smoothly. There was interest in Blood & Dust and more importantly, my […]

A reason to be patient…

Suddenly, I’m very afraid of my Sony 52x Cd Burner… PowerLabs High Speed Exploding CDs!

John Cleese; Mark and Victor

Arrived at work today to find Jeff and Ran in a state of giddiness. John Cleese had just dropped in to buy some DVDs. Jeff was a little annoyed when I told him that since I used to live in Santa Barbara, I used to see him all the time. Ran merely shuffled around saying, […]

Movies Twin

I found this in a box this afternoon. I had no idea it was there. I don’t know if we were autographing, comparing signatures, studying scriptography or just messing around, but it’s an interesting little time capsule item. I’m actually still in touch with a couple of these people. Movies Twin, 1985

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Mapquest aerial views gone? The reason Mapquest no longer carries satellite images?

Phone Idea

I want a phone. Not just any phone. A very specific kid of phone. and I certainly don’t need this phone. I merely want it. Luckily, it hasn’t been invented (as far as I know) so I needn’t worry about spending money I don’t have to. It’s an old fashioned phone. It looks like this: […]

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I figured it out. I just got my new cell phone. In search of the perfect mnemonic, I sat down and inspected my phone number. What kind of cool phrase might I assemble out of these letters and numbers? After a half hour of wrangling, I came up with exactly nothing. That is, nothing sensible, […]

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This morning I got in my car, wheeled onto the 110 North and headed for Hollywood. On the way I listened to Ira Glass and the latest installment of This American Life. Today, he culled his entire show from the classified pages of the Chicago Sun-Times. One of the segments focused on a man whose […]