Ree-Right...

So...

Q. Where have you been the past three weeks?
A. Shuttling between my new job in Redmond, dog sitting Watson the pee machine, and working on a page 1 re-write for Northbridge.

Q. Are you about to pass out from exhaustion?
A. Yes.

Q. How come colleges, universities, and high schools don't stress the importance of rewriting?
A. I don't know. Since I have been writing meaningful things I've learned that your first word will never last and the last word is never close to finished. Since writing Cole and now just finishing my first rewrite of Northbridge it is abundantly clear: from the very first draft of a script you complete to the last FADE OUT, you will not maintain but a couple of lines of dialogue or a few paragraphs of scene description when you finally reach the last draft before camera.

No one has ever taught me the art of re-writing--I have learned it on my own. The trick, I suppose, is to let go of every word you have written, which is difficult, because there are always those lines of dialogue that you want to keep--but if it doesn't serve the story, you have to be liberal and kick it the eff out.

Which brings me to my point: why doesn't anyone tell you that your first effort in writing (term papers, scripts, stories) will never be good enough? Is it because you need to meet deadlines and have tests, and midterms and finals? I think, after reflecting, that my senior thesis at Carleton was a piece of S, but it could have been better if we were given a trimester on just re-writing.

Q. Is Northbridge awesome now?
A. Yes. But I'm sure after a few more re-writes, not a single word will remain the same.

jasonkillshimself.com

So I did a little project with Keith Rivers, co-founder of Seattle Cold Readers. Here is the resulting video:



If you visit Keith's page on youtube, he has a plethora of interesting videos to watch. jasonkillshimself.com has a couple of interesting comments, one of which I wanted to point out from fantasdick69er: "your a fag i hope u did kill yourself."

Thanks!!!

Sleepless available now...

Here is a video of the first produced short script I ever wrote... now available on the internet, eh. enjoy.

Happy Holidays!

This is pretty funny...

If you want to see a picture of me and a ringing endorsement of the Vancouver Film School, click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Kudos to Jessica for taking the fantastic picture.

Snowed in...

So Jessica and I were driving up to Vancouver yesterday in eager anticipation of Cole's big screen debut for cast and crew... and we hit a wall of snow about 40 miles into the trip. Cars on the side of the road, freeway indistinguishable from freeway ditch. So we didn't make it, which is a little frustrating.

Good news is though, Dylan and Kimani found a director for Northbridge: Lynne Stopkewich. She's known for her controversial and film festival darling indie films Kissed and Suspicious River, and her directing work on the TV show "The L Word."

Last Saturday, I met up with Lynne, Dylan and Kimani last weekend over dinner, and then spent all day Sunday with Lynne scouring over the script and planning a rewrite. Now I'm 20 pages into the rewrite and pooping-my-pants excited about how great this film is going to be.



At least all the snow is setting the tone for the rewrite...

Cole Article

Just found this article written about Cole before production started in June. Funny how you find these things... 

Also, check out Cole producer Jason James' website for his production company Resonance Films. Lots of great Cole stuff on there too. 

Cole Trailer!

The Cole trailer is up! You can watch it by going to the Cole the Movie website here.