Saturday, July 26, 2003 :::
 

Met a sit-com writer out here through my brother's best friend. She is a nice girl and we should be able to work together. So far, I feel good about the trip. I am a little tired from following my niece around. For a baby barely a year old, the girl has way too much energy.

So, do I miss Cleveland? Nope. Well, I do miss IT and other things, but I have things to do here. OK, I miss my Rachel (my computer at home). I wish I had a chance to edit some things before I left town, but that was such a crazy week.

I am still having that feeling that there is something movie related I need to be doing. Although I am doing a lot, sometimes it is hard to think of everything cause there is so much going on with Prelude2Cinema.

I did a little writing on the train ride out here. There is a script ideal that I may not try to sell or anything, but I just wanted to do for fun. I miss writing just for fun. And I have all these ideals of things to do, but I get stuck cause I don't know whch way to turn first.

Actually it is a little like my niece Thalia. She will stop in the middle of the floor and then look at five different things. Does she want to crawl upstairs? Does she want to play with the door stop? Does she want to go into the next room and get one of her stuffed toys? And she just sits there unable to movie cause you can't do it all at once.

I have been like that lately. I do have the movies to get out and I have the scripts to get out and I don't know which ones to push first, so I just sit for a moment.

Part of me does not want to go back. Maybe I won't have to. Who knows. I'll play it by ear.

::: posted by Alex at 12:45 AM

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 :::
 

After a two day train ride, I made it out to California. Why the train? Well, I have the time and I wanted to see the country. I didn't buy the ticket. One of my producers did, so I had no choice. But it was fun.

I did need a break from things in Cleveland and it was relaxing. The funny thing is, when I got into town, I checked my e-mail. I had 715 messages. Which is odd cause 715 is my birthday. About 25 of those were from e-mail things I subscribe to. And 1 was about a potential screening for Blood Kiss. The rest were Spam. Man, they really need to do something about that ! Anyhow, I am relaxed and I got to see my little niece and now I have plans and people to see and things to do.

I feel so at home out there. I actually hope I can get some things moving, so I can stay for a while. I could use the new perspective on the movie business. Being in Cleveland has made me want to quit movies all together. There is a lot of bullshit there and a few lies people have told on me kind of pisses me off. I need to get a whole new set of friends. When I get back, I will not deal with some people. There are some people I really miss and want to see, and others I couldn't care if we never met again in this or any other lifetime.

Beyond negative things. I am happy to be here. I have a lot of work and things to do here, but it is all good. As Woody Allen said, "Ninety percent of life is showing up."

::: posted by Alex at 12:29 AM