Hell's Half Acre

writing and re-writing

so we have a draft of four star friend in the can after about five rewrites. There is still some tweaking to be done. . .I guess there could always be tweaking, really.

Master G has called in professionals in to read; professionals being friends of ours who are better trained in the art of theater than I.  We will probably start location scouting soon.  I have some ideas in my head of how I want things to look and possible locations which will serve my purposes. I have no friggen clue what I am doing.  . . just going on instinct and learning as I go. It's nice to not have all the answers. . .if the answers aren't there already, there is more room to creatively problem solve.

Soon we will need to sit down and figure out our budget when Foolio Fabeebs is freed up from her rigorous schedule. That should be funz. No really. It's all new so it will be funz.

I am also starting to outline a feature length script which has comedy, action, chaos, romance, genies, criminals, and hippies.  And no, it's not an autobiography. It will most likely have a car chase too. 

for now I must get back to work and beige. Somehow beige is less funz now as I would rather be thinking about how to make a sociopathic serial killer more sympathetic. 

m-slice watch out

This is what you're getting for christmas. and no, you're not too old for it.

sparky mcSparkerson

I am excited to report that new ideas and stories are forming at 81st Street productions.

That is all.   

I heart chaos

I learned a disturbing tibit about myself this weekend.

I heart chaos.

This really sucks.  I did not spend a shitload of time, money and emotional energy on therapy only to be left with this result. Ahhh, the joys of growing up in a household riddled with alcohol and drug abuse.  You get to learn how to cope very well with complex catastrophic situations. You master them in fact. They become your comfort zone. When things are calm, you wait for the volcano to erupt. When it doesn't you create your own volcano.

This is why I am good at my job.  I fix things under pressure. I calm people in panic mode. I can run through a mine field and escape unscathed with three injured people on my back.

Put me in a house for three days straight with nothing but chill-axin' to do and all bets are off. Restlessness and boredom strike. The overpowering urge to stir shit up drops like an anvil.  I don't create external chaos like I did when I was younger. I just look for ways to put myself through the ringer.

depressing.

gonna grab some carnivore's delight

can I already be sick of leftovers? I don't know about all y'all, but I had a funtastic Thanksgiving. We were fortunate enough to host the festivities over at 81st St. Productions and I think they went quite well. Master G,  Foolio, and I kicked out the jams on the spread. We are now talking Superbowl party. Maybe I'll get a webcam and broadcast it live over the internets.

YEAH suckas. . .Welcome to my own reality tv show that goes on and on and on. . .experience it and be bored like me. Which brings me to tonight's topic.

Why am I fcuking bored? Why can I not enjoy four days off? I watched a show about Provence yesterday and I got a little angry that I was watching a show about it instead of being there like I had planned.  DOn't get me wrong, I LOVED our thanksgiving dinner. It was excellent. It was a little frenetic in the kitchen. There was a lot of energy in the house.

Now I am pacing mentally. back and forth, back and forth. I cannot take another nap. I cannot eat any more leftovers. I'm sick of chill-axin'. I am seriously comtemplating taking off and going into town. ha -  going into town. that's funny. Can I call NYC a town?

typestick douche pad is forcing me to write

and when I am forced I write badly. The problem is the wonderful way TP makes old posts disappear once they've reached their expiration date. no fair is what I say. I should be able to hangout with the last shitty post I wrote in perpetuity.

okay. so. there. I wrote. Gobble gobble bitch-stick.

umm excuse me. why didn't anybody tell me about this

this = art brut and yes, actually, I was told about them but I failed to listen. It was only yesterday, when I was mining the the unsecured iTunes libraries on beige's network, that I actually LISTENED to Art Brut.

wow. doy. Where was I? What was I doing? Etherfriends, now I know why you raved about the show. I'll bet it was great.

so anyways, this is typical krixfort. I generally come to the party anywhere from two to five years late. I kinda like that.

convergence culture - life as a blog. . .blog as tv

NBC Acquires ‘Quarterlife’; Internet Series Will Run First Online

NBC has concluded a first-of-its-kind deal to acquire the talked-about new Internet and social network series “Quarterlife” for distribution as an hourlong drama series on the NBC network after it has first played in eight-minute segments on several Web sites.

Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, and Marshall Herskovitz, one of the show’s creators, described the deal yesterday as a revolutionary step in the creation of television entertainment.

NBC will begin broadcasting the series, which will not be affected by the current writers’ strike because of its ownership structure, probably in February. By then it will have completed a run of eight-minute episodes on MySpace.com as well as on the “Quarterlife” site itself. That site, beyond being a home for streaming video of the series, is intended to be a destination and social networking location for what it calls “artists, thinkers, and doers.”

“Quarterlife” deals with a group of creative 25-year-olds and how their personal lives are described in the Weblog of the lead character, a would-be writer named Dylan Krieger.
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why don't y'all learn yourselves some geography

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this is why I have a job

Report: U.S. 'Net Ad Spending Up 25% in Q3 to Record $5.2B

New York - Internet advertising spending in the U.S. spiked 25% in the third quarter of 2007, to a record $5.2 billion -- also marking the third consecutive quarter in which a new record was achieved -- according to a report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Ad revenue so far this year has totaled $15.2 billion, up 26% from the $12.1 billion seen during the same period in 2006.

"The continued robust growth of the industry indicates that marketers increasingly understand and appreciate the benefits of interactive advertising," said IAB president and CEO Randall Rothenberg.

For the full year, PwC expects Internet advertising revenues to exceed $20 billion. 

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this is great for my wallet. . .too bad I hate capitalism and corporate greed so much. Unfortch, idealism has no place in economics.