Script-a-palooza |
It's been brought to my attention that my screenplay "Outcall", which I've been further developing with my old pal Joe Mancini, was just picked from over 3500 scripts as a quarter-finalist in this yea...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:56:00 PST |
Time Travel artifacts |
I've had a fondness for time travel stories ever since I was six and became convinced I had momentarily traveled to the future by staring too hard at a bowl of Spaghetti-O's. Upon snapping out of it, ...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:04:00 PST |
Absolute Horse Shit |
Whoa, Nelly! You spend years and years in a place that you think is mildly enlightened, partially BECAUSE you think it's mildly enlightened, only to wake up one day to the smell of fresh-baked horse ...
Posted by Tom on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:46:00 PST |
Man, uh...from Heaven? Joe takes a tumble. |
I got a phone call from New Jersey last night, from my friend Joe, wherein he relayed a tale which bears astonished repeating. Joe had recently left me a voicemail saying he got hurt, but it was not a...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:39:00 PST |
Scribble Scrabble |
It's probably, what? Over two weeks from my puffed-up pronouncement that I'd be a "paid writer" within a week? Well, however long I should live, and however much, or little, I write, I will constantly...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:24:00 PST |
16 Tons: Report from the Western Lands |
To those who've tried, to no avail, to call me over the last coupla weeks, apologies. Working, working, working. Six day weeks of the lowest form of manual labor for about a month now. (I thought I wa...
Posted by Tom on Sun, 13 May 2007 01:26:00 PST |
Striking the Main Set...daunting |
Well it's been a mixed bag in DreamFish production land this week. We went full bore last weekend to squeeze everything we could out of Jeff and Bonnie's guestroom, which we'd transformed into a ramsh...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 07 May 2007 04:35:00 PST |
First Day of Shooting |
Okay, we shot all day and things went even better than I expected. I'm definitely glad I stayed up late last night breaking down the shots into camera setups. That really helped us fly today. It meant...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:06:00 PST |
Nobody sets out to make a bad movie |
Well, there's not a soul on the DreamFish crew who isn't pissed off about something, to my estimation, and in most cases that something is their job. This is good. A weekend away from a shitty job can...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:31:00 PST |
Now Playing: A Rockomic! |
1972. I'm a little kid. 6 years old. My dad offers to buy me a comic book from the candy store rack. At my eye level I pick the most exciting-looking one. Spiderman. Never heard of him. But after that...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:30:00 PST |
