Hey man. We haven't talked in a while. How are things? I just had my first interview, at last, yesterday, though it wasn't even really for a job so much as for a staffing agency, though the guy seemed really excited about me and the potential to get me something more like a graphic design or marketing assistant position, though he focuses on data entry/administrative assistant type stuff, which he feels doubly confident he could get me if not the other, so ... he got me feeling optimistic about what he could find for me. We'll see. It was nice to feel like I was seeming impressive. Also, on my way walking to the interview, I was stopped by this gruff middle-aged guy who said, "You got an eccentric look," then told me I looked like Rick O'Casek (don't know how to spell it, lead singer of the cars), then told me that he had just gotten out of a stint in prison down in Boston for two counts of bank robbery, and that he was from Southie (South Boston), which was why he had no upper teeth (bared the lack), cause he was Irish, and all they know how to do is box, and by that point I was like, "Hey man, I'm diggin your story, but I'm on my way to an interview," and he was like, "Ah, well," and just called out to the next guy who was passing, "Hey buddy.." Who knows what he was gonna ask me for, but the truncated experience I got was lovely. It was nice. I said, "Hey Man, sorry, but it was good to meet you," and went on.
So, I am still expecting the money in "a couple of weeks", Julie insists its a sure thing. But I've also gotten in touch by email with a friend of Justin's, the bartender at his restaurant, who supposedly is also a writer and interested in directing, and has a show he's written that might be getting picked up, and he knows JJ Abrams, supposedly ... but anyway, I got his email and he finally got back to me, and he's teaching a filmmaking class for teenagers, and they're shooting a short film next Friday which he invited me to come hang out for, which I'll try to do though I'll have just had my wisdom teeth out on Wednesday, so we'll see. But if I could, I could meet some teenagers interested in film and/or acting, with casting for IWJAD in mind. Julie's also going to talk to Kieran's counselor about getting in touch with drama people or whatever at Waynflete, to try to find actors or figure out how to spread the word. Because it struck me recently that, with the mic on the camera being fine for non-movie stuff, for hearing if the sound isn't excellent, we can do casting, and then even rehearsals and camera blocking before we get the mic and fully finished editing system and such. So Julie and I are going to press ahead with casting how we can. So one thing I am going to need to do soon is talk to Allen Baldwin, filmmaker friend here in town who's made one movie, and who can help me set up a casting session at a space here called Space.
Annie and I just saw 10,000 BC, which was fun but bad, but I love Cliff Curtis, and it made me think about how I love him and Keith David and Tony Todd in the way that PTA wante to work with John C Reilly and Philip Baker Hall, and how I really want to write good roles for these guys. Then I was thinking about Dmose in bridges and what Will being black adds to the character, and it suddenly struck me that there's nothing in the script that couldn't be tweaked keeping Will from being in his thirties or even fourties, and that in some scenes maybe that would add some real gravitas and believability to it, like when he's reading his poems and such, or whatever, and how Will (A) is still self-destructive the way he is, even at that age ... I started imagining Keith David in Bridges scenes as Will and FELL IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA. Think about it, dude. With a minimal but real type budget, I bet we could get him...
We should talk soon. I miss you, man.
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