DAVID ANAXAGORAS

Review

Last week was one of those weeks that blasted by like a freight train from hell on fire with bat wings and jet engines.

Day job stuff pretty much dominated everything. We had open house at the preschool this Thursday and it wiped me out. I’ve also been practicing my photography and have gotten good enough at it that people come to me when they want pictures taken. I find this amusing. I have not real ambition to make art as a photographer, and yet I have to run and hide lest the demand for my photography eat up all my time. If my writing had taken off as fast, I’d be typing this from Malibu right now while Mel Gibson gave me a foot massage^[1]. So long story somewhat shorter – most of this week I’ve been dog tired from running around shooting photos from work, and then spending more time than I estimated processing them.

No writing got done. No weight got lost.

Good news, though. Heard from Amazon Studios and we have a conference call set up for Monday night at 5:30 pm. The status as of now is that I’ve been in a holding pattern while AS launched the preschool pilots. Now that those are done, they are ready to start their “second wave” of pilots. My guess is that Amazon will want a polish on my pilot script and soon after that I hope they’ll officially decide to greenlight the pilot.

I revamped the Contact page and now you can Ask Me Anything. You don’t even have to give your name or email unless you prefer a private response. Otherwise I’ll answer questions on the blog.

I noticed that my Photoshop skills quickly atrophy if I don’t use them, and I only need them sparingly but I do need them. So I’ve begun a regular project of modifying vintage ads with new words, the first of which I posted last week. It’s about the last pair of pajamas your child might ever wear. And yes, it’s another experiment in constructing a narrative obliquely and cumulatively. Stay tuned for more.

Read a friend’s screenplay and it’s good and I gave some notes. I’m terrible at reading things I promise to read and I’ve had to turn down people asking me to read their stuff and I fell like a total dick, but I’ve said yes too many times only to set things aside and forget them and that is a horrible thing to do to someone. So I beg your forgiveness if I have to decline reading anything for the time being. I’m just at one of those overwhelmingly busy periods of my life. I don’t even read for money right now.

Preview

This next week I have no idea what to expect. Everything will depend on the Amazon call Monday night. I figure whatever happens on that call will be my top priority, so I’m planning on planning around any tasks that arise out of the call. Most likely I’ll be revising the Gortimer pilot episode.

The following week I’m on vacation and will be spending four days in a cozy restored 1930s beach cottage directly on the shore of the Pacific. No street lights. No TV. No WiFi. Just the sound of the big damned ocean. I cannot wait.

photo credit: rintakumpu via photopin cc

1. That’s not actually something I’d enjoy, but something I’d do just to show how rich and awesome I was. [↩]