Long Time Coming

Well that didn't last too long now did it? I came out the gate gunning in March, I dapped 'em up in April, but May saw me fall off and I ain write shit since the Cs won the chip. I guess I wanted to write the week of the 4th, but I ended up with a fever of 102 for three days. (I know what you're thinking, 'WAAAAH - get over it jackass'. To which I respond, 'I feel great - fuck you very much for asking'.) Since I got back, I been working then coming home and sleeping. Exciting isn't it?
Work and sleep. And I still got a shitty cough. I declare shenaniganz on my current state of affairs. Though it may all change as I look to moving into a sublet for the rest of the summer through September, when I'm slated to finish this job. I hope I hope I hope that I can stay in the city for the next one. But I think I'm headed to Iowa to build a goddamn cookie cutter restaurant that unimaginative people like to eat at. I'ma miss city construction, but I think this scenario is what they call a 'character builder'. Well fuck them and their characters. Just cuz I are a character, doesn't mean I have character.
On the flip side, I started UCB again ayer (Show in September, Show in September...). I was none too happy with my day though. I wasn't feeling it. I'm out of practice. I mean, I'm still the funniest person I know (That includes you Morty Hedberg.), but I wasn't there. I was rusty. Fuck rust. I don't like being outta practice. And the worst part was, as soon as I made these choices, I could feel they were wrong. I suppose that's good cuz it won't continue to happen. But I didn't like knowing that I was tanking as it was happening.
All I can think about lately is filmmaking. I think Amor is getting annoyed with me. We bump into one of her old friends and they make small talk for five minutes. And when we walk away all I can say is, wow that visual would look great with me killing everyone at the table in the sequel. She just smiles and nods. (Please believe, she's not a bitch. She's more than justified. Everywhere we go I comment on the asthetics of killing a shitload of people there. I'm beginning to think I have a problem...)
But that's therapudic to me. I have my next two projects lined up. I'ma do a sequel to the thing we did in October. And since I was shot in the first, I'm not in the sequel. So I'll get behind the camera and do this one while lookng through the lens. (Timmy, it's your Uncle Marty - how do you feel about turning 5 again?) I just hope all the great actors I've been blessed to work with will continue to want to work with me after I go Psycho Joe on 'em. After that, I wanna do the thing that me and the Don started in like....'06 (???, maybe even before that.) It's about us back in the day and what we coulda done versus what we did. (I know it's vague, but I don't wanna give the thing away yo...) I'm pretty hype for it cuz I always loved the idea, but we could never find the medium for it. It started out as too much to do at the time, because we were too new at this. Now, we've lived and learned. We worked on the thing in October and there's the pending sequel. Those are both short 15 page joints. I'm thinking I can get an hour out of this with no fat. Just tell the story, in and out - no subplots.
After we didn't get the original shoot off the ground, we wanted to do it as a serial which was great. Since it takes place at a college, we could advance it into the future and show the freshman grow up. But it was coming dangerously close to something else I wanna do after A Week Ago. So I think doing it as a long-short (approx 60 mins) will cover this shit. I feel confident I can get the story right and tell the story we originally set out to tell. But I can intro enough of the young'ns to make a sequel viable. (What is it with me and sequels? I guess I just see everything so 'big picture' that I can't ignore some of the more dynamic characters JUST outside the focus of the protagonists.)
But yea, that's what I'm sippin on for now. Work is gonna be kickin my ass, I'ma be sleeping in someone else's bed, I'ma be doin UCB (Sept 21st, UCB Theater at 1:30.), I'ma stay thinking about filmmaking. I got a short to do before October, then a long short next spring, I'm sure there'll be at least one more project before A Week Ago starts in '10. All the while, Amor will be smile and nodding at my ridiculousness....loooooooooooove yoooooooooou.