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So, google has decided to be fuckbags. They don't want to support Blogger on private domains via FTP. Which this is. So in the next two months I need to find another solution or host on their network which sort of defeats the purpose of having my own domain. So finding another solution it is. Fun times. david shute - Feb 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM
That's the title of the new one act script that I've been working on this week. It had originally started as something much different. When I was catching THREE TALL WOMEN I had a few minutes to let my mind wander during intermission and the simple phrase stuck in my head. I started thinking about a stage production and was leaning toward a very stripped down Faustian tale attempting to invoke genuine horror. It's very much not that anymore. I really like what I've got. Enough that I'm not willing to finish cranking it out tonight and submitting it to KWLT. I'd rather take some time to massage it a little bit. It's a very dialogue heavy piece with a comedic drive. That shit takes time to polish. I want to do it right. The basic premise is a woman walking down the street is startled by a college kid who wakes up on the sidewalk. Unbeknownest to him, while he was everybody else, excepting the woman of course, died while he was unconscious. Quite literally, everybody's dead. The basic concept is done, outline is complete, and most of the dialogue is already there. Now it just needs a lot of love. david shute - Feb 1, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Can't exist. Seriously. Vampires, like everyone else, would be starfuckers. Virtually the entire uppercrust celebrity population would be converted and then we'd all be fucked. It's not like rockstars and actors are well known for their impulse control. david shute - Jan 31, 2010 at 10:57 PM
I realized while walking in to work and watching a couple guys brace themselves against the snow that I don't really miss smoking. Sure, there are times when I think I'd really like a cigarette but largely I don't miss it at all. Of all the things that I don't miss braving the cold is very low on that list. The worst were the throat infections. This is, in fact, what I thought about as I was walking in to work. I didn't realize that smoking and the throat infections were related because I started smoking so young. I didn't have much of a frame of reference, many solid, continuous memories of a time when I didn't smoke. I just assumed that the two throat infections I would get a year were just a normal part of me. Something that happened. Other people might get dry skin. I got throat infections, strep throat to be exact. I'd feel it start and I'd already know the progression. Acetaminophen to get me through the night, sleep, more acetaminophen to get through the school/work day, off to the doctor/clinic by the end of the day feeling like garbage. Amoxicillin prescription. In a day or two I'd be tasting penicillin tinged pus as it drained in to my stomach. Lovely visual, I know. I associated it with winter, not smoking. In my early 20s I had a particularly bad throat infection. I was sleeping about 18 hours a day. There was a four inch sweat ring in the shape of my body around me in bed. My girlfriend at the time woke me up at one point to give me some water and gravol, the draining pus in my empty stomach ensured I puked quite a bit. She made a mention of my fever, 103 for those wondering, and I quipped back, "That's a spicy meatball!" and passed out. I puked up the gravol a short time later. I have no recollection of any of this of course. She decided at that point it might be prudent to get me some medical attention. I quit smoking just shy of eight years ago. You know what I haven't had once since I quit? david shute - Jan 30, 2010 at 10:55 PM
I lost my wallet on Wednesday. It sucked. I eventually found it. The netherworld unto which it disappeared for several hours, sending my afternoon in to a frenzied spiral, I'll never know. I assume that I may have been stupid/old enough to have missed it the eighteen times I looked. My co-worker missing it the several times he looked in the same area? Not likely. It's not like I found it hidden at the end of the day. I did learn one lesson out of the whole thing as I scrambled to cancel my bank and credits cards and figure out how to replace my ID. Between talking to customer service folks for my bank and credit cards, the police to report my wallet lost, the MTO about getting a replacement license and ownership, I learned that an unfortunately large number of people don't immediately move to cancel their cards. The police officer I was talking to noted that he's had people wait several days to report their wallet lost. They only did after large sums of money had been withdrawn or spent. They knew the cards were gone. They knew they weren't coming back. Yet they waited until this went completely south before bothering to do anything about it. Seriously, first thing to do is cancel all your cards and all your memberships. Then call the police and report your shit lost/stolen. Don't sit around the pool hoping it'll turn up. It's better to have it turn up and need to wait a couple days for replacement cards then have to pay off several thousand dollars you didn't spend. david shute - Jan 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM
I finally pulled the Project Central link off my page. A short while ago the Celtx team decided to axe their free hosting service for Celtx based projects. This was called Project Central, in case you were unaware and stumbled in here drunken and confused. I had a link to my project space there along with all the other off site links at the top of each page. I finally got around to pulling mine down. On one hand, a lot of the material that was posted there is here. The actual scripts anyway. The thing that I liked the most about Project Central was that it hosted entire Celtx projects instead of a single file. I don't just write a single script. I'm a big process kind of guy. I have notes, character bios, journals, outlines, and all kinds of other stuff to go along with the script, however many versions of the script there may be. I think there's benefit in sharing the kind of material. I know a lot of writers have problems with organization and tackling large projects. Seeing a large project can help demystify the process. I understand, and even support, their reasons for removing the service. It was really just a large sinkhole for people to plunk up their materials. A large majority of it wasn't even seeing a set of eyes other than it's creators. Another piece of the puzzle to maintain that wasn't even integrated with the Celtx software anymore. An online resource that wasn't generating any revenue. Still sad to see it go. david shute - Jan 28, 2010 at 10:30 PM
So, one of the side effects of going to see THREE TALL WOMEN, which you should really go see before it closes, is noticing the call for submissions for the June One Act Play weekend. I didn't think much of it that night but apparently my stupid brain has been working over time in the background. I got it in my head that I wanted to do another production. It's been over a year since my first one act was produced. I think I've had sufficient time away that I'd enjoy doing another one. The largest failure of all of this is that I don't have anything to submit. Yes, I could spend the time researching other one act plays, finding something I like, and submitting that but what fun would that be. Above everything else I would like to identify myself as a writer. I do have a one act that I wrote shortly after the last set of one acts wrapped, THE BETTER RAT TRAP, that I like but really isn't something I would personally like to direct. So that leaves me standing here empty handed. Following my typical pattern of self abuse I decided that it would be fun to try and come up with an idea, write, and polish it in a week. I started Sunday night and I, quite frankly, have no idea if I'll actually hit it. That said, I do love writing and projects like this remind me of that fact when I've been away for too long. david shute - Jan 27, 2010 at 10:09 PM |
