The Good, the Blog, and the Ugly
We just made our first step towards fame.
Jorge, Pat, and I just interviewed with Jim Shelton from the New Haven Register. Walk of Fame, here we come.
This morning I came to a shocking epiphany. Jorge asked me how to use the washing machine. The three of us do not know how to tie a tie.
And we are living on our own three thousand miles away from any family in an expensive house in Hollywood Hills. I don't know how to use an iron.
We have been so pampered and now we're kind of forced to rough it out here. You might say, "Yeah, really rough, you guys are living five minutes away from Hollywood Boulevard." But we are coming from the sheltered existence of living with our parents. If I am ever famous enough to be a guest on Leno, and I want to wear a tie... I'll have to call my dad. Or at least read about it on the Internet.
I talked to Joe yesterday when he was at work. I had asked him to talk to his boss about "spec" scripts. A spec script is something you write not on assignment or contract, you are writing under "speculation" that somebody will buy it. This particular spec script I was thinking about was one for HBO's "Entourage". How it works is if I can show that I can write my own episode in a series not created by me, and it was good, and HBO liked it, then I could be hired as a staff writer on another show in its early stages. Not bad, right? Unfortunately, Joe told me that HBO does not accept spec scripts from writers without agents. Blow me.
However, there is some good news to this. Joe informed me that his boss suggested that we (Pat, Jorge, and I) write our own original pilot episode of a TV series and film it with Joe's help. If it is good-- no, if it is the best thing she's ever seen-- she will show it to the Head of Production at HBO. This is an incredible opportunity. She mentioned she had seen a SPOOF of "Entourage" and thought it a good idea. However, the particular spoof she had seen was not good itself. But clearly, this is something she is interested in. I think we could pull it off.
In other news, I still don't have shades on my window and last night apparently an alien spaceship landed outside my window for about an hour and a half and flew away. It was so bright in my room, when I opened my eyes I thought it was day. It was three in the fucking morning. I need shades, damn it.
Jorge, Pat, and I just interviewed with Jim Shelton from the New Haven Register. Walk of Fame, here we come.
This morning I came to a shocking epiphany. Jorge asked me how to use the washing machine. The three of us do not know how to tie a tie.
And we are living on our own three thousand miles away from any family in an expensive house in Hollywood Hills. I don't know how to use an iron.
We have been so pampered and now we're kind of forced to rough it out here. You might say, "Yeah, really rough, you guys are living five minutes away from Hollywood Boulevard." But we are coming from the sheltered existence of living with our parents. If I am ever famous enough to be a guest on Leno, and I want to wear a tie... I'll have to call my dad. Or at least read about it on the Internet.
I talked to Joe yesterday when he was at work. I had asked him to talk to his boss about "spec" scripts. A spec script is something you write not on assignment or contract, you are writing under "speculation" that somebody will buy it. This particular spec script I was thinking about was one for HBO's "Entourage". How it works is if I can show that I can write my own episode in a series not created by me, and it was good, and HBO liked it, then I could be hired as a staff writer on another show in its early stages. Not bad, right? Unfortunately, Joe told me that HBO does not accept spec scripts from writers without agents. Blow me.
However, there is some good news to this. Joe informed me that his boss suggested that we (Pat, Jorge, and I) write our own original pilot episode of a TV series and film it with Joe's help. If it is good-- no, if it is the best thing she's ever seen-- she will show it to the Head of Production at HBO. This is an incredible opportunity. She mentioned she had seen a SPOOF of "Entourage" and thought it a good idea. However, the particular spoof she had seen was not good itself. But clearly, this is something she is interested in. I think we could pull it off.
In other news, I still don't have shades on my window and last night apparently an alien spaceship landed outside my window for about an hour and a half and flew away. It was so bright in my room, when I opened my eyes I thought it was day. It was three in the fucking morning. I need shades, damn it.
posted by PJG at 10/05/2006 11:39:00 AM
1 Comments:
One of my friends made a short about a kid not being able to tie a tie...that kid was me (even though i do, in fact, know how to tie a tie). In this particular short a little website known as http://www.tie-a-tie.net/ was used...thats right paul go there...and you will learn the ways of the windsor know and the bow tie and MORE!
Oh and by the way that Entourage spoof is on youtube and its not good at all...funny at first but not good. I think you guys should do more then a spoof...or at least do it well if you do...goodluck
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