Baah Bah Black Sheep

One of our New Zealand Wordplayer buddies did something that my writer friends and I would also love to do. He had a movie released this past weekend. It's a horror-comedy called BLACK SHEEP and he didn't just write the film, but he directed it, too. To celebrate this great achievement we got together this past Saturday up in LA to catch his film.

It didn't disappoint. It was really well made. It was bloody, but in a funny way. Hard to believe but it's true. The actors played it straight, which helped, I think, w/ the humor. There's something inherently funny about a mad weresheep that's chasin after you. We laughed and laughed and laughed s'more.

After the movie we were invited up to Terry's, where we got to kick back, chat and just enjoy each others company. We laughed, we debated (something about the plausibility of an iPod connectin to a vibrator), we danced … well, Terry danced, his girlfriend danced, but the rest of us … we sorta just nodded our heads and tapped our feet. I woulda danced if I had a drink or 3. But I only drank water that evenin, so my shyness ruled the night.

Funny thing about goin up to Terry's. I was reminded of just how long I'd been out here in Cali.

(It's easy to lose track of time out here in the land of sunshine.)

I was also reminded of how Terry used to throw these fabulous parties at his house - and we'd all go up there and drink and dance and have a really good time. I saw a remnant of one of the parties – and this was a toga one that he threw about 7 years ago. I saw a remnant from that night. It was a wreath, one of many which Mel made for a bunch of us to wear durin the toga party. I spotted that wreath, sittin on one of his shelves, and I smiled. Then I pointed it out to Mel. She smiled, too.

I've been out here for seven years, y'all. Maybe soon we'll have a movie up on the big screen, too. Lucky number 7?

Oh and before I forget, here's a link to the pics from the party:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=5ssimamh.4jqmun3d&Uy=q39qic&Ux=0

Corkboards

Iain and I are makin good progress w/ our low budget horror piece. Since he leaves next week, we've been tryna spend every moment we can workin on our script.

It's much easier to work on the script when we're in the same room, as opposed to doin it via email. Cuz when you figure in the time difference, it could easily take us a coupla days to resolve things which are now takin us no more than an hour. So we're scramblin to get as much done as we can before he goes back to England.

To that end, we finally hopped on the Corkboard wagon and bought us a corkboard. Though it's not as big as the one that TnT use (4'x5') it's big enough (3'x4').

The moment the cards went up, I knew that I'd never flesh out (or write) another script w/out one. Yeah, it's THAT good.

I can't believe how valuable it's been in terms of helpin us see our story. It's enabled us to more accurately determine when somethin is missin, superfluous, or in the wrong place. Had I known it was gonna be this useful I woulda bought one years ago.


TnT also use these boards to pitch. We haven't gone in to pitch any ideas yet, but you can bet that when we do, we'll be usin one of these boards. They're tremendously helpful.


Mariama