Category: Journal

Well, I hung around all day waiting on Jimmy’s call. Nada. I think Jimmy’s a good guy. I wish he’d fought more for the script but I understand no one was more busy during the shoot than he was. Of course, Sean and Noel should have been the ones fighting for the script…I mean is that not the job of the producers? To back the talent? But that’s not the way it went. Sean and Noel were the ones rewriting the thing. Of course, I can’t ride them too hard because I know at the end of the day they were simply trying to make it better in their opinion and that’s what it all boils down to. Jimmy said he was picking his battles and in the mean time the script got stupider and stupider.

Jim Isaac’s in town today. He’s gonna call when he gets here. we’re gonna talk about what the two of us might be able to do in order to cash in on whatever hype “Jason X” may create.

So the network guy showed up to install the network on this new computer. Now there was a time when I knew computers front to back. I could tear the sumbitches apart and have them back together and working even faster within an hour. No more. Technology has run off and left me behind. I’m a big friggin dummy now. Well, I’m a Godbestowed supergenius compared to this retarded network guy. As soon as this bozo is out of our house I’ll go through and fix everything he’s presently screwing up.

UPS!! How much do I love the men in Brown when they show up with a giant Cow Box!! Mel and I may be constantly strung out with a need for money but one should never go too long without a top of the line computer.

Michael Goldstein called about “Hounds of Hell”.
I met Goldstein through Noel and we played around with pitching some TV movies around town a couple of years ago. I think we pitched Sci-Fi and USA a couple of ideas and then it just went away.
Anyway, Goldstein did read “Riddle” and liked it enough to send to his former agent, Nicole Clemmens. Nicole read it and liked it and now she’s mine. I’m told I don’t owe Goldstein, that, in fact, Nicole owes him for sending me to her. But I can’t help but feel I owe him. Nicole was by far the best of the agents I met with. She was certainly the most excited about me. And granted her hands-on ways might have made my life tougher but she has gotten me work and I know alot of guys who can’t say that about their agents.
Anyway…Goldstein called about “Hounds”. He’d like to work it into a TV series pitch. Problem is, Dean and I have been talking about writing it as a spec. The original idea was mine but Dean and I talked about it while drunk one night and came up with a great outline for a flick. I’ll talk with Dean and get back to Michael.