Friday February 4th, 2010

UWTL yet again. I'm so frickin tired I almost labeled this post as January.

Today was a good day, a long day, a stressful day, a mellow day, a work day, a mon day.

What? That's not right! It was just Friday right? Not for me, at least not for one more full week. Sure i've mentioned this before, but then again you probably didn't waste your time reading it. I'm working on a movie with a Friday through Tuesday schedule. The days are all bleeding into one another and I think i'm slowly starting to lose my mind. Mind you I have complete confidence I will find it, eventually, but for the moment it is lost.

Long hours, minimal exercise, intense inactivity interspersed with intense activity on occasion.

Production, though a very interesting part of the process, is not for me. At least not in this way at this time.

I gotta start making a bigger push to break in/ make my mark on the scripted world, and that's what I intend to do in the coming months.

In real, possibly valuable, and decent blog news, I've been pondering for quite some time, starting a blog entitled Pilot Lessons. In this blog I will read and watch various Pilots from the recent and past history of television, break them down and build them back up in order to attempt to deconstruct these complex works of art and commerce, that are designed to appear effortless and virtuosic in their finished state.



The truth is, there's lots of Blood, Sweat, Tears and painstaking work that goes into the construction of 30-60 minutes of television that hopefully births years upon years of shows but rarely ever gets beyond the first try, thus resulting in so few pilots out of those ordered and produced that actually make it to series.

There's some fun thrown in the process as well, considering that it's all about constructing interesting, entertaining and compelling stories that your grab your attention enough to make you say, I want more, a lot more.

I'm thinking this ole blog will get started within the next few weeks, with my hope to start off with a series about the masterful pilots of the excellent AMC Series' MAD MEN, BREAKING BAD, and THE WALKING DEAD. All shows near and dear to my heart, on what right now is pound for pound the best network on television.

Thanks for tolerating another dull meandering in my late night life. Hopefully taking to the skies and nose diving into the joys of the written page, will more than make up for it.