COMING IN JULY

"There will be mind control drugs in your pancakes."

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Bloody brilliant, these are.

Movies redone as vintage paperback covers.

OK, getting back to work now.




Here I am/I'm the master of your destiny...

TOWEL DAY

Honoring the date two weeks after the death of Douglas Adams (rather than the date itself). As Adams is easily one of my top five most influential writers (you know, to me), I cannot let this pass this year.

Allow this to be my virtual towel. This is a clip from the extras on the Doctor Who: "City of Death" DVD. It has fuck-all to do with Doctor Who, so have a watch.

I'M IN THE LAB

You would think that between staffing season meetings and the upfronts news and the cancellation of Marvel's best super-hero comic, I'd have something to post about.

Nah. I'm busy. I'm working on shit.

Why aren't you - you know - working on shit?



• FRANK
  
• Hi, this is Frank over at St. Claire’s. Is Walter Bishop there?
  
• INTERCUT:
  
• INT. WALTER’S LAB - NIGHT
  
• ASTRID’s doing some filework. The lab is dark, except for the glow of her flatscreen monitor. Handset lodged in the crook of her neck. Too busy to stop working.
  
• ASTRID
  
• No, I’m afraid he’s not in right now. Is there anything wrong?
  
• FRANK
  
• So he’s not dead or nothing?
  
• ASTRID
  
• No. Of course not.
  
• FRANK
  
• When was the last time you saw him?
  
• ASTRID
  
• A few hours ago.
  
• FRANK
  
• So he could be? He could be dead now?
• Okay, now she'll stop working.
  
• ASTRID
  
• What’s going on?
  
• FRANK
  
• I think I thought I saw his ghost or something.
  
• Off Astrid; weirded and worried.
  

By the way, Glee. Dug it. Feel a little dirty about that.

"KICK OUT THE JAMS"

street sweeper social club (w/ trent reznor)
san diego, ca
5.16.09

"TERRIBLE LIE"

nine inch nails
san diego, ca
5.16.09

I AM A LEAF ON THE WIND-- NO. NOT THAT. THAT DOESN'T END WELL.

It is considered, in any culture that matters, that when you're killing time before your meeting outside The Grill at Uni, should you spy a space pilot or deranged multiple-personality killing machine it is a sign of good luck.

In other news, it appears that Mastermind shall once again be on the boards. Details are not yet finalized, but this time I don't have to produce it myself. I look forward to showing up and watching it. Watch this space for updates.

In other, other news, I'm reconsidering the Southland spec. I'm getting kinda itchy to do a Fringe spec. Though with the events of the final, there might be some rethinking to do there as well. I've gotta decide soon if there's any chance of squeezing it in for any of the program deadlines in the summer.

In other other news, Star Trek kicked sweet, sweet space ass. As a reformed Trekkie, it made me giddy with...giddyness. And it's in continuity...unfortunately, it leaves Enterprise completely intact. Those first three seasons...gah. Did enjoy the reference to Archer's beagle all the same.

NOTHING EVER ENDS

The last NIN tour starts today. The first new Star Trek starts today.

Mash up!!!

AREA FOUR: PAGE SIX

Finished the vomit draft of Area Four last night. More or less. Now it goes to...the group.

• EXT. VACANT LOT - LOW QUALITY VIDEO - NIGHT (TEN YEARS AGO)
  
• Outside somewhere. Too dark know exactly where it is. Lots of GANGBANGER youths and boom box blaring “Got Your Money” by O.D.B. in the b.g.
  
• YOUNG TAEWON (20, hip-hop gangsta) pulls a YOUNG LUTHER CRUMP (18, Bulls t-shirt, skinny and as comfortable as a rabbit at a dog track).
  
• TAEWON
  
• And yo, this is our boy, know what I’m sayin'?
  
• CAMERA OPERATOR (O.S.)
  
• Say it, dawg.
  
• YOUNG LUTHER
  
• My name is Luther Crump.
  
• CAMERA OPERATOR (O.S.)
  
• And what?
  
• YOUNG LUTHER
  
• And I’m eighteen. Eighteen years old.
  
• TAEWON
  
• Yeah. He be legal and what-not.
  
• CAMERA OPERATOR (O.S.)
  
• What you gonna be when you grow up?
  
• YOUNG LUTHER
  
• (with no enthusiasm at all)
  
• I’m going to be a Chicago Police Officer.
• 
  
• EXT. AREA FOUR HEADQUARTERS - DAY (PRESENT)
  
• A press conference. LUTHER CRUMP (28, CPD dress blues, only marginally more comfortable stiffly reading prepared remarks behind a dozen tv microphones).
  
• LUTHER
  
• Those were the words I frequently said to myself as a young man. I know what you’re thinking. “When was that? Yesterday?”
  
• Among the officials is DETECTIVE JIM “SWERVE” SWIERCZYNSKI (40s, testing the limits of department fitness guidelines as much as the stitching on his cheap suit). He’s standing beside DEPUTY CHIEF KURT RUTZ (little more years, little less weight, crisp uniform).
  
• SWERVE
  
• Press for a new detective? Really?
  
• RUTZ
  
• Don’t.
  
• SWERVE
  
• You know, I took an impressive dump this morning. Think we should get channel nine down here for that?