I hope everyone is recovering well from holiday madness and that the credit card statements that are now trickling in have not caused you to run to the medicine cabinet seeking anti-depressant medication! I didn't make any New Year's resolutions simply because I don't believe in them. Change doesn't happen because the calendar turns a page. Change comes from within. Those of you who read Beautiful Hardship know what I'm talking about.
I received my screenplay back with all its criticisms in tact! It was as I had expected, but it'll take more than a literary bashing to deter me. Advice to writer's seeking solace from the bottle...J.K. Rowling was turned down many times before some clown said, "Yeah, I like that." And she had it easy. In her style of writing, all she had to do was create a new character with a new power and suddenly problematic story lines disappeared. That's the beauty of fantasy writing and why I loathe it wholeheartedly. Tolkien was much better.
I recently dug into the story of Joe "Maddog" Sullivan who was a mob hit man for the infamous "Fat" Tony Solerno. I'm half way through his bio and I have to say he is the true definition of "product of the state." He spent his teen years bouncing from reformatory to reformatory in a world that was brought to light in the movie "Sleepers." If you've never seen it, rent it asap. It's one of my favorites and has a few A listers (Pitt and Hoffman). Joe spent his early twenties in Rahway and Trenton, NJ prisons and found himself in the middle of uprisings that earned him a ticket to Trenton State Mental Hospital. Don't know about that place? Rent "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" with Nicholson and Devito. Shock therapy and Thorazine were doled out as breakfast staples. It's a tragic story. Is everyone popping the anti-depressants now?
Alright, let's put the pep back in your step...keeping up on the NFL playoffs? My wish was granted when Green Bay was crushed by New York. Aaron Rogers is everything I despise about high profile players. If you lived here, you would understand. The last commercial I saw with him in it was an endorsement for an attorney who makes a living from the ever growing population of drunk drivers. The guy has no discretion...money, money, money....with that being said, I am sending him a copy of Lapse of Reason because I have no doubt he will it endorse it sight unseen!