Random Musings, Bruisings & Aloe-scented Soothings #5

I am still not J.T. Leroy. Neither are you, so take off that silly wig.


I am however, Write Procrastinator and that’s not just two words of one of my t-shirt slogans, that’s who I am. I’ve barely written a paragraph this week and I put it off because I let the job get me down. The company I work for takes their pound of flesh and then, they take a kilo more just to satisfy some imaginary international standard, as well as their blood lust.

Yet, if I wasn’t Write Procrastinator, who would I be? What would be the name of my blog?

Following the “Snakes On A Plane” progression that Josh Friedman kicked off on his excellent blog by mentioning a then, script in development
http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/snakes-on-motherfucking-plane.html

Then came in no chronological order, "Velociraptors On The Space Shuttle"
http://www.velociraptorshuttle.blogspot.com/

As well as "Alligators in a Helicopter"
http://alligatorsinahelicopter.blogspot.com/

So if my blog didn’t already have a name and I wanted to start from scratch, I would go with “Iguanas On The Ipod.”


No, you cannot put the J.T. Leroy wig on me. Get away from me with that thing.


I ran into Mr. C. of
http://writeprocrastinator.blogspot.com/2005/11/becoming-john-woo-kovich.html
fame yesterday. It was great to catch up on all things cinematic and life-related with him.

He said that his new Missus loves great drama and I recommended “Nicholas Nickleby” http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0309912/ to him. One of the best dramas in my meager DVD collection and everyone should see the fine performances of Charlie Hunnam, Anne Hathaway, Jaime Bell, and the immortal Christopher Plummer.

I bought this the day after I rented it. Not so much because I’m a Dickens fan (hell, expletive, no) or for the great acting, but for the extras and the commentary. The director Douglas McGrath http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0569790/#director did an incredible job with the movie and an even better job as a film teacher with the DVD. It was money that I really couldn’t afford to part with at the time. Yet it was money well spent and the whole experience helped to shape some crucial scenes in a script of mine.


What? “Iguanas On The Ipod” isn’t scary enough? You feel that it doesn’t create enough tension? Look...first, obviously it would only work as a short. Second, I know it would scare at least half the audience because whenever I relate the story of the time I babysat an iguana, half the people I tell it to, visibly shudder.

Unfortunately, the other half bring up the fact that iguanas are food in some countries. You don’t eat someone’s pets, you bastards. Besides, it’s a scarier title than my backup, “Lizards In The Lexus.”