Enough About Acting - Let's Talk About Something New

Alrighty then...my free acting e-book is getting picked up a ton. All over the friggin' world now...pretty neat that. So, I'm going to stop yakking about it.

Some cool things I've been up to lately are this: Kinostat.com which I'm finding quite enjoyable to play with. Basically, you can create an account with them, then go in and guesstimate North American box office returns for upcoming films. If you're good at it, they might give you a job. Now, me personally, I don't care about the job. I just like seeing how well I can guess the future.

I used to do this same sort of thing with new bands and albums...I was terrible at that too.

Remember the band 'Bush'? When their first single got released, I heard it and thought to myself...'yeah, Nirvanawannabes...they'll probably sell between 250,000 to 500,000 by the time everyone's bored of the record.'

10,000,000 copies later 'everyone' finally got bored. Good thing I'm not a record exec. Here's to hoping I'm better at knowing what people want to watch...ahem.

So, on to that...I've been looking for content to either produce or direct for the better part of a year now. Know what? It's HARD to find! My first clue should have been the fact that the movie industry spends about half a BILLION dollars a year trying to do the exact same thing.

Hmm...

So, seeing as how I don't have quite that much money, I went for Craig's List. Boy, are some people dumb. I'll tell you what...I gave about the most specific instructions you could ever hope for to get samples of people's writing. I literally thought to myself 'there's no way anyone could screw this up.'

Famous last words.

I said 'send me the first 10-15 pages and a logline ONLY.' I said 'don't send me anything you don't have rights to.' I said 'don't send me anything that isn't a fully realized script.' And yet, somehow, even with all of those very specific instructions, what do I get?

Everything I didn't ask for. Sigh.

But, in fairness, the majority sent what I DID ask for...here's to hoping some of it is actually worth a shit. I'll let ya' know. In the meantime, wish me luck...I've got a few hundred submissions to go shovel through now. Maybe I'll get lucky and uncover a little gem that the guys spending half a billion overlooked.

Yeah, right.