The household woke up this morning with tales of vivid dreams; my wife dreamed she was happily pregnant (!!!), my sixteen year old daughter dreamed she was married to John Cusack, "only when he was about 20 and hot" (!!!), and I dreamed I went to an Indigo Girls concert in a small town (?!?!). Interpretations welcome.
Poking along on two spec scripts and trying to keep the feelings of dread and failure from grasping too tightly to my chest. It is that quiet time between projects that the voices of self-doubt begin to whisper to writers. Perhaps it's time to start looking for an agent again.
During this lull I thought about posting the script for RAZORTEETH, due out next summer, but I think the script has changed so much that it might not be recognizable. Once I get a peek at the final cut I'll decide.
Someone found my blog by typing into a search engine Did John Dalton have lots of friends and boarding up for hurricanes and threesome story Debbie John (!!!).
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Friday, September 10, 2004
Spear and Fang
I try to do a meme every Friday, so here's one from Four for Friday:
Q1: If you were able to possess any supernatural power, what would that power be?
Is seeing the future a supernatural power? If not, I'd like to have a familiar. I think my current real life super power/supernatural power is the ability to always find a good parking space.
Q2: On this day in 1935, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in north western Utah, famed English speed demon Malcolm Campbell blew through the 300-miles-per-hour barrier to set a new land-speed record of 310.13 miles. What percent of the time you spend behind the steering wheel of your car would you say you drive faster than the posted speed limit?
Hardly ever, once my son starting racking up speeding tickets, as I tried to live by example. Before I got a few speeding tickets, always for (what I think) are ridiculously low speeds, like 62 in a 55 and 30 in a 20 (in a state park--I told the ranger I thought I was the first guy ever to get a speeding ticket going 30 mph). Then I hear from some cute college girl who cries her way out of 90 in a 55 or a guy that charms his way out of the same. I've never got a warning. Every time I've been pulled over, ticket. Offsets my parking space power, I guess.
Q3: Can one live alone with just having friends in their life, or are we human beings only complete if we have a family of our own, i.e., a husband/wife/partner and children?
It works for me, but it ain't for everybody, so don't push it. One can live alone. I know some people that married the people they thought they 'should' marry but really wanted to be single and some that want so badly to be in a family but can't find someone. Finding and keeping a family really is almost a supernatural power.
Q4: What is one thing that you could start doing today that would immediately improve the quality of your life?
Start running again like I keep saying I will.
Until next time, give me a holler at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Q1: If you were able to possess any supernatural power, what would that power be?
Is seeing the future a supernatural power? If not, I'd like to have a familiar. I think my current real life super power/supernatural power is the ability to always find a good parking space.
Q2: On this day in 1935, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in north western Utah, famed English speed demon Malcolm Campbell blew through the 300-miles-per-hour barrier to set a new land-speed record of 310.13 miles. What percent of the time you spend behind the steering wheel of your car would you say you drive faster than the posted speed limit?
Hardly ever, once my son starting racking up speeding tickets, as I tried to live by example. Before I got a few speeding tickets, always for (what I think) are ridiculously low speeds, like 62 in a 55 and 30 in a 20 (in a state park--I told the ranger I thought I was the first guy ever to get a speeding ticket going 30 mph). Then I hear from some cute college girl who cries her way out of 90 in a 55 or a guy that charms his way out of the same. I've never got a warning. Every time I've been pulled over, ticket. Offsets my parking space power, I guess.
Q3: Can one live alone with just having friends in their life, or are we human beings only complete if we have a family of our own, i.e., a husband/wife/partner and children?
It works for me, but it ain't for everybody, so don't push it. One can live alone. I know some people that married the people they thought they 'should' marry but really wanted to be single and some that want so badly to be in a family but can't find someone. Finding and keeping a family really is almost a supernatural power.
Q4: What is one thing that you could start doing today that would immediately improve the quality of your life?
Start running again like I keep saying I will.
Until next time, give me a holler at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Lair of the Beast Men
A great update on Christopher Sharpe's SEX MACHINE over at his journal, here.
I would like to say that I fell silent these last few days because of overwork but it's more because for the first time in a long while I don't have a new project in the hopper. People always say about screenwriting, "well, it's feast or famine," but notice how most people mention that when it's feast instead of when it's famine. Nobody wants to draw attention to themselves when it's famine.
So I got a GPS for my birthday from my wife and tested it while camping with her family. All the guys thought it was great and all the girls wondered why you couldn't just look at a map.
And I am getting a new driveway poured, and I am watching a lot of a great show called Freaks and Geeks on DVD via Netflix, and I read a good Avengers storyline borrowed from my pal Doug called "The Red Zone" which takes place around Mt. Rushmore where I recently visited with my pals from Microcinema Fest, and I had a prostate exam this morning.
Now faithful readers are caught up on everything, except that I started a new spec script about superheroes, another one like the Shakespeare adaptation that I've wanted to write for a while, but hopefully this one won't be met with a roaring tsunami of indifference. Though it probably will.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
I would like to say that I fell silent these last few days because of overwork but it's more because for the first time in a long while I don't have a new project in the hopper. People always say about screenwriting, "well, it's feast or famine," but notice how most people mention that when it's feast instead of when it's famine. Nobody wants to draw attention to themselves when it's famine.
So I got a GPS for my birthday from my wife and tested it while camping with her family. All the guys thought it was great and all the girls wondered why you couldn't just look at a map.
And I am getting a new driveway poured, and I am watching a lot of a great show called Freaks and Geeks on DVD via Netflix, and I read a good Avengers storyline borrowed from my pal Doug called "The Red Zone" which takes place around Mt. Rushmore where I recently visited with my pals from Microcinema Fest, and I had a prostate exam this morning.
Now faithful readers are caught up on everything, except that I started a new spec script about superheroes, another one like the Shakespeare adaptation that I've wanted to write for a while, but hopefully this one won't be met with a roaring tsunami of indifference. Though it probably will.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Friday, September 03, 2004
The Wrecking Crew
Here's a meme from my pals at the Daily Dirt:
1. What is your favorite movie of all time?
I have always said Dr. Strangelove though I rarely rewatch it; so if I was basing it on rewatching movies it would end up being When Harry Met Sally or Jesus Christ Superstar, which I seem to watch every year at the appropriate season, and maybe every now and then in between. Some others I like are listed in the column on the right.
2. What is your most-hated movie?
There is a lot of banal crap in Hollywood and elsewhere, but I don't hate it per se; so I would have to pick something that has some evil intent, like Triumph of the Will or perhaps to some degree Birth of A Nation.
3. What book would you like to see made into a movie?
Colonel Sun by well-known British author Kingsley Amis (written under the pen name Robert Markham), a James Bond novel published after Ian Fleming's death that few people seem to know exists. I would love to direct this myself. I wonder where the rights are on this?
4. What movie has the best soundtrack?
Saturday Night Fever, bar none; though I do listen to O Brother Where Art Thou a lot.
5. Which movie have you seen more than any other?
When I was growing up my mom made me sit and watch Grease and The Wiz with her a lot. By my own reckoning, I suspect it is A Christmas Story, based on its appearance at numerous family gatherings and young nephew's sleepovers; with It's A Wonderful Life and The Wizard of Oz rounding out the top three.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
1. What is your favorite movie of all time?
I have always said Dr. Strangelove though I rarely rewatch it; so if I was basing it on rewatching movies it would end up being When Harry Met Sally or Jesus Christ Superstar, which I seem to watch every year at the appropriate season, and maybe every now and then in between. Some others I like are listed in the column on the right.
2. What is your most-hated movie?
There is a lot of banal crap in Hollywood and elsewhere, but I don't hate it per se; so I would have to pick something that has some evil intent, like Triumph of the Will or perhaps to some degree Birth of A Nation.
3. What book would you like to see made into a movie?
Colonel Sun by well-known British author Kingsley Amis (written under the pen name Robert Markham), a James Bond novel published after Ian Fleming's death that few people seem to know exists. I would love to direct this myself. I wonder where the rights are on this?
4. What movie has the best soundtrack?
Saturday Night Fever, bar none; though I do listen to O Brother Where Art Thou a lot.
5. Which movie have you seen more than any other?
When I was growing up my mom made me sit and watch Grease and The Wiz with her a lot. By my own reckoning, I suspect it is A Christmas Story, based on its appearance at numerous family gatherings and young nephew's sleepovers; with It's A Wonderful Life and The Wizard of Oz rounding out the top three.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Death of a Citizen
I had to dig my old college transcript out of a file cabinet and had sort of forgotten that I once got a C in the very scriptwriting class that I teach now. Loyal readers' degree of surprise will be based entirely on how much they liked AMONG US and PETER ROTTENTAIL.
It was taught by an older instructor who had once written extensively for radio drama. This was in the waning days of his teaching career and he missed a lot of days because of illness. I was a shaggy-haired kid in a Who t-shirt who thought he already knew everything and had nothing to learn, and never suspected that other shaggy-haired kids would think the same thing about him in the far future, when he would stand up in front of a class with a buzz haircut and a tie and teach the same subject.
I'm sure that to some degree I was a pain in the ass, and undoubtedly deserved a C. So years later, long after his death, I tried to make amends.
He had donated his video collection to the university and it was being stored untouched in a storage area that was now needed for something else to be stored that nobody wanted. I had a chance to take a look at this collection before, it was presumed, all of his tapes were going to be run under a big-ass magnet and recycled en masse. There were hundreds of videos that my former teacher had meticulously typed a synopsis for on index cards, and stuck in each box, which had color-coded construction paper sleeves that were also full of typed information. Unfortunately most of these would be considered bootlegs and could not be stored in a library system. It broke my heart to see all of this go to waste.
So I carefully culled out the actual purchased tapes and donated those to the university library in his name, then went through crate after crate, looking at every bootleg, and selecting a few dozen rare or classic movies that I set aside to form a department "library" of tapes for students to look at "for historic purposes only." Then I took a few dozen that I wanted to watch or have and stuck it in my office, and I am eating a ham salad sandwich and looking at that very same box right now. After a few weeks I had gone through everything and let it go off with a clear conscience.
Hopefully one day when I am dead some ill-favored student will pay me back in a similar fashion. It's how the world goes 'round.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
It was taught by an older instructor who had once written extensively for radio drama. This was in the waning days of his teaching career and he missed a lot of days because of illness. I was a shaggy-haired kid in a Who t-shirt who thought he already knew everything and had nothing to learn, and never suspected that other shaggy-haired kids would think the same thing about him in the far future, when he would stand up in front of a class with a buzz haircut and a tie and teach the same subject.
I'm sure that to some degree I was a pain in the ass, and undoubtedly deserved a C. So years later, long after his death, I tried to make amends.
He had donated his video collection to the university and it was being stored untouched in a storage area that was now needed for something else to be stored that nobody wanted. I had a chance to take a look at this collection before, it was presumed, all of his tapes were going to be run under a big-ass magnet and recycled en masse. There were hundreds of videos that my former teacher had meticulously typed a synopsis for on index cards, and stuck in each box, which had color-coded construction paper sleeves that were also full of typed information. Unfortunately most of these would be considered bootlegs and could not be stored in a library system. It broke my heart to see all of this go to waste.
So I carefully culled out the actual purchased tapes and donated those to the university library in his name, then went through crate after crate, looking at every bootleg, and selecting a few dozen rare or classic movies that I set aside to form a department "library" of tapes for students to look at "for historic purposes only." Then I took a few dozen that I wanted to watch or have and stuck it in my office, and I am eating a ham salad sandwich and looking at that very same box right now. After a few weeks I had gone through everything and let it go off with a clear conscience.
Hopefully one day when I am dead some ill-favored student will pay me back in a similar fashion. It's how the world goes 'round.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
The Tomorrow People
My final present for my birthday was a GPS from my wife, so I can try out some geocaching like I've been wanting to do.
Some nice updates from the set of SEX MACHINE over at director Christopher Sharpe's journal.
Started on the brief, tentative threads of a new script over lunch today.
There's a lot going on in the microcinema world all of a sudden, literally all over the planet. I read two articles recently on no-budget movements in Japan and Nigeria. Perhaps we are on the cusp of the next wave. One hopes.
And I'm really fascinated by these guys.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Some nice updates from the set of SEX MACHINE over at director Christopher Sharpe's journal.
Started on the brief, tentative threads of a new script over lunch today.
There's a lot going on in the microcinema world all of a sudden, literally all over the planet. I read two articles recently on no-budget movements in Japan and Nigeria. Perhaps we are on the cusp of the next wave. One hopes.
And I'm really fascinated by these guys.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Monday, August 30, 2004
Butcher Birthday
38 years come and gone. I have sort of dropped looking at the last year and deciding whether or not to keep trying this scriptwriting thing (astute readers may remember that I embarked on this journey for real and for true on my 34th birthday in the first year of our new century). It pretty much exists on its own now, whether I want it to or not.
So for my birthday I went to see OPEN WATER, which is good but relentlessly depressing and downbeat and almost as bad a choice as saying "Let's go see the new Michael Douglas movie" during our honeymoon, which turned out to be FATAL ATTRACTION.
I pulled stumps all day Saturday and then drove to Carmel, Indiana to have dinner and drinks with some of my wife's affluent friends, with AMONG US being the after-dinner entertainment, which I was relieved to see went over well, especially after liberal applications of some of my homemade wine.
Sunday I went to dinner with my parents and got some new pants and shirts, and a bit of money, and the DVD of BIG FISH from my daughter, and a copy of the "24 Hour Comics Challenge" comic book anthology from my brother, a subtle hint for next year. Tonight we are having homemade pizza and a diabetic coma-rendering cake my wife scratch-cooked, plus whatever present she got me, as she is a stickler for giving presents on actual birthdays, preferably in the evenings, despite the fact that on her birthday I always wake up and immediately pull her present out from under the bed.
My mom was a bit late this morning in calling and telling me the story about when I was born, and how the hospital window was open and the wind came in and ruffled my hair (she slept in past the 7 a.m. time, which is okay now that she's retired). In recent years she has added the part where she bummed a cigarette off of the doctor and they smoked a cigarette afterwards. Again, this is in the Year of Our Lord 1966, for younger, alarmed readers.
And thus I go into the next year of life.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
So for my birthday I went to see OPEN WATER, which is good but relentlessly depressing and downbeat and almost as bad a choice as saying "Let's go see the new Michael Douglas movie" during our honeymoon, which turned out to be FATAL ATTRACTION.
I pulled stumps all day Saturday and then drove to Carmel, Indiana to have dinner and drinks with some of my wife's affluent friends, with AMONG US being the after-dinner entertainment, which I was relieved to see went over well, especially after liberal applications of some of my homemade wine.
Sunday I went to dinner with my parents and got some new pants and shirts, and a bit of money, and the DVD of BIG FISH from my daughter, and a copy of the "24 Hour Comics Challenge" comic book anthology from my brother, a subtle hint for next year. Tonight we are having homemade pizza and a diabetic coma-rendering cake my wife scratch-cooked, plus whatever present she got me, as she is a stickler for giving presents on actual birthdays, preferably in the evenings, despite the fact that on her birthday I always wake up and immediately pull her present out from under the bed.
My mom was a bit late this morning in calling and telling me the story about when I was born, and how the hospital window was open and the wind came in and ruffled my hair (she slept in past the 7 a.m. time, which is okay now that she's retired). In recent years she has added the part where she bummed a cigarette off of the doctor and they smoked a cigarette afterwards. Again, this is in the Year of Our Lord 1966, for younger, alarmed readers.
And thus I go into the next year of life.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Friday, August 27, 2004
Gen Con #2
My brother and I enjoying gamer humor at "Bride of the Skinflayer," opening night of Gen Con. Photo provided by The Caveman.
Gen Con #1
"Bride of the Skinflayer," opening night of GenCon. Me with figure, my brother over my left shoulder, fellow travelers all around. Sent in by The Caveman.
Phantom Lady
Somebody brought back The Friday Five, one of my favorite memes. Here's a good one:
1) Of everything in your wardrobe what do you feel the most comfortable wearing?
My San Francisco Demons XFL t-shirt and a pair of khakis I have with big pockets.
2) How would you describe your style?
Generic office guy during the day, t-shirt and jeans guy at night. A lady I worked with once said I looked like a grocery bagger.
3) How many pairs of shoes do you own and do you wear them all?
I currently own a pair of black dress shoes, a pair of brown everyday shoes, a pair of tennis shoes, and a pair of really old crappy sneakers to mow in, though my wife may make me throw them out. Wear them all.
4) Where do you buy most of your clothes?
Kohl's, Penney's, Wal Mart. Though there is a very nice men's clothing store in a nearby town called The Country Gentleman that I wish I could go to more often.
5) What was the last piece of clothing you bought?
A skatepunk t-shirt from some kids that work for me trying to start their own clothing line. It is black with a green circle, and you can see me wearing it in some of the Microcinema Fest photos.
Crazy week with the start of the semester. Hope next week is more normal. 'til then, give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
1) Of everything in your wardrobe what do you feel the most comfortable wearing?
My San Francisco Demons XFL t-shirt and a pair of khakis I have with big pockets.
2) How would you describe your style?
Generic office guy during the day, t-shirt and jeans guy at night. A lady I worked with once said I looked like a grocery bagger.
3) How many pairs of shoes do you own and do you wear them all?
I currently own a pair of black dress shoes, a pair of brown everyday shoes, a pair of tennis shoes, and a pair of really old crappy sneakers to mow in, though my wife may make me throw them out. Wear them all.
4) Where do you buy most of your clothes?
Kohl's, Penney's, Wal Mart. Though there is a very nice men's clothing store in a nearby town called The Country Gentleman that I wish I could go to more often.
5) What was the last piece of clothing you bought?
A skatepunk t-shirt from some kids that work for me trying to start their own clothing line. It is black with a green circle, and you can see me wearing it in some of the Microcinema Fest photos.
Crazy week with the start of the semester. Hope next week is more normal. 'til then, give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
From the Archives 4
Neighbor girl, my brother, me, rake, very early 70s, sent by former neighbor's current husband who is also my coworker.
Monday, August 23, 2004
A Swell-Looking Babe
Tired after a long four days of gamemastering at Gen Con, but enjoyed it all and I am hopefully ready for a new creative burst of game design and gaming. Put out some feelers for interest in some game module writing with mixed results.
I saw a guy whose short I reviewed favorably on microcinemascene.com a while back at a booth hawking his latest feature. I was reaching for it when I casually asked if he had seen my last review of his work. He said rather frostily "I don't read REVIEWS," at which time my hand inched away from my wallet and I wished him luck.
My d20 Modern version of AMONG US that I ran at the Con ended a bit differently than the movie. The guy playing Billy D'Amato was a bit more, let's say proactive, and tried to ambush the Bigfoot with a pitchfork during the rock assault on the cabin. Bigfoot is a peaceful creature, but not willing to let himself be impaled on a pitchfork, so he killed Billy with one paw swipe. Luckily his DP Ray caught the whole thing on film, making him a millionaire.
Whether this would have been a better ending to the movie is up for readers to decide.
More tomorrow; until then, I'm at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
I saw a guy whose short I reviewed favorably on microcinemascene.com a while back at a booth hawking his latest feature. I was reaching for it when I casually asked if he had seen my last review of his work. He said rather frostily "I don't read REVIEWS," at which time my hand inched away from my wallet and I wished him luck.
My d20 Modern version of AMONG US that I ran at the Con ended a bit differently than the movie. The guy playing Billy D'Amato was a bit more, let's say proactive, and tried to ambush the Bigfoot with a pitchfork during the rock assault on the cabin. Bigfoot is a peaceful creature, but not willing to let himself be impaled on a pitchfork, so he killed Billy with one paw swipe. Luckily his DP Ray caught the whole thing on film, making him a millionaire.
Whether this would have been a better ending to the movie is up for readers to decide.
More tomorrow; until then, I'm at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Friday, August 20, 2004
The Bride Wore Black
"Bride of the Skinflayer" seemed to go over well in two gaming sessions at Gen Con yesterday. I got home at 1:30, back up at 6:30, at it again. Today my brother and I are running the Axis and Allies Combined Rules game variant and hopefully hitting the sales floor to see what's new.
I was a little anxious about heading to the Con yesterday because my work and home life is closing in a bit tight right now, but when I saw the herd of guys in their comic book and gaming and hard rock tee shirts, backpacks in tow, marching towards the Indianapolis Convention Center, regaling each other with dungeon crawls gone by, my heart soared, as I was among my people once again.
The first thing I heard when I entered the Con was a woman shouting to her child, "Jean-Luc, don't run so far ahead!" I was in the right place, alright.
I haven't done a Daily Dirt meme in a while, so here's one:
1. What is your favorite kind of candy?
Junior Mints and York Peppermint Patties; any mint candy where I can get the sensation.
2. If you were a jolly rancher, what flavor would you be? WHY?
I really don't know much about these. Is there a "white chocolate?" That's me, smooth but with soul.
Okay, probably I'm a sour apple.
3. Are you big on gum?
I have gotten into the habit of chewing mint gum before meetings and so on which has sort of grown into a general policy of gum chewing, which curiously I had avoided as a teen because of braces. I don't know how to blow a bubble, though.
4. Is there one candy you can't stand?
Things that don't make sense in nature, like those foamy orange "circus peanuts"and those strange burnt-tasting "Boston Baked Beans."
5. Do you like the classic candy better, or the recent kinds?
There are a lot of kooky variants of traditional candy bars out right now, but since I had and enjoyed a Snickers Crunch recently I would say classics with a modern twist.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
I was a little anxious about heading to the Con yesterday because my work and home life is closing in a bit tight right now, but when I saw the herd of guys in their comic book and gaming and hard rock tee shirts, backpacks in tow, marching towards the Indianapolis Convention Center, regaling each other with dungeon crawls gone by, my heart soared, as I was among my people once again.
The first thing I heard when I entered the Con was a woman shouting to her child, "Jean-Luc, don't run so far ahead!" I was in the right place, alright.
I haven't done a Daily Dirt meme in a while, so here's one:
1. What is your favorite kind of candy?
Junior Mints and York Peppermint Patties; any mint candy where I can get the sensation.
2. If you were a jolly rancher, what flavor would you be? WHY?
I really don't know much about these. Is there a "white chocolate?" That's me, smooth but with soul.
Okay, probably I'm a sour apple.
3. Are you big on gum?
I have gotten into the habit of chewing mint gum before meetings and so on which has sort of grown into a general policy of gum chewing, which curiously I had avoided as a teen because of braces. I don't know how to blow a bubble, though.
4. Is there one candy you can't stand?
Things that don't make sense in nature, like those foamy orange "circus peanuts"and those strange burnt-tasting "Boston Baked Beans."
5. Do you like the classic candy better, or the recent kinds?
There are a lot of kooky variants of traditional candy bars out right now, but since I had and enjoyed a Snickers Crunch recently I would say classics with a modern twist.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
The Big Clock
Off to Gen Con today. Still not quite done with my d20 Modern AMONG US adaptation. Did finish up the Marvel SAGA game I am going to run, "Gold for Innocent Blood," which includes the following intros, for the comic-book readers out there:
THE CHAMPIONS #1: CHAMPIONS REBORN!
Warren Worthington III, the hero known as Archangel, is donating a valuable painting to the San Jose Museum of Art, The Volga Barge Haulers by the Russian artist Ilya Repin. Many glitterati are attending the gala, including Bobby Drake, Warren's sidekick in everything from the X-Men to the New Defenders to the Champions; Natasha Romanova, known as the Black Widow; Laynia Petrovna, the hero known as Darkstar; and the god Hercules, always looking for a cup of ale and some fun.
Archangel is concerned, because he has heard of a rash of superhuman-fueled thefts of artwork across the country. But so far, everything at the party is going as planned.
But all is not well, because Ghost Rider, patrolling nearby, spots the villains Sidewinder, Princess Python, Avalanche, Blizzard, and Whirlwind closing in on the museum. He follows to see what their plans are.
The five villains burst in, shouting "Nobody move!" and "Hand over the pretty picture!" and other threatening announcements, along with the appropriately threatening gestures.
When the costumed villains make themselves known, the attendees scatter, leaving the heroes to do their work.
WEST COAST AVENGERS #1: ALMOST ASSEMBLED!
Hawkeye finally got permission to reopen the West Coast Avengers branch and put out another call to arms. He looks around the room and decides it's a start; Tigra has always been a strong member, but it's a little thinner off the bench with part-timer Living Lightning, Firebird, and his old time-lost pal Two-Gun Kid. Scarlet Witch is going to be one of the big guns, but is late to the meeting. Hawkeye still hopes she's coming.
Suddenly Wanda bursts in, looking upset. "It is my brother, Pietro," she cries. "I fear he is in trouble!"
The others listen attentively. They learn from Wanda that her brother, the hotheaded mutant speedster known as Quicksilver, has seemed more agitated than usual lately, and has been missing for stretches at a time. She covertly secreted a tracking device in Quicksilver's costume to see where he was going. She found he was criss-crossing the United States and sometimes the globe. But now the tracking device has sputtered, and gone out!
Hawkeye smells a first mission, and rallies the newly-reformed team to find the Scarlet Witch's missing brother. Wanda uses her hex power to enhance the tracking device's power, and the group sets out in hot pursuit.
The West Coasters find themselves in Venice Beach, closing in on a row of used book stores, tattoo parlors, and grungy coffee shops, with apartments above almost all of the storefronts.
When they burst into the right one, they find it is a big, open studio space with a skylight, largely bare, except for three figures looming over a third hanging from a rope swinging from a steel hook in the ceiling. Absorbing Man, his skin gleaming steel, and his love Titania, along with the Scorpion, have worked over a battered, bleeding, and unconscious Quicksilver.
Absorbing Man turns, grinning, his teeth flashing chrome. "He was a smart-mouth, but in the end I can always get them to talk. They all break to Crusher Creel. And with you guys, we don't even want to talk."
Later we learn that Quicksilver has been stealing artwork, and fesses up with the following:
"Perhaps you know that during World War Two, the Nazis looted artwork all across Europe. Many great pieces were stolen from Jewish families, and others. In the years since the art world has turned a blind eye to this travesty and rarely follow up on the lines of ownership for paintings being displayed all around the world. There are those that are working to restore these pieces to their rightful owners, through normal channels. But as you all well know I do not have a vast reservoir of patience. Thus I am taking these paintings myself and working to repatriate them to their owners. Obviously there are those who deal in the shadow world of art that do not want to see this happen. Unfortunately these cretins were able to extract from me the location where I have been storing these pieces until the can be returned. Whether you stand for me, or against me, you must go with me to Avalon, California, and guard these treasures from my foes!"
Lots more fightin' ensues, and ends with a moral dilemma; do the heroes let Quicksilver off scot free or not? Players get to vote, and I'll post the results here.
Until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
THE CHAMPIONS #1: CHAMPIONS REBORN!
Warren Worthington III, the hero known as Archangel, is donating a valuable painting to the San Jose Museum of Art, The Volga Barge Haulers by the Russian artist Ilya Repin. Many glitterati are attending the gala, including Bobby Drake, Warren's sidekick in everything from the X-Men to the New Defenders to the Champions; Natasha Romanova, known as the Black Widow; Laynia Petrovna, the hero known as Darkstar; and the god Hercules, always looking for a cup of ale and some fun.
Archangel is concerned, because he has heard of a rash of superhuman-fueled thefts of artwork across the country. But so far, everything at the party is going as planned.
But all is not well, because Ghost Rider, patrolling nearby, spots the villains Sidewinder, Princess Python, Avalanche, Blizzard, and Whirlwind closing in on the museum. He follows to see what their plans are.
The five villains burst in, shouting "Nobody move!" and "Hand over the pretty picture!" and other threatening announcements, along with the appropriately threatening gestures.
When the costumed villains make themselves known, the attendees scatter, leaving the heroes to do their work.
WEST COAST AVENGERS #1: ALMOST ASSEMBLED!
Hawkeye finally got permission to reopen the West Coast Avengers branch and put out another call to arms. He looks around the room and decides it's a start; Tigra has always been a strong member, but it's a little thinner off the bench with part-timer Living Lightning, Firebird, and his old time-lost pal Two-Gun Kid. Scarlet Witch is going to be one of the big guns, but is late to the meeting. Hawkeye still hopes she's coming.
Suddenly Wanda bursts in, looking upset. "It is my brother, Pietro," she cries. "I fear he is in trouble!"
The others listen attentively. They learn from Wanda that her brother, the hotheaded mutant speedster known as Quicksilver, has seemed more agitated than usual lately, and has been missing for stretches at a time. She covertly secreted a tracking device in Quicksilver's costume to see where he was going. She found he was criss-crossing the United States and sometimes the globe. But now the tracking device has sputtered, and gone out!
Hawkeye smells a first mission, and rallies the newly-reformed team to find the Scarlet Witch's missing brother. Wanda uses her hex power to enhance the tracking device's power, and the group sets out in hot pursuit.
The West Coasters find themselves in Venice Beach, closing in on a row of used book stores, tattoo parlors, and grungy coffee shops, with apartments above almost all of the storefronts.
When they burst into the right one, they find it is a big, open studio space with a skylight, largely bare, except for three figures looming over a third hanging from a rope swinging from a steel hook in the ceiling. Absorbing Man, his skin gleaming steel, and his love Titania, along with the Scorpion, have worked over a battered, bleeding, and unconscious Quicksilver.
Absorbing Man turns, grinning, his teeth flashing chrome. "He was a smart-mouth, but in the end I can always get them to talk. They all break to Crusher Creel. And with you guys, we don't even want to talk."
Later we learn that Quicksilver has been stealing artwork, and fesses up with the following:
"Perhaps you know that during World War Two, the Nazis looted artwork all across Europe. Many great pieces were stolen from Jewish families, and others. In the years since the art world has turned a blind eye to this travesty and rarely follow up on the lines of ownership for paintings being displayed all around the world. There are those that are working to restore these pieces to their rightful owners, through normal channels. But as you all well know I do not have a vast reservoir of patience. Thus I am taking these paintings myself and working to repatriate them to their owners. Obviously there are those who deal in the shadow world of art that do not want to see this happen. Unfortunately these cretins were able to extract from me the location where I have been storing these pieces until the can be returned. Whether you stand for me, or against me, you must go with me to Avalon, California, and guard these treasures from my foes!"
Lots more fightin' ensues, and ends with a moral dilemma; do the heroes let Quicksilver off scot free or not? Players get to vote, and I'll post the results here.
Until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Blind Man With A Pistol
I've got to play the tighten up and get ready for Gen Con the day after tomorrow. Here's the opening salvo to "Bride of the Skinflayer," a hack-and-slash dungeon crawl my brother and I are running at 4 p.m. Thursday:
Blood runs the streets in the cursed port city of Shaddalyn, where the cold shadow of chaotic evil lies overhead like a shroud. But no place reeks of dark misdeeds like The Flayed Goblin, a scabarous tavern choked with the backwash of human debris. For servitors of blackest night who hunger to scour the world of shining good, it is the ideal place for elbow-lifting and throat-slitting…
I've got a five-page all-chrome version (add your own dungeon or run it with a random dungeon) and a twenty-page full-bore version (still a few things to polish up though, probably post-Gen Con) that I would be glad to email anyone who would like to read it or run it.
Still working on my d20 Modern "Among Us" and my Marvel SAGA Centurions/West Coast Avengers Team-Up.
Also working up some coverage on the second draft of a script for a pal I made at Microcinema Fest. Lots in the hopper.
More tomorrow; until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Blood runs the streets in the cursed port city of Shaddalyn, where the cold shadow of chaotic evil lies overhead like a shroud. But no place reeks of dark misdeeds like The Flayed Goblin, a scabarous tavern choked with the backwash of human debris. For servitors of blackest night who hunger to scour the world of shining good, it is the ideal place for elbow-lifting and throat-slitting…
I've got a five-page all-chrome version (add your own dungeon or run it with a random dungeon) and a twenty-page full-bore version (still a few things to polish up though, probably post-Gen Con) that I would be glad to email anyone who would like to read it or run it.
Still working on my d20 Modern "Among Us" and my Marvel SAGA Centurions/West Coast Avengers Team-Up.
Also working up some coverage on the second draft of a script for a pal I made at Microcinema Fest. Lots in the hopper.
More tomorrow; until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Monday, August 16, 2004
The Dragon's Eye
I have offline since last week camping in some rather crisp August weather at the lovely Whitewater State Park in eastern Indiana, a last blast before everything revs back up again. We canoed and hiked and had a hayride and rode horses and ate s'mores and hobo pies and fought raccoons and enjoyed all of the usual camping pasttimes. Including a fresh case of poison ivy.
For those keeping track, the mighty Marching Bears went to the Indiana State Fair and won second in small bands and sixth overall in the State Fair Band Day with a stirring version of "The Planets" not hindered at all by the fact that an icy wind almost blew the props off the field. I did break my vow to live a healthy lifestyle by eating a pork sandwich from the pig tent and slurping a milkshake from the dairy tent, as tradition demanded. But what happens at the State Fair, stays at the State Fair.
All of a sudden there are a lot of projects percolating in the pot that I hope to weigh in on soon.
My blog, and Microcinemascene.com, are both about a year old now. Time marches on.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
For those keeping track, the mighty Marching Bears went to the Indiana State Fair and won second in small bands and sixth overall in the State Fair Band Day with a stirring version of "The Planets" not hindered at all by the fact that an icy wind almost blew the props off the field. I did break my vow to live a healthy lifestyle by eating a pork sandwich from the pig tent and slurping a milkshake from the dairy tent, as tradition demanded. But what happens at the State Fair, stays at the State Fair.
All of a sudden there are a lot of projects percolating in the pot that I hope to weigh in on soon.
My blog, and Microcinemascene.com, are both about a year old now. Time marches on.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Monday, August 09, 2004
Boxer's Blow
Unfortunately I need to be brief today as I am still feeling the aftershocks of what appears to be a case of food poisoning from my wife's cousin's wedding Saturday night, which seemed to have gone through about a third of the attendees as reported in an informal poll conducted by my mother-in-law, which I ensured that I would get by having both the fried chicken and the pork chop. I was so sick I actually watched a Dolph Lundgren movie on TV. I also promised to start leading a healthy lifestyle of diet and exercise if I would live to see another day So far I have not broken this promise.
Every once in a while I like to draw rather poorly-rendered comics, more so when I was a kid before I realized that the word balloons were getting bigger than the comics panels and I switched over to pretty much only writing. I still think it's therapeutic from time to time. So I sent a little 'zine comic I did to Broken Frontier to try to win some comic books they were giving away (and since the drawing was at random and not based on artistic merit I figured I had a great chance), and surprisingly they wrote about my 'zine here. They also, in my opinion, scanned the worst page I drew. Oh well.
Until later I'm at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Every once in a while I like to draw rather poorly-rendered comics, more so when I was a kid before I realized that the word balloons were getting bigger than the comics panels and I switched over to pretty much only writing. I still think it's therapeutic from time to time. So I sent a little 'zine comic I did to Broken Frontier to try to win some comic books they were giving away (and since the drawing was at random and not based on artistic merit I figured I had a great chance), and surprisingly they wrote about my 'zine here. They also, in my opinion, scanned the worst page I drew. Oh well.
Until later I'm at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Friday, August 06, 2004
Carnival of Souls
Cult Cuts Magazine have posted reviews of both AMONG US and PETER ROTTENTAIL, one of which they liked and one of which they didn't, so today I'm batting fifty percent.
Jon Solita, Illinois filmmaker and one of my roommates at Microcinema Fest, has started posting his thoughts on MCF over at his own blog, where you can read about here to see what somebody else thought about all of it.
Here's today Friday Four meme:
1. What was the first movie you remember seeing?
The Barefoot Executive (1971) at the Sky-Hi drive in. Regular movie theater, maybe Mr. Superinvisible (1973) (as mentioned in Among Us). First R-rated movie, The Blues Brothers (1980).
2. What's the last movie you saw in a theatre?
Fahrenheit 9/11, alternatingly horrifying, hilarious, frustrating.
3. What's the first movie you saw on DVD?
I believe it was Jesus Christ Superstar, which I enjoy watching a couple of times a year. Love Judas' white suit. The first movie I ever saw on HBO was The Last Remake of Beau Geste. The first movie I ever saw on VHS was (I think) MASH.
4. What's the last movie you rented?
I watched the harrowing family drama Thirteen last night bia Netflix and then felt thankful that my daughter plays sports and does well in school.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Jon Solita, Illinois filmmaker and one of my roommates at Microcinema Fest, has started posting his thoughts on MCF over at his own blog, where you can read about here to see what somebody else thought about all of it.
Here's today Friday Four meme:
1. What was the first movie you remember seeing?
The Barefoot Executive (1971) at the Sky-Hi drive in. Regular movie theater, maybe Mr. Superinvisible (1973) (as mentioned in Among Us). First R-rated movie, The Blues Brothers (1980).
2. What's the last movie you saw in a theatre?
Fahrenheit 9/11, alternatingly horrifying, hilarious, frustrating.
3. What's the first movie you saw on DVD?
I believe it was Jesus Christ Superstar, which I enjoy watching a couple of times a year. Love Judas' white suit. The first movie I ever saw on HBO was The Last Remake of Beau Geste. The first movie I ever saw on VHS was (I think) MASH.
4. What's the last movie you rented?
I watched the harrowing family drama Thirteen last night bia Netflix and then felt thankful that my daughter plays sports and does well in school.
Give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
Zorro's Black Whip
I'm feeling kinda linky today, so here's an interesting article about guerilla drive-ins, which I snitched from Cinema Minima. Great idea.
Check out First Look Rentals, sort of a Netflix for independents, who have been sending me some good screeners to review at Microcinema Scene. The other night I saw a Twilight Zone-flavored drama called "Ghosts of Hamilton Street" that was well-shot, and well-plotted enough that it might have brought a smile to Rod Serling's lips. Then I started watching a doc called "2000 Miles to Maine" about hiking the Appalcahian Trail that's pretty good, too, lots of little character studies about the many, many people trying to fulfill their dreams, with most washing out. I wish First Look luck, it's a neat service.
Until tomorrow; give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Check out First Look Rentals, sort of a Netflix for independents, who have been sending me some good screeners to review at Microcinema Scene. The other night I saw a Twilight Zone-flavored drama called "Ghosts of Hamilton Street" that was well-shot, and well-plotted enough that it might have brought a smile to Rod Serling's lips. Then I started watching a doc called "2000 Miles to Maine" about hiking the Appalcahian Trail that's pretty good, too, lots of little character studies about the many, many people trying to fulfill their dreams, with most washing out. I wish First Look luck, it's a neat service.
Until tomorrow; give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Bomba on Panther Island
For those checking in, there are some new stills from the set of Christopher Sharpe's SEX MACHINE on line here.
I've been working up some material for a guy that I hope to work with that I met at Microcinema Fest, so we'll see how that goes. With three weeks to the start of the school year, and a return to full-barrel working and teaching dawn to dusk, I'm really not thinking on picking up a new project right now, just doing some coverage for some people and maybe punching up a few things I promised to some others. Getting back into teaching and the college school year always takes a few weeks of catching up. Then, hopefully, something new will be on the horizon.
I have been a bit disingenuous about posting reviews of AMONG US and PETER ROTTENTAIL. Of couse some have been bad, like the review of PETER which had as a sum total of its opening paragraph the word "Ugh." You'll have to find those yourself. The good really outweighs the bad so far, always a good sign. There are a lot of unjuried reviews out there at sites like Amazon and IMDB and so on, and at least they're always interesting to read. I liked how one AMONG US review, upon finding out I also wrote PETER, added "God Help Us!" The truth is, everyone has their own opinion, and you can't please everyone, and no matter how good you think you are in life (teacher, boss, friend, neighbor, etc.) there is always somebody who thinks you suck. So it goes.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
I've been working up some material for a guy that I hope to work with that I met at Microcinema Fest, so we'll see how that goes. With three weeks to the start of the school year, and a return to full-barrel working and teaching dawn to dusk, I'm really not thinking on picking up a new project right now, just doing some coverage for some people and maybe punching up a few things I promised to some others. Getting back into teaching and the college school year always takes a few weeks of catching up. Then, hopefully, something new will be on the horizon.
I have been a bit disingenuous about posting reviews of AMONG US and PETER ROTTENTAIL. Of couse some have been bad, like the review of PETER which had as a sum total of its opening paragraph the word "Ugh." You'll have to find those yourself. The good really outweighs the bad so far, always a good sign. There are a lot of unjuried reviews out there at sites like Amazon and IMDB and so on, and at least they're always interesting to read. I liked how one AMONG US review, upon finding out I also wrote PETER, added "God Help Us!" The truth is, everyone has their own opinion, and you can't please everyone, and no matter how good you think you are in life (teacher, boss, friend, neighbor, etc.) there is always somebody who thinks you suck. So it goes.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Monday, August 02, 2004
Terror Squad
I started my blog a year ago this month. I originally thought I would have been sick of it before Christmas. Some loyal readers may wish my first thought had come true.
A year ago, according to my blog, I was working on a rewrite of an urban action script, THE PAYBACK MAN, for director Ivan Rogers (in development); had just finished the polish on the Polonia Brothers' RAZORTEETH (in post now); and was just starting on a solo writing project for the Bros, DEMON ON A DEAD END STREET (status up in the air).
I also felt old for the first time when the barber shaved my earlobes. Now I'm a year older than that.
This weekend I played the newly-released RISK: GODSTORM variant with my son, brother, and loyal companion The Caveman. Nice variant, for people that wore their RISK game out in the 80s like I did, with some historic interest and context. I was the Babylonians, a close second until war in the Underworld went against me.
This weekend I worked up some coverage on a script for a filmmaker I met at Microcinema Fest. He has a pretty good start on something with a lot of potential. I hope to report more on this project later.
Until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
A year ago, according to my blog, I was working on a rewrite of an urban action script, THE PAYBACK MAN, for director Ivan Rogers (in development); had just finished the polish on the Polonia Brothers' RAZORTEETH (in post now); and was just starting on a solo writing project for the Bros, DEMON ON A DEAD END STREET (status up in the air).
I also felt old for the first time when the barber shaved my earlobes. Now I'm a year older than that.
This weekend I played the newly-released RISK: GODSTORM variant with my son, brother, and loyal companion The Caveman. Nice variant, for people that wore their RISK game out in the 80s like I did, with some historic interest and context. I was the Babylonians, a close second until war in the Underworld went against me.
This weekend I worked up some coverage on a script for a filmmaker I met at Microcinema Fest. He has a pretty good start on something with a lot of potential. I hope to report more on this project later.
Until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Friday, July 30, 2004
Galaxy of Terror
As I mentioned yesterday, I went down to Indianapolis to help critique short films submitted to the Oranje Arts and Music Event in the Circle City. I finally met Tino Marquez of indianapolisfilm.net and other DV-slinging Hoosiers, trying to get their name out there from the Heartland of America. Seemed to be a good group of people.
There were some really solid shorts submitted, including two by Peter O'Keefe of South Bend; I especially liked his LULU TAKES A LOVER, which starts off as a quirky romantic comedy but ends in an explosion of Shakespearean tragedy, but BAD ADVICE, which told a parallel, split-screen story of a drug deal gone wrong, was also impressive. LULU is available at ifilm and is worth a look.
There was a decent little art-house piece called REPRESSION that will probably play pretty well also, and a little slice-of-life drama from Bunk Films called 2 A.M. that was nicely shot, though I enjoyed it well enough that I would have liked to see less in medias res and a more fully-expanded story.
All in all the shorts were well-received by the group there and I think this event will represent the scene pretty well. Seeing good work just makes me want to kick my game up a notch too.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
There were some really solid shorts submitted, including two by Peter O'Keefe of South Bend; I especially liked his LULU TAKES A LOVER, which starts off as a quirky romantic comedy but ends in an explosion of Shakespearean tragedy, but BAD ADVICE, which told a parallel, split-screen story of a drug deal gone wrong, was also impressive. LULU is available at ifilm and is worth a look.
There was a decent little art-house piece called REPRESSION that will probably play pretty well also, and a little slice-of-life drama from Bunk Films called 2 A.M. that was nicely shot, though I enjoyed it well enough that I would have liked to see less in medias res and a more fully-expanded story.
All in all the shorts were well-received by the group there and I think this event will represent the scene pretty well. Seeing good work just makes me want to kick my game up a notch too.
Give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Dr. Cyclops
I am going to Indianapolis tonight to judge some short film entries for the Oranje Arts and Music Event on Saturday, September 18 in Indy. I belive these same entries may be used for another Indy Movie Experiment this fall in the Circle City as well. It's the first time I've done anything with anyone local and probably high time that I started keepin' it real with my Hoosier peeps. I'm looking forward to seeing what the statewide micro scene is all about and meet some of the people.
Speaking of Naptown, I've also got to spend a few days gearing up to run some games at GenCon--the biggest board game, miniature game, card game, role-playing game con in the nerd-verse-- which is just a few weeks away. After many years of just playing at the Con, my brother and I--along with our pal The Caveman--decided to switch it up and run games for the first time, under the moniker Flayed Goblin Gaming Group. We are running an Axis and Allies board game variant, a D&D hack-and-slash dungeon, some Marvel Superheroes SAGA games, the Circus Maximus board game, and a d20 Modern version of AMONG US (with a DVD given out to the best player). My brother is visiting this weekend and we are going to spend some time trying to work up the AMONG US module. If you are doing the Con, look for us.
Until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Speaking of Naptown, I've also got to spend a few days gearing up to run some games at GenCon--the biggest board game, miniature game, card game, role-playing game con in the nerd-verse-- which is just a few weeks away. After many years of just playing at the Con, my brother and I--along with our pal The Caveman--decided to switch it up and run games for the first time, under the moniker Flayed Goblin Gaming Group. We are running an Axis and Allies board game variant, a D&D hack-and-slash dungeon, some Marvel Superheroes SAGA games, the Circus Maximus board game, and a d20 Modern version of AMONG US (with a DVD given out to the best player). My brother is visiting this weekend and we are going to spend some time trying to work up the AMONG US module. If you are doing the Con, look for us.
Until then, give me a shout at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Nyoka and the Tigermen
Christopher Sharpe's SEX MACHINE is underway, a Gen-X Frankenstein story I did a polish on, and you can see some cool updates right here. I'm excited about this one, and I think it has a lot of potential.
I changed my avatar, courtesty of Jon Ashby of Rewindvideo.com, who snapped that manly pic at Mt. Rushmore during Microcinema Fest. There's a couple of nice articles about the fest written by Jason Santo over at microcinemascene.com, for anyone interested on the behind the scenes side of it.
I saw a nice adaptation of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Sunday night at Ball State in their summer theatre season, setting it in 50s suburbia. Gives me hope for my own original prose, modern dress Shakespeare spec script I have been toiling away on.
A couple of things in the hopper I hope to report on shortly. 'til then, give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
I changed my avatar, courtesty of Jon Ashby of Rewindvideo.com, who snapped that manly pic at Mt. Rushmore during Microcinema Fest. There's a couple of nice articles about the fest written by Jason Santo over at microcinemascene.com, for anyone interested on the behind the scenes side of it.
I saw a nice adaptation of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Sunday night at Ball State in their summer theatre season, setting it in 50s suburbia. Gives me hope for my own original prose, modern dress Shakespeare spec script I have been toiling away on.
A couple of things in the hopper I hope to report on shortly. 'til then, give me a yell at johnoakdalton@hotmail.com.
MCF #7
I've gotten a couple of requests for more MCF pix from faithful readers. Here is our "Jurassic Park" style jeep ride sponsored by Chris Hull and the South Dakota film commission. Great experience in the back country of this fabulous park. Preventing soon-to-be-famous director Miguel Coyula from feeding his sandwich to a bison is my contribution to the future of Hollywood.
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