How to Kill Yourself in One Year #4 "Battle Act"

Our fourth film and our first piece of S.H.I.T.

November was one for the record books...we basically ended up having to scrap not one but TWO scripts due to Sandy, a noreaster, Actor emergency and BABIES...lots and lots of babies.

so I ended up having to write something in one day that we could shoot the next day.  in the end we just ran out of time and this is the (unfortunate) result.

So sit back and enjoy Quite's Ishtar... Merry Fucking Christmas...hope you like crap!!!

what, did I say Macbeth or something???

so it would seem that November is going to be the first month that lives up to the whole "kill yourself" part of this experiment.

Our leading lady, whom is an extraordinary talent, has had an emergency and cannot film on Sunday...and since I wrote the scene for her, i'm not going to recast....so look for Uncle.Neice as an entry sometime early next year.

of course that also leaves me in the proverbial pickle (without a tickle) as our shoot day(s) have been locked to this Sat and/or Sun.

so now I have basically a day to come up with the script that I can film in my basement.

to quote Oliver Platt in Diggstown..."i've been that good before...question is, can I be that good now?"

uggggggggg

stay tune....you might just see me fall on my ass this month!

Three days...midnight oil...bloody marys and a new script rises from the rubble of Sandy.

Uncle. Niece.

this is actually going to be expanded into my next feature but I figured I could explore some of the themes of it in a shorter form.

this one is longer than I've tackled in this series...but it's also almost pure dialogue so i'm thinking (uh-oh) it won't be too big of an issue.  I'm thinking...master....two-pop...woody allen and that is all she wrote.

shit does, in fact, happen.

so Sandy came. and then a Nor'easter hit and to make a long sad story--filled with frustration and rage--short, we had to postpone the shooting of Boo until Dec. mostly this was (thankfully) due to power and transportation issues with the cast and crew; nobody was hurt or lost their homes (especially us) so we are definitely thankful for that...still pissed at Sandy...but thankful.   So we just decided to push it until Dec.

which means, I basically have one week to write a new script so we can shoot it next weekend and get it edited before thanksgiving  and then the end of the month.

onward and upward I suppose.

and now to panic and write....

remember remember the film of november. the fourth one...the fourth script

boo

just won third place for the coveted MP  "Where Am I" monthly challenge...

inspired by a true story...my wife ran into a very creepy man at the grocery store who said "you're not exactly hiding it" about her pregnant belly and then proceeded to chat her up for a good five minutes; after which she came up to me and said, "I may have just talked to a serial killer...please make sure he doesn't follow us home".