A SUMMER OF TOMORROWS
With fall officially arriving, it bears mentioning that although this year has been interesting for me and I’ve enjoyed a great deal of it, I have no idea where the time has gone. Things are so ubiquitous here in Los Angeles… the weather is the same every day (for the most part) and the activities become routine like any other place on the planet, except here it seems like one very long year that never ends. So, oddly for me, life here seems like one long summer of never ending tomorrows, which is interesting given that I made a movie with a title similar to that.
Speaking of Summer of Tomorrows, I am sending that script out to potential financiers with a copy of the original move and have intentions of remaking it with a proper budget. So I’ve re-read and corrected the original 2nd draft of the script and printed it out and prepped some packages to go. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this previously, probably not as I’ve gotten pretty tight lipped about plans until they come to some kind of fruition, but Mary Badham (Scout from the movie To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck) has signed on to help get the remake off the ground and play one of the characters. I’ve also been talking to sets of new financiers for Blood Red Poison, so it’s an ongoing effort, as this business has always been.
I think I might have mentioned that we are building something over at the model shop for a Universal picture… I was wrong, it is Fox and it’s Die Hard 4. Just thought I would correct that in the even that I made that incorrect statement previously.
So, Glenn and Tim and I went out last night to Lucky Strike to bowl a couple of games and have some good food. I have to say that the food was absolutely wonderful. I’ve never been to Lucky Strike, but I really like the place; nice atmosphere. Later on we ventured from Hollywood and Highland down to Red Rock which is a club near one of our regular haunts, El Cabo Cantina. Tim and I put on the dancing shoes and got out on the dance floor for a while and met some nice folks… young ladies of course. I met a doctor from Ohio who works in pediatrics out here at the children’s hospital a few miles from my pad here in Silverlake.
Today was mostly down time, well, let me be honest… I slept in really late because I could. We had to work yesterday morning, so I felt like getting in some “oversleep” time. Then I just prepped scripts and DVDs the rest of the day in between errands and watching The Green Mile on TV. I still absolutely LOVE that movie. “Coffee, but not spel’t the same.”
So the things that made this summer nice, while I’m reflecting my eternal summer of tomorrows: A continuing great relationship with my roommate (platonic), a car that is as determined to survive and prosper as I am, Getting to see my brother graduate and visit the folks and Grandparents for a couple weeks, news that my Brother and Chelsie are engaged, directing some political commercials for someone worth supporting in NY… I love the way they turned out, helping build central park, meeting the brother of the (now former) president of Mexico (there’s a financing story [or lack of] there that I may share later), meeting Buzz Aldrin, hopes and plans of working with Mary Badham on the remake of Summer of Tomorrows, making rent every month of the same never ending year, and of course, the return of Superman… not necessarily in that order and almost certainly missing some of the other points.
These things are good. I can only recall a few minor negative things, but they aren’t worth remembering because they weren’t lesson oriented, so why bother. As is often the case, it is now late and I need to get some sleep to ensure that tomorrow is not a sluggish day. Catch you in a few. CDJ
