Last week I took a road trip with my good friend Jacob Roebuck and another friend, Dave. We traveled east to Roswell, New Mexico. The purpose of the trip was to scout locations for an upcoming film project that I am writing called, "Coyote County Loser". It was a productive trip where we took many pictures of various locations, brainstormed story and plot formation, and made valuable contacts with the locals. The story is set in a small desert town, so since Jacob's inlaws live there (and are extremely hospitable to all) he thought it would make for a worthy and cost-effective production location.
It is always a joy to visit Roswell and Jacob's inlaws, Bill and Polly Hartman. There is something about the desert that excites and inspires me... We also stopped in Tucson at the home of Polly's sister, Ann. She lives in an adobe house on the edge of the Saguaro National Park, so we woke up the next day to a beautiful (though harsh and dangerous) landscape of brush and cactus. Writing this screenplay has been really fun and I'm excited about the project, but I'm also not sure what is going to come of my upcoming internship at the SCI FI Channel. If another opportunity does not present itself when my intership is through, then I will devote the rest of this year to helping produce the film with Jacob. He is the driving force behind producing this film, but I'm hoping that I can stay involved to the end as well.
Speaking of the internship, I drove by the NBC/Universal building where I will be working (as SCI FI Channel is owned by NBC/Uni). It is in Universal City in the middle of Hollywood. The building is near the Universal Studios and is about 30 stories tall! I was quite impressed and intimidated at the site of it. Supposedly, much of the NBC/Universal corporate activity is centralized in this building, so I will be in the thick of one of the world's largest media giants... pretty cool. I begin there at SCI FI on Wednesday and I'm not quite sure what to expect. But they always seem excited about my coming when I speak to them on the phone. Obviously, there will be a blog soon about my entrance into this entertainment machine.
Another fun thing that happened this weekend (while Jenny has been visiting Arkansas) is that an article written by my wife has been posted to a new online women's magazine called ZIA. I'm very proud of her as it is a well-written article, and already there has been great feedback about it from readers! Here is the link.
http://www.ziamag.com/index.php/zia/story/the_demise_of_prince_charming/
Well, we're still loving California as it slowly-but-surely continues to feel more like home. Hopefully I'll have energy at the end of this coming week to give an update on the intrigues of working at a national cable TV network!
2 comments:
Sounds like things are going well. I had fun this weekend as well. I flew (for work) to North Carolina, and hiked some of the AT. Backpacking for work. Not a bad deal.
That's awesome! John and I love the Sci-Fi channel, so you earn even more cool points in our book :) What will you be doing there? Washington is going well. John loves his new job. It's like he's finally getting to do what he was made for. I'm having a harder time adjusting than him even! I'm glad that things are going well with you both!
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