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March 20th, 2008

02:01 pm - Review: Buckaroo Banzai Dot Dot Dot My Netflix review of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (I thought it was funny.. my review, not the movie)... Three letters can sum up my review of this movie: WTF?!?! Buckaroo is all over the place, he's a neurosurgeon, he's a physicist, he's a secret agent, he's a musician... Woah, hold on! He moves so quickly from one job/skill/hobby to the next, we don't have time to understand any one of them. The plot is the same way. It's as if 20 writers with 20 different scripts were all running down a corridor and crashed into each other, spilling their respective scripts onto the floor in a jumbled mess. Rather than try to sort them out, they scooped them up into a big pile and called it Buckaroo Banzai. Nevermind that some pages were missing or torn or upside-down. I feel like there's a missing previous film I needed to see first, in order to make sense of this one. Even with all the funny nicknames and one-liners in the world, Buckaroo Banzai is confusing at best. Current Location: The 3rd Dimension Current Mood: tired Current Music: Buzzcocks

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03:24 pm - 5,000 Words or Less? OOOH! I just had the best idea. I was just thinking about how it's going to take me forever to come up with enough short stories to publish a book, and how I don't really feel like doing all the publishing and promoting by myself, but I don't feel like paying some agent to try and persuade some publishing company to do it... Then I had a breakthrough. I should get together with a handful of other short fiction writers from the Philadelphia area and publish a compilation of our best short stories. We can share the publication and promotional costs, and the profits. Not only would I have enough stories much quicker, but I'd also have a whole group of people promoting it, not to mention helping to pay for it. Wow. I'm sure there are lots of other writers like me, who can't finish a novel, but have all these short stories sitting around that they'd like to publish. I can see it now. We could call it "5,000 Words or Less," or something, -- that's pretty good actually -- and we'd play up the local angle, "Five of Philadelphia's Best Short Fiction Writers," or something. Woo, I'm good. I could edit it and put that on my resume.. oo and use all the promos I'd create for my portfolio. Two birds! One stone! Ha! I'm going to wait until I type up "It Ate Everything," which is finished and brilliant. Then I'm going to do A LOT of research and create a sort of business plan, for my potential fellow investors (and add THAT to my portfolio too). It'll be so cool. I'm psyched. Here's a rough outline, just off the top of my head... Compile the best short stories from all writers involved Proofread/edit Create book layout Come up with title/cover concept Publish a short run through an adequate self-publishing company (Discmakers for writers) Create book web site/myspace/facebook Post ads on-line Place displays/fliers in local businesses Request reviews from web sites, magazines, etc. Um... yeah, that's all I got at the moment. Of course, I'll break that down into more detail later. I'll probably make a Power Point. Yay! I wish I had time to work on my plan this weekend, but I'm totally booked. I'll at least type that story up. It needs to be on-line. It's long as balls, though. Why do my stories keep getting longer and longer? Am I going to write a 400-page novel one day without even realizing it? I doubt it. I'm going to have to start paying someone else to type these jawns for me. OK. That's all. Current Location: Feeling Better Town Current Mood: excited Current Music: Buzzcocks

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