So,
as I write this, it's a grey, drizzly October afternoon and I'm on a train
heading back to Boston from New York after a meeting with long-time F.O.B.S.
(Friend o' Bait Shop) and frequent collaborator Jed Weintrob about a movie
project that will go into production (or, alternately, go nowhere) in 2010,
but when I opened this here .html file, I discovered the following leftover
text from the last time I sat down to update the ol' Bait Shop news:
So,
as I write this, it's a humid August night in Somerville...but I shouldn't
complain, since I probably won't get a chance to update the site again
'til it's cold and snowy outside. Plus, the new season of Mad
Men is just about to start, which is bound to make everything much,
much cooler...
And then, in a few weeks, things are set to heat up again as I jet to Barcelona with my folks and my lovely Polish bride for a family vacation...
...which
just goes to show how quickly time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'
into the future these days, considering I've already been to Spain
and back at this point, and now Ol' Man Winter is breathing down my neck,
2009 is nearly over and I still haven't finished The Meat City
Beatniks, my novel or any number of other fine and worthy projects,
thanks to the ongoing demands of teaching (at UCLA
Extension and elsewhere), bloggage (at Nerve.com
& Screengrab in Exile),
various and sundry odd jobs and even the occasional web radio interview
(like
this one about a terrible film Scott Von Doviak and I caught at SXSW
2009 called My Suicide, which I later felt bad about
trashing since it never really went anywhere and, ironically, featured
one of the last screen appearanes of David Carradine).
On
the other hand, I did recently manage to finish two new internet
shorts (available in the
Bait Shop Cineplex) featuring the youngsters of The
Burt Wood School of Performing Arts: MidAfternoon (a Twilight
parody) and Sock Pox,
Team Bait Shop/Burt Wood's 2009 entry in the Boston edition of the 48
Hour Film Project (which, incidentally, beat out 70 or 80 teams to
win the event's bronze medal, thank you very much, along with several awards
including Best Song ("Love to Learn and Laugh") and Best Supporting Actress
(for my Mom's iconic and much-beloved performance as Kidz Korner
host Mary-Anne Mooney, Ph.D)!
In other artsy news, the wife and I contributed a lovely little psychedelic freak-out to Songs From the Fat Man's Hat, a musical omnibus featuring tunes from original F.O.B.S. Steve Lewis, Tim Sprague, Eric Jacobson and Jim Dryden (who put the whole groovy project together).
Oh! And I recently began writing comic books and video games for a company in California, but the projects are hush-hush at the moment, so stay tuned for more info in the next exciting edition of Bait Shop News!