I had another meet up
yesterday with Oliver Smith, he of Oliver Smith Productions, about filming
schedules for this year. The main priority remains The Sunday
Alternative Sessions (as the video series will now be called) which
has a filming date fixed for Saturday August 9th, so I should be
concerned about the lack of a venue. There’s also The Record Store Day Video
(although it’s only a working title it is starting to grow on me) which we
might get filmed this year, and a comedy project that I finally look like
getting made having written the first draft in 2008. That project will
hopefully be seen by the public at Christmas, and is a spoof documentary. It
needs to be a Christmas release as it concerns Woolworths, and it would be nice
to treat everyone to a trip down festive memory lane in the despicable absence
of the traditional Christmas adverts thanks to Shop Direct’s lack of respect
for the Woolworths name. Over coffee I mentioned a few other plans for next
year, one of which is quite an ambitious project that I have wanted to make for
a number of years. There’s another music related idea to be filmed in London
next summer/autumn so my aim to get through my to-do list before I turn forty
is looking a bit more realistic.
Regarding turning forty, I
will be thirty eight next month so I have almost exactly two years in which to
work my arse off before I can retire and become a Punch and Judy man and see
out the rest of my life by the sea doing performances on the beach. That’s the
way to do it you know!
Work wise I am still behind
with everything but trying to remain positive by recording a few chapters of Whatever Happened to Nathan McKenzie every day alongside
writing The Shoebox Collection (new title). I
should be in a state of blind panic by now but I am somehow remaining calm and
unaffected by the increasing workload.
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