Twitter: The New Blog
I’ve been trying to figure out what the draw is to people using Twitter. I like to think of it as a blog for the “txt mssge” generation. The people who typically operate blogs (like myself), and people who are big into text messaging (the tweens), are not that far off in age, but Twitter provides another venue for people to share their views without having to write several paragraphs. After all, people are reading far less these days, and short and lean is always favored over long winded (Sorry Faulkner). Throughout the day I’ve got funny ideas or things happen to me that aren’t very blog worthy, but it’ll make the cut for twitter!
Of course there’s a downside to twitter. I do not care what you had for any meals, if you are going #1 or #2, or anything extremely trivial. Anything that every person on earth does every day is not news worthy.
It’ll be interesting to see if the site becomes stronger or if it becomes a fad/novelty of the 2000’s.
I was on YouTube today and came across a 2 min trailer for Role Models where I realized it had a scene that wasn’t in the entire movie, and I thought, why don’t more films do this? Deliberately write 1 or 2 scenes that have just one great joke but really have no place to put in the film, but use it for the trailer. Most movies have deleted scenes that were cut anyways, so include some of these.
As I’ve commented before, trying to get a script through a major studio is real difficult. Unless you package it/produce it yourself, its even tougher. One way to help this process is to write a book first, which I’ve increasingly thought of doing. I’ve got one script that I’m still figuring out, but since I’m doing all the heavy lifting of mapping out the relationships and story line, I might as well adapt it to book form after I write the script. After all, in screenplay format it’ll be around 100 pages, which if you’ve read any scripts you’ll know its a very bare bones format. Less is more. Naturally I like to use as many words to get my point across, so writing the book could be nice since I can use more description, and if I so chose, go inside the characters heads.
Tonight I caught a $1.50 theater showing of Jim Carrey’s Yes, Man. Never mind the fact that it comes out on DVD in about a month, there’s still something unique about seeing it in a theater.
I used to think Hollywood was about creativity, the best of the best, where money and talent goes to make something awesome. Then I discovered the truth, especially in more recent times. Independent films is where creativity goes, because the studio system has almost given up on creating fresh ideas. This post is spurred by the recent news that a Total Recall remake is on track. Yes, the 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Because apparently its TOO OLD? Utterly ridiculous. You want to remake a movie, pick some old Cary Grant movie. With this mind set we’ll be seeing a Back to the Future remake soon.
It was brought to my attention that it’s been awhile since I’ve made a post on here, something I’ve realized but decided to see how long I could procrastinate. I don’t have anything in particular I’d like to cover, so I’ll be talking about — cookies. Delicious, warm, cookies. These aren’t your ordinary grandmothers cookies, no sir, these are straight from the freezer, pop them on a cookie sheet and throw them in the oven. Which made me think about all the modern conveniences we have. People complain about not having enough time, but when you think about all the technology we have, you start to realize we have nothing to complain about. Laundry? If you have a unit in your home, 10 minutes to sort/throw in a load. 10 minute to fold/hang. Dishes? Probably about the same amount to load then unload. Staying in touch with people is easier now too. Hardly anybody writes letters, and if they do, its an email which can be typed much faster than written.
…to celebrate another awesome commercial holiday! Hooraw, who’s with me? Lets storm the Hallmark stores in full force! We’ll turn this economy around by buying up all the roses and chocolates.