Pre-Holiday Randomocity

I was going to spend today--which is a corporate holiday for me--relaxing, after doing a couple of chores such as giving Atari his bath and making some groceries. I was going to nap, watch TV, not do too much productive stuff.

Then my muse woke up and gave me an idea for a little instrumental tune. It won't quite fit in with my current song cycle--this is a little too mellow for that--but it's a nice piece and if I pull it off it'll be haunting and lovely. Fingers crossed! Which makes it hard to play the guitar or the synth, but whatever . . .

You'll see a new widget over to your right. It's a web series that my best friend is producing/writing/directing. You can help fund it--like I did--to bring something lovely and entertaining into the world. My friend is quite a talented writer and this will be something very much worth your time. Tell your friends about it. The more the merrier!

I became a year older yesterday. I really wish that I had something profound to say about that, but really I can't think of anything. I'm an old geezer, a dirty old man, covered in the scars that life has given me, and I really wouldn't change anything. While I don't have all that many friends the few I have are people who have proven themselves. I don't have time or patience to deal with flakes anymore and most people out there seem to fall into that category.

When  you get a chance visit Winter's Thrall's website, since I'm taking this opportunity to push my friends' creative efforts. Jez is an incredible songwriter and performer, and his music is worthy of our time. Give his stuff a listen.

Of course you are encouraged to click the links to hear my stuff, too. It'd make a dirty old man very happy.

O, Muse, your timing sucks . . .

I posted earlier about finishing the first draft of my first ever screenplay.

This weekend I'm going to start working on the rewrite--it needs some major overhauling in a couple of places, the plot needs work, all the usual things.

In the mean time, I've had this other idea. It's been sitting there, in my head, for a while now. I'll think about it now and then but nothing significant developed. I think it's a *good* idea--there just wasn't enough there to warrant any serious development at this point.

This is a good thing. I can concentrate on what I'm working on now that has potential, I believe, if I can work out the kinks. I need to keep my head here, on this.

Except, now, an idea came to me about the other, sitting idea. Something that makes it *very* interesting. And also provides the missing piece--now there *is* enough there to make this puppy worth developing. I'm looking forward to working on it. I'm excited about it . . .

But I've got this other thing that I also dig that I've already completed a lot of work on and which will probably be pretty good, provided I can do what I need to do with it.

So, the plan is to stick with what I've been working on, for now--and I'll start plotting out the other thing and see where it goes. Who knows? I might decide after working on it that I was mistaken about it's potential. It could happen! In theory.

It would be really great if my Muse held this idea within her while I completed work on the first thing, letting it emerge when my plate was nearly empty and needed something else.

But, really, I'm just glad my poor, abused Muse still thinks of me, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.