Mostly lots of screaming about film-related paperwork.
Oh, let me tell you. The life of independent movie-making is so much fun.
This week, I noticed that genre screenwriter/comic book author Steve Niles has a new imprint out, Breath Of Bones, from (surprisingly) my old friends at Dark Horse. From one of its covers, it seems to be about hey! a Jewish Golem in World War II that's fighting Germans.
I immediately felt a giant swell of sorrow for Steve, as I suppose he must live in a cabin somewhere in the woods without internet access, given most screenwriters would have read the trades and various genre movie information pages over the past several years and known that Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz and myself had been putting together our movie PANZER 88 for quite some time.
Which by a strange quirk of fate, also features a Jewish Golem in World War II that's fighting Germans. Subject for further conversation…
SO, WE ALL KNOW WHAT SUMMER MEANS
Yes, that's right. It's bloated movie season. Once upon an age, that meant hunkering down in a darkened theatre with a big "Show Me!" grin on my face. These days, it's more weary resignation in dragging my heels there to see what drearily-conjured bombast is going to be depressing me. (Oh, and when I was a kid, I hated wearing spectacles to the cinema and longed for the day I could wear contact lenses, which was a joyously revelation. So, guess what? Yeah, you're right. Now I have to wear crappy 3-D glasses for films, which adds approximately Minus Thirty Hit-Points to my enjoyment.)
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