Archive for July, 2009
Set-Up & Payoff
If winter and spring are the set-up of the screenwriting season, middle summer is the pay-off. All the work and tending in the cold brings fruit. Seeing how how things have already started out in reaping 2009, it appears as though the climax will be another shuddering standstill. The Nichol Fellowship in screenwriting is the [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under Blog.
Tags: disappointment, erick, mertz, nichol fellowship, oscar, screenwriting
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Thinking On Short Films And The 2009 Willamette Writer’s Conference
The heat of July has reached something of its zenith in the Northwest. Five days from the end of the month and the weather has taken its annual upturn to over 100 degrees. It lasts maybe a 4 days to a week. Usually no more. By Tuesday, some have forecast the summit at 103 degrees. [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2009 under Commentary.
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Bonnie Prince Billy: “New Partner”
Last summer I was with Lisa while house sitting off of Germantown Road, up where it winds improbably. It was the hottest day of the summer, up over 102. She left me in the house for a show at the zoo. I got into an unattended beer fridge and cranked up my iPod and set [...]
Posted: July 18th, 2009 under Videos & Podcasts.
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