While this isn't technically my first blogging experience, if I post here one more time, I will beat my personal best. My old roommates, Daniel Nayeri, Brendan Choisnet, and I started a blog about two years ago. We each submitted one really great entry. And then we never touched it again. The whole idea was to start an internet presence for a film we were developing called "SUBWAY". It was going to be our first feature film. Dan and I took a week-long bike trip through Vermont, where we developed a lot of the ideas for the movie. The blog was basically just funny stories from that trip: SABBIKICAL 2K5.
I was going to post a link that that blog here, but after 10 minutes of searching, I can even find my own blog. No idea what my old username was, or password, and it doesn't appear on any search engines.
But no worries, we sort of gave up on the whole "SUBWAY" thing when we figured out it would cost 5-10 million dollars to produce. That's where SABBIKICAL 2K6 came in. The following year, we repeated the biking extravaganza with a trip across long island. Only this time we were developing a screenplay called "The Cult of Sincerity."
As you might imagine, it's not easy to brainstorm and bike all day. Well, it's easy to brainstorm, it's just difficult to get the storm out of your mouth while you're gasping for air! But thanks to a flat-tire, we had a very long walk to the nearest bike shop, and a lot of time to dream about making a movie. Only this time, we actually did!
I'm not making this up. The Browne's can attest to it. They've seen it! It really exists! It's all about one hipster's quixotic quest to come up with something not-ironic to put on a T-shirt (hence it not costing 5-10 million, T-shirts are cheaper than subway cars).
But for lack of a better way to end this post. Here's a picture of... oh crud. [sigh]. I was going to upload a picture here, but I can't seem to find my camera. Lost blogs! Lost cameras! I'm a mess!
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HI Adam! Nice to hear about your creative spin cycles! Ha!
I never got to meet Dan at the wedding; too bad, sounds like an awesome and multi-talented guy.
I'm sure it seems crazy to think back on the whole process that brought an idea to the drawing board, to the scripting room, to the phone calls, the equipment runs, the early morning coffees, traffic jams in the panel truck, crazy-in-the-head filming days...and now, the hours and hours and hours in front of a computer. All because of a bike ride and a series of what ifs! We human beings are something else, huh? Made in the image of the one who speaks speaking things into being.
Listened to your wedding tracks--the CD you gave out at the wedding. Cool stuff. Liked the line about whistling whilst kissing.
OK, hope to see you on here again.
Elder brother, how's it going?
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