Saturday, May 18, 2013

A skit I wrote.

 
INT. A SEMI EMPTY ROOM WITH TWO MEN SITTING ON SIDE OF THE
ROOM

HOGAN
Send in the next one please

A man enters the room opposite the two men in chairs.

HOGAN (CONT’D)
And what’s your name young man?

TONY
I’m Tony, like the tiger.

Hearing this Hogan looks at the man sitting beside him

JONES
Okay kid, well go ahead and pick up the
copy on the table and get started
whenever you’re ready

TONY
Sure,
(picks up the papers on
the table)
Rocks! When a pebble won’t do, and
a boulder is just too much! Try a
rock! When there's a door that
needs to be held open or some pesky
papers that won’t stay on your
desk, use a rock!

JONES
That was great, think you could go
ahead and read the next one?

TONY
Sure, can I just ask,what is this
for? My agent said it was a
commercial audition.

JONES
Yeah, this is for a national ad
campaign.

TONY
A national campaign for rocks?

HOGAN
Yes it is a campaign for rocks. We
are a small upstart ad agency and
we are currently looking for that
one ad that can really set us apart
from the rest. We were hoping to
find that person and that ad today.

TONY
But, rocks?

JONES
Can you just go ahead and read the
best one for us.

TONY
Sure thing. Do you need to write
down an important phone number but
your pencil point just broke? Bump
into a real celbrity like Richard
Kline and you just ran out of
inserts for your mecehanical
pencil? Try a pen! Point never
breaks and they virtually last
forever! Pens because the future is
today!!

JONES
That was great kid. You nailed it.

TONY
Thanks but, I mean pens? Not even a
company that makes pens, just
generic pens? And who is Richard
Kline?

HOGAN
He’s the actor who played Larry on
Three’s Company.

TONY
No one know’s who that is. Also
mechanical pencils, the future is
now? I mean this doesn’t make a lot
of sense.

JONES
Just go ahead and read that last
one there for us kid, you’re doing
great.

TONY
Okay. How many times has this
happen to you, you’ve got upwards
of 15 loose newspapers and don’t
have the time to make 15 trips to
the recycling, or you want to
remind yourself to get tickets to
the Ace Of Base reunion how but
don’t have anything to tie around
your finger to remind you. Try
twine! It can do both of those
tihngs and so much more. Twine,
it’s like string but better. If
string took steroid and got pussy
all day then it would be twine! So
go get twine and live the life you
deserve!

JONES
Nailed it again. We might have our
guy Hogan.

TONY
Can you even say that on tv? got
pussy all day?

HOGAN
We’ll bleep it if we have to but I
head a guy on nypd Blue say shit so
we should be fine.

TONY
Look I don’t mean to tell you how
to do your business but I just thin
these ad’s seem like a bad idea.

HOGAN
Thanks for the input kid, but I
think we’ll be just fine.

JONES
The job’s yours kid. Great job.

TONY
Great, an I just ask whats the name
of the ad agency this is for?

HOGAN
Well we are figuring that out now.
We were just going to put our last
names together. Seems like a good
move.

TONY
So what are the names?

HOGAN
Well let’s see it’s Urie Macho, Cho
Man, Juri Hulk, and me James Hogan.

TONY
So the company is called Macho Man
Hulk Hogan?

JONES
I like it.

HOGAN
Yes. That's what the business cards
are going to say.

TONY
I’m in!
Fade to black

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Do I write more often and risk diluting the final product or just say fuck it?

I'm going with fuck it.

            I feel like I'm at a weird point in my life, I've never really been bothered by the way my life has turned out. In that regard I mean the fact that I am in my early to mid 30's and am still single and childless. Sure I've had chances and for whatever reasons at the time I sabotaged them. I like to think that when I'm given the chance again I will be in a better place personality wise and will be able to resist those urges,(on the off chance that someone reading this is a potential suitor, I make no promises). To the ones from my past who are reading this to whom this may apply, yes I sabotaged it, it's where I was and who I was at the time, I am truly sorry if any of my actions had a negative effect on your life, but back to the original point.    
I feel like I am in a part of a weird generation. Obviously we are raised by our parents who were raised by their parents. So as a man ( I think you should know I typed kid there and then changed it to man, as a 33 year old I feel that is a proper moniker, but I really don't like it)  born in the late 70's-early 80's I was raised by parents who learned from people born in the first half of the last century. It's just so far removed by the time it gets to the new generation. Like for instance there are people my age who have grandparents who were alive during the dust bowl. Those things are so far removed from where we are now it's almost unbelievable that those type of things ever even happen. I'm not sure what the point to this is I guess I'm just considering where I am in life, which makes me think of where my parents, and so on and so on and so on.
I guess I'm just trying to come up with a logical explanation for my terrifying arrested development/Peter Pan complex. But as it is now 1 a.m. here in Philadelphia and I can hear what sounds like no less than 25 people outside of window starting to make a commotion I realize it could be far worse. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go watch this mayhem.
( quick note I just glanced at this and noticed how many times I used the word "I". Sorry about that)