The Ho is outside in the living room right now watching the HBO broadcast of the Beyonce and Jay-Z concert from Paris. Not to say that it’s “broadcasting” live. No, it’s a concert video, editing, etc. But, it premiered tonight. I watched about half of it with her, then I went to take a shower, and I just spent a good half hour or so working on my pilot script ideas.
Some themes are starting to emerge. Believe it or not, that’s actually feeling like it might be a huge help. It gives my characters stuff to TALK about. Not in any sort of direct on-the-nose way, hopefully, but something the circle around and back to throughout the whole episode.
The characters are also starting to become clearer and clearer. Still a ton of work to be done in that regard, but at least they’re going to be much-improved with this latest draft. A lot is changing. Almost every scene, in fact. My opening scene stays, however. I love it 🙂 I’m sure even it will be changed some time soon, but it is nice to have a few sequences that still stand out as working well.
Jay-Z is performing “Hard Knock Life” now out in the living room…that was my introduction to him, actually. That album. It was “Hard Knock Life” as the big first single, and then “Can I get a…” …what what? Is how that always ended for me. That was the radio version, anyway. I do believe the real lyric is “fuck you.” I just looked it up, and yes it is. I think I actually bought the edited version of that entire album because it was right when I was starting my DJ business. Most of our clientele were schools, where you obviously couldn’t play cuss words. I bought a fair amount of edited rap albums in those few years ’98 to 2000 or so, so they could be played during our gigs.
I’m seriously thinking about taking Monday and Tuesday off to start the week next week, guys. I feel pretty gutted. Pretty tired and exhausted. Pretty scattered. It was nice to get a little thinking done on the pilot. Thinking is all fine and good. It needs to be written down. And, I feel like I have no rhythm back yet. YET. I don’t know, tomorrow night I may feel good to go. I’m not sure. I just know that tonight, I feel like I need a good several days to really just sit back and chill out. Slow down. Have some “me” time. I haven’t done that yet this year, it feels like. We’ll see.
I think that’s it for tonight, y’all. I’m going to go read for a while, and revel in the fact that this blog is ACTUALLY posting at the time it says it is, which is before midnight. See you tomorrow!