Sunday, July 22, 2007
These fat-free meringues are perfection!
So. It has occurred to me that a pretty significant thing has been going on the past few weeks and I have yet to talk about it. Probably because -- between this and my friends/family and trying to go to as many lesbian bars in new york as possible and work -- I have no time to do much anymore. Watch TV, write on here, read other blogs ... it's all fallen by the wayside. Hopefully I can catch up this week (hopefully). But right now I feel that this is important, so I'm going to write in my hottt blogggg (P.S. I really don't like the word "blog," just want to get that out of the way. P.P.S. I wish some of you mystery readers would comment, my 3 commenters are lonely).
Anyway. So Riese and I have been writing a gay sitcom. And, not to toot my/our own horn or anything, but it's really good. Definitely unlike anything else on TV. It's Arrested Development meets the OC meets < insert name of anything gay here >. It's called Living It Out and we're really, really proud of it.
So we wrote the pilot. And then there was the cruise (which I did not go on), where they held the reading (which I was not present for). Then we got massive amounts of feedback, revised the pilot for one last time (dear god I hope so), registered it with the Writer's Guild, and started sending it off to Very Important People.
I am one of those people who Dreams Big. The only problem is, I rarely follow through. This is one of those rare times where everything fell into place (timing, motivation, location, awesomeness), and things are totally working out and happening really fast. And when (not "if") this gets greenlit, I'm hiring all of my friends to work on it. Because one of my life-long dreams has been to own my own company where all of us had a job and we all worked together and collaborated and were awesome under one roof together, every day.
Labels: autowin, living it out
posted by carlytron @ 11:25 PM,
28 Comments:
- At 7/23/2007 12:38 AM, riese said...
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word veri ... "Blyjez"= Blue Jays. Obviously. Which are very pretty birds. That's a good sign for us.
OK for the DVD extras we should have a part called "Living it Out: Living the Dream" where we sit there and talk about our Dreams and how we don't always Realize them, and then I can talk about how when we first started talking about this, I was, for one of the first times in my life, actually Smart about knowing I wouldn't be able to do it Right at that point, so we shelved it for a bit and delt with our stuff, and then we met back up to do it Right, and THEN, if we have feelings by that point (that point of the DVD extras interview), we'll both almost cry. But it'll be hot, like a Shane-cry. Without smearing our eye makeup, obvs.
We're lucky that our friends are so talented. And gay. Even when they aren't gay, they're gay a little bit deep down inside, just gay enough to be under the roof, promoting gayhood.
(Clearly this is what I was talking about when I said I was afraid of running out of good words to say if I type too many words a day.) - At 7/23/2007 12:41 AM, carlytron said...
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You might run out of words, but not out of rhymes!!! Ohhhh!!!
In all seriousness, I'm really excited about the DVD special features, I think that a tour of our production office is in order as well.
And our writing staff will consist solely of people with blogs. - At 7/23/2007 12:45 AM, riese said...
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This is a sort of chicken/egg situation, because clearly all our writers will be writing a blog ... a Morgatron blog!
(I am totally not clever right now)
But yeah, TOTES! Clearly!
Tour will involve an explanation of complicated nerf-gun assault rules. - At 7/23/2007 8:49 AM, Tina-cious.com said...
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Oo oo pick me! pick me! :)
Sounds like the show we're putting together actually (except ours is more L Word meets Queer as Folk ;)
Good luck!! :) - At 7/23/2007 11:27 AM, riese said...
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Tina: chosen!
Sounds like a great combo of two of my favorite things too... hmm
I saw the TLL blog on your profile -- are you working with Donna Mete? Love. Her.! And, of course, she has a copy of the pilot. (Very Important People, etc.) - At 7/23/2007 12:28 PM, usersarobot said...
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OMG! YAY!
I am excited for you and your script.
If they (the VIPs) are not retards (...and I know they are out there in the "biz" - I've seen The Simple Life) they will totally love it. - At 7/23/2007 1:54 PM, Annie said...
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I'm all yours. (I have a blog!)
- At 7/23/2007 2:20 PM, carlytron said...
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suzy: I love you. You should be a network exec. (apparently Bravo is having a contest where you can!)
annie: You're in! Do you have any Nerf projectiles? We need them for the writer's room*
*Writer's room = large table in Riese's living room. - At 7/23/2007 3:10 PM, riese said...
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Annie: What Carly didn't mention is that we'd already added you to our writing staff last week. It'd seem less creepy if I followed that statement with "Just kidding, we'd never add someone to our writing staff we'd never met in the flesh! Or like, asked to be on our writing staff!" but luckily, we [read: Carly] decided early on in this game that every time we want to say "creepy," we should replace it with "AWESOME."
- At 7/23/2007 3:12 PM, riese said...
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insert "hypothetical" between "our" and "writing."
- At 7/23/2007 3:15 PM, carlytron said...
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I'm glad I got that creepy/awesome thing out of the way early on. Who knew it'd be so useful?
We are at the point where we are just recruiting our friends for the show, they have no say in it. I mean, who would turn us down? Example of brill writing: the title of this post is, in fact, ACTUAL DIALOGUE from the pilot. Come on! (that was obvs. said like GOB Bluth). - At 7/23/2007 3:32 PM, Annie said...
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"every time we want to say "creepy," we should replace it with "AWESOME.""
^^seriously, my life philosophy, if only recently (2005-ish) - At 7/23/2007 3:34 PM, Annie said...
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Like the girl in the $15 shirt's gonna listen to a girl who's wearing one old/one new Chuck right now? COME ON!
- At 7/23/2007 3:40 PM, carlytron said...
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Riese tried to forbid me from "hiring" any more people for the show until we actually, ya know, have a show? But I'M NOT LISTENING TO HER. You're hired!
Unless you're a chicken! Cucka, cucka, cucka ... - At 7/23/2007 3:55 PM, riese said...
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Re: "Who knew it'd be so useful"?
I did! That's my M.O., which's why I was so grateful when someone finally put it into words. The meringues feel the same way about me as I feel about creepy/awesome.
And even though I've got both shoes now, it's OK to over-ride me. Etc.
I'm trying to think of a clever riding/yee-haw/shoes tie-in joke but um, can't. - At 7/23/2007 4:01 PM, carlytron said...
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This is why we will have a writing staff, because sometimes we just run out of things to say.
- At 7/23/2007 4:04 PM, riese said...
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You are so right.
Like: I already have. - At 7/23/2007 4:11 PM, Annie said...
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Have either of you ever SEEN a chicken?
Riese, I'm wearing my bright-white replacement Chucks. To overcompensate for my shame in how clean they are, I went around the office Friday yapping about this hangup..... and now today, three separate people have pointed them out mockingly. Why do I even speak? Point is, one dirty one would really hit the spot. - At 7/23/2007 4:20 PM, carlytron said...
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Back in the day when I worked at Urban Outfitters, my friend there bought a new pair of Chucks and asked me to stomp all over them so they didn't look so new. Then when I bought a pair a few months later, she returned the favor. And it hurt.
Moral of the story: take them off first.
(Also, wouldn't it look weird if only one of your sneakers looked dirty?) - At 7/23/2007 5:02 PM, Annie said...
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Yeah, it would look completely insane.
- At 7/23/2007 5:09 PM, carlytron said...
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Annie, I just TFLed* at work when I read that.
*To TFL is to "totally fucking laugh," which is a giant step up from merely LOLing. It is hyperautotron** shorthand.
**Hyperautotron is the name I just made up that means "something that Riese and I made up."
This comment is completely retarded. - At 7/23/2007 5:17 PM, Annie said...
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AL (my version, which simply means "audibly laughing)
I first read "This comment is completely retarded" as "This comment is completely underrated" for some reason, WHICH is like the same exact thing as creepy/awesome conundrum. My brain is awesome!
I can't believe I just sit here occasionally refreshing this. c/a. - At 7/23/2007 6:02 PM, carlytron said...
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c/a also I've (obvs.) been doing the same all day. Like, do we even have work to do? We must, right?
- At 7/24/2007 7:30 PM, Crystal said...
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I know I'm a few years late with this comment. I'm in the market for a new job - but I'd be a hopeless candidate because my blogging/writing/collaboration skills are a little below par.
However, I was a tv production manager once, so I'm a real pro at scratching egos and fetching coffee. I also have superior clipboard carrying skills. So if you ever need someone to stand there and yell THIS SHOW'S GONNA BE REAL GOOD YOU GUYS, etc, etc, I'm totally going to send in my resume. Because that would be Awesome. - At 7/25/2007 2:29 PM, riese said...
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crystal: You're clearly tall enough for our team. Which is important step one. Also, your writing skills are superior. Also, you're my boss and therefore can't quit your present job. Clearly I could not deliver my deliverables for anyone else.
Annie, your shoes are really bright. HA! You should find some Urban Hipster to stomp all over them or something.
Yeah, it did look insane. As opposed to the rest of me, which looks super sane all the time.
That's a good word you made up, Carly. I like it. Also we should mention FLC or whatever but I forget what it stands for (whatever the achronym was for our language) I feel I am a few years late on this comment too [as in, I missed 24 hours of its progression] and overwhelmed and therefore unable to say anything witty, because, like I said before, I'm out. Of clever-ness. - At 7/25/2007 2:41 PM, riese said...
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Oh ANNIE: also not only have I seen a chicken, but, as a child, I played a game at my Dad's parents' farm that involved chasing a greased chicken around a fenced in area and trying to grab it. It was a bloody vicious game. That year the American Accounting Association hosted its annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, and my Dad thought it'd be funny to have a "Down on the Farm Night" party at his parents' farm an hour away for all the men in suits. There were also pigs and horses and etc. It was really funny.
Also, when I think about chickens, I think about Follow That Bird, one of my favorite movies ever. - At 7/25/2007 2:43 PM, carlytron said...
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crystal: actually, the other day, we were talking about needing someone to help us get cool bands to let us use their songs on our show, and we decided that you should have that job. so that's up for grabs too.
word verification: "vucha" ... i don't even know what to say about that. - At 7/26/2007 4:27 AM, said...
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i don't think that i would be linguistically adept enough to be on the writing staff but i feel that i would be an incredibly gifted at handing out flyers or something
also, i was a 'producer' [using term loosely] on a very short lived local news program. this role mainly involved organising others and quashing any imminent fights between the stars.much like shane on that movie set - only less hot
i can also make good coffee..really just looking for an excuse to quit my real job
