The Meme

It looks like I've been tagged by ScriptWeaver, The American Knight, writergurl, Matt from The Daily Pitch and Shawn.

I wasn’t really hip to this old meme thing, probably because I’m wholeheartedly an anti e-mail forward guy. I actually had to confront an excessive forwarder at my old gig since no one else had the balls to. It was like telling someone they have BO or bad breath ; it’s an uncomfortable conversation for both people but everyone benefits from it. I won’t tag anyone else, but here are my answers…..

ONE (1) earliest film-related memory:
That would definitely be going to see E.T. with my Aunt Patrice when I was 5 or so. I don’t necessarily remember it because I loved E.T. , but because the kid next to me cried like a baby. I guess E.T. heading back home to his alien family really touched that kid. I always wonder if that same kid, now an adult, still cries when he watches that scene on DVD. That’d be pretty disturbing.

Weird related fact: My aunt ended up naming her first-born son Elliot. He’s now a 19 year-old knucklehead who likes to show up in LA from Arizona unannounced and crash on my couch.

TWO (2) favorite lines from movies:I don’t really have favorite lines but here are a couple I like…

“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it.”
Peter Gibbons - Office Space

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need”
Tyler Durden – Fight Club

THREE (3) jobs you’d do if you could not work in the “biz”:
Social Activist
Music Producer
High School Football Coach/Teacher

FOUR (4) jobs you actually have held outside the industry:
Music Marketing Guy (4 years)
Hemp Clothing Salesman (3 weeks)
Sales Assistant at a Screw Company (2 days – what the fuck was I thinking?)
Supervisor for USC Student Fundraising Phone Program (Soph. and Jr. year)

THREE (3) book authors I like:
Iceberg Slim
Richard Wright
Frantz Fanon

TWO (2) movies you’d like to remake or properties you’d like to adapt:
I have no desire to adapt anything and I’m not a fan of remakes. A couple of remakes I think might not completely suck if the right person penned them would be Logan’s Run and Double Indemnity. I just came up with those off the top of my head so I may read this later and think otherwise.

ONE (1) screenwriter you think is underrated:
I’ll go with Alex Tse, who hasn’t a theatrical release yet but will soon, since I know him and the food at his wedding was really good. He’s also pretty slick with the quill.