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My talk with Don, tree-cutter & screenwriter
Sorry for the delay with this. I quickly typed up my notes about my conversation with Don (so I wouldn't forget) and then I had to make a quick run to my public library to pick up a movie I had to watch for class. Still have to wait for the other one I need to see to come in. Grrrr! Watched the movie during supper and then sort of fell asleep. Heh. Oh, and I lost my favorite lip balm on my trip to the library. *pouts* Luckily, it was a two-pack, so I've got the other one, but still...I wasn't done with that one yet.
Oh, well...enough of my rambling. Let's get to the good stuff, shall we?
Well, the monster of a tree/bush is gone! Yay! Took Don and his helper, Rich, some 6 hours to take it down and clean everything up. I can see so much more sky now and all the extra light it gives the backyard is great. I'm seeing trees on the next street over that I haven't been able to see in years.
It was interesting watching them work all afternoon. My mom & I didn't get much done because we kept watching them from my bedroom. *snigger* While they aren't young guys, (we figured they were both in their 40s), there is something about watching guys working like that. Climbing trees, using chainsaws, getting sweaty and dirty. *mind slips into gutter slightly* Okay, anyway, that's not what you really want to hear. You want to know if I talked to Don about his screenwriting.
For a while I thought I'd never get to talk to the guy. He was busy. :) But once they had the final branches and the main trunk cut down and were hauling them to their truck out front, I saw my chance. We just talked about the tree at first and then my mom came out. Then our backyard neighbor, who owned the tree came to the back fence to pay Don and to talk to us. So we're talking with her and she asked me what I was doing (work, etc.). I told her I was in a film program at a local community college and just then, Don happened to be coming back into the yard. He heard film school and I swear, his head whipped around and he said, "You are???" Heehee! The guy was just thrilled. So he and I started talking and our neighbor figured that was her cue to leave. *g*
Apparently he went to the Seattle Film School (I think that's the one he said) for their 3 week program and is currently working on a movie script. He says it's almost done and it's in the running (among the top 10%) for being entered in the Sundance Film Festival. He mostly writes short stories and this script comes from one of them. He also described how he lives in the basement of a house and every morning he sits in his car in a nearby parking lot and reads and drinks coffee. There's also an International Market there and he's been watching all the people come and go every morning. And he's writing a story about them, too, about what all he's seen.
We also discovered that we both knew Phil Lucas, my former instructor who passed away earlier this year. Don knew him because he is a member of the Baha'i faith like Phil was. So that was a great connection to make. Don said he was so happy to come across someone who was a film student. I told him briefly about my own script and that I've been working on it for 2 years now. I also mentioned the different student film productions I've been involved with at the college and that I was aiming towards being an editor. That took a little wind out of his sails I think, but he still seemed happy to talk to someone interested in film. I'm really not much of a writer. Certainly not like this guy. He said he's been writing most of his life and was even going to a writer's meeting tonight. So the guy just writes all the time when he's not cutting down trees. But he just kept going on and on about his writing influences and how he goes to New York City every year and he saw so many great things at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art last time....etc. Once he got started, you couldn't get him to stop. LOL But he writes about socially conscious topics, which isn't exactly my thing. I'm not knocking it at all, it's just not something I'm particularly into. He noted that it's common for people who follow the Baha'i faith to be involved in such projects.
So we had a nice conversation and it was fun to talk to someone who's into scriptwriting. I hope his screenplay makes it to Sundance. That would be great. I might get a chance to talk to him again next week. He'll be taking a tree down in our next door neighbor's yard. It's near where the other one was, so again I'll be close to all the action. :D
Oh, and I picked up a few other things at the library: some music CDs (Eva Cassidy, Michael Feinstein, and Patty Griffin), a few movies (It's Always Fair Weather, American Graffiti, Goodbye Mr. Chips), a documentary on Cinematography, and last, but not least...and this one's for you![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trystan830, a DVD of 7 episodes of Farscape! I tell you, the public library system is a wonderful thing. So many free goodies!
Oh, well...enough of my rambling. Let's get to the good stuff, shall we?
Well, the monster of a tree/bush is gone! Yay! Took Don and his helper, Rich, some 6 hours to take it down and clean everything up. I can see so much more sky now and all the extra light it gives the backyard is great. I'm seeing trees on the next street over that I haven't been able to see in years.
It was interesting watching them work all afternoon. My mom & I didn't get much done because we kept watching them from my bedroom. *snigger* While they aren't young guys, (we figured they were both in their 40s), there is something about watching guys working like that. Climbing trees, using chainsaws, getting sweaty and dirty. *mind slips into gutter slightly* Okay, anyway, that's not what you really want to hear. You want to know if I talked to Don about his screenwriting.
For a while I thought I'd never get to talk to the guy. He was busy. :) But once they had the final branches and the main trunk cut down and were hauling them to their truck out front, I saw my chance. We just talked about the tree at first and then my mom came out. Then our backyard neighbor, who owned the tree came to the back fence to pay Don and to talk to us. So we're talking with her and she asked me what I was doing (work, etc.). I told her I was in a film program at a local community college and just then, Don happened to be coming back into the yard. He heard film school and I swear, his head whipped around and he said, "You are???" Heehee! The guy was just thrilled. So he and I started talking and our neighbor figured that was her cue to leave. *g*
Apparently he went to the Seattle Film School (I think that's the one he said) for their 3 week program and is currently working on a movie script. He says it's almost done and it's in the running (among the top 10%) for being entered in the Sundance Film Festival. He mostly writes short stories and this script comes from one of them. He also described how he lives in the basement of a house and every morning he sits in his car in a nearby parking lot and reads and drinks coffee. There's also an International Market there and he's been watching all the people come and go every morning. And he's writing a story about them, too, about what all he's seen.
We also discovered that we both knew Phil Lucas, my former instructor who passed away earlier this year. Don knew him because he is a member of the Baha'i faith like Phil was. So that was a great connection to make. Don said he was so happy to come across someone who was a film student. I told him briefly about my own script and that I've been working on it for 2 years now. I also mentioned the different student film productions I've been involved with at the college and that I was aiming towards being an editor. That took a little wind out of his sails I think, but he still seemed happy to talk to someone interested in film. I'm really not much of a writer. Certainly not like this guy. He said he's been writing most of his life and was even going to a writer's meeting tonight. So the guy just writes all the time when he's not cutting down trees. But he just kept going on and on about his writing influences and how he goes to New York City every year and he saw so many great things at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art last time....etc. Once he got started, you couldn't get him to stop. LOL But he writes about socially conscious topics, which isn't exactly my thing. I'm not knocking it at all, it's just not something I'm particularly into. He noted that it's common for people who follow the Baha'i faith to be involved in such projects.
So we had a nice conversation and it was fun to talk to someone who's into scriptwriting. I hope his screenplay makes it to Sundance. That would be great. I might get a chance to talk to him again next week. He'll be taking a tree down in our next door neighbor's yard. It's near where the other one was, so again I'll be close to all the action. :D
Oh, and I picked up a few other things at the library: some music CDs (Eva Cassidy, Michael Feinstein, and Patty Griffin), a few movies (It's Always Fair Weather, American Graffiti, Goodbye Mr. Chips), a documentary on Cinematography, and last, but not least...and this one's for you
trystan830, a DVD of 7 episodes of Farscape! I tell you, the public library system is a wonderful thing. So many free goodies!