Okay, now I'm pissed. Of course, I have been pissed for three years now, but what I'm trying to say is, now I'm
really pissed.
I am (as anyone who has ever read anything I have ever written because I always mention it) a budding, part-time indie filmmaker.
In response to someone else's pre-cancellation diary post about The Reagans, I mentioned that if CBS bowed to the pressure from the right-wing, I was going to go postal. (Note to John Ashcroft: I'm not going to shoot anybody, but I'm gonna be really mad, and I plan on doing everything I can to be a pain in the ass. Bite me.)
I am about to begin post-production on the fourth in a series of short films that my crew and I have been cranking on for more than a year. When I'm done, I have decided to turn my sights, my excess energy and my wrath upon the idiots running this country. I will use all storytelling tools at my disposal, and I hope that it will be unpleasant for the people on the Right. I will begin as a gnat on an elephant's ass, but I hope to end up as a really, really bad infection. I'd be kidding myself (and I'd come across as an arrogant, self-important prick) if I said I was certain that it was going tto do some good, but as Americans, it is or
duty to do what we can. I know you know that already.
Whatever I do, it probably won't be a straight on attack to begin with. I am thinking of, oh, using a microcosm of some sort to draw parallels to what is happening today. I don't know yet. To say that there is lots of raw material to work with is an understatement.
We each have gifts that we are obliged... obliged to use in this frighteningly ridiculous war to make people open their eyes and see the truth.
And so, I am beginning a new journey today. Strapped for time and at the lower-to-middle end of the income scale, it may be sorta slow going. I work two jobs, which you wouldn't know from all the time I spend online, and I also do quite a bit of pro bono design work, including some stuff I am working on for kos and the rest of you.
I write this entry to solicit ideas from you freakin' geniuses. I have a few of my own, but whatever I do, I want it to be rich and meaningful, and that sorta describes the kos community.
In spite of the angry tone that I am writing with at this moment, my projects tend to be quiet, contemplative thought-provoking pieces. You don;t have to be loud to make your point, unless you are Bill O'Reilly.
So, gimme some ideas if you want to. You can have a "story idea by..." credit if you want it, and you'll probably be sharing it with lots of others.
If you haven't already, go read Six Concessions to Al Queda. Why? I dunno. It took me a long time to write it. Just go do it.