H A !

told ya suckas id do it.

as promuised to myself and (i guess) others, i finished the second draft of my romantic dramedy only some two years after starting it again for the third time (long story... dont ask)... suffice to say it started off as an overreaching melodrama about teen angst and drugs... yes, i was a teen when i wrote it.

now? well now its an overreaching pretentious romantic dramedy about love, lies, passion, and art. BOX OFFICE GOLD.

as you might have read earlier, i was tooling around trying to change the title.

back in the day (the teen angst days) it was called:

children don't breathe underwater

when it changed to a romantic dramedy, i appropriately dropped the "children" and kept the "underwater"... as there are several references to the ocean, being in over your head, etc, etc.

well, nine or ten years later, i was beginning to feel that it really didnt fit the tone anymore. it isnt loose or selfeffacing or absurd as the script now kinda lies...

so, the new title (with some thanks to christian) is... and no, i dont give a shit what you mutha fuckers think of it...

the self portrait of a pretentious bastard

oh well, ill probably hate it in the morning.

be that as it may, the important part is that ive finished a draft, and im actually happy with it. well, happy enough to show it to people and possibly have it represent me out there...

so, tomorrow i crack open the files again and pull out the last draft of marathon (to be retitled as well...).

until then, ill catch all y'all on the flip side.

(time for some geometry wars and bioshock, tee-hee)

-jrh