Playing (John Lee) Hooky
June 16th, 2005I have absolutely nothing to do at work today. This has more often than not been the case since I started working three months ago, but now ALL the writers have nothign to do as we wait for the managers and techs to handle the final stages of “release” for an earlier game (that I had nothing to do with). It’s vexing since I have to be here, because it’s work. But then there’s nothing to do except download games from yahoo and then play them until the trial is over.
I think I’ve down loaded like 20 games in the last three days. I liked Inspector Parker a lot. The web-game is lame since you can’t get any harder than “level four” and the screen window is too small to make out the details of the rooms. Plus, if you lose, you have to replay the super-easy levels to get back to the challenging ones.
There’s no graphics programs on this work machine and it being a PC and my home hosting a Mac, it makes for compatibility muck-ups anyway. I recently got Photoshop CS on this computer though, but I’ve only used it to make concept art for shirts I’d like to make when I get around to learning silk screening. I ordered a kit from Dick Block online today.
Yesterday I didn’t show up (but said I wouldn’t ahead of time, which my supervisor tacitly approved) and we shot My Wife, The Ghost 3 for 7 hours while my mom was at work. We had a lot of trouble trying to schedule this date, and once everyone was assembled, it turns out everyone could unexpectedly do Sunday as well, so we’re going to shoot all day then to pick up the rest of the shots. Things actually went pretty smoothly for the shoot and we covered a lot.
Kirk wrote the script for 4 already, but was unsure about making it a “finale.” Just the fact that we’re losing our location seems to dictate we need to wrap it up, but he was thinking with 102 going dark in Nov and Dec, we should try and have one for every month up until then, self-cancelling in October. We do have 3 ideas for episodes we didn’t get around to, but I’d rather just wrap the show like we planned and if we decide to shoot them we’d do it away from 102 and put them on our own site or on a DVD.
This all is highly hubristic and ignores the idea we have to be “voted back,” but I think #3 is a solid, funny show (better than episode 1) so even if we (most likely) drop from #1, we should be “safe.” I also imagine there will be fewer submissions in the lazy, lazy summer.
We both have shows we want to do after this one ends. Kirk has his toys/miniatures movies and vague concepts of a superhero show. I’ve been writing concepts with Seth and we’d talked about meeting today.