July 26, 2004
I can't decide what gets my blood pumping more -- the new Star Wars title, and all that it implies with that classic red font, or the descriptions of the Sin City footage (not to mention those awesome banners that are floating around the web). I've got all my Star Wars CDs playing back to back now and I'm working myself into one of those hyperbolic anticipatory hypes that always precede an eventual letdown.
But just seeing Darth Vader again is going to be so awesome...and it's less than a year away! When Episode 1 came out, I couldn't stand thinking about how it was still six years until the last one. On that note, I got a postcard in the mail today that congratulated me on the 5th Anniversary of Road Dog Productions. It was an advertisement for something; I guess they got my company info from the business bureau or something. I remember the morning I went to the city hall to register the company, and how my hair was wet and tied up in a top knot and it was freezing out and I felt very professional. Since then, the name Road Dog Productions has lost some of its appeal, particularly since there are at least two other companies out there with the same moniker. I'm probably way too sentimental to ever change it, though.
I can scarcely go a year without revamping this site in some way. Towards that end, I wiled away the hours today trying to figure out how to install cgi-scripts on my server, without having any idea what a cgi-script actually is; I followed that up with a crash course in what I think was CSS, or something like it. I guess if you spend enough time messing around with any sort of source code, you can sorta figure it out. In this case, I've installed Moveable Type scripts on this site, and come Sunday (I'm waiting to start fresh with a new month) the format of this page is going to look the same, but much cleaner. And syndicatable.
Okay. I've spent the last week either sick or in front of this computer working on stuff so technical that it's almost impossible to remember that the results have artistic merit. I'm going to disconnect from the interweb and spend the rest of the night screenwriting. Unfortunately, it's already 4 in the morning.
Posted by David Lowery at July 26, 2004 1:46 AM