What's up, "Hollywood?"
Man, I'm still rockin' that Lily Allen CD I plugged last week. Can't get enough of it. There's barely ANYTHING about this girl online, so she must have come out of nowhere. She's gonna be huge by next year.
Has anyone seen where the sun went? I'm done with the April Showers... but at least it's warm. That means summer is almost upon us, and that's when Chicago truly comes alive! The restaurants all put their tables out on the sidewalks, the bars open their windows, and the lakefront is bustling. As of yesterday, we finally know someone with a BOAT, and the harbor has Wi-Fi. I love technology. Hmmm... maybe I'll finally write that Shipwreck vs. modern day pirates story for G.I.Joe that I've wanted to do for the last few years. Or better yet, just drink beer on the boat and act it out.
For now I'll settle for Starbucks (although Burger King has FREE wi-fi now, and free refills - hard to top).
Man, it's been an "all over the place" kinda week, and it just increases in May. Family Guy has become the most challenging licensed property we've ever worked on, but we're finally nearing completion on issue #1. As I type this people at DDP are working overtime to get this out as soon as humanly possible.
Last week was a constant juggling act between the typical DDP duties, writing How to Self Publish #4, prepping presentations for E3 Expo which Kunoichi will be attending, scheduling meetings with William Morris (who it looks like is going to be repping me) to make the most of my time at E3, planning my birthday (I'm only a year away from 30 now), and closing on a real estate investment from two years ago). The part of running a company that I abhor is the INCESSANT, never ending accounting. Eesh... if i could just get rid of all this "math." Thank God for bookkeepers, though.
Why am I not rich yet? I AM almost 30 :) Hmm... maybe next month.
This morning started off with a business meeting with my Kunoichi partner, and going over all of our different "mini-ventures", making sure we have our heads on straight, followed by a stop at starbucks to get in a couple thousand words on the self-pub book. So now I'm blogging as a much needed distraction. Hmm... I'm writing as a way to procrastinate... I mean take a break... from writing. Does that make sense? It's all good, though, because the Horror Pops are in town playing a very small venue, which means tonight will be rockin'.
So this week will just be a continuation of last, with a visit from our printer's head sales rep visiting from Toronto on Wednesday, endcapped by Devil's Duer Sam Wells' birthday on Friday, and my own bash at a local bar on Saturday. Then, on the following Tuesday, it's off to LA for the E3 video game convention. If you've never been there, find a way to go, at least once (but don't forget your ear plugs).
If anyone works for a video game developer in need of high end creative services, hit me up, because that's what I'll be pimping to various companies for Kunoichi. I'll also be meeting with companies in an effort to assist in a deal for our Hack/Slash video game tie-in to the feature film. In between this, my agent (yeah, I guess i can say that now), is supposed to set me up with meetings with various video game or film people either to discuss DDP properties, or people in need of what Kunoichi or DDP have to offer.
It seems like a lot of doors are opening very quickly. Doors that I have been knocking on for a very long time, going from "house to house" in the entertainment neighborhood. Now I just have to make sure the fancy vacuum cleaners I'm trying to sell stand out from the competition.
