It’s a new Dawn, It’s a new Day, It’s a New Life…
It’s odd
I’d not really noticed that we are nearing a new decade, and I’m once more thrown into a reflective mood. Such a lot has happened over the last ten years. Most notably is that I’ve my own house, a dog and the career that I’ve been longing for is just stuttering into gear. I’ve some old friends kicking around, but mostly spend time with some tat are perhaps a bit newer, more because of the direction my life has gone in, what I now do is all encompassing, and that tends to bring in people with similar interests and desires. The nineties was all about music, the noughties slowly became about film. I’ve reached a pretty high stage of my career in sales, only to feel that it was totally the wrong thing to be doing, leaving me feeling empty and unaccomplished.
Relationships
I’ve grown to be very good friends with my brother over the last ten years, we were brothers before, now we are best friends, who without I would never be able to be doing this whole film thing. I’ve had some flings, lived with a young lady, split up and been left with the sweetest dog in the world, something that would never have happened on my own, and whilst I write this she is curled up on my lap, helping me feel in a good place.I’ve gone through one of the most stressful job ever, only to give it all up and heap another chunk of stress on myself, all be it self imposed this time. But most of all I think I’ve grown up, really grown up over the last ten years!
Whats ahead?
Well lots of stress, I’m either going to have a great decade or loose my house. All the signs look good, we have serious interest in our first feature, I have selected and met a very promising Director of Photography and all being well she will chose to work with us. There have been almost countless approaches from Producers, and we are looking to start shooting on the first of June in Oxford. I’ve immense pressure from above to have a script yesterday. We start location scouting early Jan, and hopefully breaking down the budget…. It’s really bloody exciting. And trust me if we get this right, it could be huge!
So I’m guessing that this will be the last from me till 2010
So for those of you that read this blog [its ten years old next year!], I guess it a thank you and I hope that you and yours have a brilliant Christmas and that twenty ten [Tenties?] brings you everything that you could wish for and a few nice surprises. Keep our eyes open for spoilers on ‘No Balls, Scrum Like it Hot‘.
Laters,
ChalkStar