I Killed You, Mr. Anderson; I Watched You Blog -- With A Certain Satisfaction, I Might Add.

Longest entry title yet.

So, the latest life updates run as follows: I still have an (unwanted) excess of free time on my hands -- not unwanted because I have nothing to do, but unwanted because I don't feel capable of doing what I want with it. Rather than truly utilizing the time to write and edit and animate, I feel obliged to continue a fruitless search for any form of employment, be it Wendy's, Burger King, or Twentieth Century Fox.

Meanwhile, I -have- been writing. Recently getting the pen was my original screenplay GHOST NINJA, an action-horror-comedy in the vein of Scream or Friday the 13th. It's largely based on ridiculous kills, Apatowan dialogue, and a lot of cheesy stalking/startling scenes. The hope is that because it's actually minimal on spare bodies to gut, it's really getting drawn along by the characters and their witty dialogue -- that's not something you see a lot of in horror, is it? Oh, and I'm casting Anthony Hopkins as the Ghost Ninja. Not really, but if he said yes, then really. ;)

I also hit a snag of energy in my animating, doubled with a loss of faith in my ability to really meet my writer's vision of the events and characters. That passed, but to be sure, I am massively delayed and probably won't complete the movie by the end of the month. A shame, since it was made specifically for Valentine's Day, with a new character and everything -- but then, if it got me to make a new character, one who fits so snugly already into the existing cast and plotlines, then it can't be a bad thing.

Lastly, Matt and I completed our first LA collab film -- "On the Line," a story about a man and his laundry. Nothing groundbreaking, but cute and fun and executed well. Several people have already referenced it to the work of Pixar... but in live-action form. I'm not sure what our next project will be, but I've got another script lined up for the taking, and more than enough interested parties to work on it with. This one *SPOILERS* deals with the Grim Reaper hiring a lackey for tasks around the office, and his attempts to train him in the art of proper Reaping. If you liked 'On the Line,' stay tuned for this one as well. :)