Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
Woven tight into the current script is music, it arrives unexpectedly as a bossa nova band becomes enchanted with their first visit to Big Sur. Like anyone alive on the face of planet earth bossa nova is born in Antonio Carlos Jobim’s The Girl from Ipanema, the all-time most popular bossa song ever written. The 1963 smash […]
Read More Raining bossa pouring nova—our fetching bossa nova singer remains convinced that there is only one man that will have his way with her and that is the man she plans to have a family with— that’s funny right
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Read More love with road closuresWe drive to camp south of Big Sur. We’ll head over to Death Valley for two days, then to Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs. This last stop isn’t too far from Searchlight, Nevada where the pugilistic Harry Reid got his first haircut and fistfight. I’m still plotting out the next screenplay— Cliffhanger— that’s a working title of […]
Read More CliffhangerKey decision in my run up to the next screenplay is selecting the music tracks. Even if things all get tossed out, I like building a file of songs that catch the flavor. Bossa is of course Brazilian built for yearning, heartbreak and pathos. You want to dance you’ll play a samba. Bye, Bye […]
Read More Blame it on the Bossa Nova