Because what Eastern Europe needed was more Zombie Films

It;s funny to think that something you helped create, something that started in your brain, manages to slowly make it's way around the world. It's been a few years since Dead Heist hit DVD in the US of A where it was met with the typical direct to video "meh". Every few months it seems to pop up on the radar somewhere else. So far Dead Heist has made it's way to Mexico, Germany, Japan (renamed Bank of the Dead), Australia, and now Romania where it retails for 9,90 Ron.

9.9 Romanian lei = 3.0508 US dollars

Seeing something you wrote show up in foreign countries helps fuel this long standing desire of every writer to be scorned in your own backyard, yet accepted in foreign countries where people are smarter and more cultured. Where a film about a bunch of crack dealers trying to rob a bank and end up fighting the undead can be met with the appropriate level of appreciation.

Te iubesc România....

My Drive Review...

My DRIVE Review for encore magazine

Finishing up Novel Numero Dos

I'm coming to the close of Novel Number Two, Edward Merchant. It's been a long labor (about 4 years) going back and forth between this and a number of other projects. The whole thing was inspired by my desire to write a western. But i didn't have a conventional western in me. So what happened was i ended up with a dark piece about a bounty hunter who has a particular disdain for society.

Edward became a kind of outlet for me. And truth be told, it's a nihilist tale that goes to some pretty dark places.

I'm always a little bummed when i finish a project, mainly because i so rarely revisit my work once it's finished. For me, the fun is tied into the creative process. I'm not sure if i'll have enough time to get the whole thing done by 2012. If i have it my way, i'll have a new book, a new movie, and new play, and the second volume of EXE: Executable File, if i can get enough people interested in the first volume.

I share a Birthday with Google.`

It's my birthday. A day i generally loathe. Probably because i'm uncomfortable talking about things that bear no special meaning. Everyone has a birthday. And i did absolutely nothing that 6 billion other people did. My Mom did all the work. Shouldn't i be celebrating the massive amount of pain and suffering she endured.

It wasn't like i crawled out the birth canal on my own. She did the pushing. And yet you're supposed to celebrate the day you basically did nothing other than not get stuck on the way out.

Happy Birthday = Congratulations on not fucking up nature's most basic premise.

19 Copies in the Mail and Still Waiting for A Word

Every Friday i take an hour or two and reach out to websites & pop culture blogs. You send out an email and try to get someone to take five minutes to talk about whatever the hell you're working on. They give you an address, you mail out a copy, and then you wait. And you wait. And then you wait some more. At some point you start to wonder if your creative labor has become a coaster or low grade toilet paper for a cost efficient web site.

At last count i had mailed out 19 copies of EXE to Websites and have not gotten a response. This is not shocking, only because i've been riding this train for so long. You're lucky to get 1 response back from 20 copies you send out.

Patience is something i've come to appreciate, though i'd be lying if i told you there wasn't a fair amount of frustration over the time and effort you spend on a project only to be met with ambivalence. The only way to get past it is to push forward and keep the campaign moving. This time i gave myself a year to build a little love towards EXE. I'm nearing the end of month 3.

there's no magical way to get people to give a shit. you just have to cast the net so wide that you find someone who likes what you're doing and is willing to devote a little time to explain why it's worth a mention. At some point, i'll find that person.