On my way to work today I was behind a plumbing company truck with a funny and memorable slogan for their company...
"We're #1 in the #2 Business."
I don't remember the plumbing company, so even thought it was memorable, I guess it wasn't totally effective. Still, made me chuckle while being stuck in traffic.
Friday, June 08, 2007
Sex Over Violence
I've always wondered why people are more concerned about shielding their children from Sex than from Violence. I find it funny that people will refrain from talking about the scientific and social aspects of sexuality with their teens and pre-teens, but don't have a problem with those same children seeing a movie with a high body count, watching a movie with witchcraft, or hacking apart aliens, gargoyles or zombies in some video game.
Is not God offended by violence? Is not one of the Commandments Thou Shalt Not Kill? If I had to guess, I'd think God would be more offended by violence than sex. Either perverted can pull you away from God and His graces, but sex is a natural act and morality is about controlling those impulses as to keep them pure to God's intent. I understand that. However, murder is not a natural act, but we expose our kids to violent images everyday in film, television and video games without a concern for their psychology nor their moral health. But, show cleavage and suddenly the world is ending.
Again, I'm not saying protecting your children from immoral behavior of any kind is bad, but I do think we're often hypocritical in our approach of deciding which one of God's offenses are more valid than the next. And in our world now, Sex wins over Violence every time.
Is not God offended by violence? Is not one of the Commandments Thou Shalt Not Kill? If I had to guess, I'd think God would be more offended by violence than sex. Either perverted can pull you away from God and His graces, but sex is a natural act and morality is about controlling those impulses as to keep them pure to God's intent. I understand that. However, murder is not a natural act, but we expose our kids to violent images everyday in film, television and video games without a concern for their psychology nor their moral health. But, show cleavage and suddenly the world is ending.
Again, I'm not saying protecting your children from immoral behavior of any kind is bad, but I do think we're often hypocritical in our approach of deciding which one of God's offenses are more valid than the next. And in our world now, Sex wins over Violence every time.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Adrenaline Resurfaces
About ten years ago or so a friend of mine, Jenni Gold, asked me to write the first draft of a thriller she had in mind called Adrenaline. The story is about an international banker/embezzler who ends up on the wrong end of a con game that leads him avoiding the police, the mafia and the feds and a killer, all while being wanted for murder.
Well, Jenni and her husband Jeff have been pounding the pavement for 10 years out in L.A. and have moved up the show biz food chain slowly but surely. Over the past decade the film has been in various stages of pre-production/development... it felt like being in a long queue at Disney World. Every once and a while you get near the entrance to the ride of your life, but then the queue winds around and you find yourself a mile away again. However, recently Jenni saw an opportunity to pull Adrenaline out of the closet, dust it off and see if she could attach some real actors to the film.
So far she's doing great. I can't name any names now because the deals like this are all basically "tentative" until the film actually starts shooting, but its exciting to me, as a writer, to think that a rock and roll singer, some high quality actors and a Hollywood legend are all reading my script and liking it a lot.
That's very weird.
As my friend Kyme said, it's a validation that maybe I have some talent after all. Maybe.
This may just be another turn in the queue line, but it sure has been a very interesting journey so far. Hopefully, this time the film will finally get made and we'll get to hop on and enjoy the ride of our life.
Well, Jenni and her husband Jeff have been pounding the pavement for 10 years out in L.A. and have moved up the show biz food chain slowly but surely. Over the past decade the film has been in various stages of pre-production/development... it felt like being in a long queue at Disney World. Every once and a while you get near the entrance to the ride of your life, but then the queue winds around and you find yourself a mile away again. However, recently Jenni saw an opportunity to pull Adrenaline out of the closet, dust it off and see if she could attach some real actors to the film.So far she's doing great. I can't name any names now because the deals like this are all basically "tentative" until the film actually starts shooting, but its exciting to me, as a writer, to think that a rock and roll singer, some high quality actors and a Hollywood legend are all reading my script and liking it a lot.
That's very weird.
As my friend Kyme said, it's a validation that maybe I have some talent after all. Maybe.
This may just be another turn in the queue line, but it sure has been a very interesting journey so far. Hopefully, this time the film will finally get made and we'll get to hop on and enjoy the ride of our life.
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