Haunting The Better 4/4/26 Haunting The Better 4/4/26

YESSIREE BOB

Completed YESSIREE BOB. Took about a month. Not my favorite thing I've written, but the best so far, which is a strange feeling — happy, mostly. Not sure what's next. Going to sit with it for a few days and then start the next one.

Haunting The Better 2/21/26 Haunting The Better 2/21/26

DRUM MACHINE

Finished the rewrite of AS HE FIRED UP THE DRUM MACHINE, originally written in 1996. Mally is a prostitute who wants out — she's dreaming of the ocean. Champ is her boyfriend, a loser musician going nowhere. She steals drugs from her pimp, and the two of them try to run. That was the story.

In 1997, I bought a Sony VX1000 digital video camera and set out to make it — my first feature, shot in Pittsburgh. Thirty years ago next year. Wild to pull the script back out and see what's still alive in it after all that time.