Full Frontal Shrewdity - Michael

We're leading the assault. As far as the current schedule goes, we should be ready to send the studio heads our prosposal and demo in 3-4 weeks. This week, the last song should be recorded. Next week, final mix and mastering. 3rd week, print demos send to lawyer and copyright songs. 4th week, finalize letter with lawyer and send it to the studio heads.

Up until now, our plan has been to get the rights from the studio to go through with our adaptation, before moving ahead with the project. I've been doing some reaserch, and found the contact information for a few stars from the film, as well as the producer. So rather than one front, we're going to attack all fronts possible. Hell, maybe we'll get an agent.

One bit of news, slightly inspiring and yet, disconcerting. The film, The Goonies, is being considered by Richard Donner to be made into a Broadway musical. The article I found featured some fans that have already started work on a Goonies musical. It was stressed the the fan-based musical and the Donner project were not connected in any way, so I assume that Donner's version is not going to be using the songs from the fans.

This could be seen as inspiring--seeing a film get made into a musical---if it happens for The Goonies, it could happen for us, but it's also diheartening for two reasons: One, it could lead to somebody having the same idea about adapting the film we're adapting, and two, and here's the really irksome thing, these guys have written their songs and made music videos to them on YouTube using footage from The Goonies. Here we are, painstakingly trying to avoid all copyright issues, and these wipes have an article in Slash Film written about them. Their videos are direct copyright violations, and haven't been taken down. Annoying.

In other news, a tiny hiccup this past week: the Venezuelan singer, after sending us a mere one track of him singing his song, has vanished. Can't be reached. It's caused us to buckle down and finish writing another song that we're having recorded this week. I mean, sure we get another song in the bag, but it's more work, more money, more time that we don't have, plus if we never hear from the guy again, we have to find yet another singer.

So time to introduce a new singer. Her name is Samantha.  She's recording with us this week (along with the perpetually stellar Jones) and she's amazing. This woman was born for Broadway, and I'm exceptionally excited to be working with her.

And now for something completely different, I get bothered when people try to extend words when they type to show you how they're saying it, but then do it incorrectly. Like when someone writes "cool" as "coollllllllllllllllllllllllll" instead of as "coooooooooooooooool," or for "anyway," you get, "anywayyyyyyyyyyyyy" when it should be "anywaaaaaaaaaaay."

Just sayin'.