This morning began with a little exercise from everyone’s favorite alien Bashar of “acting out” –– more than just visualization, really carrying out things out, almost in a play-acting way (like a kid pretending to be a rock star singing into a hairbrush.)  I won’t ...

Today Susan, Belle and I visited Cavallo Point and were joined by Elissa.  It was amazing to see the space again since my visit 3 weeks ago with Adrian, knowing that in January through March 2013 I’ll be having a show there. Leigh, the curator was AMAZING –– so BEYOND and great and I...

Two online marketing seminars (one ridiculously inept and the other amazingly helpful and generous). One client lesson. Lunch at the Art Institute with Susan and Belle. Two great conversations with Andrea Lake. Revamped the mailing list with a major import of contacts, increasing it by 30%. Redesigned my n...

I read the rest of SAVE THE CAT last night over two glasses of Malbec at Don Pistos and I totally loved it.  (This was after watching the finale of “It’s A Brad, Brad World” with Susan and Belle which was somehow intensely moving and silly all at once –– although I had tremendous Déjà vu ...

Saturday, I think I spoke to a few people on the phone and texted others, but I mostly cut 35 pages from the script. As Dan points out, if it were now filmed at 224 pages, it would only be a 3 hour and 44 minute film, only 8 minutes longer than Lawrence of Arabia. Obviously, totally not acceptable yet. Alt...

So yesterday I received about 200 messages congratulating me for the appearance of my dropback painting in the New York Times.  It was fantastic and a little overwhelming. We’re talking about my speed dials & people I haven’t spoken to in 20 years;  people I’ve just met & folks I&...

Last night I re-watched SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, a movie I really do think is fantastic.  The more you know about Shakespeare, the better it is, but even if you know next to nothing, I think it shows what the artist’s life is like better than anything else I can recall (at least MY life, that is.) I love...

My most intense sleeps seem to be when I stop working at 1 am, read for a bit, and then fall asleep by 2, only to have Belle decide 4:30 am is a great time for a walk.   I fall asleep very quickly into deep and vivid dreams for a few hours more. My phone calls got re-arranged a bit (a favorite organic dog ...

It does make a difference that I not check in to email, voicemail and Facebook immediately every morning … and it’s still so damn difficult not to!  But I am weening myself of the addiction, morning by morning, breath by breath. There were many ups and downs today — lots of minor fru...