Loudlon's Tab Corner!

My favorite is horror but I'm a big cinema buff in general and watch a wide variety of stuff. It's pretty much the same as how I am with music; I have my favorites but will listen to just about anything that's good.

I'm also a big Kurosawa fan. To this day I think Seven Samurai is one of the top two or three greatest movies in the history of film. A beautiful, all-around magnificent piece of filmmaking, boistered by a fantastic performance by Toshiro Mifune. That dude was to Kurosawa what Deniro is to Scorcese. Or Chow Yun Fat is to John Woo. Or Kurt Russell is to John Carpenter. Or Samuel Jackson is to Tarantino.

I could go on…

Nope, just unemployed LOL

Used to be a case worker and addiction counselor, but was let go when budget cuts came down and they couldn't afford to pay me anymore. So now I'm living off my savings. It helps that I'm staying in my mom's summer home – sure am glad I bought it for her back in the ‘90s LOL – so I don’t have to pay rent.

A few years back I optioned the very first script I ever wrote and sold the second, despite screenwriting only being a hobby at the time. So after losing my job I decided to see what would happen if I put some real effort into it. I get a lot of read requests, have done well in screenwriting contests and right now have a couple filmmakers psyched on one of my scripts, but so far I've yet to land that One Big Sell that will make me rich and render all of you unimportant.

Some day…

Thanks, man! And speaking of writing tabs, new submission: Limelight, by Rush.

I hope you find it useful, man. I worked on that thing for two hours – not that it's a hard song to play, but because I kept having to alter staff lengths while writing it to accommodate the crap-load of time changes. It didn't help that at one point Peart changes his drumming time from 3/4 to 4/4, yet Geddy continues playing 3/4 under him.

Yeesh…

Me and a couple of lads used to play Limelight back in the day, top tune.Seven Samurai is THE number one Imo, and Kurosawa the best director, only David Lean comes close. My dad was an entertainer and also wrote scripts for TV. He wrote a film script about an old rock band getting back together, he sent copies to loads of agents with no luck. I read it, it was really good, we were both gobsmacked when the film ‘Still Crazy’ hit the screens, it was my dads script practically word for word! I sent a plotline to Coronation Street, they replied with the obligitory, “thanks but no thanks”, three months later it was in the show. I've got a movie script, its about a boy in Belfast in 1972, he is at his cousins house while his mother is at work, his uncle answers the door and is shot dead. The boy and his mother move to Rhode Island where he grows up. Then it cuts to modern day and he has to go back to Belfast for a family funeral, although now an outcast, he works out that his uncles killing was not a Paramilitary thing but something much darker, his investigation becomes a roller coaster ride