Hi folks, Back from the Berlin film festival, which I’ll get into later. That’s not the big news anyway, which is this: As I write I’m uploading my Fundy film onto Youtube. The title being, simply, Fundy; A Study of Time and Tide. I’ve been blabbing about making this film since June, when I left Montauk. Three months work, the…
Fundy’s Rhythm, More T&H, Berlin Soon
Scott’s Bay, Nova Scotia This is really a good life. I know it isn’t always going to be like this – like today, or yesterday or last week – but my goal is to make it so. Give it a shot. And I’ll pay my dues, so to speak, do what I can to make things better, cosmic balance and…
A Return to Five Islands
In response to my last post, which alluded to the question of why I live like this, I got an email saying, in part, ‘Everyone would live like that if we could afford it.’ My response to this response is I don’t think so. My impression is that I was overly successful with my imagery of the beautiful and relatively…
WHY I LEFT, PART ONE
Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia, July 27. For reasons that I suspect are obvious – and which I’ll try to reinforce with some imagery in this post – in my travels I’ve not yet been asked why I live like this: After all, my road-ramble is not a vacation or a hiatus or an ‘assignment’ or a film location shoot; something…
Sat CNN, Fundy Flats, Plus Tension
July 18, Johnson’s Mills, New Brunswick. Thought I’d make it a regular feature of these posts that the up top/first photo will be of Jose (can’t figure out how to add an accent to the ‘e’), his locale on the planet at the writing of the post, which is no small challenge given my aversion to publishing photos lacking in…
Walmart Lots, T&H Blabbing, Plus Fundy Obsessions
Hi folks, Can’t quite bring myself to shoot the view out the front Gus and I woke up to this morning (Tuesday, July 16th, currently about 8:30 AM)…. Oh, hell, all right, I’ll shoot it. See if I can grab an image that communicates the vibe where I am… Right. Walmart lot (Moncton, Nova Scotia). So much…
BUSTED AT CUSTOMS, RICH & LISA, WATER TIME IN NYC
July 3, Scarborough, Maine. June 26 Gus and I blew out of Montauk much as I did in ’96 and then again in ’07, with Shiner and Honey, respectively, as travel companions, having ‘given up house and home’ for the road life and a creative project (the details of which were, back then and presently, to be figured out…
How Much Does Sean Penn Hate My Ass?
Sean Penn hates my sorry ass. I mean actively so. An example: In early 2012 Penn went out of his way to kill a deal I had brewing with HBO; a deal that arguably would have made me ‘rich and famous.’ I was to write a pilot based on Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer’s Memoir and a…
Pulling the Trigger, a Fedex Truck, and Big Al
Gus and I pulled the trigger on our new life; the nearby photo is about five minutes after I coughed up the cash and papers were signed. (Parting with currency for something physical has always been easy for me…) See if you recognize this dialog from Water Time (me to Honey): ‘We’re giving up house and home and heading for…
Crap Dvds, Mom, and Tilting at Big Al
First some business: I sent out a batch of dvds to those who wanted them. Some were apparently defective. If yours is, please email me at allan@banditobooks.com and put ‘Crap DVD’ in the subject box and give me your address again, formatted like a shipping label. I’ll send another. This has been really upsetting. Also, and this is embarrassing: On the site…