I’m working on my first real fantasy, and while it’s terrific fun, I continually bump up against the economics of such a place. Just how did that castle situated impossibly on the edge of a cliff get built? Who paid for it? Who maintains it? Who feeds the workers that maintain it? So many questions.
This is why I chose to stick close to the woods, even at great cost to my filmmaking career and other opportunities. There is no five day work week in the woods. There are no “talking points” among the trees. There is pure life and pure death, and several lifetimes’ worth of knowledge to learn.
After grinding for years on the New Jersey bar circuit, Bruce Springsteen signed his first major record contract with Columbia Records on 9th June 1972. He immediately began gathering former bandmates to form what would become the legendary E Street Band. #BruceSpringsteen
Oh snap! Crazy lady who put hatred front and center at all times gets resoundingly rejected. She rabidly called trans people “violent,” said we were a cult, and “fueled violence toward women.” She went all in, but now her political career is out out out … most likely for good.