it's about time ...

i should start using this blog thing for promotion. so here are some loglines and sample pages from the three scripts i'm starting to send out. i've had a few people ask for scripts since the austin film festival, but more is generally better. so if any of these sound up yer alley, please contact me through my facebook page (www.facebook.com/kevinrexroat).

SHE CAN'T STAY WITH ME is a comedy about a woman who attains enlightenment by plotting to kill her irritating mother. I started writing SHE CAN'T STAY WITH ME after hearing friends say things like, "If my dad dies before my mom, I'll go nuts," and "I can't wait until I'm an orphan." That sentiment struck me as profoundly sad, so I wrote a comedy about it. The screenplay looks at the love/hate relationships that are universal in families, and it's all about what people will do to get the lives they want. And it's a scream. SHE CAN'T STAY WITH ME advanced in every competition I entered last year, including Austin, BlueCat, and Page International. The Film School chose it to open their new series of staged readings.

She Can't Stay With Me First Three

BOY GIRL BOY GIRL is a comedy about two high school seniors who, after an argument about sex and their relationship, have their sexes magically swapped by a mysterious substitute teacher - and they're the only ones who realize there's been a change. They race against the clock trying to decode the substitute's clues that will help them get their old bodies back before the change becomes permanent, but when they finally find him, there's something keeping him from changing them back. BOY GIRL BOY GIRL explores teen sexuality and relationships rather than simply having boob/dick jokes, and this sets it apart from other high school movies. It was funded by a grant from The Evergreen State College, and it advanced in several competitions, including both the comedy and fantasy categories of Austin.

Boy Girl Boy Girl First Four

COME ON is a comedy about two talk-radio seduction experts who fall in love with the same woman. The germ of this story is neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a real-world seduction technique that claims to help a man get any woman into bed in half an hour by using anchor phrases that make women think about sex. These anchor phrases are things like "below me" and "new direction," which sound like "blow me" and "nude erection." Honest. I was hired to write COME ON by a prodco that didn't survive the downturn, and I now own all the rights to it. I'm thinking about changing the title to NEW DIRECTIONS just to hear people say that a lot.

Come on Three Pages From Act 1

pitch contest

i'm entering a pitch contest. the winner gets flown to l.a. and dragged around to pitch prodcos and producers. and i'm running my own contest along with it. details to follow.

so the guy in the webinar (not the one who commanded me to blog. the other guy.) said that if i write comedies, my queries should be funny, reflecting the comedy in the script. well, that's a problem for me. the comedy comes from the characters, and the characters that i like to write the most are, well, asses. so will that make me look like an ass in the query? probably. let's see. there's the racist who's mean to her kids. there's the ballplayer who can't ask a nun what time it is without swearing or asking her out. there are the high school kids who ... well they're high school kids, and i'm not sure i want to be compared to anyone within five years of high school.

and have you ever tried to be funny in a letter in which you're asking someone to buy something from you? there's a fine line between funny and annoying. hmm.

i'll be working late on this tonight. (again, this was in the boy's blog. curse you, blogspot, for your free services!)

another writer just told me to blog. good lord. okay. i'll start posting stuff up here more often. and stuff with more relevant content than this. (note -- this post somehow ended up in my son's blog. i swear to god i'm not retarded. i think blogspot has a problem with me.)

hmm.

that previous post was supposed to go on sulli's blog. is this really that confusing for me?

needed a camera

sometimes sulli wants to be a dog when we take a walk. we put a leash around his chest and listen to him bark and say, "i'm a labradoodle." well, all four of us were out today, and theo stopped to pee. sulli ran over to where he was, dropped his pants, and peed, too.

i didn't have a camera. neither t nor i had our phones. so you'll just have to take my word for it.

"w" is for "wedgie"

a few years ago, t and i wrote a kid's book. we sent it around and got some very good responses, but no one pulled the trigger. our buddy john mcrandle painted/drew some sample illustrations for it. it's a great book. maybe we'll try to send it out again.