Worky work
Michael Brendan Baker, me, and the prolific and the inexhaustible Tom Waugh
Sickness over. Two weeks very ill. Hallucinated there was a doctor in our apartment (Svetla might be making that up, but I doubt it). Back in the saddle. Other macho epithets to follow. Now I’m sitting here ready to kick out my 40 page second comprehensive essay for my PhD (the last thing I need to do before I can begin actually working on my thesis) and I have a 2400 word article to write for POV magazine, and, nothin’. Got me a case of writer’s block. Hmmm. I guess I need a few days to adjust.
Svetla and I have been asked to go to Toronto as consultants in a day-long meeting with Canada Council for the Arts people and other media arts organizers, to help with a new plan the Council is developing around media arts dissemination. We’re going by train next Tuesday. I actually can’t wait – I love travelling by train, and it will be pretty great to have some input and simultaneously learn about the inner workings of Canada’s largest arts funding agency. We’re also getting ready for our trip to Amsterdam later this month. Going to the Amsterdam documentary festival (IDFA). I’ve got press accreditation with POV, but this means the aforementioned 2400 word article needs a-writing…
And Cinema Politica continues apace, the large all-consuming web it is. We have so many people suddenly contacting us from Scandinavia wanting to start up CP locals it’s quite odd…And the book I just spent two and a half years working on with Thomas Waugh and Michael Brendan Baker is now OFFICIALLY in the hands of the publisher!! Oh yeah!! We have book launches planned across the country beginning in Toronto on February 25th. Can’t wait to hold that hard work in my hands and just feel the weight of words (I’m including the editor’s picture submitted to the publisher just so everyone knows I’m still a giant dork, as if there was ever any doubt)…
OK, I was hoping this little update would cure my writer’s block – time to see if it loosened up the gears a little…