All my favorite things about San Diego came together in one day. The beautiful bike ride, Mission Bay, the boardwalk of South Mission and Pacific Beach, La Jolla, Pannikin Coffee & Tea, DG Wills' Books, Windansea Beach where the waves were breaking fairly large and the crowd was lining the rail watching the surfers, a nice sunset (not enough clouds or color to be an amazing sunset), a fun nighttime boardwalk bike ride down to Ocean Beach (South Beach Bar & Grill) for some chips & guac, a fish taco, a big beer, a quiet reading in the loud bar of my new Trainspotting screenplay, a quiet (safe, this time) ride home to my boat and a 30-minute shower. Absolutely amazing.I've never ridden that far on a bike. True, it was only 25 or 26 miles, which is nothing to most serious "cyclists," but for me... I mean, I think I probably weigh about 140 pounds and am totally ... * [ripped just like I was in high school when I was state champ in wrestling my Junior year, and ] exhausted and sore.* Although part of the original screenplay, not a single part of this scene ever made it into the final cut of the film of my life. Unless my life was cut non-sequentially, which would be weird.
So the screenplay thing: I bought a couple of screenplays at DG Wills and a few days ago I bought a book at Upstart Crow about writing screenplays. The screenplays are Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction. Tarrantino does whatever the he wants in a screenplay, direction-wise, so Pulp Fiction probably isn't a good model to follow for someone unknown, but the Trainspotting format is straightforward. I'm seriously thinking about this. Now all I need is an idea. Hmmmm.TT
