Oye Como Va

[John Singleton]

NYC Screenwriters,

'Tis I, dear screenwriters, your beleaguered organizer.


So I'm trying to put together a location for our first meeting which
will eventually become our regular haunt.

What do you think about these places:


1) http://www.baggotinn.com/baggot.html (Good space...)

2) http://www.stainbar.com/ (Easy to get; I know the owner)

3) http://www.pianosnyc.com/

4) http://www.bowerypoetry.com/ (I doubt we can get this venue)

5) http://www.gershwinhotel.com/english/site1.html (I'd LOVE to get this place)

Ideas, anyone?

I'd like to set up a meet-up for next week. So let's make a decision
and get rolling!

Thanks,
JLS/Rhyce

[ser...@aol.com]

hey,

 

I can't make any recommendations but I will tell you this, the stain bar seems really nice, and although Bowery Poetry Cafe would be cool, it gets really crowded there, doesn't it?

 

Looking forward to the first meeting. 

 

jessica 

[David Scherzer]

i like the baggot inn

[Squalid]

Salutations One and all,

 

I’m confused about who this email is to be sent, so I sent it to all of yuh from whom I’ve received emails on this nascent network.

 

After clicking on the URLs and scopin’ the next Algonquin Roundtable, alack, I can choose not.

 

For me, it’s location, location, location, so I like the Gershwin Hotel; however, as it is a hotel for composers and not scribes, I have my reservations.  Composers (and scribes) can be an ornery lot.  Still there is the chance one of the composer conclaves may be looking for librettists and we are sure to fit the bill.

 

The Piano bar seems okay as well, although instead of composers, it may be packed with musicians playing riffs while waiting for the composers from the Gershwin to head downtown and discover them.  Again, I have my reservations for much the same reason as above. 

 

The Bowery Poetry Club, in a fine location, close to the best bar in the city for a Manhattan and the best bar for a Nigroni, has one minor drawback:  It’ll be filled with poets, a bohemian lot that may cause much distraction for me.  And once the pods of poets discover we’re a school of screenwriters, they may laugh us right out of the club for our ineptitude to scribble full length screenplays in metered verse within one or two pages.  There is the chance we could convince them we, screenwriters, are writers of epic poetry, but it might be a stretch.

 

The Stainbar – The Stainbar.  Well, while purported to be easy to reach for those who are close to the L, it is a journey of substantial import for the likes of me, however, as I go by the name squalid, what could be more perfect than round tabling in a stain?  And, most important, Our intrepid Mr. Rhyce, knows the owner.  Massive plus!  Good publicity for said owner as word spreads that Stainbar has become the new Algonquin Roundtable!

 

The Baggot Inn, a fine name for a conclave, and in a super location, easy to get to (for me).  Not overly trafficked, since it’s on the west side and not the east side, fewer people leaving us plenty of room to converse without the need for Chloraseptic®.  In the section of town steeped in literary history.  Perhaps too much literary history, but I believe we’ll survive.  It’s also close to the Blue Ribbon -- home to the cooks and chefs in the city when dinner service is over for the night and it’s time to drink and eat someone else’s cooking.

 

Well, I’m all for meeting next week.  Any day ‘cept Thurs is fine for me, so I’ll be there, wherever it is.

 

Heigh ho,

squalid (geoff)

 

 

 

 

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I'm for #1, 2, or 5.

Jarod

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[Natalie K.]

Hi All--

First off, I'd like to say,

Well said, Squalid. 

 

Is the Piano Bar where Nora Jones got discovered?  Or did she just generally play in piano bars after dropping out of NYU as a jazz piano major?  Or something like that?

 

Just kidding.  Actually, I'm just writing to let you all know that I won't be able to come to the first few meetings (until about August 25th and thereafter)...that's when my second year of grad school starts up, so I'll be happy to join you then.

 

I have discovered, too, a very important fact about myself this summer:  I'm more a novel writer than a screenwriter, and definitely more of a screenwriter than a librettist.  (I also shop at Fairway when I'm in New York.  Why?  Because I'm cheap!  Oh, and plus, it's a great alternative when I'm too poor to order with FreshDirect.)

 

My point being, I think I might write better in a team, maybe of like two or three...and preferably someone who knows about some technical stuff like camera angles and stuff.  I know the basics, you know... Fade In, Cut To, Int, Ext, etc. etc.  but I still need to learn some of the tricks of the trade.  Part of my self-assigned homework before I meet with you all is, I'm going to read the screenplays of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, as well as Kill Bill Vol. 2, which are available to the general public online at http://www.screenplays-online.de/  (although the fact that it's Vol. 2 is not mentioned, it just says "Kill Bill".  It wasn't until I started reading the screenplay that I figured it out.)  Also, I'd like to have a piece to bring to critiques when I join... or at least something I've been working on.  Dude, if Zach Braff did it for Garden State, I can totally do it! 

 

I'm also currently looking for a writing buddy for fiction, having to do with action/adventure and combined with/or Latin American magical realism, a la Isabel Allende or Laura Esquivel.  Keep me posted, and I will see you all in August!

 

Tootles,

 

Natalie N. Keefe

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[Jay Jocson]

Dear fellow screenwriters,

 

This sounds great that the ball is rolling on this endeavor. I unfortunately will not be able to attend the first meeting due to a death in the family. I will be out of the country for a week. My mother passed away just this Monday. She had been suffering an ongoing battle with diabetes and though my family misses her love we are happy she is no longer suffering. Anyway like a good writer I know the best scenes are stolen from real life and somewhere down the line this experience will deepen both my character and my life and make for better writing. Anyhow, I look forward to attending the next meeting. I am eager to contribute to this group and learn from you all in kind.

 

Please keep me posted. Thanks.

 

Best regards,

 

Jay