Posted by Paul Alix at 65.198.98.16 on June 04, 2002 at 12:53:20:
Bored at work, so i was checking out your Arena columns.
After reading the one regarding the pills your taking and the nasty things they do to your ass, i thought i should write and offer some advice regarding eating and excercise, but that all seems kinda silly the second i actually bother to type it.
I was going to recomend Veganism to you, but that usually is a bad way to go, had someone suggested it to me a year ago i'd of taken a bite out of them and washed it down with a coffee shake. As far as excercise go's i was going to recomend doing something you regard as enjoyable rather than excercise, i took Tae Kwon Do a few years back and was amazed how much sweating goes into learning how to kick someones ass. I figure given you're successes there's probably alot more people who care alot more about you than i do, ready with the advice, so i'll leave it to them.
I wanted to ask you more about some of your other comments in that article, regarding the quality of your work. It seems you always bash it, or at the very least don't regard it as anything worth while. I wonder do you ever try to improve upon it? I used to do my own comic, and whenever i was done i would bash away, and then try to make it better the next time. Is this something you do? i mean the bashing i've seen, what do you do to make it better? or is that a concern?
As far as story boarding goes, is that something you do? and if so to what degree? I've never shot a film and the film majors i knew in school dind't do much other than watch movies. So i'm not really sure if it necessary for movies like yours, that are more character and dialouge based as apposed to say some big action extravaganza.
With this new movie you're working on "Jersey Girl", will there be an attempt to tackle some of the problems you have with your other movies? What specificly are the problems you have with your own work?
I kinda thougt I had all these brilliant questions for you, but I guess I just keep repeating myself.
Anyway, good luck with things regarding your health.
Paul Alix.
Pardon my orthographical inacuracies, i cant figure out how to spell check in this thing.