Quotes within quotes. It starts with this from Jarmusch and continues… “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”

So, my 2010 resolution is to see one indie film in the theater per month and contribute to an artform I actually like a lot with more than places in my 500-movie-plus Netflix cue. This means: handing over cash and telling people about the movies I watch and like. First up: FISH TANK by Andrea Arnold.

We were just granted non-profit sponsorship for our doc… Which means that my partner and I are about to go beat the bushes for $5K in donations just to transcribe the film. Ouch!

Buy what if we weren’t asking for cash? What if we could ask – even our brokest friends – for a donation of time and boredom.

We crawl slowly and with a nonsensical numbering system closer and closer to 66.6 lessons learned making Savage County.