The First Week - Success? Or Par for the course?

What began as a promising career stumbles on as a comedy of errors. Read it Jah children and learn!

Episode 12: CD PROJECT PICKUP (It's not really episode 12, but I'm conveying the idea that the story starts in the middle, not the beginning.)

So it's the night before I drive to Portland to pick up my order of 1000 cd's of Octaman, Rock of Offence. Years ago when the project began I googled the term "Octaman" and found nothing, so I figured I was in the clear with an original name that only I had thought of! But just for the heck of it, I search it again, and discover - to my horror - that it is a horror movie from 1971. There were very few search results. This was a terrible "B" movie with a guy in a rubber suit, something along the lines of "Creature from the Black Lagoon" or something. Then I laughed. That just figures, I thought. And it fits the story.

I get to Portland the next day and convey my funny little story to the guy at the desk who says, "you didn't know that"? As though it were common knowledge. Turns out he was an actor who had an interest in weird sci-fi movies. But so far we are par for the course.

Gary and I (guitar player friend) used to sit around and come up with brilliant ideas for cover songs to play in our band, only to hear it on the radio virtually the next day. One day Gary said, "I have it! The song that nobody will ever think of to cover. Hocus Pocus by Focus!" "I love that song!" I said. Let's learn it! We heard it that same week. It became a hit for the band that covered it.

I chose Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" as a reggae tune, and then she came out that week with that song as the title track of her new album. I rehearsed a reggae version of "Landslide" by Stevie Nicks only to hear it in a pet store by someone else.

These scenes and more will appear in the upcoming movie! Which will have already been made by the time I finish writing it...