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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:09:15 GMT -5
The pluses of running a scene that anyone could be part of were: seeing really wild stuff (penises set on fire, etc.) and seeing the best and the worst. Everyone bringing their "A Material" bores the shit out of me. I like seeing artists struggle, fail, find their voice and lose it again. I like seeing EVERYTHING. If I had to run a mike of all poets, I'd shoot myself in the head. Good to mix it up and then the collaborations that came out of it were amazing between writers, comics, actors, musicians, etc.
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:10:46 GMT -5
Minuses were the obvious: Having to throw lunatics out for too many reasons to list. You do an open mike for 15 years and you see some pretty awful shit that is every so often, funny in retrospect. There were always fights, shit getting broken, people going nuts.
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Post by Brer Brian on Oct 27, 2010 12:11:25 GMT -5
What about... rent, dayjobs, etc... Do you still work at a bookstore?
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:13:06 GMT -5
I do! Living a life of no compromise sometimes means sucking it up and doing a day job. But it's only part time. Lucky enough now to freelance for Artnet, Penthouse and a few others.
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:15:34 GMT -5
The first writing gigs I got paid almost nothing but I just kept trudging on and I just got a book deal! Good thing cuz the advance from Live Nude Elf is long gone so waiting on the next advance. Also, sell paintings sometimes.
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Post by Brer Brian on Oct 27, 2010 12:15:44 GMT -5
Let's talk "Science"...
When you wrote the "I Did It for Science" articles, were all the ideas for experiemts yours?
Were there any that you regretted/left feeling demeaned, or were they all equally worthy outings of self-discovery?
Any future experiments planned, or ones you wish you'd tried?
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:16:50 GMT -5
Some days I feel like I'm in the mafia, chasing down money wherever I can. I also write for a "fan site" for the show Nikita. Great fun. Low pay. I don't care...it's still a paid writing gig.
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Post by ccjohn on Oct 27, 2010 12:19:14 GMT -5
Rev Jen, do you write only about Nikita, or any other of the new crop of TV shows this year?
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:19:34 GMT -5
Most of the "Sexperiment" ideas were mine. Sometimes they were my editors. Never felt demeaned, but often, very exhausted like when I worked at Wiggles and made a Ninja like escape or did nude housekeeping on the coldest weekend of the year! But the time I was canned, I knew a lot more about "my body, my elf" than I had previously...very valuable knowledge, but I was also "so done with it." Every month, doing some new crazy thang. I almost became celibate afterward!
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:20:49 GMT -5
I only write about Nikita, which is a good thing because my TV only gets the CW! It would also be too much to be an "expert" on another show. Wrote about 12 articles about that one episode this week.
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:21:32 GMT -5
Correction. Wrote 14 and will make about 200 bucks.
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Post by Brer Brian on Oct 27, 2010 12:22:06 GMT -5
Can you talk about your next book at all?
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:22:45 GMT -5
I just consider it an education in a new kind of writing for me (as well as a paycheck.) Even the most superficial stuff I've written, has some value for me.
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Post by ccjohn on Oct 27, 2010 12:23:14 GMT -5
That is incredible, fourteen articles about one episode. Are they from different perspective, like fashion, plotting, casting? -- that's a lot of articles.
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Post by revjen on Oct 27, 2010 12:25:16 GMT -5
Yeah, the next book is finished. It's the rewrite of my memoir (from birth to when I became a sex columnist) that I did last December in a frenzy of cathartic activity. It had so many names from "Art Star" to "People who Don't Like my Work are Bad people" to I don't even know. But, it's now titled "Elf Like Me" and there are lots of great tales in it. I looked at the previous manuscript and wanted to dig deeper.
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