Danilo (June 23)

THE CONCLUSION...sort of

Now I should mention that I had met and really did like Danilo. He was just unavailable during my tenure at David's apartment/studio. I did however have many phone conversations with him. David had tried to pitch a TV show before. The execs hearing the pitch apparently needed to send him away six times to create the correct kind of preview video, one that wasn't an hour long. He told me to keep my scripts and we would shoot both David's strange, constantly changing, directionless concept video AND a legit pilot for the show's original concept. MIND YOU, this involved scenes in clubs with crowds and live musical performances, flashbacks to Danilo's time choreographing artists like Boyz II Men, and all sorts of other things we didn't have.

At least he understood what it meant to be a writer and wanting to have a coherent structure, plot or at least purpose behind writing something. Nothing David said made any sense. I was going to Jersey City less and less often at this point. Kelly Dolak, my professor and advisor let me get an A- for writing a four page paper about my experience. David always told me he would help me get a job or give me one himself sometime soon as he expanded his company. He would be starting little groups to help produce these musical compilations. There was also a cartoon in the works; the script for which was a barely intelligible comic book advertisement with an excessive amount of generic characters with poor grammar. Also the dog was in it.

I called David when I moved back to North Jersey after the summer and he told me he had just done a round of hiring and I had missed it. He was also disappointed in me for not completing my assignment. I called Danilo instead; he enthusiastically told me he had a lot going on and I was just the person he needed. So began my second adventure with this group of individuals. This time I would be working with Danilo and Dick, David's webmaster and owner of a small modeling studio near Penn Station.