INT. J ROLAND KELLY - NIGHT

A couple of years ago, on my way out to a new life in California I was standing by a overloaded Geo Metro smoking a cigarette at a rest-stop somewhere along I-40, watching a guy watering his dog, and to make a long story short: I struck-up a conversation with said guy, who was going to where a circus was bedded-down for the winter and I received an official invitation… to run away with the circus.

If you roam around long enough anything will happen.

I started a conversation with a guy in my Quito hotel that turned out to be a writer David Joshua Jennings, on assignment for a travel guide. We talked about teaching English abroad, he said he was meeting people for drinks later, invited me out, and that is where I met Quito screenwriter, filmmaker & musician Carolina Arroba.

I saw her little studio, listened to her new unreleased album, and read the screenplay for the film she is currently shooting. F*ck yeah. I’m not allowed to say anything about any of this, but I’m going to see if she will give me an interview, I’ll post it to this blog.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Carolina.

-J Roland Kelly

Above photo by Chris Falcony

I always thought this was funny because it plays on a screenwriter’s greatest fear.

Just ask a screenwriter who’s been holed-up working on a project for the last several weeks about their screenplay and then put the fear of God into them; the more ridiculous the better.

What are you working on?
…a story about werewolves in the city of Atlantis.
Ahh… dude… it’s already in post-production… it’s coming out next summer with Will Smith.

What are you working on?
… an American antebellum saga about sea monsters attacking clipper ships and bringing the tea trade to a halt.
Ahh… dude… it’s already in post-production… it’s coming out next summer with Will Smith.

What are you working on?
Golden Girls: the Movie.
Ahh… dude…

It was a lot funnier before Will Smith bombed last year with I Am Legend.

The numbers aren’t in for his summer release this year, but Hancock seems strong, against WALL-E. I have seen neither. I’m working on the pre-civil war sea monster bringing the American tea trade to a halt flick, and I’ve been at it for weeks.

Happy Independence Day

-J Roland Kelly