I am here, but not here.

Yes, it is true... I have still done JACK on this blog! Too busy. Very sorry. Concentrating on my film stuff right now. My bad. I suck. I know.

Inspiration from the pit of the belly

In 2007 I sat down at my desk and with a fire in my belly began the process of developing a character who would encapsulate all of my frustrations with life. The world sucked. Our government has been bloated, reckless and is virtually useless (is there any doubt of that as of this moment as crude decimates the pristine shorelines of our gulf coast?). Crime pays. The weak, the ignorant and uneducated are given a free ride by society on the hard work and labor of others.

Those who are in power, be they elected or selected, are so out of touch with the common man that they live akin to the oppressors in power during the ancient Roman empire.

At times I have wanted to reach into the television screen and just squeeze the throats of lying weasel who 'spin' the news whichever way they sit fit.

What if someone had so much frustration, so much anger, so much venom inside of him that he did just that? And what if he could get away with it?

That's been done before? Well, yes, it has: DEATH WISH. The PUNISHER. V for VENDETTA. All featured a protagonist who goes off the deep end and kills, be it for vengeance or for justice. There are countless other examples such vengeance related carnage and many of them work.

You do not have to reinvent wheel to achieve artistic success. You just need to poke the right nerve for a reaction.

As my pencil exploded into my leather bound notebook with ideas, I tried to work out what would happen in today's 24/7 news cycle were a lone figure wiping out organized criminals. I imagined how Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olbermann would react. Would FOX News cheer the carnage on? Would MSNBC call for us to just get along?

Modern Media and the public's appetite for endless news, fed to us in instant tweets, lead me to believe that a modern day vigilante would be pop culture sensation.

Thus, the concept VENGEANCE found its framework.

Where to begin?

Blogging has never been my thing. I never followed blogs. They simply had no affection in my inner psyche. Then one day I realized I was so behind the times... So completely stuck in the past, I realized if I did not wake up and embrace modernistic methods of communication and marketing, my projects would be in perpetual creative free-fall.

VENGEANCE is something that happened after a meeting with the jack-offs at 20th Century Fox. A producer I was working with, the very gentlemanly Frederic Galfo, had hired me to pen a screenplay based upon a story concept he developed for Martial Arts Master, Sifu Vincent Lyn. Excessively long story short, the script was written and FOX passed on it because, despite their liking the concept and first two acts, they felt it was not "big enough."

You see, FOX likes to spend 100 to 200 million dollars on epic artistic failures, like the two 'Fantastic 4' films, 'Babylon A.D.' and 'ALIENS vs. PREDATOR.' iRobot made a lot of money, but it was dumbed down so much by the studio brass before and during filming that the director swore he would never work for the studio again. The aforementioned Babylon A.D. had a bright future due to a solid script. Then the studio took control and raped it six ways from Sunday, turning it into a pointless action film. FOX is the studio that gave us a PG-13 DIE HARD sequel, which fanboys now call, 'Live Free or Die Soft.' I could go on, but why bother?

There is a reason why most top talent now avoids FOX like the plague. To think, in the 80's and early 90's they were THE studio of choice.

Back to my story... When Frederic informed me of the news, I was overcome with a feeling of almost acidic anger. Not big enough? Had I added a giant spider, a sinking ship and rocks falling from the sky, would it have been big enough?

I said to Frederic (or maybe just to myself while showering), you want big? I will give you big!

And thus, VENGEANCE was born.