Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Folk singing cab driver: the musical.

I’m going to write a movie for my friend Jordan. It’s about a folk singing cab driver.
He is a street performer who is innocent and gets caught up in the L.A. nights.
I’m going to use actual events from what I go through.
Overheard dialogue, etc.
In the la merigot bar: “Man: That’s mormons!” woman: they go travel for like years at a time, like missions or something? Another man: No, that’s the amish.
Scene 1 j. is busking on the beach. Takes a cab to the beach.
J- I need to get an amp, I need to go electric man! Like Dylan at the festival!
He goes into a music shop, eyes amplifiers, etc. cabbie tells him he should get a job working for the cabs, saves up for his permit and walks in with a fistful of dollars.
He has a training night with zarko, who shows him the ropes.
His first night a guy offers him 500 dollars if he can show him the good drug spots. I think this is a good one! (the guy gets out and gives him 10 bucks.)
He picks up junkie girl from pavilions motel, the cops stop them let them go. She says she has a famous dad. The dad has the money and pays maybe a dime over the meter and says keep the change.
Hanging out on the canal, he sings the first verse of ‘across the canals’
becomes angry at the world and almost gets involved in heist after realizing he wants to leave L.A. but than he meets hummingbird, a young girl who convinces him of otherwise………..

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