As Mike and I were talking after recording our latest Vanish Radio segment, we realized something. We forgot to talk about the death and rebirth of our dream. Whoa, chalk one up for drama!
Actually, it’s not that dramatic. When we first started Vanish, we couldn’t help wondering “What if Hollywood came calling down the road?” We didn’t think we had the chops, but everybody dreams.
This dream has Vanished.
We don’t want it, even if it was possible. If you’re into movies, eventually you’ll read books about the movie business. Broken promises, false hope, and heaping piles of bullshit. That’s the majority of it, anyways. Film festivals don’t appeal to us. (We want you all to be premiere.) Plus, we don’t want the money telling us what to do. You don’t have nothin’ if you don’t have a vision. And we’ll lose limbs to defend it.
So what do we want? Here it is, the new dream:
Doing what we’re doing right now.
We want to continue to grow and offer more films and content for y’all. Honestly, the kicker would be to make a living on this dream. Who knows? We’ll see. But when Mike, Trista and I are 80 years old, sitting outside a nursing home, cussing at teenagers, we’ll sleep well (without medication) because we realized the dream, whether we made money at it or not.
We don’t want Hollywood.
We want our own movie making system RIGHT HERE, in the middle of nowhere.
Done and done.
Now, here’s a possible guest for a future Vanish Old Time Radio show:
