Big week so far. Two series pitches (two got pushed), one feature pitch (I'm advancing to the next round), a surprise opportunity, and have I told you I'm doing all of this WHILE WE'RE MOVING to La Crescenta??In between I wanted to take a little time this week to tell you about something that inspired me recently. Hopefully it will speak to you too.About that headline...A little over a month ago, singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde released a fantastic concept album called Lindeville. The name is an homage to Dennis Linde, the prolific songwriter behind hits like Elvis Presley’s “Burning Love, “Goodbye, Earl,” from The Chicks, “Bubba Shot the Jukebox,“"John Deere,” and on and on, He’s also the songwriter behind a beloved movie moment, the “Cool Rider” number from GREASE 2, a fact I didn't know until I started researching this issue.At some point in his career, Dennis realized he needed a way to keep track of all of the working class characters in his songs so he created a map of a fictional town and filled it in with all of the places and people that inspired those hits. On it, you can see Earl’s repair shop, the bar where Bubba shot that jukebox, and the water tower where Billy Bob painted a ten-foot-tall heart and professed his love for Charlene in John Deere green.
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Big week so far. Two series pitches (two got pushed), one feature pitch (I'm advancing to the next round), a surprise opportunity, and have I told you I'm doing all of this WHILE WE'RE MOVING to La Crescenta??In between I wanted to take a little time this week to tell you about something that inspired me recently. Hopefully it will speak to you too.About that headline...A little over a month ago, singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde released a fantastic concept album called Lindeville. The name is an homage to Dennis Linde, the prolific songwriter behind hits like Elvis Presley’s “Burning Love, “Goodbye, Earl,” from The Chicks, “Bubba Shot the Jukebox,“"John Deere,” and on and on, He’s also the songwriter behind a beloved movie moment, the “Cool Rider” number from GREASE 2, a fact I didn't know until I started researching this issue.At some point in his career, Dennis realized he needed a way to keep track of all of the working class characters in his songs so he created a map of a fictional town and filled it in with all of the places and people that inspired those hits. On it, you can see Earl’s repair shop, the bar where Bubba shot that jukebox, and the water tower where Billy Bob painted a ten-foot-tall heart and professed his love for Charlene in John Deere green.