The Meat City Beatniks

Many moons ago, Jim "Chief" Dryden wrote a short story called The Meat City Beatniks, loosely based on the travails of myself and then-roommate Andrew "Biz" Osbloon as struggling screenwriters in Los Angeles. Sometime after that, I adapted the story into a screenplay. Along the way, Jim, Andrew and I wrote some songs with Eric "Keys" Jacobson, and then later still, Andrew combined it all into a musical. Next summer...or sometime...that musical will finally reach theater screens...or DVD players...or YouTube. In fact, the trailer is now up on YouTube, and here it is: