A Whistling Girl & A Crowing Hen

"The Unobtainables" On The Rise

2011-07-21T22:15:00.014-04:00

You all now know the ebook of "A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End" has been optioned. The new wrinkle is that I have been asked to adapt it into a television pilot. Oy vey! Wasn't it supposed to be a movie?

Who cares. I was jazzed to do it and lo and behold I got so stoked that I wrote a whole season of 13 damn episodes! I didn't want to leave any room for error or a shot at seeing these few years of losing my way being taken from me and interpreted into something--tawdry! Face it folks--I want to make it tawdry on my own accord and I did 13 sumptuously bitchy episodes suggesting to include some of the best 70s disco dance music and American popular standards of the 20th century. Remember Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington? Along with today's artists, like Rasaan Patterson (the next coming of Prince) singing "Feels Good" and Chrisette Michele singing "If I Had My Way". What makes this all come together for me, is that it is reminiscent of the NYC Bar Scene of the 80s and 90s. You'd change clothes with your best friends (translation, BFF) at an after hours bar and go right to work in the city.

Agents and Managers are tricky creatures. You start with a novel and you go to a screenplay and then a TV series. All they want you to do is write! I love 'em because they kick my tookus to create.

I've been informed that my reps are feverishly working on raising funds to make a trailer or sizzle reel, I'm told, for the pilot to bring to network and cable. I'll work a night job to get this accomplished.

Our creative team needs the"Dos Equis" of Black Women. The universal search is on for an average to tall Black chanteuse 40s to 50s who can sing like, Sarah Vaughn, Dianne Reeves, or Anita Baker and dance like, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Shirley MacLaine and Ann Reinking. Perhaps, Valarie Pettiford a little more subdued? Vanessa Williams with scarier eyes. The series is built around Catalina and a white guy in his 40s who's fit like a former professional tennis player and thinks he's God's gift to women.

I will post more casting suggesting as I firm up the details. Check back and send your demo .mov files, links, pictures and resumes if you want to help empower the pitching of the pilot for "The Unobtainables". I want the casting to be crazy tight to my vision. Also, we will need generous souls to volunteer the use of their spaces--i.e. intimate nightclub, mansion, tennis facility, etc. We will need a choreographer and club dancers and you my friends pretty much can figure out by now what else we might need.

Later...

Paisley

http://www.paisleyparksbooks.com/

Failed Lesbians and Mediocre Bisexuals

2009-03-09T00:07:00.003-04:00

The wish to belong where you do not is the issue.

There’s a character in “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen” that I created for some of you out there that just can’t win over a lesbian for your own. She truly had the inclination to be with a woman but lesbians didn’t want to be with her. Why? Most cases they thought she was straight, taken, uppity, or too timid to make a pass at. Just by looking at her one would just presume they would be rejected on any of those grounds. It didn’t matter if she was in corporate attire right after work or slumming on the weekends. On the other hand, men would flock to her in a gay bar. There was also the smattering of guys that would venture into lesbian bars and they would sniff her out. They could see none of the women would talk to her so they’d take pity and sidle up to her with an ulterior motive. It’s hard to make sense of all if it. Eventually, she would get loaded enough in the most refined fashion by not making a fuss or a ruckus and not being overly talkative and would make out or possibly have a fling with that so-called gay man. Then this guy would become her best girlfriend and pal around as a bisexual couple (in his mind) until he met another man and would leave her flat.

This character would make a valiant effort to go out and meet women by herself. It took years for her to make lesbian friends—all platonic lesbian friends. So, as her girlfriends tried to get to know her, they are so hypnotized by her mystery that they assumed she had a whole other life of lesbian lovers that she kept in various cities around the world since she was a traveling executive. They just wouldn’t believe that she was alone and she was too petrified inside to let anyone know she had longing and desire. She projects a façade of pride before desire.

Then the drinking would get a little too hard and the nights out a little too long and then it became her mission to have a woman want her at any cost even at the risk of losing her high power job. After all she is the perfect corporate model, sober by day and a vodka and champagne swilling incubus by night.

Eventually, there are some hookups with some lesbians but she can’t let down the guard enough to let a woman all the way into her life. Then the women slack off and she ventures out further to find a new crowd. The whole dating scene gets too predictable as the cycle continues for her. The women she meets still feel she’s straight. She grows weary of it all and marries a wealthy man who is perpetually intrigued by her stories of lesbian dalliances yet forbids her from cheating on him with a woman. She does it his way because in a stark about face, he’s never really convinced that she’s truly straight.

Read about it all now in the complete ebook novel "A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End" by Paisley Parks
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PAISLEY PARKS BOOKS SITE--FIXED

2009-03-04T23:01:00.000-05:00

Microsoft has straightened everything out and the site is secure and phish-free. Thank you, Microsoft.

MICROSOFT BLEW IT--THE SITE IS SAFE

2009-03-01T01:10:00.004-05:00

To my horror, the webmaster tinkered with the buy book page for “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End” and it's setting off this despicable gremlin alert of this being a potential phishing website! NOT TRUE! This payment page is perfectly safe!

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The Paypal is there for payment for the book and the instructions for the information we need to send you our free promotional gift for your purchase, plus a Google search on the bottom to get more info on the promotional items available. THIS SITE IS SAFE!

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Again, the site is safe and we are not interested in duping those who buy the book. The complaint has been registered with Microsoft and is still pending as they check out the site for themselves.

If you have any questions, shout me out or if you have a solution to help.
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Political Notice of the Sexy Girls

2008-09-19T23:58:00.005-04:00

Wow, I’m not a politically motivated but I don’t miss the opportunity to vote in every election. That is my obligation I feel for the slings and arrows the suffragettes endured. So, here is a word about Sarah Palin. She is very much the character Ryman Chadwick that I envisioned in my head. I got some of the inspiration for the character from the Canadian actress Wendy Crewson who was Harrison Ford’s wife---the 1st lady in “Air Force One”. It’s crazy because she has some Sarah Palin mannerism even if she is Canadian and not Alaskan. The similarities are there, no doubt. I can’t believe some of the parallels of Sarah Palin with my character in “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End”.

I have a news hound side and I’ve been glued to CNN and Bill Maher on HBO (who I totally agree with—but face it he had a major professional girl as a girlfriend). On some other news program, though I heard Michaela Angela Davis (yes, the Angela Davis!) say that if a black female candidate for V.P. paraded her family in front of the nation across our TV screens with a 17 year old pregnant daughter—goodnight! I agree with her and that’s that.
Palin has that appeal that ice road truckers find sexy. I say on behalf of Sarah Palin, “life is an Iditarod, oh chum, come to the Iditarod, today.”
As in the book, I had travels to all the venues mentioned but what went down there is not accurate in the book. It was about drama and fiction of these episodes.
I despise mary jane shoes. I can’t stand Shirley Temple curls.
And I love tall women. Did you see that woman with the 6 foot legs from Russia!
Can you imagine Kay Francis as your woman? She was a 5’9”—beautiful dame, taller than you.

More Kindling For the "A Whistling Girl & A Crowing Hen..." Fire

2008-08-20T01:51:00.008-04:00

Okay, I mentioned to you that I was middle-aged, so some stuff I bring up may be dated to the toddlers out there but relevant to theatre, TV and movie buffs of the bygone 20th century.
I love film noir. Those folks knew how to smoke. There was an aplomb to it. Bette Davis had it down pat—a gorgeous smoker. Claudette Colbert had the best American diction I had ever heard and Greer Garson just oozed class. But a big inspiration for “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End” was seeing the film “Once Is Not Enough” based on the Jacqueline Susann novel. The film was released in 1975 and I was a teenager. It was a double bill with Diana Ross in “Mahogany”. These were the first R-rated films I had ever seen, yet not 17 years old. I wasn’t all that intrigued by the minimal gay content in “Mahogany” but when Alexis Smith and Melina Mercouri (draped in towels) were lesbian lovers in “Once Is Not Enough” I flipped my teenage pituitary glands. My body felt nuts! But it wasn’t the first and last time I felt that way. I can’t tell you about the first time yet. I’m thinly veiling that in fiction in my next book.
That feeling re-emerged during many visits to the movies, thereafter. I’ll tell you in time. But I must sneak in “The Great Lie” with Bette Davis and Mary Astor (1941). George Brent could have stayed missing and dead in the jungle. “Who every heard of an ounce of brandy!” That “Once Is Not Enough” movie feeling lingered on and on. Now you’re thinking, I’m another sorry sister who lives her life through movies. Not so. I don’t have any cats and even though I don’t date anymore (as you already know from previous entries) I have crazy, wild memories that people love to hear about when I chat around the fireside on the net. After all is said and done, you’ll be saying to yourself Paisley’s had a full life and not be wondering why I don’t date. I had to come up for air sometime. Plus, I participated in sports—yikes but not the college revelation sexual brouhaha. I was hip to my feelings long before that, but wasn’t conflicted by it. For the record I was never conflicted; nature took it's course and I did what I did as nature called me.
I went to the prom in high school with a guy and it was fine. We were an interracial couple. His father and stepmother were an interracial couple. I had a boyfriend in kindergarten. We were an interracial couple and would kiss in the police booth on the corner. We were too short and small to be seen. As it stands now, I have no connection to people of my past. I’m a realist—the masquerade is over and so is love. (Guess that song lyric…)
Do you every wonder what it would have been like to have Lana Turner as your woman?

The Dawning of a Lesbian/Bisexual Novel--When The Light Bulb Went On

2008-08-17T01:05:00.005-04:00

To embark on the adventure of writing this book was scary. I wasn’t sure I had enough imagination. But I soon found out that I had enough kooks, goblins and good folks in my life that I could elaborate on and the ideas and words started to flow and so did the champagne. I needed it. I had to release the demons as well as make up stuff. Needless to say, as I wrote, I laughed, I wept, I got aroused and then would crash in angry solitude. It was maddening. The days I worked on the novel just fueled on pure black coffee were the times I did edits and re-writes when I thought I was in my right mind. But after the first 20 pages or so, it was like Pirandello’s “Six Characters In Search of An Author”. The characters spoke and I wrote it down.
I started writing because every major successful person who speaks to the media jabbers on about “you can achieve anything and don’t ever let anybody tell you what you can’t do—dreams do come true.” For the love of Pete, they don’t come true. I toiled at many dreams for many years and none of them ever succeeded. I’m not lazy, easily discouraged or bamboozled. I’m obsessive with my projects and know the value of follow through and persistence. Let’s get real folks—dreams don’t always come true and when the wampum runs out no one is going to keep financing a hard working loser. Hard work does not guarantee success at any rate. There’s got to be luck and friends which I am fresh out of. However, I rather liked writing, so this book “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End” was written when I got sick of the rat race and felt like exploring what many might consider inner demons. Some even turned out to be angels. I needed a departure. I needed to find some something that would help me to be financially independent since all my prior ventures were dependant upon the success of other persons—who shall remain nameless until further notice.
On a brighter note, I’m enjoying trying to make a go of it selling my e-books. It’s all on me and all I have to do is “depend on the kindness of strangers” to make the purchases. Face it—I’m a middle aged broad with fewer and fewer monetary prospects. Financial security is a worry that cripples me. I’ve never married because no one every asked. I stopped dating about 17 years ago. No regrets, here. I know I’m a fair weather friend and I hate weddings, showers of any kind, pot luck dinners and funerals. In my prior career I used to attend galas, opening nights, formal dinners, club openings and traveled the world. Call me a snob, but nobody has any class anymore. I’m a middle aged broad-spinster-with class who has lost her prospects. There’s an oxymoron for ya.
Once you read the book, write me and ask me the inspiration for every verb in the tome.
See the Website: www.paisleyparksbooks.com/photo
This page is cool because it is a collection of pictures that inspired me to write this thing. A picture is worth a thousand words.
Now this all may seem the rantings of some lush—maybe yes, maybe no.
But didn’t you every wonder what it would have been like to have Rita Hayworth as your woman?

The Birth Of The Lesbian/Bisexual Book

2008-08-11T03:00:00.004-04:00

“A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End”
By Paisley Parks
This is the story of a doomed May-December romance between two women.
Paisley Parks’ writing is hip and trendy language. The story primarily revolves around very colorful and super witty, outspoken female characters. The subject matter is recommended for mature audiences. This is a fantasy for both cynics and optimists who fail and/or succeed while living in their homosexual or bisexual truth or dare. Readers will undoubtedly get swept up into its humor and outrageous intrigues. It’s all sheer raucous entertainment in the tradition of the success of the primetime soaps of the ’80s. That’s when the bars used to open early to show weekly episodes of “Dynasty,” “Knot’s Landing” and “Dallas” on all the video screens including the dance floor. Remember that?

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