Hi, I’m Jack

Jack Davis
Jul 24, 2017 · 4 min read

Hi, I’m Jack. Always a pleasure.

I’m new here so…

Is the dress code business or business casual? Can you point me to the nearest restroom? Can I keep my packed lunch in the fridge and, if stolen, who is the resident workroom prankster who needs to find new material? Please excuse the cat hair all over my shirt; the curse of having an all white cat and an all black wardrobe. Do you have any pets? Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. I saw a dead squirrel in the parking lot looking awfully disc-like and gooey…

Beautiful day outside…

A good first impression face.

To cut right to it: introductions are hard.

Its that first impression being the only impression. Its the person behind the desk leaning forward and saying, ‘Impress me, kid. Wow me. Sweep me up in your boundless talent and unrivaled creativity and lets way to the Hollywood hills and fame and fortune. But make it snappy. Don’t waste my time. I’ve got to have some me time before picking the kids up from swim lessons, so you’ve got a minute and a 50 word maximum, OK?’

Or something like that.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Try explaining this in fifty…

Point is everyone has that million dollar dream and everyone is busy. So when you shuffle into a room with nothing but that dream clutched in your sweaty fist and a burning, nay, blazing need for someone to believe in it just as much as you do (and kick you the sweet, crisp cash to do it with) and your brain is still mulling over how you’re going to pay rent in a day or two, and its easy to screw up. Before you know it the idea is threatening to overwhelm you, and, as was my experience, it does. You blurt your baby out without ceremony, without grace, and like a poorly recounted joke the punchline is lost, the emotional response squandered, due to simple poor performance.

But deep down, deep, deep down, YOU felt it, right? You felt IT, burning a hole in the bottom of your gut, and its just the thing that’s going to bring the world to its knees, with you as its ruler casting steely glances at your underlings and saying, ‘Here we come, Civilization 1. You’re fucking welcome.’

You scribbled it down, you planned it out, you sampled it around, you work shopped it, you ranted it over the suddy rims of zesty libations to any and all within earshot. You’d go home each day and feel like you’d accomplished something, even if it was only the smallest of steps in the most generalist of directions.

Now if only someone would hurry the fuck up and pay me for it…

And then out of nowhere, possibility looms. You fill the right ear with just the right word and you’re set, you’re golden, you’re off the block and swimming with all your might.

Must swim faster.

No time to stop and think before you hear, ‘Impress me, kid.’

Don’t choke.

Full circle: dreams are cheap. We all have them. I have a ton of them, filling notebook after notebook on bowing shelves. I KNOW they will move mountains. I KNOW they WILL tear shit up.

‘Impress me, kid’. Whoever is saying it will get a finished product, be it a perfect pitch that inspires the world or a fly-flecked turd on the table that makes everyone feel awkward. Whatever. Here’s your answer, little nagging doubt that you’ve become.

‘I will.’
‘Well, have you?’
‘I know I can.’
‘Can you?’

So here I am. Here’s my desk. I first sat at it today. This post here is the second thing I’ve written at it. Hope its good.

I know it is.

Here’s to hopes and dreams, what?

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