Holiday Nostalgia
Due to the fact i've decided this holiday to write one script treatment a day I've gone nuts searching through all the old crap in my room trying to find things to inspire me. Here are some things that didn't necessarily inspire me but made me laugh.
1) "Muse Magazine": There was this really hip, surprisingly professional magazine run out of mostly my grade 9 english class and I was the head of advertising which was ridiculous as i hate talking to people, especially in a professional setting. I just got a girl i know to talk and i handed sheets. Anyway, looking at it now it was ridiculous. Like grade 9 poetry in magazine form. People had subsrciptions to it too. Amazing. Look it up...because it doesnt exist anymore.
2) Deadline: By Cameron Maitland
I had a dream
that nothing was ever due
no homework, no projects
nothing.
I could live in peace
with no stress,
Have time to enjoy life
Time for friends, time for family
time for the fun.
The view was nice from there,
but I lived in a cardboard box.
(This was a poem in a collection from Grade 10 obviously mocking the assignment. I didnt do too well on it. The last poem in the collection was about last poems in poetry collections. I was a jerk even back then).
3) "If you ever need free/gratuituous sex with no emotional involvement, don't call me, get a hooker! WONDERFUL times. Andrea"
- Signature in my grade 10 yearboook.
I can't believe how it didnt occur to me how bad this was at the time. I think i thought she was joking whereas she clearly hated me. Thats like something someone says on a David E. Kelly show, not in grade 10.
4) Samantha Donnahue and John Barry Millington
I designed two ridiculous characters for a grade 11 costuming exercise. One is a secretary/women's libber from 1972 in Boise, Idaho. Apparently she enjoys "Listening to records". The other is an aspiring librettist from the mid-1800s. He enjoys "appreciating the arts". So not only was I a jerk. I was like a boring jerk. Shouldn't i have designed some sort of kung-fu robot?
5) Giant Kwanzaa Monster
I used to fancy myself an illustrator, and in an illustration class I started doing a series of drawings for a book about a Giant Green monster with a vaguely African looking hat who was kind of the Santa Claus of Kwanzaa. His shtick was hiding behind christmas decorations then popping out when it was over and celebrating his stuff. He was basically Clifford the big red dog with street cred. But he fought against a ogre made of candy canes so I can't hate on him too much.
Oh childhood. You are fantastic.
Due to the fact i've decided this holiday to write one script treatment a day I've gone nuts searching through all the old crap in my room trying to find things to inspire me. Here are some things that didn't necessarily inspire me but made me laugh.
1) "Muse Magazine": There was this really hip, surprisingly professional magazine run out of mostly my grade 9 english class and I was the head of advertising which was ridiculous as i hate talking to people, especially in a professional setting. I just got a girl i know to talk and i handed sheets. Anyway, looking at it now it was ridiculous. Like grade 9 poetry in magazine form. People had subsrciptions to it too. Amazing. Look it up...because it doesnt exist anymore.
2) Deadline: By Cameron Maitland
I had a dream
that nothing was ever due
no homework, no projects
nothing.
I could live in peace
with no stress,
Have time to enjoy life
Time for friends, time for family
time for the fun.
The view was nice from there,
but I lived in a cardboard box.
(This was a poem in a collection from Grade 10 obviously mocking the assignment. I didnt do too well on it. The last poem in the collection was about last poems in poetry collections. I was a jerk even back then).
3) "If you ever need free/gratuituous sex with no emotional involvement, don't call me, get a hooker! WONDERFUL times. Andrea"
- Signature in my grade 10 yearboook.
I can't believe how it didnt occur to me how bad this was at the time. I think i thought she was joking whereas she clearly hated me. Thats like something someone says on a David E. Kelly show, not in grade 10.
4) Samantha Donnahue and John Barry Millington
I designed two ridiculous characters for a grade 11 costuming exercise. One is a secretary/women's libber from 1972 in Boise, Idaho. Apparently she enjoys "Listening to records". The other is an aspiring librettist from the mid-1800s. He enjoys "appreciating the arts". So not only was I a jerk. I was like a boring jerk. Shouldn't i have designed some sort of kung-fu robot?
5) Giant Kwanzaa Monster
I used to fancy myself an illustrator, and in an illustration class I started doing a series of drawings for a book about a Giant Green monster with a vaguely African looking hat who was kind of the Santa Claus of Kwanzaa. His shtick was hiding behind christmas decorations then popping out when it was over and celebrating his stuff. He was basically Clifford the big red dog with street cred. But he fought against a ogre made of candy canes so I can't hate on him too much.
Oh childhood. You are fantastic.
posted by Cam at 1:33 PM
2 Comments:
Wonderful blog idea Cam. I am 36 hours from my room full of memory boxes and boxes full of yearbooks and yearbooks full of such noteworthy notes from all my long forgotten BFFAs.
ps. OMG Cam (aka Maity) 2005 has been car-razy. U R totally like a brother to me. BFFA 4 life.
What is it with Boise, Idaho, (and often Idaho in general) that is somehow so facinating to the rest of the world? Honest, it's a dump.
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