I just decided to give up and spend tomorrow at the library researching. I tried hard to be foolish and crazy but i only ended up going to Bellingham and purchasing nothing, getting unnecessarily drunk and missing music I paid 10 dollars to see and watching documentaries about indian slum kids. Needless to say not a lot of this:
But a lot of this:
If you imagine the puppy is me and maybe the cuteness is T.S. Eliot's extensive criticism on Elizabethan and Metaphysical poetry.
I normally fimly strap on my fancy pants and mock kids going on and on and on about Andrew Marvell when I consider myself to be academically inclined towards modern literature above the classics but god-damn if there aren't pitfalls. If I write an essay on Jonson I don't have to wade through 1 million books written by him proclaiming why he did everything and to what effect. There aren't transcripts of what he said at a dinner party. His best friends haven't published volumes on what he's told them in letters.
WHERE'S THE ARTISTIC MYSTERY MODERN WRITERS? WHERE'S GIVING ME A CHANCE TO HAVE A THOUGHT YOU HAVENT HAD OR ALREADY SHOT DOWN YOU FUCKS!
Even you Toni Morrison....especially you, you cunt!
I'd start reading other languages but then my head will explode.
Needless to say the reading made me long for the fratboy "this shit's gay i'ma faceplant into some implants" attitude which spring break should have sprung.
The other gaping maw into which I currently stare (your maw!(that was nonsense)) is the production of a not horrible film script by April 11th with various visual and technical paperworks to back it up. I have narrowed my current ideas to the following which seem plausible:
1. Young man is visited by his guardian angel David Cronenberg to help him get "back on the horse" after his girlfriend calls him "unemotional and weird"
2. An uptight young academic is torn between a woman he's started an affair with and his old lover the ghost of James Joyce (note: the end involves stoning and/or a crossbow duel)
3. At a reading of her new novel at a Sci-Fi convention an author faces off with her ex in a Q&A who feels like the book too closely resembles their relationship IN SPACE!
4. A zombie , driven by pure lust for a hot mortician, cuts a swath of destruction across a city just to ask her out.
5. A man takes advantage of his girlfriend thinking he's the secret identity of a local superhero but gets screwed when she's kidnapped by a supervillain who made the same mistake.
Okay, anyone see a trend?
These movies are all about the intricate workings of love and relationships something I know little to nothing about. I've even heard Neil fucking Armstrong say write what you know and a guy who hasn't sustained a relationship with a girl for more than 3 to 4 months is simply making wild postulations when it comes to this sort of thing. I ought to write on something I do know
Things I know inside and out:
- Knowing a little about a lot of things but not everything about one thing.
- Obscure television shows, especially ones I havent seen from eras I was not around for.
- Easily moving from one city to another.
- How incredibly easy and satisfying it is to be white and middle class.
- Playing in orchestras.
- unrequited love remaining unrequited until you don't see the person anymore.
- masturbating because you can't think of anything better to do.
- living happily in small, blank walled spaces which would drive normal people insane
- being unable to get a tan.
- loathing pubic hair.
- the urge to sleep all day.
- picking on people's insecurities/physical abnormalities/speech impediments.
- how i'd like to look if I wasn't too cheap to buy new clothes and too embarassed to try new haircuts.
- being jealous of things I have no right to be jealous of.
- How to fake that you've read something so well the person asking thinks you are an expert.
- general "path of least resistance".
- sweating and/or getting a really hot ear because you get so nervous talking on the phone.
- always being too early for things. (see: circling the block a few times when you are going to meet someone so you don't barf from being nervous)
- embarassing myself in public, then seeming cool about it, but it really haunting me in private apparently to my grave.
Now how do I make a movie of that spring break? You are the most useless "break" yet.
CAM
posted by Cam at 1:49 AM
2 Comments:
i think that the character you described (yourself) sounds like an interesting one who i'd like to see a film about.
just put yourself in a mildly rewarding (for the viewer) scenario.
most films are about one of the few things there are to write about. its how you get there that is interesting.
I could eat that picture and you know it. Mmmm or put it in my mouth and suck on it at least.
That puppy is COMFORT FOOD.
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