Friday, November 21, 2003
New Pitch for a TV show:
Trailer Pork Beuys
A young artist serving in the German army crash lands in an Alberta trailer park, because he's not an Albertan resident and is broke, he's unable to receive proper medical care, so the residents of the park wrap his body in pork fat to heal and warm him. He is then inspired to use pork fat and discarded cow carcasses in sculpture and in clothing. He ends up making a beautiful coat out of the fat, sinew, and hide and travels throughout Europe inspiring people to live up to their full creative potential. This would then spin off into a new series I would call 'Joseph and his Bovine Spongiform Dreamcoat.'
Trailer Pork Beuys
A young artist serving in the German army crash lands in an Alberta trailer park, because he's not an Albertan resident and is broke, he's unable to receive proper medical care, so the residents of the park wrap his body in pork fat to heal and warm him. He is then inspired to use pork fat and discarded cow carcasses in sculpture and in clothing. He ends up making a beautiful coat out of the fat, sinew, and hide and travels throughout Europe inspiring people to live up to their full creative potential. This would then spin off into a new series I would call 'Joseph and his Bovine Spongiform Dreamcoat.'
I realize Phil tagged me with the emo label a few days ago, which sort of means "Wow that's some pretty bad self indulgent writing there Marky", but I have to say I'm happy I've never written anything quite like this : "i'm no more hardboiled than a timbit."
So I'm moving in a week which means I have to get the apartment in tip top shape so I can get my damage deposit back. A few months ago my dresser fell over and I've been spending the last couple of nights gluing it back together. I'm a pretty decent carpenter, I know I've already said IMDB is the bible, but fuck it if Jesus wouldn't be proud of my work.
Mike made an excellent mix for the radio show tomorrow and I feel pretty shitty about not being able to be there for the whole thing. I sort of feel like this is the week I let everyone down. Back to the positive, everything from Tupac's Hit 'Em Up, to Gayrilla Biscuit's Gay Til Death (I should have said "Everything from Gorilla Biscuit's Start Today to Gayrilla Biscuit's Gay Til Death") is represented. It's pretty swell living with your best friend.
"Try to be more assured, try to be more right there
Try to be less uptight, try to be more aware"
Mike made an excellent mix for the radio show tomorrow and I feel pretty shitty about not being able to be there for the whole thing. I sort of feel like this is the week I let everyone down. Back to the positive, everything from Tupac's Hit 'Em Up, to Gayrilla Biscuit's Gay Til Death (I should have said "Everything from Gorilla Biscuit's Start Today to Gayrilla Biscuit's Gay Til Death") is represented. It's pretty swell living with your best friend.
"Try to be more assured, try to be more right there
Try to be less uptight, try to be more aware"
A while back my boss lent me Boogie Nights, knowing I was a big fan of Punch Drunk Love and hadn't seen too much of PT Anderson's other films. I didn't have a VCR at the time, there was one in the common room of the building I lived in, but I didn't have one in my room. So the movie sat in my room unwatched for about a month.
My boss finally asked for the video back and I didn't have the guts to tell him I had the movie for a month and hadn't watched it. I returned it to him and the next day he started asking me what I liked about the movie and referencing specific characters. We were sitting at our respective desks and as luck would have it the back of my monitor faces him, so that my screen isn't in sight. I kept on doing the whole "Look at the sky, while you try and look like you're accessing memory files bit" while I searched the internet movie database for any relevant information about Boogie Nights.
I ended up looking like I really enjoyed and thoroughly got into the movie as I brought up things he had forgotten or overlooked. Pretty soon I was believing that I had actually seen the movie.
IMDB is like the bible around these parts.
My boss finally asked for the video back and I didn't have the guts to tell him I had the movie for a month and hadn't watched it. I returned it to him and the next day he started asking me what I liked about the movie and referencing specific characters. We were sitting at our respective desks and as luck would have it the back of my monitor faces him, so that my screen isn't in sight. I kept on doing the whole "Look at the sky, while you try and look like you're accessing memory files bit" while I searched the internet movie database for any relevant information about Boogie Nights.
I ended up looking like I really enjoyed and thoroughly got into the movie as I brought up things he had forgotten or overlooked. Pretty soon I was believing that I had actually seen the movie.
IMDB is like the bible around these parts.
