Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Sing for absolution

So now with the winter here, the uni has kindly decided that we don't really need our heating turned on in the evening. How very nice of them.
Anyway I made a suprising discovery sometime ago. I was watching 'coupling' with Leo and there was this scene where a woman is trying to seduce a guy with a girlfriend and he's conflicted about what to do. I ask Leo what he would do in that situation.
He looks at me in suprise "If I had a girlfriend? Of course I would say no"
This was new!
"Yeah- a flat out no! I wouldnt cheat on her. No way in hell. I'd tell the girl to piss off"
I was dumbfounded-this was a twist I did not see coming. Aside from Raymond- who doesnt even count in these discussions being such a goody two shoes, the bastard- I had never met anyone who had answered the question like this. Dodos have been spotted long after the last faithful man was seen on earth.
So would you give in then? Leo asks me
Probably not I tell him but then again I'm single now and my ex thinks I'm an asshole so what do I know?
Still I am quite stunned. This discovery would send shockwaves around the world. It would infact cause a rupture in space-time and put our universe in serious danger of simply ceasing to exist. Leo is always complaining about how impossible it is to understand girls so this was even more suprising. He was telling me about a girl who keeps leading him on and even brings her friends to evaluate him (you know the way girls do) but she just keeps stringing him along. Q and I recently volunteered to stand outside her window and sing her a song while playing a guitar and wearing sombreros. We don't know if it will work, but who knows if you don't try? Leo is skeptical. He was out on Saturday and threw up on a passing girl. He says there is a twenty percent chance it was her. Can you imagine throwing up on the girl you have a crush on? The mind boggles at the thought. I would probably claim asylum in Chile.
So here I am- I'm settled into my course now, discovered I'm not nearly as anti-social as I have always assumed and I'm also developing a very healthy relationship with the wider world. I'm not quite sure what that means, but that's what is happening.

The studio executive puts the script down and shakes his head "I'm just not getting this" He says "There is no proper character arc. This Minega fellow, doesnt seem real enough. The plot is flimsy, the supporting cast is not well developed and how do we market this story? comedy? drama? There's not really enough of either"
"It could be one of those indie movies that suprises everyone like 'Donnie Darko'" The other man says.
"I dont know. Where is the love interest? Where is the goofy sidekick? You need a love interest to keep this story going. And you need conflict."
"There was conflict..."
"That was ages ago. You just can't have the lead character walking around and talking about mundane things and just generally being stupid. How do we market that?"
"Well that's what makes it so attractive- its unmarketable! People are tired of cliched blockbusters. This is something a little different"
"Go back and work on that script" The executive says "If you polish it up a bit- maybe make Minega more sympathetic to the audience perhaps- it might work. Right now that's just a rough draft"

1 Comments:

Blogger Raymond said...

Thank you for punching more holes into my already inexistent street credebility!

5:36 PM  

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