Notebook Entries
That Salvidor Dali guy did a bad job of painting clocks and elephant legs. I hate him.
Why do people still care about flags?
Idea for a movie: A new guy starts working in a large building/corporation/bureaucratic environment and is friendly, easy to like, witty, but also seems to have a dark side. Hidden. Rarely shows itself. People get to know him a little bit, but he is mostly unavailable. He and a coworker really connect and the coworker gradually finds holes in his story/sees him doing suspicious things when he thinks no one is looking. Coworker corners him and it is revealed that he doesn’t actually work there. But then it is revealed that he did work there but was fired for lying about doing work. This is stupid. Make this much better…
It’s not fair that people can be funny, not by commenting on, but simply mentioning, popular culture references from the past.
Everything is bigger in Texas
except mens’ penises.
Kellogg’s Douche Loops.
Idea for a call-in radio show: Three Stubborn Friends. People call in and try to convince three friends to go out somewhere and the friends find numerous reasons, petty and substantial, for not going.
“In my lifetime, I have used my cerebral
cortex to deny the impulses of my
lizard brain, and in doing so, I have
caused myself extreme unhappiness,”
I think to myself as I tear the
steak burrito into bite sized pieces
and muscle them down the mine shaft.
It’s a lonely world
nestled in the coat pocket
of some great ancient communicator.
I think your radio show idea could work but as a writer I feel that making the characters relatable is important, but so is differentiating them in ways that allow them to co-exist without too much strife while being easy to recognize via catchphrases or clothing.
To this end I suggest that the show be re-worked as “Two Stubborn Friends and Their Other Friend” and the other friend plays an unwitting ‘devil’s advocate’ alongside the callers in trying to sway the Two Stubborn Friends, but due to a general inability to articulate himself past his friend’s natural defenses, nothing is ever accomplished and both him and the callers feel increasingly shitty. The Two Stubborn Friends learn nothing and resent the attempt.