November 2007
5 posts
An Expository Movie
In Minority Report, there’s a scene where Tom Cruise speaks with a wise woman in a greenhouse. The scene is pure, dense exposition, though the crazy moving plants in the greenhouse attempt to distract us from that. The movie got very good reviews, yet wasn’t immune to clunky, unrealistic, plot-advancing dialog in this scene.
Seeing that made me want to isolate the pure exposition...
Everything is Counterintuitive
A book of essays titled “Everything is Counterintuitive.” The theme would be that if something seems to make sense, then it’s wrong. And if something doesn’t make sense at all, it may not be right either, but at least there’s a chance.
Oceans of Blood, that is
A movie about a motley group of quirky, hilarious criminals who band together for a complicated job ala Oceans 11. Except instead of an amusing robbery, the crime to which they apply their brilliant convoluted teamwork is a senseless, hideous mass killing.
A fishy internet cafe
I know I would be a better writer if I owned a tank of serene, floating jellyfish, comforting me as I typed away. So if I started an internet cafe, it would be an aquarium with a huge variety of crazy fish, as well as the usual coffee and tea and snacks and tables and wi-fi and so on.
Fronton'
Joe Weisenthal had a T-shirt idea that would be perfect for Busted Tees, if only that company actually accepted T-shirt suggestions, as their web sites claims.
It would feature a line sketch of a Jai Alai player - flying through the air, flinging the goat-skin ball out of his basket glove - and underneath it would say: Fronton’.
A Fronton is, of course, the court where Jai Alai players ply...