semi-skewed kind of life
Aug. 6th, 2003 01:24 pmLast night we saw a preview for the "Freddy vs. Jason" movie, and I asked Adam if he wanted to see it. He lifted his head off the pillow, gave me this strange "Westley from Princess Bride" smile and said that he'd just thought of a new reality show: Take Freddy Krueger and Jason and throw them in a ring with Alice Cooper. The name of the game is to go out and kill as many people as possible. Whoever kills the most wins. I forget what. Possibly gets to kill the other two.
I stared at him for a good thirty seconds, then sputtered, "How on earth do you think of these things so quickly?"
He said, in a little boy voice, "I dunno. Ideas just come into my head and I run with them."
God, I love that boy.
I was also just randomly thinking back to the new primetime soap opera I watched last night, "The OC." Dawson's Creek meets 90210 by way of some HBO show like "Queer As Folk" or something. And I thought about Beca's comments. And then I thought about that other new show coming out, "Skin," which is basically Romeo and Juliet in the porn industry. And then there's "Nip/Tuck" which is about plastic surgeons having sex. And then I thought, why the hell are they wasting money making shows like these (although "Skin" sounds kind of amusing). And then I thought, why the hell do I care?
I should write a primetime TV show. Poor kids with problems who can do magic (but better than "Charmed") and kill people with a single thought and a Chapstick tube to the temple. Except it could be like "The Real World" where everyone sits around and drinks beer and has sex and complains about everyone else to people who don't give a fuck. And the magic wouldn't be able to make them money, and they're all weird, which is why they'd be poor kids with problems.
Why is it that when I talk to the spirits I'm spiritual, but when the spirits talk back I'm schizophrenic?
I stared at him for a good thirty seconds, then sputtered, "How on earth do you think of these things so quickly?"
He said, in a little boy voice, "I dunno. Ideas just come into my head and I run with them."
God, I love that boy.
I was also just randomly thinking back to the new primetime soap opera I watched last night, "The OC." Dawson's Creek meets 90210 by way of some HBO show like "Queer As Folk" or something. And I thought about Beca's comments. And then I thought about that other new show coming out, "Skin," which is basically Romeo and Juliet in the porn industry. And then there's "Nip/Tuck" which is about plastic surgeons having sex. And then I thought, why the hell are they wasting money making shows like these (although "Skin" sounds kind of amusing). And then I thought, why the hell do I care?
I should write a primetime TV show. Poor kids with problems who can do magic (but better than "Charmed") and kill people with a single thought and a Chapstick tube to the temple. Except it could be like "The Real World" where everyone sits around and drinks beer and has sex and complains about everyone else to people who don't give a fuck. And the magic wouldn't be able to make them money, and they're all weird, which is why they'd be poor kids with problems.
Why is it that when I talk to the spirits I'm spiritual, but when the spirits talk back I'm schizophrenic?