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Monday, April 10, 2006

"The city responded to her overtures."
- The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - Harlan Ellison


you know what typo i can't see to shake at my new job? i keep typing god instead of dog and dog instead of god? i'm being completely serious. lately i've been captioning things full of dog and gods, and apparently i can't tell the difference.

anyone have any ideas for themes for my next radio show? i'm drawing a blank and i got three days. this show is being recorded for my bosses over there so i was hoping for a good theme.

just saw "Slither." it had it's moments. i like how it stuck to more rubbery physical effects instead of the computer stuff. anyone who liked that should check out the movie "Society" by Brian Yuzna. anyone who's been reading this blog way back might remember it from my greatest fights list as the "Best Fight That Ends With Someone Head Being Pulled Out Of Their Own Ass." It's about halfway down on the list.

also watched "King Kong" which bored the hell out of me and managed to have some of the coolest monster insect effects i've seen in a long time. the monster mayhem on Skull Island in the middle of the movie is almost worth the 12 hour running time. but nothing really makes up for having to endure the giant monkey and that bitch ice skating?!?

Just finished a new short story that i honestly consider the best thing i have ever written. it has the usual suspects: bugs, aimless driving etc. but this one combines my new present-tense style with an idea that i don't think i carried to fruition in my old story "Flying." it was the one where the guy ties a fly to his finger, then his buddy ties some lighting bugs to his to one-up him. anyhow, i always thought it could be done different so i combined it with an idea i had kind of inspired by a John Cheever story where these people could hear their neighbors through their radio (and my own speakers that sometimes pick up random truckers) and i combined it with my new single life routine (consisting almost entirely of videostores, bookstores and music stores) and the way i now look at every young female like she's bent over the hood of a car and she's made out of popcorn. (p.s. i like popcorn. i like to eat it without my hands and shake my head around the bowl like a fucking Rottweiler. i know this because i just captioned a show where they picked up a stray Rottweiler and they were unable to rehabiliate its biting ways and i felt the dogs pain. anyway...) so yeah, this story has the usual gang of idiots, but if anybody gets through it, they'll find themselves smiling with their head bursting from entirely too much symbolism. and it's got more truth in it than "Million Little Pieces" so i could claim it was, like, the beginning of my memoirs and make a million little bucks.

i'll will post it tonight. and anyone who actually reads it (and can prove it by answering 10 questions i put to them) will win a prize. seriously. or, if you can identify 10 things that are true and part of my surroundings, i will give you even more prizes! this will be fun! i'll probably just make you a cd or something. probably of music that you don't like. but it's all about winning, isn't it? so yeah, that's how excited i am right now. until i read it again.

also read something very interesting today. there was a survey that revealed that males with more self-esteem had lots of random sex and girls with no self-esteem had lots of random sex. that sounds about right.

::: david - 12:00 AM [+] :::
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