A Book of Tongues: Thud
Jan. 15th, 2009 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustRoughly 1,000 words so far today just on transcribed notes alone, so I'm switching over to "Strange Weight" for a while (and then breaking for chores, food, a shower). I have to pick Cal up at 3:00 PM because Mom comes over at 3:30; tonight is A) the last official Grissom episode on CSI and B) new Supernatural, which means there probably won't be a whole lot of slack picked up afterwards. Plus, I really should re-watch that copy of Mirrors I rented, mainly for the mis-en-scene, which will be the subject of my next FearZone column...not just in Mirrors, obviously, but the way that location and set dec are absolutely central to horror generally. My only problem with this is how/what to restrict myself to, because I could literally talk about that sort of shit all day (and all of the night).
The other thing that's been filtering around in the back of my mind is possibly spending some time talking about which of my favorite singer-songwriters or bands is suited to or merits an Across the Universe-type meta-musical based on "the best" of their library. At the moment, the ones I'd most like to see get that treatment are definitely Warren Zevon on the one hand (you could fish in Waddy Wachtel and Linda Ronstadt too, with a bit of Jackson Browne, the Eagles and Randy Newman on the side, because they've all either collaborated with Zevon or competed with him), Peter Gabriel on the other; it'd also be good fun to get an Andy Prieboy/Concrete Blonde double-shot off the ground. Ooh, or Emmylou Harris/Gillian Welch! The big trick is to choose people who both have amazing personal stories (which they've often cobbled into their songs anyways) and have also lived through extraordinary eras, then comb through the songs themselves for characters, plot points and scenes. But I think that's a bit more than I want to bite off right now, 'cause, y'know--I'm busy.
(Or better yet--why has nobody applied to Telefilm with a Gwendolyn MacEwen biopic script yet? Man, I'd write it just so I could finally get a visual of her writing her own poems in heiroglyphics.;))
The other thing that's been filtering around in the back of my mind is possibly spending some time talking about which of my favorite singer-songwriters or bands is suited to or merits an Across the Universe-type meta-musical based on "the best" of their library. At the moment, the ones I'd most like to see get that treatment are definitely Warren Zevon on the one hand (you could fish in Waddy Wachtel and Linda Ronstadt too, with a bit of Jackson Browne, the Eagles and Randy Newman on the side, because they've all either collaborated with Zevon or competed with him), Peter Gabriel on the other; it'd also be good fun to get an Andy Prieboy/Concrete Blonde double-shot off the ground. Ooh, or Emmylou Harris/Gillian Welch! The big trick is to choose people who both have amazing personal stories (which they've often cobbled into their songs anyways) and have also lived through extraordinary eras, then comb through the songs themselves for characters, plot points and scenes. But I think that's a bit more than I want to bite off right now, 'cause, y'know--I'm busy.
(Or better yet--why has nobody applied to Telefilm with a Gwendolyn MacEwen biopic script yet? Man, I'd write it just so I could finally get a visual of her writing her own poems in heiroglyphics.;))
