I'm Going To Sell My TV

As much as I love using the language that turned my mother's hair gray, I find it difficult to include the phrase, mother-fucking cocksuckers, in a conversation unless I'm talking about DEADWOOD.

In case you haven't heard, HBO canceled DEADWOOD.

Here's an article at Salon that tells the tale.

I watch LOST, THE SOPRANOS, DEADWOOD, FRASIER reruns, LAW&ORDER reruns, LUCY reruns. Sensing a trend?

The Sopranos has slowed to a mind-numbing crawl as they approach the last episodes, and then they'll be gone. Now DEADWOOD is dead.

What do the cocksucking mother-fuckers expect me to watch now?

Rumors abound, and there's an effort a foot to persuade HBO to relent and leave the best show on television, on television.

On the Save Deadwood website, you can email HBO, cancel HBO, and/or join the discussion forum.

The old home place will be dull as dirt after I sell the TV and clean up my language. I'll have to take up baking cookies or smoking squirrels just to pass the time.

Damn hoople-heads.

The picture is Virginia City, Montana. An example of something else that lives on only in memory.

The Break Up

Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston play Gary and Brooke in a romantic comedy that is neither. She's a drip and he's a bore. Why should we care what happens to them?

Three people attended today's matinee. A young couple who sat in the last row, and me. As the credits rolled, the girl said, "That sucked."

I think she meant the movie, and she was right.

Casting the Bio

Who would play you if they made a movie of your life?

Since Marilyn Monroe is dead, I’ll say Meryl Streep.

No.

Hillary Swank.

No, wait.

Well, John Denver’s dead too.

Guess I’ll stick with Meryl.

Since The World Didn't End 6/6/06

I decided to answer the Scribosphere Meme because everyone else on the Web has. I tarried on the first question because I have so many film related memories.

ONE (1) earliest film-related memory:

Watching WIZARD OF OZ every year around Easter. To this day, if anyone asks me, what’s your favorite movie, my Dad shouts out, WIZARD OF OZ.

Realizing in the middle of YANKEE DOODLE DANDY that a movie didn't have to have a horse in it for me to watch it all the way through. Except, those were both on TV.

BAMBI at the Drive-In. Repeatedly asking my parents Is It Almost Over? I wanted everyone out of that burning forest.

Seeing DRACULA, also at the Drive-In with my parents.

My parents were warped.

I may have gone through puberty during a Sean Connery movie. I had a thing about hairy chests for quite a while.

First date with the guy I married, we saw a Charlie Bronson movie. If we’d both been paying attention, much of what followed could have been anticipated.

TWO (2) favorite lines from movies:

Then one day the cat got her. PAULIE
What did you have in mind? HARVEY

THREE (3) jobs you'd do if you could not work in the "biz":

Too obstinate to consider fallback jobs.

FOUR (4) jobs you actually have held outside the industry:

Too depressing.

THREE (3) book authors I like:

James Rollins
Robert Parker
Sharon McCrumb

TWO (2) movies you'd like to remake or properties you'd like to adapt:

I wouldn’t remake anyone’s movie. Remakes are the work of the Devil. Let’s just say, I’m into original work.

Say What?

Meme

(meem) A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

I've been posting ideas and links from other meme sights, and decided to try my hand at it.

So, here's my first. Probably last (although I can't promise that.)

In the screenplay that first got me some attention, there was one character who always said what nobody else would ever say. She would barge into a scene and say the most outrageous stuff while everyone else gaped at her. I loved her. Writing her was the most fun I've ever had in a room by myself. Ah, well, maybe not the most ... nevermind. And the odd part was that she always told the truth, but that never helped her cause.

So, what would you say, that you would ordinarily NEVER say, but if you knew you could get away with it, what would you say? And to whom.

I'll go first.

Darlin' Girl, you're scaring the crap out of your mother, but don't let that stop you.



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