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anonymous
February 1 2005, 17:22:05 UTC
Quimulus the Devout here. Steve Martin continues to produce valuable comedy works, in addition to his disgusting Parenthood and Father of the Bride shit. A favored niece of mine gave me his CD Pure Drivel a few years back. That part of the family got a healthy dose of me playing Steve records over and over and over.
This era's humor is maybe even better. One of the riffs talks about writing. "Writing is easy," he proclaims, detailing the importance of living somewhere with a pleasant climate, like Southern California. Most writers, he says, live in some gloomy place like Czechoslavakia, or so it would seem with titles like "Love in the Time of Cholera". Ick, ooh, bad feelings. When he needs inspiration, he goes into his yard and stares into the heart of the rose. Also, he espouses plagiarism to keep you going. The rule of thumb - you can copy 3 words if you don't know the writer, 2 if you do. You probably won't get caught, and even if you do, there's no jail time.
To get good ideas for writing, it helps to have someone to bounce with. This is especially useful if the person you bounce with is named "Salinger". A fine, esoteric joke. But if you read "Catcher in the Rye", you'll understand that you need neither a well-built main character or a plot. Before I read the book, I asked Mom, "What is the book about?" She tried to speak 2 or 3 times, before finally deciding on, "It's not about anything."
Example of writing from someone living in a dreary place, this by author Milan Condera: "Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory of people, things, deeds, nations; and in redressability of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs. Both are false faiths. In reality, the opposite is true. Everything will be forgotten, and nothing will be redressed."
Steve gets in the right spirit and attempts to re-write the above passage under the influence of California. "I feel pretty, oh so pretty. I feel pretty and witty and bright." See? A change of venue can sometimes make all the difference in the world.
This era's humor is maybe even better. One of the riffs talks about writing. "Writing is easy," he proclaims, detailing the importance of living somewhere with a pleasant climate, like Southern California. Most writers, he says, live in some gloomy place like Czechoslavakia, or so it would seem with titles like "Love in the Time of Cholera". Ick, ooh, bad feelings. When he needs inspiration, he goes into his yard and stares into the heart of the rose. Also, he espouses plagiarism to keep you going. The rule of thumb - you can copy 3 words if you don't know the writer, 2 if you do. You probably won't get caught, and even if you do, there's no jail time.
To get good ideas for writing, it helps to have someone to bounce with. This is especially useful if the person you bounce with is named "Salinger". A fine, esoteric joke. But if you read "Catcher in the Rye", you'll understand that you need neither a well-built main character or a plot. Before I read the book, I asked Mom, "What is the book about?" She tried to speak 2 or 3 times, before finally deciding on, "It's not about anything."
Example of writing from someone living in a dreary place, this by author Milan Condera: "Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory of people, things, deeds, nations; and in redressability of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs. Both are false faiths. In reality, the opposite is true. Everything will be forgotten, and nothing will be redressed."
Steve gets in the right spirit and attempts to re-write the above passage under the influence of California. "I feel pretty, oh so pretty. I feel pretty and witty and bright." See? A change of venue can sometimes make all the difference in the world.
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