Random work stories:
I totally eavesdropped on one of the supes who was discussing body composition in the ocean and whether a skull will wash up on the beach. I have no idea what that has to do with our job, but I’m apparently morbid, because I kind of want to do that case.
And then, randomly in the middle of what I’m working on, I found a full discourse on California gang symbols. No one involved in what I’m working on has anything to do with Gangs and or California, but it totally made me want to write a story about Carlos having a tattoo that says 13, which apparently represents gangs of Hispanic heritage showing allegiance to SoCal. Which made me want gang!Carlos again. Which made me want-
Okay, so I’ve been listening to the cast recording of 21 Guns from American Idiot all fricking day (this awesome person put it on an awesome D-Who fanmix, which pretty much made my year, because I’ve been meaning to dl it since I saw American Idiot last year. Legit one of my favorite plays, and I’m not even really into Greenday).
And now I kind of want to write a BTR fic to the screenplay.
Seriously, it would work out just fine. For those that have no idea what that would entail, American Idiot is basically about three friends who end up going their separate way- one to the army, one to the big city to live like a rockstar, and one who’s planning on going to the city but ends up getting fucked over because his girlfriend’s pregnant. Army dude ends up getting shot to hell, pregnant dude ends up mostly unhappy, and rockstar dude pretty much spirals into drugs. And they all come back and like, FIND each other.
So, basically, it’s like Shut Your Eyes if Carlos wasn’t ready to be a dad and Logan joined the army and they were all about ten years younger. Except I sort of feel like, character wise, Carlos would be the army dude and Kendall would be the rockstar and James would be the one who accidentally got someone pregnant. James would be the one to accidentally get someone pregnant. He's stupid enough. No one write that though, I abhor baby stories And Logan can be a backup dancer.
Okay, I’m totes not going to do that because I already promised on the devil's playground Twitter that this was the week of lames and prompt-answering, but you should still listen to the cast recording of 21 Guns because it is flawless. I don’t even like listening to musical music, if that makes any sense.
I feel in the interest of full disclosure sweet god I saw the Addams Family yesterday and THAT disturbed me immensely. I’m traumatized by that play,and this is relevant because there is a song about or called full disclosure that I should mention I’m still intensely attracted to that backup dancer with the two toned hair. I saw him during the American Idiot bit in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and was basically like hello, lover in a super creepy way.
Now someone take me to see The Book Of Mormon pretty please and ty. We parked right next to the theater playing that last night and I stared and longed and yearned. TAKE ME.