Oct 06, 2003 02:20
It's late, it's late, and I've been up reading old entries and realizing the fool that I've been, and how I'm probably still a complete social/emotional/relational dunce even though it has appeared that I've changed. When I get angry I get quiet and nothing can make me speak. Juli helps alot.
I need mystery. I need forces to fear and worries to break my back. I need shadow and light dualistically opposed. I need strain and stress. I need to argue and to hate, to be despised. I need others to sense I'm frustrated. I need to be underappreciated. I need a good sense of foreboding. I need taste and touch. Right and wrong. I need to feel something.
I'm so damn apathetic about everything.
I've been thinking about the epidemic of vultures that Leesburg had when I lived there--can't get it out of my head. Not in a death-sense, but because of how odd the whole ordeal was. Hundreds of vultures perched outside the courthouse in a row of trees, crapping on everything. Needs to be in a story.
I want to do a film adaptation of 'Young Goodman Brown' by Hawthorne.
So the application for England goes in this week. Keep fingers crossed. I'm tongue tied.
There's a film festival on campus this semester. The theme, and this really limits things, is children's stories. Does anyone know of any that would do for a good, dark retelling? I was thinking The Three Billygoats Gruff or Little Red Riding Hood, although I'm on a quest for obscure ethnic tales so that I can bypass the normal rules and make whatever I want. I'm thinking zombies. Give these Nortwest College kids a scare.
I've earned my Canadian Club.