I KILLED BATA
So I figured out what I hate writing. I hate writing realism. I'm much more into absurdism, surrealism, and Dadaism. That's the stuff I enjoy. I don't want to write this conventional bullshit. I want to write plays like I KILLED BATA, which I just so happen to be writing right now.
I hope Elizabeth Diggs doesn't castrate me so to speak for not taking her assignment literaly. I'm just tired of the mediocre bullshit that's rampent in colloquium. And the fact she's forcing us to write about one of four specific conflicts... Why is it that people always choose the one they have no grounds to speak on whatsoever? So my play on racism is really about television and the only really thing involving race is the repeition of the (enthusiastic) line "We just carpet bombed Japan and now all those damn asians are dead!" And so instead of having two to four characters, I have like...twelve. I'm on page five and there are already six.
I mean, look at my screenplay. I guess it's kind of like realism, but it's a very slanted view on reality. Okay, it's dillusional reality, but I like it that way. I've always been southern gothic at heart, and if I know Jack Driscoll, he'd take a look at it and shake his head and tell me I'm still headed on my path to being another Flannery O'Conner.
The world which I've been told I have to portray since I was little is a fucking boring place. I want to write the kind of world which I see. My world is very Dadaist, minus all the nihilism. My universe has a special effects budget of 8 trillian dollars, dammit.
I want to be a rockstar.
I hope Elizabeth Diggs doesn't castrate me so to speak for not taking her assignment literaly. I'm just tired of the mediocre bullshit that's rampent in colloquium. And the fact she's forcing us to write about one of four specific conflicts... Why is it that people always choose the one they have no grounds to speak on whatsoever? So my play on racism is really about television and the only really thing involving race is the repeition of the (enthusiastic) line "We just carpet bombed Japan and now all those damn asians are dead!" And so instead of having two to four characters, I have like...twelve. I'm on page five and there are already six.
I mean, look at my screenplay. I guess it's kind of like realism, but it's a very slanted view on reality. Okay, it's dillusional reality, but I like it that way. I've always been southern gothic at heart, and if I know Jack Driscoll, he'd take a look at it and shake his head and tell me I'm still headed on my path to being another Flannery O'Conner.
The world which I've been told I have to portray since I was little is a fucking boring place. I want to write the kind of world which I see. My world is very Dadaist, minus all the nihilism. My universe has a special effects budget of 8 trillian dollars, dammit.
I want to be a rockstar.