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Monday, May 26, 2003
Hello to everyone, or to anyone who has taken the time to look at this sie. When I started this, I hoped that I would be someone who would write great profundities at length, providing insite to the daily grind, helping those who read this to cope with a cold, cruel world. It's a terrible thing to realize that you're not as talented as you thought. However, it's also incredibly freeing. There is a character in "Cannery Row" (by Steinbeck, I think) who is a large, good-hearted bum, that lives with a group of good-hearted bums. One night, a fortune teller informs him that he will become President of the United States. This upsets him terribly, because he knows that he's a drunk and a bum, and the responsibility he feels for the job is mind-numbing, to the point that he begs for the fortune NOT to be right, to have his burden lifted. It's just too much to handle. Later in the book, after he has to break a man's arm so that his true love will come to see him, one of his friends lets him off the hook, and his whole life is freed. It's one of my favorite characters ever. I feel like that about not being a great writer, although someday, who knows. I watched "Adaptation" last night. That's what a good writer can turn out. A movie about a screenwriter writing a movie about a screenwriter writing a movie. As he comes up with ideas, you realize that you just saw that idea a few minutes before in the film. He does voiceovers, right up until a guy tells him voiceovers are for the untalented. Then he picks them up again, right after the writer does a voiceover telling the audience that the guy is screwed in the head. It's one of the most intelligent pieces I've seen in a while. Watch it, if you're smart enough. More later, and not a month from now.
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