First and foremost, I still don't know what I bring to this party so please promise me that as soon as I reach my level of incompetency/value added, do let me know. I'm really more comfortable/capable of being on the side being the reader of books and the watcher of movies. I'm not looking for words of encouragement, just trying to be "down with you fine folks"
I've just about got caught up reading all your wonderful ideas and thought I'd just jump onto the pile of creative leaves you have already posted and offer up this semi-morbid twist to the idea of Robert's "Homecoming Picnic" train of thought and other ideas surrounding the "Eye" or other to-be-named virtual community.
I have no meat on the bones of this idea because a) it just occurred to me and I don't want to lose track of it, and b)..... shiite, I forgot already.
Hows about a dark comedy version of the "Homecoming Picnic". Instead of a picnic where we all gather and meet face-to-face for the first times, we are all invited to the funeral of someone from our virtual community, whom we may have liked, disliked, or perhaps not paid much notice too. Characters can then be created seperately and it then becomes a very collaberative / iterative process describing our conversations with each other and impressions. The corpus delecti would merely be the reason for the gathering. Not much background about him/her/it required at all. Prop like.
I kinda get the heebie-jeebies even thinking about it, which have grown significantly by letting you know I had this thought, but..... ta-da... that's my thought for the day and I could imagine seeing something like this featuring Steve Buscemi/Zooey Daschenel et.al on either the IFC or Sundance Channel. You know.... a short feature kinda thing.
Just another knoodle tossed against the refrigerator. Peace out.
This just hit me on the way to the kitchen......Maybe the newly deceased could be someone, upper-middle aged, who had never left home, still living with his parents, who only after his death discovered his virtual life at the Eye and felt they should invite his only friends to the funeral.
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ReplyDeleteVERY COOL, John.
I definitely think SOMEONE has to die and quite possibly that will be the impetus for the contact / lack of contact. I say lack of contact, because when a private-ish person dies, how does anyone know they spent a portion of their life on the Eye?
If I were to die tonight, who would know to let the Eye know? One friend- Shandonista. While we email back and forth, it would take days, maybe weeks before I thought to contact Jen or Olivia and trace down their disappearance. After all, any one of us could be a cardboard cutout.
We all have life experiences and while we may not think of ourselves as the people who write stories, we are all people who have been IN stories.
Do bear in mind The Big Chill and Peter's Friends...
( I made a mess of a lunch appointment and had about twenty minutes to jot down the outline I am going to post elsewhere...)
John back to Willie
ReplyDeleteNot to keep kicking the corpse, perhaps the content could be derived from the discovery of said body face down on the keyboard with his goodbye cruel world entered in the "what does John Doe think about this" box just waiting to be submitted......
Thanks for the feedback, peace out