So, on this week's hideous October Road (why do I keep watching this show? I don't want to answer... the answer might put me in a straitjacket), we see some schmaltzy sepia-toned flashbacks involving our Gang of Five as ten-year-olds embarking on a Stand By Me-bogarted trek across sun-drenched fields to the birthday party of a girl they were all in love with. In the present, they discover the girl has died in a car crash and they all attend her funeral, during which they mend up some old wounds amongst them.
Last week, I decided to start writing my five-year-old play Three People in One Bed as a screenplay (just for fun and, you know, winning an Oscar and becoming Diablo Cody's best friend), and, because I do this every year or so, I decided to switch up the story focus again and make it about how our two leads, Leo and Marty, who were best friends as kids (totally inspired by Stand By Me), lose touch and reconnect at the funeral of the girl they were both in love with.
Coincidence? I think not.
This means one of two things: 1) The creators of October Road have an information-stealing virus on my laptop and are stealing away my writing and excessive amount of porn; or 2) I have a future as a writer for October Road.
Good God, let it be the former.
2 comments:
oh no, bring on the sepia flashbacks!
i can't believe you watch October Road (I originally typed in October Sky)
Seriosly?
That's what you think about october road.
I don't I'm probably the one human being who like it(a lot, by the way).
Anyway, keep going with your history, maybe it could be good.
:D
xoxoxo
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