The Word-Eaters, part 2
I have these two friends who love the movies, have worked in the movies, want to make movies, have been talking about making movies for years. They have all these brilliant concepts for the movies they plan to make, which for a host of reasons (economic, but mostly psychiatric) they haven’t gotten round to making. But they committed a crucial error. They told me, and I am implacable. Never tell me your fondest dreams, your secret ambitions, even the name of your crush, because I will hound you to go after them. I am relentless. Basically I won’t shut up, and you may feel like hiding from me, but who else will you talk to about your fondest dreams, your secret ambitions, your crush?
I have asked myself why I am this way, and come up with too many answers. My life is boring, so I live vicariously through my friends (sad/pakelamera). I was seriously pushed to achieve as a child, so now I push others (from the safety of my lifetime underachievement award). I regard life as a real-time writing laboratory, and I want to see how the story turns out. Maybe I just want my friends to be happy, even if it kills them. Maybe I just like eating paper.
So I bet my two friends that if they met the deadline for Cinemalaya applications last month, I would eat their synopses and post the video on YouTube. Well one of them actually submitted his application! True, we had to drag him kicking and screaming through heavy traffic on a rainy Friday evening to turn it in, but it was done. And I will make good on my threat and eat that synopsis on YouTube. I ate newspaper as a child (weird family ritual on the first day of school), so there’s your foreshadowing. Since I am not kidding, I have coerced (blackmailed) Jade Castro who wrote and directed Endo, best movie of Cinemalaya 2007 as far as we’re concerned, into directing the video. We shoot in October.
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September 18th, 2007 at 20:40
striking how we are alike in the friendship department. I wouldn’t worry about eating a newspaper, mind you. I’d be worrying which newspaper I’d be eating. =)
September 18th, 2007 at 21:39
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September 19th, 2007 at 01:14
hahaha wow…we’ll be waiting for that youtube video :D
September 19th, 2007 at 16:53
good luck!!! :P
September 19th, 2007 at 23:20
interesting. you’re gonna eat newspaper. wonder what newspaper it is? :P what would be the background music? hehe.
September 20th, 2007 at 08:24
You’re a credible embodiment of the song “Wind beneath my wings”, well, in this case, you’re the wind underneath your friends’ wings :p You’re just being nice, and I’m guessing you’re subconsciously denying that fact.
September 20th, 2007 at 14:56
to those wondering what newspaper she is gonna eat, stop wondering. she said she’ll eat her friends’ synopses, not newspaper.
September 21st, 2007 at 02:49
Wordeaters is your first Twisted’s first entry! ^_^
Goodluck to your friend! Do you need extras? :3 Will work for free!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:48
Used to have a classmate who eats yellow paper on a regular basis…but well, those were in elementary days, we still don’t use yellow paper that time, but he has it…it must be his pack-lunch.
Well Jes, don’t worry…i’d probably eat paper soon. Seems it would work coz i plan to jump on a diet.