salixbabylon | life imitates art + meme

Remember "The Banana Treatment"? Well, last night we were doing something vaguely similar, and at the moment of final explosion, my back made this huge nasty cracking noise... And thereby fixed a spot that's been out for over a week, that my chiropractor was unable to get into place.

I still doubt that (or similar) method is approved by the Chiropractic Schools. :) -I- feel tons better, though, in so many ways. *g*

Questions from

lostiawen:

1. You can be granted the power to spy on someone's life through their eyes and influence them to a small degree (a la Being John Malkovich). However, if you utter a single word about what you've seen, you lose the power completely, and everything you've did will get undone. Would you take the power, and if you did, who would you spy on?

You know, I never saw that movie. I should get off my lazy ass and rent it. But I think I know what you mean anyway, so I'll answer as best I can. Part of me wants to answer "President Bush" so that I can influence him to stop being such a prick. But I frankly think it would make enough difference and would just be depressing as hell. So I'll go with Viggo, because I'm curious about what the life of an actor/poet/painter/photographer is really like. It would be fun to make tiny little influential nudges like "photograph that", "give Orlando a call", "come to where Salix lives and meet her for coffee." :)

2. You get your wish and any script you want will get made into a gay porn film. However, the producers want it to be "different". Give me a basic plot premise, how you'll go against the grain of gay porn films, and tell me who you'd cast. (you don't have to name names....just give me a "someone who looks like...")

Different huh.... Hmmm... OK, I would have decent plot, at least on the level of "Red Shoe Diaries" and good dialog with actors who can emote at least a little. So actual plot, actual acting, but with actually explicit sex, none of this "soft-core" bullshit. Basic plot premise... It wouldn't have to be super-creative, as long as it was well-written. It could be something sweet like

lennongirl's "the Journey is the Destination" or something raunchy but lovely like your POTC fics.

In fact, yes, let's go with the costume drama/comedy/romance/porno with "Intercepted" and the rest. and I'd cast Johnny and Orlando, of course. Given how much this movie is going to make, I know it will be in their best financial interest. ;)

3. Good news : You get to write slash for a living! Bad news: You have to put out a full chapter of a story every week, and no cheating with short chapters. Do you take the job and why or why not?

Absolutely, I take it. I know it would be a lot of hard work, but I think I could get into the rhythm of putting out a full 20 pages or so a week, if that was my only job. it would be a dream come true, and I'd jump at the chance! :)

4. You have the Dr. Doolittle power, but you can only use it three times. Which animals would you talk to and what would you ask (assuming that you could talk to any animal you wanted to.)?

Huh. Is it cheating if I say my dog Oswald all 3 times? Sometimes I wonder WTF is going on in his fuzzy little head.

5. Orli, the Hobbits, Viggo, and Karl decide to do karaoke, and you happen to be at the bar that they do it in. What songs would you like to hear them sing? Assume that they'll ham it up and do appropriate gestures/play up the type of song they choose.

Ack! This is so hard for someone as musically illiterate as me! Um. I'll have to answer this at home when I can look at some CDs for ideas.

*later*

Orli - "Lovefool" by the Cardigans
Hobbits (all together) - "Chains of Love" by Erasure
Elijah - "Androgyny" by Garbage
Viggo - "I Want Your Sex" by George Michael
Karl - "Hanky Panky" by Madonna
and two extras:
Ian McKellen - "Love for Sale" by Billie Holiday
Sean Bean - "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles