Misery's the River of the World

JUST KIDDING! I'm doing much, much better today. I'm just listening to Blood Money by Tom Waits for the first time in a long while, and I couldn't think of a better title for this post. Goddamn, I am totally "that" blogger aren't I? This Blog is a testament to how much of a geek I really am.
SEE! EVEN THAT WAS A TYPICAL THING TO SAY IN A BLOG! Arghhh. First facebook, now this. Oh well.

Anyway, I thought up a groovy idea for my next play. I want to attack the "college life" play, and make something that is more representative of what is really up for alot of people these days. I was thinking about this while I wrote my personal statement for my Brown application the other day. I -

-oh my god, I was accidentally on random with my itunes, and it went immediately from the first track of Blood Money to Mean Mr. Mustard from Abbey Road. That was the ultimate unexpected Mix moment. Ok, now it just went to Panda Bear. Not a good transition. We'll be listening to the Strokes for the rest of this post.

Anyway, I thought up a groovy idea for my next play...as...I...just said with the exact same words at the start of the second paragraph. Wow. I'm getting way too easily destracted. BACK TO THE PLAY. I want to attack the typical college play and see if I can't find a way to make it actually work. I have never seen a play about college life that I actually liked. I don't think our generation has had a chance to represent ourselves yet. Mostly we've been leaving that up to people who are older than us, but now is the time for us to be coming out on our own. Look at the underground culture today, it's packed with shit that most people don't know about. I really want to write a play that attacks the current status quo of popular entertainment. Pop culture is where our generation has been getting the majority of its ideas, at least on a mundane day-to-day basis. Why aren't we trying harder to shake that shit up and bring someting new into the world?

So I want to write a party play. And I want the audience to have to stand or sit on the floor for the first act, like they have to inhabit the world of the play. Think Tony n' Tina's wedding, only the last two acts return the audience to the typical theatrical setting, with seats, a stage, a set, etc. And I want fog machines and loud music to fill the lobby (where would presume the first act would take place.) Tons of actors. Collective hero. Nobody completely stands up and takes command of the world of the play. Serve booze. Yank the audience into experiencing this stuff for themselves (wouldn't most likely be their first time). That way the world of the play is more believable and easily accepted. And I want it to be extreme. I want to light the theatre on fire with this play. Figuritively speaking.

I've wanted to come up with an idea like this ever since seeing Tropicana at the National Theatre. We'll see how it goes.

Ok, for now, I must "reread" the Tempest and prepare for my Shakespeare final in . . . SIX HOURS. shit.