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NOTES TO SELF

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universalis offshoot

no actual supernatural involvement;
people deluded into thinking they are gods;
minders as doctors/nurses/attendants?

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FACES

stephen graham
jack huston

stellan skarsgard + natalie portman
nat tena + david thewlis

jamie harris, ben mendelsohn, noah taylor, jamie bell

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the life aquatic;
competing explorer/documentary crews?

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coffee prince;
k-drama-ish, slice of life-ish setting

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au notes

dirty vegas write-up?

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abarat;
islands/sections for hours

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desperate housewives + stephen king
each "house" as a dramatic stereotype

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the crime of the century;
set a la blade runner?
worth revisiting

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commune!!

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extended cold war;
failed moon landing;
aliens?
political conspiracy
alternate history

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re: moon landing

one
two

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au ideas

VENUS:
juvi hall au
boarding school au
haunted house au
aging au

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different spin on haunted house:
each "child" is someone who moves into the house
everyone dies!

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"mother" as a neighborhood instead of a house
the "children" are those who stay behind
i.e. those kids who never quite make it out
"companions" are passing through/moving in
(junebug amy/the fighter?
junebug might be sadder orz)

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children/people considered to be "special"
human experimentation?
naming pattern?
very distinct class levels
feel: hunger games-ish?
idea of a "scripture"

(trimmed)

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follies
faded beauty, "ghosts" of the past

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"the chain"
love locks, what happens down the line
ex.

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harem structure/hierarchy

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a la "moon"
takes place on another planet
themes of isolation
probably cut off in terms of communication
routine
only "companion" a machine
e.g. david 8

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inspiration: blue velvet
"things are not what they seem"

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survival au
see: jurassic park
28 days later etc.

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notepin

you always stop at the same part of the story

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character idea

"the bird man"
see: swamplandia
and ava wrestles the alligator

The first four sounds he makes are familiar. The green-backed heron, the feral peacock, a bevy of coots. Then he makes another noise, keener, as close to an alligator bellow as I have heard a human make, but not quite that, exactly. A braided sound, a rainbow sound. I step closer, and closer still, in spite of myself. I try to imagine what species of bird could make a sound like that. A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like my art class charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It is sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It goes on and on, until my own lungs are burning.

"What bird are you calling?" I ask, finally, when I can't stand it any longer.

The Bird Man stops whistling. He grins, so that I can see all his pebbly teeth. He holds out a hand to me over the broth-thin water.

"You."

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verse setting

z.z.'s sleepaway camp for disordered dreamers
scryers, insomniacs, somnambulists, etc. etc.

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excerpt:

cabin 2: sleep apneics
cabin 3: somnambulists
cabin 6: somniloquists
cabin 8: headbangers
cabin 11: night eaters
cabin 7: gnashers
cabin 13: night terrors
cabin 9: insomniacs
cabin 1: narcoleptics
cabin 10: incubuses
cabin 5: incontinents

cabin 4: miscellaneous

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weird in bruges-ish setting
basically purgatory
people don't know they're dead
etc.

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a la ballad of jack and rose
single father and daughter, growing up in isolation
extremely closely bonded, arguably too close
introduction of a mother figure into the house

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"the grateful dead"
people haunted by the ghosts of dead loved ones

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couple experiencing marital troubles take a trip to a summer house in a small town
a murder takes place while they are there
embroiled, etc.
"timeless"?

mix of boardwalk empire, brighton rock, sharp objects
touches of wake wood, hot fuzz

vibe spark

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re-roll sawdust
original inspiration

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"gated community" esque setting
for vampires
extremely high premium on blood

see: daybreakers

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the night train
a traveling circus
each performer is some kind of demon/monster/creature
taking advantage of their power to draw crowds
take humans on for menial labor, mostly
in exchange for giving them immortality as long as they travel with the circus

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twins/doppelgangers/split personalities

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institution that specializes in memory/personality alteration
e.g. brainwashing, shock therapy
very much experimental
medical/horror drama
doctors with a definite advantage over patients etc.

exploiting fear
theme of exploitation in general

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identity replacement
a la that one liam neeson movie
i.e. you wake up in someone else's life

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serial killers

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"stealing" youth to stay alive
akin to give & take
probably more violent/immediately physical

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possibly split into two different verses

isaacs' club in hanna
the devil is in the details

dirty vegas/magic city

"the flowers of youth"
orphanage/halfway house deal; people who stop there double as acts
possibly/probably a cover/front

note: danny huston is probably involved somehow

organized crime, as taking advantage of youth
vibes: slumdog millionaire, oliver twist, american mcgee's alice: madness returns

talent agency;
brothels (sleeping beauty-ish)

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shut up don't judge me

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based on an old zodiac verse

The 11 Zodiacs pondered. How best to catch Virgo's heart? Aries headed east.
Taurus had an idea. He would give Virgo a gift. Through the forest and over the mountain, he found a star.
Gemini thought by the river, 'I will sing her a song.' He didn't know where she was, but he hoped his song would reach her.
Cancer headed to the cape where Virgo waited. The sun was setting into the ocean. Would he finally see her?
Leo was waiting for the sun to set into the ocean. Then Cancer showed up, and they began to fight. Into the ocean they fell...
Watching the sunset from the cape, Virgo whispered, 'My only wish is to be with you now...'
Libra was a perverse fellow. He would always walk in the opposite direction of the sun. Would he ever see Virgo?"
Scorpio was very timid. He always looked at his shadow until one day he decided to look away. He walked up a hill.
Sagittarius dashed through the night, defying the chilly northern wind that was stinging his right cheek.
Impatient Capricorn ran up a hill toward the sun and fell asleep from exhaustion.
Aquarius arrived late. He asked everyone, 'Who kissed Virgo?'
Pisces said to Aquarius, 'Virgo made her choice. Go see him and he'll tell you the rest.'
Their future was uncertain, but Scorpio and Virgo kissed in the light of dusk. That moment meant everything.

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emotional detachment/lack of feelings
sociopathy or maybe robots???
(or tack onto drugs verse idea)
look into the idea of kinks/fetishes
attachment through other means etc.
hopefully this will still make sense to me later

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"bright young things";
affluent families in a west egg-esque neighborhood;
all of them are con artists/thieves one way or another;
constantly bidding to outdo each other;
house staff and associates form "teams";
children are a separate team?

possibly same gist but to a slightly more psychotic/sociopathic degree

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something to do with needles
i don't know man

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plurk dump

song: tv in black & white | aside from au #1, also one where one person literally stays in prison?? told through letters and visitation hours.
line: dear lord, when i get to heaven, please let me bring my man | revisit the idea of another cycle in life meant to redeem someone enough to get them into heaven
line: heaven hasn't forgotten about you | probably an addendum to one of the above.
song: sparrow | keanes
ep: black beauty | odd suburbia-type verse? on which note:
insp. blue velvet, lynch, etc | possibly to do with an extremely isolated community, an exercise in bringing out the worst in people, ugliness under the "american dream" veneer
au: faith | 1. chemical inducement, 1a. miserere, 2. tv preachers
au (venus?)/gen. verse idea | see: clamp, magical girls, you probably die a little every time you use your power etc.
re: clamp | reread clover, do a spinoff

roll mother at some point make all of my girls' lives miserable

“My wilderness is looking for
a lesson. My tongue is looking
to get cut out. I remember
one time in a valley & being
a kid in a green dress turning.
But that was a long time ago.
I’m not saying you were there.
If you’re looking for a bargain,
I’m a bargain. I can make
my eyes much smaller if
they trouble you. I can sing
or not sing. Under your bed
forever is a place for me.
Stuck to your door like dead
leaves is another. I’d like to
remind you I come already
assembled. I’d like to remind
you of cold water & stars
in the valley, big trees dripping
sap on your hands– but it
doesn’t have to be like that
or anything. Just take me
home. I’ll never lie again.”
— Chelsea Whitton, "Apology"

name | graceland
line/theme | you were my first love
theme | the price to be paid for love; personal loss, pain, suffering, and what comes out on the other side, happiness in unhappiness, absolution, forgiveness, difficult love
there's nobody else for me
one falling in love with the other as the other falls out of it
use new penzance as a setting
impermanence | flowers and cycles of forgetfulness
running from death, road stories